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Art Deco Style
The first book to explore Art Deco's influence in all areas of life.
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Art Deco Style
Characterized by geometric shapes, stylized natural forms and the use ofuxuriuos materials Art Deco originated in France and spread quickly all overhe globe during the 1930s. Interest in the style was revived in the 1960s,artly as a result of the work of Bevis Hillier who recalls his triumphs andistakes in writing the first book on the subject and co-organizing theinneapolis exhibition in 1971.;Stephen Escritt's text deals with recentcholarship and changing attitudes towards Art Deco, by charting its variousorldwide manifestations he demonstrates that the stle (althoughetrospectively labelled a movement) had a coherance that lead to itsnternational spread. The text is illustrated with examples from all over theorld, ranging from liners to letterboxes and from radios to lampposts.
John Betjeman
This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W. H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's daughter; pranks as a film critic; wartime service and probable espionage in Ireland, to the glory days of his later years when his Collected Poems became a runaway bestseller. This book is a distillation of Bevis Hillier's three-volume biography, authorized by Betjeman himself.
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Young Betjeman
John Betjeman was without question the most popular poet of the twentieth century and his poems have been bought and read by millions. He opened eyes to what before him had seemed ordinary, but is now unforgettable. There is no poet remotely like him and this first volume of Bevis Hillier's authoritative biography grants an exceptional insight to the life and times of the nation's best loved poet.
Betjeman
John Betjeman was the most read of living poets and, at his death in 1984, was the most loved. Here he is portrayed by Bevis Hillier in 'one of the richest and most entertaining biographies of recent times.' In this final volume, Betjeman is at the height of his fame, universally adopted as Teddy Bear to the Nation. By now he is known not just as a poet, but as a television personality too. He is also the essential public face of conservation, fighting - not always with great efficiency or success - to save our heritage. We live with him the triumph of Summoned by Bells, his richly emotional autobiography in verse, but also follow his tribulations as Poet Laureate, despairingly in search of inspiration in the bombastic events of royal and public life. Perhaps least expected of all is the pleasure he found in Banana Blush, the poems he recorded to the music of Jim Parker. As before, Bevis Hillier reveals the origins of Betjeman's most loved poems; brings to life his loves and enthusiasms; shows how important his religion, his love of laughter and his often hidden kindnesses were in his life; and reminds us of his particular hates.
