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.
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.
Download or read book A Lesson in Art and Life written by Hugh St Clair and published by Pimpernel Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated paperback edition of this acclaimed biography of a unique couple who were hugely influential across the spheres of art, gardening and cookery.
Download or read book Benton End Remembered written by Gwynneth Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a house and garden and the two artists that created it that inspired the leading artists of their day with good food, conversation and an idyllic setting.
Download or read book Larry Poons written by Larry Poons and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
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.
Download or read book Dennis Miller Bunker written by Erica E. Hirshler and published by Museum of Fine Arts Boston. This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890) was one of the most talented painters of late nineteenth-century America. He was among the first Americans to use the bright colors and broken brushstrokes of the new Impressionist style; his beautiful landscapes and portraits are sought after by the most distinguished collectors of American art." "Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist is the first comprehensive study of this important American artist. Trained in the academies of his native New York, Bunker continued his education in Paris, where he flourished in the sophisticated atmosphere of the world's art capital. In 1885, he accepted a teaching position in Boston. He joined the city's vibrant artistic community and developed close friendships with the writer William Dean Howells, the composer Charles Martin Loeffler, and the legendary collector Isabella Stewart Gardner, who became his champion. In Boston, Bunker also met John Singer Sargent, America's most renowned painter. The summer they spent working together in England proved to be a turning point in Bunker's career." "Bunker moved to New York in 1889. His heart remained in Boston, however, for he had fallen in love with Eleanor Hardy, the daughter of a prominent businessman. The couple married in October 1890. Barely three months later, Bunker died at age twenty-nine of a sudden illness. His beautifully crafted paintings were his only legacy.
Download or read book Grayson Perry written by Grayson Perry and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is pleased to present the first major survey exhibition in the Southern hemisphere by internationally renowned artist and Turner Prize recipient, Grayson Perry, as part of the Sydney International Art Series. It introduces the full spectrum of his practice from the early 1980s to the present, including new work. Grayson Perry is one of the best known British artists of his generation, acclaimed for his ceramics, sculptures, drawings, prints and tapestries. With a keen eye for detail and a love of the popular and vernacular, Perry infuses his artworks with a sly humour and reflection on society past and present. The artist's highly decorated pots in particular reveal a panoply of imagery ranging from the highly personal to the political, their subjects including his own family, the art world, Biblical stories, the royal family, and images of warfare and sexual fantasy. Perry's transvestism and feminine alter ego 'Claire' emerges through his practice as a recurring visual motif. A contemporary of the YBA (Young British Artists) generation, he has forged a distinctive career that sits apart from the cooler theoretical approach of some of his peers, favouring a more flamboyant, accessible aesthetic that blurs the division of high art and popular culture.
Download or read book James Dickson Innes 1887 1914 written by John Hoole and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Dickson Innes (1887-1914) was a Welsh painter who is best known for his Post-Impressionist landscape paintings of Wales. His burgeoning artistic career was tragically cut short by his death aged 27 from TB, but his output of paintings was nevertheless prolific. This is the first book to provide an overview of his art and life and is published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Museum Wales marking the centenary of his death.Innes was born in South Wales and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, from 1905 to 1908, where he met fellow artist Derwent Lees. In 1907 he began a friendship with Augustus John, and with John and Lees Innes wandered over a remote and unfashionable part of North Wales in pursuit of a romantic freedom. He also made several trips abroad in order to paint, most importantly to Collioure, France, in 1908 and 1911.This new book, which incorporates a catalogue of all his known works, provides Innes' growing following of collectors with a definitive source of reference on his work. The scope of the book, while providing an analysis of Innes' stylistic developments, also touches upon, and illustrates, the work of some of his close friends and collaborators, Derwent Lees, Albert Rutherston, John Fothergill and Augustus John. Through the inclusion of accounts of Innes by his male contemporaries, a picture of his personality and his industry is revealed as well as their sense of loss at his early death at the age of 27.
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.
Download or read book James Reeve written by James Reeve and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavish book presents painter Revees' (b. England, has lived and worked in Mexico since 1985) diary texts and paintings created while living in the town Xilitla, San Luis Potosí and downtown Mexico City. An extraordinary collection of vivid mosaic of colors from the markets and streets along with portraits of the fashionable, religious, and anonymous figures that populate the streets, convents, and towns in Mexico. The book was published within the context of the XXI Festival de México en el Centro Histórico.
Download or read book Beatrix Potter written by Susan Denyer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an artist and story-teller Beatrix Potter is world-famous. Of no lessmportance is her work in protecting some of the finest examples of the Lakeistrict's landscapes and in creating romantic interiors and a beautifularden at Hill Top, the farmhouse she bought at Near Sawrey in 1905. Hericturesque house and the breathtaking scenery inspired many of Beatrix'stories and drawings. This book looks at the relationship between the Lakeistrict and her work and includes numerous extracts from her letters andiaries, as well as atmospheric photographs from the Beatrix Potter archive.
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
Download or read book Elaine Mary Lewis and the Frogs written by Heidi Chang and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese American Elaine Chow feels like an outcast after moving to a small town in Iowa, until she shares a new friendship and a science project with a girl strongly interested in frogs.
Download or read book The Shell Country Book written by Geoffrey Grigson and published by Biblio Distribution Centre. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
