18 books like Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan shozō Meijiki kankō tosho maikuro-ban shūsei
The working-man's way in the world
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Arnulf Rainer
Seine in den 1950er Jahren entwickelten Überarbeitungen machten den 1929 in Baden bei Wien geborenen Künstler Arnulf Rainer weltweit bekannt. In Kooperation mit der Albertina in Wien würdigt das Museum Frieder Burda den international renommierten Künstler anlässlich seines 85. Geburtstages mit einer umfassenden Retrospektive, in der wesentliche Stationen seines komplexen Schaffens mit…
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Beauty, life, memory, obedience, power, sacrifice, and truth – these are the seven lamps of architecture. In this illustrated edition, Ruskin explains that the value of architecture hinges on both “the image it bears of the natural creation” and “the impression it receives from human power.”First published in 1880, The Seven Lamps of Architecture remains a primary reference on design at the turn…
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Enigmas en el Arte
«La Historia del Arte está repleta de tesoros por descubrir, a pesar de que suelen estar a la vista de quien contempla el cuadro o la escultura en la que están disimulados. Manuel Jesús Segado-Uceda nos ofrece en esta obra algunos ejemplos maravillosos. El lector se sentirá ante uno de esos pasatiempos que contienen errores por descubrir y que están ante sus ojos, pero tan bien disimulados, que…
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The common sense of science
Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable.
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Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters, 1780
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Henry Moore
This seventh and final volume in the complete catalogue of Henry Moore's drawings provides a key to the material contained in the other six volumes. It gives a consolidated version of all the reference apparatus contained in each of the other volumes (index, concordance and list of exhibitions), enabling the user to track down any particular drawing from any period or volume by means of its…
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Photobiography
Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects in written texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised particularly acute questions about the rivalry between these two media, their relationship to the real, and the nature of the…
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Longitude
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude,…
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The Stones of Venice
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853.
The Stones of Venice examines Venetian architecture in detail, describing for example over eighty churches. Ruskin discusses architecture of Venice's Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance periods, and provides a general history of the city.
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Venus and Adonis
Adonis is a youth of unsurpassed beauty. A hunter. The goddess Venus, sees him and falls madly in love with him. Venus's love becomes boundless and without limit and Adonis rejects her even though she is a beautiful goddess and the goddess of love. And thereby hangs a tale. The story is told through the lamentations of Venus for Adonis's rejection of her love.
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On not being able to paint
This author wrote the great book."A life of one's own."She was the sister of the scientist P.B.Blackett who won the Nobel Prize for physics.
She became a psychoanalyst and this book is an original and creative effort to understand the blocks preventing her from creativity.
She had always wished to be a painter but was unsatisfied with how her work felt dead and meaningless when she simply…
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Alberto Giacometti
One of the great masters of 20th-century art, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti captured the existential loneliness of modern humanity with his spindly, attenuated figures whose life-like gazes pierce the vastness of space. Uniting more than 250 sculptures, paintings, drawings and graphic works, this extensive monograph is an exemplary overview of his oeuvre.
The book underscores the…
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Robert Gober
An exhibition focusing on the artist's current work specifically created for the space. There are also several essays on the this work.
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The crown of wild olives
Twenty years ago, there was no lovelier piece of lowland scenery in South England, nor any more pathetic in the world, by its expression of sweet human character and life, than that immediately bordering on the sources of the Wandle, and including the lower moors of Addington, and the villages of Beddington and Carshalton, with all their pools and streams. No clearer or diviner waters ever sang…
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Decline of Science in England
xvi, 228 p. 22 cm
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Psychology
While this volume is written as a series of lectures and in a somewhat free and easy style, every effort has been made to present facts in unmutilated form and to state theoretical positions with accuracy. In approaching subjective psychology for the first time, the reader meets with one great difficulty. He comes in from the world of things-a world which he can manipulate, hold up, examine and…
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Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners
Years ago nothing but butter or lard were used for shortening and frying; to-day the visible supply of these two products is insufficient to supply the demand, taking into consideration the amount of butter required for table use. Furthermore, as the demand increased it outgrew the supply of butter and lard, with the result that prices were materially advanced; and, incidentally, the quality has…
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