The Arts Books
National Gallery of Australia Stars in the River The Prints of Jessie Traill
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£41.00
National Gallery of Australia Turner to Monet The Triumph of Landscape Painting
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£57.00
National Gallery of Australia Degas The Uncontested Master
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£47.45
National Gallery of Australia Redback Graphix
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£33.25
National Gallery of Australia An Artist Abroad The Prints of James McNeill
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£18.95
Odette Nightsky Voices Within
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£12.00
Currency Press Pty Ltd The New Platform Papers Vol 1 What future for the
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£16.99
Dossier Industries EUROPA
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£27.00
Harvard University Press Invented Worlds
Book SynopsisPsychologist Ellen Winner studies the creative, nonliteral discourse of children's spontaneous speech, examining how their abilities to use and interpret figurative language change as they grow older, and what such language shows us about the changing feature's of children's minds.Trade Review[T]here has not been such a book in years…[and] this book is extremely good. I would not be surprised if it became the standard text for courses on the psychology of art… Winner takes widely scattered studies and weaves them together very nicely, always keeping the theoretical issues clear. * Contemporary Psychology *Knowledgeable, useful, and up-to-date… This is the most refreshingly readable book in psychology I have come across in a very long time. * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *Ellen Winner draws together a vast array of research on creativity… The interested reader will find here an encyclopedia of issues in the field and an analysis of what is still unknown. * Psychology Today *Ellen Winner’s handsomely printed Invented Worlds does us all a tremendous favor by combining the two hitherto separate fields of the psychology and the developmental psychology of the arts in a general descriptive accounting. * Studies in Visual Communication *An excellent introduction to what psychologists have to say about ‘the puzzle of art,’ including studies which view the problem ‘from above’ as well as ‘from below.’ The reader may pick and choose as his own personal preferences dictate. Since Fechner began the experimental study of aesthetics, a great deal has happened, and Ellen Winner is a safe guide to the large literature that has grown up since. There has not been a book summarizing all this work for many years, and the author is to be congratulated on having so successfully coped with a daunting task. -- H. J. EysenckA balanced and lucid presentation of current theories and findings in the field of art and psychology. The book provides a coherent framework for the examination of central issues in the psychology of art and in addition to offering an ‘overview,’ it also successfully formulates problems that are amenable to empirical investigation… Its clear presentation will make it a favorite for the student of psychology and the arts. -- Claire GolombThis is the book to read for a provocative and comprehensive survey of the psychology of the arts. The division of Winner’s theoretical sympathies, between Gestalt and constructivist viewpoints, males for an interesting tension and a questioning spirit throughout. -- Howard E. GruberTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Puzzle of Art 1. Personality and Intellect 1. The Artist 2. The Audience 2. Painting 3. What's in a Picture? 4. The Untutored Eye? 5. The Development of Drawing 3. Music 6. The Sounds of Music 7. The Innovent Ear 8. The Birth of Song 4. Literature 9. The Literary Experience 10. Once upon a Time 11. First Drafts 5. Art and Abnormality 12. The Damaged Brain 13. Mental Illness Epilogue: Solving the Puzzle of Art Illustration Sources References Index
£37.36
Harvard University Press Mimesis as MakeBelieve On the Foundations of the
Book SynopsisRepresentation—in visual arts and fiction—play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents a theory of representation which illuminates its many varieties and goes a long way toward explaining its importance. Walton’s theory also provides solutions to thorny philosophical problems concerning the existence of fictitious beings.Trade ReviewRigor, ingenuity and arresting subtlety are evident in the detailed working out of Walton’s ideas. -- Sebastian Gardner * Times Literary Supplement *This is philosophy at its best; combining the breadth of concern of the best continental philosophy (but shorn of its often wilful cloudiness) and the precision of the best analytical philosophy… A work of very great importance that will set the agenda for discussions in aesthetics for a long time to come. * Philosophy *Walton’s aim…is to explore and explain the foundations of the representational arts. His theory is one that he has stated and restated with increasing detail and sophistication over the last seventeen years, and in this book it bears all the refinement and subtlety of argument that analytic philosophy can muster. This is an engaging, insightful, and persuasive volume. * Philosophy and Literature *Kendall Walton’s book is one of the few genuinely distinguished contributions to aesthetic theory published in the last decade or two. It will be essential reading for anyone in the field and contains much that will be of great interest to scholars and critics of the arts. -- Marshall Cohen, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART 1: REPRESENTATIONS 1. Representation and Make-Believe 1. Imagining 2. Prompters 3. Objects of Imaginings 4. Imagining about Oneself 5. Props and Fictional Truths 6. Fictionality without Props: Dreams and Daydreams 7. Representations 8. Nonfigurative Art 9. Fictional Worlds 10. The Magic of Make-Believe 2. Fiction and Nonfiction 1. Nonfiction 2. Fiction versus Reality 3. Linguistic Strategies 4. Fiction and Assertion 5. Pretended and Represented Illocutionary Actions 6. Fiction Making as an Illocutionary Action? 