Humankind Ruskin Spear
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Humankind Ruskin Spear
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Author : Tanya Harrod
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-01-13
Humankind Ruskin Spear written by Tanya Harrod and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-13 with Art and society categories.
Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990) since a brief monograph in 1985. It uses Spear's career to unlock the coded standards of the 20th-century art world and to look at class and culture in Britain and at notions of 'vulgarity'. The book takes in popular press debates linked to the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; the changing preferences of the institutionalized avant-garde from the Second World War onwards; the battles fought within colleges of art as a generation of post-war students challenged the skills and commitment of their tutors; and the changing status of figurative art in the post-war period. Spear was committed to a form of social realism but the art he produced for left-wing and pacifist exhibitions and causes had a sophistication, authenticity and humour that flowed from his responses to bravura painting across a broad historical swathe of European art, and from the fact that he was painting what he knew. Spear's geography revolved around the working class culture of Hammersmith in West London and the spectacle of pub and street life. This was a metropolitan life little known to, and largely unrecorded by, his contemporaries. Tracking Spear also illuminates the networks of friendship and power at the Royal College of Art, at the Royal Academy of Arts and within the post-war peace movement. As the tutor of the generation of Kitchen Sink and of future Pop artists at the Royal College of Art, and with friendships with figures as diverse as Sir Alfred Munnings and Francis Bacon, Spear's interest in non-elite culture and marginal groups is of particular interest. Spear's biting satirical pictures took as their subject matter political figures as diverse as Khrushchev and Enoch Powell, the art of Henry Moore and Reg Butler and, more generally, the structures of leisure and pleasure in 20th-century Britain. Humankind: Ruskin Spear has an obvious interest for art historians, but it also functions as a social history that brings alive aspects of British popular culture from tabloid journalism to the social mores of the public house and the snooker hall as well as the unexpected functions of official and unofficial portraiture. Written with general reader in mind, it has a powerful narrative that presents a remarkable rumbustious character and a diverse series of art and non-art worlds.
The Queen Of The Air
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Author : John Ruskin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
The Queen Of The Air written by John Ruskin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Art, Greek categories.
The Christian Invention Of Time
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Author : Simon Goldhill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-03
The Christian Invention Of Time written by Simon Goldhill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with History categories.
With trademark flair, Simon Goldhill shows how Christianity transformed humanity's relationship with time in ways that resonate today.
European Drawings 2
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Author : George R. Goldner
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 1992-10-08
European Drawings 2 written by George R. Goldner and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-10-08 with Drawing categories.
The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.
The Invention Of Love
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Author : Tom Stoppard
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2014-11-18
The Invention Of Love written by Tom Stoppard and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-18 with Drama categories.
It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene. On his journey the scholar and poet who is now the elder Housman confronts his younger self, and the memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson—the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings. As if a dream, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and passion displaced into poetry and the study of classical texts. The author of A Shropshire Lad lived almost invisibly in the shadow of the flamboyant Oscar Wilde, and died old and venerated—but whose passion was truly the fatal one?
The Firebird And The Fox
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Author : Jeffrey Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-24
The Firebird And The Fox written by Jeffrey Brooks and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-24 with History categories.
A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
Too Smart For Our Own Good
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Author : Craig Dilworth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010
Too Smart For Our Own Good written by Craig Dilworth and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
A groundbreaking work explaining our ecological predicament in the context of the first scientific theory of humankind's development.
Tolkien
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Author : B. Rosebury
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2003-10-21
Tolkien written by B. Rosebury and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded, to take account both of recent developments in scholarship, and of the recent films directed by Peter Jackson. Tracing the development of Tolkien's creative technique over several decades, it explores the bewildering profusion of shorter works, as well as devoting an extended analysis to The Lord of the Rings . Chapters consider Tolkien's contribution to the history of ideas, and review the reception of the Lord of the Rings film adaptations and other popular adaptations of his work.
The Incomplete Book Of Running
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Author : Peter Sagal
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2019-09-10
The Incomplete Book Of Running written by Peter Sagal and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner’s World, shares “commentary and reflection about running with a deeply felt personal story, this book is winning, smart, honest, and affecting. Whether you are a runner or not, it will move you” (Susan Orlean). On the verge of turning forty, Peter Sagal—brainiac Harvard grad, short bald Jew with a disposition towards heft, and a sedentary star of public radio—started running seriously. And much to his own surprise, he kept going, faster and further, running fourteen marathons and logging tens of thousands of miles on roads, sidewalks, paths, and trails all over the United States and the world, including the 2013 Boston Marathon, where he crossed the finish line moments before the bombings. In The Incomplete Book of Running, Sagal reflects on the trails, tracks, and routes he’s traveled, from the humorous absurdity of running charity races in his underwear—in St. Louis, in February—or attempting to “quiet his colon” on runs around his neighborhood—to the experience of running as a guide to visually impaired runners, and the triumphant post-bombing running of the Boston Marathon in 2014. With humor and humanity, Sagal also writes about the emotional experience of running, body image, the similarities between endurance sports and sadomasochism, the legacy of running as passed down from parent to child, and the odd but extraordinary bonds created between strangers and friends. The result is “a brilliant book about running…What Peter runs toward is strength, understanding, endurance, acceptance, faith, hope, and charity” (P.J. O’Rourke).
Masterpieces Of The J Paul Getty Museum Illuminated Manuscripts
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Author : Thomas Kren
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 1997-11-13
Masterpieces Of The J Paul Getty Museum Illuminated Manuscripts written by Thomas Kren and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-13 with Art categories.
The Getty Museum’s collection of illuminated manuscripts, featured in this book, comprises masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance art. Dating from the tenth to the sixteenth century, they were produced in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, England, Spain, Poland, and the eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottonian manuscripts, Romanesque treasures from Germany, Italy, and France, an English Gothic Apocalypse, and late medieval manuscripts painted by such masters as Jean Fouquet, Girolamo da Cremona, Simon Marmion, and Joris Hoefnagel. Included are glistening liturgical books, intimate and touching devotional books for private use, books of the Bible, lively histories by Giovanni Boccaccio and Jean Froissart, and a breathtaking Model Book of Calligraphy.