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Student life in nineteenth-century cambridge
This book tells the story of John Wright, a talented but poor student at Cambridge who was deprived of success and impelled to make a living as hack writer in London, where he was often imprisoned for debt. His memoir, along with the in-depth commentary and detailed scholarly notes presented here...
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From ta'izz to tyneside
This book is the first in-depth study of early Arab immigrants to Britain, and provides a unique insight into their everyday lives.
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Cornish studies volume 3
The third volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Music and musicians in early nineteenth-century cornwall
Taken from Africa into slavery by the Portuguese, kidnapped by the British Navy and held captive aboard ship during the French wars of the 1790s before being abandoned in Falmouth, the story of Joseph Emidy deserves telling in its own right. Emidy became a prominent figure in the musical scene in...
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The university of exeter
This 1982 book by Brian Clapp records the development of the University from its beginnings in the School of Art founded in 1855, through the Royal Albert Memorial College and the University College of the South West. He draws lively portraits of two Principals of the University College - Hector...
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Loyalty and locality
This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War, in particular the way in which regions and cities allied themselves with either side and the social and cultural roots of this choice.
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Tudor and stuart devon
A collection of essays on the theme of Tudor and Stuart Devon.
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The international arms trade
This volume considers the coevolving nature of the arms trade and defence–industrial processes and the resulting complexity of the international arms-transfer system. It situates arms transfers in a defence–industrial landscape where arms production is increasingly transnational, involving states...
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The new history of the italian south
This collection brings together the work of a new generation of revisionist historians who argue that the true history of Southern Italy has been reduced to that of a 'Southern problem' viewed through a Northern prism.
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West britons
West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest, most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book also includes transcriptions of a number of previously unpublished documents, and a list of some 300 C...
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Symbolism, decadence and the fin de siècle
This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870-1914.
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West country maritime and social history: some essays
In the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the maritime and social histories of the South-West of England were inextricably linked. The chapters in this volume cover important topics
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Critical essays on british south asian theatre
This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre. It includes contributions from a number of researchers who have been active in the field for a substantial period of time.
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Cornish studies volume 1
The first volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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An american in victorian cambridge
A richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made.
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Bewnans ke / the life of st kea
In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales. This eagerly awaited edition of the play offers a text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the origin...
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Water in the city
The book provides a richly illustrated history of Exeter's famous underground passages—and of the city's sophisticated system of public water supply during the medieval and early modern periods. The aqueduct tunnels are a vivid testament to the skill of the medieval craftsmen who built them, and...
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The yemeni civil war
Presents an innovative theoretical framework to understand the meltdown and civil wars of countries such as Yemen, Syria, and Libya after their 2011 uprisings, using Yemen as a case study. The interaction between different types of state formation and regional rivalry can explain what happened.
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Ethics and politics in seventeenth century france
This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, written by leading English and French literary and historical scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite in France between the early 1600s and the final yea...
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Revisiting the first cold war
A detailed exploration of how the greatest ever unfought conflict—the Soviet–American Cold War—as well as other preceding struggles, might expand our understanding and foster resilience in adapting to the evolving Sino–American rivalry.
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Making a christian landscape
Sam Turner’s important new interpretation of early medieval patterns of landscape development traces landscape change in the South West from the introduction of Christianity to the Norman Conquest (AD c. 450–1070).
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Cornish studies volume 18
This is the eighteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series...the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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The big show
The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One. Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic effects of the War, and contends that the War’s significant effect was to expedite the cultural acceptance of...
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The liberal party in south-west britain since 1918
The decline of the Liberal party is one of the most controversial subjects in twentieth-century British politics, and this book makes a distinctive contribution to the debate by focusing on the South West, where Liberalism remained a powerful force after 1918.
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Mediterranean urban culture, 1400-1700
The book, after an Introduction, is divided into three sections: neighbours and neighbourhoods; religion, ethnicity and minority groups; culture, politics and society. The coherence of the collection sets up resonances and comparisons which confirm a considerable unity in the concept of Mediterra...
