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Situating the Tudor dynasty, their court, and the country, in an international context, this book will be highly illustrated and feature contemporary research in an accessible way. It will provide an overview of the ways in which the Tudors engaged with the world and were impacted by broader currents: the internationalism of court culture, religious shifts, trade, naval conflict and the expansion in the Americas. The introductory text will consider the legacies of the Tudors, as the monarchs who reigned during the tumultuous years of the Reformation and the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade and English colonialism. Taking a thematic and biographical approach, the book will feature s...
Imagine stepping into someone else's shoes. Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousands of pounds designed by Yanturni of Paris, or wooden clogs with metal cleats that spark on the cobbles of a factory yard? Would your shoes be heavy with mud from trudging along duckboards between the tents of a front-line hospital or stuck with tufts of turf from a football pitch? Would you be cloaked in green and purple, brandishing a 'Votes for Women' banner, or would you be respectably dressed, restricted by your thigh-length corset? Great War Fashion opens the wardrobe of women in the years before the outbreak of war to explore the real woma...
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Published to accompany the exhibition at Tate Liverpool, June 29-Sept. 23, 2007.
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Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was a major figure in post-war British art who is known for his searching portraits of the male nude and his association with the Neo-Romantic painters. This book provides for the first time a definitive, illustrated account of his life and work, exploring his wide-ranging achievement as a modern British artist.
Ben Hartley , who died in 1996, was an outstandingly gifted painter who sought nothing but obscurity. But he spent his life making pictures of beautiful, vivid color, humour and a feeling of joy touched with poignancy. He lived a solitary life in Devon, always struggling with poor health and making little effort to show his work. In the 1970s he was introduced to Bernard Samuels, director of Plymouth Art Centre, who set about exhibiting and selling the work, while respecting the artist's wish for privacy. Hartley spent the last years of his life in Presteigne, a small town on the Welsh border with Herefordshire. He died in 1996, leaving a bequest of some 900 gouaches and over 300 notebooks full of beautiful drawings. This is the first monograph on the artist. It covers the brief story of his very simple way of life, devoted to country life and the art of the French post-impressionists, in particular Bonnard and Matisse.
The era from 1890 to 1930 constituted a building boom for American art museums designed in a monumental, classical style; both the proliferation of the buildings and the ubiquity of the style seem to indicate an architectural as well as a sociocultural phenomenon. The present work is an attempt to place the American art museum building of this period into its historical milieu, and employs over one hundred illustrations and sociocultural analysis to explain the significance of both the institutions and the structures housing them to those who came into regular contact with them, including architects, patrons, journalists, and museum personnel.
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