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Dad’s Army (The Best of British Comedy)
Dad’s Army (The Best of British Comedy)
Richard Webber
¥50.62
People shout the "Don't tell him, Pike!" line at me regularly - and I didn't even say it!' Philip Madoc.In the annals of British television, no finer example of classic comedy exists than in the shape of Dad's Army, the Home Guard-based sitcom written by veteran writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft. Although they penned many other sterling programmes, including Hi-De-Hi! and the underrated You Rang, M'Lord?, they'll forever be remembered for their brilliant wartime comedy spotlighting the antics of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard, led by the irascible and pompous Captain Mainwaring.Between 1968 and '77, nine series and three Christmas Specials - totalling 80 instalments - were screened, much to the delight of the millions of fans who tuned in; but the show's popularity has continued unabated and even today, four decades since the platoon marched onto the scene, it remains one of the golden offerings from the sitcom genre.With the 40th anniversary of Dad's Army in 2008, what better time to celebrate the magic of this show.The Best of British Comedy - Dad's Army includes:”? The History: an overview of how Dad's Army was born and developed”? Gags and Catchphrases: a collection of classic quotes from the programme”? Did You Know?: snippets of info about the show, cast, etc.”? Favourite scenes: the most memorable scenes in full”? A Dad's Army quizEpisode: 'Something Nasty in the Vault'Mainwaring and Wilson are stuck in the bank's strong room. There has been an air raid and they've ended up holding an unexploded bomb. Pike arrives.Pike: Uncle Arthur?Wilson: Oh, what it is, Frank?Pike: Do you think I ought to phone mum and tell her you're holding a bomb?Wilson: No!Pike: But she might get cross if she found out that you'd been holding a bomb and she wasn't told about it.
I Love You
I Love You
Edward Monkton
¥44.24
Bestselling artist Edward Monkton's profound and funny musings on LOVE and RELATIONSHIPS are both funny and profound, making this collection the perfect gift for lovers everywhere. You are a Chocolate Button of LOVELINESS on the great Caramel Pudding of LIFE Following the phenomenal success of such stylish and original books as The Lady and the Chocolate, The Pig of Happiness, The Shoes of Salvation, Love and The Penguin of Death, Edward Monkton now assembles his funny, sometimes surreal and suprisingly philisophical drawings and thoughts on love. Edward Monkton’s surprisingly philosophical take on all aspects of love, life and happiness have made Monkton’s drawings cherished collectors’ items and a mark of good taste year in, year out.
364 Days of Tedium: or What Santa Gets up to on his Days Off
364 Days of Tedium: or What Santa Gets up to on his Days Off
Dave Cornmell
¥66.22
Ever wondered what Santa gets up to the rest of the year? You’ll wish you hadn’t! For 364 days of the year Santa has bugger all to do. The elves do all the manual labour and these days he orders all the presents online. All he has to do is deliver them. So, for the rest of the time he is bored out of his tiny mind. Dave Cornmell’s brilliant and inspired comic strip is an irreverent and incredibly rude look at Santa’s real life featuring an hilarious cast of characters including Mrs Claus, the elves, reindeer, a variety of arctic wildlife, Santa’s bath toys and some maggots. Find our where Santa goes on holiday, what he does with his bin bags, what he watches on telly, how he copes when his wife goes away and whether or not the rumours are true about him and Vixen. Whatever your idealised image of Santa may be, the truth is that he’s just a bored fat bloke who hates his job. Get used to it.
A Homemade Christmas
A Homemade Christmas
Tina Barseghian
¥44.24
Making something with your own hands—whether it's a plate of just-baked cookies, a handcrafted stocking, a homemade wreath, or a hand-folded origami ornament—is a great way to connect with the true meaning of Christmas. From holiday decorating to gift giving, A Homemade Christmas is chock-full of projects, recipes, tips, and helpful hints that are guaranteed to add a homemade touch to your holiday season. Open this charming volume to any page and discover a wealth of practical and easy-to-accomplish ideas for a homemade holiday: - create personal, distinctive holiday greetings - deck the halls with festive, handmade trimmings - cook simple but memorable homemade dishes - make unique, handcrafted gifts - share the joy of the season with friends and family Packed with inspiration and how-tos for ideas that are family-friendly and eco-conscious, festive and meaningful, A Homemade Christmas will put homemade back into your holidays!
