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From Revolution to Revolution (1973) examines England, Scotland and
Wales from the revolution of 1688 when William became King, to the
American Revolution of 1776. In this period lies the roots of
modern Britain, as it went from being underdeveloped countries on
the fringe of European civilization to a predominating influence in
the world. This book examines the union of the island, development
of an organized public opinion and national consciousness, as well
as Parliament and its factions, the landed and business classes.
Views on religion, art, architecture and the changing face of the
countryside are also examined, as is the tension between London and
the rest of the island. The important issues of colonial expansions
in Ireland, America, India and Africa are also analysed.
The Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in Athens has a substantial
collection of Iznik ceramics (tableware, tiles and sherds).
Although well-known to those who visit the museum, this collection
has never been fully published. John Carswell first studied the
objects in the 1980s and started cataloguing them with a view to
publication. The project was revived and guided to fruition by the
curator of the museum, Mina Moraitou. She has contributed a chapter
on Antonis Benakis and the formation of the Iznik collection as
well as working on the catalogue which includes 111 objects, 83
tiles and 143 sherds. All the objects are illustrated in colour,
some with line drawings.
As a fine novelist, critic and biographer Catherine Carswell led a
passionate and various life, full of intellectual commitment and a
wide range of social interests. She worked on this original, modest
and yet richly remarkable autobiography over a number of years,
coming back to it again and again, almost as an act of meditation.
The younger daughter of a Glasgow shipping merchant, Catherine
Macfarlane studied music in Frankfurt before returning to Glasgow
and then moving to London where she worked as a literary and
dramatic reviewer and met her second husband, Donald Carswell, and
a wide circle of literary and cultural figures, including a
succession of Soviet ambassadors, Lady Tweedsmuir and D.H.
Laurence. In fact she became one of Laurence's close friends, and
it was he who encouraged her to write her first novel, Open the
Door!, based on her own background and a sense of growing social
and spiritual independence. Carswell's interests and enthusiasms
encompassed (among others) Herzen, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Rabelais,
Burns and Boccaccio, but Lying Awake is the distillation of her
thoughts on her own life and indeed on the nature of identity and
autobiography itself. Left unfinished when she died in 1946, the
manuscript was edited by her son John and has not been reprinted
since it was first published in 1950.
Joanna Bannerman, capricious, selfish and warm-hearted,
passionately seeks life and 'loveliness'. Certainly the bustling
streets of Glasgow at the turn of the century promise much greater
excitement than the solid evangelical background she has known
hitherto. Her studies in the School of Art open up new horizons -
of independence and love - and Joanna reaches for them all. First
published in 1920, this novel powerfully evokes the image of a
young woman ensnared yet ultimately released by her capacity for
emotion. It contains a strong autobiographical element and is also
a powerful evocation of the life and industry of the Second City of
the Empire.
Some of the greatest glories of Ottoman art are the luxurious
ceramic vessels and splendid tiles made to decorate newly founded
mosques and palaces by the Turkish pottery at Iznik (ancient
Nicaea). Their designs combine purely Turkish motifs with elements
ingeniously transposed from imported Chinese blue-and-white
porcelain. Over time a more subtle painterly style and complex
palette were developed, culminating in the brilliant combination of
cobalt blue, turquoise, olive green, magenta, and red that became
the internationally recognized Iznik hallmark. Iznik ceramics were
highly prized far beyond the Ottoman Empire, and although the
factories had passed their peak by the late seventeenth century,
their influence lived on through nineteenth-century European
imitations by such potters as William de Morgan and Cantagalli.
This classic account of the first great British financial scandal
is a brilliant recreation of eighteenth-century social and economic
life and will interest anyone fascinated by scandal, corruption,
and human vanity.
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