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Journeys Through Abu Dhabi Louvre
An exploration of artworks at Louvre Abu Dhabi highlighting the work of fearless explorers of past centuries outside of Europe Designed to take the reader on a long journey around the world, this large-size album embarks on a tour to the heart of one the world's most beautiful museums, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a major art museum with a universal calling. The book travels across civilizations through the prism of a hundred of the museum's most beautiful and stunning works of art, a tribute to humanity's artistic creation, from prehistoric times to the present day. The collection shines a spotlight on the works of Arab physicians and mathematicians, African blacksmiths, Chinese ceramists, and many others--proving that in spite of wars and age-old rivalries, civilizations have always mingled and become enriched as a result.
The Penguin
Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of penguins, particularly the king penguin.
Support and Seduction
Thoughout the ages, women's breasts have been subjected to the endless whims of fashion. From the ancient Greeks to Mae West and Madonna, this light-hearted book charts the changing shapes of female beauty. The elegant and amusing images - including fashion drawings, paintings, photographs, and film stills - illustrate the often surprising history of the garments women have worn for support - and seduction.
Babies
Packed with traditions, superstitions, lore, and scientific discoveries from all over the world, this delightful, colorfully illustrated volume offers a wealth of information on a wide range of topics relating to birth and babies. 245 illustrations, 187 in color.
Babies Celebrated
From New Guinea to South America, "Babies Celebrated" travels the globe to reveal how the youngest members of a family live in a wide range of places and cultures. 200+ full-color illustrations.
Daily Life in Art
"In Daily Life in Art Beatrice Fontanel examines nearly one hundred European and American paintings not only as art objects, but as cultural artifacts that document the evolution of domestic life and manners from the Middle Ages to the present day." "Through these paintings - vividly reproduced in large format - the author traces the technical innovations that harnessed heat, light, and water to transform our homes and our habits. She explores the growing freedom brought by each step away from the flickering fire and the cumbersome chamberpot toward the warmth of central heating, the steady blaze of electric light, and the convenience of indoor plumbing."--BOOK JACKET.
Hannah Arendt
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Alphabet
Les lettres se trémoussent et rebondissent, zigzaguent, jonglent, s'éparpillent et font les acrobates ou alors elles basculent, se percutent en chahutant dans les bleus, dans les verts, ou les rouges orangés... Avec Sonia Delaunay, c'est la fête de l'alphabet !
Le train d'Alger
« J’aimerais bien vous raconter mon enfance, docteur... mais dès que j’entre dans votre bureau, j’ai l’impression que mes idées volent en éclats, comme les vitres de notre appartement à Alger. » Le premier souvenir d’enfant de cette narratrice, le souvenir fondateur, c’est un « Boum ! » qui la hante encore, cinquante ans plus tard, celui du train qui a sauté, miné par les explosifs du FLN, alors qu’âgée de trois ans elle accompagnait sa mère. Le wagon échoué comme un cétacé, les corps inertes aperçus dans les rues, les noms effacés des boîtes aux lettres, les voisins qui disparaissent... la guerre d’Algérie est vue par les yeux d’une petite fille qui se sauve grâce à une imagination impérieuse. Toujours tentée de dérailler, alors que ses parents vieillissent, elle dit la féérie du désastre et la possibilité de vivre, malgré tout.
The Lady and the Unicorn
The reader gallops through the story on the back of the unicorn, which will find shelter in the heart of a secret garden, a peaceful alcove where love is awaiting. The Lady and the Unicorn is an adventure tale of love and magic. The Unicorn's horn was known to have supreme powers and was a prize possession. It could turn polluted lakes and streams into drinkable water for woodland creatures. Hunted by a Feudal Lord, the Unicorn escapes into a secret garden to find a young lady in the middle of the garden playing an organ. She turns a mirror towards the Unicorn, who is magically transformed into a knight. He immediately declares his love for the lady, who smiles at him. The Unicorn Tapestries in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Cluny Museum in Paris, serves as the inspiration for the story. The book ends with information about the tapestries, that connects the illustrations to the reproductions of the tapestries in order to decipher the symbols and their meanings at the heart of the work. Kids and adults of all ages are sure to enjoy this beautifully illustrated and engaging story.
