Author: Maurice Fells
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750969067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Blue, red, green and black plaques – they are everywhere in Bristol, on houses, bridges and even on a riverbank. But have you ever wanted to know more than the brief details they tell you about the person they honour? There are fascinating and colourful stories behind all of the plaques in the city, which venerate a variety of artists, inventors and scientists, as well as ordinary folk who have done extraordinary things. Read about the ex-convict whose books were turned into West End musicals, the millionaire businessman who was promised a cabbage a year as thanks for his philanthropy, and the architect transported for financial fraud who ended up having his portrait on a banknote. This handy guide is for all the curious, who want to know more about the people who lived and worked in the city in times gone by. The first volume of its kind, it is the only reference book to contain potted histories of Bristol's fascinating plaques.
Bristol Plaques
Author: Maurice Fells
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750969067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Blue, red, green and black plaques – they are everywhere in Bristol, on houses, bridges and even on a riverbank. But have you ever wanted to know more than the brief details they tell you about the person they honour? There are fascinating and colourful stories behind all of the plaques in the city, which venerate a variety of artists, inventors and scientists, as well as ordinary folk who have done extraordinary things. Read about the ex-convict whose books were turned into West End musicals, the millionaire businessman who was promised a cabbage a year as thanks for his philanthropy, and the architect transported for financial fraud who ended up having his portrait on a banknote. This handy guide is for all the curious, who want to know more about the people who lived and worked in the city in times gone by. The first volume of its kind, it is the only reference book to contain potted histories of Bristol's fascinating plaques.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750969067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Blue, red, green and black plaques – they are everywhere in Bristol, on houses, bridges and even on a riverbank. But have you ever wanted to know more than the brief details they tell you about the person they honour? There are fascinating and colourful stories behind all of the plaques in the city, which venerate a variety of artists, inventors and scientists, as well as ordinary folk who have done extraordinary things. Read about the ex-convict whose books were turned into West End musicals, the millionaire businessman who was promised a cabbage a year as thanks for his philanthropy, and the architect transported for financial fraud who ended up having his portrait on a banknote. This handy guide is for all the curious, who want to know more about the people who lived and worked in the city in times gone by. The first volume of its kind, it is the only reference book to contain potted histories of Bristol's fascinating plaques.
Navy and Army Illustrated
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Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Languages : en
Pages : 652
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The Connoisseur
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects
Author: Thomas Houlton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429588828
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social, and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument-culture. Tracing historical developments in monuments alongside contemporary movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter, Houlton provides an in-depth critique of monument sites, as well as new critical and conceptual methodologies for thinking across the field. Alongside analysis of monuments to the Holocaust, colonial figures, and LGBTQIA+ subjects, this book provides new critical engagements with the work of D.W. Winnicott, Marion Milner, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, and others. Houlton traces the potential for monuments to exert great influence over our sense of self, nation, community, sexuality, and place in the world. Exploring the psychic and physical spaces these objects occupy—their aesthetics, affects, politics, and powers—this book considers how monuments can challenge our identities, beliefs, and our very notions of remembrance. The interdisciplinary nature of Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects means that it is ideally placed to intervene across several critical fields, particularly museum and heritage studies. It will also prove invaluable to those engaged in the study of monuments, psychoanalytic object relations, decolonization, queer ecology, radical death studies, and affect theory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429588828
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social, and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument-culture. Tracing historical developments in monuments alongside contemporary movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter, Houlton provides an in-depth critique of monument sites, as well as new critical and conceptual methodologies for thinking across the field. Alongside analysis of monuments to the Holocaust, colonial figures, and LGBTQIA+ subjects, this book provides new critical engagements with the work of D.W. Winnicott, Marion Milner, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, and others. Houlton traces the potential for monuments to exert great influence over our sense of self, nation, community, sexuality, and place in the world. Exploring the psychic and physical spaces these objects occupy—their aesthetics, affects, politics, and powers—this book considers how monuments can challenge our identities, beliefs, and our very notions of remembrance. The interdisciplinary nature of Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects means that it is ideally placed to intervene across several critical fields, particularly museum and heritage studies. It will also prove invaluable to those engaged in the study of monuments, psychoanalytic object relations, decolonization, queer ecology, radical death studies, and affect theory.
The ABC of Collecting Old English China
Author: J. F. Blacker
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Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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English porcelain
Author: sir Arthur Herbert Church
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Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Languages : en
Pages : 242
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The Ceramic Art of Great Britain from Pre-historic Times Dowm to the Present Day
Author: Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt
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Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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George Washington's Chinaware
Author: Susan Gray Detweiler
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Susan Detweiler and Mount Vernon's curator, Christine Meadows, tell the story of Washington from his early years at Mount Vernon to the presidency and his official residences in New York and Philadelphia. -- Book flap.
Publisher: ABRAMS
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Susan Detweiler and Mount Vernon's curator, Christine Meadows, tell the story of Washington from his early years at Mount Vernon to the presidency and his official residences in New York and Philadelphia. -- Book flap.
How to Identify Old China
Author: Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson
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Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Old China
Author: J.E. Blaoker
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
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