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The legionary bath house and basilica and forum at exeter
Excavations carried out in Exeter since 1971 resulted in the recovery of parts of the plan of a Neronian and early Flavian legionary fortress. This book describes the fortress and the excavations carried out in the Cathedral Close, and includes a gazetteer of Roman finds in Central Exeter.
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Cornish studies volume 8
The eighth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Gentry leaders in peace and war
The strength of the government of Devon in the early seventeenth century lay in the quality of its leaders. They ruled together in harmony, free from rivalries, the influence of any powerful resident nobles and saved from religious conflicts. This book emphasizes this strength through a series of...
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Cornish studies volume 6
The sixth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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The maritime history of devon
Written in 1908 by Michael Oppenheim, for the Victorian History of Devonshire, this account has not been previously published as the volume for which it was intended was never completed. Based mainly on the national archives with which Oppenheim had an intimate acquaintance, this account emphasis...
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State and society in syria and lebanon
This text traces the social and political development of Syria and Lebanon from the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. Written by a number of specialists and scholars, it offers a comparative study by means of concentration on major turning-points in the modern history of bo...
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Dartmoor's alluring uplands
A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and mystery. This book provides a new perspective on an important aspect of Dartmoor’s past. Its focus is transhumance: the seasonal transfer of grazing animals to different pastures.
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The blood-red arab flag
In a scholarly but accessible account founded on contemporary sources, illustrated with testimonies of eye-witnesses and participants, this book sets out to decide the controversial question of whether the Qawasim were in fact pirates after acquiring an enduring reputation as such during the year...
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Western military expatriates in the armed forces of the uae
The book argues that Western military expatriates, who have supported the Emirati military forces over more than 50 years, have played a crucial yet bounded role in elevating the UAE’s military capabilities to the point today where it is recognised as the pre-eminent Arab military force.
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Circled with stone
This is the most comprehensive study to date of the fortifications of an early modern English city. The culmination of some twenty years of archaeological and documentary research, it provides a richly detailed portrait of the ancient system of walls, towers and gates which ringed the city of Exe...
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Nuclear north korea
North Korea developed nuclear weapons not for regime security but to attack and annex South Korea, as openly declared by Kim Jong-un. He believes the US cannot extend its nuclear umbrella to South Korea, as his ICBMs could destroy American cities. Accordingly, US should maintain deployment of nuc...
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The maritime history of cornwall
The first study of its kind. The book explores the rich, complex maritime inheritance of Cornwall on a national and international scale, considering the importance of the different historical periods from the medieval to the twentieth century.
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Defence diplomacy and security cooperation in southeast asia
Defence diplomacy is an important tool of strategic engagement, and a critical concept in understanding the simultaneous cooperation and competition in the contemporary Indo-Pacific region.
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Medieval and post-medieval finds from exeter
Between 1971 and 1980 the Exeter Museums carried out over 30 excavations in the city which uncovered an exceptionally rich and varied collection of finds. Medieval and Post-medieval Finds from Exeter presents a catalogue and analysis of all the finds from the excavations as well as the most impor...
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After the ruins
After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War.
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Tactical and strategic insights from the russo-ukrainian war
This edited collection reviews the key developments in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war with a view to determining salient developments in modern warfare that must be assessed by Western defence officials and planners. The volume provides an early treatment of the most relevant developments that h...
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The cornish overseas
The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic, told here by one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people. Accessible narrative includes the US, Canada, Australia, and S Africa. Fully revised and updated with almost two decades of additio...
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Cornish studies volume 15
The fifteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Cornish studies volume 7
The seventh volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Tuckers hall exeter
Gilds and Companies of Craftsmen were a great feature of late medieval and early modern urban life. At Exeter, Fullers (Tuckers) and Shearmen numbered nearly five hundred freemen during the reign of Queen Anne. Much reduced in size and changed, the Company still survives today and its Hall is amo...
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volume 14
The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies.
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Lives and literacy in ancient egypt
Lives and Literacy accompanies a joint exhibition by the Harry Ransom Center and the John Rylands Library, exploring how manuscripts from Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt reveal the practices, materials, and people that shaped written culture.
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Beginning irish studies
An Introduction to the discipline of Irish Studies that will be of use to both students and academics.
