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Amazonia Imagined by Edward Lucie-Smith
Category: Travel Photography
Amazonia Imagined is a book that will be considered by anyone who has travelled to Brazil or is planning to visit there. It will have an instant appeal for those who are interested in the preservation of the Brazilian rainforest and the fate of the native Amazonian Indian. It is an elegantly conceived a ...Show more
Art Today by Edward Lucie-Smith
Category: Art and Design
A survey of one of the most controversial epochs art history, the Modern Movement, this text combines a critical eye with a historian's insight into wider trends. It reflects the changes that have swept across the art world since 1960, challenging the old assumptions and certainties. As it reviews the w ...Show more
Flora: Garden & Plants in Art & Literature by Lucie Smith Edward
Category: Art | Series: Evergreen Series
This work explores flowers and gardens from a wide variety of societies and historical periods. Images of flora from the frescos of Pompeii to the prints and watercolours of China and Japan are presented alongside work by garden designers and individual artist's garden visions.
Latin American Art Since 1900 by Edward Lucie-Smith
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
In this classic survey, now updated with full-color images throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces the art of Latin America from 1900 to the present day. Lucie-Smith examines major artists such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as dozens of less familiar Latin American artists and exiled artis ...Show more
Lives of the Great Modern Artists by Edward Lucie-Smith
Category: REM Visual Arts
In the era of celebrity culture, we are now more fascinated than ever with the lives of our leading artists. Creative personalities are always intriguing, and to learn something new about the greatest artists of the 20th and 21st centuries be they eccentric or sober, outspoken or reclusive is compelling ...Show more
Movements in Art Since 1945 by EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art S.
Movements in Art Since 1945 by Edward Lucie-Smith
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, and artists from abstract expressionism to the present day.Writing with exceptional clarity and a strong sense of narrative, Edward Lucie- Smith demystifies t ...Show more
The Face of Jesus by Edward Lucie-Smith
Category: Art and Design
The most iconic face in art over the past two thousand years has been that of Jesus. As the central figure in Christianity, he has been a source of comfort and consolation to followers around the world. In "The Face of Jesus", art historian Edward Lucie-Smith traces Jesus' life in famous works of art by ...Show more
Toulouse Lautrec by Edward Lucie-Smith
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
his series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information ...Show more
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