Looking at paintings is a series of books that presents many different painters' views of a single subject.Here is a visual of paintings,each of which shows us something about what great artists see when they paint. In Dancers,Peggy Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of dancers.From the work of an unknown Roman artist to Brueghel,Degas,Toulouse-Lautrec,and others,each artist's vision and interpretation of the dance is singular.Henri Matisse,for example,expresses the powerful energy in a circle dance by using bold lines and three brilliant color in The Dance.Georges Seurat created a new way of painting,with thousands of flickering little dots instead of brush storkes ,in The Can-Can. To see through the eyes of the world's greatest painters is to see with the imagination as well.Dancers in the LOOKING AT PAINTINGS series is a book that will inspire young readers to observe their world and to use their imagination to see like a painter. 作者简介： PEGG

LOOKING AT PAINTINGS is a series of books designed to present many different painters' views of a single subject.Here is a visual feast of paintings,each of which shows us something about what great artists see when they paint. In Flowerd,Peggy Roflf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of flowers,From the work of Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo to twentieth-century artists such as Paul Klee and Henri Matisse,each person's vision and interpretation of flowers in unique.Some artists,such as Edouard Manet in Puik and Clematis in a Crystal Vase and Pierre-Auguste Renoir in Spring Bouquet,present a more traditional and familiar view of flowers by painting them in a vase and by emphasizing the background as well as the blooms.An artist such as Georgia O'Keeffe,however,captures the more wild and tempestuous beauty of a flower in White Sweet Peas,whereas Rene Magritte in The Wrestler's Tomb focuses on a single bloom so closely that it becomes almost something other than

Looking at paintings is a series of books designed to present many different painters'views of a single subject.Here is a visual feast of paintings,each of which shows us something about what great artists see when they paint. In Children,Peggy Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of children.From the work of an unknown Egyptian artist to Peter Paul Rubens,John Singer Sargent,William H.Johnson,and others,each artist's vision and interpretation of chidren is unique.Some artists,such as Hans Holbein the Younger in Edward VI as a Cbild and Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez in his painting titled Portrait of the Infanta Margarita,Immortalize the offspring of powerful kings and queens.Others,such as Frank W.Benson in Calm Morning and Mary Cassatt in Children Playing on the Beach,capture the pleasures of children at play. To see through the eyes of many of the world's greatest painters is to see with the imagination as well.Cbildren in the LOOKING AT PAINTINGS serie

The official, fully authorized full-color guide to the characters, places, and landscapes of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth as depicted in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.Fully illustrated with almost 300 color photographs, including stunning new images from the extended director's versions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, and exclusive "first-look" shots from The Return of the King, this Complete Visual Companion now tells the whole tale of The Lord of the Rings in sumptuous detail.The many characters, creatures, and strange lands of Middle-earth encountered by the Fellowship of the Ring in their epic journey are here brought to life: from the magical Elven realms of Rivendell and Lothlorien to the abandoned Dwarven kingdom of Moria; from the wizard Saruman's stronghold at Isengard to the land of the Horse-lords, Rohan; from their last-ditch fortress at Helm's Deep to Minas Tirith, the city-kingdom of the proud Men of Gondor; from the haunted Paths of the Dead to the battlefields of Pelen

在艾利斯的请求之下，艾一行人前往艾利斯与蒂伊的故乡——欧斯提亚。那里是一个封闭的空间，无止尽地重复着十四年前的那一年。他们试图解开时间循环的怪圈，后来得知这个怪圈与一名学生的死有关。艾锲而不舍地追寻真相，没想到那名死去的学生竟然是……艾利斯渴望“外界”，艾与他有着同样的目标。而蒂伊尽管一直追随艾利斯的脚步，最后仍与他诀别——

Looking at paintings is a series of books designed to present many different painters'views of a single subject.Here is a visual feast of paintings,each of which shows us something about what great artists see when they paint. In Seascapes,Peggy Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of the sea and its surroundings.The paintings are as varied as the weather on the oceans of the world.From a seventeenth-century painting that shows the great warrior Ulysses entering a harbor during the Trojan War to paintings from the twentieth century showing the sea as a destructive force that is never truly mastered,each artist's vision and interpretation of the sea is unique.Respect for the power of the ocean is the only constant. To see through the eyes of many of the world's greatest painters is to see with the imagination as well.Cbildren in the LOOKING AT PAINTINGS series is a book that inspires young readers to observe their world and to use their imagination to see like a

This book will help you to master the key elements in illustrating the human body and the shapes of clothes so that you can visualize your own fashion designs. Who lenows, they might end up on the catwal]e or in a store window. Among the areas explored in this book are the anatomical proportions, the displacement of body weight with various movements, and the most appropriate angles of view for highlighting particular Features oJ: clothing——atl of these being key elements of the language of fashion skeetches.

Includes eight full-length, award-winning plays: * Streamers by David Rabe * Marco Polo Sings a Solo by John Guare * Wings by Arthur Kopit * Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You by ChristopherDurang * Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley * The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney * Painting Churches by Tina Howe * Ma Rainey's Black Bottom byAugust Wilson Edited and with an introduction by Brooks McNamara.

The Liverpool FC Annual 2009 reflects on another momentous twelve months in the history of your favourite club. With exclusive interviews with Fernando Torres, Robbie Keane, Steven Gerrard, Rafael Benitez and many more of your Kop idols, plus exclusive features from behind the scenes, tributes to the star performers from the past year and a quiz to test your Anfield knowledge, this year's official annua is as action-packed as ever and a must for any fanatical Red.