Tapioca for tea: Memories of a Kentish childhood;

SHEARS, SARAH

Elek Books

Auguste Rodin, renowned as a sculptor, was also a magnificent draughtsman, a fact often overlooked today, though certainly not in the artist's own lifetime. His achievement in the graphic media has been obscured not only by his reputation as a sculptor but also because his work has inspired an almost unprecedented number of forgeries, some even dating from before his death in 1917. These forgeries ae to be found in public and private collections around the world; they have discouraged true appreciation, serious analysis, and any extensive display and reproduction of what the artist himself considered the basis of his art.THE DRAWINGS OF RODIN, an authoritative study by four Rodin specialists, re-establishes and confirms the artist's skill as a draughtsman and clarifies problems of dating and authenticity. Albert Elsen discusses the relation of the drawings to Rodin's sculpture, their thematic content, their style, and their contribution to the history of art. J. Kird T. Varnedoe presents a carefully reasoned chronology of the drawings, based on stylistic considerations, biographical data, and statements by the artist. The task is cogently executed, despite the fact that Rodin worked in several styles throughout every phase of his career, and Mr. Varnedoe establishes a firm basis for his subsequent chapter on the forgeries. In this brilliant piece of analysis, the characteristics by which individual forgers reveal themselves are pinpointed and elucidated by close comparisons between fakes and authentic drawings. Two supplementary essays by Victoria Thorson and Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler throw new light on hitherto neglected aspects of Rodin's graphic oeuvre. Mrs. Thorson contributes an iconographical study of the later drawings, pointing up some of the complexities of Rodin's thought and modes of expression during this period of synthesis. Mrs. Geissbuhler offers the fruit of an ambitious study of hundreds of rodin's architectural sketches and their sources.

The Drawings of Rodin

AUGUSTE RODIN

Masks: Their Meaning and Function

LOMMEL, Andreas

<p>Physical description; (7),214p,8plates : illus, ports ; 23 cm. Subjects; Cinq-Mars, Henri Coiffier Ruzbe d'Effiat, marquis de 1620-1642. Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis duc de 1585-1642 - Studies</p>

Richelieu and the affair of Cinq-Mars;

ERLANGER, PHILIPPE

Treasury of Biblical Quotations

Lester V. Berrey

Religion & Spirituality

Margaret of Anjou: Queen of England;

History

Europe

Cats in the belfry

Science & Math

TOVEY, Doreen

Physics

246p cloth with white dustjacket, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w photographs, jacket chipped and slightly rubbed, index, very good condition

Athens (Ancient Cities of Art)

Procopiou, Angelo

photographs by Edwin Smith

This volumes presents a compelling recreation of early North American explorers and exploration through carefully documented commentary linked to original narratives by traders, frontiersmen, priests and soldiers, as well as a superb range of contemporary maps, drawings and pictures, many never before reproduced. The amount of discovery literature published during the 17th and 18th centuries is enormous, and ranges from the articulate reports contained in the 'Jesuit Relations' to the rough but graphic accounts of traders. The aims of the explorers' journeys varied: exploitation of the fur trade, determination to claim new territories, missionary zeal, the quest for the western ocean, and, in the end, delineation of boundaries. But whatever their motives, the explorers' narratives are full of vivid descriptions of great rivers, seemingly endless plains, snow-capped mountains, lakes like inland seas and, above all, the customs and curiosities of the numerous Indian peoples and the super-abundance of animal and plant life. Each chapter of this book is prefaced by a historical survey of the opening up of new land and the main routes followed. In contemporary accounts certain figures stand out for the importance of their journeys or the perception of their writings: Radisson, who served both British and French in turn; La Verendrye searching for the western ocean; La Salle on the Mississippi and the Gulf coast; Gist and Daniel Boone in Kentucky; Perea and Cook on the northwest coast; Escalante in the western interior. The experience of these men's not only richly informative but makes highly entertaining and absorbing narrative in its own right.

The exploration of North America, 1630-1776

CUMMING,William P. and others

Mecca the Blessed, Madinah the Radiant (Anct. Cities of Art S)

Esin, Emel

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