Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan, Milligan, Spike

Автор: Bucklow, Spike
Название: Alchemy of paint
ISBN: 0714531723 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714531724
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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The Alchemy of Paint is a critique of the modern world, which Spike Bucklow sees as the product of seventeenth-century ideas about science. In modern times, we have divorced color from its origins, using it for commercial advantage. Spike Bucklow shows us how in medieval times, color had mystical significance far beyond the enjoyment of shade and hue.

Each chapter demonstrates the mindset of medieval Europe and is devoted to just one color, acknowledging its connections with life in the pre-modern world. Colors examined and explained in detail include a midnight blue called ultramarine, an opaque red called vermilion, a multitude of colors made from metals, a transparent red called dragonsblood, and, finally, gold.

Today, "scarlet" describes a color, but it was originally a type of cloth. Henry VI's wardrobe accounts from 1438 to 1489 show that his cheapest scarlet was 14.2s.6d. and that scarlets could fetch up to twice that price. In the fifteenth century, a mid-priced scarlet cost more than two thousand kilos of cheese or one thousand liters of wine. This expense accounts for the custom of giving important visitors the "red carpet treatment."

The book looks at how color was "read" in the Middle Ages and returns to materials to look at the hidden meaning of the artists' version of the philosopher's stone. The penultimate chapter considers why everyone has always loved gold.

Spike Bucklow is a conservation scientist working with oil paintings at the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge.

Автор: Jonze Spike
Название: Beastie Boys
ISBN: 0847868389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780847868384
Издательство: Rizzoli
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Описание: The first book of photography to be published by the Academy Award-winning film director and photographer Spike Jonze. Will appeal to every fan of Beastie Boys and golden-era hip hop, as well as photography and Spike Jonze`s own focused audiences.

Автор: Milligan Spike
Название: Silly Verse for Kids
ISBN: 0141362987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141362984
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Featuring illustrations, this collection includes the famous On the Ning Nang Nong.

Автор: Spike Milligan
Название: Puckoon
ISBN: 0140023747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140023749
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon. This book deals with this topic.

Автор: Trotman C. Spike
Название: Smut Peddler Presents: Sex Machine
ISBN: 1945820187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781945820182
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 21110.00 T
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