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More than 100 years after the death of designer William Morris, the
Arts and Crafts Movement is enjoying a revival, becoming more
popular than it was during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Attracted by its attention to quality and design, admirers-from
Hollywood stars to young people furnishing their first home-are
appreciate the designs from Morris, De Morgan, Dresser, Tinworth,
Marshall, Barlow, Pearson, Bell, and many more. This new book
celebrates the very best designs in ceramics, furniture,
metalwares, and the fine arts. With over 250 color photographs it
is a treasure trove of visual information. Some of the world's most
renowned experts have contributed their scholarship, including
Stephen Calloway, Francis King, Andrew Barlow, John Catleugh, Max
Donnelly, Mark Golding, Harry Lyons, Barbara Morris, and Peter
Rose. Honesty of purpose, fine craftsmanship, and respect for good
design are as valued now as when they first became the tenets of
Arts & Crafts philosophy in late-Victorian England. This book
is a source of inspiration and education for collectors around the
world.
This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new
trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The
vitality and diversity of research into the late medieval period
are exemplified by the contents of this volume. A central theme is
the medieval Church: examinations of the process of ordination, the
parishioners of Dartford in Kent and the influence of their learned
vicar, how monastic chroniclers changed their focus as the century
progressed, the perhaps unjustified reputation of Bishop Ayscough
of Salisbury, and the significance of Edward IV's charter of
ecclesiastical liberties. Another strand concentrates on Ireland,
to explore both the complex relations between the Gaelic-speaking
peoples of the west and the Stewart monarchy in Scotland, and the
status and participation in government of the English settled near
Dublin. Unusual perspectives on London are derived from a study of
those engaged in identity theft there at the start of the century,
and two heralds' accounts of the public processions andelaborate
funeral rites accorded to a French ambassador at its end.
Contributors: Des Atkinson, Brian Coleman, Zosia Edwards, Simon
Egan, Charles Giry-Deloison, Daniel Gosling, Samuel Lane, David
Lepine, Claire Macht
A Tribe Called Quest - Beastie Boys - De La Soul - Eric B. &
Rakim - The Fugees - KRS-One - Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Public
Enemy - The Roots - Run-DMC - Wu-Tang Clan - and twenty-five more
hip-hop immortals
It's a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have always been reduced to a
list of producer and sample credits, a publicity photo or two, and
some hastily composed shout-outs. That's a damn shame, because few
outside the game know about the true creative forces behind
influential masterpieces like PE's It Takes a Nation of Millions. .
., De La's 3 Feet High and Rising, and Wu-Tang's Enter the Wu-Tang
(36 Chambers). A longtime scribe for the hip-hop nation, Brian
Coleman fills this void, and delivers a thrilling, knockout oral
history of the albums that define this dynamic and iconoclastic art
form.
The format: One chapter, one artist, one album, blow-by-blow and
track-by-track, delivered straight from the original sources.
Performers, producers, DJs, and b-boys-including Big Daddy Kane,
Muggs and B-Real, Biz Markie, RZA, Ice-T, and Wyclef-step to the
mic to talk about the influences, environment, equipment, samples,
beats, beefs, and surprises that went into making each classic
record. Studio craft and street smarts, sonic inspiration and skate
ramps, triumph, tragedy, and take-out food-all played their part in
creating these essential albums of the hip-hop canon.
Insightful, raucous, and addictive, "Check the Technique
"transports you back to hip-hop's golden age with the greatest
artists of the '80s and '90s. This is the book that belongs on the
stacks next to your wax.
"Brian Coleman's writing is a lot like the albums he covers:
direct, uproarious, and more than six-fifths genius."
-Jeff Chang, author of "Can't Stop Won't Stop "
"All producers and hip-hop fans must read this book. It really
shows how these albums were made and touches the music fiend in
everyone."
-DJ Evil Dee of Black Moon and Da Beatminerz
"A rarity in mainstream publishing: a truly essential rap
history."
-Ronin Ro, author of "Have Gun Will Travel "
In both past and modern societies the concepts of memory and
identity have been inextricably intertwined. Memory, through its
power of recollection and reflection, is perceived as a central and
necessary pathway for self-discovery, self-expression, and
self-knowledge crucial to an understanding of the physical and
spiritual world. Memory, in this way, becomes fundamental to
identity itself, as it is through the complex process of both group
and individual recollection and commemoration that cultural,
political, national, religious, and gender identities are not only
imagined but constructed, reconstructed, and represented. Taking as
its focus this complex interplay of memory and identity in the
medieval and early modern European context, this volume of essays
presents its findings under five thematic headings: ""The Poetics
of Memory and Heroic Identity", "Cultural Memory and National
Identities", "Emotional Identities", "Nota Bene: The Craft of
Memory and Corrective Instruction" and "Memorialising Protestant
Identities in Early Modern England". Contributions examine
constructions of memory and identity in such key works as the Old
English Soliloquies; the Old Norse kings' sagas Morkinskinna and
Heimskringla; medieval Serbian hagiographies; Havelok the Dane; Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight; Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, Troilus
and Criseyde and Adam Scriveyn; Elizabethan translations of the
Psalms; John Stearne's Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft;
seventeenth-century portraiture. The research presented here offers
valuable insights into the centrality of memory to medieval and
early modern constructions of political, religious, and national
identities and points up future avenues for scholarly
investigation.
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