She was called "the most beautiful girl in the world" and during Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, she set standards of beauty and sophistication copied throughout the world during the three decades of her film career. When she made her American cinema debut opposite Charles Boyer in Walter Wanger's moody 1938 romance-drama, Algiers, ......
Pink Floyd Live Collected provides an insight into the unique live concert journey of one of the most groundbreaking and influential bands of all time. Follow the band from when they formed as students in Cambridge in 1965 and consisted of Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright, with Dave Gilmour joining in 1967. Syd Barrett ......
There is surprisingly little, and certainly nothing comprehensive, written about the contemporary Russian scene now. What appear in the West are mostly reports about so-called 'dissidents', not about what is happening in this vast culture, taken as a whole. Too often, these reports seem to be primarily inspired by a desire to demonstrate Western ......
A facsimile of the practical manual, discussing the necessity for camouflage; nature as a guide for camouflage; the importance of background, texture, colour, shadows and more. "Officially approved by the War Office."
This is a comprehensive look at the supergroup that is Genesis, following the origins of the band with its founding members Tony Banks (keyboards) and Mike Rutherford (bass, guitar); and Phil Collins (vocals, drums), who joined in 1970, to the years when the legendary Peter Gabriel was the frontman of the band. The book charts the rise of Genesis ......
This ground-breaking publication provides a new view of the great Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), whose intensely physical gestural painting stood the staid post-war British art world on its head. In advance of a new Davie gallery in Hertford, the visually spectacular book argues that far from being an essentially historical figure, ......
The Women Behind Modern Art in Britain tells the stories of determined women like Helen Sutherland, Margaret Gardiner,
Myfanwy Piper and others, who helped to change the course of British art in the middle of the last century. Whether as friends,
supporters, collectors, curators or galleristes, they played a central role in determining the ......
The Russian Avant-garde under Soviet Rule, 1917-1928
The experience of a group of Russian avant-garde artists (such as Kazimir Malevich, Vassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Tatlin and others) in cultural engineering in Russia during the first years after the Revolution of 1917 and their alliance with Soviet Power to create new Art culture and cultural institutions.
