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Book The Windmills of Thomas Hennell

Download or read book The Windmills of Thomas Hennell written by Alan Stoyel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hennell was an artist whose delightful water colours of rural subject are much sought after. This book features over 100 images of windmills and their machinery. They portray the workings and settings in the landscape of windmills in a way never captured on film.

Book Thomas Hennell

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  • Author : Jessica Kilburn
  • Publisher : White Lion Publishing
  • Release : 2019-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780711235397
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Thomas Hennell written by Jessica Kilburn and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artist Thomas Hennell was one of three British Official War Artists to die during the Second World War. This is a full account of his life and times. Hennell was highly regarded as an artist and author, his main theme being the English countryside. He struggled with serious mental illness and was eventually diagnosed as schizophrenic. Hennell's paintings and drawings provide an insight into an era: they will appeal to those with a love of the countryside and farming, an interest in the Second World War, and admirers of the now very famous artists who were his friends and regarded him as an equal.

Book The Witnesses

Download or read book The Witnesses written by Thomas Hennell and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Craftsmen

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  • Author : Thomas 1903-1945 Hennell
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014464613
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book British Craftsmen written by Thomas 1903-1945 Hennell and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book A Mad People   s History of Madness

Download or read book A Mad People s History of Madness written by Dale Peterson and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1982-03-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony of a mere stranger, "a London citizen" is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people is a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years-from the viewpoint of the patients themselves.Dale Peterson has compiled twenty-seven selections dating from 1436 through 1976. He prefaces each excerpt with biographical information about the writer. Peterson's running commentary explains the national differences in mental health care and the historical changes that have take place in symptoms and treatment. He traces the development of the private madhouse system in England and the state-run asylum system in the United States. Included is the first comprehensive bibliography of writings by the mentally ill.

Book Lady Filmy Fern  Or  The Voyage of the Window Box

Download or read book Lady Filmy Fern Or The Voyage of the Window Box written by Thomas Hennell and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Change in the Farm

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  • Author : Thomas Hennell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-02-02
  • ISBN : 1107651409
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Change in the Farm written by Thomas Hennell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1934 volume collects some of the relics of past generations of farmers, farmyards and traditional agricultural methods.

Book Ravilious   Co

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  • Author : Andy Friend
  • Publisher : Thames & Hudson
  • Release : 2017-04-20
  • ISBN : 0500773890
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book Ravilious Co written by Andy Friend and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years Eric Ravilious has become recognized as one of the most important British artists of the 20th century, whose watercolours and wood engravings capture an essential sense of place and the spirit of mid-century England. What is less appreciated is that he did not work in isolation, but within a much wider network of artists, friends and lovers influenced by Paul Nashs teaching at the Royal College of Art Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Enid Marx, Tirzah Garwood, Percy Horton, Peggy Angus and Helen Binyon among them. The Ravilious group bridged the gap between fine art and design, and the gentle, locally rooted but spritely character of their work came to be seen as the epitome of contemporary British values. Seventy-five years after Raviliouss untimely death, Andy Friend tells the story of this group of artists from their student days through to the Second World War. Ravilious & Co. explores how they influenced each other and how a shared experience animated their work, revealing the significance in this pattern of friendship of women artists, whose place within the history of British art has often been neglected. Generously illustrated and drawing on extensive research, and a wealth of newly discovered material, Ravilious & Co. is an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy.

Book Country Relics

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  • Author : H. J. Massingham
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-06-16
  • ISBN : 1107600707
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Country Relics written by H. J. Massingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. J. Massingham (1888-1952) was renowned as a prolific writer on matters relating to the British countryside. In this volume, which was originally published in 1939, Massingham provides a rich and detailed description of traditional agricultural husbandry and the rural crafts inseparable from it. Written in consultation with various practitioners of these crafts, the text reveals a subtle interrelationship between man and nature based on centuries-old processes. Rather than taking a nostalgic approach to these processes, Massingham regards them as the sensible alternative to the 'scientific agriculture' of mechanised farming. Numerous illustrations are included alongside the descriptions of various crafts. This is a fascinating volume that will be of value to anyone with an interest in British agriculture, traditional crafts, and the history of land use.

