Goya (Taschen Basic Art)
By: Rose-Marie Hagen
4.01
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
An informative introduction to one of Spain's most renowned artists. Goya (1746-1828) was the most …
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1. Rembrandt 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form
By: Michael Bockemühl , Michael Claridge
4.01
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The mystery of the revealed A mirror of the artistic and intellectual developments of the 17th cen… read more
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2. Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
By: Gilles Néret
4.18
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's or… read more
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"Some elements appear in this picture which would be decisive in Klimt's subsequent work: for instance, the use of gold and the transformation of anatomy into ornamentation, of ornamentation into anat…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
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"Eros and Thanatos were always the source of his inspiration, even though, from this time on, they usually appear in the guise of two simple and fundamental themes: flowers and women. These themes off…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
3. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
4. The Early History of Rome (The History of Rome, #1-5)
By: Livy , Aubrey de Sélincourt , Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , None
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first … read more
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5. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
By: Carlos Fuentes , Frida Kahlo , Sarah M. Lowe
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
Published here in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten ye… read more
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6. Manet
By: Gilles Néret
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Violently criticized during his lifetime for his supposedly provocative paintings, French painter E… read more
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7. Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
By: Euripides
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus Translated by John Davie with an Introduction an… read more
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8. London Fields
By: Martin Amis
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searchi… read more
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9. Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
By: Leonie Frieda
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Poisoner, despot, necromancer -- the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this c… read more
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10. Galileo
By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley , Charles Laughton
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileoexplores the question of a scientist'… read more
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11. Heaven And Hell: My Life In The Eagles (1974 2001)
By: Don Felder
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Don Felder was just a poor boy from Florida, but when he joined the Eagles he soared into the strat… read more
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12. J.M.W. Turner, 1775-1851: The World of Light and Colour
By: Michael Bockemühl
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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13. Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
By: Russell Shorto
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by t… read more
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14. Vermeer, 1632-1675: Veiled Emotions
By: Norbert Schneider
3.62
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
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15. The Sound of Waves
By: Yukio Mishima , Meredith Weatherby
4.57
Format: 270 pages,
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16. Mucha
By: None
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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17. 2010: Odyssey Two
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the nov… read more
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"Humor was the enemy of desire."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
"Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
"They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
18. Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920: The Poetry of Seeing
By: Doris Krystof
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
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19. The Gods Themselves
By: Isaac Asimov
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Protiv gluposti i bogovi sami bore se uzalud. U ne toliko dalekoj buducnosti, otkricem principa raz… read more
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20. Caravaggio, 1571-1610
By: None
4.06
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recogn… read more
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21. This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.64
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more
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"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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22. Egon Schiele, 1890-1918: The Midnight Soul of the Artist
By: Reinhard Steiner
4.28
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lastin… read more
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23. Thousand Cranes
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.71
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
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"Гріх ніколи не змиєш, а горе минає."-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
"Коли вона померла, я з жалем подумала: навіть якщо її не розуміли, то все одно смерть не можна виправдати. Смерть виключає будь-яку надію на порозуміння."-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
"Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate."-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
"– Понимаете, Кикудзисан, человек не может быть благоразумным и мудрым, если в нем слишком сильно мужское или женское начало. – Да? Значит, мудрость среднего пола? – Иронизируете? Ну, ну… Однако, когд…"-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
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25. Titus Andronicus
By: William Shakespeare
3.68
Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)"-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:"-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
26. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)
By: S.T. Gibson
3.66
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more
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"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)
27. Monet, Claude (1840-1926)
By: Christoph Heinrich
4.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
La serie de arte de Taschen son libros de magníficas reproducciones y textos inteligentes con preci… read more
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28. Goya (Taschen Basic Art)
By: Rose-Marie Hagen
4.01
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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29. Eugene Delacroix, 1798 - 1863: The Prince of Romanticism
By: Gilles Néret
4.06
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
At Delacroix' studio sale, held six months after his death in 1864, crowds and critics were astonis… read more
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30. Rubens
By: Gilles Néret
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Extravagance and sensuality Renowned among his contemporaries as one of the foremost paint… read more
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31. Romanticism
By: Norbert Wolf
3.84
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Harmony between man and nature In a revolt against Rationalism, Romanticism was characterized by a … read more
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