Travel guides: museums, historic sites Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Shoah Presence Architectural Representations of
Book SynopsisThrough the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in which architecture as a discipline, a practice and a discourse represents the Holocaust. In doing so, it problematises how one presents an extreme historical case in a contemporary context and integrates the historical into actuality. By examining several cases, the book defines the issues faced by various architects who dealt with this topic and discusses their separate and distinctive approaches. In each case, it analyses the ways in which the cultural and political contexts of commemoration led to a different interpretation of the condition. Focusing on the Ghetto Fighters' House, the world's first Holocaust museum; Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem; the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington; and the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, the book discusses how the representation of history by architecture creates a Trade Review'In this personal, yet deeply learned exploration of Holocaust commemoration on the cusp of "new media," Eran Neuman examines an age when physical memorials and architectural representation of Holocaust memory become something else altogether. Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust is a sensitive meditation on the ways aesthetic spaces in the landscape conjure internal memory spaces within us.' James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA ’This book studies Holocaust museums on the premise that their location away from the site of trauma poses an intriguing set of representational, philosophical and even political problems. Neuman’s brilliant and thorough analysis brings the reader into the heart of the multi-layered contestations about what architecture should or should not do in these contexts.’ Mark Jarzombek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Holocaust Commemoration and Architectural Representation; Chapter 1 Dwelling in Monumentality: Presence and Memory in the Ghetto Fighters’ Kibbutz; Chapter 2 Monumental Holocaust Landscapes at Yad Vashem; Chapter 3 “The Events you are about to Experience are Real”: Authenticity at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Chapter 4 Diagramming Memory: Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial in Berlin; epi Epilogue: Presencing the Holocaust;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Uncertain Images Museums and the Work of
Book SynopsisAlmost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and lives of these photographs within museums. This book brings into focus the ubiquitous yet entirely unconsidered work that photographs are put to in museums. The authors'' argument is that there is an economy of photographs in museums which is integral to the processes of the museum, and integral to the understanding of museums. The international contributors, drawn from curators and academics, reflect a range of visual and museological expertise. After an introduction setting out the range of questions and problems, the first part addresses broad curatorial strategies and ways of thinking about phTrade Review’This most needed volume represents a highly inspiring investigation into the role of photography as object and tool of representation in museums and archives today. Through a comprehensive selection of contributions by an interdisciplinary variety of authors - all drawing on hands-on experience - this volume fills up a void in photography and cultural studies. It is a must-read for everyone working with the materiality and meaning of photography.’ Mette Sandbye, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ’We have been needing a book like this for a long time. Looking at what photographs do, and could do, in museums, it beautifully fills a gap that has for too long stayed open in the literature on museums, museum practice, representation and photographs. On these pages we see photographs as acts of remembrance, as haunting, as absent, as representational forms and as much more besides. And throughout, this essential new volume not only explores the work of photographs in museums, but also makes a significant contribution to far wider debates on the processes of representation.’ Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, The Affective Photograph, Curatorial Strategies 1: Working Images, Curatorial Strategies 2: Photographi Art Works, Curatorial Strategies 3: Contested Stories, Working In The Real World, Digital Environments and Photograph Collections, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd British Art for Australia 18601953
Book SynopsisTraditional postcolonial scholarship on art and imperialism emphasises tensions between colonising cores and subjugated peripheries. The ties between London and British white settler colonies have been comparatively neglected. Artworks not only reveal the controlling intentions of imperialist artists in their creation but also the uses to which they were put by others in their afterlives. In many cases they were used to fuel contests over cultural identity which expose a mixture of rifts and consensuses within the British ranks which were frequently assumed to be homogeneous. British Art for Australia, 1860â1953: The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries represents the first systematic and comparative study of collecting British art in Australia between 1860 and 1953 using the archives of the Australian national galleries and other key Australian and UK institutions. Multiple audiences in the disciplines of art history, cultural histTrade Review"British Art for Australia makes a valuable contribution to the histories of Australian art collecting and Anglo-Australian cultural identity. In addition to enriching an understanding of Australian galleries, it will also provide a useful point of comparison for studies investigating the collections development of institutions in other former British settler societies, such as Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. Potter’s study is well supported by extensive archival research."--Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide"The book provides a nuanced reading that contributes to our understanding of the complexities of cultural exchange that underpinned the development of the British collections of Australia’s state galleries."