Comprehensively Clarice Cliff

Comprehensively Clarice Cliff
Author: Greg Slater
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2005
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780500512302

The dazzling ceramics of Clarice Cliff and of the Wilkinson family in the north of England have become one of the great collectables from the 20th century. Ever since the exuberant colours and bold shapes of Clarice Cliff's classic Art Deco pieces first caught the imagination of collectors, auction prices have moved inexorably ever upwards. Now, after many years of research, both in the Wilkinson archives and through the oral testimonies of surviving employees, Greg Slater has produced the first comprehensive and dazzling survey of the work of Clarice Cliff and her largely uncredited colleagues at the Wilkinson Pottery from the 1920s to the 1950s. In a massive work of reference, the origin, name, designer, date and decoration method of all the significant pieces are easily identified. Accessible through three indexes - pattern name, number and backstamp - the book is organized by Pattern and also by Shape (an instant identifier for ceramics without a backstamp).

Clarice Cliff for Collectors

Clarice Cliff for Collectors
Author: Greg Slater
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-06-23
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780500288191

The colorful and memorable ceramics produced by Clarice Cliff remain among the most popular designs of the Art Deco period. Aimed at collectors from novices to experts, this new guide is organized into three parts: key information on identifying genuine Cliff pieces; a core reference section, with more than 400 ceramic pieces illustrated with detailed captions; and detailed, easy-to-follow advice on sources, storage and display, conservation and repair, and cataloging a collection.

Heat Islands

Heat Islands
Author: Lisa Mummery Gartland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136564209

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materials and a lack of effective landscaping are their main causes. Heat island problems, in terms of increased energy consumption, reduced air quality and effects on human health and mortality, are becoming more pressing as cities continue to grow and sprawl. This comprehensive book brings together the latest information about heat islands and their mitigation. The book describes how heat islands are formed, what problems they cause, which technologies mitigate heat island effects and what policies and actions can be taken to cool communities. Internationally renowned expert Lisa Gartland offers a comprehensive source of information for turning heat islands into cool communities. The author includes sections on cool roofing and cool paving, explains their benefits in detail and provides practical guidelines for their selection and installation. The book also reviews how and why to incorporate trees and vegetation around buildings, in parking lots and on green roofs.

Clarice Cliff

Clarice Cliff
Author: Lynn Knight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-01-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781526654748

The captivating biography of one of the most important designers of the twentieth century - adapted for Sky Cinema starring Phoebe Dynevor, Matthew Goode and David Morrissey Clarice Cliff was one of the most prominent ceramic designers of the twentieth century. Born in 1899 in the Staffordshire Potteries, she started work as just another factory girl, but by 1928 had launched her own range of pottery, 'Bizarre'. A 'gargantuan feast of colour', it blazed a trail through the homes of inter-war Britain. But if Clarice Cliff's rise from apprentice gilder to art director was remarkable - and all the more so for her being a woman - it was not without its tensions; for years she conducted a secret relationship with her married boss. Fusing art, design and industry and vividly conveying the texture of women's lives between the wars, this is a compelling study of the complex, talented woman whose work is for many the epitome of art deco.

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
Author: Lauren Child
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2005-03-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763627887

When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective.

Homer Simpson Marches on Washington

Homer Simpson Marches on Washington
Author: Timothy M. Dale
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2010-03-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813139708

A volume of enlightening essays on how TV shows, movies, and music can change hearts and minds. Amid all its frenetic humor, the long-running animated hit The Simpsons has often questioned what is culturally acceptable, wading into controversial subjects like gay rights, the war on terror, religion, and animal rights. This subtle form of political analysis is effective in changing opinions and attitudes on a large scale. Homer Simpson Marches on Washington explores the transformative power that enables popular culture to influence political agendas, frame the consciousness of audiences, and create profound shifts in values and ideals. To investigate the full spectrum of popular culture in a democratic society, editors Timothy M. Dale and Joseph J. Foy gather a top-notch team of scholars who use television shows such as Star Trek, The X-Files, All in the Family, The View, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report, as well as movies and popular music, to investigate contemporary issues in American popular culture.

Essays on Paula Rego

Essays on Paula Rego
Author: Maria Manuel Lisboa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2019-08-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781783747566

In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego's work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego's art. Taking a historicist approach to the evolution of the artist's work, Lisboa embeds the works within Rego's personal history as well as Portugal's (and indeed other nations') stories, and reveals the interrelationship between political significance and the raw emotion that lies at the heart of Rego's uncompromising iconographic style. Fundamental to Lisboa's analysis is an understanding that apparent opposites - male and female, sacred and profane, aggression and submissiveness - often co-exist in Rego's work in a way that is both disturbing and destabilising. This collection of essays brings together both unpublished and previously published work to make a significant contribution to scholarship about Paula Rego. It will also be of interest to scholars and students of contemporary painting, Portuguese and British feminist art, and the political and ideological aspects of the visual arts.

William Golding's Lord of the Flies

William Golding's Lord of the Flies
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2010
Genre: Criticism
ISBN: 1438135394

Discusses the writing of Lord of the flies by William Golding. Includes critical essays on the work and a brief biography of the author.

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion
Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2011-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101475609

Explore the unconventional, otherworldly life of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse in this companion to the bestselling series that takes a closer look at Sookie and her family, friends, enemies, adventures, and—of course—the lovers who set her world on fire... Visit Bon Temps, the small Louisiana town that Sookie calls home, with a detailed map created by Charlaine herself, and learn the characteristics of the supernaturals who live there: vampires, two-natured, and fae. Examine all the branches of Sookie’s family tree. And eavesdrop on the private conversations between rival vampires Eric and Bill. Also, enjoy the compelling novella “Small-Town Wedding,” in which Sookie accompanies her shapeshifting boss, Sam, to his brother’s wedding in Texas, where happily-ever-after seems very far away.... Exclusive interviews with True Blood creator Alan Ball and author Charlaine Harris—compiled from fan questions—will satisfy your craving for all things Sookie, as will trivia questions, recipes (including Caroline Bellefleur’s famous chocolate cake!), and a concordance to the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

Surrealist Women

Surrealist Women
Author: Penelope Rosemont
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780485300888

Surrealist Women displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism. Penelope Rosemont, affiliated with the Paris Surrealist Group in the 1960s and now a Chicago poet and painter, has assembled nearly three hundred texts by ninety-six women from twenty-eight countries. She opens the book with a succinct summary of surrealism's basic aims and principles, followed by a discussion of the place of gender in the origins of the movement.The texts are organised into historical periods ranging from the 1920s to the present, with introductions describing trends in the movement for each period; and each surrealist's work is prefaced by a brief biographical statement. Authors include El Allailly, Bruna, Cunard, Carrington, Cesaire, Gauthier, Giovanna, van Hirtum, Kahlo, Levy, Mansour, Mitrani, Pailthorpe, Joyce Peters, Rahon, Svankmajerova, Taub, Zangana>