This book reveals a great untold story of enterprise and innovation based on the relationship between the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Elkington & Co., the renowned industrial art and design ma
Elizabeth Blackadder has been a respected printmaker for over four decades and has experimented with a range of diverse media including lithography, etching, aquatint, drypoint, woodcut and screenprin
Reflecting a small part of the Merrill C. Berman collection of agitprop posters, this oversized volume (9.25x13.25") contains a catalogue of posters created between 1920-22 (they were the subject of a
This is the first fully illustrated monograph of Barbara Rae's career to date. One of Britain's outstanding contemporary painters, Rae is a Royal Academician and the recipient of numerous awards incl
For centuries the nude body was the highest expression of human aspiration. The nude was a vehicle to express many meanings, be they religious, classical, or literary. The language of the Nude acknow
Celebrating Moore is the biggest and most comprehensive single volume to be produced on the artist's oeuvre, and reproduces in colour over 250 of Henry Moore's most important sculptural works.The cor
This is a revised second edition of A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language first published in 1962. It is based on and replaces Thatcher's Arabic Grammar and has a vocabulary of over 4,000 words
Decorative and applied arts played a major role in shaping the Modernist aesthetic. Western artists and collectors saw textiles, particularly the abstract and handcrafted textiles from non-Western soc
Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) died at the age of thirty-nine when the Air Sea Rescue mission, which he was accompanying in his capacity as Official War Artist, failed to return to its base in Iceland. I
Focuses on the visual work of poet-painter Isaac Rosenberg. This book explores his art in the context of his Whitechapel peers. It includes photographs of the artist and his contemporaries, reproducti
A study of artists in exile in Britain between about 1933 and 1945. It deals with those artists mostly of German and Austrian descent who fled Nazi persecution, and comprises paintings, prints, sculpt
One of the most carefully prepared liturgies of any Roman Catholic parish's year is the celebration of 'First Communion'. This is the ritual by which seven- or eight -year-old children are admitted to
Born into a mining family in rural Cumberland, British painter Sheila Fell (1931--79) studied at Carlisle College of Art, then at St Martin's School of Art in London. Though she spent her adult life i
George Fullard: Sculpture and Survival is the first book for almost 20 years on the life and work of this highly individual British artist, whose achievement and influence are now winning belated reco
This is the first book in over a century to examine the important work of the watercolor artist Frederick Walker (1840–75) and his closest artistic allies. He was greatly admired (and collected) by Vi
Since the mid-1970s, American painter Stanley Whitney has been exploring the formal possibilities of colour within grids of multi-coloured blocks. Christopher Stackhouse's thoughtful book, the fir
Engaging Deconstructive Theology presents an evangelical approach for theological conversation with postmodern thinkers. Themes are considered from Derrida, Foucault, Mark C. Taylor, Rorty, and Cupitt