--The Burlington Magazine"Potter is thorough in his documentation of how British artworks contained monarchist and imperialist meanings, with depictions of dramatic historical and military events, which were attractive to self-appointed trustees and self-chosen benefactors of the galleries who came from conservative empire-loyalist civic and business elites. ... Potter makes an original contribution to our art history when he explores how the preferences of the galleries as to what artworks were to be acquired were influenced by debates in Australia."--Australian Historical Studies"Matthew Potter’s British Art for Australia contests the still prevalent view that Australia was a "dumping ground" for unfashionable and second-rate British art from the Victorian period until the middle of the twentieth century, when Australia was finally confident enough in its own cultural identity to consign these embarrassing purchases to storage. Instead, Potter argues convincingly that Australian cultural institutions actively sought out the best the British art world had to offer even though they were often constrained by issues of distance and cost, but certainly neither by retardataire taste nor lock-tugging acquiescence to metropolitan dictates."--Art History"The volume summarizes an enormous amount of detailed archival research that draws upon the national gallery archives and includes annual and trustee reports, newspapers, and journals, as well as other more general accounts. This provides an invaluable reference for those in the field ... Potter is to be commended for producing an extensively researched, thought-provoking, and convincing account of the previously overlooked area of acquisitions of British art for Australia."--Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsChapter One: British Art for Australia, 1860-1953: An IntroductionChapter Two: ‘Work that would meet the taste of the Colonists’: British art for Antipodean BritonsChapter Three: ‘The civilization of the people’: Australian national galleries and civic humanismChapter Four: ‘A more extended area for English art’: The British world and the imperial art market Chapter Five: ‘The best equipped agent, with as free a hand’: advisors and selectors of British art for AustraliaChapter Six: ‘A Sop to Cerberus’: Collecting the British Old Masters in AustraliaChapter Seven: ‘One of the many Colonial Delusions’: Australian national galleries and British Landscape PaintingChapter Eight: ‘No highly desirable Pre-Raphaelite picture should be spared from home’: the antipodean pursuit of a British acmeChapter Nine: ‘The gap that is steadily widening’: the acquisition of ‘insular’ British Modernism by Australian national galleries, 1900-1953Chapter Ten: Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Museums in Arabia
Book SynopsisMuseum activity has, in recent years, undergone major and rapid development in the Arabian Peninsula, with the regeneration of existing museums as well as the establishment of new ones. Alongside such rapid expansion, questions are inevitably raised as to the new challenges museums face in this region and whether the museum, as a central focus of heritage preservation, also runs the risk of overshadowing local forms of heritage performance and preservation. With contributions from leading academics from a range of disciplines and heritage practitioners with first-hand experience of working in the region, this volume addresses the issues and challenges facing museums in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen and the UAE. It focuses on the themes of politics, public engagement and the possibility of a new museum paradigm which might appropriately reflect the interests and culture of the region. The interdisciplinary approaches analyse museum development from both an inside and outside perspeTrade Review'Greatly expanding the literature on museums and practice in the Gulf, this book explores timely research and emerging avenues of inquiry in this fast developing field. Drawn from across the region the contributions offer insight into aspects of museum practice and audiences which have not been available before - a must read for those in museums in the region and anyone interested in international museum practice.' Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Northwestern University in Qatar, State of QatarTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Questions of Globalisation, Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula2. Building Nations in a Modern Middle East3. Staging Identity in a Globalised World4. Universal Art Museums in the Arabian Peninsula5. Knowledge Production in the Realm of Culture6. ‘We are not people of the city’: Narratives of Purity and Exclusion7. Oil, Conflict and Memory in the Arabian Peninsula: Private Collections and Museums8. ‘... [T]his shifting present which we call the future’
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Montmartre Pariss Village of Art and Sin Great
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Last Wild Men of Borneo
Book SynopsisA 2019 EDGAR AWARDS NOMINEE (BEST FACT CRIME) • A BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS FINALISTTwo modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times bestselling author Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth, discovering that nothing is as it seems in the world’s last Eden, where the lines between sinner and saint blur into one.In 1984, Swiss traveler Bruno Manser joined an expedition to the Mulu caves on Borneo, the planet’s third largest island. There he slipped into the forest interior to make contact with the Penan, an indigenous tribe of peace-loving nomads living among the Dayak people, the fabled “Headhunters of Borneo.” Bruno lived for years with
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Last Wild Men of Borneo
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
Book SynopsisAs the author takes us on a wise and whimsical journey through a cabinet of curiosities, she shows the mysterious human impulse to collect and how these items can map a people?s past and future, their fears and obsessions, in this poetic tribute to the museums of the otherworldly island nation of Iceland. Illustrations.
