The exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery presents the visions and attitudes towards nature that have appeared in art from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present. The climate crisis, the problem of the exploitation of natural resources and the increasingly threatening ecological catastrophe have become increasingly ......
The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, is exhibiting MS Master, one of the most renowned anonymous masters of Hungarian medieval art history. Seven panels of the artist’s monumental masterpiece of late Gothic art will be on display, the former high altar of St Catherine’s Church in Selmecbánya (1506), along with two sculptures that once belonged to ......
Architecture and Society: A History of America's Street of Dreams
New York's Fifth Avenue, America's 'Street of Dreams', is one of the most remarkable thoroughfares in the world. Shown on the Commissioners' map of 1807 emerging from a country road, then in the proposed grid plan of 1811 as one of the major boulevards, Fifth Avenue by the end of the century was synonymous with a lavish fashionable life, grand ......
Fan Zhen is an abstract painter whose art centres on the therapeutic colour field and energy expansion. Her visual creations strongly echo Daoism and Buddhism, which are mysterious yet existentialist. The paintings attempt to grasp the fleeting moments in life and engage the audience directly with purity, blurring the ephemeral and the eternal. ......
'It seems that making art is chasing after an elusive dream of perfection that sits somewhere in my head. It will not go away, even after fifty years of trying. After all this time the process of holding materials, rubbing, crushing, cradling or just placing them violently or tenderly, is what it's about. Every action is a stream of discovery of ......
Pedlars, Poseurs and Performers is a compelling insight into the world of the Portobello Street market. Fifty years of photographs, which go beyond the stalls, shops and cafes normally associated with it. Each picture features, where possible, the subject's name and the date the picture was taken. Some of the characters shared their stories with ......
The beautiful Anglo-Italian artist Maria Cosway was one of the most talented and dynamic women active in Regency England, but one whose achievements have been largely overlooked. Born in Florence in 1760, she was acclaimed at an early age as both a painter and a musician. She exhibited forty-one paintings at the Royal Academy summer exhibition ......
On the evening of 5 June 1944, the people of Britain braced for news that would truly change the course of history. Ships and landing craft assembled in the Channel, paratroopers prepared for flight and troops readied for action. A brief announcement the following morning declared that D-Day had finally arrived. It would be the start of a long and ......
ISBN-13: 9781912423910
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Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
The summer of 1945 was one that remained in the memory of all those who witnessed it. It brought an end to nearly six years of war in Europe and beyond. A war that cost the lives of millions and destroyed the homes, livelihoods and families of almost all that experienced it. Millions of people across Britain rejoiced in the news that both Germany ......
ISBN-13: 9781912423897
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
