Author: Janice HellandPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719047831
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Studios of Frances and Margaret Macdonald
Author: Janice HellandPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719047831
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Glasgow Girls
Author: Jude BurkhauserPublisher: Canongate
ISBN: 9781841951515
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
At the turn of the 20th century, Glasgow was the centre for an avant-garde movement of art and design innovation in Europe, which we now refer to as The Glasgow Style. While the "Glasgow Boys" group of painters has been widely written about, their female contemporaries have received far less attention. In this work, the editor redresses this imbalance, bringing together research from 18 scholars on the work of an astonishing number of female artists from this period.
Doves and Dreams
Author: Frances MacdonaldPublisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : ru
Pages : 200
Book Description
A ground-breaking study that discusses, for the first time, the lives and careers of Frances Macdonald (1874-1921) and J. Herbert McNair (1868-1955), two important artists who have hitherto been considered as adjuncts to Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife, Margaret Macdonald.
Collaboration in the Work of Margaret MacDonald, Frances MacDonald, Charles Rennie MacKintosh and J. Herbert MacNair
Author: Bille WickreMackintosh Architecture
Author: Charles Rennie MackintoshPublisher:
ISBN: 9780312502430
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mackintosh's Masterwork
Author: Charles Rennie MackintoshPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813534459
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Of the many practitioners of art nouveau in Great Britain, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) has outlasted them all. His work bridged the more ornate style of the later nineteenth century and the forms of international modernism that followed. Like Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom he is frequently compared, he is known for so thoroughly integrating art and decoration that the two became inseparable. His work has been honored by a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his designs have proliferated to such an extent that they can be found reproduced in posters, prints, jewelry, and even new buildings. His most important project was the Glasgow School of Art, which still functions as a highly prestigious art school. This glorious building is visited each year by thousands of tourists from around the world. Built over a dozen years, beginning in 1897, the Glasgow School of Art is Mackintosh's greatest and most influential legacy. This completely redesigned and heavily illustrated edition of Mackintosh's Masterwork has been greatly expanded and contains newly discovered material about both the early life of the architect and the formative years in which his plans for the School of Art were executed.
The Radium Girls
Author: Kate MoorePublisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492649368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! For fans of Hidden Figures, comes the incredible true story of the women heroes who were exposed to radium in factories across the U.S. in the early 20th century, and their brave and groundbreaking battle to strengthen workers' rights, even as the fatal poison claimed their own lives... In the dark years of the First World War, radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" are the luckiest alive — until they begin to fall mysteriously ill. And, until they begin to come forward. As the women start to speak out on the corruption, the factories that once offered golden opportunities ignore all claims of the gruesome side effects. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come. A timely story of corporate greed and the brave figures that stood up to fight for their lives, these women and their voices will shine for years to come. Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives...
A Circle of Sisters
Author: Judith FlandersPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393052107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The MacDonald sisters started life in the lower-middle classes, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of social advancement. Yet, as wives and mothers, they connected a famous painter, a president of the Royal Academy, a prime minister, and the uncrowned poet laureate of the Empire.
Author: Gerald Larner
Author: