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The World of Karl Pilkington
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A collection of the best moments from the ‘Ricky Gervais Show’ with further musings from Karl Pilkington, star of Sky 1’s ‘An Idiot Abroad’. Karl Pilkington, the Confucian-like savant of the ‘Ricky Gervais Show’, has led an extraordinary and curiously individual life. As a kid growing up in Manchester he regularly missed school to accompany his parents on caravanning holidays and left without collecting his exam results: his family weaned him well. Pilkington’s is a brilliant mind, locked inside a perfectly round head, and uncluttered by the unhelpful constraints of logic or common sense; factors that have led him to such dazzling insights as ‘you never see old men eating Twix bars’ or that the ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ was ‘an Adrian Mole sort of thing’. In this pithy and hilarious book, Karl is in conversation with (the often bewildered) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the writers and stars of ‘The Office’ and ‘Extras’, outwitting even these comedy Goliaths with his take on such contentious issues as charity, the lack of Chinese homeless people, reincarnation, the rights of monkeys and favourite superpowers. Featuring Karl's original illustrations, imaginative scribblings, full-colour pictures sent in by fans, and the best conversations of the first twelve podcasts, this is a unique trip into the world of one of our most innovative thinkers, visionaries and prophets, or as Gervais and Merchant know him, ‘the funniest man alive in Britain today’.
About Writing and How to Publish
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Drawing on years of experience, and thousands of readers comments and reviews of her writing, Cathy Glass provides a clear and concise, practical guide on writing and the best ways to get published. Bestselling author Cathy Glass has written and published 18 books, sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide, and had no 1 bestsellers in both the UK and the US. In that time she has received thousands of emails from readers asking for her help and advice on writing and being published. This book details how to achieve both. Divided into four sections, Cathy guides you through the entire process, from composing your first paragraph to seeing your book in print. Topics include: ? Making the time to write ? Planning, revising and editing your writing ? Different types of writing and genres ? Finding an agent and publisher ? How to self-publish ? Promoting your work so it is a success Clear, concise and packed full of practical tips, About Writing is an invaluable guide for all aspiring writers.
We’re British, Innit: An Irreverent A to Z of All Things British
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Forget the Government's Citizenship Test – this is the real measure of Britishness. With a wealth of brand-new material that will bring a smile of recognition to even the stiffest of upper lips, Iain Aitch brings us even more explorations of innate Britishness. Continuing in the snappy A-Z format, Iain Aitch brings us all things uniquely British, whether it's our love of fish and chips, our high regard for James Bond or the red telephone box, everything you've ever regarded as being inimitably British is contained within these pages. Test your knowledge of Britain and what it means to be British by answering the multiple choice questions at the end of the book. What kind of peas are used to make mushy peas? What were the last words of Admiral Lord Nelson? What exactly is Readers' Wives? Were you paying attention? With more style than Jarvis Cocker's moves and more pomp than Elgar's masterpiece, this is a celebration of all that is truly glorious about good old Blighty. A book for the entire British population - Northerner, Southerner, and even tourist and immigrant alike - this is the perfect read for someone seeking a truly British experience.
It Is Just You, Everything’s Not Shit
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The Optimist’s Encyclopedia. In this A-Z of all things nice, Steve Stack takes the reader on an alphabetical tour of the good things in life. Trivial things such as dunking biscuits, drawing pictures in steamed up windows and the sound jelly makes. Big important things like falling in love, Nobel Peace Prize winners and the Internet. And pretty much everything in between from Lego to the shipping forecast, popping bubble wrap to meerkats with guest appearances from Sir David Attenborough, Oliver Postgate, Columbo and The Flaming Lips. It Is Just You, Everything’s Not Shit is the perfect gift for the cynic in your life. It will cheer up even the most miserable of old gits.
Leonardo da Vinci volume 1
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莱昂纳多·达·芬奇（1453—1519）不仅仅是位出神入化的画家，也是一位科学家、解剖师、雕塑家、建筑家、音乐家、工程师、发明家，乃至更多。那么也许该这么问：他不是什么呢？在意大利文艺复兴时期，他为意大利美第奇家族和法国王室创作了美的作品。达·芬奇深受同辈的钦佩，是个闻名全世界的少有而高尚的天才。即使是今天，人们对达·芬奇和他的作品的兴趣仍然丝毫没有消退；时代前沿的艺术家们仍然在研习他的作品和书法，希望能够揭开这位远见卓识的艺术家的秘密。
Dürer
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阿尔布雷特·丢勒（Albrecht Durer，1471-1528）是北部文艺复兴中*创新性的代表人物之一，他改革了宗教画和世俗画中的风景和肖像的绘画技巧。这本著作精选了不同类型的丢勒作品，紧致小巧的形式也成为了献给每一位艺术爱好者的完美赠礼。
Lempicka
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The smoothly metallic portraits, nudes and still lifes of Tamara de Lempicka encapsulate the spirit of Art Deco and the Jazz Age, and reflect the elegant and hedonistic life-style of a wealthy, glamorous and privileged elite in Paris between the two World Wars. Combining a formidable classical technique with elements borrowed from Cubism, Lempicka’s art represented the ultimate in fashionable modernity while looking back for inspiration to such master portraitists as Ingres and Bronzino. This book celebrates the sleek and streamlined beauty of her best work in the 1920s and 30s. It traces the extraordinary life story of this talented and glamorous woman from turn of the century Poland and Tsarist Russia, through to her glorious years in Paris and the long years of decline and neglect in America, until her triumphant rediscovery in the 1970s when her portraits gained iconic status and world-wide popularity.
