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111 Hidden Art Treasures in London That You Shouldn't Miss by MICHAEL GLOVER
Category: Guidebooks | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The hidden art of London is for the ever-curious roamer of both the back streets and the familiar places you never quite see churches, gardens, graveyards, pubs. What little garden finds the poet John Keats sitting in the corner of a bench? Which abandoned building tells the story of a great Roman Roa ...Show more
Great Works: Encounters with Art by MICHAEL GLOVER
Category: Art and Design
Every Saturday for the best part of a decade, thousands of people have been turning to the pages of the British newspaper The Independent to read Michael Glover's thoughts about a particular piece of art. Pithy, astute, erudite, often humorous, and always engaging, these enormously popular essays are fi ...Show more
Rose Wylie: Painting a Noun... by Michael Glover (Text by); Rose Wylie
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Spotlight Ser.
Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie--whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous--often draws her in uence from a wide range of popular culture. Here her newest body of work references memories from her own life and mimics the way memories evolve and change over time. Wylie's source ma ...Show more
Thrust - A History of the Codpiece in Art by Michael Glover
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to close a revealing gap between two separate pieces of men's tights. By the sixteenth century, it had become an upscale must-have accessory. This lighthearted, illustrated examination of its history pulls in writers from Rabelais to Shakespeare and figures ...Show more
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