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.

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.

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: 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.

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.

English Art, 1860-1914

English Art, 1860-1914
Author: David Peters Corbett
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780719055201

In one of the first studies of its kind, Orphan texts seeks to insert the orphan, and the problems its existence poses, in the larger critical areas of the family and childhood in Victorian culture. In doing so, Laura Peters considers certain canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which discourses of orphanhood operated.The study argues that the prevalence of the orphan figure can be explained by considering the family. The family and all it came to represent - legitimacy, race and national belonging - was in crisis. In order to reaffirm itself the family needed a scapegoat: it found one in the orphan figure. As one who embodied the loss of the family, the orphan figure came to represent a dangerous threat to the family; and the family reaffirmed itself through the expulsion of this threatening difference. Orphan texts will be of interest to final year undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and those interested in the areas of Victorian literature, Victorian studies, postcolonial studies, history and popular culture.

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

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