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Respected painter and writer Julian Bell offers original insights into the art, practice, and ongoing importance of painting.

"Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and debates over what was real and what constituted 'nature', currents that would soon gather force to form modern science. Natural Light deliberates on the era's uncertainties, as distilled in the work of painter Adam Elsheimer -- a short-lived, tragic German artist who has always been something of a cult secret. Elsheimer's diminutive, intense and mysterious narrative compositions related figures to landscape in new ways, projecting unfamiliar visions of space at a time when Caravaggio was polarizing audiences with his radical altarpieces and circles of "natural philosophers" -- early modern scientists -- were starting to turn to the new "world system" of Galileo. Julian Bell transports us to the spirited Rome of the 1600s, where Elsheimer and other young Northern immigrants -- notably his friend Peter Paul Rubens -- swapped pictorial and poetic reference points. Focusing on some of Elsheimer's most haunting compositions, Bell drives at the anxieties that underlie them -- puzzling over existential questions that still have relevance today. Traditional themes for imagery are expressed with fresh urgency, most of all in Elsheimer's final painting, a vision of the night sky of unprecedented poetic power that was completed at a time of ferment in astronomy. Circulated through prints, Elsheimer's pictorial inventions affected imaginations as disparate as Rembrandt, Lorrain and Poussin. They even reached artists in Mughal India, whose equally impassioned miniatures expand our sense of what 'nature' might be. As we home in on artworks of microscopic finesse, the whole of the 17th-century globe and its perplexities starts to open out around us." -- Provided by publisher

In the world of organised crime, Stuart Cassidy, a small time criminal, is sent on a mission by his boss, Jimmy Silver, to Venice. There he must locate a tomb; but he soon discovers that it has been disturbed and desecrated with four black candles and a circle of salt placed around the coffin which is now empty... Meanwhile, Silver's Italian hitmen in England are being executed one by one and a single black rose is left at the scenes of the murders; a calling card with a single meaning and terror. Who exactly is Sterling? Has she been resurrected to exact revenge upon the people who killed her? And how exactly do you hunt a down Victorian criminal mastermind still alive in the world today...? Cassidy, trying to piece together all the details he has discovered, finds himself caught up in the very dark and dangerous world of organised crime, Hells Angels and the supernatural. Who can he trust and how can he survive?

topical, edgy, emotive and compelling story written in a powerful first-person voice! Hopes mum doesnt get her. In fact, Hope knows that as far as her preoccupied parents are concerned, shes hopeless. She may be spoiltbut money doesnt buy happiness. Oksana doesnt even have a mum. And her dad and brother are miles away, left behind in Russia. She thought Europe would offer a better lifeinstead, bought and sold into prostitution, she feels dirty and used. Then Oksana and Hope are thrown together in the most terrifying circumstances imaginable. Their only real chance of escape lies with each other, but how do two teenagers with so little in common find the way . . . ? A tense, shocking novelwith a hint of hope.

Focusing on Tom Hammick's artistic journey, the book examines his unique techniques and imagery while placing his work within contemporary painting debates and the enduring Romantic tradition. Julian Bell provides an in-depth analysis of Hammick's career, highlighting the evolution of his art and its significance in the broader context of modern artistic discourse.

A new cover edition of Julia Bell's critically acclaimed YA novel, Massive, published to coincide with the release of Julia's new book, The Dark Light

In the 1980s, what had once appeared unthinkable came to pass: the `voice of a generation' began to sound irrelevant, a tale told to grandchildren. Having failed to release a single new song in seven long years, Dylan put out the equivalent of two albums in a single package.

For the first time, the laureate of modern America is set in his entire context: musical, historical, literary, political and personal. Once Upon a Time is a biographical study of a personality that has splintered and reformed, time after time, in a country forever struggling to understand itself.

What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? This book considers such questions. It discusses dancing bronze figures from southern India, Romanesque sculptures, Baroque ceilings and jewel-like Persian manuscripts.

Co je to umění a odkud se vlastně vzalo? Proč vlastně tvoříme, co nás pudí ke ztvárňování „reality“? Nad podobnými otázkami se zamýšlí malíř a spisovatel Julian Bell, autor nejnovějších dějin umění Zrcadlo světa. Ve svých odpovědích odhaluje nečekané souvislosti mezi uměleckými díly pocházejícími z různých kultur, čtenáře překvapuje, poučuje i přivádí k zamyšlení. Kniha je skvělým úvodem do obecných dějin umění i nahlédnutím do umělecké mysli a bezesporu se stane prubířským kamenem pro nové generace čtenářů.