I imprint: 1291 books
After Modernist Painting
The History of a Contemporary Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Since the publication of Clement Greenberg's 'Modernist Painting' in 1960, the status of painting and its continued legitimacy as a medium has been repeatedly placed under question. As such, painting has had to continually redefine its own parameters and re-negotiate for itself a critical position...
Helen Chadwick
Constructing Identities Between Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Shifting from early institutional and architectural critique to personal, poetic installations, photography projects and sculptures, British artist Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) produced a wide-ranging body of work in an assortment of media. In this book, Stephen Walker looks beyond the apparent variety...
Scattered Ghosts
One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
When two Hungarian Jewish refugees landed by accident in Britain in the winter of 1956, they had little idea what the future would hold. But they carried with them the traces of their turbulent past, just enough to provide the clues to their past. Scattered Ghosts combines memoir, investigation and...
Berlin
A Literary Guide for Travellers
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Located at the epicentre of modern Europe's most significant and turbulent events, Berlin has long held a magnetic attraction for writers. From nineteenth-century authors recording the city's dramatic transition from Prussian Hauptstadt to German capital after 1871 and the modernist intellectuals...
Strolling through Florence
The Definitive Walking Guide to the Renaissance City
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
To walk through Florence is to step into one of the most remarkable histories of any European city. From its establishment by Julius Caesar in the first century BC, through its Golden Age at the epicentre of the Italian Renaissance, to its position as an iconic cultural destination in the twenty-first...
The Cinema of Tarkovsky
Labyrinths of Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
In this book Nariman Skakov explores the phenomenon of spatio-temporal lapse in Tarkovsky's cinema - from Ivan's Childhood (1962) to Sacrifice (1986). He argues that dreams, visions, mirages, memories, revelations, reveries and delusions are phenomena which present alternative spatio-temporal patterns;...
Concentrationary Imaginaries
Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
What defines 'quality' in contemporary Hollywood film? Although often seen as inhospitable to such work, the studios of the blockbuster-franchise era continue to produce features that make claims to higher status. Films such as The Social Network, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert...
by Virginia Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores...
Children's Exodus
A History of the Kindertransport
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
As the Holocaust loomed on the horizon, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories in the months leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religious and governmental organizations, the Kindertransport...
Imperial Perceptions of Palestine
British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
The Palestine Exploration Fund, established in 1865, is the oldest organization created specifically for the study of the Levant. It helped to spur evangelical tourism to the region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries which in turn generated a huge array of literature that presented Palestine...
by Lucy Brown, Lyndsay Duthie
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Here is the one-stop handbook to make your studio production shine.
La Haine
French Film Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Released in 1995, La Haine is the black and white chronicle of 24 hours in the life of a mixed-race young male trio from a run-down Parisian suburb. The work of a then unknown young team (director and actors were all under 30), it became hugely and unexpectedly successful, launching
director...
Brexit, No Exit
Why (in the End) Britain Won't Leave Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The UK's Brexit vote on 23rd June 2016 provided perhaps the most dramatic proof that the era of political and economic globalization has ended. Populism, nationalism and xenophobia are surging across Europe and Brexit adds to the problems facing the established political order. This book shows how...
The Puritan Gift
Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
The collapse of Lehman Brothers and other Wall Street institutions sent shock waves around the world. But this was just the beginning. Whole nations have been dragged to the brink of bankruptcy. Banks on both sides of the Atlantic have been nationalised. The stock market is out of control and the...