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Book Benton End Remembered

Download or read book Benton End Remembered written by Gwenneth Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines opened The East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, Essex, in 1937 they were both established artists with international reputations...Their idea was to set up an art school which would provide an alternative to the formal courses offered by the art schools in the metropolis. The aim, as expressed in the school's brochure, was to provide 'an environment where students can work together with more experienced artists in a common endeavour to produce sincere painting.' The emphasis was on encouraging freedom of invention, enthusiasm, and enjoyment, with the assumption that the student 'believes himself to have a clear idea of creative work and requires help only in its production'...The extracts which form the text of this book are based largely on conversations with our contributors which took place during the years 1998 and 1999. Articles, extracts from an autobiography and a diary are also included. They comprise the affectionate memories of a few of those who knew and loved Benton End and its two gifted and hospitable hosts." -- from the Introduction.

Book The Bentons

Download or read book The Bentons written by Patricia Cost and published by RIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ease with which we can choose a typeface today is something we take for granted, but it is possible only because of the tremendous amount of labor of the Bentons.

Book Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound

Download or read book Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound written by Leo G. Mazow and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Argues that musical imagery in the art of American painter Thomas Hart Benton was part of a larger belief in the capacity of sound to register and convey meaning"--Provided by publisher.

Book Benton End Remembered

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gwynneth Reynolds
  • Publisher : Unicorn Publishing Group
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Benton End Remembered written by Gwynneth Reynolds and published by Unicorn Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When in 1939 Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines visited Benton End, overlooking the River Brett on the outskirts of Hadleigh, Suffolk, they were both established artists with international reputations. What they found was a somewhat ramshackle but capacious sixteenth-century house which had been unoccupied for fifteen years, standing in over three acres of walled gardens lost beneath brambles and elderberries. But in 1940, Benton End became both their home and the new premises of the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing which they, disillusioned with the commercial aspects of the art world, had founded together in 1937." "From 1940 until Lett Haines died in 1978 and Cedric Morris in 1982, Benton End was an exotic world apart where art, literature, good food, gardening and lively conversation combined to produce an extraordinarily stimulating environment for amateurs and professionals alike. Ronald Blythe recalls that 'there was a whiff of garlic and wine in the air. The atmosphere ... was robust and coarse, and exquisite and tentative all at once. Rough and ready and fine mannered. Also faintly dangerous.'" "The sharply differing characters and interests of Cedric Morris and Lett Haines ensured the widest range of contacts and visitors to Benton End who included Victoria Sackville-West, Elizabeth David, Francis Bacon, Randolph Churchill, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. There was no formal teaching and students were left free to pursue their own enthusiasms and to show their work to Cedric or Lett for advice. Cedric's skill as a plantsman and noted breeder of irises, contrasted with Lett's intellectual sophistication and interest in food, wine, artistic experimentation and general lack of enthusiasm for the outdoors." "Over the years many hundreds of students and visitors spent time at Benton End and these included Lucian Freud, Lucy Harwood, David Carr, Glyn Morgan, Kathleen Hale, Beth Chatto, Maggi Hambling and Ronald Blythe. It was Gwynneth Reynolds whose idea it was to assemble the recollections of 30 other former students and friends and to illustrate them with over 70 colour reproductions of works by Lett Haines and Cedric Morris."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Point of Origin

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  • Author : Patricia Cornwell
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1999-08-01
  • ISBN : 1101207345
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Point of Origin written by Patricia Cornwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clues to a series of remorseless killings go up in smoke—and only Kay Scarpetta can find them in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Patricia Cornwell. “Sears its way into the psyche…Ablaze with Cornwell’s finest, scariest writing.”—Atlanta Journal Constitution The devastating fire tore through the horse farm, destroying everything it touched. Picking through the wreckage, Dr. Kay Scarpetta uncovers human remains—the work of an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his brutal murders. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is somehow involved, the investigation becomes personal. Tragedy strikes close to home. And Scarpetta must match Grethen’s every move with one of her own to douse the inferno of evil that threatens everyone around her... Includes an Introduction by the Author

Book A Lesson in Art and Life

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  • Author : Hugh St Clair
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-04-06
  • ISBN : 9781914902055
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Lesson in Art and Life written by Hugh St Clair and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (known as Lett) (1894-1978) were an extraordinary couple who were at the center of the Modern British art scene. After studying in Paris in the 1920s, they moved to London. Morris became a sought-after painter of flowers, birds and landscapes, while Lett was hailed as Britain's first Surrealist. Together they founded the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Benton End in Suffolk, attended by Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling. Lett ran the school and was a superb cook who swapped recipes with Elizabeth David. Cedric Morris became an award-winning plantsman and poppy and iris breeder. He was an acknowledged influence on many gardeners, including Beth Chatto. This biography, revised and updated for this paperback edition, is a fascinating portrait of a unique couple who were hugely influential across the spheres of gardening and cookery as well as art. With 16 pages of color and black and white illustrations.

Book Remembering Trauma

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  • Author : Richard J. McNally
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2005-05-27
  • ISBN : 9780674018020
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book Remembering Trauma written by Richard J. McNally and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-27 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesising clinical case reports and the research literature on the effects of stress, suggestion and trauma on memory, Richard McNally arrives at significant conclusions, first and foremost that traumatic experiences are indeed unforgettable.

