Painting Out of the Ordinary

Painting Out of the Ordinary
Author: David H. Solkin
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

With its plethora of illustrations, many of works published here for the first time, 'Painting Out of the Ordinary' will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in British art and society of the Romantic era.

David Wilkie

David Wilkie
Author: Nicholas Tromans
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2002
Genre: Drawing, Scottish
ISBN:

Biography: A Very Short Introduction

Biography: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Hermione Lee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2009-07-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199533547

Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres. Why do people like them? What does a biography do and how does it work? This Very Short Introduction examines different types of biographies, why certain people and historical events arouse so much interest, and how they are compared with history and fiction.