Author: John Betjeman
Publisher: London : Blond
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Written when Betjeman was 26 and criticised by the author himself in this edition for showing "sententiousness, arrogance and sweeping generalisation." Includes a potted autobiography of his early years showing how he came to write such a book.
Ghastly Good Taste
Author: John Betjeman
Publisher: London : Blond
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Written when Betjeman was 26 and criticised by the author himself in this edition for showing "sententiousness, arrogance and sweeping generalisation." Includes a potted autobiography of his early years showing how he came to write such a book.
Publisher: London : Blond
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Written when Betjeman was 26 and criticised by the author himself in this edition for showing "sententiousness, arrogance and sweeping generalisation." Includes a potted autobiography of his early years showing how he came to write such a book.
Ghastly Good Taste; Or, a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture
Ghastly Good Taste
Author: Sir John Betjeman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Ghastly Good Taste, Or, A Depressing, Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture
Author: John Betjeman
Publisher: Century
ISBN: 9780712694629
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher: Century
ISBN: 9780712694629
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Summoned by Bells
Author: John Betjeman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780719522208
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Tells the story of a boy's growth to early manhood, seaside holidays, meddling arts, school bullies and an unexpected moment of religious awakening.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780719522208
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Tells the story of a boy's growth to early manhood, seaside holidays, meddling arts, school bullies and an unexpected moment of religious awakening.
The House in Good Taste
Author: Elsie De Wolfe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interior decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interior decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Author: Alexandra Harris
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500778434
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties. In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops. Alexandra Harris tells a different story: eclectically, passionately, wittily, urgently, English artists were exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. They showed that “the modern” need not be at war with the past: constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré László Moholy-Nagy was beguiled into taking photos for Betjeman’s nostalgic An Oxford University Chest. A rich network of personal and cultural encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance. This great imaginative project was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, and composers. Piper abandoned purist abstracts to make collages on the blustery coast; Virginia Woolf wrote in her last novel about a village pageant on a showery summer day. Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, and the Sitwells are also part of the story, along with Bill Brandt and Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500778434
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties. In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops. Alexandra Harris tells a different story: eclectically, passionately, wittily, urgently, English artists were exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. They showed that “the modern” need not be at war with the past: constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré László Moholy-Nagy was beguiled into taking photos for Betjeman’s nostalgic An Oxford University Chest. A rich network of personal and cultural encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance. This great imaginative project was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, and composers. Piper abandoned purist abstracts to make collages on the blustery coast; Virginia Woolf wrote in her last novel about a village pageant on a showery summer day. Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, and the Sitwells are also part of the story, along with Bill Brandt and Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.
Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young
Author: Chiara Briganti
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754653172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book provides an analytical model for reading a large body of modernist works by women. The authors document the publication and reception history of E. H. Young's novels, make a significant contribution to the field of 'homeculture,' and show that the fictional embodiment of home in Young, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Lettice Cooper, E. M. Delafield, Stella Gibbons, Storm Jameson, and E. Arnot Robertson epitomizes the symbiosis between architecture and literature, or between the house and the novel.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754653172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book provides an analytical model for reading a large body of modernist works by women. The authors document the publication and reception history of E. H. Young's novels, make a significant contribution to the field of 'homeculture,' and show that the fictional embodiment of home in Young, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Lettice Cooper, E. M. Delafield, Stella Gibbons, Storm Jameson, and E. Arnot Robertson epitomizes the symbiosis between architecture and literature, or between the house and the novel.
A Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191580015
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English and uses research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. This edition has been revised and fully updated and includes numerous entirely new entries. It also features expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evidence of its use, this A-Z guide provides a thorough - and fascinating - history for every entry. Arranged in A-Z format and with a useful thematic index, A Dictionary of Proverbs is ideal for browsing and perfectly suited for quick reference. Look up your old favourites, learn punchy new expressions to get your point across, and find the answer to that crossword clue. Seeing is believing: find proverbs relevant to every aspect of life in this entertaining and informative collection.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191580015
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English and uses research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. This edition has been revised and fully updated and includes numerous entirely new entries. It also features expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evidence of its use, this A-Z guide provides a thorough - and fascinating - history for every entry. Arranged in A-Z format and with a useful thematic index, A Dictionary of Proverbs is ideal for browsing and perfectly suited for quick reference. Look up your old favourites, learn punchy new expressions to get your point across, and find the answer to that crossword clue. Seeing is believing: find proverbs relevant to every aspect of life in this entertaining and informative collection.
Urban Reflections
Author: Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 184742841X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, this unique book looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 184742841X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, this unique book looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change.