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Plymouth blitz
Plymouth Blitz recounts the deadliest civilian incident in Plymouth during World War II when a German bomb struck the Portland Square Air Raid Shelter in April 1941. Through eyewitness accounts and archival research, this book captures the courage, fear, and resilience of ordinary people living u...
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Parliament and politics in revolutionary britain and ireland, 1640–60
This is an exciting new collection of historical essays focussed on the institution of Parliament between 1640–60. It has a wide thematic, geographic and temporal scope and offers valuable insights about the future study of the period’s political history.
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Monasticism and politics in norman italy
A vivid, detailed and compelling contemporary account of the history of Montecassino during the age of the Gregorian Reform and of southern Italy under the rule of the Norman conquerors.
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Virtue reconsider’d
Reassessing the lives of married English women in the long eighteenth century, this multidisciplinary volume challenges assumptions of wifely domesticity and docility, and reveals how wives navigated law, literature and economy to exercise agency within – and beyond – the confines of marriage.
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Religious masculinity
Religious masculinity is an innovative study that demonstrates how male piety became a central battleground in the culture wars of the Third Republic. It sheds new light on our understanding of religion, masculinity and politics in a critical period of French history.
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Radio in british india
Focusing on the mercurial last two decades of British rule, the book critiques colonialism and imperialism through an investigation of broadcasting. Specifically, it details the evolution of official policy and implementation of administrative decisions on spoken word programmes. The book also in...
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Between liturgy and magic
This volume offers a much-needed comparative examination of minuscule texts generated by intercessory, apotropaic and healing practices in the early Middle Ages – ambiguous texts that defy a clear-cut division between ‘liturgy’ and ‘magic’.
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Social elites in medieval france
Social élites in medieval France is an account of the profound transformations which occurred in medieval society following the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire. Based on a case study of the Loire valley, this book traces the social and economic origins of the localised élite lordships wh...
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Living in the shadow of empire
Drawing on a range of public and private sources, including multiple micro-histories, the book examines how the wives of China consular officials shaped, and were shaped by, the treaty port world, and how, despite facing significant challenges, they helped forge and sustain the British presence a...
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Enlightenment sociability and provincial culture
This book examines the sustained friendship between enlightenment physician and poet Erasmus Darwin, artist Joseph Wright of Derby, and their provincial artistic, literary and scientific associates, including the writers Anna Seward and William and Eliza Hayley, providing fresh insights into thei...
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Generation moulinex
A social and cultural history of Moulinex that analyses mass production, consumption and deindustrialisation through the experiences of French workers, many of them women, from the postwar boom to globalisation.
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Red ghosts
A historical account of Argentine anticommunism from 1900 to the present. From Peronism to the last military dictatorship, this is an in-depth analysis of Argentina’s most pivotal political processes over the past 120 years. It reveals the persistent and often underestimated role of anticommunism...
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Ancient iran in the isac museum
A richly illustrated survey of ancient Iranian art and archaeology, showcasing artifacts from the ISAC Museum’s Persian Gallery. Spanning prehistoric settlements to Persepolis, it highlights the material culture, artistic achievement and historical depth of one of the ancient world’s most influen...
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Europe views the world, 1500-1700
Europe Views the World examines the wide diversity of images that Europeans produced to represent the wide variety of peoples and places around the globe during and after the so-called 'Age of Exploration'. Beginning with the medieval imagery of Europe’s imagined alien races, and with an emphasis...
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The sculpture of alfred gruber and jacqueline stieger
For sculptors Alfred Gruber (1931-1972) and Jacqueline Stieger (b.1936), their meeting in 1962 marked the start of a bountiful partnership - their artistic chemistry conjuring works that exploited the transformative qualities of common and precious metals. Chronicling their intertwined stories, w...
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Travels with frank lloyd wright
By retracing Frank Lloyd Wright’s footsteps on six of his journeys, the author explores the architect’s global ambitions and lasting legacy, offering an original and contemporary view of Wright and his architecture. He reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright as an early promoter of globalisation – the fir...
