Julian Bell Livres

The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (331 or 332 363 CE) include eight Orations; Misopogon (Beard-hater), assailing the morals of the people of Antioch; more than eighty Letters; and fragments of Against the Galileans, written mainly to show that the Old Testament lacks evidence for the idea of Christianity.

"Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and debates over what was real and what constituted 'nature', currents that would soon gather force to form modern science. Natural Light deliberates on the era's uncertainties, as distilled in the work of painter Adam Elsheimer -- a short-lived, tragic German artist who has always been something of a cult secret. Elsheimer's diminutive, intense and mysterious narrative compositions related figures to landscape in new ways, projecting unfamiliar visions of space at a time when Caravaggio was polarizing audiences with his radical altarpieces and circles of "natural philosophers" -- early modern scientists -- were starting to turn to the new "world system" of Galileo. Julian Bell transports us to the spirited Rome of the 1600s, where Elsheimer and other young Northern immigrants -- notably his friend Peter Paul Rubens -- swapped pictorial and poetic reference points. Focusing on some of Elsheimer's most haunting compositions, Bell drives at the anxieties that underlie them -- puzzling over existential questions that still have relevance today. Traditional themes for imagery are expressed with fresh urgency, most of all in Elsheimer's final painting, a vision of the night sky of unprecedented poetic power that was completed at a time of ferment in astronomy. Circulated through prints, Elsheimer's pictorial inventions affected imaginations as disparate as Rembrandt, Lorrain and Poussin. They even reached artists in Mughal India, whose equally impassioned miniatures expand our sense of what 'nature' might be. As we home in on artworks of microscopic finesse, the whole of the 17th-century globe and its perplexities starts to open out around us." -- Provided by publisher

In the 1980s, what had once appeared unthinkable came to pass: the `voice of a generation' began to sound irrelevant, a tale told to grandchildren. Having failed to release a single new song in seven long years, Dylan put out the equivalent of two albums in a single package.

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) is acknowledged as one of the great masters of modern art, following in the tradition of the Impressionists. He is best known as a painter of intimate, domestic interiors, but he was also a highly accomplished draughtsman who produced a wealth of lithographs and drawings. The book illustrates the full range of his output from his early works inspired by Japanese prints to the rich and dazzling works of his later years which have ensured his reputation as one of the twentieth century's great colourists. With its lavish illustrations this book provides an excellent introduction to a brilliant artist.

For the first time, the laureate of modern America is set in his entire context: musical, historical, literary, political and personal. Once Upon a Time is a biographical study of a personality that has splintered and reformed, time after time, in a country forever struggling to understand itself.

A comprehensive guide for improving your creative writing, including contributions from David Lodge, Nell Dunn, Malcolm Bradbury, Maureen Freely and Patricia Duncker. schovat popis

topical, edgy, emotive and compelling story written in a powerful first-person voice! Hopes mum doesnt get her. In fact, Hope knows that as far as her preoccupied parents are concerned, shes hopeless. She may be spoiltbut money doesnt buy happiness. Oksana doesnt even have a mum. And her dad and brother are miles away, left behind in Russia. She thought Europe would offer a better lifeinstead, bought and sold into prostitution, she feels dirty and used. Then Oksana and Hope are thrown together in the most terrifying circumstances imaginable. Their only real chance of escape lies with each other, but how do two teenagers with so little in common find the way . . . ? A tense, shocking novelwith a hint of hope.

What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? This book considers such questions. It discusses dancing bronze figures from southern India, Romanesque sculptures, Baroque ceilings and jewel-like Persian manuscripts.

Julian Bell's incisive, fully updated study of modern art and the nature of painting, which daringly tries to explain it