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This book is the first collection to feature histories of women in
Western Esotericism while also highlighting women's scholarship. In
addition to providing a critical examination of important and under
researched figures in the history of Western Esotericism, these
fifteen essays also contribute to current debates in the study of
esotericism about the very nature of the field itself. The chapters
are divided into four thematic sections that address current topics
in the study of esotericism: race and othering, femininity, power
and leadership and embodiment. This collection not only adds
important voices to the story of Western Esotericism, it hopes to
change the way the story is told.
The fifth volume in this acclaimed paperback series covers a
wide range of topics, including Celtic Cornwall, Cornish politics,
the Cornish economy, Cornish genetics, constructions of language
and race in contemporary Cornwall, Cornish rugby, and education in
Cornwall.
Contributions by
Rob Burton, Dick Cole, Bernard Deacon, Amy Hale, F. L. Harris,
David Harvey, Lynette Olson, Philip Payton, Ronald Perry, F, Roff
Rayner, Andy Seward and Garry Tregidga
The primary aim of New Directions in Celtic Studies is to focus on
contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches
within the subject. Written by international scholars and
practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art
history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings
together in one volume a wide range of perspectives. It responds to
the recent questioning of the viability of the notion of
'Celticity' and the idea of Celtic Studies as a discipline and
points to a renewed vitality in the subject. New Directions in
Celtic Studies is divided into four sections: popular culture and
representation; commodities and Celtic lifestyles; contemporary
Celtic identity and the Celtic diaspora; Celtic praxis.
This book is the first collection to feature histories of women in
Western Esotericism while also highlighting women's scholarship. In
addition to providing a critical examination of important and under
researched figures in the history of Western Esotericism, these
fifteen essays also contribute to current debates in the study of
esotericism about the very nature of the field itself. The chapters
are divided into four thematic sections that address current topics
in the study of esotericism: race and othering, femininity, power
and leadership and embodiment. This collection not only adds
important voices to the story of Western Esotericism, it hopes to
change the way the story is told.
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Radical Landscapes (Paperback)
Darren Pih; Contributions by Guy Shrubsole, Amy Hale, Sui Searle, Maxwell Ayamba, …
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R784
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Throughout the twentieth-century artists have responded to the
landscape in emotional, physical and political ways: exploring
themes of belonging to the land by interrogating the relationship
between landscape history and identity, the enclosure or
militarisation of land, to artists creating works that harness or
dramatise natural earth processes. As the custodian of the national
collection of British art, Tate's climate emergency declaration
points to a wider concern and care for the environment that
underpins the themes in Radical Landscapes. Structured on three
broad thematic sections; 'Trespass', 'Landscape and Identity', and
'Climate Breakdown', there will be around 100 works in total
starting from 1900 until today. Focussing on activism and how we
value, care for, use and draw meaning from the natural landscape,
the book will showcase an array of viewpoints reflecting the
diverse perspectives in modern Britain, examining the artists'
relationship to the landscape and social history as a stimulus for
the imagination as much as action and protest. It presents a
radical and outward-facing image of Britain and its diverse peoples
and landscapes to the world. These conversations present a rare
opportunity to reframe Tate's holdings of landscape art as well as
explore how we might commune with nature and collectively work
towards a more sustainable and equitable future. Artists include
Henry Moore, Peter Kennard, Tacita Dean, Ingrid Pollard, Jeremy
Deller, Rose English, Chris Killip, Derek Jarman, Yuri Patterson,
Anthea Hamilton and many more.
Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) was a force of nature; a prolific
artist, essayist, novelist, and poet whose overriding concerns were
with spiritual transcendence and union with the divine energy that
animated all matter. For her, surrealism, provided a method and
framework to explore not only the deepest reaches of her own mind,
but also to connect with other beings and dimensions. We are
currently witnessing a coalescence of interests that are thrusting
Colquhoun's oeuvre into the spotlight: a renewed interest in
surrealism, a new critical commitment to amplifying the historical
contribution of women artists, and crucially an interest in
esoterically motivated art. Tate holds a vast collection of her
works, ephemera and writings in it's archive from which this
collection of collage artworks is taken and published for the first
time ever. In 1939 Ithell Colquhoun imagined Bonsoir as a
Surrealist film. She constructed a storyboard using photographs cut
from popular magazines. It has remained unpublished until now.
Employing Surrealist techniques, this collection of collages
narrate a moment in time in which convention and ambiguity collide
in the exploration of desire.
The first in-depth biographical study of the British surrealist and
occultist Ithell Colquhoun, This book offers the first in-depth
biographical study of the British surrealist and occultist Ithell
Colquhoun, situating her art within the magical contexts that
shaped her imaginative life and work. After decades of neglect,
Colquhoun's unique vision and hermetic life have become an object
of great renewed interest, both for artists and for historians of
magic. Although her paintings are represented in such major
collections as Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery,
Colquhoun's rejection of both avant-garde and occult orthodoxies
resulted in a life of relative obscurity. Her visual and written
works have only recently received adequate recognition as a
precursor to contemporary experiments in magical autobiography and
esoteric feminism. After rejecting the hectic social expectations
and magical orthodoxies of London's art and occult scenes,
Colquhoun pursued a life of dedicated spiritual and artistic
enquiry embodied in her retreat to Cornwall. Genius of the Fern
Loved Gully balances engaging biography with art historical
erudition and critical insight into the magical systems that
underscored her art and writing.
The thirteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series
includes articles on Cornish emigration, Cornish literature, the
novelist Virginia Woolf, the poet Jack Clemo, Cornish mining
history, Cornish folklore, the medieval Cornish-language miracle
plays, and William Scawen: the seventeenth-century Cornish patriot
and language revivalist.
Contributions by
Michael Bender, Amy Hale, Alan M. Kent, Cynthia Lane, Gary Magge,
Paul Manning, Philip Payton, Sharron P. Schwartz, Matthew Spriggs,
Andrew C. Symons, Andrew Thompson and Malcolm Williams
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Cornish Studies Volume 4 (Paperback)
Philip Payton; Contributions by Bernard Deacon, Amy Hale, Neil Kennedy, Alan M. Kent, …
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R885
Discovery Miles 8 850
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The fourth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the
only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the
past and present of a nation.
Contributions by
Bernard Deacon, Amy Hale, Neil Kennedy, Alan M. Kent, Brian
Murdoch, Philip Payton, Glanville Price, Rod Sheaff, Mark Stoyle,
Paul Thornton and Nicholas Williams
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