7. Mixtures, Intermediates, Ambiguity, Indeterminacy 8. Legends and Myths 9. A Note on Truth and Reality 10. Two Kinds of Symbols? 3. Objects of Representation 1. What Objects Are 2. Representation and Matching 3. Determinants 4. Representing and Referring 5. Uses of Objects 6. Reflexive Representation 7. The Inessentiality of Objects 8. Nonactual Objects? 4. The Mechanics of Generation 1. Principles of Generation 2. Direct and Indirect Generation 3. Principles of Implication 4. The Mechanics of Direct Generation 5. Silly Questions 6. Consequences PART 2: APPRECIATING REPRESENTATIONS 5. Puzzles and Problems 1. Rescuing Heroines 2. Fearing Fictions 3. Fictionality and Other Intentional Properties 6. Participation 1. Participation in Children's Games 2. Appreciators as Participants 3. Verbal Participation 4. Restrictions on Participation 5. Asides to the Audience 6. Seeing the Unseen 7. Psychological Participation 1. Fearing Fictionally 2. Participating Psychologically 3. Paradoxes of Tragedy 4. Suspense and Surprise 5. The Point of Participation 6. Appreciation without Participation PART 3: MODES AND MANNERS 8. Depictive Representation 1. Depiction Defined 2. Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things 3. Styles of Depiction 4. Realism 5. Cross-Modal Depiction 6. Musical Depictions 7. Points of View (in Depictions) 8. Conclusion 9. Verbal Representations 1. Verbal Depiction 2. Narration 3. Two Kinds of Reliability 4. Nonverbal Narration 5. Absent and Effaced Narrators 6. Storytelling Narrators 7. Mediation 8. Points of View in Narrated Representations PART 4: SEMANTICS AND ONTOLOGY 10. Doing without Fictitious Entities 1. The Problem 2. Speaking within and about Fictional Worlds 3. Ordinary Statements 4. Unofficial Games 5. Variations 6. Logical Form 11. Existence 1. Betrayal and Disavowal 2. Claims of Existence and Nonexistence Works Cited Index
£37.36
Princeton University Press Poetry at Stake Lyric Aesthetics and the
Book SynopsisTaking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day 'mechanize' poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, this title explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things.Trade Review"Examining theoreticians ... and adding an ingenious interpretive analyses of her own, Noland illustrates the extent to which and how the character of various poets, performers, and even a dress designer's productions mediate a dialectic between artist and public."--Choice "Carrie Noland provides a powerful view of the dynamic connection between lyric poetry and technology... It is invigorating to read such a well documented and providential analysis."--Susan F. Crampton, French Review "Excellent in its informative reading of each artist in question, the chapters are independent, richly documented studies of the creative self and its embrace of a particular technology or commercial development."--Maria L. Assad, Nineteenth-Century French StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 3 One Traffic in the Unknown: Rimbaud's Interpretive Communities, Market Competition, and the Poetics of Voyance 16 Two A Poetry of Attractions: Rimbaud's Machine and the Theatrical Feerie 37 Three Confessing Philosophy: Negative Dialectics and/as Lyric Poetry 60 Four Blaise Cendrars and the Heterogeneous Discourses of the Lyric Subject 89 Five High Decoration: Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, and the Poem as Fashion Design 114 Six Messages personnels: Radio, Cryptography, and the Resistance Poetry of Rene Char 141 Seven Rimbaud and Patti Smith: The Discoveries of Modern Poetry and the Popular Music Industry 163 Eight Laurie Anderson: Confessions of a Cyborg 185 Coda 213 Notes 219 General Index 255 Index of Principal Primary Sources Cited 263
£40.00
Princeton University Press On the Laws of the Poetic Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 1997 Tanning Prize for Lifetime Achievement, Academy of American Poets""This book is full of fruitful and fascinating suggestions about our commerce with the variety of art, and the many worlds it inhabits."---John Bayley, The Times
£25.50
University of Queensland Press The Uses of Art Constructing Australian
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£35.96
British Museum Press Kitaj Prints A Catalogue Raisonn British Museum
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£57.93
British Museum Press Treasures of the British Museum
Book SynopsisThe BM is the greatest treasure house in the world and it could fill many books with pretty pictures ... but this is more than that. A choice selection of topics, some well known and obvious (Sutton Hoo, the Royal Cemeteries at Ur, the Elgin Marbles), others less obvious (the Folkton Drums, the Lothar Crystal), fifty in all, serve as the basis for description and discussion of both objects and collectors and the way in which the BM has acquired them. This unusual and interesting approach makes for a magnificent book: superb pictures, highly readable descriptions and lots of human interest anecdotes. The 2009 edition is significantly expanded with twelve new objects discussed, representing a refocusing away from Europe and the Near East and also showcasing artefacts, such as the Ringlemere Cup, acquired over the last few decades. `About as good as a book of this sort can be. A magnificent present ... if you can bear to part with it.''Table of Contents1. Forward, Introduction; 2. Treasure; 3. Civilisations rediscovered; 4. Sculpture; 5. Aspects of the Divine; 6. To the ends of the earth; 7. Temples and Tombs; 8. Pottery and Porcelain; 9. The Art of the Craftsman; 10. Art, Artists, and Art Collectors; 11. The Collecting Passion; 12. The Story of the British Museum.
