What Makes Great Art

What Makes Great ArtWhy do some artworks stand out head and shoulders above others? Exceptional art somehow satisfies at a deeper level than the rest. What Makes Great Art showcases a selection of 80 outstanding paintings and sculptures from around the world and throughout time, assessing just what it is that makes them so great. Some owe their greatness to composition of colour, others offer profound insights into their human subjects, and some convey their message

Lean and Grey must decipher the secret pattern to these murders--a pattern hidden within the dark history of the Salem witch trials

One day Mole pokes his nose out of his tunnel and discovers that the world is an exciting place

Major General Julian Thompson's authoritative text is illustrated with contemporary photographs and full-colour maps

he journeys with the last outlaws of the American frontier

Complicated

which add even more potency to a common

Women control the lion

Korean street cooks to Edinburgh bagpipers and Mongolian hunters

In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin

Now Sobel brings her full talents to bear on what is perhaps her most ambitious topic to date-the planets of our solar system

her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late

The very definition of a page-turner' Clare Mackintosh