Académie Royale A History in Portraits

From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the centre of the Parisian art world. Taking the reader behind the scenes of this elite bastion of French art theory education and practice this engaging study uncovers the fascinating histories - official and unofficial - of that artistic community. Through an innovative approach to portraits - their values functions and lives as objects - this book explores two faces of the Académie. Official portraits grant us insider access to institutional hierarchies ideologies rituals customs and everyday experiences in the Académie's Louvre apartments. Unofficial portraits in turn reveal hidden histories of artists' personal relationships: family networks intimate friendships and bitter rivalries. Drawing on both art-historical and anthropological frames of analysis this book offers insightful interpretations of portraits read through and against documentary evidence from the archives to create a rich story of people places and objects. Theoretically informed rigorously researched and historically grounded this book sheds new light on the inner workings of the Académie. Its discoveries and compelling narrative make an invaluable and accessible contribution to our understanding of this pre-eminent European institution and the social lives of artists in early modern Paris. | Académie Royale A History in Portraits

Portraits from Memory And Other Essays

‘I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence. ’ – Bertrand Russell Portraits from Memory Portraits from Memory is one of Bertrand Russell’s most self-reflective and engaging books. Whilst not intended as an autobiography it is a vivid recollection of some of his celebrated contemporaries such as George Bernard Shaw Sidney and Beatrice Webb and D. H. Lawrence. Russell provides some arresting and sometimes amusing insights into writers with whom he corresponded. He was fascinated by Joseph Conrad with whom he formed a strong emotional bond writing that his Heart of Darkness was not just a story but an expression of Conrad’s ‘philosophy of life’. There are also some typically pithy Russellian observations; H. G. Wells ‘derived his importance from quantity rather than quality’ whilst after a brief and fraught friendship Russell thought D. H. Lawrence ‘had no real wish to make the world better but only to indulge in eloquent soliloquy about how bad it was’. This engaging book also includes some of Russell’s customary razor-sharp essays on a rich array of subjects from his ardent pacifism liberal politics and morality to the ethics of education the skills of good writing and how he came to philosophy as a young man. These include ‘A Plea for Clear Thinking’ ‘A Philosophy for Our Time’ and ‘How I Write’. Portraits from Memory is Russell at his best and will enthrall those new to Russell as well as those already well-acquainted with his work. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the Russell scholar Nicholas Griffin editor of The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell. | Portraits from Memory And Other Essays

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe 900–1400

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 900 to 1400. Moving beyond the usual boundaries of speculative history the book presents innovative and creative interpretations of the people places and events of medieval Eastern Europe and provides an insight into medieval life from Scandinavia to Byzantium. Each chapter explores a different figure and together they present snapshots of life across a wide range of different social backgrounds. Among the figures are both imagined and historical characters including the Byzantine Princess Anna Porphyrogenita a Jewish traveller a slave the Mongol general Sübodei a woman from Novgorod and a Rus’ pilgrim. A range of different narrative styles are also used throughout the book from omniscient third-person narrators to diary entries letters and travel accounts. By using primary sources to construct the lives of and give a voice to the types of people who existed within medieval European history Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides a highly accessible introduction to the period. Accompanied by a new and interactive companion website it is the perfect teaching aid to support and excite students of medieval Eastern Europe. | Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe 900–1400

Adolescent Portraits Identity and Challenges

Adolescent Portraits introduces contemporary theories and research that surround adolescent development today through eighteen first-person accounts written by young adults. The case study approach of the book illustrates the complexity of the individual experience and the interactions among an individual’s needs ideas relationships and context. Each case taken alone helps us begin to know one more adolescent and his or her experience; taken together the cases provide a rich overview of the wide diverse and complex range of adolescent experiences. This edition also includes three follow-up essays written five or more years after their original memoir. The authors of these follow-ups reflect on their original story written in late adolescence from the more mature point of view of full-fledged adulthood. These retrospectives provide a poignant and lifespan developmental perspective on the ways in which the adolescent themes of identity and challenges transform for better or worse with the tasks of adulthood. With contributions from adolescents from a range of racial class and family backgrounds the book provides a diverse introduction to the adolescent experience. It is a must-read for any student of adolescent development. | Adolescent Portraits Identity and Challenges

Living Images Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

The haunting funerary paintings on wood coffins found in Roman Egypt still represent some of the most vivid images that come to us from the ancient world. These paintings were first discovered by Flinders Petrie father of modern archaeology in his excavations in the Egyptian Fayum during the 1880s and have rested at University College London for over 100 years. Now the Petrie Museum is bringing this corpus of paintings to the public in a stunning catalog. Living Images is a beautiful and authoritative presentation of the restored collection that will be an essential reference for scholars and a fascinating read for general audiences. Central to the volume is a complete catalog of the mummy portraits uncovered by Petrie including full color illustrations and descriptions of technical and stylistic features and iconographic characteristics. To add to the value of the volume articles describe the process of finding the mummies explain the place of funerary assemblages in the history of Egyptian burial customs offer an introduction to Egyptian portrait painting and explain the conservation issues presented by the coffins. Petrie’s own reflections on his finds are also included. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Egyptologist Barbara Adams and co-sponsored by the Petrie Museum. | Living Images Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

Portraits of Everyday Practice in Music Therapy

Portraits of Everyday Practice in Music Therapy is an edited volume of case studies providing music therapy students and new professionals with critical reflections on everyday clinical practice across a variety of treatment settings theories approaches and cultural contexts. These case studies articulate the important foundational work occurring around clinical breakthroughs to illustrate less of what music therapy could be given extraordinary circumstances and more of what music therapy frequently is given realistic circumstances. Additionally each author explores the impacts of cultural values expectations and roles on clinical contexts through examinations of their sociocultural identities and how they intersected with those with whom they worked. Discussion prompts at the end of chapters help readers engage in similar reflective practices and sustain engagement with introduced concepts and ideas. By providing ecological real-world contexts for practice and culturally reflexive lenses through which to understand how therapeutic processes evolved music therapy students and professionals can be better prepared for the authenticity and complexity of everyday clinical work.

God Behind the Screen Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion

This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and rigorously examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres written by authors such as Aldous Huxley Jane Austin Sinclair Lewis and Steven King who are both fervently religous and suffer from a range of disorders underneath the umbrella of psychopathy. | God Behind the Screen Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion

In the Shadow of Freud’s Couch Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices

In the Shadow of Freud’s Couch: Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices uses text and images to form a complex portrait of psychoanalysis today. It is the culmination of the authors 15-year project of photographing psychoanalysts in their offices across 27 cities and ten countries. Part memoir part history part case study and part self-analysis these pages showcase a diversity of analysts: male and female and old-school and contemporary. Starting with Freud’s iconic office the book explores how the growing diversity in both analysts and patient groups and changes in schools of thought have been reflected in these intimate spaces and how the choices analysts make in their office arrangements can have real effects on treatment. Along with the presentation of images Mark Gerald explores the powerful relational foundations of theory and clinical technique the mutually vulnerable patient-analyst connection and the history of the psychoanalytic office. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as psychotherapists counsellors and social workers interested in understanding and innovating the spaces used for mental health treatment. It will also appeal to interior designers office architects photographers and anyone who ever considered entering a psychoanalyst's office. | In the Shadow of Freud’s Couch Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices

Smiley Portraits Poster

Smiley® x Postery. Bring a space to life with this motif's modern take on Pop Art. The poster depicts twelve Smiley® icons within blocks of vibrant colours.

Carter Cologne Leal Orison 100ml EDP Inspired By Penhaligon's Halfeti

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Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Royal Ascension Steam CD Key

Includes Soundtrack, Digital Artbook, two in-game portraits, board game module, hi rez map, and a red panda. 

White Chinese Geese by Ohara Koson Poster

A 20th-century vintage-style illustration by artist Ohara Koson. The motif portraits two Chinese geese against a black background.

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Portrait modifier accessory kit & rectangular softbox

The PIXAPRO Lighting accessory kit compromises 1x 60x90cm Softbox, and 1x Rotatable Background Reflector. 1x Backlight Floor Stand and 1x 5-in-1 60cm Collapsible Reflector. It includes everything you need to produce professional portraits. This kit which includes a softbox, collapsible reflector, background reflector, and floor stand has been tailored to include everything you need to produce professional portraits.

Cockatoo and Pomegranate by Ohara Koson Poster

A 20th-century vintage-style illustration by artist Ohara Koson. The motif portraits a cockatoo sitting on a branch with a pomegranate.