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Author : Steven Parissien
Publisher : Paul Holberton Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Compton Verney (Warwickshire, England)
ISBN : 1907372121
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Compton Verney Gallery, Warwickshire, June 25-Oct. 2, 2011.
Author : Professor Nigel Rapport
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472461360
In this ground-breaking book, a theory of ‘distortion’ - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and transformation - is developed by way of the art of one of Britain’s greatest twentieth-century painters and that art’s public reception. Devoted to his native village of Cookham-on-Thames, Stanley Spencer painted not only landscapes and portraits with loving detail but also the ‘memory-feelings’ which he felt were a ‘sacred’ part of his consciousness. Yet Spencer was also a controversial public figure, with some taking the view that his visionary paintings were ugly distortions of human life, even marks of an immoral nature. Examining how Spencer lived his vision, how he painted it and wrote it, and also how his attempts to communicate that vision were received by his contemporaries and have continued to be interpreted since his death, the author posits distortion as key: an intrinsic aspect both of human creation and of human interaction. What we intend to make, to say, to do and have done, often mutates in the process of being expressed or put into effect: we live amid distortion. Love - the affective appreciation of one another - is then a means by which we accommodate distortion and its consequences in our lives. An illustration, through Stanley Spencer’s story, of significant aspects of a human condition, this book will appeal across disciplines, including to art historians and students of Spencer’s work, as well as to scholars of anthropology with interests in creativity, perception and interpretation.
Author : Moises Lino e Silva,Huon Wardle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317415497
‘Freedom’ is one of the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. This book provides an up-to-date overview from an anthropological perspective of the diverse ways in which freedom is understood and practised in everyday life, including the emergent relationships between governance, autonomy and liberty. The contributors offer a wealth of ethnographic insight from a variety of geographic, cultural and political contexts. Taken together the essays constitute a radical challenge to assumptions about what freedom means in today’s world.
Author : Sir Stanley Spencer,Fiona MacCarthy,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,Mexico City Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo,British Council,Fine arts museums (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300073379
Finding inspiration in his quiet village on the river Thames, early 20th-century painter Stanley Spencer drew on his familiar world to arrive at an art of epic grandeur--though often homely and weird. Biographer Fiona MacCarthy investigates Spencer's life, sets his work in its cultural context, and emphasizes the links between his life and his paintings--and sheds new light on this sensitive and enigmatic artist. 85 color and 30 b&w illustrations. .
Author : Andrew Causey
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 1848221460
Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence unique among British artists of his generation. His art comments on religion, love, sexuality, fraternity and community. Covering all aspects of Spencer's paintings, this original publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the artist's entire oeuvre.
Author : Max Porter
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571366521
A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny.Madrid. Unfinished.Man Dying.A great painter lies on his deathbed.Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.
Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119881056
A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysis The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach explores the rise and fall of the social properties of words, charting ways in which they take on new social connotations. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text matches up sociolinguistic theory with social history and biography to discover which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when. Social factors such as class, age, race, region, gender, occupation, religion and criminality are discussed in British and American English. From familiar words such as popcorn, porridge, café, to less common words like burgoo, califont, etna, and phrases like kiss me quick, monkey parade, slap-bang shop, The Social Life of Words demonstrates some of the many ways a new word or phrase can develop social affiliations. Detailed yet accessible chapters cover key areas of historical sociolinguistics, including concepts such as social networks, communities of practice, indexicality and enregisterment, prototypes and stereotypes, polysemy, onomasiology, language regard, lexical appropriation, and more. The first book to take a focused look at lexis as a topic for sociolinguistic analysis, The Social Life of Words: Introduces sociolinguistic theories and shows how they can be applied to the lexicon Demonstrates how readers can apply sociolinguistic theory to their own analyses of words in English and other languages Provides an engaging and amusing new look at many familiar words, inviting students to explore the sociolinguistic properties of words over time for themselves Part of Wiley Blackwell’s acclaimed Language in Society series, The Social Life of Words is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and linguists working in sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, English lexicology, and the history and development of modern English.
