Lucie-Smith Edward Boeken

Presents some of the most engaging life stories, eventful, intimate and poignant. This book evokes the lives of great personalities, from Picasso and Duchamp to Joseph Beuys and Louise Bourgeois, guiding the reader through the maze of different styles and movements.

'Sussex Writers & Artists' is a set of biographies of writers and artists with a Sussex collection. Not all of them were born in the county, not all of them even wrote about it, or made art about it, but its shaping spirit touched all of their lives in some way.

The most iconic face in art over the past two thousand years has been that of Jesus. As the central figure in Christianity, he has been a source of comfort and consolation to followers around the world. This title traces Jesus' life in famous works of art by artists such as Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, Rembrandt, and more.

This is the first comprehensive retrospective of Alexander de Cadenet's twenty five years of art practice, spanning photography, painting and sculpture.

The first comprehensive look at the artist's work spanning 15 years. Steven Heffer's paintings are exhibited and collected internationally.

Amazonia Imagined is an important and beautiful document. It preserves a vital link to the past that is stored in the minds of the Amazonian peoples.

Xu Bin Jueyi's sculpture breaks nearly a hundred years of stasis in Buddha sculpting. Using contemporary materials such as metal, resin and wood, Jueyi literally reshapes the aesthetic for Buddha imagery while retaining the compassion and tranquillity that lies behind it. Through the study and sketching of Chinese and Tibetan natural scenery and folk customs, the artist has gained an in depth understanding of the supreme place of spirituality in Buddhist followers' lives. The purity and serenity of their quest, and Xu Bin's own quest, are shown in the sculptor's creative energy which inspire their quests for peace and serenity. The resulting Buddha sculptures bring together contemporary and traditional images and ideas. Simple and clear, they display a minimalism in keeping with the Buddha's life example, while inviting the viewer to delve deeper into the Buddha's expansive teachings.

There is surprisingly little, and certainly nothing comprehensive, written about the contemporary Russian scene now. What appear in the West are mostly reports about so-called 'dissidents', not about what is happening in this vast culture, taken as a whole. Too often, these reports seem to be primarily inspired by a desire to demonstrate Western cultural and political superiority. The aim of Russian Art in the New Millennium is not to support any one cause, but to look at the situation as it now exists objectively and to give as wide and truthful a view as possible. Russian art during the period under review - the last two decades - has been evolving rapidly and in many directions. Hence there are sections on digital art, landscape paintings, graffiti, religious art and others. Furthermore, in addition to the continuing influence of the traditional centres for art - Moscow and St Petersburg - a number of provincial Russian cities have developed distinctive art worlds of their own. Russian Art in the New Millennium attempts to discover this terra incognita and to encompass this extremely various, but also intensely national art scene in Russia in one volume.

Nietypowego formatu album przedstawia aniołów ze wszystkich kręgów w kolejności odpowiadającej ich odległości od Boga. Wspaniałe dzieła sztuki – obrazy i rzeźby z kościołów i muzeów całego świata, oraz ilustracje, opowiadania, cytaty pokazują znaczenie zwykłych aniołów stróżów, a także archaniołów takich jak Michał czy Gabriel. Poznajemy sposoby jakimi aniołowie nas chronią, ostrzegają przed niebezpieczeństwami i prowadzą ścieżką Boga, ich rolę na Sądzie Ostatecznym i ich głosy, które odnajdujemy w muzyce. Są też rozdziały o aniołach wiedzionych na pokuszenie i upadłych, aniołach w przebraniu i ludziach, których los aniołowie odmienili.