This complete catalog of Monet's famous Water Lilies-âfeaturing 210 paintings from private and public collectionsâ - is an essential volume on a key contribution to impressionist art. Monet, the father of French impressionist painting, devoted twenty-five years to a series of paintings of the water lilies that floated in the pond of his lavish garden in Giverny.This volume is d...(展开全部)

This complete catalog of Monet's famous Water Lilies-âfeaturing 210 paintings from private and public collectionsâ - is an essential volume on a key contribution to impressionist art. Monet, the father of French impressionist painting, devoted twenty-five years to a series of paintings of the water lilies that floated in the pond of his lavish garden in Giverny.This volume is d...(展开全部)

Stephanie Cole (Doc Martin), Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam (The Thick of It) star in the complete second series of the hit sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. Run by the forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (an unfortunate marriage, namewise, but in Carolyn's opinion, marginally bett...(展开全部)

Stephanie Cole (Doc Martin), Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam (The Thick of It) star in the complete second series of the hit sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. Run by the forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (an unfortunate marriage, namewise, but in Carolyn's opinion, marginally bett...(展开全部)

1）Divergent(分歧者) 在这个乌托邦式的社会里，异于他人是危险的，怀疑与好奇是致命的。但是，女主角碧翠丝将打破所有规范，揭穿这虚假的和平…… 在满16岁那天，碧翠丝长久的疑惑终于被解开，她不属于任何一派，她兼具无畏、无私、智慧三种特质，她是一名“分歧者”。这三个字代表不被定义、不被操控，更是动乱与革命的代名词。为了生存，碧翠丝知道，自己的真实身份绝不能被揭穿。同时，她也渐渐发现在这个看似完美和谐的社会背后，好像有什么正在摧毁这个社会，她有能力遏止这一切的发生吗？奇幻冒险与惊奇对决后，故事的结尾出乎众人意料…… 2）Insurgent(叛乱者) 旧的世界被摧毁，美好的新世界仍未知。在充满猜疑与危险的逃亡之路上，杀死朋友、失去亲人的痛苦回忆几乎压得碧翠丝喘不过气。她不再确定自己想要什么，也不在意未来世界会变成怎样。在友好派的住所中，她感受到一股...(展开全部)

Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the last century. To read him today is to be plunged into an era whose culture wars were easily as ferocious as our own, in the company of a writer of boundless cu...(展开全部)

Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the last century. To read him today is to be plunged into an era whose culture wars were easily as ferocious as our own, in the company of a writer of boundless cu...(展开全部)

This 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 for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chro...(展开全部)

About the book: Prince of the Impressionists Hailed the “Prince of the Impressionists”, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only reality, but the act of perception itself. Working “en plein air” with rapid, impetuous brush strokes, he interrogated the play of light...(展开全部)

Monet is one of the leading figures of the Impressionist group of painters that came to the fore in France in the second half of the nineteenth century. This project is aimed at established fans and for those wishing to learn about him for the first time. With the inclusion of facsimiles of some 30 documents from Claude Monet's personal papers and associated archives, "Musee Ma...(展开全部)