Martin Kemp: 14 books

Book cover of Structural Intuitions

Structural Intuitions

Seeing Shapes in Art and Science

by Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

"All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge," wrote Albert Einstein. In Structural Intuitions, a fascinating exploration of the commonalities between two seemingly disparate realms, renowned art historian Martin Kemp applies Einstein's notion both to science and...
Book cover of Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones
by Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master’s milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more.   Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small Tuscan town of Vinci in April 1452. Over...
Book cover of Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond
by Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, the world- renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty- year journey with the work of the world’s most famous artist A personal memoir interwoven with original research, Living with Leonardo takes us deep inside Leonardo da Vinci scholar...
Book cover of El arte en la historia
by Martin Kemp
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Habrá quien ni siquiera pestañee ante la Gioconda pero se sienta profundamente conmovido ante una caja de jabón Brillo, al menos en el debido contexto. Solo con mirarla, una pintura de Rafael, de Rembrandt o de Rubens puede interpelarnos directamente, pero también es posible que no nos diga nada....
Book cover of Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD: Ideas in Profile
by Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it's also an historical document, part of a living world. Renowned art...
Book cover of Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD: Ideas in Profile
by Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it's also an historical document, part of a living world. Renowned art...
Book cover of Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited
by Morana Alac, Rachel Prentice, Michael Barany
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent theoretical perspectives on representation. Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Press in 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in...
Book cover of Notebooks
by Leonardo da Vinci, Irma A. Richter, Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008

'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.' Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent perhaps one-fifth of what he actually...
Book cover of Christ to Coke

Christ to Coke

How Image Becomes Icon

by Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011

Image, branding, and logos are obsessions of our age. Iconic images dominate the media. Christ to Coke is the first book to look at all the main types of visual icons. It does so via eleven supreme and mega-famous examples, both historical and contemporary, to see how they arose and how they continue...
Book cover of L'arte nella storia

L'arte nella storia

600 a.C. - 2000 d.C.

by Martin Kemp
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2015

L’arte non è sospesa nel vuoto. Come scriveva T.S. Eliot, «quel che accade quando viene creata una nuova opera d’arte accade simultaneamente anche a tutte le opere che l’hanno preceduta». Ogni tassello che si aggiunge all’immenso patrimonio artistico dell’umanità ridefinisce la storia stessa...
Book cover of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Kenneth Clark, Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015

A personally compelling introduction to Leonardo's genius, a classic monograph of Leonardo's art and his development.
Book cover of Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

The People and the Painting

by Martin Kemp, Giuseppe Pallanti
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017

Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies' continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini,...
Book cover of Ending Poverty in America

Ending Poverty in America

How to Restore the American Dream

by Michael S. Barr, Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009

**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly). Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Book cover of A Synopsis of Ophthalmology
by J. L. C. Martin-Doyle, Martin H. Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

A Synopsis of Ophthalmology, Fifth Edition focuses on the advancements and processes in ophthalmology, including the use of microscopes and electronic gadgets on ophthalmic operations and the personal and social aspects of blindness. The book first offers information on the routine examination of...
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