Previously unpublished, Camillo Palladini's discourse on fencing is crucial to a modern understanding of Italian renaissance rapier play. This stunning illustrated book, a joint endeavour between the Royal Armouries and the Wallace Collection, reproduces every page of the original manuscript alongside a new transcription and translation.
The Art of Julian Cooper is a personal reflection on a life spent looking for places that carry a particular charge for the artist, finding them in some of the most inhospitable places on the planet. It illustrates that throughout his journeying and searching for a fitting way to paint the world, he has experienced the life-long power of one place ......
Art Nouveau Posters and Visual Culture of the Hungarian Seccession
The Art of Life presents the first golden age of Hungarian poster art, in an international context, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the Art Nouveau style, including works by great artists of the genre Mucha, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Moser and others. They are joined by iconic works by well-known Hungarian artists, including ......
As part of the series showcasing prominent figures of Hungarian art Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest is organizing a large-scale retrospective exhibition of one of the most important Hungarian painters of the twentieth century, Margit ANNA (1913 1991), a distinguished member of the art group Europai Iskola (European School).
From the human truths, brutalist architecture and packed tube trains of 1970s London to the vineyards, Renaissance chateaux and riotous festivals of Gascon France, Michael Fell (1939 - 2023) chronicled the world he saw. His exuberant paintings and prints explore the sadnesses, humour and joys of ordinary people in work combining technical freedom ......
Portraiture has long been an important tool for creating, supporting and challenging notions of identity. This book will explore individual and collective identities within naval portraiture and how these are shaped by ideas of gender, class and race.
The Art of Prowling is one of a series of training booklets written by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction by the Royal Armouries shows how trainees during the Second World War learned to sneak up on the enemy without being seen.
ISBN-13: 9780948092923
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: TRUSTEE ROYAL ARMOURIES
In the landmark book, The Assault on Truth, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson draws on unique access to formerly sealed and hidden papers to uncover the truth behind this pivotal moment in psychoanalytic history. Masson dares to explore the reality that neither Freud nor his followers could bear to face.
The Auspicious Time is a novel focusing on life in Beijing before and after the founding of New China, observing the earthshaking changes around them from the perspective of a child named Auspicious. It is a children's novel with deep Beijing charm and Chinese feelings. With restrained and peaceful brushstrokes and poetic and tender narratives, ......