Book This Is My Beloved

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  • Author : Walter Benton
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2012-08-15
  • ISBN : 0307805131
  • Pages : 43 pages

Download or read book This Is My Beloved written by Walter Benton and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Never before has the delight and wonder experienced in young love, in which is implicit physical discovery, been conveyed with such touching honesty or with rhapsody so involving unconscious pathos. Those who seek to drag any honest writing through the gutters of their own minds will do the same with this. Those who are not afraid of the strange miracle of life will understand this brave verse.” —William Rose Benét

Book Good Luck with That

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  • Author : Kristan Higgins
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2019-04-30
  • ISBN : 0451489403
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book Good Luck with That written by Kristan Higgins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Purewow’s “Best Beach Reads of Summer 2018” Winner for Best Book of 2018 of the Fresh Fiction Awards! New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins is beloved for her heartfelt novels filled with humor and wisdom. Now, she tackles an issue every woman deals with: body image and self-acceptance. Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens. When Emerson tragically passes away, she leaves one final wish for her best friends: to conquer the fears they still carry as adults. For each of them, that means something different. For Marley, it's coming to terms with the survivor's guilt she's carried around since her twin sister's death, which has left her blind to the real chance for romance in her life. For Georgia, it's about learning to stop trying to live up to her mother's and brother's ridiculous standards, and learning to accept the love her ex-husband has tried to give her. But as Marley and Georgia grow stronger, the real meaning of Emerson's dying wish becomes truly clear: more than anything, she wanted her friends to love themselves. A novel of compassion and insight, Good Luck With That tells the story of two women who learn to embrace themselves just the way they are.

Book Sullivan s Island

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  • Author : Dorothea Benton Frank
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2004-01-06
  • ISBN : 1101220694
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Sullivan s Island written by Dorothea Benton Frank and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the steamy, stormy landscape of South Carolina, this New York Times bestseller from the author of Queen Bee is the unforgettable story of one woman’s courageous journey toward truth… Born and raised on idyllic Sullivan’s Island, Susan Hayes navigated through her turbulent childhood with humor, spunk, and characteristic Southern sass. But years later, she is a conflicted woman with an unfaithful husband, a sometimes resentful teenage daughter, and a heart that aches with painful, poignant memories. And as Susan faces her uncertain future, she realizes that she must go back to her past. To the beachfront house where her sister welcomes her with open arms. To the only place she can truly call home...

Book Doctor Who  The Target Storybook

Download or read book Doctor Who The Target Storybook written by Terrance Dicks and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’re all stories in the end... In this exciting collection you’ll find all-new stories spinning off from some of your favourite Doctor Who moments across the history of the series. Learn what happened next, what went on before, and what occurred off-screen in an inventive selection of sequels, side-trips, foreshadowings and first-hand accounts – and look forward too, with a brand new adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor. Each story expands in thrilling ways upon aspects of Doctor Who’s enduring legend. With contributions from show luminaries past and present – including Colin Baker, Matthew Waterhouse, Vinay Patel, Joy Wilkinson and Terrance Dicks – The Target Storybook is a once-in-a-lifetime tour around the wonders of the Whoniverse.

Book My Soul Is Rested

Download or read book My Soul Is Rested written by Howell Raines and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-09-29 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A superb oral history." —The Washington Post Book World "So touching, so exhilarating...no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy." —The New York Times Book Review The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the people who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration. Here, too, are voices from the “Down-Home Resistance” that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the “traditions” of the Old South—voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul Is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.

Book Lilli de Jong

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  • Author : Janet Benton
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2018-07-10
  • ISBN : 0525563326
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Lilli de Jong written by Janet Benton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library Journal Best Historical Fiction 2017 “A powerful, authentic voice for a generation of women whose struggles were erased from history—a heart-smashing debut that completely satisfies.” —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Philadelphia, 1883. Twenty-three-year-old Lilli de Jong is pregnant and alone—abandoned by her lover and banished from her Quaker home. She gives birth at a charity for wronged women, planning to give up the baby. But the power of their bond sets her on a completely unexpected path. Unwed mothers in 1883 face staggering prejudice, yet Lilli refuses to give up her baby girl. Instead, she braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep the two of them alive. Lilli confides this story to her diary as it unfolds, taking readers from a charity for unwed mothers to a wealthy family’s home and onto the streets of a burgeoning American city. Her story offers a rare and harrowing view into a time when a mother’s milk is crucial for infant survival. Written with startling intimacy and compassion, this accomplished novel is both a rich historical depiction and a testament to the saving force of a woman’s love.

Book Cedric Morris

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Waymark
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781912892204
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Cedric Morris written by Janet Waymark and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on archive material and extensively illustrated with the work of Morris and contemporary artists, this book explores Morris's roots in Wales, follows his travels in Europe and beyond in the 1920s, and evokes the singular camaraderie of the East Anglian School.

Book Dancing at the Rascal Fair

Download or read book Dancing at the Rascal Fair written by Ivan Doig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.

Book Modern Nature

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  • Author : Derek Jarman
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 1452915024
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Modern Nature written by Derek Jarman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1994.

Book Early Gainsborough

Download or read book Early Gainsborough written by Mark Bills and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: