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In Bolt from the Blue, Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2018
Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, charts the relationship between
a mother and daughter over the course of thirty-odd years. In
October 1985, Lynn moves down to London to enrol at Saint Martin's
School of Art, leaving her mother behind in a suburb of Birmingham.
Their relationship is complicated, and their primary form of
contact is through the letters, postcards and emails they send each
other periodically, while Lynn slowly makes her mark on the London
art scene. A novel in epistolary form, Bolt from the Blue captures
the waxing and waning of the mother-daughter relationship over
time, achieving a rare depth of feeling with a deceptively simple
literary form.
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Perennially on the outside, Brian has led a solitary life; he works
at Camden Council, lunches every day at Il Castelletto café and
then returns to his small flat on Kentish Town Road. It is an
existence carefully crafted to avoid disturbance and yet Brian
yearns for more. A visit one day to the BFI brings film into his
life, and Brian introduces a new element to his routine: nightly
visits to the cinema on London’s South Bank. Through the works of
Yasujirō Ozu, Federico Fellini, Agnes Varda, Yilmaz Güney and
others, Brian gains access to a rich cultural landscape outside his
own experience, but also achieves his first real moments of
belonging, accepted by a curious bunch of amateur film buffs, the
small informal group of BFI regulars. A tender meditation on
friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a
tangential work of film criticism, one that is not removed from its
subject matter, but rather explores with great feeling how art
gives meaning to and enriches our lives.
Published in 1997, an edited collection of essays by a group of
international public interest scholars and activists that examines
the role and function of the law school in developing, transmitting
and understanding the use of law to bring about social change to
the advantage of subordinated people. The book traces this
influence from the early days of the law school and its induction
of legal principles and client responsibilities, through training
for practices in a variety of settings, including teaching, social
action research, client empowerment programs, to the outer limits
of law school in community legal education and awareness. An
important and pioneering series of international case studies.
Published in 1999, this volume contributes to the debate on
convergence and differences in the role of law and legal
institutions throughout the world. Globalization and technology may
allow convergence of lawyers training, practices and values.
However, local conditions may create resistances and barriers which
must be acknowledged and studied. The book focuses on social values
in legal education and practice in four regions: East Asia, South
Asia, South-East Asia and Latin America.
Published in 1997, an edited collection of essays by a group of
international public interest scholars and activists that examines
the role and function of the law school in developing, transmitting
and understanding the use of law to bring about social change to
the advantage of subordinated people. The book traces this
influence from the early days of the law school and its induction
of legal principles and client responsibilities, through training
for practices in a variety of settings, including teaching, social
action research, client empowerment programs, to the outer limits
of law school in community legal education and awareness. An
important and pioneering series of international case studies.
Published in 1999, this volume contributes to the debate on
convergence and differences in the role of law and legal
institutions throughout the world. Globalization and technology may
allow convergence of lawyers training, practices and values.
However, local conditions may create resistances and barriers which
must be acknowledged and studied. The book focuses on social values
in legal education and practice in four regions: East Asia, South
Asia, South-East Asia and Latin America.
Ash before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal
written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly
a nature diary, chronicling the narrator's interest in the local
flora and fauna and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is
also the story of a breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrator's
subsequent recovery through his reengagement with the world around
him. Written in prose that is as precise as it is beautiful, winner
of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, Jeremy Cooper's
first novel in over a decade is a stunning investigation of the
fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.
The accessibility and familiarity of a postcard makes it an
artistic medium rich with potential for subversion, appropriation
or manipulation for political, satirical, revolutionary or playful
intent. The inexpensiveness of production encourages artists to
experiment with their design; the only artistic restriction: that
it fits through a letterbox. Unlike traditional works of art, the
postcard requires nothing more than a stamp for it to be seen on
the other side of the world. Made of commonplace material,
postcards invite handling, asking to be picked up, turned over, and
shown to friends – to be included in our lives. The world exists
to be put on a postcard features postcards, several reproduced at
actual size, designed by notable modern and contemporary artists,
including Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Joseph Beuys, Tacita Dean,
Gilbert & George, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Richard Long,
Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Dieter Roth, Gavin Turk, Mark Wallinger,
Rachel Whiteread and Hannah Wilke, many of which are published here
for the first time. Organized thematically into chapters, such as
‘Graphic Postcards’, ‘Political Postcards’, ‘Portrait
Postcards’ and ‘Composite Postcards’, this book demonstrates
the significance of artists’ postcards in contemporary art.
Written by artists’ postcard expert and collector Jeremy Cooper,
this remarkable publication will inspire, educate and delight all
fans of the genre and lovers of contemporary art.
This comprehensive volume assesses the relationship between legal
rights and disability and the effect of law, legal process and
third party professional intervention on the lives of people with
disabilities. Stressing the crucial role played by disabled people
themselves in fulfilling the promise of the worldwide rights
movement, the chapters examine this relationship across a variety
of themes, stressing the legal elements of each issue, and the
extent to which law can assist in strengthening individual rights
in that area. The contributors, who are all either academics or
other professional experts in their field, write in a jargon free
accessible style. The volume will be of interest to lawyers, human
rights activists, health care professionals and to disabled people
generally. The main areas covered in the volume are: * new
perspectives on working in partnership with disabled people; * the
changing attitudes to the rights of people with disabilities across
the globe; * improvements to the rights of disabled people through
legal process, using national and international law; * an
examination of the rights and entitlement of disabled people to
community care, housing, employment, education, and special
services for children; * disabled people and mental health law; *
messages from disability research for law, practice and reform
implications for research.
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