Leeds The Postcard Collection
Author: John Edwards
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-11-15
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1445638355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeautiful postcards capture old Leeds in all its glory.
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Published: 2018
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ISBN-13: 9781909829114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuseums The Postcard Collection
Author: Nigel Sadler
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-06-15
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1445661144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating collection of postcards from the early twentieth century.
Postcards from God
Author: Imtiaz Dharker
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 166
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. Postcards from god was her first book from Bloodaxe. It combines two collections published separately in India, Purdah (1989) and Postcards from god (1994). In Purdah she memorialises the betweenness of a traveller between cultures, exploring the dilemmas of negotiation among countries, lovers, children. Postcards from god meditates upon disquietudes in the poet's chosen society: its sudden acts of violence, its feuds and insanities, forcing her into a permanent wakefulness that fits her eyes with glass lids. If the poems collected in Purdah are windows shuttered upon a private world, those gathered into Postcards from god are doorways leading out into the lanes and shanties where strangers huddle, bereft of the tender grace of attention.
An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds
Author: Rebecca Wade
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2023-06-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1837646821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds is a groundbreaking account of the city’s cultural history through its public exhibitions. Offering a vivid analysis of these striking displays in appropriated spaces, it explores Leeds’ relationship with fine and decorative arts, industrial culture and the sciences over the course of the nineteenth century. This significant contribution to urban history establishes Leeds’ importance to the development of British art and design, collecting practices and museum culture, firmly situated in their regional, national and international contexts. From temporary exhibitions in music halls and cloth halls, hospitals and military barracks emerged the networks and structures that informed the development of the city’s permanent cultural institutions. The book closes with the first comprehensive history of the establishment of Leeds Art Gallery, its inaugural exhibitions and founding donations, which would go on to form one of the strongest collections of fine art in the country.
Postcards From No Man's Land
Author: Aidan Chambers
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-06-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1101665629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died during World War II. He expects to go, set flowers on his grandfather's tombstone, and explore the city. But nothing goes as planned. Jacob isn't prepared for love&150or to face questions about his sexuality. Most of all, he isn't prepared to hear what Geertrui, the woman who nursed his grandfather during the war, has to say about their relationship. Geertrui was always known as Jacob's grandfather's kind and generous nurse. But it seems that in the midst of terrible danger, Geertrui and Jacob's grandfather's time together blossomed into something more than a girl caring for a wounded soldier. And like Jacob, Geertrui was not prepared. Geertrui and Jacob live worlds apart, but their voices blend together to tell one story&150a story that transcends time and place and war. By turns moving, vulnerable, and thrilling, this extraordinary novel takes the reader on a memorable voyage of discovery.
Robin Hood's Bay The Postcard Collection
Author: Robin Lidster
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1445664488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeautiful old postcards capture Robin Hood's Bay and Fylingthorpe in all their former glory.
Art and War
Author: Laura Brandon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-11-25
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0857732811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a truly encyclopedic survey of artists' responses - both 'official' and personal - to 'the horrors of war'. "Art and War" reveals the sheer diversity of artists' portrayals of this most devastating aspect of the human condition - from the 'heroic' paintings of Benjamin West and John Singer Sargent to brutal and iconic works by artists from Goya to Picasso, and the equally oppositional work of Leon Golub, Nancy Spero and others who reacted with fury to the Vietnam War. Laura Brandon pays particular attention to work produced in response to World War I and World War II, as well as to more recent art and memorial work by artists as diverse as Barbara Kruger, Alfredo Jarr and Maya Lin. She looks finally to the reactions of contemporary artists such as Langlands and Bell to the US invasion in 2001 of Afghanistan and the 'War on Terror'.
The Spectacle of Women
Author: Lisa Tickner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988-03-31
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780226802459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToo "artistic" for political history, too political for the history of art, the visual history of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain has long been neglected. In this comprehensive and pathbreaking study, Lisa Tickner discusses and illustrates the suffragist use of spectacle—the design of banners, posters and postcards, the orchestration of mass demonstrations—in an unprecedented propaganda campaign.
Postcard Dogs
Author: Libby Hall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2005-03-14
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1582344698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautiful collection of private photographs and amusing commercial postcards from the turn of the last century that celebrate our love for man's best friend. While visiting postcard fairs and browsing their collections, Libby Hall, author of Prince and Other Dogs I and II, found herself won over by these cards. Wildly sentimental images that in a modern light might seem over the top-a dog crying real tears while thinking of his master fighting on the front lines during World War I, an Edwardian tea party given for a child's favorite pet, a canine family toasting their uncle's good health-suggest a genuine love and respect for the animals that were beginning to become a fixture of the modern nuclear family. For both collectors and general readers, Postcard Dogs will charm and amuse you with its odd yet heartfelt portraits, capturing the excitement and possibility of a society on the brink of profound change.
