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13 produkter
Virginia Woolf
Häftad, 2024
141 kr
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An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination. In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything still to prove. She felt herself to be at a …
Weatherland
Writers and Artists under English Skies
Häftad, 2016
197 kr
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Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems …
Romantic Moderns
English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Häftad, 2023
175 kr
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An award-winning study of England’s unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. …
Rising Down
Lives in a Sussex Landscape
Inbunden, 2024
280 kr
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A SPECTATOR AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Remarkable.' THE TIMES'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN'Fascinating.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'As a portrait of a place, it's hard to better.' COUNTRY LIFE'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEY'Humane, humorous and joyful.' RUTH SCURRWhen the celebrated critic …
Rising Down
Lives in a Landscape
Häftad, 2025
149 kr
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'Remarkable.' THE TIMES'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN'Fascinating.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A landscape-keyhole onto the whole world . . . Glorious.' Robert Macfarlane'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEYWhen Alexandra Harris returned to her childhood home of West Sussex, she realised that …
Archipelago
A Reader
Av Andrew McNellie, Norman Ackroyd m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of …
Revisiting Modern British Art
Av Harriet Baker, Elena Crippa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
503 kr
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As the twenty-first century unfolds, notions of our cultural past and how our history has influenced our present shift almost daily. Within this, accepted artistic trajectories are being questioned and new connections made. In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking publication, experts in their …
What is it that will last?
Land and tidal art of Julie Brook
Av Julie Brook, Simon Groom m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
564 kr
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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 …
Modernism on Sea
Art and Culture at the British Seaside
Av Lara Feigel, Alexandra Harris
Inbunden, 2009
516 kr
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Modernism on Sea brings together writing by some of today’s most exciting seaside critics, curators, filmmakers and scholars, and takes the reader on a journey around the coast of Britain to explore the rich artistic and cultural heritage that can be found there, from St Ives to Scarborough. The …
Modernism on Sea
Art and Culture at the British Seaside
Av Lara Feigel, Alexandra Harris
Häftad, 2011
249 kr
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Modernism on Sea brings together writing by some of today’s most exciting seaside critics, curators, filmmakers and scholars, and takes the reader on a journey around the coast of Britain to explore the rich artistic and cultural heritage that can be found there, from St Ives to Scarborough. The …
Time and Place
Notes on the art of calendars
Inbunden, 2019
134 kr
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Dates are invented things. Nothing in nature decrees that today is today. But for millennia humans have divided time into portions, and given those portions names which are shared widely across cultures, creating a common agreement on the date. This convention is useful in practical ways: we can …
