In a career of only twenty-five years, Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed well over 300 pieces of furniture, the majority in two relatively short periods, 1897-1905 and 1916-1919. This book gives an unprecedented overview of Mackintosh's body of work and illustrates*with over 400 photographs*all of his major pieces as well as the interiors for which they were produced. The range of works presented here is quite remarkable, featuring not only the elongated chairs for which Mackintosh is most remembered, but also tables, bookcases, beds, bathroom fittings, and even a pulpit and an organ. The pieces here range stylistically from the more routine late-Victorian pieces of his earliest period, through the white-painted OEpook School' furniture of 1901-03, to the geometrical severity of Mackintosh's work for W.J. Bassett-Lowke in 1916-19. Mackintosh Furniture is a comprehensive look at a designer whose influence has only recently begun to fully realize itself, and is a must for both students and aficionados of design.

Mackintosh Furniture

BILLCLIFFE, Roger

Arts & Photography

Cameron Hollis

The Dictionary of Ornament

Gillian Darley

Philippa Lewis

The village shop

Business & Money

BROWN, Jonathan & WARD, Sadie

Marketing & Sales

Ealing Studios

Humor & Entertainment

Barr, Charles

Movies

"MOVIE is a long-venerated journal of serious film criticism, founded in 1962 by four young British criticsUamong them Ian Cameron and V.F. PerkinsUwho are still active members of the editorial board. The magazine set out to promote the idea of the director as effective author of the filmUa view that would become known as auteur theoryUand to communicate an enthusiasm for American cinema, which was at that time largely scoffed at by serious critics. Since then the journal's criticism has grown to combine detailed stylistic analysis with a focus on the socio-historical contexts and political implications of the films at hand. MOVIE 36 continues MOVIE's role at the forefront of writing about cinema. The centerpiece of this issue is an extended study by Douglas Pyle of the concept of point-of-view in the cinema, a notion often invoked by critics but rarely given thorough interrogation. The issue also includes two articles on masculinity in films like Lethal Weapon and Terminator 2, two essays on Max Olphus, and 'Pleasure and Excess,' about the horror films of Vincent Price."

Movie 36

Thomas, Deborah

Russell, David

Hunt, Leon

Perkins, V.F.

Pye, Douglas

Tony Scherman's Chasing Napolean presents a remarkable tour de force: a cycle of monumentally scaled portraits of Napolean Bonaparte, each of which depicts Napolean at a psychologically charged, life-determining juncture. Confronting the challenge of producing an accurate likeness of an historical figure whose reign preceded the age of photography, Scherman metaphorically chronicles the life of Napolean using only the image of his face. Battlefield genius, despotic emperor, megalomaniac conqueror, derided hero - each of these incarnations of Napolean flickers through Scherman's paintings, invoking the flash of charisma as quickly as this is complicated by dark and conflicting undertones. The book contains three texts: Jacques Henric provides a dynamic account of the cultural and historical importance of Scherman's work and the frame of reference from which it springs. Hans Belting and David Moos discuss the specific project and the execution of the Napolean series, and an interview with Stanford Kwinter and Bruce Mau illuminates the artist's motivation, practice, and concerns.

Tony Scherman: Chasing Napoleon: Forensic P

Belting, Hans

Scherman, Tony

Moos, David

Kwinter, Sanford

Henric, Jacques

Individual Artists

Edward Gallafent examines the films that Astaire and Rogers made together in the 1930s and, mainly apart, in the 1940s. Full annotated filmography

Astaire and Rogers

Gallafent, Edward

Biographies & Memoirs

In this contribution to genre studies, Deborah Thomas suggests that there are broad, over-arching melodramatic and comedic modes - and romantic inflections of each - that shape our expectations when we watch a film and are fundamental to an understanding of mainstream American cinema.

Beyond Genre: Melodrama, Comedy and Romance in Hollywood Films

Deborah Thomas

A draughtsman of genius and a painter of rare energy and imagination, artist Ceri Richards is one of the most important, and underappreciated, British artists of the 20th century. In the 1930s, Richards made a numbers of relief constructions and paintings that constitute a major contribution to Surrealism and rank with the best European art of the era. In the postwar period, he developed an intensely lyrical vision of the world in which brilliant color, refracted light, and an exuberant visual music express a keen appreciation of the joy to be found in nature and the arts of music and poetry. In his accompanying text, Mel Gooding weaves together a rigorous analysis of Richard's art with an intimate account of his life, closely integrated with fine color illustrations of paintings, drawings, and constructions, as well as family photographs.

Ceri Richards

Gooding, Mel

Richards, Ceri

This is an evocative collection of photographs that captures the diversity and richness of a bygone era in British history. It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted media and organisations. The last 75 years have seen such a dramatic change in the nature of the British countryside that most of us have forgotten what it used to look like. But memories of its diversity and richness remain - if you know where to look. "The Countryside Remembered" is a lavishly illustrated volume that celebrates the world of leafy hedgerows and quiet country lanes, of small lush meadows and tranquil villages inhabited by local people rather than commuters, and of harvest scenes where the fruits of the year were gathered by whole families without a tractor in sight. These highly evocative images, dating from between the 1930s and the 1960s, are accompanied by an informative commentary that paints a poignant portrait of a way of life that has all but vanished.

The Countryside Remembered

History

Ward, Sadie B.

Europe

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