A beautifully illustrated and comprehensive reference on the Arts and Crafts movement traces the origins and history of this popular design style, profiles its leading proponents, and provides a lavish array of Arts and Crafts architecture and interior design, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, glass, f
Light, airy, rooms...clean-lined wooden furnishings...richly patterned rugs and fabrics in colors inspired by nature. William Morris was the first to champion the styles that remain quintessentially modern today. "William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Home" is both a profile of this innovative tastemaker and a lavishly illustrated guide to ...
An illuminating cookbook which explores the food and art of 19th-century France--an era ablaze with the genius of such artists as Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Morisot, Cezanne, Pissarro, Manet, Gauguin, and Degas--"Celebrating the Impressionist Table" contains 100 elegantly presented, classic recipes typical of what the artists themselves ...
Bursting with beautifully reproduced paintings, sketches, period and present-day photography, and further 'illustrated' by telling quotations from diaries, letters and other contemporary sources, this lavishly produced giftbook focuses on where and how the impressionists lived, and the ways in which their homes and domestic routines were a ...
The Impressionists are without doubt the best-loved of all artists, and recent years have seen a fresh wave of interest not only in their art but also in their private lives. This book follows these fascinating characters around their daily lives in Paris or to their frequent escapes to the countryside or the sea, exploring not only their passions ...
Today's complex social and economic problems leave many people in the affluent world feeling either overwhelmed or ambivalent. Even the small percentage of us who have examined the ethics behind our financial decisions and overcome the often-deterring factors of self-interest rarely know what to do to make any difference. By providing tools for ...
Fourteen-year-old Zoe wonders how she'll survive after her family falls apart. A shoplifting episode lands her in a work program at a local nature preserve. The work starts to stabilize Zoe, and when she meets a boy who shares her love of wild things, it seems she might be home after all.
This chronicle of the Bloomsbury Group is both biographical and geographical, including stories, quotations, and--most importantly--images of such major figures as Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Virginia Woolf, and Lytton Strachey in their homes, their studios, and their gardens.
Pamela Todd turns her attention to the fiery group of young artists, designers and thinkers, led by the charismatic figure of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which, in 1848, came together as the semi-secret Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
For centuries plants and flowers have been surrounded by their own unique legends, myths and folklore. Poets and playwrights since Elizabethan times have used them to convey sentiments in the subtlest of ways but it was the Victorians who raised this symbolism to an art form. In an age of strict morals and repressed sexuality, the language of ...
One of a series of books which celebrates flowers, this title deals with daffodils. It contains extracts of poems, novels, country tales and myths, as well as accounts of how the flower was first discovered and cultivated. Medicinal, culinary and even mystical properties are also revealed.
Chartered in 1869, Clayton traces its roots to Hintonas Quarter, Johnston Liberty Meeting House, Roxboro, Gulleyas Store, and Stallings Station, and owes its existence to the North Carolina Railroad, completed in 1856. By 1890, several citizens amassed fortunes in cotton, lumber, merchandising, and textile manufacturing, and the town was ...
Many Impressionist paintings celebrate the conviviality of good food, of tables set out of doors, or vast picnics spread beneath the shade of hospitable trees. Todd follows the painters through France and celebrates the cuisines they would have sampled.'
This text provides a celebration of regional French food through the palettes of the Impressionist painters, with 100 classic regional dishes. Many Impressionist paintings celebrate the conviviality of good food - of tables set out of doors - or vast picnics spread beneath the dappled shade of hospitable trees. The pictures by Monet, Manet, Berthe ...
As a boy Yeats dramatized himself as a sage, magician or poet, and when fellow poet Katharine Tynan first met him in 1885 he seemed to her "all dreams and gentleness". His lifelong interest in the myths, legends and folk history of his native Ireland, his fascination with magic and the occult, the theatre, language, politics, love and friendship ...
The big seventh-grade Science Fair is just days away, and Tucker Harrison doesn't have a project yet. But that all changes when Tucker meets Angelo Pighetti--known as Pig--a chubby kid with a love of junk food. Tucker decides to make Pig his science project, and conjures up a diet experiment that's sure to make Pig lose weight. But even if his ...
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Abrams, (1999).
Date Published: 1999
Description: Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. A fine copy in black paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in a lovely pictorial dustwrapper portraying Vanessa Bell's 1934 painting, Interior With Duncan Grant on the front panel and portraits of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bel l, Lytton Strachey and Duncan Grant on the back. Small 4to. 192 pp. Sumptuous colour photographs throughout. A truly stunning Bloomsbury history recalling the lives of Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant at Charleston, ... read more
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