冈特是英国著名的艺术史论家和作家。在本书中，他以翔实的史料为基础，以拉斐尔前派的兴衰史为主线，用生动形象的文学语言，描绘了“一个实利主义时代中的一些困惑的理想主义者”的悲剧，详尽地评介了这一时期重要的文艺理论家、画家、作家、诗人以及重大的文艺现象、重要作品和艺术流派。本书与《美的历险》、《维多利亚时代的奥林匹斯山》一起，作为著名的“维多利亚时代的艺术潮流”三部曲，勾画出19世纪下半叶到20世纪初英国乃至欧洲的人文思想和社会生活风貌的全景。

Drawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev (author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series), describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's father, a respected ethnographer, taught him techniques to record the tattoos of criminals in St. Petersburg's notorious Kresty prison...(展开全部)

Lying open, this unutterably wonderful book is almost the size of the Mona Lisa and about as hefty as a slab of The Last Supper's monastery wall. All 34 paintings are here (including what we know of the lost ones), many with huge and immensely illuminating details, plus 663 drawings. The reproductions are stunning, on paper sturdy enough to serve as wings on some of the flying ...(展开全部)

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Special bestseller price Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This XXL-format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With hu...(展开全部)

Lying open, this unutterably wonderful book is almost the size of the Mona Lisa and about as hefty as a slab of The Last Supper's monastery wall. All 34 paintings are here (including what we know of the lost ones), many with huge and immensely illuminating details, plus 663 drawings. The reproductions are stunning, on paper sturdy enough to serve as wings on some of the flying ...(展开全部)

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Special bestseller price Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This XXL-format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With hu...(展开全部)