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Arts in Health: Designing and Researching Interventions provides a complete overview of how to go about undertaking research and practice in the field of arts in health. It starts by exploring the context for arts in health interventions, including the history of the use of arts in health and the theoretical and political developments that have laid the foundations for its flourishing. It also considers what 'arts in health' encompasses and the range of disciplines involved. The book will be valuable for researchers, practitioners, healthcare professionals and those interested in learning more about the field.
Explores the main themes that have exercised visual art in Wales throughout most of the twentieth century, by outlining the conception and history of the largest community of artists in Wales - The Welsh Group. This title brings together names as diverse in practice as Sir Cedric Morris, Ceri Richards and Brenda Chamberlin.
In rural Wales, Helen, an amateur bird watcher, investigates the apparent suicide of a 'rare bird' named Emrys. Helen's inner life is slowly revealed through a mixture of naturalistic detail and phantasmagoric occurrences.
Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations bridges the fields of performance, feminism, maternal studies, and ethics. It loosely follows the life course with chapters on maternal loss, pregnancy, birth, aftermath, maintenance, generations, and futures. Performance and the maternal have an affinity as both are lived through the body of the mother/artist, are played out in real time, and are concerned with creating ethical relationships with an other – be that other the child, the theatrical audience, or our wider communities. The authors contend that maternal performance takes the largely hidden, private and domestic work of mothering and makes it worthy of consideration and contemplation within the public sphere.
“The more I make love, the more I want revolution; the more I make revolution, the more I want to make love.†? In Paris, in May of 1968, revolution, and love are very much in the air. The barricades are going up, the students of the Sorbonne are taking to streets alive with the graffiti of revolt, and the Odeon is ablaze with speechmaking. For Annie, a young American painter, and Julian, her Portuguese lover, a banker and anarchist, the events of that Paris spring form the backdrop against which their love affair is played. Annie sees the world through an artist's eyes; she is reckless in her passions, wanting and needing love with other people. There is none of this fanciful nonsense fo...
A moving human story of love and courage, the first full telling of an extraordinary family saga. Shy and fabulously wealthy, the Davies sisters of Llandinam pluckily went to war, poured their fortune into charity and famously created for their country a magical trove of paintings, a joy for ever. Gwendoline and Margaret Davies believed that beauty had a power to do good. The art collection they bequeathed to the Welsh nation embodies this belief, and it is thanks to their generosity that National Museum Wales now houses the work of names such as Monet, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Renoir and Rodin. They were the granddaughters of the great industrialist and philanthropist David Davies of Llandinam, but for all their fortune and privilege, they lived lives honed by shyness and self-denial, and haunted by love. Yet they adventured and pioneered: a medal salutes their Red Cross service in the Great War inFrance, for instance. This is the first book dedicated solely to the lives of the Davies sisters, illustrated by photographs from the family archive, and by over 50 pictures showcasing the glories of their collection, their "gift of sunlight."
'Letters from Wales stands alone as an invaluable guide to Welsh writing.' – Sam Young, Wales Arts Review 'In these columns, as impressive for their depth as they are for their intellectual breadth, Adams analyses the work of acclaimed Welsh writers ... with scholarly panache' – Joshua Rees, Buzz Magazine 'illuminating and entertaining' – Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters – a quarter century of work – and offers one of the most unique, indepe...
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The first volume in Alexander Cordell's classic trilogy of mid-nineteenth century Wales. Set in the grim valleys of the Welsh iron country during the turbulent times of the Industrial Revolution, this unforgettable novel begins the saga of the Mortymer family - a family of hard men and beautiful women, all forced into a bitter struggle with their harsh environment, as they slave and starve for the cruel English ironmasters. But adversity could never still the free spirit of Wales, or quiet its soaring voice, and the Mortymers struggle on even as the iron foundries ravish their homeland and cripple their people. Rape of the Fair Country launched the bestselling career of Alexander Cordell in 1959 and went on to sell millions of copies in seventeen languages throughout the world.