The Christian canon of scripture, known as the New Testament, excluded many of the Church's traditional stories about its origins. Although not in the ...
The definitive, all-colour guide for any Art Deco enthusiast, showcasing over 1,000 individually priced items. With up-to-date tips and advice from be ...
designs for workable projects: abstract patterns in both straight-line and curve; men and women in characteristic 1920s garb; geometrically stylized b ...
THE ART OF NEW YORK is an extraordinary homage to the vitality, power, beauty and magic of a great city For the first time, paintings, drawings, sculp ...
What does it mean to be an artist at a time when the art world is becoming increasingly fragmented and disconnected--when the most highly valued art o ...
The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Rich in images encompassing the arts ...
What do we mean when we call a work of art ''beautiful''? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have bee ...
A thorough analysis of the human body's vital points and how to use them to your advantage in combat handgunning and all types of hand-to-hand combat ...
A thorough analysis of the human body's vital points and how to use them to your advantage in combat handgunning and all types of hand-to-hand combat ...
Depictions of children have had a prominent place in Chinese art since the Song period (960-1279). Yet one would be hard pressed to find any significa ...
This book is an encyclopaedia of Chinese classical art, giving an informative overview of all forms of Chinese art and providing the keys to understan ...
The traditional martial arts genre known as wuxia (literally "martial chivalry") became popular the world over through the phenomenal hit Crouching Ti ...
Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising ...
In this companion volume to the successful Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East (AUC Press, 1998), historian and ethno ...
The hands-on instruction that digital photographers need to compose great shotsIntroducing readers to the basic elements of design, this full-color gu ...
A comprehensive user's guide to Deleuze's important work on cinema. Bogue provides a clar and accessible manual to Cinema I and II, and gives readers ...