Book The Revised Reports

Download or read book The Revised Reports written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ravilious   Co   The Pattern of Friendship

Download or read book Ravilious Co The Pattern of Friendship written by Andy Friend and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic tale of art and friendship, set between the World Wars, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world Eric Ravilious is one of the best-known twentieth-century English artists. For many, his watercolors capture the spirit of midcentury England. But while he had a style of his own, he did not work in isolation; he worked within a network of artists that included fellow students at the Royal College of Art such as Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Enid Marx, Percy Horton, Peggy Angus, and Helen Binyon. The story of this beloved artist is also a biography of the group of fellow creators with whom he associated—men and women who inspired, challenged, and influenced one another—from their student days up through the Second World War. Drawing on extensive research, Andy Friend considers the predecessors in the English watercolor and wood-engraving tradition that influenced the group’s art and demonstrates the significance of women artists, whose place within this interwar-era network has often been neglected. Published to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of Ravilious’s death, Ravilious & Co. accompanies an exhibition of the same name, touring throughout England in 2017.

Book Chapters on Papermaking

Download or read book Chapters on Papermaking written by Clayton Beadle and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sketchbook War

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  • Author : Richard Knott
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 0752493930
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book The Sketchbook War written by Richard Knott and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, British artists produced over 6,000 works of war art, but this is not a book about art, rather the stories of nine courageous war artists who ventured closer to the front line than any others in their profession. Edward Ardizzone, Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Anthony Gross, Thomas Hennell, Eric Ravilious, Albert Richards, Richard Seddon, and John Worsley all travelled abroad into the dangers of war to chronicle events by painting them. They formed a close bond, yet two were torpedoed, two were taken prisoner and three died, two in 1945 when the war was nearly over. Men who had previously made a comfortable living painting in studios were transformed by military uniforms and experiences that were to shape the rest of their lives, and their work significantly influenced the way in which we view war today. Portraying how war and art came together in a moving and dramatic way, and incorporating vivid examples of their paintings, this is the true story behind the war artists who fought, lived and died for their art on the front line of the Second World War.

Book Bulletins and Other State Intelligence

Download or read book Bulletins and Other State Intelligence written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The reliquary

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1889
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book The reliquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Storming Heaven

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  • Author : Jay Stevens
  • Publisher : Grove Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780802135872
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Storming Heaven written by Jay Stevens and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storming Heaven is a riveting history of LSD and its influence on American culture. Jay Stevens uses the "curious molecule" known as LSD as a kind of tracer bullet, illuminating one of postwar America's most improbable shadow-histories. His prodigiously researched narrative moves from Aldous Huxley's earnest attempts to "open the doors of perception" to Timothy Leary's surreal experiments at Millbrook; from the CIA's purchase of millions of doses to the thousands of flower children who turned on and burned out in Haight-Ashbury. Along the way, this brilliant, novelistic work of cultural history unites such figures as Allen Ginsberg, Cary Grant, G. Gordon Liddy, and Charles Manson. Storming Heaven irrefutably demonstrates LSD's pivotal role in the countercultural upheavals that shook America in the 1960s and changed the country forever.

Book Psychedelic Prophets

Download or read book Psychedelic Prophets written by Cynthia Carson Bisbee and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) was a British-trained psychiatrist interested in the biological nature of mental illness and the potential for psychedelic drugs to treat psychoses, especially schizophrenia. In 1953, Huxley sent an appreciative note to Osmond about an article he and a colleague had published on their experiments with mescaline, which inspired an initial meeting and decade-long correspondence. This critical edition provides the complete Huxley-Osmond correspondence, chronicling an exchange between two brilliant thinkers who explored such subjects as psychedelics, the visionary experience, the nature of mind, human potentialities, schizophrenia, death and dying, Indigenous rituals and consciousness, socialism, capitalism, totalitarianism, power and authority, and human evolution. There are references to mutual friends, colleagues, and eminent figures of the day, as well as details about both men's personal lives. The letters bear witness to the development of mind-altering drugs aimed at discovering the mechanisms of mental illness and eventually its treatment. A detailed introduction situates the letters in their historical, social, and literary context, explores how Huxley and Osmond first coined the term "psychedelic," contextualizes their work in mid-century psychiatry, and reflects on their legacy as contributors to the science of mind-altering substances. Psychedelic Prophets is an extraordinary record of a full correspondence between two leading minds and a testament to friendship, intellectualism, empathy, and tolerance. The fact that these sentiments emerge so clearly from the letters, at a historical moment best known for polarizing ideological conflict, threats of nuclear war, and the rise of post-modernism, reveals much about the personalities of the authors and the persistence of these themes today.