BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS

(P/B) WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
From the faithful wife to the powerful queen, the untouchable priestess to the high-living prostitute, the daily lives and roles of women in the ancient world of Greece and Rome, Egypt and the Near East were fascinating and varied, often going beyond the traditional view of "a woman's place". Through themes such as domestic life, religion, work, mothers and mourners, stereotypes, costume and the body, this lively book explores the traditions and trends of different cultures, using intriguing juxtapositions of images to compare and contrast...
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(P/B) IZNIK POTTERY

(H/B) FLOWERS

(H/B) MUMMY PORTRAITS
This type of portrait appeared in Egypt in the first century AD, and remained popular for around 200 years. Though the subjects believed in the traditional Egyptian cults, which offered them a firm prospect of life after death, they also wished tobe commemorated in the Roman manner. Portraits were commissioned that would serve as a realistic record of the deceased as he or she had appeared in life. These were painted on a wooden board at a roughly lifelike scale, which was then placed on theoutside of the cartonnage coffin over the head of...
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(P/B) ANGLO-SAXON ART
The seven centuries of the Anglo-Saxon period in England, roughly AD 400-1100, were a time of extraordinary and profound transformation in almost every aspect of its culture, culminating in a dramatic shift from a barbarian society to a recognizably medieval civilization. This book traces the changing nature of that art, the different roles it played in Anglo-Saxon culture, and the various ways it both reflected and influenced the changing context in which it was created. From its first manifestations in the metalwork and ceramics of the e...
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(H/B) ICE AGE ART
A thought- provoking exploration of the masterpieces of sculpture, drawing and decoration of the last Ice Age. Produced between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, this is some of the oldest known figurative art in the world. Looking at these art works provides a fascinating insight into the earliest modern minds and their capacity to express ideas symbolically through art. Over 100 objects are featured, including small but exquisite sculptures made from mammoth ivory, engraved drawings, ceramic models, decorated objects and jewellery from the a...
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(P/B) ISLAMIC TILES
This series focuses on the most important forms of Eastern art, providing a survey of the major stylistic and technical developments and the historical events which influenced them. Ceramic tiles have been produced for over 1,000 years in the Islamic world, from Iraq in the 9th century to Turkey in the 19th. The wealth of designs and colours used to decorate mosques, shrines and palaces also became a rich source of inspiration for European artists and designers. This book explains the techniques of the craftsmen including the invention of ...
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(P/B) MASKS
Masks exert a powerful fascination. Masking is a near-universal phenomenon, but the uses and meaning of masks vary greatly between cultures. A mask may reveal or transfigure as often as it conceals. In ritual or religious usε, as today in Africa or Oceania, mask-wearers may be thought to become possessed by, or even to become, a spirit or god. The funerary masks of ancient Egypt were intended to equip the deceased with divine power and attributes. Masks used in Japanesse Noh plays or in ancient Greek drama actually helped to portray a char...
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(H/B) ICONS