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Routledge Material Cultures CoPublicati
Book SynopsisA collection of case studies which move from the domestic sphere to the global arena, this work includes examinations of the soundscape produced by home radios, catalogue shopping, the role of paper in the workplace, and the relation between the production and consumption of Coca-Cola in Trinidad.
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd Where to Go When The Americas
Book SynopsisWhen''s the best time to visit New York City? When are the Canadian Rockies at their most beautiful? When is the perfect time to go wildlife-spotting in Patagonia? Turn the pages of this beautiful book and you''ll find the answers to all these questions - and more.With chapters covering every month of the year, Where to Go When The Americas highlights the perfect time to visit 100 of the Americas'' favourite places - from the frosty fringes of Canada to idyllic Caribbean isles, the vibrant cities of Central America to the epic landscapes of South America. Inside, you''ll find ideas for every traveller, whether you want to celebrate national festivals, go surfing along wild coastlines or witness spectacular desert blooms. We''ve included bucket-list trips for new explorers and lesser-known experiences for seasoned travellers, tooExtensively revised and completely redesigned, this new edition features beautiful photography, helpful practical tips and alte
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd Seoul Like a Local
Book SynopsisKeen to explore a different side of Seoul? Like a Local is the book for you.This isn''t your ordinary travel guide. You won''t find N Seoul Tower or K-Star Road in these pages, because that''s not where Seoulites hang out. Instead, you''ll meet the locals at raucous barbecue joints, forward-thinking galleries and underground music dens - and that''s where this book takes you.Turn the pages to discover:- The small businesses and community strongholds that add character to this vibrant city, recommended by true locals.- 6 themed walking tours dedicated to specific experiences such as flea markets and movie theatres.- A beautiful gift book for anyone seeking to explore Seoul.- Helpful ''what3word'' addresses, so you can pinpoint all the listed sights.Compiled by four proud Seoulites, this stylish travel guide is packed with Seoul''s best experiences and hidden spots, handily categorised to suit your mood and needs.Whethe
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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Costa Rica Guía Visual
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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) New York City Guía Visual DK New York City
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WW Norton & Co Treasures of Britain The Architectural Cultural
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Random House USA Inc Blind Spot
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Penguin Putnam Inc Around the World in 80 Books
Book SynopsisA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them *Featured in the Chicago Tribune''s Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of Smithsonian Magazine''s Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021*Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize–winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we’re entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books’ heroines have to struggle—from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Oh My Mother
Book Synopsis“Humorous, endearing, and intimate.” —TIME“Mother and daughter relationships are always tricky but this peripatetic pair has outdone all of us with this most excellent adventure written by my namesake, author Connie Wang.” —Connie ChungA dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defianceIn Chinese, the closest expression to oh my god is wo de ma ya. It’s an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you’re out of words. Translated literally, it means oh my mother—the instinctual first person you think of when you’re on the cusp of losing it, or putting it all together.In each essay of this hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfectly honest memoir, journalist Connie Wang explores her complicated relationship to her stubborn and charismatic mother, Qing Li, through the
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Penguin Young Readers The Travel Bucket List
