A major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, referenes and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated introduction offers a lively overview of the play's historical, performance and critical contexts. This is the ideal edition for study and...

A unique and intimate look into Claude Monet's outstanding personal collection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by fellow artists

One of the most magnificent medieval textiles in the Mediterranean region is the Chasuble of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered by the knights of King Henry II and canonized three years later by decree of the Roman Catholic Church. According to the Cathedral of Fermo, which holds the chasuble, the embroidered blue silk vestment was donated to Fermo by Bishop Presbitero in...

Kniha se zabývá fenoménem sportu v českém výtvarném umění dvacátého a jednadvacátého století. Jedná se o dosud první počin tohoto druhu. Autor – renomovaný novinář, výtvarný kritik a spisovatel – se věnuje sportovní tématice v umění dlouhodobě a snaží se ji postihnout co nejkomplexněji, přičemž v objevné monografii sleduje nejenom samotná díla, ale také...

A fresh perspective on the Ballets Russes, focusing on relations between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-epoque Paris.

Fashion's leading shoemaker, Manolo Blahnik is one of the handful of designers whose name is synonymous with their product. His success has lasted from setting up as a shoe designer in a Chelsea boutique in the 1970s to the present day, with American Vogue's Anna Wintour declaring 'The truth is, I wear no other shoes except his'. Blahnik has collaborated with many leading fashion...

Christoph M. Loos (b. Bad Reichenhall, 1959; lives and works in Essen) represents one of the most radical positions in woodcutting today. Wafer-thin sheets of wood are sliced off a tree trunk previously used as a printing block. The book presents a survey of Loos's oeuvre of the past ten years: woodcuts, installations, and drawings. Texts by Tobias Burg, Fritz Emslander, Stefan Gronert, Harald...

The Reverend Jackson Whitehead served as the ship's chaplain aboard the HMS Pica, sister ship to the HMS Beagle, which accompanied the Beagle on its second survey expedition in 1831. Whitehead entertained himself between landfalls by creating a whole series of natural history specimens made up out of typographical characters. Some were based on the creatures the expedition...

A comprehensive overview of the work of Dutch conceptual artist Ruudt Peters in art jewellery, including previously unseen photographs, drawings and sketches.

Six Vessantara Jataka picture scrolls are published in full length for the first time, while in-depth essays explore a contemporary multimedia celebration of an ancient Buddhist text.

Film Studies in China is a collection of selected articles chosen from issues of the journal Contemporary Cinema published throughout the year and translated for an English-speaking audience. As one of the most prestigious academic film studies journals in China, Contemporary Cinema has been active not only in publishing Chinese scholarship for Chinese readers but also in...

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are the most successful design partnership in fashion history. Since they burst on to the scene in Milan in the eighties, their multi-million-dollar empire has become one of the dominating forces in Italian - and world - fashion. Every year, the opulent and dramatic presentations of their successful 21st-century haute couture line Alta Moda are rapturously...

Alfred Neumann (1900-1968) was a Czech architect whose work was wrought in the context of postwar modernism and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Today, his influence and impact have been largely forgotten, but, in their time, Neumann's original designs received praise and elicited controversy in almost equal measure, offering exciting new possibilities to the modernist...

Features around 70 work by Japanese ceramic artist Shozo Michikawa, created between 2003 and 2017.

This book presents an intimate story of English sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) at work. Hepworth's granddaughter, Sophie Bowness, draws on Hepworth's correspondence and family memories and records to offer the first study devoted to Hepworth's studio in the English seaside town of St. Ives in Cornwall. The book illuminates the ways in which the place and Hepworth's work were bound...

Vital Mantra brings together the most relevant pieces made by the abstract artist A lex de Fluvia , along twenty years of work in Barcelona, New York, Cairo, Tokyo and Dubai.

Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond. Setting the company's artistic achievements within the wider context of social and political attitudes to the arts and the...

Film production is a highly creative and collaborative industry, full of multi-skilled artists and craftsmen. The fast-moving pace of technology makes it hard to keep abreast of current practices in production design. However, the ethos and skills behind filmmaking remain the same. In The Art of Illusion, renowned Art Director Terry Ackland-Snow shares his passion and knowledge of...

In early September 1928, the police in Vienna arrested the famed architect Adolf Loos. The charge was child molestation. Two young girls (and eventually a third), ages 8 to 10, alleged that Loos had touched them inappropriately and caused them to commit indecent acts while he was drawing nudes of them. Almost immediately, the press caught wind of the arrest, and a great scandal ensued. What...