A good historical overview of the people of Middle America from early times to the present day. Nicholas James traces the rise and fall of societies such as the Olmecs, Maya, Zapotecs and Aztecs, and discusses the nature of their language, belief systems, culture and especially their art and monuments. Well illustrated throughout.

Aztecs and Maya. The Ancient Peoples of Middle America

History

James, Nicholas

Americas

Tempus Publishing Ltd.

The survey documents four leading artists, Lubaina Himid, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Hew Locke and the film maker Steve McQueen, exploring their work and ideas in development, in reviews and recorded conversations, drawn from Cv/Visual Arts Research Archive. Firstly a review of Lubaina Himid exhibition 'Nuance and Interpretation' at Tate Modern recorded 28th June 2022. Explores the artist's paintings, sculptures and sound environments in the broad ranging survey of work made since 1997.

Painted Histories 17: Black British Art

LUCIE-SMITH, Edward

Arts & Photography

CV Publications

Legacy of the Roras

JESSE PULLMEN lived a quiet life with his adopted father, Councilor Elegan Pullmen, in the hidden oceanic city of Aquaterra. Along with his friend Helbit Massic, Jesse spent his days exploring the hidden city while dreaming of life in the world above. The people of Aquaterra had been banished beneath the sea by the fierce Restil race hundreds of years before, during an invasion that also destroyed the ancient protectors of their world, the Roras. Little did Jesse suspect that a chance meeting with a young woman named Jenn Verecy would start a chain of events that would reveal his own Rora heritage and drastically alter the fate of Aquaterra. For Jenn was the keeper of a mighty Prophecy that could free the people of Aquaterra from their ancient prison, and provide its heroes with the necessary steps to repel their enemies. Now Jesse must find a way to protect Jenn even as he begins training under the watchful eyes of a mysterious Rora named Therin. But even as Jesse's strength grows, powerful beings are on the move, aware of the Prophecy and desperate to claim it for their own purposes. It will take all of Jesse's newfound abilities to deliver this Prophecy to its intended recipient and finally begin the journey beyond the dome of Aquaterra to face the enemy above. Collected here is the complete tale of Jesse, Helbit, Jenn and their desperate quest through Aquaterra and beyond. A mission to free their people from the tyrannical grip of the Restils, and restore their world to its rightful inhabitants.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

AuthorHouse

Duplicitous

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Mental Illness Press

James Turrell: Inside Outside (Cv/Visual Arts Research S)

Sculpture

Independently published

Renowned artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is commemorated in an exhibition of fifty portraits spanning his working life, held at The National Portrait Gallery London from February to May 2012. The review explores the development of his art from the potent and hyper-sensed studies of the 1940s to major paintings in the later phase, where the artist engaged in a complex and sometimes brutal meditation on the human being, drawn from an intimate engagement with the sitter. Freud's unsparing eye maps his subjects, sustaining single handed an almost unique commitment to the ambitions of high art, grounded in the canons of classic Western tradition.The monograph also includes a review of Freud's figure drawings, exhibited at BlainSouthern Gallery.Marina Vaizey is an art critic, lecturer and traveller; her books include The Artist as Photographer, 100 Masterpieces of Art; Great Women Collectors. She was the art critic for the Financial Times for four years, and The Sunday Times for eighteen. She has curated several exhibitions and written many catalogues. She has been a Trustee for several national museums. Nicholas James studied painting with Frank Auerbach and Keith Vaughan at the Slade School UCL. He formed Cv Publications in 1992 and Cv/Visual Arts Research in 1995.

Lucian Freud: Mapping the Human (Cv/Visual Arts Research)

VAIZEY, Marina

History & Criticism

Cv/VAR series 146 reviews the work of Damien Hirst (b.Bristol 1965) presented in a retrospective exhibition spanning twenty years, held at Tate Modern, April to September 2012. It explores the development of his art from the controversial animal vitrines and beautiful butterfly composites to an extensive series of spot paintings, where the artist engaged in a complex invigilation of coded systems that govern daily existence. It encounters the Fly series, in a rarely exhibited work One Thousand Years 1991, Pharmacy and For The Love of God, the celebrated diamond studded skull. With contributions by Edward Lucie-Smith, Marina Vaizey and James Cahill.

Damien Hirst: A Retrospective (CV/Visual Arts Research)

Other Media

Aspects of Jasper Johns

Individual Artists

Over more than twenty years working as a plumber, Nick has shared thousands of mugs of tea with hundreds of fascinating people. Here he gives his plumber' s-eye view of society in a series of entertaining, amusing and outrageous beneath-the-kitchen-sink dramas.While fixing pipes, Nick was also looking for characters to write about. In his toolbox, in addition to spanners, he had a notebook, which wasn' t just for jotting down measurements. And ' the secret plumber' has some great stories to tell, about people who might just be your friends, family or neighbours.There' s the frankly terrifying high-court judge, whose wife calls the shots; the divorcing woman, using him to help her build a rather bizarre botox business; and all the wonderful people he meets when his number is posted on Grindr as an LGBTQ+-friendly plumber.This book is Tales of the Unexpected - in overalls. It shows London as it really is: one of the most diverse places on the planet, ranging from downright dangerous to preposterously posh. To Nick, London is a melting pot, filled with an extraordinary variety of fascinating people, who have one thing in common - they all need a plumber!

Pipe Dreams: Secret Diaries of a Neighbourhood Plumber

Biographies & Memoirs

Reference & Collections

Ad Lib Publishers

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by James, Nicholas. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by James, Nicholas