Still Life
Still Life
Charles, Victoria
¥61.23
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.
Audubon's Birds
Audubon's Birds
Audubon, John James
¥61.23
Audubon’s ambitious project to paint all the birds of North America resulted in a work that represents one of the greatest advances in ornithology. Not only did he identify new species, he also depicted birds within their natural habitat and in vivid poses. This impressive collection ranges from the Greater Flamingo and Bald Eagle to the Carolina parakeet. Audubon describes every species in concise texts, drawing attention the peculiarities of each bird.
Courbet
Courbet
Bade, Patrick
¥61.23
居斯塔夫库尔贝(Gustave Courbet,1819--1877)的出生地奥尔南(Ornans)靠近美丽的杜河峡谷的地方,也正是这个地方,让这个男孩成长为男人,并培养了他对于这片风景的热爱。 在本质上,他是个革命者,天生具有反抗现存秩序和独立的精神;他咆哮和残酷的性格使得他的革命性不仅仅体现在艺术中,也体现在政治上。在这两个方面,他的革命精神不证自明。他到巴黎去学习艺术,但是他却不属于任何一个著名的大师的工作室。在此之前在母国,他只学习了很少的绘画技巧,他更愿意去卢浮宫中学习大师的杰作。初,他的绘画作品还不足以引起任何的反对声音,并被一些美术展览馆收录。而面对之后的《奥尔南的葬礼》,批评家激烈地抨击道:“这是一场伪装的葬礼,在这六米长的画布中,只有啼笑皆非,没有痛哭流涕。”确实,对库尔贝作品真实的攻击便是鲜活的血肉。他真实地刻画了男男女女的真实面貌和他们从事的事情。他笔下的人物,绝非剥夺了个性、理想化类型的男男女女,也绝不是摆着造型来装饰画布。他宣扬真实的、原本的东西,宣称真理才是艺术家追求的目标。所以,在1855年的世界博览会上,他将他的作品从展览厅中取出,放在入口外的一个小木厅旁。在小木厅上他悬挂了一张大写的横幅,上面写着:“库尔贝——现实主义者。”和每一个革命者一样,库尔贝也是位*主义者。他忽视了这样的事实:自然的真理隐藏在不同的伪装下,不同的视角和经历都会对其有所影响。相反,他坚持认为艺术仅仅是自然的复制品,重新选择和排列也就无关紧要了。在追求美的过程中,库尔贝常常选择那些比较丑陋的主题。但是他同样也有审美观,这体现在他的风景画中。这种美感与他深厚的情感相混合,体现在了他的海景画中——他后一幅令人印象深刻的作品。不仅如此,无论是否吸引观赏者,他所有的作品都证实了他是一位强有力的画家,以宽广、自由的姿态,色彩的美感和坚固的颜料,使得他的代表作真实而震撼人心。
French Painting
French Painting
Charles, Victoria
¥61.23
The influence of works by French artists extends itself across all artistic styles, and many French works have gained world fame as classics. This book gives an overview of the French milestones in still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, and includes artists like Poussin, Clouet, Moreau, Millet, Courbet, Signac, and Rouault. The convenient format makes the Mega Square edition an ideal gift for any art lover.
O'Keeffe
O'Keeffe
Souter, Janet
¥61.23
In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar with the 291 Gallery owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1912, she and her sisters studied at university with Alon Bement, who employed a somewhat revolutionary method in art instruction originally conceived by Arthur Wesley Dow. In Bement’s class, the students did not mechanically copy nature, but instead were taught the principles of design using geometric shapes. They worked at exercises that included dividing a square, working within a circle and placing a rectangle around a drawing, then organising the composition by rearranging, adding or eliminating elements. It sounded dull and to most students it was. But Georgia found that these studies gave art its structure and helped her understand the basics of abstra
Bakst
Bakst
Ingles, Elisabeth
¥61.23
Léon Bakst (1866-1924) was a painter, illustrator, stage and costume designer. He is universally acknowledged for representing a synthesis of creative energy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bakst travelled widely throughout Europe and in 1890 joined the World of Art journal circle which numbered many artists among its members, the most famous being Benois and Diaghilev. This book illustrates the wealth of Bakst's contribution to the world of theatre and dance. His best known work includes sets for Stravinsky's Firebird, and Weber's Spectre de la Rose.
