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

Product Description: Here retold in all their original dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures. Epic struggles and heroic adventures, passionate jealousies and psychological deceptions, comic mistakes and tragic destinies—these fabulous tales are all part of our common legendary past...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: 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

A collection of stories that conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world. In 'Natural Limits', a bereaved woman, contemplating the massacre of 11,000 virgins, comes to terms with the unimaginable. The title story and the 'Canary' search for signs of evil or innocence written on the body, and a 'canary' dies of toxic malice.

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

A secret mummy at the Museum of Albion gives way to the stories of the legendary Leto, who slips through time in different guises, giving birth to twins in one era, sheltering with wolves in another, working as a chambermaid in a warn-torn city in third, and always seeking a lost son, as she journeys from pre-history to the present day. 15,000 first printing.

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: Louise Bourgeois is the first artist to be invited to make works for the Unilever Series, an annual art commission for the huge turbine hall at the heart of the Tate Modern. Extensively illustrated, this book includes text on the works featured and extracts from unpublished interviews...read more

A look at the iconographical uses of womanhood from classical times to the present day, in the mass media and in the fine arts interprets the reasons behind the conventions and assesses their effects on ideas about women (view table of contents)

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The author of From the Beast to the Blonde explores the mythological roots of such popular superstitions as giants, ogres, and bogeymen and their psychological implications, with the help of black-and-white and color plates. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Series: Visionary women (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Designed for gift giving, an illustrated collection of classic fairy tales, rendered in modern prose by such celebrated authors as A. S. Byatt and John Ashbery, explores the battle of good and evil and the endless quest for love. (view table of contents)

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)

A collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries who ingeniously used the genre to comment upon their own times and experiences. The translations have been written by various authors, including A.S. Byatt, Gilbert Adair and John Ashbery.

Six provocative essays assess the influence of fairy tales, legends, and myths on contemporary life, interweaving elements of classical mythology, pop culture, and current events into an incisive work of cultural criticism. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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: Richard Wentworth is one of the generation of younger, internationally acclaimed British sculptors who have fundamentally altered traditional definitions and perceptions of sculpture. His work allows us to recreate our perception of the world by forcing us to reappraise the objects with which we are surrounded...read more

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

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.