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Andrew Cranston Never A Joiner
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Author : Andrew Cranston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-11-17
Andrew Cranston Never A Joiner written by Andrew Cranston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-17 with categories.
Andrew Cranston (b.1969, Hawick, Scotland; lives and works in Glasgow) is a painter-storyteller, a way of working that is enhanced by his often painting on the linen-bound covers of old books. His stories coalesce in the process of making--the paintings emerging gradually through the manipulation of his materials: layering, lacquering, bleaching, collaging, and constantly re-working his way into images that seem to shift backwards and forwards in time. He once described a work as "a painting that came out of my brush one day", a statement that sums up his approach. They are resolutely contemporary in spirit and yet connected by a strong thread to painters of the past, especially perhaps to the intimism of Vuillard and Bonnard, or to Matisse or Munch. These are narrative paintings, drawn from the artist's memory and observations of life and liberally sprinkled with references to cinema, literature, and art history. This publication presents a selection of the book cover paintings for which Cranston has become so well known in recent years. The cover image is a detail of Cat and cheeseboard (2018) in which a cat sits on the upholstered arm of a sofa surveying what the artist describes as "a selection of bries and camemberts, as mousetraps". Other animals pop up from time to time--a horse, some fish, a leopard; the skeleton of an elk. There are still lifes with fruit, flowers and/or pottery, and lots of landscapes, from the bleak to the fantastical. There are peopled and unpeopled interiors, portraits of family members and celebrities (occasionally curious hybrids thereof), and childhood memories from school classrooms and classical music-filled assemblies to holidays in Switzerland and visits to granny's flat. And there are quite a few watering cans too. Each featured painting is accompanied by a text based on notes made by the artist before, during, or after making a work. Mostly private thoughts, memories, and anecdotes, these fragments jotted down on scraps of paper or tapped into his mobile phone were never intended to be published, but the resulting texts offer personal observations and reflections that Cranston considers "something like album sleeve notes where a musical artist might give some background to each song". The texts are at times amusing, at others melancholic and moving, offering illuminating insights into the mind and life of the artist and the subjects, references, and influences that feed into his painting practice. There are notes about technique and color, about family and friends, about particular places at certain moments in time. For Cranston, writing has become "another way of engaging with painting and of activating the interesting afterlife that a work can have when it leaves the studio and goes out into the world." Andrew Cranston - Never a Joiner has been produced by Ingleby, Edinburgh, and co-published with Anomie Publishing, London. It has been published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Ingleby, Edinburgh, and launched as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2023.
Andrew Cranston
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Author : Florence Ingleby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Andrew Cranston written by Florence Ingleby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Andrew Cranston once described himself as a storyteller of sorts, though without a clear story to tell. He draws on a variety of sources including personal recollections – family histories; his circuitous route to art school via an initial, unsuccessful, foray into carpentry; and his 25-year association as both student and lecturer at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Interwoven with passages culled from literature, anecdotes, jokes, and images from cinema these elements combine to make his idiosyncratic, intimate, and often dream-like, paintings. But the dream had no sound is the largest exhibition of Andrew Cranston’s work to date. It is accompanied by a 164pp publication, available for purchase, featuring an interview between the artist and his friend and colleague, painter Peter Doig. The book also includes over 60 illustrations - each with notes written by the artist - revealing the thoughts and associations that emerge in the process of making a painting.--Ingleby Gallery website.
John Hoyland The Last Paintings
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Author : Andrew Cranston
language : en
Publisher: Karma, New York
Release Date : 2021-11-16
John Hoyland The Last Paintings written by Andrew Cranston and has been published by Karma, New York this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with Art categories.
Dappled brushwork, delicate hues and cloisonné textures dance across the surfaces of Cranston's still lives, landscapes and interiors Scottish painter Andrew Cranston (born 1969) creates transporting images that destabilize our sense of time: they invite the viewer to explore a space between nostalgia and the realm of the dream. Dense blots of oil graze on top of washes of distemper, guiding the viewer's eye through thick and thin layers of pigment. The paintings gathered in Waiting for the Bell conjure a state of liminality--the feeling of being suspended in a dream before the alarm jolts one back to reality--and draw from stories, poems and experiences that emerge from the artist's subconscious. Each painting's layering is guided by intuition: a reference to a Carole King album cover is interlaced alongside allusions to jazz history, the writing of Muriel Spark and visions of the Scottish coast. This substantial volume includes newly commissioned essays by Stephanie Burt and Barry Schwabsky.
