Romantic Moderns English Writers Artists And The Imagination From Virginia Woolf To John Piper
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Romantic Moderns
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Author : Alexandra Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Romantic Moderns written by Alexandra Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art and society categories.
Romantic Moderns English Writers Artists And The Imagination From Virginia Woolf To John Piper
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Author : Alexandra Harris
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Romantic Moderns English Writers Artists And The Imagination From Virginia Woolf To John Piper written by Alexandra Harris and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Art categories.
Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties. In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops. Alexandra Harris tells a different story: eclectically, passionately, wittily, urgently, English artists were exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. They showed that “the modern” need not be at war with the past: constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré László Moholy-Nagy was beguiled into taking photos for Betjeman’s nostalgic An Oxford University Chest. A rich network of personal and cultural encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance. This great imaginative project was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, and composers. Piper abandoned purist abstracts to make collages on the blustery coast; Virginia Woolf wrote in her last novel about a village pageant on a showery summer day. Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, and the Sitwells are also part of the story, along with Bill Brandt and Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.
Romantic Moderns
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Author : Alexandra Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-01
Romantic Moderns written by Alexandra Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-01 with categories.
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. In this multi-awardwinning book now available in paperback Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it meant to be alive in England. Eclectically, passionately, wittily, they showed that the modern need not be at war with the past. Constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré, László Moholy-Nagy, was beguiled into taking photographs for Betjemans nostalgic Oxford University Chest. This modern English renaissance was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, tourists and composers. John Piper, Virginia Woolf, Florence White, Christopher Tunnard, Evelyn Waugh, E. M. Forster and the Sitwells are part of the story, along with Bill Brandt, Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.
Weatherland
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Author : Alexandra Harris
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-03-01
Weatherland written by Alexandra Harris and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A lively look at the English literary and artistic responses to the weather from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Keats and Ian McEwan In a sweeping panorama, Weatherland allows us to witness England’s cultural climates across the centuries. Before the Norman Conquest, Anglo-Saxons living in a wintry world wrote about the coldness of exile or the shelters they had to defend against enemies outside. The Middle Ages brought the warmth of spring; the new lyrics were sung in praise of blossoms and cuckoos. Descriptions of a rainy night are rare before 1700, but by the end of the eighteenth century the Romantics had adopted the squall as a fit subject for their most probing thoughts. The weather is vast and yet we experience it intimately, and Alexandra Harris builds her remarkable story from small evocative details. There is the drawing of a twelfth-century man in February, warming bare toes by the fire. There is the tiny glass left behind from the Frost Fair of 1684, and the Sunspan house in Angmering that embodies the bright ambitions of the 1930s. Harris catches the distinct voices of compelling individuals. “Bloody cold,” says Jonathan Swift in the “slobbery” January of 1713. Percy Shelley wants to become a cloud and John Ruskin wants to bottle one. Weatherland is a celebration of English air and a life story of those who have lived in it.
A Geometry Of Music
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Author : Dmitri Tymoczko
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2011-03-21
A Geometry Of Music written by Dmitri Tymoczko and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-21 with Mathematics categories.
In this groundbreaking book, Tymoczko uses contemporary geometry to provide a new framework for thinking about music, one that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from Medieval polyphony to contemporary jazz.
Sussex Modernism
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Sussex Modernism written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Art, British categories.
The Enduring Melody
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Author : Michael Mayne
language : en
Publisher: Darton Longman and Todd
Release Date : 2006
The Enduring Melody written by Michael Mayne and has been published by Darton Longman and Todd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When he was in his fifties, Michael Mayne, formerly the vicar of Great St Mary's in Cambridge and Dean of Westminster Abbey, was cruelly afflicted with ME, but transformed personal adversity through his pen, writing (with Gerald Priestland) an account of his illness (A Year Lost and Found) that continues to be helpful to ME sufferers worldwide. Sadly, in the health lottery, Mayne seems to have drawn the short straw. In 2005, he was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw, and found himself overnight in what he calls 'cancer country', perhaps the most merciless terrain in the world.
Black Mamba Boy
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Author : Nadifa Mohamed
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Black Mamba Boy written by Nadifa Mohamed and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Fiction categories.
Yemen, 1935. Jama is a "market boy," a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother—alternately raging and loving—dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life's meager savings on a search for his never-seen father; the rumors that travel along clan lines report that he is a driver for the British somewhere in the north. So begins Jama's extraordinary journey of more than a thousand miles north all the way to Egypt, by camel, by truck, by train, but mostly on foot. He slings himself from one perilous city to another, fiercely enjoying life on the road and relying on his vast clan network to shelter him and point the way to his father, who always seems just a day or two out of reach. In his travels, Jama will witness scenes of great humanity and brutality; he will be caught up in the indifferent, grinding machine of war; he will crisscross the Red Sea in search of working papers and a ship. Bursting with life and a rough joyfulness, Black Mamba Boy is debut novelist Nadifa Mohamed's vibrant, moving celebration of her family's own history.
British Art In The 20th Century
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Author : Dawn Ades
language : en
Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company
Release Date : 1987
British Art In The 20th Century written by Dawn Ades and has been published by Te Neues Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Art categories.
Includes paintings and sculpture which have shaped the course of art in the 20th century.
Between The Acts
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Author : Virginia Woolf
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2017-12-06
Between The Acts written by Virginia Woolf and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-06 with Fiction categories.
Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play (hence the title) in a small English village just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Much of it looks forward to the war, with veiled allusions to connection with the continent by flight, swallows representing aircraft, and plunging into darkness. The pageant is a play within a play, representing a rather cynical view of English history. Woolf links together many different threads and ideas - a particularly interesting technique being the use of rhyme words to suggest hidden meanings. Relationships between the characters and aspects of their personalities are explored. The English village bonds throughout the play through their differences and similarities. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.