£21.25
Phaidon Press Ltd Stephen Shore a Road Trip Journal
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£2,430.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Danny Lyon Memories of Myself Three Young Men
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£900.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Going Once
Book SynopsisA celebration of evolving taste, told through the stories behind 250 objects sold by the world’s largest auction houseTrade ReviewAs featured in Departures and Elliman Magazine"Lots to be proud of... The most extraordinary artworks and outstanding objects ever sold at Christie's." —Christie's Magazine"Bold enterprise: a new book on the 250 year history of Christie's published by Phaidon." —Antique Trade Gazette online"Recounts discoveries such as a 3,000-year-old Assyrian frieze that sold for £7 million, having been found in the tuck shop of a Dorset school; record-breaking prices [...] and oddities that have crossed Christie's block, including a wooly-mammoth skeleton and James Bond author Ian Fleming's gold typewriter." —Vanity Fair (On Art)"Wonderful... A great book to dip into time and time again as there is much to learn and enjoy from it." —Tim Forrest's E & A"Christie's has seen many a remarkable artefact pass through its halls... Going Once [...] will reveal record-breaking sales [...], celebrity possessions and rare treasures uncovered in the most unlikely of situations." —Kensington & Chelsea Magazine"'Christie's are a measure of what men and women have coveted in different periods. Not, be it said, the physical necessities of life - food, drink, raiment and so on - but metaphysical necessities.' So said Herbert Furst of the London auctioneers. Presented are 250 landmark sales of these 'metaphysical necessities'." —Crafts"A history of taste and collecting through the lens of 250 iconic sales drawn from the auction house's proud past." —Apollo"For every object, there is an accompanying story told with wit charm and verve. To read this book is to receive a private lesson from Christie's experts on some of the very best lots seen at auction." —House & Garden"What links Captain Cook's logbook, Nureyev's slippers and a 1960 Routemaster bus? They're three of the wallet-shrinking lots featured in Going Once... The 250 lots highlighted here are notable for three reasons: as record-breakers [...] as curiosities, and as accidental discoveries, such as the Assyrian bas-relief found behind a school's dartboard." —World of Interiors"A fascinating read." —The Lady"[D]elightfully entertaining... A fascinating excursion through changing tastes as demonstrated by an absorbing collection of 250 artifacts and their idionsyncracies, backstories, and, frequently, notoriety." —Elliman magazine"Equal parts immersive tome and beautiful objet d'art, mixing quality storytelling with high, tactile design... More than a receipt of what's been bought and sold (and resold), the book is a cultural history of our ever-evolving tastes." —Departures Online"A stimulating guide to changing taste." —Country Life"When were you last at Christie's? You can stay at home and look at 250 objects. If you had the money, what would you buy?... The choice could not be more eclectic and the back stories are interesting." —MatureTimes.co.uk
£33.96
Phaidon Press Ltd Jonas Wood
Book SynopsisThe first monograph on a rising star who is one of contemporary art's most celebrated painters
£31.50
Phaidon Press Ltd Exotic
Book SynopsisA fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange, and its impact on Western cultureTrade Review"[Sund] argues with wit, intelligence and myriad examples, from the erudite to the pop, in this gorgeously illustrated book... Captivating."—1stdibs Introspective Magazine"A new book by Phiadon about our enduring love affair with the exotic and the strange in art and design."—Cover magazine"In our increasingly globalized world, the book serves as a fascinating reminder of how art has served as a tool of cultural assimilation."—Artnet
£36.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Lucian Freud
Book SynopsisA breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraitsTrade Review'A new book, Lucian Freud: A Life, presents his biography in pictures. It chronicles an extraordinary life from first to last: from Freud as an eight-year-old in 1930, a snapshot from Weimar-era Berlin, to the 88-year-old in London in 2011, the year of his death, laid out on his sofa like an El Greco saint... As Holborn puts it, "It is all about looking: us looking at him who in turn is looking out at the world with that penetrating stare. He was oblivious to anything else. Which is why it's a heroic life.' - The Financial Times 'Thought provoking and engrossing, this lavishly illustrated book is a must for Freud's fans.' - Publishers Weekly Online 'An excellent new addition to your coffee table.' - ES magazine 'An impressive selection.' - Forbes Online 'Taking its cue from previously unseen family snapshots, Lucian Freud: A Life illustrates the artists's biography with private photographs, and intimate portraits by his peers.' - Vogue 'A new visual biography charts the famous Freud gaze... Overwhelmingly photographic.' - RA Magazine 'A sumptuous visual memoir... The smell of oil paint and charcoal dust floats off the pages.' - The Herald 'Despite a strong aversion to paparazzi... [Lucian Freud] was shot by more great photographers than perhaps anyone who ever lived.' - The Spectator 'When it come to Lucian Freud, the avalanche of admiring attention only seems to grow... (Lucian Freud: A Life) takes us all the way from a little boy on the beach in Germany to the near nonagenarian variously in bed with this pet whippet and none other than Kate Moss.' - Evening Standard 'A vivid pictorial companion... from childhood through to intimate shots in his studio, including Bruce Bernard's extraordinary images of the artist painting and posing alongside Leigh Bowery... The abundance of documentation provided by these books [...] contributes to the most detailed picture yet on the artist and his work.' - The Burlington Magazine
