Rodchenko
A new title in the Design series and an excellent introduction to the life and work of this versatile Russian artist. Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement; a radical activist,...
Soviet Posters
Dating from 1917 to the end of the Cold War, the posters in this book feature the work of groundbreaking Russian artists such as El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko, as well as extraordinary anonymous work. Presented in full colour and printed on...
Struggle for Utopia
Following 1917, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged aiming to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, this book examines the way in wh...
The Rodchenkov Affair
***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all*** The full story behind Oscar award-winning Icarus One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the d...
The Rodchenkov Affair
***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all*** One of the Financial Times ''s ''Fifty people who shaped the decade'' ''The biggest sports scandal th...
The Rodchenkov Affair
In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following revelations of an elaborate state-sponsored doping programme at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Involving a nearly undetectable steroid delivery system known as 'Duchesse cocktail', tampering and switching of urine samples, and a complex state-sanctioned cover-up, the programme was masterminded by Grigory Rodchenkov.The Rodchenkov Affair tells the full, unadulterated story that was first glimpsed in Bryan Fogel's award-winning documentary and still continues to captivate and shock the world. Charting the author's childhood growing up under the Iron Curtain, his first encounter with doping as a 22-year-old student athlete at Moscow State University, and his subsequent career working for the Soviet Olympic Committee, this breathtakingly candid journey reveals a rigged system of flawed individuals, brazen deceit and impossible moral choices.
Alexander
Between becoming king of Macedonia in 336 BC and his death in 323, Alexander the Great conquered not only the Greek city states but also Persia and as far east as the Punjab in India, as far south as Egypt. Claude Mossé describes the progress of A...
Alexander
The ultimate historical adventure novel: the life of Alexander the Great in a single, epic volume. To many he was a god. To others he was a monster. The truth is even more extraordinary. As a boy, Alexander dreamed of matching the heroic feats of ...
Alexander
The ultimate historical adventure novel: the life of Alexander the Great in a single, epic volume.To many he was a god. To others he was a monster. The truth is even more extraordinary.As a boy, Alexander dreamed of matching the heroic feats of Ac...
Alexander Lucas: Alexander Lucas
Alexander Lucas: Alexander Lucas [2 Vinyl LP]
Art Lives: George Costakis
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.Documentary about Russian avant-garde art collector George Costakis and the painters whose works feature in his vast collection. Director Barrie Gavin investigates the reasons behind Costakis's obsession with artists including Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko and takes a look at how he managed to protect them through the political disorder in Russia that saw many works of art destroyed.Typ: DVD
Art Lives: George Costakis
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.Documentary about Russian avant-garde art collector George Costakis and the painters whose works feature in his vast collection. Director Barrie Gavin investigates the reasons behind Costakis's obsession with artists including Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko and takes a look at how he managed to protect them through the political disorder in Russia that saw many works of art destroyed.Typ: DVD
Alexander Gadjiev: Alexander & Nikolai Tcherepni
Alexander Gadjiev: Alexander & Nikolai Tcherepni [CD]
Svavel
Det är sommar 2015 när 45-årige läraren Alexander Glesa ärver ett torp i Husby socken i Dalarna. Torpet står på en jordkällare från 1600-talet och är den första kända platsen för Alexanders släktursprung. Och det väcker Alexanders intresse. ...
Alexander Roslin
Alexander Roslin (1718-93) var provinsmålaren som blev en internationellt känd konstnär. Efter bara 18 månader i Paris invaldes han i den franska konstakademien. Genom sin tekniska skicklighet och psykologiska skarpsyn fångade han några av 1700-ta...
Alexander I
Alexander 1, ruler of Russia for the first quarter of the 19th century, is remembered: as the Tsar who refused to make peace with the French when Moscow fell in 1812, and as the Emperor who died - or gave the impression of having died - at the rem...
Alexander Calder
Few artists are able to work successfully on both large and small scales, but throughout his career Calder brilliantly moved from the miniature to the monumental and back again. This publication focuses on the enormous stabiles he created mostly for public places, as well as his elegant hanging mobiles in sheet metal, miniature standing mobiles, and chess sets, shedding light on the social and performative aspects of his work. Essays explore how Calder approached the effects of kinetics and space, solidity and transparency, stasis and activity, volume and void. The book also looks at how Calder’s small-scale sculptures echoed the public spectacle of his larger pieces, creating a “private drama” that encouraged direct participation. Whatever the size, Calder’s works employed movement and interaction in unpredictable ways, and this enlightening book helps readers appreciate the important continuity of his oeuvre.
Alexander Hamilton
You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginning...
Alexander McQueen
Celebrating the astounding creativity and originality of designer Alexander McQueen, who relentlessly questioned and confronted the requisites of fashion ¿ "An authoritative and moving insight into the legacy of the British designer."-Ca...
Alexander Cipher
Non stop adventure and death defying chases in Will Adam's outstanding debut novel. It's 318 BC in the deserts of Libya, and Alexander the Great is buried as only a God should be, placed in a golden Sarcophagus in a catacomb of chambers, each pack...
Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen
Alexander Pope
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing ...
Alexander Henderson
Explores the life and work of the little-known photographer Alexander Henderson, whose work laid the foundations of the Canadian romantic landscape Scottish-born Alexander Henderson (1831-1913) arrived in Montreal in 1855 at the age of twenty-four...
Alexander I
Alexander I
Alexander Cordell
Alexander Cordell was born into a military family in Ceylon and spent much of his youth in the Far East. He worked his way up through the ranks fo the British Army to become a major. To many, he must have seemed the quintessential Englishman, and yet his natural sympathies lay increasingly in Wales, where he came to be adored by the reading public. Indeed, his bestselling novels made Wales known throughout the world. His socialist views were also reflected in the subject matter of the more than twenty books that he wrote. Many of his novels are about Wales and include the immensely popular 'Rape of the Fair Country', 'The Hosts of Rebecca' and 'Song of the Earth'. These are novels which relate evocative tales against the backdrop of early industrial Wales and which succeed both in engaging readers emotionally and in increasing their awareness of the past. This is the first biogrpahy of Alexander Cordell. It is written with energy and imagination by Mike Buckingham and Richard Frame,
Alexander Technique
To live is to face problems and to find solutions for them. We do so consciously or unconsciously, using intuition, reason, imagination and many other faculties. We notice a situation, we draw conclusions from what we see, hear and feel, and we ac...
Alexander Wilson
Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length stud...
Alexander Hamilton
You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginning...
Alexander I
Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. In this magisterial biography, Marie-Pie...
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Find out who lived and who died in the incredible story of the founding father who made America modern and became the toast of Broadway. This richly illustrated biography portrays Alexander Hamilton's fascinating life alongside his key contributio...
Alexander Hamilton
The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who ...