Sickert

Sickert
Author: Wendy Baron
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300111290

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was an artist of prodigious creativity. For sixty years, in his roles as painter, teacher, and polemicist, he was a source of inspiration and influence to successive generations of British painters. With his roots in the Victorian era, Sickert broke all taboos. He was uncompromisingly truthful, revealing beauty in the squalid as in the sublime: in cockney music halls, the crumbling streets of Dieppe, the grand sites of Venice, and the low-life of Camden Town. Decades before Warhol, he exploited the potential of photo-based imagery and of studio production lines to create iconic portraits of the grandees of theatrical, social, and political life. This catalogue is divided into two parts: essay chapters describe Sickert's chronology in terms of stylistic and technical development, and a fully illustrated catalogue presents more than 2800 drawings and paintings, many of which have never been published before.

Ripper

Ripper
Author: Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Serial murders
ISBN: 9781503936874

Examines the century-old series of murders that terrorized London in the 1880s, drawing on research, state-of-the-art forensic science, and insights into the criminal mind to reveal the true identity of the infamous Jack the Ripper.

Walter Sickert

Walter Sickert
Author: Walter Sickert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 748
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780199261697

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was a major European artist and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, whose statements on art from the 1880s to the 1930s have been used by artists and writers for more than half a century. Containing over 400 entries, this collection offers new insight into Sickert as an artist and provides valuable information about other British artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The World in Paint

The World in Paint
Author: David Peters Corbett
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780719069659

This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare's Richard II. This edition, which thoroughly re-examines the text, situates the play within its historical and political context, relating it to the genre of chronicle drama to which it belongs. The manuscript is of particular interest in that it appears to have been used in the playhouse over a considerable period of time and contains what seems to be evidence of the theatre practice of the time. The play is also of special interest for its skilful and original handling of source material which may well have influenced Shakespeare's Richard II. The extensive appendices drawn from Holinshed, Grafton and Stow provide the reader with the opportunity to investigate the manner in which the dramatist has shaped the material. The editors argue for the play's stage-worthiness and dramatic complexity, suggesting that its range both of dramatic tone and social inclusiveness indicate the work of a dramatist of considerable skill and subtlety, equal or superior to the Shakespeare of the Henry VI plays.

Roger Fry, Art and Life

Roger Fry, Art and Life
Author: Frances Spalding
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520041264

Traces the career of the nineteenth-century English art critic and painter, who associated with the Bloomsbury group, Picasso, and Bernard Shaw

Walter Sickert

Walter Sickert
Author: Matthew Sturgis
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 842
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN:

First major life of the British painter; it re-appraises his talent and demolishes Patricia Corwell's assertions that he was Jack the Ripper.

Blood Evidence

Blood Evidence
Author: Henry Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2003-04-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0786752300

Uses case studies to examine how investigators collect genetic evidence and discusses how DNA has altered crime-solving and the court system as well as the ethical ramifications of cloning, genetic modification, and the death penalty.

Sickert

Sickert
Author: Walter Sickert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2002
Genre: Prints, British
ISBN:

Under Review

Under Review
Author: Anthony Powell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1994-07
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780226677125

"A splendid book. I cannot think of one so calculated to delight, intrigue, beguile, and inform. To pick up and browse through it . . . is like meeting some venerable old man of letters comfortably ensconced in his library, only to ready to reveal some pear of humor or wisdom about each of the writers he has chosen to deal with."—Kate Wharton, Evening Standard "Powell is one of the great novelists of our time, much more interested in other people than in his own views and ideas. The result is that his extraordinary richness of act and detail also embodies a far more arresting and penetrating quantity of critical judgements on books, authors, fashions, developments, than are to be found in the theoretical pronouncement of modern academic criticism."—John Bayley, The Sunday Times "These delightful reviews could be said to amount to a latter-day Brief Lives."—David Plante, Times Literary Supplement

Internationalism and the Arts in Britain and Europe at the Fin de Siècle

Internationalism and the Arts in Britain and Europe at the Fin de Siècle
Author: Grace Brockington
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783039111282

This collection of essays stems from the conference 'Internationalism and the Arts: Anglo-European Cultural Exchange at the Fin de Siècle' held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in July 2006. The growth of internationalism in Europe at the fin de siècle encouraged confidence in the possibility of peace. A wartorn century later, it is easy to forget such optimism. Flanked by the Franco-Prussian war and the First World War, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were marked by rising militarism. Themes of national consolidation and aggression have become key to any analysis of the period. Yet despite the drive towards political and cultural isolation, transnational networks gathered increasing support. This book examines the role played by artists, writers, musicians and intellectuals in promoting internationalism. It explores the range of individuals, media and movements involved, from cosmopolitan characters such as Walter Sickert and Henri La Fontaine, through internationalist art societies, to periodicals, performance, and the mobility of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The discussion takes in the geographical breadth of Europe, incorporating Belgium, Bohemia, Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia and Slovakia. Drawing on the work of scholars from across Europe and America, the collection makes a statement about the complexity of European identities at the fin de siècle, as well as about the possibilities for interdisciplinary research in our own era.