Ambigrammes

Résumé : Ce livre s'adresse à tous les grands-pères actifs et dynamiques, désireux de passer de bons moments avec leurs petits-enfants. Ensemble, vous ferez des tas de bêtises. Vous allez très vite vous retrouver à raconter des histoires, à chanter des comptines. Vous organiserez des aventures, des expéditions. Vous fabriquerez des jouets, inventerez des jeux, explorerez des mondes imaginaires. Le Livre des grands-pères épatants fourmille d'idées, de suggestions et de conseils pratiques. C'est le compagnon idéal pour tous ceux qui veulent profiter au mieux de leurs petits-enfants.

Despite the popularity of his work, Edouard Degas has remained one of the most elusive of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. To his contemporaries he was always a very private man, rather aloof, self-absorbed and inclined to cynicism. However, few could fault his skill as an artist, and his acute vision, mastery of design, and meticulous attention to often ignored detail single him out as one of the most important figures in nineteenth century art history. The ballet, the racecourse and women at their toilet were his three favourite subjects and he returned to them again and again in the course of his long career, never feeling that he had exhausted these themes. Degas never forgot his early meeting with Ingres, the greatest upholder of the classical tradition, and from his early academic sketches to his late pastels the quality of his drawing never faltered.Keith Roberts"highly successful introduction to Degas was first published in 1976. Helen Langdon, a lecturer at the National Gallery, added the notes to the plates and numerous black-and-white comparative illustrations, and the whole book is here reissued in an attractive new design."

Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497-1543) is renowned for his incisive portraits of Northern Europe's courtiers, thinkers and statesmen, but his output was fat more various, and included book illustration, large religious paintings and designs for jewellery and court fashions. This fine record of his career examines these varied aspects of his genius and beautifully illustrates the ways in which his miraculous technical accomplishment and attention to surface detail were married to acute observation of and empathy with his human subjects.Dr Helen Langdon lectures at the National Gallery, London. For this new edition of her introduction to Holbein, art historian James Malpas bas selected additional illustrations and written detailed commentaries on each colour plate.