£112.50
Phaidon Press Ltd JeanMichel Othoniel
Book SynopsisThe groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date
£29.75
Phaidon Press Ltd Mickalene Thomas
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive monograph on Mickalene Thomas, a key figure in 21st-century contemporary artTrade Review'A powerful retrospective of one of the most versatile and influential creatives today.' – ELLE Decor 'Insightful texts and rich reproductions of Thomas's efforts.' – ARTnews 'Thomas's first comprehensive monograph ... shows how the artist, a queer, Black woman, engages deeply with gender and race.' – Publishers Weekly 'Exquisite.' – Cool Hunting 'Beautiful.' – Chicago Tribune 'Thomas crafts a world of aspiration and confidence.' – LA Weekly 'This is an important and accessible work and will be relished by followers of contemporary art' – Library Journal
£75.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Korean Art from 1953
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive survey to explore the rich and complex history of contemporary Korean artTrade Review"Lavish yet scholarly, this book is more than an important new chapter of an emerging world history of 20th-century art; it's a vital artistic genealogy of our planet's current cultural powerhouse." —The New York Times "Korean Art From 1953 is the most significant English-language overview yet of modern and contemporary art on the peninsula. It overflows with abstract painting and political printmaking, feminist performance and on-the-street photography, and for each South Korean artist you know (like the video art pioneer Nam June Paik) there are a dozen to discover." —The New York Times "From Lee Bul to Name June Paik, Do Ho Suh and Park Seo-Bo, the roots of Korea's thriving contemporary art scene are deeply embedded within the country's complex historical narratives. A new book by Phaidon chronicles these developments, largely omitted from western art history, combining contributions from leading Korean scholars alongside works that reflect the country's tumultuous recent history."—HERO magazine "Global scholars and art specialists amass the first comprehensive look at North and South Korean art after the Korean War."—The New York Times Book Review "Thoroughly tracing the relations of the nation's history and culture in chronicle order, it sets a thick foundation of Korean art in the global art world."—The Seoul Review
£47.96
James Clarke Company Architecture
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£45.60
James Clarke & Co Ltd On Decoration
Book SynopsisA challenging book raising many questions about the nature of the decorative arts. In his survey of developments in decoration from the 1830s onwards, the author takes his subject as seriously as any of the fine arts.
£61.33
James Clarke & Co Ltd Painting the Warmth of the Sun St Ives Artists
Book SynopsisThe absorbing story of the artists' colony at St Ives, which from the outbreak of the Second World War attracted some of the most progressive painters and sculptors of the day, and which was to exert a significant influence on the course of modern art.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Early times 1. Nicholson, Wood and Wallis 2. Traditional and modern: St Ives and London 3. Wartime in St Ives 4. Artists gather in St Ives 5. The Crypt Group and the Penwith Society: the Festival of Britain in London and St Ives 6. Post-war Britain; Nicholson's growing reputation 7. Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Leach and Denis Mitchell 8. Peter Lanyon 9. The development of abstraction: Terry Frost 10. International influences: Paris and New York. Patrick Heron 11. Bryan Wynter, Alan Davie and Paul Feiler 12. St Ives in the 1950s 13. Roger Hilton 14. The importance of St Ives Notes and references Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
£48.00
James Clarke & Co Ltd Richard and Maria Cosway
Book SynopsisA biography of the Cosways, two fascinating but often neglected figures in the artistic history of England. This carefully researched study emphasises their achievements as artists and their stature in late 18th century society.
£58.21
Lutterworth Press Time to Play Shops A Tribute to the WI Country
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£24.30
James Clarke & Co Ltd Art and Forbidden Fruit Hidden Passion in the
Book SynopsisA sharp and provocative study of the life and works of the 19th Century artist and designer William Morris, revealing new insights into the links between his relationships and his artistic inspiration.Trade Review"John Le Bourgeois ventures a radical reinterpretation of the marriage between William Morris and Jane Burden, whose adulterous relationship to Dante Gabriel Rossetti always has been mediated for us by his poems and paintings devoted to her. Le Bourgeois convincingly suggests that Morris himself was culpable, because of his repressed passion for his sister Emma. ... Le Bourgeois' book is responsible and poignant, and has altered my understanding of this tangled web." Harold BloomTable of Contents1. He felt the separation keenly. 2. Do you keep your child-love, Brother?. 3. Think how long I have worshipped you, looked on the world through your eyes. 4. How Sir Palomydes loved La Belle Iseult with exceeding great love out of measure. 5. There comes no sleep nor any love; Ah me! I shiver with delight. 6. As for me, I choke and grow quite faint to see My lady moving graciously. 7. She stayed me, and cried "Brother!" our lips met. 8. And think how it be if they were gone not to return. 9. They have hopes that they are not conscious of. 10. As my twin sister, young of years was she and slender. 11. How can I help it, not knowing whether I am on my head or my heels. 12. The world goes on, beautiful and strange and dreadful and worshipful. 13. Do you know them? - Greedy gamblers on the Stock Exchange. 14. They lie in prison for it, work in mines, are exiled, and ruined for it. 15. We got pleasure into our work; then we became conscious of that pleasure. 16. A childish heart there loved me once, and lo I took his love and cast his love away.
