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Mary Engelbreit s Live Like You Mean It 2025 Calendar is filled with full color imagery and motivational quotes reminding us to always live our best lives and to live it with meaning Take time for yourself and for others and make those moments special Features include 5 3 x 4 4 page size No single use plastic Recyclable chipboard easel backer for desk or tabletop display Printed on FSC certified paper with soy based ink Full color tear off pages Back of pages are blank for notes or shopping lists Day Date reference on each page Combined weekend pages Official major world holidays and observances Full color artwork on each page

Each month of Farmer s Market 2025 Wall Calendar features exquisitely detailed and hand colored renderings of seasonal produce such as cherries eggplants and winter squash herbs and spices such as basil and grilling spices or delectable artisan foods found at greenmarkets across the country such as chocolate and holiday breads Includes beautiful images of seasonal produce and artisanal fare such as tropical fruit and blue cheeses Generous grids for adding appointments and reminders Includes major official world holidays Opens to 12 inches x 24 inches Perfect for both gift giving and self purchase

A spacious month to view wall calendar beautifully illustrated with seasonal vintage artwork from Elsa Beskow s picture books With eco friendly printing and packaging

Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A New Yorker Book of the Year Some called it a craze To others it was a cult Join prize winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era Smart gorgeously written cultural history TLS Delightful Guardian Excellent Spectator Joyous cultural history The Times He invented a whole cat world declared H G Wells of Louis Wain the Edwardian artist whose anthropomorphic kittens made him a household name His drawings were irresistible but Catland was more than the creation of one eccentric imagination It was an attitude a way of being in society while discreetly refusing to follow its rules As cat capitalism boomed in the spectacular Edwardian age prized animals changed hands for hundreds of pounds and a new industry sprung up to cater for their every need Cats were no longer basement dwelling pest controllers but stylish cultural subversives more likely to flaunt a magnificent ruff and a pedigree from Persia Wherever you found old conventions breaking down there was a cat at the centre of the st

One of Britain s most radical and influential artists working in the first decades of the twentieth century Vanessa Bell was a pioneer for professional women Vanessa Bell was a leading figure within the Bloomsbury Group and known for her unconventional lifestyle but her work as a painter designer and decorator has often been overlooked and relegated within the bombastic male dominated field of British modernism With new research including previously unpublished letters Wendy Hitchmough explores the ways in which Bell 1879 1961 forged new pathways as a modernist woman Writing openly about depression and mental health at a time when the subject was stigmatised as well as challenging taboos surrounding women s bodies Bell exploited the patriarchal society that oppressed her She responded to the nudes and pastoral scenes of Cezanne Gauguin Picasso and Matisse with themes of miscarriage and motherhood She exhibited with her partner Duncan Grant and comparisons between their parallel careers highlight the gender disparities that shaped her life and work Vanessa Bell The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical celebrates the artist s trailblazing approach to art as well as life her rejection of conventions and the challenge she posed to the structures of

Portraits by and of Munch offer insight into the vibrant bohemian world of one of the great artists of the 19th and 20th centuries Norwegian painter Edvard Munch 1863 1944 whose 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art s most acclaimed images and who is widely regarded as one of the great artists of the 19th and 20th centuries is less known for his portraiture but his portraits are central to his art and vision Edvard Munch Portraits edited by Alison Smith former chief curator at London s National Portrait Gallery brings together more than 60 of Munch s most significant portraits showcasing the wide array of styles techniques and mediums that he employed During the course of Munch s long life and working in a range of mediums that encompassed painting drawing and print he made hundreds of portraits of friends patrons models and above all and unsparingly himself This book places his work in the cultural and historical background of his period providing readers with a greater understanding of the time in which these portraits were produced This publication offers deep insight into the artist s family and bohemian social circles along with his German and Norwegian patrons and the friends who helped establish his reputation

An insightful and much needed introduction to the life and work of Magorzata Mirga Tas a textile artist dedicated to celebrating the vibrant heritage of the Romani community Magorzata Mirga Tas b 1978 is a Romani artist and activist who is best known for her colourful textile collages Made from materials gathered from family and friends and often created in collaboration with other women these works depict the everyday life of the Romani people to challenge stereotypical representations and form what she calls microcarriers of history This fascinating introduction explores the life and work of Mirga Tas contextualising her practice within Romani culture and the community in which she was raised Bringing attention to the Romani people their relationships alliances and shared activities through her visual storytelling she also re imagines artworks from across the centuries that have presented Romani identity in negative ways and transforms them into vibrant images imbued with strength and dignity These works informed by her feminist perspective and a sustained engagement with her community combine realism with visual motifs of Romani culture and offer a rare opportunity to see and celebrate the Roma on their own terms both as a contemporary comm

Jane Robinson is brilliant at putting the women back into history and her biography of Barbara Leigh Bodichon a Victorian feminist we should all be grateful to is as entertaining as it is necessary Daisy GoodwinYou have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done Name any modern human rights movement and she was a pioneer feminism equal opportunities diversity inclusion mental health awareness Black Lives Matter While her name has been omitted from too many history books it was Barbara that opened the doors for more famous names to walk through And her influence owed as much to who she was as to what she did people loved her for her robust sense of humour cheerfulness and indiscriminate acts of kindness This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain s suffrage movement campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace the law at home and beyond Co founder of Girton the first university college for women a committed activist for human rights fervently anti slavery she was also one of Victorian England s finest female painters Jane Robinson s brilliant new book shines a light on a remarkable woman who lived on her own terms and to whom we owe a huge debt Skillful storytelling and a wa

Un entretenido y didáctico recorrido por la historia de la pintura europea. Ideal para iniciarse en la manera de mirar un cuadro y entender los motivos que llevaron a pintarlo, su forma de narrar los acontecimientos, su significado, la composicion, su tecnica pictorica, la utilizacion del color y la luz... Especialmente recomendado para jovenes y amantes del arte