Chagall
Chagall
Forestier, Sylvie
¥61.23
Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and directed by Nicholas Roerich. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910. The city was his “second Vitebsk”. At first, isolated in the little room on the Impasse du Maine at La Ruche, Chagall soon found numerous compatriots also attracted by the prestige of Paris: Lipchitz, Zadkine, Archipenko and Soutine, all of whom were to maintain the “smell” of his native land. From his very arrival Chagall wanted to “discover everything”. And to his dazzled eyes painting did indeed reveal itself. Even the most attentive and partial observer is at times unable to distinguish the “Parisian”, Chagall from the “Vitebskian”. The artist was not full of contradictions, nor was he a split personality, but he always remained different; he looked around and within himself and at the surrounding world, and he used his present thoughts and recollections. He had an utterly poetical mode of thought that enabled him to pursue such a complex course. Chagall was endowed with a sort of stylistic immunity: he enriched himself without destroying anything of his own inner structure. Admiring the works of others he studied them ingenuously, ridding himself of his youthful awkwardness, yet never losing his authenticity for a moment. At times Chagall seemed to look at the world through magic crystal – overloaded with artistic experimentation – of the Ecole de Paris. In such cases he would embark on a subtle and serious play with the various discoveries of the turn of the century and turned his prophetic gaze like that of a biblical youth, to look at himself ironically and thoughtfully in the mirror. Naturally, it totally and uneclectically reflected the painterly discoveries of Cézanne, the delicate inspiration of Modigliani, and the complex surface rhythms recalling the experiments of the early Cubists (See-Portrait at the Easel, 1914). Despite the analyses which nowadays illuminate the painter’s Judaeo-Russian sources, inherited or borrowed but always sublime, and his formal relationships, there is always some share of mystery in Chagall’s art. The mystery perhaps lies in the very nature of his art, in which he uses his experiences and memories. Painting truly is life, and perhaps life is painting.
Lingerie
Lingerie
Carl, Klaus
¥61.23
What do the thousands of images of bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines say about our societyMany women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet, since antiquity, women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus, lingerie must be more than erotic bait. Authors Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher have researched iconography to explore the relationship of lingerie to society, revealing the economy and corridors of intimacy. They correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to changing social values. This Mega Square book contains pictures of lingerie from the 17th to the 21st century.
Virgin Portraits
Virgin Portraits
Carl, Klaus
¥61.23
During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas, often rendering them more beautiful than they actually were. Over centuries in religious paintings, the Madonna has been presented as the clement and protective mother of God. However, with the passing of time, Mary gradually lost some of her spiritual characteristics and became more mortal and accessible to human sentiments. Virgin Portraits illuminates this evolution and contains impressive works by Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rubens, Fouquet, Dalí, and Kahlo.
Gaudí
Gaudí
Charles, Victoria
¥61.23
Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials and the introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal, Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art, “the colours used in architecture have to be intense, logical and fertile.” His completed works (the Casa Batlló, 1905-1907 and the Casa Milà, 1905-1910) and his incomplete works (the restoration of the Poblet Monastery and the altarpiece of Alella in Barcelona) illustrate the importance of this philosophy. His furniture designs were conceived with the same philosophy, as shown, for example, in his own office (1878) or the lamps in the Plaza Real in Barcelona. The Sagrada Familia (1882-1926) was a monumental project which eventually took over his life (it was still incomplete at the time of his death).
