Marina Wallace

Martin Kemp

The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one picture, all digestible in 30 seconds. 30-Second Leonardo da Vinci uses this unique approach to grapple with the truly diverse thoughts of the ultimate Renaissance Man. Artist, anatomist, sculptor, inventor, architect, cartographer, mathematician, musician, botanist, geologist the word polymath does not quite do Leonardo justice. The painter of the Mona Lisa and conceptualizer of the helicopter seems like a Renaissance superhero. Here, the worlds leading Leonardo scholars present an instant and expert guide to the breadth and brilliance of his greatest innovations.

His 50 Greatest Ideas and Inventions, Each Explained in Half a Minute

30 Second Leonardo Da Vinci

Sophie Page

Spellbound' explores the concept of 'magical thinking', which describes how people in all ages and cultures have sought to connect with an unseen world of perceived power. This concept of magical thinking is used here to explore the history of medicine and the mind, focusing in particular on magic's secular expressions. Spells, magical objects and rituals are engines of hope, and hope is essential to physical and mental health, indeed to survival. These ideas are explored and conveyed through the extraordinary visual culture of magic, offering an introduction to diverse magical objects, from the exquisite, such as engraved rings and illuminated manuscripts, to the unsettling - a shoe embedded in a wall or a bull's heart pierced with nails.00Exhibition: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (31.08.2018 ? 06.01.2019).

Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft

Spellbound

Emeritus Professor of the History of Art Martin Kemp

"Illustrated and with essays by Martin Kemp, Spectacular Bodies reveals a new way of seeing ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.

The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now

Spectacular Bodies

Joanne Bernstein

Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now

Seduced

Barbican Art Gallery

Seduced is a provocative and ambitious survey of representations of sex across cultures from ancient times to the modern day. Featuring such diverse works as Roman marbles, Japanese woodcuts, Indian manuscripts, Renaissance and Baroque paintings, nineteenth-century photographs and contemporary videos, this fascinating book reveals how art with a sexual content has been collected, openly displayed, concealed or prohibited over time. It provokes us to question the lines drawn between art and pornography and to examine our own boundaries of acceptability and censorship. This is the first major study of the visual representation of sex and changing attitudes towards explicit imagery throughout history. It includes works spanning 2000 years by over 70 artists, among them Rembrandt, Kitagawa Utamaro, J.M.W. Turner, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and Jeff Koons.

Leonardo da Vinci has become an international commodity. His name is used to market museums, art galleries, exhibitions and all kinds of merchandise. Nearly all of Leonardo's paintings, however, reside in public galleries, a type of institution which did not exist when he was active. This scholarly book looks into such matters and considers the movement of seven of Leonardo's most famous paintings and concludes that the process of their diffusion and the complex lives of his paintings are the result of a variety of disparate and unpredictable factors.

Marina Wallace

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