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Speaking sculptures in late medieval europe
Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe explores medieval sculptors’ motif of the open mouth. The speech mode, as it is called in this book, is more than an illusionistic device or an affective ploy to foster the emotional response of the viewer. Here it is shown to have a deeper significance...
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Edward bawden scrapbooks
Through 250 illustrations taken from five fascinating scrapbooks, this book reveals the wonderful world of painter and illustrator Edward Bawden. Some pages are beautiful, some instructive and some baffling, but together they give us an insight into the mind of one of the 20th century's most recl...
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Paule vézelay
The art of Paule Vézelay (1892-1984), celebrated in this groundbreaking publication, is remarkable in its breadth. Over her long career she created an extraordinarily diverse output encompassing painting, collage, sculpture, constructions, illustration, textiles, photography, poetry, prose, criti...
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Mothers of invention
Offering a radical rewriting of the history of contemporary art from a feminist perspective, four distinguished authors explore the lineages of performance, abstraction, craft and ecofeminism in ways that reveal the debt these important genres owe to the work of pioneering women artists. Tracing ...
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Drawing in the dark
In contrast to Henry Moore's well-known drawings depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz, little has been written about how this son of a Yorkshire coalminer tackled his second commission from the War Artists' Advisory Committee in 1941; drawing men in 'Britain's underground army', the mine...
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Tom hammick
This is the first book to survey the work of painter and printmaker Tom Hammick (b.1963). It sets Hammick's art within the context of contemporary debates about painting while relating it to the two-centuries-old Romantic tradition. Julian Bell explores in depth the artist's techniques, imagery a...
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Kim lim
Sculptor and printmaker Kim Lim (1936-1997) had a lifelong fascination with space and its relationship with two- and three-dimensions. This important new publication explores her outstanding body of work. In a series of fascinating chapters, leading art-world specialists survey the artist's rich ...
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Eduardo paolozzi
Artist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was a unique cultural figure. His varied yet instantly recognisable work chronicles the significant changes in British art from the austere 1950s to the post-post-modern late 1990s. This highly illustrated and visually exciting book provides the first comprehen...
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Luisa roldán
This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first overview in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldán (1652–1706), a prolific and celebrated sculptor of the Spanish Golden Age. The daughter of Pedro Roldán, a well-known sculptor from Seville, she developed her talent in her father’s ...
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Rembrandt's hundred guilder print
Always recognised as a master print from the moment of its appearance around 1649, the Hundred Guilder Print is one of Rembrandt's most compositionally complex and visually beautiful works. This book gives a full overview of the fascinating story surrounding this print, from its genesi...
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William turnbull
William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world and its ancient past, actively engaging with the shifting concerns of British, European and American art...
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Godefridus schalcken
The first book in English dedicated to the entire artistic output of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Godefridus Schalcken (1643–1706), this study examines the artist’s paintings and career trajectory against the background of his ceaseless pursuit of fame and fortune.
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Eileen gray
Irish-born designer Eileen Gray is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning nearly 80 years she produced innovative designs for furniture, lighting, carpets, interiors and architecture. This book deals with his life and work.
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The pottery of john ward
John Ward (b.1938) has a longstanding reputation as one of Britain's foremost potters, and yet very little has been written about his manifold achievements. Authoritative and enlightening, this will be the first account of Ward’s life and work, tracing the evolution of his ideas and his practice ...
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Eric ravilious scrapbooks
Bringing together over 400 images taken from the artist’s 5 scrapbooks, accompanied by instructive commentary by the authors, this new book provides a fascinating record of the febrile imagination of one of Britain’s best-loved artists.
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The art of elizabeth blackadder
Exploring the development of Elizabeth Blackadder’s art in all its richness, this revised edition of Duncan Macmillan's 1999 book expands the account of an important artist and her significant body of work. With her oeuvre ranging through still life, landscapes and flower painting, Elizabeth Bla...
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Danish-british consort portraiture, c.1600-1900
This is the first book to address the long art history of dynastic marriage exchange between Denmark and Britain between 1600 and 1900. It explores an intersection of three themes trending in early modern studies: portraiture, gender and the court as a centre of cultural exchange. The book re-eva...