Persian Miniatures
Persian Miniatures
Loukonin, Vladimir;Ivanov, Anatoli
¥61.23
文森特·梵高(1853-1890)是传奇,是被诅咒的艺术家神话的化身,是当代艺术的楷模。作为后印象派运动中表现主义画家,他的艺术在他生前备受误解。在荷兰,他研习农民的人物形象,参与了荷兰现实主义绘画运动。梵高一生忧心忡忡,丧心丧意,创作了超过两千幅艺术作品,但只在生前卖出去了一幅。梵高是一位自力更生的画家,他的作品因为粗犷而富含感情之美而闻名于世,是当今艺术市场上为有名的作品之一。
Rodin
Rodin
Rilke, Rainer Maria
¥61.23
受到古典大师——包括天才米开朗基罗和巴洛克雕塑,特别是贝尔尼尼(Bernini)——的影响,奥古斯特·罗丹(Auguste Rodin,1840-1917)是历*为声名显赫的艺术家之一。尽管罗丹被认为是现代雕塑的奠基人,他并不批判过去的古典传统。他的雕塑是批判性的,也是备受争议的,情色荡漾,高度写实。他富创造性的作品抛弃了神话和寓言的传统主题,拥抱人体,高歌个人主义和肉体。这本著作解密了这位备受赞扬的艺术家的事业和人生,探讨了他有名的艺术作品,例如《地狱之门》、《思考者》及“伤风败俗”之作——《吻》。
Van Gogh
Van Gogh
van Gogh, Vincent
¥61.23
来吧,来翻来书页欣赏优美的画作,来探索后印象主义的创造性天才——文森特·梵高(Vincent van Gogh)。生动活泼的色彩,异想天开的画笔,这些画作让我们能够洞察梵高波动的内心世界。这本Mega Square的小册子带你领略这位成就非凡的画家。
Chagall
Chagall
Charles, Victoria
¥40.79
马克·夏加尔出生于一个家风严谨的犹太家庭,人性被教条主义压抑。1910年他搬到巴黎,希望“探索万物”。对于他欣赏的作品,夏加尔率直地学习,他摆脱了自己的年轻的尴尬,却不失内心的真挚。他从细微处着手,认真反映世纪的变化,作品自然地带有塞尚的艺术感觉,莫迪利亚尼的精妙灵感,以及早期立体派的几何形画面结构的复杂感。夏加尔的画作里总有一些神秘感,那也许是他作品的本性,源于他的经历与记忆。
Picasso
Picasso
Calosse, Jp. A.
¥40.79
毕加索出生于西班牙,正如人们说的那样,他还未呀呀学语就已经开始了涂鸦。在1899年到1900年期间,毕加索绘画的主题是"终真理",即人生的虚幻无常和死亡的不可避免。在早期作品后是他的“蓝色时期”,然后是“玫瑰时期”,在1906年冬至1907年春期间,裸体女性形象对毕加索来说尤其重要,他独自完成了一幅不同寻常的画作《亚威农的少女》。1908年秋天,毕加索和乔治·布拉克成为了朋友,并且共同领导了立体派*的六年。在二十世纪二十年代期间,毕加索的画风回到了一种更形象化和接近于超现实主义的风格,在他晚年成名之前,他开始临摹艺术大师的画作,比如委拉斯奎兹,普桑,戈雅,马奈,库尔贝和德拉克洛瓦。
Rembrandt
Rembrandt
Carl, Klaus
¥40.79
伦勃朗的思想、生活和工作都是神秘的,我们只能够通过他的画作和他琐碎的或者说悲惨的不幸生活来猜测他的本性。悲剧的元素被他画在每一幅画上,不论主题;他的画作有不平等的也有崇高的,这可以被看做是这个混乱的存在所引发的不可避免的后果。然而在绘画方面,他并没有马上找到让我们赞美的在成熟的晚期作品中体现出的大胆、多样和原创性的方法来表达那些他不得不说的却又让人费解的东西。尽管有些微妙,但在他全盛时期,那些野蛮的判定也确实有助于他远离社会纷扰。他满怀好奇前往伟大的威尼斯,学习神话和宗教,他还从现实生活和其他人的画作吸收知识形成自己的风格。
Renoir
Renoir
Brodskaya, Nathalia
¥40.79
皮埃尔-奥古斯特·雷诺阿生活和呼吸着的是一种新的艺术风格,对他来说,次印象派画展意义重大,他的画作得到艺术家们的肯定。1873年他搬到了蒙马特并在那里度过了一生,在那里有他需要的“外光”题材,他的模特,以及他的家人。在夏季,雷诺阿大量的室外画作是和莫奈一起完成,有时还有爱德华·马奈。在1877年,在第三次印象派画展,雷诺阿展示了超过二十余幅画作,并且在1880年后,他取得了“持续性的成功”。他受雇于富有的金融家,画作在伦敦和布鲁塞尔,以及1886年在法国乔治·帕蒂举办的第七届国际展览会上展出。