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Arcadia Publishing The Golden Age of Roller Coasters in Vintage
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Arcadia Publishing New York City Zoos and Aquarium Images of America
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DK Hello South Korea
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becker&mayer! books ISBN America the Beautiful Cross Stitch
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd American Furniture The Federal Period 17881825
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Civil War Walking Tour of Savannah
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Greetings from Ocean Grove New Jersey
Book SynopsisTake a delightful journey back in time in this historically rich and visually appealing beach town. Displayed in over 275 precious views of hand-tinted and sepia-toned postcards from the late 1800s through more modern times, Ocean Grove''s history comes alive.Travel within its three natural water borders, the Atlantic Ocean, Wesley Lake, and Fletcher Lake to view the Asbury Park boardwalk alive with Victorian-era visitors, the first railroad station, and rare views of the magnificent Auditorium. See its early days of entertainment, including John Phillip Sousa and Peter, Paul, and Mary, as well as the patriotic heritage that rumbled through its streets. Whether looking at beautiful images of the special hotels like the Shawmont or the wide lawns of the Windamar, busy Ocean Grove streets and scenes will enchant you.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Greetings from San Antonio Schiffer Book for
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Towers Turrets Cupolas Belvederes
Book SynopsisWith 470 eye-catching color photos and informative text, readers are taken on a cross-country tour of towers, turrets, cupolas, and belvederes found on homes, churches, and barns dating from the nineteenth through the early twenty-first century. Towers are often landmarks for cities. A tower or turret is particularly eye-catching on a house or business and turns them into a recognizable neighborhood landmark. Cupolas and belvederes are functional embellishments that crown the roof. They offer access to views, add dimension to the exterior, and further serve to bring in light and ventilation. Both quadrilateral and octagonal cupolas and belvederes are displayed. Added to the mix is a beautiful grouping of widow''s walks and parapets. Architects and designers will find the range of shapes and adornment on these architectural features both surprising and inspiring.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Monuments and Memorials of Philadelphia
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OHIO ST UNIV PR The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos
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Ohio University Press The Literary Guide and Companion to Middle
Book SynopsisCooper’s The Literary Guide and Companion to Southern England has been popular with travellers since 1986.This, the second guide in a series of three, brings all Cooper’s delight and enthusiasm to the literary sites of Middle England.Trade Review“Cooper is both a born teacher and a skilled raconteur; he knows that no lecture or story can possibly bear the weight of everything he wants to say, so that what comes to us has been carefully considered without showing the seams.”
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Crecy Publishing Great Aviation Collections of Britain The UKs
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Crecy Publishing Wrecks Relics 24 The Indispensable Guide to
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John Wiley & Sons Exploring Oregons Historic Courthouses
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John Wiley & Sons Exploring Oregons Historic House Museums
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University Press of Colorado Taos Landmarks and Legends
Book SynopsisWith pen and ink drawings and a descriptive narrative, this title illuminates Taos' colourful landmarks and legends. The cast of colourful characters includes the magnetic Mabel Dodge Luhan, the mysterious Arthur Manby and the gregarious gambler and transport tycoon 'Long' John Dunn.
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WW Norton & Co Barns of New England
Book SynopsisA photographic keepsake of life in New England.