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Louise moillon
Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prés area of Paris, Moillon was the sole female practitioner of a group that included Sébastien Stosskopf, Jacques Linard, and Lubin Baugin. Louise Moillon reassesses the importance of this p...
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Re-issue, re-imagine, re-make
This book examines the phenomenon of the re-issue of 20th century furniture ‘design classics’ and their widespread re-interpretation by contemporary designers and artists.
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Clotilde brewster
Described by composer Ethel Smyth as brilliant, sociable, amusing and utterly original, Clotilde Brewster defied all the odds by becoming the first woman to work internationally as an architect. She was part of a group of pioneering women in the late nineteenth century who broke down barriers in ...
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The art of activism and the activism of art
Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, but also in opposition to their own exploitation. They have also absorbed and reflect...
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The wessex project: thomas hardy, architect
As an architect, Thomas Hardy is known only for his red-brick suburban villa, Max Gate. This book takes a wider view, arguing that architects do not just make buildings, but use other forms to change how we see and use the world. Illustrated with a wealth of his little-known drawings, it shows ho...
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A kurt jackson bestiary
Natural history and art have been life-long preoccupations of the leading British painter Kurt Jackson (b.1961). For this book, Jackson has returned to zoology, the subject he studied at university, to create a beautiful bestiary: a body of work about fauna. Bestiaries date back to medieval times...
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Bernini and his world
Bernini and His World is a unique exploration of Gian Lorenzo Bernini the sculptor, offering new insights and including discussions of the artist’s stylistic innovations and the ways in which he approached sculpture. Placing his life and work within a social, anthropological and historical contex...
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Susie m. barstow
Why do we not know more of Susie Barstow? A prolific artist, Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923) was committed to expressing the majesty she found in the national landscape. She captured on canvas and paper the larger American landscape experience as it evolved across the nineteenth century. A notable f...
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Frank lobdell and abstract expressionism in california
Featuring previously unpublished material from Lobdell's studio and archive, this book looks at the role of artist Frank Lobdell (1921-2013) in the formation of Abstract Expressionism in California.
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Liu xiaodong
The remarkable plein air paintings of Liu Xiaodong (b.1963), which chronicle everyday lives within our diverse modern world, are the focus of this first monograph of his career to date. Immersing himself in communities around the globe, Xiaodong seeks to present people who often sit on the fring...
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Arts and crafts pioneers
The first book on the Century Guild of Artists (CGA) and its influential periodical, the Century Guild Hobby Horse. The significance of the CGA in the development of the Arts and Crafts movement and its modernist successors is assessed.
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Art and architecture of sicily
Art and Architecture of Sicily is the first book to cover the rich artistic heritage of Sicily from prehistory up to the late 20th century. Sicily’s strategic position in the centre of the Mediterranean led to settlement or conquest by a succession of different peoples – Phoenicians, Greeks, Roma...
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Studio lives
By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the ways in which artists used architecture – occupying and adapting Victorian studios and commissioning new ones – and, in doing so, shows them coming to terms with the past, and in the pr...
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British architectural sculpture
This book examines the collaborative process that produced the outstanding carving and sculpture on many of the most remarkable buildings of what was Britain’s greatest period of wealth and global power. Investigating the processes and methodologies behind these shared artistic endeavours, it rev...
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Ben nicholson
Featuring reproductions of key works and selected letters, Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas is an invaluable resource to all those interested in the work of this key British artist and the period in which he worked.
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Keith grant
Having travelled extensively throughout his life, Grant has drawn inspiration from landscapes from Antarctica to the tropics, While attracted to northerly territories (he has lived in Norway since 1996), the subject matter of Grant's bold images varies from marine volcanoes and rainforests to ice...
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Victor pasmore
Focussing on 1930-60, this publication considers Pasmore's transition from figurative painter to abstract artist. Reproducing works from both public and private collections, this publication will stoke interest in an important period in British art history and shed new light on a crucial stage in...
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What is it that will last?
This publication offers a rich and expansive visual record of Julie Brook’s artistic practice, and proposes a unique collaboration between Brook and distinct voices from the nature writing and craftsmanship traditions. Situating Brook’s practice in the context of critical reflections by Robert Ma...
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