Manet
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Manet is one of the most famous artists from the second half of the nineteenth century linked to the impressionists, although he was not really one of them. He had great influence on French painting partly because of the choice he made for his subjects from everyday life, the use of pure colours, and his fast and free technique. He made, in his own work, the transition between Courbet’s Realism and the work of the impressionists. Born a high bourgeois, he chose to become a painter after failing the entry to the Marine School. He studied with Thomas Couture, an Academic painter, but it was thanks to the numerous travels he made around Europe from 1852 that he started to find out what would become his own style. His first paintings were mostly portraits and genre scenes, inspired by his love for Spanish masters like Velázquez and Goya. In 1863 he presented his masterpiece Luncheon on the Grass at the Salon des Refusés. His work started a fight between the defenders of Academic art and th
Na?ve Art
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Until the end of the 19th century Na?ve Art, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from professional artists and art critics. Na?ve painting is often distinguished by its clarity of line, vivacity and joyful colours, as well as by its rather clean-cut, simple shapes, as represented by French artists such as Henri Rousseau, Séraphine de Senlis, André Bauchant and Camille Bombois. However, this movement has also found adherents elsewhere, including Joan Miró (who was influenced by some of its qualities), Guido Vedovato, Niko Pirosmani, and Ivan Generalic.
Still Life
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Cézanne transformed a teacup into something alive, raising still-life to the point that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky said about the French artist: “He painted these things as human beings because he was endowed with the gift of divining the inner life in everything.” In addition to those of Cézanne, this book is devoted to still-life paintings by artists such as Van Gogh, Matisse, Chardin and Picasso.
English Painting
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Strictly speaking, the word school applies only in a very imperfect manner to the growth of painting in England. Generally it is used to designate a special collection of traditions and processes, a particular method, a peculiar style in design, and an equally peculiar taste in colouring – all contributing to the representation of a national ideal existing in the minds of the artists of the same country at the same time. In this sense, we speak of the Flemish school, the Dutch school, the Spanish school, several Italian schools, and the French school, but not of the English school. We cannot apply the word to English art, for it is just this absence of any national tradition that strikes one most forcibly in studying English painting. Each painter seems to stand by himself, and is, so to speak, isolated from his brother artists. No trace is to be found of any uniformity of method or of teaching, none of systematic instruction by the State, the Academy, or the Fine Art school. English a
American Graffiti
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自从二十世纪七十年代早期起，涂鸦艺术家便用铺天盖地的复杂标签占领了地铁车厢。Margo Thompson在书中分析了这种决然反抗的表现形式，他将涂鸦艺术家与当代走廊艺术联系了起来。正如涂鸦艺术家代表了少数种族人发声，这位作家也用原始的方式成为了这种被误解的艺术形式的代言人。这本著作从新的角度分析了涂鸦艺术和巴斯奎特（Basquiat）作品的交叉性。这本书的可读性不仅在于讨论这一话题的作品少之又少，同样，这本书本身也吸引了大量的读者。
Botticelli
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美第奇宫廷画家波提切利（Botticelli）是意大利文艺复兴时期与莱昂纳多·达·芬奇（Leonard da Vinci）、米开朗基罗（Michelangelo）和拉斐尔（Raphael）相比肩的艺术家之一。波提切利擅长女性肖像画，他笔下那巧妙的线条和无拘无束的纵欲之情将他与其他画家区分开来。在宗教和私人的委托创作之间，这位佛罗伦萨的艺术家将世俗的元素引入复杂的神话主题的艺术当中，创作了例如《春》（Primavera）和《维纳斯的诞生》（The Birth of Venus）等不容置疑的杰作。
Edward Hopper Light and Dark
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爱德华·霍普，1882年出生于奈阿克，是重要的美国画家之一。在学习了插图画之后，他进入了大名鼎鼎的纽约艺术学院学习，师从罗伯特·亨利（Robert Henri）。亨利对霍普产生了重大的影响，他鼓励霍普从美国人的生活中去发现素材。在创作中，诗意地表达了人们反对二十世纪二十年代的美国生活方式的孤独。受到电影作品—特别是多种摄影角度和人物性格的影响，他的绘画作品表达了对大众文化的疏离感。通过采用冷色调和绘画匿名人物，霍普的作品同样象征性地反映了大萧条时期。尽管霍普曾多次游历欧洲，但他在当时流行的的改革绘画面前仍然无动于衷，例如立体主义，例如超现实主义。霍普用一种非常个性化的形式来表达主题，致力于效仿古典艺术家，例如伦布兰特（Rembrandt）、德加斯(Degas)或者杜米埃（Daumier）。他绘画的加油站、旅馆和日常生活的场景代表了对个人主义的美学宣言、宽敞的开放空间和美国的基本价值观。霍普在1967年去世了，在美国艺术上留下了后的痕迹。
