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Perfect for anyone interested in the history of abstract art and geometric abstract art Covers British art in the later 20th and 21st centuries and British taste from the 1930s onwards, as the book explores earlier and current British responses to the art being discussed, including responses of indifference and hostility. Readers might include the gallery-going or generally interested public, academics, students and artists. Accessible history to be read by someone with little if any prior background as well as experts, the sections on the individual artists, told largely through interview, are personal accounts with full scholarly apparatus, and the original material.
'In this wide ranging and comprehensive survey of the designed landscapes of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, James Bartos argues convincingly that ornamental wildernesses should be viewed as distinctive design features which, when linked across an extensive terrain, took on the character of the whole landscape. As a result of this striking analysis, our understanding of the celebrated layouts at Wrest Park, Chiswick and Stowe, and many more besides, must be revised. Contrary to the received wisdom that wildernesses led inexorably to the more informal parkscapes associated with William Kent and Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, it was only when they were dismantled in the mid-...
A guide and reference to product reliability testing, this volume covers various steps from planning and test selection to test procedure and results analysis. It delivers information on a variety of distributions, including the Chi-Square, Exponential, Normal, Lognormal, Weibull, Gamma, and others.
A consolidated index to biographical sketches in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries.