A wonderful time, an intimate portrait of the good life From the front flap of this 190 page book: “‘A Wonderful Time’ captures magnificently the life of America’s elite from coast to coast, in Bermuda, the Caribbean, and Acapulco. Drawing from thousands of pictures taken since World War II on
Anthony Trollope – The Palliser Novels – 6 Vol. Set In his autobiography, Anthony Trollope called the Palliser Novels–that sprawling epic of Victorian England for which he is justly famous–“the best work of my life,” adding “I think Plantagenet Palliser stands more firmly on the ground than any other personage
Art Of Africa A book on African art which embraces the creative work of the entire continent south of the Sahara. It provides a close-up view of masterpieces from Mali to Madagascar, the Gold Coast to the Indian Ocean, the Sudan to South Africa. Included are Kongo nail fetishes and
Auguste Rodin Drawings And Watercolours: “I have drawn all my life. I began withdrawing: I have never stopped drawing.”_x0015_Auguste Rodin From the “black” drawings contemporaneous with the Gates of Hell to his great watercolor nudes, this book reproduces hundreds of Auguste Rodin’s most beautiful graphic works held in the collection
Automata The Golden Age 1848-1914 – The automaton is the playful collaboration of the artist and the artisan, with sculpture, painting, music, costume, and mechanics all playing a part in its creation. In Automata: The Golden Age, Christian Bailly opens with a depiction of mid-19th-century Paris, where French automaton-makers lived and worked.
Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. A pioneer of abstract art in Britain, he first came to prominence with his famous ‘white reliefs’, but he also maintained a lifelong attachment to landscape and still-life forms and – in an astounding career of over
