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Beehive Books is transforming Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic retellings of Greek mythology through fifteen original paintings ...
Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (Perspective of regular solids), created in 1568 by German goldsmith and printmaker Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508–1585), is a study in shapes inspired by the five ...
What began as a search for Chinese sculpture ended with a book on Greek art and an enduring interest in the geometric forms that the ancient Greeks were obsessed with — an obsession that permeates the ...
Twenty-four artists present their own works in new book, including the late Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. ... Roxane Zand, Geometry and Art in the Modern Middle East, Skira, 168pp, €45 (hb) ...
THE subject-matter of this work has at different times been brought under the notice of the readers of NATURE, for it is very little more than a collected and corrected reproduction of papers ...
The word “geometry” means earth measurement and the subject evolved from measuring plots of land accurately and also from the work of builders and carpenters. So the geometry that we call ...
THE characteristic deficiencies of English text-books are painfully conspicuous in most of the current works on practical geometry. Take a second-rate cookery-book, and shuffle the recipes at ...
In “The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself,” Robin Reames contends that Greek and Roman rhetorical techniques can help us speak — and listen — to one another today.