Download or read book Conversations with Beckford written by Cyrus Redding and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Lewis Melville and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Lewis Saul Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Travel diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill Memoir of William Beckford Dreams waking thoughts and incidents written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Travel diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conversations with Carlyle written by Duffy and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A talk on William Beckford written by F. D. Meredith and published by . This book was released on with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.

Download or read book Turner written by Franny Moyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated system of patronage. Bringing a new level of expression and color to his canvases, he paved the way for the modern artist. Turner was very much a man of his changing era. In his lifetime, he saw Britain ravaged by Napoleonic wars, revived by the Industrial Revolution, and embarked upon a new moment of Imperial glory with the ascendancy of Queen Victoria. His own life embodied astonishing transformation. Born the son of a barber in Covent Garden, he was buried amid pomp and ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral. Turner was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy at the height of the French Revolution when a climate of fear dominated Britain. Unable to travel abroad he explored at home, reimagining the landscape to create some of the most iconic scenes of his country. But his work always had a profound human element. When a moment of peace allowed travel into Europe, Turner was one of the first artists to capture the beauty of the Alps, to revive Venice as a subject, and to follow in Byron’s footsteps through the Rhine country. While he was commercially successful for most of his career, Turner's personal life remained fraught. His mother suffered from mental illness and was committed to Bedlam. Turner never married but had several long-term mistresses and illegitimate daughters. His erotic drawings were numerous but were covered up by prurient Victorians after his death. Turner's late, impressionistic work was held up by his Victorian detractors as example of a creeping madness. Affection for the artist’s work soured. John Ruskin, the greatest of all 19th century art critics, did what he could to rescue Turner’s reputation, but Turner’s very last works confounded even his greatest defender. TURNER humanizes this surprising genius while placing him in his fascinating historical context. Franny Moyle brilliantly tells the story of the man to give us an astonishing portrait of the artist and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.

Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities written by John Timbs and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Download or read book Memoirs of William Beckford written by William Beckford and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Download or read book The Quarterly Review written by William Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Theology written by Robert Beckford and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Theology: The world's leading Christian thinkers explain some of the principal tenets of their theological beliefs.'How can people racialised as black conceive God, Jesus, and the Spirit within contemporary concrete social and political worlds?' asks pioneering black theologian and broadcaster Robert Beckford. 'What would facilitate a radical theology committed to confronting racialised injustice, social inequality and environmental degradation?'In Duppy Conqueror Beckford explains how he has recontextualised African-American black and womanist theologies of liberation to answer these questions for second and third-generation black British. His methodologies have included a correlation of linguistic concepts from black cultural history and urban life with theological concepts, and the inscription of black theology onto documentary filmmaking and contemporary gospel music.

Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson LL D with His Correspondence and Conversations written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book My Theology written by Malcolm Guite and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Theology: The world's leading Christian thinkers explain some of the principal tenets of their theological beliefs.The Word within the words is a Poet's Credo, in which Malcolm Guite describes how his Christian faith informs and underpins his poetry, and in turn how poetry itself, and more widely the poetic imagination, helps him to understand and interpret his faith.Illustrating his account with personal stories and poetry - both his own and classics from the canon - Guite explains a guiding theology of Christ as the Word, the essential logos that underlies all things, made flesh for us in Jesus. He then demonstrates how Scripture, Liturgy and Sacrament can each be understood as a poetry capable of transfiguring our vision and transforming our lives.