Hans Holbein's 16th-century masterpiece, The Dance of Death, reminds its readers that no one, no matter their rank or position, can escape the great leveller, Death. In a foreboding series of woodcuts, Death, depicted as a skeleton, ... Zobraziť viac
Gulliver's Travels, adapted and updated by Martin Rowson, is both a homage to the original and an entirely up-to-date indictment of the same, enduring human idiocies that enraged Swift so magnificently and memorably in the first place." Zobraziť viac
Published in 1848, at a time of political upheaval in Europe, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto for the Communist Party was at once a powerful critique of capitalism and a radical call to arms. It remains the most incisive introduction ... Zobraziť viac
In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody is... Zobraziť viac