(H/B) GERMAN ROMANTIC PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
Featuring an exquisite selection of nineteenth-century German prints and drawings from a private collection, this book illustrates the dominant themes and preoccupations present in a seminal period of German history. The nineteenth-century saw the Napoleonic Wars bring about an end to the traditional art market in Germany, thereby leaving the artists with an opportunity to establish a new identity. Artists such as Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Peter Cornelius retreated to the techniques and values of the Renaissance and medieval periods, when...
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(P/B) SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: staging the world will provide a unique and fascinating insight into the early modern world, seen through the lens of Shakespeare's plays. The book links historical objects and works of art with Shakespeare's texts to reveal how the playwright informed his audiences of the major events and political issues of the day: a sixteenth-century dagger fished from the Thames gives new significance to the gang violence of Romeo and Juliet; Henry V's saddle, helm and shield recall the depiction of war in the history plays; Guy Fawkes' l...
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(P/B) SHAKESPEARE'S BRITAIN
From the common playgoers to the royal patrons, this book explores Britain from the perspective of Shakespeare's audience - revealing how the significant issues of the day were explored at the playhouse through objects and quotations from Shakespeare's plays. This is a lavishly illustrated gift book that introduces the idea of Britain from the perspective of Shakespeare's audiences, and shows how the writer's plays reveal much about the country in which he lived - from issues of region and nation to witchcraft and conspiracy. The reader wi...
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(P/B) HAJJ
It is a sacred duty for Muslims, wherever they may reside, to go at least once in their lives to Mecca, the heartland of Islam where the Prophet Muhammad received the revelation in the early 7th century. Drawing millions of pilgrims annually, the Hajj is a powerful bond that brings Muslims together from across the world. It takes place in the twelfth month of the Muslim year dhu'l hijja. Over the course of one week a number of specific rituals are performed which involve circumambulation of the Ka'ba, the cube-shaped building in the centre...
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CHINESE LOVE POETRY (H/B)
A selection of 40 classical and contemporary love poems, beautifully illustrated with original brushwork calligraphy and scenes from rarely exhibited paintings and prints in the rich collections of the British Museum. (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) ITALIAN RENAISSANCE DRAWINGS
THE CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL flowering known as the Renaissance, the French translation of the Italian word rinascimento or rebirth, developed in Italy in the 14005 before spreading north. It came about as Italy recovered from the unrest and depopulation caused by the bubonic plague's arrival from the east in 1348. Italy's prosperity, based on trade and banking, and the relative political stability of the varied city states and principalities, provided a favourable environment for rulers and the mercantile elite, as well as the scholars a...
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(P/B) FROM PERSEPOLIS TO THE PUNJAB
This is a fascinating investigation into the discovery and exploration of ancient Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The phrase "from Persepolis to the Punjab" refers to the vast Iranian empires of the Achaemenids (550-331 BC), Parthians (238 BC-AD 224) and Sasanians (AD 224-651), which extended eastwards through Afghanistan to the north-western borderlands of the Indian subcontinent. The book brings together the most recent research and expertise drawn from several areas of study, especially the coins in the British Museum collection, in ord...
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(H/B) GRAYSON PERRY
This wonderful catalogue accompanies the major Grayson Perry exhibition at the British Museum (6 October 2011 - 19 February 2012). Drawing on such intriguing and diverse themes as pilgrimage, shamanism and tomb guardians, Grayson Perry takes the reader on a journey to an imaginary afterlife. Grayson Perry's centrepiece to this fascinating journey is a major artwork: a metal tomb in the form of a ship, encrusted with reliefs and artistic cargo based on, or actually cast from, objects in the collection of the British Museum. The occupant sai...
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(H/B) PERSIAN LOVE POETRY
Love is everywhere in Persian poetry and can be interpreted in various ways: as mystic love, the basis of the relationship between humans and god; as passionate or affectionate love between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children, family and friends; even as patriotic love for Iran. The literary style and indeed the Persian language itself are floral and elaborate, but the themes differ little from our preoccupations with love and romance today. This collection offers extracts specially translated by the authors from the best of t...
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(H/B) WILLIAM BLAKE
William Blake (1757-1827) became one of the greatest English poets and artists. This book takes a look at the highlights of his career as both artist and poet, with beautiful colour illustrations of 45 of his most striking and unusual works. Blake devised a unique method of self-publishing that enabled him to combine written text and illustration on the same page. The resulting books, which he printed and coloured himself with the help of his wife, were hardly known in his lifetime. But, following their 'rediscovery' by Rossetti and his ci...
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(H/B) ANCIENT GREECE
Explore the world of the ancient Greeks, from the earliest farmers and settlers to the great flowering of Greek culture in Classical Athens, and the conquests of Alexander the Great. 12-page detachable timeline unfolds over a thousand years of ancient Greece The whole of ancient Greek history in a pocket-sized guide Fully illustrated with colour photographs, including many objects from the British Museum's collections This Pocket Timeline tells you the story of ancient Greece, with short chapters on the gods, the wars, the Olympic Games, ...
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