£35.44
James Clarke & Co Ltd The Thames An Artists Journal An Artists Journey
Book SynopsisA stunning collection of watercolours, oils and sketches tracing the length of the River Thames, telling the story of England's greatest waterway.Trade Review"...is a reminder of how the water seen from Bankside comes from tributaries in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire." "This book should makes us look at the river again with a new understanding" James Hatts, in SE1Table of Contents1. Introduction. 2. THE SOURCE TO OXFORD. The Source. Kemble. Ashton Keynes. Cricklade. Castle Eaton. Inglesham. Lechlade. Buscot. Kelmscott. Radcot. Newbridge. Swinford. Wytham Woods. Godstow. Oxford. 3. OXFORD TO READING. Otters. Nuneham Courtney. Abingdon. Sutton Courtney. Clifton Hampden. Little Wittenham. Shillingford. Wallingford. Streatley. Goring Gap. Whitchurch. Pangbourne. Mapledurham. Reading. 4. READING TO HAMPTON COURT. Sonning. Shiplake. Henley. Henley Royal Regatta. Hambledon Mill. Hurley / Bisham. Marlow. Cliveden. Ray Mill Island. Maindenhead. Windsor. Eton. Runnymead. Staines. Chertsey. Walton-on-Thames. Swan Upping. Hampton Court. 5. HAMPTON COURT TO CENTRAL LONDON. Kingston-upon-Thames. Richmond. Isleworth. Kew. Strand on the Green. Hammersmith. Chelsea. Battersea. Lambeth. Westminster. Victoria Embankment. South Bank. 6. CENTRAL LONDON TO THE SEA. The City. Tower of London. Tower Bridge. Rotherhithe. Isle of Dogs / Canary Wharf. Greenwich. Thames Barrier. Rainham. Gravesend. Tilbury. Cliffe. Canvey Island. Hadleigh. Leigh-on-Sea. Isle of Grain. Southend. Shoeburyness.
£54.58
James Clarke & Co Ltd The Alfred Wallis Factor
Book SynopsisA study of the life and legacy of the artist Alfred Wallis, his role in the art scene in St Ives and his emergence as a pivotal figure in British modernism.Trade Review"The Alfred Wallis Factor by David Wilkinson is the result of meticulous research..... [T]he 'hard yards' gained by the author will assist future researchers in their relentless quest to establish artistic quality, significance and influence." - Professor Alan Livingston, CBE "David Wilkinson gives a warts-and-all word picture of the post-war art scene in St Ives, just as it was.... [He] is to be praised for producing such a vivid, diverting, informative and surely definitive account ... Generously illustrated ... and profusely furnished with notes, this is a must-have book for everyone with an interest in the story of art in St Ives in particular, and that of Cornwall in general." - Frank Ruhrmund, The Cornishman, Sep 14, 2017 "As a social history of this segment of the art colony, it is unrivalled.... If you have any interest in this period of St Ives art, it is a book that you should own." - David Tovey, The Siren, Issue No 14, October 2017Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword by Alan Livingston Introduction Part 1: Alfred Wallis and the St Ives Milieu 1. Little Park Owles 2. The Market Garden 3. Temperamental Guests 4. Dunluce 5. The Alfred Wallis Factor 6. The Naum Gabo Factor Part 2: Alfred Wallis: Final Days 7. The Workhouse 8. The Borlase Smart Link 9. Saved from a Pauper's Grave 10. Gabo's Grudge against Nicholson 11. Nicholson is Side-lined by Stokes and Gabo 12. Alfred Wallis's Grave Part 3: The Birth of the Alfred Wallis Factor 13. Berlin takes Alfred Wallis to Normandy 14. A Truce - of Sorts 15. The Harry Rountree Factor 16. The Further 'Voyages of Alfred Wallis' 17. The Tower 18. The New Gallery 19. Berlin and Lanyon: A Cautious Meeting Part 4: Power Struggles 20. King Penguin 21. Gudio Morris and The Latin Press 22. Anthony Froshaug Arrives 23. Gunpowder Plot 24. Turmoil at Little Park Owles 25. A Chilly Winter 26. A Special Crypt Exhibition 27. The Second Annual Crypt Exhibition Part 5. Discord, Disunity and Disbandment 28. The Saga of the Red Lion 29. The Red Lion Emerges 30. Ructions at STISA's AGM 31. The Third Annual Crypt Exhibition 32. Dissent in the Ranks 33. Lanyon in a Confrontational Mode 34. The Alfred Wallis Factor, Yet Again 35. The First Penwith Gallery 36. Munnings Shoots STISA in the Foot 37. The Discordant 'ABC' Rule Part 6. The End of One Era and the Forging of a New 38. The Penwith Society's Inaugural Exhibition 39. The Pendulum Swings Again 40. Lanyon is Taken to Task 41. Queen Jackdaw 42. Festival of Britain Plans 43. Repercussions of the 'ABC' Rule 44. The Penwith Society's Spring Exhibition, 1950 45. The 'ABC' of Art Part 7. The Final Chapters 46. Lyrics from Nancledra 47. The Cry of Stinking Fish 48. Berlin Moves Out 49. Festival of Britain Year 50. Cuckoo Town 51. Crescendo 52. The Circus Makes Ready to Leave 53. Lanyon's Lonely Stance 54. The New Forest Notes Bibliography Index
£43.15
James Clarke & Co Ltd Ritual and Drama
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£18.00
James Clarke & Co Ltd The History of Morris Dancing 14581750
