Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Showcase the achievements of the masters who gave birth to the Baroque style of painting.
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good
Here is all the inspiration you need to start gathering objects of desire for yourself. The lure of the hunt, the thrill of the chase, that moment of discovery when dream and ideal meet in a single object
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Art lovers, art students, and vacation travelers to world-famous sites will relish this beautifully bound and lavishly illustrated book. It explores and explains the architectural elements of buildings and monuments--the arches, domes, roofs, walls, entrance ways, windows, arcades, and ornamental detail ...Show more
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
With over 100 movies and two Academy Awards to his credit over six decades, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight, and skills that life has taught him in his remarkable career-and now his eighty-fifth year. One of our best-loved actors Michael Caine has starred in a huge ra ...Show more
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
'Beguiling ... Limpidly written, effortlessly learned' William Boyd, TLS, Books of the Year In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palm ...Show more
Category: Music
Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813-83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such as The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, and Tristan a ...Show more
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
A vivid and revealing book published alongside a landmark exhibition focused on one of New Zealand’s most internationally recognised artists, Frances Hodgkins. Marking the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth New Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) arrived in London in 1901 ...Show more
Category: Film | Reading Level: near fine
The extraordinary, highly anticipated memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch. In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaksand writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvetand Mulholland Drive, opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativi ...Show more
Category: Artists | Reading Level: good