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WW Norton & Co Maines Museums
Book SynopsisDistinctly Maine: Active Shakers, ice harvesting, a museum on wheels, and more!Trade Review"Janet Mendelsohn’s approach to this guide transcends the mere goal of attracting visitors to a hope of raising awareness to many resources that are often hidden from the allure of beachfronts and big marquis attractions. From the introduction on, her purpose is to save museums from a dwindling economy and increasingly apathetic budgeting." -- The Weekly Sentinel"In her thorough, affectionate, and engaging exploration of Maine’s obscure and popular museums, Janet Mendelsohn provides an excellent guide to navigating Maine’s wealth of history and art. The book eloquently reminds us of Maine’s dedication to its art, culture, and history, and the importance of looking back as we continue to move forward." -- The Maine Magazine"We all know about the world-class art collections at the Portland Museum of Art, the Farnsworth and others. With this book, Mendelsohn reminds us that Maine is richly endowed with dozens of other museums that specialize in natural history, antique cars, rare maps, folk art and carved wooden birds." -- Portland Press Herald
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Newcomb Pottery
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St Martin's Press The French Art of Living Well
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of French Toast, a delightful look at French culture, from literature to cuisine to humor and more, showing how the French have captured that magic elixir known as joie de vivre.What is joie de vivre, and why is it a fundamentally French concept?In search of those ineffable qualities that make up the joy of living, this lively book takes readers on a voyage to France through forays into literature, history, and culture. How does art contribute to daily life? Why is cuisine such a central part of French existence? Why are the French more physical than many other cultures? How do French attitudes toward time speak volumes about their sense of pleasure and celebration? And finally, to what extent is this zest for life exportable? These and other questions give way to a dynamic sketch of French life today.Peppered with anecdotes and humor, this book uncovers some of the secrets of the celebrated French art of living well. Drawing from her years of living in France as a student, professor, and mother, Yandell crafts an honest and profound appraisal of French culture and how la joie de vivre can be developed in anyone?s life.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC British Art of the Long 1980s
Book SynopsisThe sculptural history of the long 1980s has been dominated by New British Sculpture and Young British Artists. Arguing for a more expansive history of British sculpture and its supporting infrastructures, these twenty-three vivid and enthralling interviews with artists, curators, dealers and facilitators working then demonstrate the interconnected networks, diversity of ideas and practices, energy, imagination and determination that transformed British art from being marginal to internationally celebrated. With a substantial introduction, this timely volume provides valuable new insights into the education, work, careers, studios, infrastructures and exhibitions of the artists and facilitators, substantially enlarging our understanding of the era.Trade ReviewThrough twenty-three thoughtful interviews, Imogen Racz’s book surveys the legacies, wit, and energy of British art in the 1980s. The reflections of artists and producers narrate how this decade formed new networks and, importantly, how artists started to democratise art in Britain. * Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director, Holt/Smithson Foundation, USA *This immensely readable collection of interviews sheds light on an overlooked decade. Racz’s warm yet incisive questioning elicits enlightening responses, from astute analyses of individual practices to contextual reflections. A vibrant scene emerges, one fuelled by the actions of a wider network of protagonists than is often acknowledged. * Natalie Rudd, Senior Curator, Arts Council Collection, UK *This fascinating and important book re-examines and reframes the narrative of British sculpture in the 1980s, a decade that saw seismic changes as British artists began to be internationally recognised and exhibited. Racz’s interviewees include many of the leading artists, curators and facilitators of the time and their testimony is a vivid record of what it was like to live and work as an artist and of how this changed in the course of the decade and beyond. The difficulties faced by women artists, not only as a result of prejudice but also owing to complex debates about the representation of the female body, come through strongly. The book is particularly engaging when artists speak about their working methods, the sources of their ideas and the experience of making. For all the financial and other limitations of the decade, the reader has the impression that this was a time of freedom, the burgeoning of ideas and a joy in making. The book is essential reading for scholars of this period of art history and will also appeal to anyone interested in the development of art practice in the UK. * Patricia Townsend, artist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of Creative States of Mind: Psychoanalysis and the Artist’s