Book SynopsisMorris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. In The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750 John Forrest analyses a wealth of evidence to show that Morris dancing does not, as is often assumed, have pagan or ancient origins. He examines early documentation to draw Morris traditions into the wide area of communal custom and public celebrations, showing the passage of dance ideas between groups previously considered folklorically distinct.Careful, detailed and encyclopaedic, The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750, is an essential reference work for specialists in English drama and social historians of the period, as well as offering fascinating insight for those who enjoy Morris dancing.
£80.00
James Clarke & Co Ltd Stories in Glass
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£23.75
Manchester University Press StepDaughters of England British Women Modernists
Book SynopsisJane Garrity shows how four British women modernist writers - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Conquering new worlds - women, modernism and nationalism. Domesticating the empire - British womanhood and national culture; "Neither English nor civilised" - Dorothy Richardson's spectatrix and the feminine crusade; encoding bi-location - Sylvia Townsend Warner and the primitive erotics of Sapphic dissimulation; Mary Butt's England - racial memory and the daughter's mystical assertion of nationhood; mapping "the body of our mother" - national desire, imperial nostalgia, and language in Virginia Woolf; epilogue - rebuilding the house of England.
£18.99
Manchester University Press Bringing Modernity Home
Book SynopsisBringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period.
£68.00
Manchester University Press The Films of Luc Besson
Book SynopsisA fascinating and revealing set of essays discussing the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction - Susan Hayward and Phil Powrie1. Three neo-baroque directors - Raphaël Bassan2. Du côté de Europa, via Asia: the post-Hollywood Besson - Rosanna Maule3. Musical narration in the films of Luc Besson - Gérard Dastugue4. Hearing Besson: the music of Eric Serra in the films of Luc Besson - Mark Brownrigg5. Of suits and men in the films of Luc Besson - Phil Powrie6. From Rags to Riches: Le Dernier combat and Le Cinquième élément - Susan Hayward7. The sinking of the self: Freudian hydraulic patterns in Le Grand bleu - Laurent Jullier8. Imprisoned freedoms: space and identity in Subway and Nikita - Mark Orme9. Nikita: consumer culture’s killer instinct and the imperial imperative - Hilary Ann Radner10. Léon and the cloacal labyrinth - Phil Powrie11. Jeanne d’Arc: high epic style and politicising camp - Susan Hayward12. An unpublished interview with Luc Besson - Gérard DastugueFilmographySelect bibliography
£81.00
Manchester University Press The Films of Luc Besson
Book SynopsisA fascinating and revealing set of essays discussing the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction - Susan Hayward and Phil Powrie1. Three neo-baroque directors - Raphaël Bassan2. Du côté de Europa, via Asia: the post-Hollywood Besson - Rosanna Maule3. Musical narration in the films of Luc Besson - Gérard Dastugue4. Hearing Besson: the music of Eric Serra in the films of Luc Besson - Mark Brownrigg5. Of suits and men in the films of Luc Besson - Phil Powrie6. From Rags to Riches: Le Dernier combat and Le Cinquième élément - Susan Hayward7. The sinking of the self: Freudian hydraulic patterns in Le Grand bleu - Laurent Jullier8. Imprisoned freedoms: space and identity in Subway and Nikita - Mark Orme9. Nikita: consumer culture’s killer instinct and the imperial imperative - Hilary Ann Radner10. Léon and the cloacal labyrinth - Phil Powrie11. Jeanne d’Arc: high epic style and politicising camp - Susan Hayward12. An unpublished interview with Luc Besson - Gérard DastugueFilmographySelect bibliography
£18.99
Manchester University Press Montage Cinema Aesthetics
Book SynopsisMontage is an informed and highly original study in the styles and histories of film editing. Drawing on a wide range of directors and films, the book demonstrates the fundamental importance of montage aesthetics to the art of cinema and the practice of film criticism.Table of ContentsIntroductionEadwaerd MuybridgeTakeshi KitanoTakeshi Kitano (2)Pier Paolo PasoliniLev KuleshovSergei EisensteinSergei Eisenstein (2)David Wark GriffithDavid Wark Griffith (2)David Wark Griffith (3)Éric RohmerAlfred HitchcockSamuel FullerDziga VertovHoward HawksHoward Hawks (2)Jean RenoirJean Renoir (2)Jacques RivetteMichelangelo AntonioniMichelangelo Antonioni (2)Jacques Rivette (2)Alain ResnaisAlain Resnais (2)Étienne-Jules MareyBibliography
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Manchester University Press Monstrous Adaptations Generic and Thematic
