themes, motives

A survey of American mausoleums of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with discussion of popular architectural features of the period, including Egyptian pyramids, Ionic columns, and Gothic towers.

Contains 110 copyright-free designs and motifs from ancient Greece, presented in black-and-white.

Discusses the careers of 13 great children's book illustrators from before World War I, with lavish reproductions of their best works.

Contains definitions and examples of over eight hundred literary terms, covering traditional, theoretical, historical, and cultural vocabulary; and features essays on some of the major themes in literature, including adultery, death, love, religious faith, and others.

Survey of the various scopes and aims of modern art featuring such styles as pop, conceptual, feminist and gay, and neo-expressionism.

Mice visit a museum and admire famous works of art in the different galleries, each of which is devoted to a specific subject or theme. Includes information about the paintings and where they may be found in real life.

Introduces the world of art, placing Western European art in a broad global context and discussing artistic treatment of such themes as other worlds, daily life, history and myth, and nature.

Tells the stories behind the people and events depicted in some of the world's most famous works of art, and features 199 color, and fifty-five black-and-white illustrations.

An encyclopedia of Native American literatures featuring articles on individual authors, on individual works, on important characters in works, and on terms and events of historical significance that figure in many of the works.