Process (2019) *Imogen Racz’s timely and important account of British Art of the Long 1980s unsettles easy narratives of an era recent enough to be part of living memory but long enough ago to enable reflective contemplation. Caught at a moment when the memory of this era threatens to disappear (two of her interviewees are no longer with us), Racz’s book is crafted around a series of vivid, enthralling and sometimes surprisingly candid interviews. By slightly lengthening the timespan and, most revealingly, talking to practitioners, curators, dealers and facilitators who were enmeshed in this history, Racz’s account allows a subtle realignment of the usual co-ordinates. Rather than explode the myths of “New British Sculpture” or the “YBAs”, she reveals underlying connections in the networks of the time and repositions sculpture and object-based practices allowing a more complexly connected history to be revealed. * Joy Sleeman, Professor of Art History and Theory, UCL Slade School of Fine Art, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Rasheed Araeen, Artist, curator and writer Susan Hiller, Artist Robin Klassnik, Artist and Director of Matt’s Gallery Bill Woodrow, Artist Alison Wilding, Artist Jacqui Poncelet, Artist Richard Deacon, Artist Katherine Gili, Artist Nicholas Pope, Artist Roger Malbert, Art Officer at the Arts Council, then Head of Hayward Gallery Touring Jonathan Harvey, Co-founder and Chief Executive of Acme Studios Mikey Cuddihy, Artist Kate Blacker, Artist Richard Wilson, Artist Antonia Payne, Director of Ikon Gallery, 1981 to 1988 Hilary Gresty, Curator of Kettle’s Yard 1983 to 1989 Veronica Ryan, Artist Langlands & Bell (Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell), Artists Cathy de Monchaux, Artist Laura Ford, Artist James Lingwood, Curator, then Co-director of Artangel Karsten Schubert, Art Dealer Abigail Lane, Artist Afterword Index
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Celtic Places
Book SynopsisA guide to Celtic places across Britain, Ireland and France.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd How to Collect Art
Book SynopsisHow To Collect Art is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to collecting across the board, from grand Old Masters to humble kitchenalia.
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National Geographic Society Monticello The Official Guide to Thomas
Book SynopsisFor the first time, Monticello has an official guidebook that reflects the unique statesman and inventor Thomas Jefferson, his home, and his world. Showcasing the recent restoration of the home and plantation, it features information about the slaves of Mulberry Row, as well as the state-of-the-art visitor and education center. Each of the guide's 144 pages is designed to showcase the topics in its five chapters: Thomas Jefferson, Before Your Visit, The House, The Plantation, and the Neighborhood. Photographs, art and cutaways, and maps accompany featured stories both iconic and little-known from Monticello's curators.
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National Geographic Society NG Guide to the Historic Sites of Canada
Book SynopsisAs the official companion book to 150th anniversary of the Canada's birth, this guide is also the companion to the Guide to the National Parks of Canada, 2nd Edition, created for all who will visit Canada parks during the birthday and celebrating the historic sites that are key in building the story of Canada.
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National Geographic Society 100 Countries 5000 Ideas 2nd Edition
Book SynopsisFully updated and featuring 11 new countries, the second edition of this best-selling travel guide highlights 5,000 ideas across 100 countries around the world. In this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling 100 Countries, 5,000 Ideas, find where to go, what to do, when to visit, and more for the top destinations around the world. Filled with new content, 11 new countries, and brand-new photography from National Geographic, you’ll find everything you need to plan your next globetrotting adventure. Travel to Vietnam where you can paddle Ha Long Bay and temple hop on a tuk tuk city tour. In France, visit well-known Parisian spots, then make your way to the off-the-beaten Dinan (France’s only walled city) and the Loire Valley. In South Africa, find yourself in an urban oasis in Cape Town before heading on a safari adventure. Go to the ends of the Earth in Chile before hopping a boat to cruise a glacier-filled bay. And
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National Geographic Society 100 Disney Adventures of a LifetimeDeluxe Edition
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Pelican Publishing Company The French Quarter Drinking Companion
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DK DK Top 10 Buenos Aires
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This [DK Eyewitness Travel: Top 10] might be the best traveling companion to throw in your pack. It's a slim and sleek overview… loaded with practical and useful content." – Gadling.com"Known… for its four-color maps, photos and illustrations, the [DK] Eyewitness Guides are extremely user-friendly for travelers who want their information delivered in a concise, visual way." – Chicago Tribune"The best option… Color photos, maps, and diagrams bring the place to life." – The Philadelphia Inquirer
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