Download or read book The Portrait Drawings of William Rothenstein 1889 1925 written by William Rothenstein and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hammonds written by Stewart Angas Weaver and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here for the first time is the story of one of history's great scholarly and marital collaborations. J. L. and Barbara Hammond were among the most innovative and influential historians of the twentieth century. Between 1911 and 1934, they wrote eight books together that amount, in effect, to the first sustained social history of modern England. Three of their books in particular--The Village Labourer (1911), The Town Labourer (1917), and The Skilled Labourer (1919)--not only anticipated what came to be known as "history from below," but also permanently changed the way most people think about the Industrial Revolution, which they defined in the apocalyptic terms to which we have become accustomed. The Hammonds were also public figures prominently involved, along with L. T. Hobhouse, J. A. Hobson, C. P. Scott, and others, in the definition and dissemination of "the new liberalism." From the point of involvement in the politics of one century, they helped give enduring historical shape to another, and thus exercise, like their friends Sidney and Beatrice Webb, a dual fascination. Of the two Hammonds, J. L. was the more prolific, writing six books on his own and serving as a political journalist for virtually his entire professional life, which saw him intervene editorially in every public crisis from the Boer War to the Second World War. Ireland was (after the Industrial Revolution) arguably his greatest passion, one to which he devoted much of his editorial life and his supreme literary effort, Gladstone and the Irish Nation (1938). Barbara Hammond was an accomplished classicist, the first woman to earn a First Class degree in Greats at Oxford. She is shown here to have done much more work on the labourer books than has been previously recognized, and to sustain through her letters an artful running commentary on the foibles of her age. Through her, especially, the author evokes a radical but also doggedly Victorian sensibility that survived uneasily into the age of Bloomsbury and beyond. The Hammonds were unique in the extent of their fused identity, in the extent to which they became, as G. M. Trevelyan once put it, "one flesh and one author." The Hammonds is part dual-biography, part evocation of an age, but it is also a study of marriage, a marriage at a particular moment in history, a marriage in the art and craft of history.

Download or read book John Rothenstein in the Interwar Years written by David McCann and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appointed in 1938, Sir John Rothenstein was the first director of the Tate to embrace modern art, mounting a series of daring exhibitions and procuring a procession of audacious masterworks that, in the words of one contemporary, ‘completely knocked the stuffiness out of that veritable institution.' So why, since he died in 1991, has his name become a byword for reactionary conservatism? The answer is that from the outset of his career, Rothenstein refused to bow to the patriarchs of the avant-garde. In the 1920s, while they were busy decrying the figurative tradition, Rothenstein was championing a brilliant generation of artists whose work remained firmly rooted within it. In the 1930s, while they advocated a geometrical art of the utmost austerity, Rothenstein used his first curatorial positions to promote a new wave of exciting young British realists. Pitted against the progressives of Hampstead and Bloomsbury and inspired by the anti-vanguardism of his father and Wyndham Lewis, this book charts Rothenstein's earliest efforts to champion modern realistic painting in an age of abstraction. Along the way, it uncovers his selfless and pioneering patronage of artists as diverse as Stanley Spencer, Edward Bawden, Evelyn Dunbar, Paul Nash, Charles Mahoney, and Eric Ravilious. In so doing, it also establishes his importance in the reassessment of twentieth-century figuration going on today.

Download or read book The New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Facing the Late Victorians written by Margaret Diane Stetz and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It examines, too, the portrait as a marker both of celebrity and of modernity, in an age that ushered in the present by defining itself through advertising, public relations, and commodification."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Catholic Who s who and Yearbook written by Sir Francis Cowley Burnand and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Henry James Framed written by Michael Anesko and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James Framed is a cultural history of Henry James as a work of art. Throughout his life, James demonstrated an abiding interest in--some would say an obsession with--the visual arts. In his most influential testaments about the art of fiction, James frequently invoked a deeply felt analogy between imaginative writing and painting. At a time when having a photographic carte de visite was an expected social commonplace, James detested the necessity of replenishing his supply or of distributing his autographed image to well-wishing friends and imploring readers. Yet for a man who set the highest premium on personal privacy, James seems to have had few reservations about serving as a model for artists in other media and sat for his portrait a remarkable number of twenty-four times. Surprisingly few James scholars have brought into primary focus those occasions when the author was not writing about art but instead became art himself, through the creative expression of another's talent. To better understand the twenty-four occasions he sat for others to represent him, Michael Anesko reconstructs the specific contexts for these works' coming into being, assesses James's relationships with his artists and patrons, documents his judgments concerning the objects produced, and, insofar as possible, traces the later provenance of each of them. James's long-established intimacy with the studio world deepened his understanding of the complex relationship between the artist and his sitter. James insisted above all that a portrait was a revelation of two realities: the man whom it was the artist's conscious effort to reveal and the artist, or interpreter, expressed in the very quality and temper of that effort. The product offered a double vision--the strongest dose of life that art could give, and the strongest dose of art that life could give.

Download or read book The Author Playwright and Composer written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Who s who in Art written by Bernard Dolman and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The United States Catalog written by Ida M. Lynn and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books annual written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Download or read book Who s who in Literature written by Mark Meredith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains list of "Fictitious and pseudonymous names."

Download or read book Yeats Annual No 8 written by Warwick Gould and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yeats Annual No.8 has two distinct themes: Yeats's poetic technique and his aims for an Irish Theatre. Essays from Helen Vendler, Richard Taylor, Timothy Armstrong and Wayne Chapman place the poetry under close scrutiny and offer challenging new studies. Yeats himself writes the remaining essays, including the long-awaited first publication of his Wildean dialogue and an uncollected address on the Irish National Theatre delivered in 1934. Richard Londraville edits four of Yeats's lectures given in England and America in 1902-4.

Download or read book Bulletin of the John Rylands Library written by John Rylands Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: