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| Russell Ash is best known as the creator and compiler of Top 10 of Everything (annual, 1989–) and related titles (Hamlyn, UK; Sterling, USA, and in various editions around the world). He has also written numerous books on art (principally 19th-century painters), popular reference (such as his annual Whitaker's World of....[more] |
| Suzaan Boettger's engagement with the field of visual art has been lifelong. After alternating between majors in studio art and psychology at San Francisco State, and completing both, an extended and expansive solo journey throughout Europe led her to the realization that she could combine the sensory and the analytica....[more] |
| TITUS BURCKHARDT, a German Swiss, was born in Florence in 1908 and died in Lausanne in 1984. An eminent member of the perennialist school, he is perhaps best known to the general public as an art historian. He won much acclaim for producing and publishing the first successful full-scale facsimiles of the Book of Kells,....[more] |
| I was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, but grew up in Nigeria, Boston (Lincolnshire) and Ripon (North Yorkshire). I read 'Modern History' at St John's College, Oxford, and did an MA in Art History at the University of Sussex and a PhD at the University of London.
I currently live in Oxford. |
| A trip to China in 1975 and purchase of an antique Chinese robe one night with nothing to do I visited the Friendship Store led to a major collection of Chinese robes and shoes for bound feet. Researching these for international lectures led to writing my first book in 1998 SPLENDID SLIPPERS - A THOUSAND YEARS OF AN E....[more] |
| Ellen G. K. Rubin discovered pop-up and movable books when she began reading them to her sons over 20 years ago. Today, she has more than 6800 books and thousands of un-catalogued ephemera.
Leaving her roots in science and medicine (Yale Medical-Physican Associate ’89), Ellen now writes about her books, lectures to c....[more] |
| Geoffrey Smith is a publisher, writer and photographer living in Gloucestershire, England. |
| Keeper of Conservation at the National Gallery of Denmark. Jørgen Wadum is a paintings conservator and an art historian. Since 1984 he has specialised in the painting techniques of the 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish artists. He has published and lectured extensively internationally on a multitude of subjects r....[more] |
| It is hard to find a more polarizing author than Austen, who was revered by her admirers and despised by her critics. Either way, her works demand a passionate response two hundred years after they were published. Born in 1775 in England to a middle-class family, Austen had her greatest success shortly before her death....[more] |
| A knight, a lawyer and philosopher among other titles, Sir Francis Bacon was born in 1561 in London, England, where he was tutored at home due to his poor health. Eventually, at age 12, he was deemed well enough to attend Trinity College where he excelled and soon caught the eye of Queen Elizabeth, who took to calling ....[more] |
| Charles Baudelaire shocked his French contemporaries so much with his decadent and disturbing artistic visions that his surname became a byword for such a style. Born in 1821, Baudelaire was raised in Paris where his father was a priest. Formal education held little interest for Baudelaire as he was expelled from his u....[more] |
| William Blake (November 28,1757- August 12, 1827) Blake was an was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He was the third of seven children. Blake's father, James, was a hosier. William never attended school, and was educated at home by his mother Catherine Wright Armitage Blake. The Bible was an early and profoun....[more] |
| Samuel Butler, English writer, artist, and satirist, was born on December 4th, 1835 in Nottinghamshire, England. The eldest of four children, Butler had a rather hostile relationship with his parents. Though his education started at home, he referred to his parents as “stupid” and soon began to reject his strict Angl....[more] |
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