Suitable for those who want to make a jacket with the impeccable look of Chanel, this book presents sewing methods the author developed, based on her knowledge of haute couture construction and meticulous research studying original Chanels. Via the DVD...
"Genuine ideas to express"
Sometimes considered the first avant-garde art movement, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected their era's dominant artistic theories for what they saw as a more spiritual, naturalistic and intensely personal approach. Fascinated b...
The solitude of man and the bleak beauty of nature are prominent themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich, the great romantic painter whose importance and influence have often been underestimated. Now widely considered to be the most important Germ...
We know very little about Vermeer's life. There is a tradition that he was baptised in Delft on 31 October 1632, the second child and only son of Reynier Jansz. His father was born in 1591 in Antwerp. In 1611 he moved to Amsterdam where he specialised ...
A Vivien Leigh figure and 28 costumes from a dozen films - including Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire - all in full color on heavy stock, provide an incredibly life-like rendering of the enchanting actress and recapture a part of the shi...
Alexander McQueen - the "Master of the Fantastic" - is making headlines once again as Kate Middleton wore a gown designed by Sarah Burton of the House of McQueen for her wedding to Prince William. This paper doll tribute to the fashion superstar recapt...
The pictorial world of Hieronymus Bosch
If Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) remains an enigma today, it is little wonder. Even his contemporaries found the Dutch painter's work difficult to decipher-and it still presents riddles to contemporary art histor...
Lights, camera, action... enter "The Film Book", stage left. Step into the world of cinema with "The Film Book" - the films, the directors, the genres and the styles. Profiling 100 of the world's most influential directors and 100 key cinematic works, ...
Egon Schiele is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with the style of Klimt, his mentor, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to...
The Blaue Reiter ("Blue Rider") group of artists was formed in Munich in 1911 on the initiative of two outstanding artists: Wassily Kandinsky, the fundamental pioneer of purely abstract painting, and Franz Marc, the creator of mysterious, abstract anim...