Robin Walz’s updated Modernism, now part of the Seminar Studies series, has been updated to include significant primary source material and features to make it more accessible for students returning to, or studying the topic for the first time.The twentieth century was a period of seismic change on a global scale, witnessing two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the establishment of a global economy, the beginnings of global warming and a complete revers...

"Years after his first appearance, Fantômas is still scary." — The Washington Post"A brilliant criminal … a great romp." — San Francisco ChronicleA noblewoman is hacked to death in her chateau, a Russian princess is boldly robbed in a posh hotel, and a lord's lifeless body is found stuffed inside a trunk. Everyone recognizes the deeds of Fantômas, a master of disguise whose daring and diabolical crimes paralyze Parisians with terror. One man has sworn to bri...

Slender, elegant, refined, seductive, Arsène Lupine, gentleman-burglar by trade, is the model of the "Belle Epoque" dandy. His intelligence, his culture, his talents as an illusionist between Fregoli and Robert-Houdin are at the service of astonishing nerve. But this accomplished man of the world is also an anarchist at heart who plays with social conventions with marvelous insolence. Arsène Lupine, gentleman-burglar is a collection of short stories written by Maurice Leblanc and recountin...

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE SMASH HIT NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES LUPIN!Follow one of the world's most cunning thieves through the collected works of Maurice Leblanc's Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar as he is called upon to solve mysteries only a thief would be able to solve.Translated from French to English language,The Extraordinary Adventues of Arsene Lupin box-set contains the following stories:Arsene Lupin, Gentleman B...

Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed a...

A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.

First published in the year 1913, the present book 'The Confessions of Arsène Lupin' is written by the famous French novelist and short story writer Maurice Leblanc. This book consists of ten adventures of the author's famously created fictional character of Arsene Lupin, a gentleman, thief and detective.

This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the movement fron Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s, revealing the often cont...

A young amateur detective stumbles onto a mystery far bigger than a simple theft: a hollow needle-shaped rock on the Normandy coast that has secretly funded the kings of France for centuries — and which Arsène Lupin has just claimed as his own private treasury. What follows is one of literature's great intellectual duels, thief against student, neither willing to back down.Widely considered Leblanc's masterpiece — the novel where Lupin faces an opponent nearly as clever as he is, and where...

As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' art by asking such questions as: What has made a work of art qualify as modern (or f...

In 813, Maurice Leblanc's epic tale, Arsène Lupin, master of disguise and celebrity thief, is framed in the murder of millionaire Rudolf Kesselbach, nicknamed alternatively the King of Diamonds and the Lord of the Cape. Lupin assumes the identity of the chief detective on the case in order to find the real murderer and, in the interest of France, find a secret parcel of documents that have the power to redraw the map of Europe. Lupin must use every ounce of his genius to escape en...

The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea of the 'readymade', attitudes towards the city, the impact of Freud, attitudes to women, fetish...