Book SynopsisThe first book devoted to the study of horror film and adaptation. Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field, this anthology includes analyses of such under-examined films as Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein, John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde, Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la maison Usher, Gus van Sant’s Psycho and Guillermo de Toro’s CronosTable of ContentsMonstrous adaptations: an introduction – Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoyPART I: From page to scream: literary adaptation and horror cinema1. Paradigms of metamorphosis and transmutation: Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein and John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde – Richard J. Hand2. Painting the life out of her: aesthetic integration and disintegration in Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la maison Usher – Guy Crucianelli3. The unfilmable? H. P. Lovecraft and the cinema – Julian Petley4. Imperfect geometry: identity and culture in Clive Barker’s ‘The Forbidden’ and Bernard Rose’s Candyman – Brigid CherryPART II: Re-imaginings and re-articulations: thematic adaptation in contemporary horror cinema5. Out from the realist underground; or, the Baron of Blood visits Cannes: recursive and self-reflexive patterns in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and eXistenZ – Steffen Hantke6. ‘These Children That You Spit On’: horror and generic hybridity – Andy W. Smith7. ‘Our Reaction Was Only Human’: monstrous becomings in Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers – Jay McRoyPART III: From avant garde to exploitation: cinematic experiments as monstrous adaptation8. Adapting the occult: horror and the avant garde in the cinema of Stan Brakhage and Ken Jacob – Marianne Shaneen9. The Gorgon: adapting classical myth as gothic romance – I. Q. Hunter10. Marion Crane dies twice – Murray PomerancePART IV: Displacements and border crossings: horror cinema and transcultural adaptation11. Adapting legends: urban legends and their adaptation in horror cinema – Mikel J. Koven12. Fulcanelli as a vampiric Frankenstein and Jesus as his vampiric Monster: the Frankenstein and Dracula myths in Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos – Brad O’Brien13. Gothic horrors, family secrets and the patriarchal imperative: the early horror films of Mario Bava – Reynold Humphries14. ‘In the Church of the Poison Mind’: adapting the metaphor of psychopathology to look back at the mad, monstrous 80s – Ruth Goldberg15. ‘Everyone Will Suffer’: national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Nakata Hideo’s Ringu and Gore Verbinski’s The Ring – Linnie Blake
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Manchester University Press The James Bond Phenomenon A Critical Reader
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that considers the James Bond novels and films in relation to their historical, political, and social contexts from the Cold War period onwards, and also examines the classic Bond canon from an array of theoretical perspectives.Trade Review"Christoph Lindner's anthology is not only the ideal textbook for university or college courses on 007 but also an excellent case study in popular culture" Christoph Laught, University of LiverpoolTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionFiguresContributorsAcknowledgementsCopyright AcknowledgementsSelect Bond ChronologyIntroduction / Christoph LindnerPart I: Reading 0071 The Moments of Bond / Tony Bennett & Janet Woollacott2 Narrative Structures in Fleming / Umberto Eco3 Licensed to Look: James Bond and the Heroism of Consumption / Michael Denning4 Criminal Vision and the Ideology of Detection in Fleming’s 007 Series / Christoph Lindner5 ‘Entertainment for Men’: Uncovering the Playboy Bond / Claire Hines Part II: Screening 0076 A Licence to Thrill / James Chapman7 The James Bond Films: Conditions of Production / Janet Woollacott8 Creating a Bond Market: Selling John Barry’s Soundtracks and Theme Songs / Jeff Smith9 Doctor No: Bonding Britishness to Racial Sovereignty / Cynthia Baron10 Hard-Wear: The Millennium, Technology, and Brosnan’s Bond / Martin Willis11 Body Politics and Casino Royale: Gender and (Inter)National Security / Colleen M. Tremonte and Linda RacioppiPart 3: Re-thinking 00712 ‘Under the very skirts of Britannia’: Re-reading Women in the James Bond Novels / Christine Bold13 Pussy Galore / Elisabeth Ladenson14 Britain’s Last Line of Defence: Miss Moneypenny and the Desperations of Filmic Feminism / Tara Brabazon15 Dial ‘M’ for Metonym: Universal Exports, M’s Office Space and Empire / Paul Stock16 Kamasutra Bond-ing / Ajay Gehlawat17 James Bond’s Penis / Toby Miller18 ‘The World Has Changed’: Bond in the 1990s - and Beyond? / Jim Leach19 Shaken, Stirred, Pixellated: Video Gaming as Bond / Stefan HallSelect BibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Emilio Fernandez Pictures in the Margins Spanish
Book SynopsisThis book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernández, (1906-1986), one of Mexico’s and Latin America’s most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernández’ most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, María Candelaria).Table of ContentsIntroduction1. ‘Poor reception’ and the popular in classical Mexican cinema2. ‘El Indio’ Fernández, Mexico’s marginalized golden boy and national auteur 3. Calendar María - hybridity, indigenismo and the discourse of whitening4. Gender, sexuality and the Revolution in Enamorada5. Gender, sexuality and the Revolution in Salón México, Las abandonadas and Víctimas del pecado6. Progress, modernity and Fernández’ ‘anti-modernist utopia’: Río EscondidoEpilogue: Mexican Cinema and Emilio Fernández post the Golden Age – From Golden Boy to ‘the man in black’Filmography
