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Lady Constance Lytton - Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr (Paperback): Lyndsey Jenkins Lady Constance Lytton - Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr (Paperback)
Lyndsey Jenkins
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Does full justice to the remarkable achievements of an unlikely martyr' Mail on Sunday 'A fascinating study of a handful of the potential motivations behind violent political acts through the balanced examination of a remarkable woman' All About History Lady Constance Lytton (1869-1923) was the most unlikely of suffragettes. One of the elite, she was the daughter of a Viceroy of India and a lady in waiting to the Queen. She grew up in the family home of Knebworth and in embassies around the world. For forty years, she did nothing but devote herself to her family, denying herself the love of her life and possible careers as a musician or a reviewer. Then came a chance encounter with a suffragette. Constance was intrigued; witnessing Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst on trial convinced her of the urgent necessity of votes for women and she went to prison for the cause as gleefully as any child going on a school trip. But, once jailed, Constance soon found that her name and her connections singled her out for unwelcome special treatment. By now, 1909, the suffragettes were hunger striking and the government had retaliated with force-feeding. The stories that began to leak out of bungled operations, of dirty tubes, of screams halfheard through brick walls, of straitjackets and handcuffs outraged the suffragettes. Constance decided on her most radical step yet: to go to prison in disguise. Taking the name Jane Warton, she cut her hair, put on glasses and ugly clothes and got herself arrested in Liverpool. Once in prison, she was force-fed eight times before her identity was discovered and she was released. Her case became a cause celebre, with debate raging in The Times and questions being asked in the House of Commons. Lady Constance Lytton became an inspiration and, in the end, a martyr. In this extraordinary new biography, Lyndsey Jenkins reveals for the first time the fascinating story of the woman who abandoned a life of privilege to fight for women s rights.

The Upper Nile Province Handbook - A Report on People and Government in the Southern Sudan, 1991 (Paperback): C.A. Willis The Upper Nile Province Handbook - A Report on People and Government in the Southern Sudan, 1991 (Paperback)
C.A. Willis; Edited by Douglas H. Johnson
R1,095 Discovery Miles 10 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Neutras at Neutra Place (Paperback): Dion Neutra Aia The Neutras at Neutra Place (Paperback)
Dion Neutra Aia
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Gettysburg Cyclorama - An Architectual Monument Lost (Paperback): John Van Horn The Gettysburg Cyclorama - An Architectual Monument Lost (Paperback)
John Van Horn
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Walkscapes - Walking as an Aesthetic Practice (Paperback): Francesco Careri Walkscapes - Walking as an Aesthetic Practice (Paperback)
Francesco Careri; Translated by Stephen Piccolo; Designed by Polytekton
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ashland, the Anchor of Northeast Kentucky - History of Ashland (Paperback): Colonel Charles Dahnmon Whitt Ashland, the Anchor of Northeast Kentucky - History of Ashland (Paperback)
Colonel Charles Dahnmon Whitt
R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Henry Dozier - Peripatetic Architect of Colorado and the West (Paperback): Charles Brantigan Henry Dozier - Peripatetic Architect of Colorado and the West (Paperback)
Charles Brantigan
R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Still Modernism - Photography, Literature, Film (Hardcover): Louise Hornby Still Modernism - Photography, Literature, Film (Hardcover)
Louise Hornby
R3,603 Discovery Miles 36 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Still Modernism offers a critique of the modernist imperative to embrace motion, speed, and mobility. In the context of the rise of kinetic technologies and the invention of motion pictures, it claims that stillness is nonetheless an essential tactic of modernist innovation. More specifically, the book looks at the ways in which photographic stillness emerges as a counterpoint to motion and to film, asserting its own clear visibility against the blur of kinesis. Photographic stillness becomes a means to resist the ephemerality of motion and to get at and articulate something real or essential by way of its fixed limits. Combining art history, film studies and literary studies, Louise Hornby reveals how photographers, filmmakers, and writers, even at their most kinetic, did not surrender attention to points of stillness. Rather, the still image, understood through photography, establishes itself as a mode of resistance and provides a formal response to various modernist efforts to see better, to attend more closely, and to remove the fetters of subjectivity and experience. Still Modernism brings together a series of canonical texts, films and photographs, the selection of which reinforces the central claim that stillness does not lurk at the margins of modernism, but was constitutive of its very foundations. In a series of comparisons drawing from literary and visual objects, Hornby argues that still photography allows film to access its own diffuse images of motion; photography's duplicative form provides a serial structure for modernist efforts to represent the face; its iterative structure articulates the jerky rhythms of experimental narrative as perambulation; and its processes of development allow for the world to emerge independent of the human observer. Casting new light on the relationship between photography and film, Hornby situates the struggle between the still and the kinetic at the center of modernist culture.

