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(Paperback)

This revealing, highly illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf (18821941) by a leading authority on the Bloomsbury Group accompanies a major exhibition of portraits of the world-renowned British novelist, essayist, biographer and critic and her circle at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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(Hardback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

A provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture.

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This revised edition covers text on artistic anatomy. It includes 75 never before published drawings from the Burne Hogarth archives and 24 pages of new material. Action studies and practical diagrams show how to render the anatomical details of the figure in motion and at rest.

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All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad...look glad...look mad...madder...no, even madder...okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book ever.

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"A gorgeous publication that reveals the historical importance of first ladies through portraiture"--

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An artistic tribute of portraits to the frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic and their stories.

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A 2nd edition of Masked Heroes which includes artistic tributes of portraits to the frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic and their shared stories.

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(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Numbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80 historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust is considered to be one of the most significant in the world.

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(Hardback)

"Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC"--Colophon.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

"Men's magazine" is a euphemism for "sex magazine," though when first conceived in Paris colorful illustrations, jokes and cartoons predominated. Volume 1 covers this genre from its sophisticated beginnings in 1900 to 1945, with over 700 rare covers and interiors from France, Germany, the U.S. and-surprisingly-Turkey.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

After WWII the U.S. assumed men's magazine dominance. This volume documents that rise from 1946 through 1959, in over 650 covers and interiors, including burlesque magazines, a rare title for Black men, the first fetish magazines, the launch of Playboy, and some timid English and Latin American offerings.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

The Sexual Revolution brought France and Germany back into serious men's magazine production, along with Italy, England and even Australia between 1959 and 1969. Playboy met serious competition from Penthouse, big breast magazines debuted, and this volume covers it all in 650+ covers and interiors.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Between 1959 and 1969 "under the counter" magazines, with more explicit and quirky content, appeared in the U.S. and Europe. Meet California's King of Magazines, leg man Elmer Batters, bondage master Irving Klaw, England's Harrison Marks, and learn how Scandinavia killed censorship in 650+ covers and interiors.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

The newsstand reeled from the Sexual Revolution in the 1970s. "Real sex" pioneer Peter Wolff vied with redneck Larry Flynt in the U.S.; England went cautiously nude; Germany went classy; Italy ran wild; France channeled Denmark; Japan learned the ropes and Germaine Greer went bottoms up, all in 600+ covers and interiors.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Swedish Berth Milton and the Danish Theander brothers ended censorship by 1970. Sex shops across Europe and the U.S. showed it all, and the brave can see it here, in 600+ covers and interiors of lesbian bondage, pubic obsession, hippie nudists, rubber love, Ed Wood Jr.'s bizarre erotica and editor Hanson's first magazine.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Unjustly concealed in museum vaults or censored archives, the sensual works in Erotica Universalis finally emerge from subterranean realms in a banquet for the imagination and a feast for the eye! This compendium of erotic arts voyages through history from Ancient Egypt to Ovid, Aretino to Dal, to bring you the fantasies, obsessions, and sheer libido of writers and artists across time.

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Written by Jayadeva in the twelfth century, the Gitagovinda tells of the love between the shepherd girl Rada and Hindu god Krishna. Text in English and German.

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Life Without Blinders is an inspiring, though-provoking invitation to step out of the darkness and discover the abundant beauty hidden in this crazy, messy, wonderful world of ours. Each spread features one of 75 stirring questions accompanied by an image