The History of the Armouries; The History of Arms and Armour. Illustrated with photos, drawings, color plates.

Treasures from the Tower of London An Exhibition of Arms and Armour

NORMAN, A.V.B. & G.M. Wilson

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Trapping Appearance : Portraits By Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti from the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection

SYLVESTER, David

PATRICK BAILLY-MAITRE-GRANDE

Kruth, Patricia & Peter Ridel Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand

Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting

Chris Stevens

Arts & Photography

In 1907 Edward VII commissioned Peter Carl Faberge - court artist-jeweller to imperial Russia - to produce miniature sculptures of animals on the royal estate at Sandringham. Designed to please Queen Alexandra, the project was suggested by the king's mistress Alice Keppel (the Duchess of Cornwall's great grandmother). The best craftsmen were sent to Norfolk to make wax models which were then taken to Russia to be rendered in hardstones, gemstones, gold, silver and platinum as directed by Faberge himself. Faberge's most ambitious venture in England showed the naturalistic genius of his workshops in St Petersburg and Moscow. It also crowned his career of patronage by the two Danish princesses, Alix and Dagmar, who married British and Russian princes and later became queen-empresses of rival empires. They strove over six decades to bring Britain and Russia together - and against Germany. Perfect little gifts by Faberge aided the sisterly enterprise. This bittersweet saga is also the story of Sandringham - family retreat and political powerhouse, and Alexandra's favourite home from 1863 until her death in 1925. The tale further traces the fate of players in the Faberge commission - many of the Norfolkmen being killed at Gallipoli, as Faberge crafted deadly munitions. While the dowager empress was rescued after the revolution, many of her relatives were murdered in Siberia where Faberge hardstones had been mined. Featuring new research, this book coincides with an exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich on the centenary of the Russian Revolution.

FABERGE: From St Petersburg to Sandringham

Collins, Ian

History & Criticism

Humans and Other Animals is a major thematic exhibition and book exploring the work of Elisabeth Frink alongside major modern and contemporary artists. Featuring over 100 works by Frink, as well as works by modern masters including Giacometti, Richier, Rodin, Picasso, Bourgeois, Marini, Bacon, Moore, Paolozzi, Chadwick and many others. Contemporary artists include Rebecca Warren and Douglas Gordon. Frink emerged in the early 1950's as a highly original, expressive and imaginative sculptor producing a remarkable body of work from a very young age. By the time she died in 1992 at the age of 62, she was one of the most important British sculptors of her generation. This exhibition aims to position Frink as one of the most important British sculptors of the twentieth century and place her work in the context of other modern masters, contemporary artists and ancient art. The book contains essays by Calvin Winner and Tania Moore, exhibition curators at the Sainsbury Centre who provide a new critical assessment of Frink's work.

Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals

This book accompanies the exhibition Unearthed at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia (22 June - 29 August 2010). The volume is intended not just as an exhibition catalogue but as a meditation on excavation and archaeological endeavour. The authors invite the reader, spectator, and exhibition viewer to take up the job of archaeologist, wrestling with unexpected evidence, opinion and comparanda. The book explores previous interpretations of figurines and dogu, along with modern work by artists, photographers, and philosophers who have struggled with the paradoxes inherent in making miniature worlds and of expressing the human body in art, as well as figurines and dogu-like objects from the modern world. Once you have sifted these evidences and worked through the array of comparisons, you will be in a position whereby you can make your own decision about what dogu and figurines do, about how they worked, and indeed, about how todays archaeologists should study them. Table of Contents 1. Defining the Svara Bearing Unit in the siksavedanga literature: Unmasking a veiled debate. (Giovanni Ciotti) 2. Puranic transformations in Cola Cidambaram: The Cidambaramahatmya and the Sutasamhita. (Whitney Cox) 3. Unfuzzying the fuzzy. The distinction between rasas and bhavas in Bharata and Abhinavagupta. (Daniele Cunio) 4. A Contribution of Vedanta to the history of Mimamsa: Prakasatman’s interpretation of “verbal effectuation” (sabdabhavana). (Hugo David) 5. Married women and courtesans: Marriage and women’s room for manoeuvre as depicted in the Katha-sarit-sagara. (Iris Iran Farkhondeh) 6. Towards a new edition of the corpus of Pallava inscriptions. (Emmanuel Francis) 7. Did Mimamsa authors formulate a theory of action? (Elisa Freschi) 8. Trajectories of dance on the surface of theatrical meanings: a contribution to the theory of rasa from the fourth chapter of the Abhinavabharati. (Elisa Ganser) 9. Dravya as a Permanent Referent: The Potential Sarvastivada Influence on Patanjali’s Paspasahnika. (Alastair Gornall) 10. Rituals in the Mahasahasrapramardanasutra. (Gergely Hidas) 11. The Lingodbhava Myth in Early Saiva Sources. (Nirajan Kafle) 12. Yantras in the Buddhist Tantras – Yamaritantrasand Related Literature. (Kenichi Kuranishi) 13. Saiva Siddhanta Sraddha: Towards an evaluation of the socio-religious landscape envisaged by pre-12th century sources. (Nina Mirnig) 14. Constituents of Buddhahood as Presented in the Buddhabhumisutra and the 9th Chapter of the Mahayanasutralamkara: A Comparative Analysis. (Ayako Nakamura) 15. The gannachandas in the Indian metrical tradition. (Andrew Ollett) 16. Anatmata, Soteriology and Moral Psychology in Indian Buddhism. (Antoine Panaioti) 17. Paramarthika or aparamarthika? On the ontological status of separation according to Abhinavagupta. (Isabelle Ratie) 18. Thy Fierce Lotus-Feet: Danger and Benevolence in Mediaeval Sanskrit Poems to Mahisasuramardini-Durga. (Bihani Sarkar) 19. Minor Vajrayana texts II. A new manuscript of the Gurupancasika. (Peter-Daniel Szanto) 20. Can we infer unestablished entities? A Madhva contribution to the Indian theory of inference. (Michael Williams)

Unearthed: A Comparative Study of Jomon Dogu and Neolithic Figurines

Bailey, Douglass

Cochrane, Andrew

Zambelli, Jean

A Miscellany of Japanese Sketch Books and Printed Albums (1840-1908)

Unknown, Author

Art Deco by the Sea is a major new book and exhibition examining British coastal culture between the First and Second World Wars. Beautifully illustrated, the book will trace how the British seaside changed during a new age of mass tourism. It will examine how coastal resorts developed and how the networks of transport that serviced them - by road, rail and sea - were modernised. The book will celebrate iconic examples of Art Deco architecture, from hotels and apartment blocks to piers, cinemas and sea fronts and will show how Art Deco became the key style for pleasure and entertainment. It will also feature seaside companies including Poole Pottery, E.K. Cole Ltd and Crysede known for their striking modern designs. The book will also explore how the seaside changed during the 1920s and 30s with the advent of the heathy body culture, when sunbathing, swimming and a host of other outdoor activities became fashionable. The development of amenities such as lidos and golf courses changed the look of seaside resorts while holiday camps such as Butlin's provided new types of holiday experience. The book will feature Deco fashions and the more ephemeral and popular culture of the seaside from theatre performances, circuses, fairgrounds, casinos and fun fairs.

Art Deco by the Sea

Wood, Ghislaine

Published to accompany a major new exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre, this book examines the spectacular and controversial vision of art practice that raged across the Western world from the end of the 19th century: Art Nouveau.\nThe role of nature is a key focus of the exhibition. The common theme of translating plants into patterns will be explored as a defining feature of the modern style. Art and objects will represent Art Nouveau from different countries, where it appeared characterised as flowing, tensile line, and dramatic movement, or by organic imagery combined with an informal geometry.\nArtists and designers include René Lalique, Edgar Degas, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, William Morris; Alphonse Mucha and Gabriel Dante Rossetti.

The Nature of Dreams: England and the Formation of Art Nouveau

Greenhalgh, Paul

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