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Ghastly Good Taste Or A Depressing Story Of The Rise And Fall Of English Architecture
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Author : John Betjeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
Ghastly Good Taste Or A Depressing Story Of The Rise And Fall Of English Architecture written by John Betjeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
Ghastly Good Taste
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Author : Sir John Betjeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
Ghastly Good Taste written by Sir John Betjeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Architecture categories.
Ghastly Good Taste Or A Depressing Story Of The Rise And Fall Of English Architecture
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Author : John Betjeman
language : en
Publisher: Century
Release Date : 1986-01-01
Ghastly Good Taste Or A Depressing Story Of The Rise And Fall Of English Architecture written by John Betjeman and has been published by Century this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with Architecture categories.
Ghastly Good Taste
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Author : John Betjeman
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Ghastly Good Taste written by John Betjeman and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Architecture categories.
'My own interest started in seeking out what was old. When the guide told me that this was the bed in which Queen Elizabeth slept, I believed him. When owners of country cottages in Suffolk told me their cottage was a thousand years old, I believed them too. I thought that this or that church was the smallest in England, and that secret passages ran under ruined monasteries, so that monks could get to the nearest convent without being seen. The older anything was the lovelier I thought it.' Most famous for his poetry, John Betjeman was also passionate about architecture, 'preferring all centuries to my own'. In his first prose work, Ghastly Good Taste (1933), he vigorously defends his love of Victorian and Edwardian architecture, considered deeply unfashionable at the time. With the savage humour of his famous satire 'Slough', he attacks notions of Modernism and (at the other extreme) unthinking antiquarianism.
Ghastly Good Taste
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Author : John Betjeman
language : en
Publisher: London : Blond
Release Date : 1970
Ghastly Good Taste written by John Betjeman and has been published by London : Blond this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Architecture categories.
Written when Betjeman was 26 and criticised by the author himself in this edition for showing "sententiousness, arrogance and sweeping generalisation." Includes a potted autobiography of his early years showing how he came to write such a book.
Good Taste
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Author : Caroline Scott
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2023-11-07
Good Taste written by Caroline Scott and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-07 with Fiction categories.
With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat… England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Stella Douglas, author of a much-loved but not very successful biography, is a bit depressed herself. When she’s summoned to see her editor in London, she expects her writing career is over before it’s even started. But much to her surprise, she is being commissioned to write a history of English food. It's to be quintessentially English and intended to lift the sprits of the nation. There's just one problem: a lot of English food is actually quite terrible (and anything good is usually imported from elsewhere). So Stella travels across England in hopes of discovering a hidden culinary gem. What she discovers is oatcakes and gravy and lots and lots of potatoes. But when her car breaks down midjourney and the dashing and charismatic antiques dealer Freddie springs to her rescue, she is led in a very different direction . . . Full of wit, life, and—against all odds—delicious food, Good Taste is a story of discovery and one woman’s desire to make her own way as a modern woman.
The Brideshead Generation
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Author : Humphrey Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2013-11-07
The Brideshead Generation written by Humphrey Carpenter and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'[ The Brideshead Generation] has both style and substance, and is above all an enjoyable companion. It has a wildly amusing cast, here controlled by a skilful director.' Evening Standard 'Jovial and entertaining, full of the sort of stories that your friends will tell you if you don't read it before them.' Independent 'Carpenter has read widely and has collected an enormous fund of entertaining stories and facts.' Sunday Telegraph 'Hauntingly sad and wonderfully funny and by far the best thing Humphrey Carpenter has done.' Fiona MacCarthy, The Times
Interior Design And Identity
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Author : Susie McKellar
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2004-11-27
Interior Design And Identity written by Susie McKellar and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-27 with Architecture categories.
This chronologically arranged set of case studies looks at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth-century to the present day. The book looks at the amateur activities of female "home makers" in search of creative outlets and married couples seeking to modernize their homes as well as the contributions of early professional (female) "interior decorators," and later, (male) "interior designers." It also considers the more anonymous role of commercial enterprises, such as hairdressing salons, cruise ships or modern offices. Issues relating to interiority, gender, and the relationship of the public sphere are also considered opening up a new level of design historical enquiry.
Connaissance Des Arts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Connaissance Des Arts written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Art categories.
Pevsner The Complete Broadcast Talks
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Author : Stephen Games
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Pevsner The Complete Broadcast Talks written by Stephen Games and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Architecture categories.
This book brings together the surviving texts of the 113 talks on art and architecture that we know of, given by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner on radio and television between 1945--1977. It includes the seven texts of the 1955 Reith Lectures in their original broadcast form, as well as lectures that Pevsner gave in German (for the BBC in London and RIAS in Berlin) and on the radio in New Zealand. These talks are important as an example of the attempt by the BBC in particular to provide intellectual programming for the mass population. The talks are important for what they reveal about changing tastes in the treatment of the arts as a broadcast topic, as well as offering a case study of the development of one particular historian's approach to a subject that was gaining ground in universities as a direct result of his popularisation of it. They show what topics were thought to be central to the artistic agenda in the mid-years of the last century, whether from an academic or journalistic perspective, and reveal the mode and manner of academic engagement with the public over the period. Forty-six of these talks were published in 2002, on the centenary of Pevsner's birth, in a trade edition. At the time, his reputation as an active force in architectural thinking had long been eclipsed and interest in him had waned. Since then, there has been a turn-around in tastes and Pevsner's role within his chosen field is now being actively studied and discussed by a new generation for whom he is central to an understanding of the 20th century. There is therefore a real need for this book. In addition to containing twice the number of talks as the previous volume, it is supplemented with explanatory introductions, footnotes and citations. It also reveals, as far as this is possible, alternative versions of Pevsner’s texts, as they appeared at different stages in the original production process. As such, this edition can be relied on by academics as scholarly and