Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhe ..

Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before ..

Follow-up to }Ways Of Seeing{, exploring our role as observers.

INTRODUCTION Synthesis and analysis The difference between static and dynamic symmetry Sources for the study of dynamic symmetryTHE DYNAMIC SYMMETRY OF THE PLANT The summation series How dynamic symmetry was discovered The logarithmic s ..

"Nell'odierna storiografia artistica si tende a sorvolare sull'idea di progresso. Č un'idea che abbiamo superato, insieme a quella di decadenza. Qualunque universitario al primo anno sa giŕ che Michelangelo non vale piů di Giotto, bensě č soltanto di ..

Examines the evolution of art and criticism over the last 25 years in North America and Western Europe. Now in paperback.

Beg, Steal and Borrow offers a comprehensive and provocative survey of artistic borrowing.

An up-to-date and future-orientated study of modern art. Colour and halftone illustrations.

No need for copper or plates to achieve the distinctive calligraphic script of 18th-century Europe; just a pen, ink, and this comprehensive workbook will do. A master calligrapher explains the basic strokes for almost all letters of the Copperplate a ..

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

It was not long after Halloween when Stephen King received a telephone call from his editor. ‚Why don't you do a book about the entire horror phenomenon as you see it? Books, movies, radio, TV, the whole thing.‘ The result is this unique combination ..

In Chroma, Derek Jarman explains the use of colour in Medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists and draws on the great colour theorists from Pliny to Leonardo. He also talks about the meaning of colours in literature, science, philo ..