Jacob Epstein ranks among the finest and most influential sculptors of this century. In this complelling biography, Mr. Gardiner intimately draws on personal research and a mass of unpublished papers to paint a vivid picture of the man and his art. He unravels the complex story of Epstein's life, assesses the origins of his masisive output of work, and analyses his unending battles with traditionalists and the Establishment. The fullest account yet to appear of Epstein's life and work.

Epstein - Artist Against The Establishment

Arts & Photography

stephen-gardiner

History & Criticism

Flamingo

Emphasizing the importance of a renewed awareness of architecture's heritage, Stephen Gardiner reveals the fusion of cultural influences that have contributed to contemporary styles in a lively, panoramic tour of the Middle East, Far East, Asia Minor, India, Europe, and America. Spanning the millennia that separate cave dwellings from skyscrapers, he shows how styles have evolved through political upheavals, migrations, military occupations, travel, trade, exploration, new materials, religions, and the spread of new ideas and philosophies.

Evolution of the House: From Caves to Co-ops - An Introduction

Macmillan

Traces the development of the most influential architectural styles from the pyramids of Egypt to modern skyscrapers

Inside Architecture

Prentice-Hall Canada, Incorporated

Le Corbusier (Modern Masters Series)

Architecture

Viking Adult

Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) ranks among the finest and most influential sculptors of this century. This biography traces his often turbulent private life and assesses his sculpture and paintings. It also describes the frequent outrage his public works provoked, such as the "banning" of the "Tomb of Oscar Wilde" in Paris to the daubing of "Rima" in Hyde Park with swastikas.

Epstein, artist against the establishment

Biographies & Memoirs

Michael Joseph, Ltd.

The new edition of Stephen Gardiner's highly readable history of the house comes at a time of crisis in domestic architecture. The author clearly shows how the collapse of traditional values since the Second World War has been mirrored by the new architectural emphasis on materialism, bringing a disregard for the lessons of the past, and a loss of contact, both with human requirements and with nature as a source of inspiration. He offers an enlightening overview of the development of house and home, since the caves of early man, and the rich profusion of indigenous styles that has since emerged, from huts of mud and reeds, Ziggurats, Chinese underground villages with sunken courtyards, multistoreyed tenements in Ancient Rome, Japanese designs that blend with nature, through the Palladian, Arts and Crafts and, more recently, the rediscovery of a more human scale, and the importance of the frame, in particular in the designs of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. After the later twentieth century's violent swings from tower blocks to Post-Modernism and neo-traditionalism we face a new danger, the creeping sprawl that is swallowing up much of our beautiful countryside. Recognising this threat, the author highlights a strand of hope, a vein of architectural excellence that runs through the chaotic post-war picture and points the way ahead.

The House

Constable

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