"The understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist’s execution of it. But what were once biblical or classical commonplaces are not so readily recognizable today. This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of Western art is based.Here in a single volume are combined religious, classical, and historical themes, the figures ..."
"Playland is a tough, mordantly funny, splendidly layered novel about Hollywood in the 1940s and America in the 1990s, about fame and its excesses, honor and personal betrayal, and a fifty-year search for what may or may not be the truth. At its center is Blue Tyler, a spoiled, untamed child star who disappeared from Hollywood in disgrace when she was twenty and reappeared forty-five years and eleven marriages later as a mysterious bag l ..."
"The understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist’s execution of it. But what were once biblical or classical commonplaces are not so readily recognizable today. This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of Western art is based.Here in a single volume are combined religious, classical, and historical themes, the figures ..."
"This dictionary relates in a succinct, readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of European art is based. Cross-references enable the reader to identify the subject of a picture simply from some characteristic object or figure in it. Here in a single volume are combined religious and historical themes. The "Dictionary" also explores the "lost language" of symbol and attribute, thus opening up the whole fiel ..."
Larrey(1st Edition) Surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard by Robert G. Richardson, JamesHall, KennethClark Hardcover, 266 Pages, Published 1974 by John Murray ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-3103-3, ISBN: 0-7195-3103-9
"Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, A good, clean and sound copy in maroon cloth boards, gilt title on spine with a fair to good dust jacket - is creased, worn at edges and tatty at edges."
"Desde la Edad Media al siglo xviii, el marco de conocimiento necesario para interpretar el contenido de las obras de arte pertenecía al patrimonio cultural de toda la sociedad. Este DICCIONARIO DE TEMAS Y SÍMBOLOS ARTÍSTICOS, compilado por JAMES HALL y prologado por Kenneth Clark, pone a disposición tanto del estudioso como del aficionado al arte esas claves significativas borradas por el paso del tiempo. La obra dividida en dos volúme ..."
CIVILIZATION by KennethClark Hardcover, Published by Harper & Brothers ISBN-13: 978-1-199-20283-3, ISBN: 1-199-20283-5
LOOKING AT PICTURES by KennethClark Paperback, Published by Beacon Press (Rh) ISBN-13: 978-1-199-37547-6, ISBN: 1-199-37547-0
Employee Benefits in Modern Society (Special studies / Keith Shipton Developments) by KennethClark Paperback, 40 Pages, Published by Woodhead-Faulkner ISBN-13: 978-0-85941-025-0, ISBN: 0-85941-025-0
"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work ..."
REMBRANDT AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE by KennethClark Hardcover, Published 2016 by John Murray ISBN-13: 978-1-199-38560-4, ISBN: 1-199-38560-3
"Thus modern art shows even more explicitly than the art of the past that the nude
does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that
have become part of our imaginative experience. The Greeks related it to their
geometry. Twentieth-century man, with his vastly extended experience of
physical life, and his more elaborate patterns of mathematical symbols, must
have at the back of his mind analogies ..."
Civilisation by KennethClark 272 Pages, Published 2015 by John Murray ISBN-13: 978-1-4736-1672-1, ISBN: 1-4736-1672-7
"'I should like to thank': at this point one usually stops reading; but my debt to my
directors, Michael Gill and Peter ... Sound Assistant, Malcolm Webberley;
Supervising Film Editor, Allan Tyrer; Film Editors, Jesse Palmer, Michael Shah
Dayan, ..."