The House With The Green Shutters
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Author : George Douglas Brown
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2011-09-01
The House With The Green Shutters written by George Douglas Brown and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Immerse yourself in a painstakingly recreated depiction of Scottish rural life at the turn of the twentieth century. Regarded as a groundbreaking literary work upon its publication, The House With the Green Shutters takes an unflinching look at the growing conflict between socioeconomic classes during the period, rather than idealizing rustic living, as many writers of the era chose to do.
Remembering Toller Cranston
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Author : Andrew Osta
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-03-05
Remembering Toller Cranston written by Andrew Osta and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-05 with categories.
Toller Cranston was an influential Canadian figure skater and painter. He won the 1971 - 1976 Canadian national championships, the 1974 World bronze medal and the 1976 Olympic bronze medal. The final two decades of his extraordinary life were spent in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. This book offers some vivid and intimate glimpses into the world of a complex, larger than life personality.
Blood On The Thistle The Heartbreaking Story Of The Cranston Family And Their Remarkable Sacrifice
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Author : Stuart Pearson & Robert G Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-05
Blood On The Thistle The Heartbreaking Story Of The Cranston Family And Their Remarkable Sacrifice written by Stuart Pearson & Robert G Mitchell and has been published by Kings Road Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by the effects of the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe.Out of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifice on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the rest of her days.This is the tale of how a once proud and aspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family finally begin to be drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.
Paul Housley
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Author : Paul Housley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Paul Housley written by Paul Housley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Figurative painting, British categories.
This monograph, published to accompany Housley s solo exhibition of paintings at the Reg Vardy Gallery, 2005, is the result of a year-long residency at Durham Cathedral. Painting, for Housley, is a "dumb muse": a medium which, whilst only able to offer still, silent and hand-made single images, is also able to offer the most complex, nuanced and double-edged forms of visual experience. Working on an intimate scale, Housley's images elicit an unlikely poignancy and tenderness from subject matter that might initially seem to offer slight returns.
Reading Between The Lines
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Author : Jessica G. Purdy
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-11-13
Reading Between The Lines written by Jessica G. Purdy and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book provides an overview of the establishment and use of parish libraries in early modern England and includes a thematic analysis of surviving marginalia and readers' marks. This book is the first direct and detailed analysis of parish libraries in early modern England and uses a case-study approach to the examination of foundation practices, physical and intellectual accessibility, the nature of the collections, and the ways in which people used these libraries and read their books.
In Numbers
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Author : Victor Brand
language : en
Publisher: Jrp Ringier
Release Date : 2009
In Numbers written by Victor Brand and has been published by Jrp Ringier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
Edited by Andrew Roth, Philip Aarons. Text by Clive Phillpot, Neville Wakefield, Nancy Princenthal, William S. Wilson.
The Rifles Are There
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Author : David Orr
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2005-11-19
The Rifles Are There written by David Orr and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-19 with History categories.
This is the long overdue history of the two Royal Ulster Rifles battalions during the Second World War. Although there was a healthy rivalry between the battalions, both reserved their fighting skills for the luckless enemy. At the outbreak of the war the 1st Battalion was garrisoned in India whereas the 2nd went to France with the BEF. Indeed the title of this book is credited to Major General Bernard Montgomery who was commanding 3rd Division during the retreat to Dunkirk. On hearing that the RUR were in the line, he reputedly exclaimed, 'it's alright then _ the Rifles are there'. After arduous training both battalions landed in Normandy on D-Day; the 1st by gliders as part of 6th Airlanding Brigade and the 2nd with 9th Brigade of 3rd Division on SWORD Beach. Indeed the RUR have the unique distinction of being the only British regiment to be represented on D-Day by both regular battalions. In addition numerous Riflemen were in 9th Parachute Battalion (commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway, himself a Rifles' Officer) and there is a full description of the legendary assault on the Merville Battery. This well-researched work goes on to describe the long slog through North West Europe to the heart of Germany. Of the many fierce engagements that the battalions fought, those in the Ardennes during the German counter-attack and the massive Rhine Crossing Operation (VARSITY) deserve special mention.There were numerous battles, both major and minor, where the Rifles' legendary fighting skills and courage were put to the test.