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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), one of Spain's most revered and controversial painters, is known for his intense, chilling, and sometimes grotesque paintings depicting the injustice of society with brutal sincerity. A court painter to the Spanish crown, he captured, through his works, a snapshot of life in Spain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Featured artists: Max Ernst, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Johannes Baader, Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, Johannes Theodor Baargeld, Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, and Man Ray

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If Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) remains an enigma today, it is little wonder. Even his contemporaries found the Dutch painter's work difficult to decipher—and it still presents riddles to contemporary art historians.

Part of the problem in decoding his shocking and richly allegorical paintings is that virtually nothing is known of the artist himself, apart from his birthplace. There is no record of his life or training, no personal letters, diaries or notebooks, and no contemporary insights into his personality or thoughts on the meaning of his art. 

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The book is a valuable and an original contribution to the development of Doris Lessing's and Margaret Atwood's critical study in the landscape of Romanian literary research, taking into consideration the impressive theoretical approaches. Woman's relation­ship with herself is a popular theme in contemporary social psychology but has never before been analysed in such a compre­hensive book-length study.

Who wouldn't want to be able to make your own ice cream at home in the kitchen? Using natural ingredients and fantastic flavours, Eliq Maranik invites you to a big ice cream party! It's easy to make your own ice cream without using any artificial flavourings or stabilizers. Featuring over 60 delicious recipes, all illustrated with beautiful photographs, you will be able to vary your favourite dessert infinitely. 

In secolul al XVIII-lea, perioadele si modalitatile de a calatori coincid cu raspandirea modelor si maniilor colective. Daca la nivelul aristocratiei si al marii burghezii aflam moda celebrului «grand tour» , adica acel gen de «turism cultural» si monden care ii aducea pe nordicii Europei in cele mai vii orase ale insoritei Italii, iar pe italieni ii mana in marile capitale de peste Alpi, Paris, Londra, Viena, la nivelul burghezului mediu – la care se situeaza societatea trilogiei de fata –, moda se adapta posibilitatilor financiare si gustului local.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces, where one of his homes, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader.

On April 15th, 1874, in the Parisian studio of photographer Nadar, was the opening of the first group exhibition that was uninhibited by government interference and the dictates of an official selection committee. This date has gone down in the annals of art history because it marks the birth of the Impressionism. Impressionistic paintings now rank among the most popular works of art and are the pride of any museum or collection worldwide. However, in 1874 the public response to the exhibition, and to Impressionist painting, was not adoration but rather shock and even outrage. 

"Avec fluidite, pertinence et minutie - principe flaubertien s'il en est, la presente etude se fixe pour objectif de rendre compte de ces differentes representations societales et humaines - et en premier lieu personnelles, qui s'entremelent et se dessinent a travers la production epistolaire de Flaubert. Qu'il s'agisse de la sphere privee ou de sa bibliotheque mentale, de reflexions sur la vie publique ou sur la republique des lettres de l'epoque, sa correspondance tire son intensite de cet entrelacs textuel - 'textus' en latin signifiant 'tissu', dont Diana Rinciog s'emploie a denouer les fils afin d'esquisser les contours d'une histoire des mentalites chez Flaubert. Penetrer dans l'univers mental d'un ecrivain aussi haut en couleur que l'auteur de Madame Bovary - et essayer de rendre le latent patent, semble relever de la gageure. Or, l'auteure parvient a degager un certain nombre d'elements constitutifs en matiere de formes de pensees, de croyances et de sentiments qui transpirent a travers le texte flaubertien, que sous-tend une interaction permanente entre la pensee individuelle (celle de l'auteur ou de ses correspondants) et son milieu social voire civilisationnel." Franck Colotte

Between Critical Thinking and Literary Critical Thinking is, basically, a demonstration of the fact that critical thinking, as it has come to be defined and interpreted in the Anglo-American cultural space, is almost completely different from literary critical thinking, with which, as a matter of fact, it often finds itself in contradiction. To uphold this thesis, the volume is organized in sections that are meant to coherently defend this demonstration. Each section is developed somewaht independently, autonomously, with idividual bibliographies, in order to allow an eclectic sort of reading during which the succession of chapters should not necessarily require a relationship of interdependence-otherwise implicit.

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universally acclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action.

The volumes in this series provide unique portraits of European art history. Authoritative texts illuminate the decisive stages in the artists' lives and the development of their styles, explaining their impact against the background of their social context as well as their significance for following generations of artist.

Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts provide concentrated information on accessing well-known and less-known sites in the world of art. 

Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts provide concentrated information on accessing well-known and less-known sites in the world of art.

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.

This ‘language’ is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the same time, self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning. Announcing a ‘revolution of the word’, this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique - a unique kind of miscommunication which, far from stabilizing the world in meaning, constructs a universe radically unfixed by a wild diversity of possibilities and potentials. It also remains the most hilarious, ‘obscene’, book of innuendos ever to be imagined.

This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Premature Burial' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart', all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included.

Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.

These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with all its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable.

'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the 'Odes' and the two versions of the uncompleted epic 'Hyperion', and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and comic verse.

W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats's work is essential.

Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) is rightly regarded as one of the founders of modern anthropology. The Golden Bough, his masterpiece, appeared in twelve volumes between 1890 and 1915. This volume is the author's own abridgement of his great work, and was first published in 1922.

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From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work.

Clearly explaining more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the field, The Psychology Book uses accessible text and easy-to-follow graphics and illustrations to explain the complex theoretical and experimental foundations of psychology.