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Watching the River Run

A Photographic Journey Down the Youghiogheny
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9780822948414
Pub Date: 11 Feb 2025
Description:
Watching the River Run, A Photographic Journey Down the Youghiogheny, is the perfect photographic companion to Palmer's classic Youghiogheny, Appalachian River

Their Kindred Earth

Photographs by William Earle Williams
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781880897348
Pub Date: 04 Feb 2025
Illustrations: 10 color photos, 80 halftones
Description:
Evocative new photographs of Connecticut by celebrated photographer William Earle Williams provide insight to the stories of Black American historyTheir Kindred Earth gathers images of Black Connecticut's historic sites by celebrated photographer William Earle Williams. A series of connected essays illuminate how these sites connect to the larger national and international narrative of Black American history. Over the past forty years artist William Earle Williams (born 1950) has made sites of African American history more visible through his exquisite photographs.
Next Size Up (volume 1) and Size Isn't Everything (volume 2) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9781861543844
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Description:
Next Size Up is a brand new book exploring the world of fashion, sport, design, art and music through the unique and powerful prism of contemporary Sneaker Culture as it enters another phase in its evolution. The world of sneakers has taken centre stage of not only youth culture, but also the mainstream creative industries including luxury fashion and music. Next Size Up talks to the protagonists who made this happen and also explores what happens next.
Phyllis Dodd (1899-1995)/ Douglas Percy Bliss (1900-1984) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781999314538
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024
Illustrations: Over 200 illus.
Description:
Phyllis Dodd was born in Chester and studied firstly at Liverpool School of Art 1917-21 After winning a Royal Exhibition scholarship spent a further four years at the RCA in the company of her life-long friends Henry Moore, Raymond Coxon and Edna Ginesi. After gaining her diploma and winning the Drawing Prize in her final year she went on to teach part-time at Walthamstow Technical College 1925-30. Dodd exhibited at the RA, NEAC, RP, RSA and at the Walker Art Gallery.
RRP: £25.00
12th Century Colour Palettes Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9780946311231
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024
Description:
Treatises on painting between the 1st and the 12th centuries A.D. may have been many but those preserved are found in two manuscripts from the 10th and 12th centuries: the Mappae Clavicula and Eraclius, On the Arts and Colours of the Romans – both of which probably date from c.
13th Century Colour Palettes Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780946311255
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024
Description:
A French collection of recipes for painting on parchment, On Making Colours, by a painter, Peter of St. Audemar, possibly of the Benedictine Abbey of St Bertin at St. Omer in northern France.
19th Century Colour Palettes Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780946311279
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024
Illustrations: approx. 12 col plates
Description:
The 19th century was a century of new pigments. They were derived from recently recognised metals –cadmium, chrome, zinc and others – as well as from the discovery of the chemical colouring substances of plants. From indigo the aniline dyes were manufactured, and from madder came the alizarin red pigments – there were hundreds of these coal tar pigments.
1st-19th Century Pigments Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780946311262
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024
Description:
A collection of all the historical pigments mentioned in the treatises included in the series Colour Palettes, by century, complemented by recipes from other contemporary sources. The entries define the pigment – colour, its source (animal, plant, mineral) and its name – and describe its method of preparation, with historical remarks tracing the pigment through the centuries. Recipes provide the documentary history of the pigment beginning with the earliest known through to 1837, the date of George Field's, Chromatography, to make up a history of each pigment.
Santa Isabel Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780861592432
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 600
Description:
This portrait of Santa Isabel in over 600 pictures shows an island transformed by its colonial history yet maintaining a confident and distinctive identity within Solomon Islands and the Pacific Island region.Santa Isabel is one of the largest islands that make up the island nation of Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific. Politically it is now one of nine provinces, each with its own variation of a shared history.
Reinventing the Cabinet of Wonder Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9788775975020
Pub Date: 05 Dec 2024
Description:
How can exhibitions stage encounters between art and science that not only make sense for visitors but encourage them to explore the intricate relationship between themselves and the world further? This book presents a collection of texts that explore exhibitions as a medium for new insights into connections between aesthetic and scientific knowledge production and how such insights facilitate new, more holistic understandings of entanglements between self and lifeworld. The texts all take their outset in a series of three exhibitions called Wunderkammer at Esbjerg Art Museum in Denmark from 2018 to 2022.
The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 3 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781910221594
Pub Date: 05 Dec 2024
Illustrations: 350
Description:
Following the success of The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting in 2018 and The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 2 in 2021, a third volume has been created to showcase solo exhibitions that have defined contemporary painting since the second volume. This new, even larger anthology presents the work of eighty-five artists born or living in Britain through documentation and discussion of solo exhibitions of their work in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. Featuring artists at different stages of their careers, from senior figures exhibiting at major museums to emerging artists presenting some of their first commercial gallery exhibitions, The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 3 offers an overview of recent activity in the medium of painting in Britain.
The Magic Hours Cover The Magic Hours Cover
Format: 
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781985901186
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2024
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 19 b&w illustrations
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781985901193
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2024
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 19 b&w illustrations
Description:
Terrence Malick is the most enigmatic film director currently working. Since the early seventies, his work has won top prizes at film festivals worldwide and brought him wide recognition as the cinematic equivalent of a poet. His life is shrouded in mystery, leaving audiences with rumors, few established facts, and virtual silence from the filmmaker himself following his last published interview in 1979.
China’s 1800s Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780861592418
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2024
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 300
Description:
Material and visual culture of China’s long 19th century is understandably overshadowed by the traumatic warfare, land shortages, famines and uprisings which impacted the lives of a population of around 400 million people. However, innovation can be seen in material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles, fashion, jewellery, ceramics, lacquer, glass, arms and armour, rugs, silver, money, and photography) during a century in which China’s art, literature, crafts and technology faced unprecedented exposure to global influences. Despite this however, until recently, the 19th century in China has been often defined – and dismissed – as an era of cultural decline.
Spatial Theories for the Americas Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780822948339
Pub Date: 19 Nov 2024
Illustrations: 42 b&w illustrations
Description:
To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from another, very different, continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and mostly architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism.

An Obstacle Confusion

The Wonderful World of Barney McKenna
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781912589432
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Barney McKenna – “Banjo Barney from Donnycarney” – was one of the founder-members of the Dubliners, the world-famous Irish folk musicians and singers who in 2002 celebrated forty years on the road as a band. For Dubliners fans, Barney’s name immediately conjures up the image of the burly, bearded banjo genius whodazzled the audience with his virtuosity while charming them with his folksy, no-nonsense personality. However, Barney was also well known for another reason: he was capable of bringing any conversation to a sudden stop by uttering something so completely unexpected, and at the same time so incomprehensible, as to reduceeveryone present to a bemused silence.
Tibetan Memories Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781960521064
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024
Illustrations: 72 black-and-white illustrations, including 61 duotone photographs by the author
Description:
This is the first book to present the stories and portraits of ordinary Tibetan women and men in exile, in their own words. It includes gorgeous photographs of the lands they embraced in Ladakh, where they fled after the Chinese annexed Tibet in 1959.To meet the people and make these photographs, the Johnsons traveled throughout Ladakh, visiting many villages, and interviewing dozens of people.