Publication date: 1992-10-30
Dewey code: 760.092
RRP: £67.50
Price: £64.12
Review Victor Pasmore: Paintings and Graphics, 1980-92 / Lund Humphries:
Authors
- Theodor Geisel
- Audrey Geisel
Publication date: 1995-10
Dewey code: 759.13
RRP: £18.74
Price: £12.60
Review The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss / Random House:
Publication date: 1995-01-27
Dewey code: 759.13
RRP: £6.00
Price: £13.95
Review O'Keeffe (Taschen Basic Art Series) / Taschen GmbH:
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Publication date: 1993-05-04
Dewey code: 709.4509022
RRP: £20.00
Price: £14.90
Review Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250-1400 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) / Yale University Press:
Edition: 2nd New edition of Revised edition
Publication date: 2003-05-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £15.00
Price: £8.14
Review Gloriana: The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I (Pimlico) / Pimlico:
Edition: 1st Cooper Square Press Ed
Publication date: 2001-09-28
Dewey code: 759.13
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.50
Review Jackson Pollock: A Biography / Cooper Square Press:
Creator: Peter Dodson
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-08-06
Dewey code: 930
RRP: £14.95
Price: £11.64
Review The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times / Princeton University Press:Since fossils have presumably existed for millions of years, why don't we see much palaeontological thought from ancient writers? Classics scholar Adrienne Mayor suggests that we can in fact learn much about the Greek and Roman attitudes toward fossils if we turn to a surprising source of data and theory: their myths. In The First Fossil Hunters, she explores likely connections between the rich fossil beds around the Mediterranean and tales of griffins and giants originating in the classical world. Striking similarities exist between the Protoceratops skeletons of the Gobi Desert and the legends of the gold-hoarding griffin told by nomadic people of the region, and the fossilised remains of giant Miocene mammals could be taken for the heroes and monsters of earlier times. Mayor makes her case well, but, as with all interpretive science, the arguments are inconclusive. Still, her novel reading of ancient myth-and her critique of the modern scientific mythology that seeks to explain the lack of classical palaeontological thinking-is compelling and thought-provoking. The final chapter of The First Fossil Hunters is an engrossing and occasionally quite funny look at "Paleontological Fictions" dating back several thousand years; the false tritons and centaurs give PT Barnum and his successors a much longer genealogy than previously thought. Whether or not you accept Mayor's analysis of Greek and Roman thinking, The First Fossil Hunters should open your eyes to new possibilities about our distant past. -Rob Lightner.
Creator: Brian Vickers
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2008-05-08
Dewey code: 824.3
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.45
Review Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £24.95
Price: £14.60
Review Raphael / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-09-28
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.64
Price: £5.07
Review Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art / Penguin Books:
Authors
- Frederick Hartt
- David Wilkins
Publication date: 2006-06-01
Dewey code: 709.4509024
RRP: £49.99
Price: £45.99
Review History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture / Prentice Hall:
Publication date: 1998-01
Dewey code: 709.0406
RRP: £14.95
Price: £7.39
Review Dada and Surrealism (Art & Ideas) / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-05-02
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.82
Review Private View: The Secret Lives of the World's Greatest Artists / Robson Books Ltd:
Authors
- Rose-Marie Hagen
- Rainer Hagen
Publication date: 2000-05-26
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.87
Review Bruegel: The Complete Paintings (Taschen Basic Art Series) / Taschen GmbH:
Authors
- Robert Enright
- Arthur C. Danto
- Steve Martin
Dewey code: 759.13
RRP: £48.00
Price: £35.32
Review Eric Fischl: 1970-2007 / Monacelli Press,U.S.:
Authors
- Philip J. Ethington
- Owen Edwards
- Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
- Julius Shulman
- Peter Loughrey
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £200.00
Price: £100.00
Review Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered / Taschen GmbH:
Publication date: 1997-04-17
Dewey code: 757.4094509024
RRP: £17.99
Price: £13.77
Review Women in Italian Renaissance Art / Manchester University Press:
Publication date: 2006-04-01
RRP: £27.95
Price: £16.60
Review Florence Broadhurst / Hardie Grant Books:
Publication date: 1997-01-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £8.95
Price: £5.08
Review Modernism (Movements in Modern Art series) (Movements in Modern Art) / Tate Publishing:
Authors
- Franco Deboni
- Theodore Menten
Dewey code: 739.270222
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.12
Review Authentic Art Deco Jewellery Designs / Dover Publications Inc.:
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