Author: Stanley Gibbons Publisher: ISBN: 9780852596210 Category : Postage stamps Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
This edition contains definitive and commemorative stamp issues up to Spring 2006. The catalogue is an essential guide for one-country collectors.
Author: Hugh Jefferies Publisher: ISBN: 9781911304029 Category : Postage stamps Languages : en Pages : 736
Book Description
Comprehensively illustrated, this is the world-recognised catalogue covering Great Britain and the British Commonwealth countries and is accepted as the standard guide to postage stamps value.
Author: Martin Townsend Publisher: ISBN: 9780956490292 Category : Moths Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
A concise guide to all the larger moths of Britain and Ireland, illustrated with 1600 superbly detailed colour artworks of almost 880 species, showing most in their natural resting postures.
Author: Julia Griffin Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited ISBN: 9781848224537 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
Showcasing the extraordinary achievements of the proponents of Polish modernism from the 1890s to 1918, this ground-breaking book brings together pioneering research with beautiful imagery. Mloda Polska, or Young Poland, embraced the integration of fine and applied arts, motivated by a desire to establish a distinctive national style at a time of political uncertainty. Patriotic values were expressed through a diverse visual language that was fuelled by national identity, but also looked beyond Poland to Western Europe and the influences of Impressionism, Expressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, while also displaying parallels with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Young Poland's painting has been discussed within an international arena, but its decorative arts and architecture has yet to enjoy broad exposure. Here, for the first time, the considerable achievements of the movement's applied artists will be discussed, both from a national and international perspective. Highlighting Young Poland's integration of fine and decorative arts, the movement's ideological, stylistic and formal commonalities with British Arts and Crafts, and the vision of Ruskin and Morris, will be drawn out to provide fascinating insights for Western and Eastern audiences alike.
Author: Alec Hamilton Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited ISBN: 9781848223219 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
These churches are visually arresting, with often quaint, at times far-fetched and capricious exteriors. Internally, they often contain beautiful works of art, including reredoses, pulpits, lecterns, pews, doors, lighting, stained glass and altars. They also tell a fascinating story about religion as Britain entered the age of modernity. While the architects were often religiously sceptical, they were still committed to making beauty, despite their ambivalence about its higher purpose. Beginning with an introductory section in which author Alec Hamilton sets out the social and political context in which these churches were designed and constructed; on the Arts & Crafts more generally; and on the architects' and clients' beliefs, this book is then divided into regional sections: West Country; the South of England; the South East; London; the Home Counties; the Marches; the West Midlands; the East Midlands; the East of England; the North West; Yorkshire; the North of England; Wales; Scotland. Each section is headed by a short essay highlighting key architects and descriptions of notable churches within each region.
Author: PROKOPOW Publisher: Contemporary Painters ISBN: 9781848224773 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered 'observations' of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning. Anderson's painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20thcentury abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural features, at once obscuring and adding to underlying ruminations on identity and place. Drawing on interviews with the artist, Michael J. Prokopow offers a critical assessment of Hurvin Anderson's painting practice to date that will be enlightening for all students, dealers and collectors of contemporary painting.
Author: Melanie GERLIS Publisher: Hot Topics in the Art World ISBN: 9781848225039 Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
Book Description
In just half a century of growth, the art fair industry has transformed the art market. Now, for the first time, art market journalist Melanie Gerlis tells the story of art fairs' rapid ascent and reflects on their uncertain future. From the first post-war European art fairs built on the imperial 19th-century model of the International Exhibitions, to the global art fairs of the 21st century and their new online manifestations, it's a tale of many twists and turns. The book brings to life the people, places and philosophies that enabled art fairs to take root, examines the pivotal market periods when they flourished, and maps where they might go in a much-changed world.
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