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Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. This is a book about what it feels like to sit in your studio or classroom, at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do. It is about committing your future to your own hands, placing free will above predestination, choice above chance. It is about finding your own work.

A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist's work from their biography. What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and...

Read by Tilda Swinton and Olivia Laing. ‘Wonderful and necessary’ ANNE ENRIGHT ~ ‘Constantly surprising’ GUARDIAN ~ ‘Stunning’ DEBORAH LEVY ~ ‘Compulsively fascinating’ NEW STATESMAN ~ ‘Beautiful’ HANYA YANAGIHARA ~ ‘Daring and seductive NEW YORK TIMES ~ ‘Profound...

In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of 2,000,000 years of human history using 100 objects selected from the museum's vast and renowned collection. Presented by the British Museum's then director Neil MacGregor, each episode focuses on a single object - from a Stone Age tool to a solar-powered lamp - and explains its significance in human history. 

In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas. 

Bloomsbury presents The Love of Analog: Meditations on Value by Darren Hudson Hick read by John Chancer Vinyl records. Board games. Paperback books. Film. A philosopher dives into the analog world to show what it offers us and what it says about our values. Packed with first-person anecdotes...

Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, as they figure in the theory, philosophy, politics, ethics, and artwork of the period, and it is shown how they have interacted within a postmodernist culture. 

'Moore is wickedly charming - the naughty uncle you want to be sat beside at the dinner table' - Daily Telegraph Too often history focuses on the tales of kings, or those (often men) who were given the credit for shaping our stories. Yet, what fascinates most are the figures who have passed...

In 1900, an 18-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris. It was in this glittering capital of the international art world that, after suffering years of poverty and neglect, he emerged as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Fueled by opium and alcohol, inspired by raucous late-night conversations at the Lapin Agile cabaret, Picasso and his friends resolved to shake up the world.

From two-time Academy Award winner from 16 nominations, and five-time BAFTA award winner from 11 nominations, Sir Roger Deakins - widely regarded as the greatest cinematographer of all time - a one-of-a-kind visual memoir, telling his life's story by way of his iconic, beloved films, including...

In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, she demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let conventional ideas define her sense of the truth. Rand eloquently asserts that one cannot create art without infusing it with one's own value judgments and personal philosophy - even an attempt to withhold moral overtones only results in a deterministic or naturalistic message.

Ontrafel de geschiedenis van een simpel kaartspel dat uitgroeide tot een mystiek symbool van lotsbestemming. Deze intrigerende luisterervaring is een fascinerende metgezel voor je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer of een rustig moment van zelfreflectie. Het verhaal reist van levendige historische...

These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance", was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael.

اكتشف أسرار مصر القديمة عبر رحلة صوتية غامرة تفكك أعظم لغز أثري صامد في وجه الزمن. سواء كنت تسترخي في هدوء المساء أو تتنقل خلال زحام يومك، سيأخذك هذا السرد...

一幅原本只属于文艺复兴时期私人的小尺寸肖像画，究竟是如何突破艺术史的边界，在一系列轰动全球的失窃案与现代传媒的狂欢中，逆袭为世界顶流的文化符号？打破关于画作的各种阴谋论与伪神秘，这段快节奏的非虚构叙...

كيف تحولت لوحة زيتية صغيرة من عصر النهضة إلى أيقونة بصرية عالمية وأشهر عمل فني في التاريخ الثقافي؟ يغوص هذا السرد التاريخي المليء بالتشويق في رحلة استثنائية،...

世界一壮麗な室内装飾と讃えられながら第二次世界大戦の業火に消えた歴史的遺産の軌跡をたどる、圧倒的な没入感に満ちた歴史ドキュメンタリーと文化史の融合。通勤中の車内や静かな夜のリラックスタイムに、知的好...

15世紀の優雅な宮廷遊戯はいかにして神秘的な占いツールへと姿を変えたのか、タロットカードが歩んだ数奇な文化史と象徴進化の全貌を解き明かします。史実とロマンチックな伝説を鮮やかに切り離し、一枚のカードに...

Un intrigante viaje por la historia del arte revela cómo un retrato renacentista alcanzó el estatus de ícono global. Ideal para alimentar tu curiosidad intelectual durante tu trayecto diario, esta fascinante crónica separa rigurosamente el mito de la realidad comprobada. Sumérgete en la...

一枚の小さな肖像画がいかにして美術史の枠を超え、メディアと大衆を巻き込む世界的アイコンへと変貌を遂げたのか、その数奇な運命と歴史の偶然を紐解きます。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや日々の通勤電車の中で、...