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John Murray Press Civilisation
Book SynopsisThe classic international bestseller -- a marvellously exciting and stimulating look at the emergence and development of Western civilisationTrade ReviewKenneth Clark has used his masterly knowledge and understanding of the arts of Western Civilisation to describe and appraise its creative achievements. * Times Literary Supplement *'He convincingly makes the case for the development of European art and architecture since the end of the Roman Empire as the foundations on which modern Western society rests' * Lloyd's List *Combines great learning with a shrewd mind, a wonderful eye and an admirable generosity of taste ... again and again he compels us to look at some more or less familiar work of art and see it afresh. * Observer *He is without equal * The Listener *One of the too few living authors who tempt me to use superlatives, and also the best for making his profound feeling for the arts contagious. The book glows with excitement for us general readers. * Sunday Times *'The most famous art historian of his generation' * The Herald magazine *'Civilisation is an improving text, even after 35 years' * Paul Lay, BBC History *
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Llyfrau Amgueddfa Cymru/ National Museum Wales Books Flourish A Golden Age for Ceramics in Wales
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Llyfrau Amgueddfa Cymru/ National Museum Wales Books Llewyrch Oes Aur Cerameg yng Nghymru
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Rlpg/Galleys Rainbow Jews
Book SynopsisRainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and Jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater, from the 1960s to the present. Its main area of interest is the extent to which Jewish creative voices in the performing arts have constructed multidimensional images of, and a welcoming public space for, the gay, lesbian, and transgendered community as a whole. Through a close reading of the texts of numerous American and Israeli plays and films (some famous, but mostly lesser known), the author evaluates some of the key conventions and tropes that have been employed to construct, critique, and reflect the social reality of the connection between Jewishness and gay identity in the United States and Israel. Secondarily, the author explores ways in which gay-Jewish playwrights and filmmakers have assisted the re-evaluation of sexual norms within Judaism over the past three decades, inspiring and reinforcing measures across the spectrum of belief geared towards integrating JewishTable of ContentsChapter 1 Homophobia and Tolerance in Judaism Chapter 2 Jews, Homosexuality, and the Performing Arts in the United States: The Evolution of a Sensibility, 1890-1969 Chapter 3 Gay Jewish Voices "Come Out": Plays and Films, 1969-1982 Chapter 4 Kaddish: AIDS, Jews, and the Performing Arts Chapter 5 The 'Great Work' Continues: Gay Jewish Representations in American Film and Theater, 1990 to the Present Chapter 6 A Minority within Several Minorites: Jewish-Lesbian Films and Plays Chapter 7 Queer in the Holy Land: Gay and Lesbian Cinema in Israel
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Lexington Books Rainbow Jews
Book SynopsisRainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and Jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater, from the 1960s to the present. Its main area of interest is the extent to which Jewish creative voices in the performing arts have constructed multidimensional images of, and a welcoming public space for, the gay, lesbian, and transgendered community as a whole. Through a close reading of the texts of numerous American and Israeli plays and films (some famous, but mostly lesser known), the author evaluates some of the key conventions and tropes that have been employed to construct, critique, and reflect the social reality of the connection between Jewishness and gay identity in the United States and Israel. Secondarily, the author explores ways in which gay-Jewish playwrights and filmmakers have assisted the re-evaluation of sexual norms within Judaism over the past three decades, inspiring and reinforcing measures across the spectrum of belief geared towards integrating JewishTable of ContentsChapter 1 Homophobia and Tolerance in Judaism Chapter 2 Jews, Homosexuality, and the Performing Arts in the United States: The Evolution of a Sensibility, 1890-1969 Chapter 3 Gay Jewish Voices "Come Out": Plays and Films, 1969-1982 Chapter 4 Kaddish: AIDS, Jews, and the Performing Arts Chapter 5 The 'Great Work' Continues: Gay Jewish Representations in American Film and Theater, 1990 to the Present Chapter 6 A Minority within Several Minorites: Jewish-Lesbian Films and Plays Chapter 7 Queer in the Holy Land: Gay and Lesbian Cinema in Israel
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