A Treatise on Painting
5 best books like A Treatise on Painting (Leonardo da Vinci): Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Tao Te Ching, The Gift of the Magi, The Social History of Art: Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, La loca de la casa
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
| Author | Paulo Freire |
| ISBN | 0826412769 |
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United...
| Author | Lao Tzu |
| ISBN | 0679724346 |
The Wisest Book Ever Written...
Complete on Audio...The Entire 81 Chapters (and Introduction to) Stephen Mitchell's exquisite new tradition of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way -- the classic manual on the art of living revered as one of the wonders of the world. Dating from the 6th century...
One dollar and eight-seven cents is all the money Della has in the world to buy her beloved husband a Christmas present. She has nothing to sell except her only treasure -- her long, beautiful brown hair. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this classic piece of American literature tells...
The Social History of Art: Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
| Author | Arnold Hauser |
| ISBN | 0415045789 |
Marcel Duchamp said that all works of art die within about 50 years of their production... essentially because the world has moved on and they cease to be contemporaneous. They become fossils. I remember hearing a famous art historian talking about Della Francesca's "Baptism of Christ" (that fabulous...
| Author | Rosa Montero |
| ISBN | 9875780154 |
This novel, essay and/or autobiography is a journey through the mystery of fantasies, of artistic creation and Montero's most secret memories. She undertakes a trip to her inner self in a narrative game full of surprises. It is a magician's hat from which she reveals amazing and unexpected events....