Jasper Johns
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这本书不仅仅为读者展示了这位艺术家那类目众多的艺术画卷，同样讨论了他对二十世纪六十年代及其之后的艺术的影响，以及他与当时其他的艺术大家的个人和艺术交往。这本书回顾了琼斯的艺术，同时它也展示了过去六十年美国艺术图景，让读者能够感受到他们喜爱的艺术家在历史和当代的重要性。
Diego Rivera
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弗里达卡罗（Frida Kahlo）与迭戈里维拉（Diego Rivera）在1928年相识，当年弗里达才21岁，而迭戈42岁。当时迭戈已经是举世闻名的画家，而弗里达还在努力中。 这对备受折磨的组合——特别是对于弗里达来说，在痛苦和磨难中催生了大量艺术创作。弗里达时常处于丈夫的阴影下，忍受着他的不忠和她的妒忌，将所有的痛苦倾注在了画布上，逐渐吸引了公众的目光。在美洲和欧洲两块大陆上，坚定的艺术家宣告着自由的自白书，留下了卓越绝伦的才华。 在这本书中，作者Gerry Souter不仅为我们带来了艺术家的传记，也热情地凸显了这两位二十世纪伟大的墨西哥艺术家之间的联系。
Art of War
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在历史的进程中，很多战争改变了这个世界的政治文化格局。尽管重大事件取决于战争的剧变和激烈程度，战争也影响了整个民族和几代人的身份定位，因而产生了深远的文化效应。尽管在激烈动荡的时期，战争对身体和情绪造成了破坏，但也刺激了丰富的艺术创造。几个世纪以来，伴随着战争的创伤数不胜数的艺术家创造了不朽的作品来祭奠战争中*戏剧性的时刻，从而将它们永恒定格在历史中。 这本著作中优美的画作刻画了著名的战役和战争场景，形象地加入了传说的中国孙子兵法的说明，以及记载了不同战争中重要的时刻，每一篇都由著名的作者撰写。从乌切洛（Uccello）的《圣罗马洛战争》（The Battle of San Romano）到毕加索的《格尔尼卡》（Guernica），这本著作为我们展现了战争灵感下艺术作品的魅力以及它们所展现的人类历史。
African Art
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Well-known and appreciated by Africanists, Maurice Delafosse (1870-1926) knew how to exceed the requirements of his environment and of his time for the benefit of an authentic Africa.
Aestheticism in Art
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It is no wonder that this subject was considered inexplicable for so long, as the nature of many parts of it cannot possibly come within the reach of mere men with pens; otherwise those ingenious gentlemen who have published treatises about it (and who wrote much more learnedly than can be expected from one who never took up the pen before) would not so soon have been bewildered in their accounts of it and obliged so suddenly to turn into the broad and more beaten path of moral beauty, in order to extricate themselves from the difficulties they seem to have met with in this. What’s more, they were forced for the same reasons to amuse their readers with amazing (but often misapplied) encomiums on deceased painters and their performances, wherein they continually discoursed effects instead of developing causes. After much flattery, in very pleasing language, one is fairly set down just from where they were picked up, honestly confessed to that in terms of grace, the main point in questio
Persian Art
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This book consists of two sections. The wide-ranging introduction attempts to outline the basic stages in the development of Persian Art, from the first appearance of Persian peoples on the Iranian plateau during the 10th-8th centuries BCE up to the 19th century CE. Detailed commentaries on the works of art reproduced here provide not only factual information (dates, iconography, provenance, techniques, etc.), but are also, in many instances, followed by brief scholarly studies of the examples of Persian art housed in various museums of the former Soviet Union that are, in the authors’ opinion, of the greatest interest and significance. Some of these objects are reproduced and discussed here for the first time.
Central Asian Art
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Ever since the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, Central Asia has rivalled with classical Eastern Asia (which extended from Mesopotamia to India) in the abilities and skills of its peoples. In the 6th century BCE it was largely conquered by the powerful Achaemenian Dynasty and in the 4th century BCE by Alexander the Great's army which gave it considerable artistic impetus. The period between the 3rd century BCE and the 3rd century CE marked the area with the appearance of powerful Kingdoms: the Parthians of the Arsacid dynasty (south of Turkmenistan, in Persia, and in part of Mesopotamia), the Greco-Bactrians, the Kushans (which included Bactria and the territory beyond Amu-Daria as far as the Indus and the Ganges), the Kangas (that united the Kharezm, the Sogdian, and the northern territories) whose social and cultural development founded an entirely new cultural impulse throughout the territory they controlled.