Napier - an Art Deco City (Paperback): John D Mccardle Napier - an Art Deco City (Paperback)
John D Mccardle
R622 R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Save R63 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Six Works for Six Architects - Explorations around Invisible Links (Paperback): Gian Luca Brunetti Six Works for Six Architects - Explorations around Invisible Links (Paperback)
Gian Luca Brunetti
R542 Discovery Miles 5 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Unlikely Hero - A Father's Struggle to Raise His Son in the Bronx During the Great Depression and the Golden Age of... An Unlikely Hero - A Father's Struggle to Raise His Son in the Bronx During the Great Depression and the Golden Age of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comic Books, Stickball, Baseball, and Prize Fights (Paperback)
Steve Zimmerman
R486 R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Till We Have Built Jerusalem - Architects of a New City (Paperback): Adina Hoffman Till We Have Built Jerusalem - Architects of a New City (Paperback)
Adina Hoffman
R571 R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Save R35 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mobility of Modernism - Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America (Paperback): Harper Montgomery The Mobility of Modernism - Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America (Paperback)
Harper Montgomery
R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2018 Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the mobility of their circumstances, as well as the inspiration for works that questioned the very concepts of the artist and the artwork and opened the realm of art to untrained and self-taught artists, artisans, and women. Writing about the modernist works in newspapers and magazines, critics provided a new vocabulary with which to interpret and assign value to the expanding sets of abstracted forms produced by these artists, whose lives were shaped by mobility. The Mobility of Modernism examines modernist artworks and criticism that circulated among a network of cities, including Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, and Lima. Harper Montgomery maps the dialogues and relationships among critics who published in avant-gardist magazines such as Amauta and Revista de Avance and artists such as Carlos Merida, Xul Solar, and Emilio Pettoruti, among others, who championed esoteric forms of abstraction. She makes a convincing case that, for these artists and critics, modernism became an anticolonial stance which raised issues that are still vital today-the tensions between the local and the global, the ability of artists to speak for blighted or unincorporated people, and, above all, how advanced art and its champions can enact a politics of opposition.

White City Tel Aviv (Paperback): Claudia Stein White City Tel Aviv (Paperback)
Claudia Stein
R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Modern Architecture in Mozambique, Africa - From Art Deco to Late Modernism (Paperback): Tallo Caracas Modern Architecture in Mozambique, Africa - From Art Deco to Late Modernism (Paperback)
Tallo Caracas
R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Christ & St. Luke's - Norfolk's Landmark Church (Hardcover): Sigur E. Whitaker Christ & St. Luke's - Norfolk's Landmark Church (Hardcover)
Sigur E. Whitaker; Contributions by Elizabeth M. McClure
R1,201 Discovery Miles 12 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Just a Little - The Life of an Early Settler (Paperback): Bert O'Flannagan Just a Little - The Life of an Early Settler (Paperback)
Bert O'Flannagan
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Architecture as Peacework - The First Goetheanum, Dornach, 1914 (Paperback): Rudolf Steiner Architecture as Peacework - The First Goetheanum, Dornach, 1914 (Paperback)
Rudolf Steiner
R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Timberline Lodge (Hardcover): Sarah Baker Munro Timberline Lodge (Hardcover)
Sarah Baker Munro
R822 R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Save R104 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rustic Architecture of Montana (Paperback): Curt Thurstonson Rustic Architecture of Montana (Paperback)
Curt Thurstonson
R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tales of a Century-Old Courthouse - New Madrid County, Missouri (Paperback): Mary Sue Anton Tales of a Century-Old Courthouse - New Madrid County, Missouri (Paperback)
Mary Sue Anton
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Tales of Two Cities - Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City (Paperback): Jonathan Conlin Tales of Two Cities - Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City (Paperback)
Jonathan Conlin
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period from 1700 to 1914, when each vied to be "the" world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of countless books, yet here Jonathan Conlin explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach and influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry has global implications. By borrowing, imitating and learning from each other, Paris and London invented the modern metropolis.
"Tales of Two Cities" examines and compares six urban spaces--the street, the cemetery, the apartment, the restaurant, the underworld and the music hall--that defined urban modernity in the nineteenth century. The citizens of Paris and London first created these essential features of the modern cityscape and, in doing so, defined urban living for all of us.

Great Horsewomen of the 19th Century in the Circus - and an Epilogue on Four Contemporary Ecuyeres: Catherine Durand Henriquet,... Great Horsewomen of the 19th Century in the Circus - and an Epilogue on Four Contemporary Ecuyeres: Catherine Durand Henriquet, Eloise Schwarz King, Geraldine Katharina Knie, and Katja Schumann Binder (Paperback)
Hilda Nelson; Edited by Richard F. Williams; Foreword by Dominique Jando
R955 Discovery Miles 9 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Octagon House - A Home for All (Paperback, Reprint ed.): Orson Squire Fowler The Octagon House - A Home for All (Paperback, Reprint ed.)
Orson Squire Fowler; Introduction by B Madeleine Stern
R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Grandfather's Gallery - A Family Memoir of Art and War (Paperback): Anne Sinclair My Grandfather's Gallery - A Family Memoir of Art and War (Paperback)
Anne Sinclair; Translated by Shaun Whiteside
R461 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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