Author : Sir Stanley Spencer
Publisher : Unicorn Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1910065595
Stanley Spencer's paintings are detailed and vibrant and very often depict his deep but eccentric Christian beliefs. One of his greatest achievements were the murals painted in the Sandham Memorial Chapel in Burghclere, inspired by his war service and showing realistic scenes of everyday life in a war zone, with dreamlike visions drawn from his imagination. Throughout his life Spencer kept a series of journals, noting things down and sketching the things around him, and these journals are now in the Tate Gallery Archive. This book is the first of a three volume set where these journals (though abridged) are published for the first time. The journals give an insight into how Spencer thought and how he worked. Spencer received numerous awards and great recognition throughout his life and was knighted in 1958.
Author : Steven Parissien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781801108737
An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. Building Britannia is a chronicle of social, political and economic change seen through the prism of the country's built environment, but also a sequence of closely observed studies of a series of intrinsically remarkable structures: some of them beautiful or otherwise imposing; some of them more coldly functional; all of them with richly fascinating stories to tell. Steven Parissien tells both a national story, tracing how a growing sense of British nationhood was expressed through the country's architecture, and also examines how these structures were used by later generations to signpost, mythologise or remake British history. Rubbing shoulders with some 'expected' building choices – the Roman baths at Aquae Sulis, the early Gothic splendour of Lincoln Cathedral and the Tudor jewel that is Little Moreton Hall – are some striking inclusions that promise to open doors into what will be, for many readers, less familiar areas of social history: these include The Briton's Protection, a Regency pub close in Manchester city centre and the Edwardian Baroque Electric Cinema in Notting Hill, one of the country's oldest working cinemas. Thus as well as identifying the relevance of certain iconic structures to the unfolding of the national story, Building Britannia finds fascination and meaning in the everyday and the disregarded.
Author : Carrick Hill (Springfield, S. Aust. : House)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : PSU:000020190613
Lavishly produced catalogue of the English collection of paintings and furniture created by Sir Edward and Lady Hayward. South Australians of note, their diverse collection held at Carrick Hill reflects an interest in both contemporary and antique art.
Author : Sir Stanley Spencer,Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Figurative painting, British
ISBN : 0300074263
"Stanley Spencer, a central figure in the current revival of European figurative painting, is among the most important English painters of the twentieth century. In this book, Fiona MacCarthy investigates Spencer's life, sets his work in its cultural context, and emphasises the links between his life and his paintings. With the extensive commentary - edited from Spencer's own writings - on each of the stunning reproductions of Spencer's paintings, this volume provides a comprehensive account of a profoundly original artist and his work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Nicola Upson
Publisher : Duckworth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0715653687
The First World War is over, and in a quiet Hampshire village, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime, painting an entire chapel in memory of a life lost in the war to end all wars. Combining his own traumatic experiences with moments of everyday redemption, the chapel will become his masterpiece. When Elsie Munday arrives to take up position as housemaid to the Spencer family, her life quickly becomes entwined with the charming and irascible Stanley, his artist wife Hilda and their tiny daughter Shirin. As the years pass, Elsie does her best to keep the family together even when love, obsession and temptation seem set to tear them apart...
Author : Gordon Hayward
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781423602453
In Art and the Gardener, Gordon Hayward's tenth book on garden design, he makes a radical departure from his earlier approaches in order to explore elements of visual language across two artistic disciplines-fine painting and garden design-in hopes that the remarkable crosscurrents will help reveal how to design or simply appreciate your garden with greater acuity.
Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781448104963
Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges. Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird when they arrived on our shores? Drawn from Jenny Uglow's own love for plants, this lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for ornamental grasses and 'outdoor rooms' today. Tracking down the ordinary folk who worked the earth - from weeding women to florists - as well as aristocrats and grand designers and famous plant-hunters, A Little History of British Gardening is brought to life by gorgeously vivid illustrations and Uglow's insightful wisdom. Not only dealing with flowery meads, grottoes and vistas, landscapes and ha-has, parks and allotments, Uglow explains, for example, how the Tudors made their curious knots; how housewives used herbs to stop freckles; how the suburbs dug for victory in World War II. With a brief guide to particular historic or evocative gardens open to the public, this is a book to put in your pocket when planning a crisp, winter's day out - but also to read in your armchair with a well-earned glass of red, after a hard day's graft in your own garden. 'Enchanting, stirringly evocative and fascinating' Daily Mail 'This book will be a joy for any gardener' Independent
Author : Kenneth Pople
Publisher : HarperCollins (UK)
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004104871
Spencer is admired for his strange and thrilling settings of biblical and semi-biblical scenes, his grippingly realist portraits and his intense English landscapes. Pople seeks to understand Spencer on his own terms.