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When Dave Hickey was 12, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out - he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, for Hickey and for us, he survived, and continues to battle, decades into a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense voice commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of art and culture.

Un viaje fantástico al esplendor del Reino de los Faraones: Alejandría, Guiza, Sakkara, Dendera, Karnak, Luxor, Deir el-Bahari, Deir el-Medina, Medinet-Habu, File, Abu Simbel, Elefantina, Asuán y La tumba de Nefertari.

Un voyage fantastique vers la splendeur du Royaume des Pharaons : Alexandrie, Gizeh, Saqqara, Dendéra, Karnak, Louqsor, Deir el-Bahari, Deir el-Médineh, Médinet Habou, Philae, Abou Simbel, Eléphantine, Assouan et La tombe de Néfertari.

L'histoire de la comtesse Matilde et de son territoire : L'histoire, les Canossa (les origines, la famille, les biens), les personnages, Mathilde de Canossa, Henri IV, Grégoire VII, Henri V, les châteaux, les paroisses rurales (pievi), les bourgs de l'Apennin, le paysage, l'axe directeur de Mathilde, l'artisanat artistique/l'ars canusina et les produits œnogastronomiques.

La storia della Contessa Matilde e del suo territorio: La Storia, I Canossa (le origini, la famiglia, i possedimenti), I personaggi, Matilde di Canossa, Enrico IV, Gregorio VII, I castelli, Il sistema fortificato canossano, Le Pievi, La direttrice matildica, Il Circuito dei Castelli matildici e delle corti reggiane, L'attualità di Canossa, L'artigianato artistico: l'ars canusina, I prodotti enogastronomici e Le strade dei vini e dei sapori.

This is the beautifully told story of charismatic and unconventional pop artist Martin Sharp, from his lonely privileged childhood to the heady days of the underground magazine Oz to Swinging London and beyond. Sharp blurred the boundaries of high art and low; he drew rock stars and reprobates into his world, collaborated with Eric Clapton, obsessively championed eccentric singer Tiny Tim, was haunted by Sydney's Luna Park and, paradoxically, became a recluse whose phone never stopped ringing.

It is an enthralling and unexpected selection, and the anthology resonates beyond this showing. It is from the Eric and Louise Franck collection, which has been donated to the Tate, and is part of the process by which the gallery has very belatedly, but with almost overwhelming enthusiasm, entered into collecting and showing photography as a medium in in its own right, with a very active patrons group supporting acquisitions. One of the benefits of Tate joining the fray is evident in the installation of this show.

After Andy is Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni's insider's account of working in Andy Warhol's studio and Interview magazine and explores Warhol's impact on the art world, pop culture, society, and fashion - and how his iconic status gave rise to some of our most influential tastemakers today.

Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female artists in this smart, feisty, educational, and enjoyable book.

Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In Culture Care artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we become generative and feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. We serve others as cultural custodians of the future. This is a book for artists, but artists come in many forms.

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the 20th-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nelson brilliantly navigates this contemporary predicament, with an eye to the question of whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel.

Since the publication of her prize-winning memoir, Craft for a Dry Lake, writer and artist Kim Mahood has been returning to the Tanami desert country in far north-western Australia where, as a child, she lived with her family on a remote cattle station. The land is timeless, but much has changed: the station has been handed back to its traditional owners, the mining companies have arrived and Aboriginal art has flourished.

A review of the exhibition "A Celebration of Life...and Death" by Andy Warhol (1928-1987), held at the National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh in October 2007. Text by Nicholas James, contributions by Lucy James.

Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation that would continue until Bacon's death 30 years later. Fascinated by the artist's brilliance and charisma, Peppiatt accompanied him on his nightly round of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to louche club and casino, seeing all aspects of Bacon's 'gilded gutter life' and meeting everybody around him.

Kenneth Clark was the grandest figure in the arts in Britain in the 20th century. Museum director, patron, pioneer of television, cultural panjandrum, he effortlessly dominated the art world for over half a century. Clark belonged to that stratum of society that used to be called "the top people" and was befriended by both the Queen Mother and Winston Churchill. His closest friendships, however, were amongst writers and artists, men such as John Betjeman, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore and John Piper.

We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world and are among the most beloved works of art of the past century. Yet, ironically, these soothing images were created amid terrible personal turmoil and sadness.

You are the artist! In this unique series of books - you are the artist. As you listen through this adventure you can draw, sketch, color, make patterns, and create as much as your imagination allows. In this adventure, Sam dreams of going to space. Who or what is Sam? How does Sam get in to space? What does space look like? Who does he meet? Create your own illustrations, drawings, and sketches as you enjoy exploring space with Sam.

"L'impero delle luci" è uno dei più noti e importanti lavori di Giorgio De Chirico, pittore surrealista belga che operò agli inizi del Novecento, famoso per i suoi uomini con le bombette, la mela che prende il posto della testa e la pipa che non è una pipa. La sua pittura è intrisa di mistero, illusione, trabocchetti e realtà distorte che sono i tratti distintivi del primo surrealismo.

Caitlin's Cruise: A Journey through the Films of Tom Cruise chronicles one woman's quest to watch and review every single movie featuring Tom Cruise, in chronological order. Find out how Caitlin ranks all 38 movies, from the big hits like Risky Business, Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, and Mission: Impossible to the possibly underseen works like Taps and All the Right Moves.

In dit multidisciplinaire college kijkt Kitty Zijlmans naar de vele aspecten van kunstgeschiedenis, waaronder esthetica en kunstkritiek. Maar ook naar de rol van de kunst in de maatschappij en de veranderingen daarin als gevolg van de opkomst van moderne kunst en de mondialisering.