Author: Thomas GainsboroughPublisher:
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Category : Art, English
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Bicentenary Memorial Exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.
Author: Thomas GainsboroughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, English
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Bicentenary Memorial Exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. Illustrating the Various Periods of His Work, Also the Work of His Antecedents and Contemporaries and His Influence on the Art of His Own and Later Times. Under the Auspices of the Council of the County Borough of Ipswich, October 7th to November 5th, Ipswich Museum, 1927
Author: IPSWICH MUSEUM.Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Making of Kings Lynn: Secular Buildings from the 11th to the 17th Century
Author: Vanessa ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Robert Burns and Pastoral
Author: Nigel LeaskPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191591459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the writings of Robert Burns (1759-1796), arguably the most original poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake, and the creator of the first modern vernacular style in British poetry. Although still celebrated as Scotland's national poet, Burns has long been marginalised in English literary studies worldwide, due to a mistaken view that his poetry is linguistically incomprehensible and of interest to Scottish readers only. Nigel Leask challenges this view by interpreting Burns's poetry as an innovative and critical engagement with the experience of rural modernity, namely to the revolutionary transformation of Scottish agriculture and society in the decades between 1760 and 1800, thereby resituating it within the mainstream of the Scottish and European enlightenments. Detailed study of the literary, social, and historical contexts of Burns's poetry explodes the myth of the 'Heaven-taught ploughman', revealing his poetic artfulness and critical acumen as a social observer, as well as his significance as a Romantic precursor. Leask discusses Burns's radical decision to write 'Scots pastoral' (rather than English georgic) poetry in the tradition of Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson, focusing on themes of Scottish and British identity, agricultural improvement, poetic self-fashioning, language, politics, religion, patronage, poverty, antiquarianism, and the animal world. The book offers fresh interpretations of all Burns's major poems and some of the songs, the first to do so since Thomas Crawford's landmark study of 1960. It concludes with a new assessment of his importance for British Romanticism and to a 'Four Nations' understanding of Scottish literature and culture.
The Devil's Alternative
Author: Frederick ForsythPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101602163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Frederick Forsyth delivers a frighteningly possible novel of international terrorism and impending war… As the Russian people face starvation, the Politburo is faced with a hard choice: negotiate with America for food, go to war for national survival, or deal with an uprising in the motherland. Through an informant, British Agent Adam Munro learns that the situation is growing dangerously tense, with powerful forces in the USSR maneuvering for supremacy. But even as East and West conduct delicate talks, events spiral out of control and threaten to undo every step taken. The world’s largest oil tanker is hijacked by terrorists, and a Ukrainian “freedom fighter” is rescued in a bloody catastrophe on the Black Sea. From Moscow to Washington, the stakes grow ever more perilous as the mad actions of a few threaten to engulf the entire world in nuclear war—unless Munro can stop them.
A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: John Foster KirkPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
The Old English Plate of the Emperor of Russia
Author: Edward Alfred JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plate
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Auto-destructive Art
Author: Gustav MetzgerPublisher: AA Publications
ISBN: 9781907414503
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Auto-destructive art is a comprehensive theory for action in the field of the plastic arts in the post-second world war period. The action is not limited to theory of art and the production of art works. It includes social action. Auto-destructive art is committed to a left-wing revolutionary position in politics, and to struggles against future wars.' (Gustav Metzger, introduction to Auto-Destructive Art: Metzger at AA) Facsimile edition of a lecture transcript given by German-born artist Gustav Metzger at the Architectural Association in February 1965. This new edition is published 50 years on since its original printing in June 1965 by the AA's Action Communications Centre (A.C.C), reigniting Metzger's urgent and ever-relevant arguments which confront society's obsession with destruction and the detrimental effects of machinery on human life.'