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. ......
The first illustrated account of the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception at Farm Street in Mayfair. Written by leading authorities in their fields.
Calling on four decades of experience as a specialist dealer in the creations of Carl Faberge, Andre Ruzhnikov exposes both the worldwide forgers producing fake Faberge and the dealers who knowingly trade in them. The corruption reaches all the way to the heights of St Petersburg's venerable Hermitage Museum and to the depths of a so-called ......
Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33 is the oldest-known manual of swordsmanship in the Western canon. The sequence here shows Keith Ducklin and Mike Broadley of the Royal Armouries Interpretation team enacting scenes from the manuscript.
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 ......
A Collection of Epigrams and Epitaphs Serious and Comic
Originally published in 1933, this is a charming book of verse written by Martin Armstrong and illustrated with wood-engravings from the skilled hands of Eric Ravilious.
Fighter Command showcases 50 photographs of the iconic aircraft and crew behind Britain's spirited fighting force. This vibrant collection traces the development of Fighter Command from its inception and growth in the 1930s, as war clouds gathered over Europe, to the dawn of the supersonic age in the early years of the Cold War
ISBN-13: 9781912423682
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Adrian Clark's thoroughly researched account of the origins and professional life of John Rothenstein, covers his highs and lows and tries to give a balanced view and summary of the achievements of this remarkable human being.
The British Infantry Section in the Second World War
Fighting to Kill explores the significance of infantry units for those who fought the Second World War. It describes the evolution of the infantry rifle section of the British Army and brings together the history of their weaponry, their small-unit tactics and the soldiers' personal experiences.
