Explores the changing presentations of, attitudes toward, and attributes of the Virgin Mother, from the biblical Mary to the Pitying Intercessor, revealing the many faces of the Western ideal of feminine virtue in each age

This text explores the cult of Mary, the Blessed Virgin, in all its ramifications, peeling aside each successive accretion of doctrine and devotion in order to examine its moral, social, and emotional implications.

Product Description: This volume highlights three lectures by celebrated writer and scholar Marina Warner, who examines the social and psychic resonances of certain motifs and themes and their interpretation by film makers such as Renoir, Vigo and Cocteau...read more

Product Description: Curiosity explores the notion of intellectual and creative curiosity. Compiled in association with author and U.K. editor of Cabinet magazine Brian Dillon, this richly illustrated book explores objects, artworks and narratives drawn from a variety of disciplines--scientific, occult, anthropological and aesthetic--taking as its guide a sensibility that developed in Europe in the early modern period and tracing it at work in disparate historical and contemporary contexts...read more

Product Description: This collection of images capture sculptor David Nash's intimate exploration of the properties of trees and timber. The accompanying essay by Marina Warner explores Nash's influences, approach and the mythical status of trees throughout history. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an exhibition catalog for the artist David Nash exhibition which toured to the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha Nebraska, The Museum of Comtemporary Art, San Diego, California, and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. It contains two essays, Inside/Outside by Graham W...read more

Product Description: In 1996 the artist Bobby Baker was diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Her subsequent struggle to overcome severe mental and later physical illness lasted for 11 years, and was unknown to anyone outside her close family, friends and colleagues...read more

Reveals the influence of the Chinese empress' personality and obsession for power on her reign and relationship with various countries

Product Description: Light and shadow, reflection, colour and motion - these are the primary elements of visual art. Shadow play, tricks of perspective, anamorphoses and magic lanterns have fascinated artists and craftsmen throughout the centuries and continue to inspire and stimulate the imagination to this day...read more

Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds, acclaimed novelist and critic Marina Warner explores the metaphorical power of metamorphoses in the evocation of human personality. Beginning with Ovid's great poem, The Metamorphoses, as the founding text of the metamorphic tradition, she takes us on a journey of exploration, into the fantastic art of Hieronymous Bosch, the legends of the Taino people, the life cycle of the butterfly, the myth of Leda and the Swan, the genealogy of the Zombie, the pantomime of Aladdin, the haunting of doppelgangers, the coming of photography, and the late fiction of Lewis Carroll. Beautifully illustrated and elegantly written, Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds is sure to appeal to all readers interested in mythology, art, and literature.

Product Description: Featuring an extensive essay by Marina Warner, this book illustrates 12 themes that have run throughout Nash's works of sculpture for the past 30 years. Explanatory texts, sketches and photographs taken at all stages of the creative process show familiar pieces in a new light.

Product Description: In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Two young women--brash and confident Xanthe and self-conscious and uneasy Miranda--return to the island of Enfant-Beate, where their ancestor landed three hundred years before, to find fortune and adventure. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: In Madison Square Park in New York, and subsequently in Soho Square, the heart of London's media world, video artist Tony Oursler created a spectral audio-visual experience for an image-saturated society. Conceived as a kind of psycho-landscape, "The Influence Machine" delves deep into the history of media, rousing long-forgotten spirits and setting them to roam about both squares at night...read more

Product Description: Paula Rego has long had a fascination with Charlotte Brontë s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys s The Wide Sargasso Sea. In 2002 this culminated in the production of twenty-five lithographs, reproduced here in an artist s book, along with excerpts from the novel...read more

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint

Product Description: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...read more

Presents a catalog of an exhibition highlighting the works of Kiki Smith, in a volume that also includes critical essays, an interview with the artist, and a chronology of Smith's life and work.