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A new, narrative history of the Renaissance that takes in the whole
of Europe and its global context, written by one of the UK’s
foremost art critics and respected writers on art. What was the
'Renaissance'? In the nineteenth century this flowering of
creativity and thought was celebrated as the birth of the modern
world. Today many historians are sceptical about its very
existence. Earthly Delights rekindles the Renaissance as a seismic
change in European mentalities, in a panoramic history that
encompasses Florence and Bruges, London and Nuremberg. Artists from
northern as well as southern Europe, including Leonardo, Bosch,
Bruegel and Titian, star in a captivating and beautifully
illustrated narrative that sets their lives against a period of
convulsive change across a continent that was finding itself as it
‘discovered’ the world. Art critic and writer Jonathan Jones
tells the story of Renaissance artists as pioneers, adventurers and
‘geniuses’, a Renaissance concept. Albrecht Dürer gazes with
wonder on Aztec art in Brussels in 1520, Leonardo da Vinci tries to
perfect a flying machine, Hieronymus Bosch finds inspiration in
West African ivory carvings imported by the Portuguese to Antwerp.
A then unknown Netherlandish painter, Pieter Bruegel, arrives in
1550s Rome just as Michelangelo is striving in the same city to
raise the new St Peter’s Basilica towards heaven. From Atlantic
voyages to Germanic woods, Italian palazzi to the royal castle of
Prague, this was an age when people dared to experiment with the
occult and dabble in utopias: to think and create new worlds.
The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda
Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise explores resonances of
"Southernness" in works by American culture's leading literary
couple. At the height of their fame, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
dramatized their relationship as a romance of regionalism, as the
charming tale of a Northern man wooing a Southern belle. Their
writing exposes deeper sectional conflicts, however: from the
seemingly unexorcisable fixation with the Civil War and the
historical revisionism of the Lost Cause to popular culture's
depiction of the South as an artistically deprived, economically
broken backwater, the couple challenged early twentieth-century
stereotypes of life below the Mason-Dixon line. From their most
famous efforts (The Great Gatsby and Save Me the Waltz) to their
more overlooked and obscure (Scott's 1932 story "Family in the
Wind," Zelda's "The Iceberg," published in 1918 before she even met
her husband), Scott and Zelda returned obsessively to the
challenges of defining Southern identity in a country in which
"going south" meant decay and dissolution. Contributors to this
volume tackle a range of Southern topics, including belle culture,
the picturesque and the Gothic, Confederate commemoration and race
relations, and regional reconciliation. As the collection
demonstrates, the Fitzgeralds' fortuitous meeting in Montgomery,
Alabama, in 1918 sparked a Southern renascence in miniature.
This book brings together previous work by the authors that
explores the location of foreign direct investment. It uses a broad
range of approaches and quantitative techniques. The issues that
are addressed concern the changing nature of FDI location, its
determinants, and the role of policy in attracting FDI. The
chapters of this book focus on the UK experience, but also analyse
the location determinants at a European level. The authors present
expert analysis that charts the increase in FDI since the mid-1980s
and examines the shift in manufacturing and service location,
arguing that these result from policy changes and the creation of
the European Single Market. Overall, the book finds that the
regional benefit of FDI location is unlikely to be long-lasting,
owing both to the nature of plant reinvestment and to the effect of
agglomeration economics on FDI location.
Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the
Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian
Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to
become one of the foremost painters of her day. As a young woman
Artemisia was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a
seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by
the authorities. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honour
was everything. Yet she went on to become one of the most
sought-after artists of the seventeenth century. Yet she went on to
become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth
century. Gentileschi's art communicated a powerful personal vision.
Like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois or Tracey Emin, she put her life
into her art. 'Lives of the Artists'is a new series of brief
artists biographies from Laurence King Publishing. The series takes
as its inspiration Giorgio Vasari's five-hundred-year-old
masterwork, updating it with modern takes on the lives of key
artists past and present. Focusing on the life of the artist rather
than examining their work, each book also includes key images
illustrating the artist's life.
The 'boom' in foreign direct investment (FDI) since the mid-1980s,
continues to be paramount in policy interest. This book reviews the
literature on the nature of FDI and reports the recent results on
the performance of FDI plants in order to show the implications for
regional economic development. It presents new evidence on the
nature and performance of these plants, using a unique dataset that
has been constructed and rigorously analyzed by applying
econometric techniques. The role of FDI in economic development has
long been poorly understood and this book contributes to improving
understanding, and is of direct policy relevance. An examination is
made of the generation, theory and location of FDI, as well as its
implications for regional and national development. In addition to
this, analysis is made of the issues at the project and plant
levels, related to investment, employment and firm survival.
This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of
Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the work
of one of the most important and respected artists working today.
From some of her previously unpublished early works from the 1980s,
through the period of the 'Young British Artists' when she first
found international fame, and up to her very latest works - many
also published here for the first time - The Guardian's art critic
Jonathan Jones brings together Tracey Emin's complete career into
one concise and essential volume.
The best-selling Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones presents a
radical new story of British art. "Sensations is a riveting
story of art and science: thoughtful, provocative and persuasive" -
The Times "Erudite, impassioned, fascinating" - Financial
Times “Sensations brilliantly marshals Jones’s
extensive research into engaging narratives of British intellectual
history… Compelling.” Times Literary Supplement “I
even loved Jonathan’s writing when he slagged my work off! He is
a true thinker, a brilliant art historian who can back up his
criticism with more than just opinion.” – Tracey Emin
“Sensations presents a radically new story of British art. It
connects the artists of today with British culture more than three
hundred years ago as it finds an unexpected thread that links
William Hogarth and Tracey Emin, Thomas Gainsborough and Lucian
Freud. What they share is an eye for the real world. I hope this
book will change how you see Britain, and its art.” – Jonathan
Jones What is the artistic impulse uniting Robert Hooke's
drawings of insects, George Stubbs's studies of horses and Damien
Hirst's pickled shark? In this new and spirited account of British
art, Jonathan Jones argues for empiricism. From the Enlightenment
to the present, British artists have shared a passion for looking
hard at the world around them. Jones shows how this zeal for
precision and careful observation paved the way for Realism,
Impressionism and the birth of modern art. This essential
art book is a must-read for fans of Gombrich’s The Story of Art
and the perfect introduction to British art history.
Also by Laurence King Publishing: - A World History of Art
by John Fleming and Hugh Honour (9781856695848) - The Short Story
of Art by Susie Hodge (9781780679686)
The renowned Oxford Chemistry Primer series, which provides focused
introductions to a range of important topics in chemistry, has been
refreshed and updated to suit the needs of today's students,
lecturers, and postgraduate researchers. The rigorous, yet
accessible, treatment of each subject area is ideal for those
wanting a primer in a given topic to prepare them for more advanced
study or research. Moreover, cutting-edge examples and applications
throughout the texts show the relevance of the chemistry being
described to current research and industry. The learning features
provided, including questions at the end of every chapter and
online multiple-choice questions, encourage active learning and
promote understanding. Furthermore, frequent diagrams, margin
notes, further reading, and glossary definitions all help to
enhance a student's understanding of these essential areas of
chemistry. NMR: The Toolkit describes succinctly the range of NMR
techniques commonly used in modern research to probe the structures
and properties of molecules in liquids. Emphasis is placed
throughout on how these experiments actually work, giving a unique
perspective on this powerful experimental tool. Online Resource
Centre The Online Resource Centre to accompany NMR The Toolkit: How
Pulse Sequences Work features: For registered adopters of the text:
* Figures from the book available to download For students: * Full
worked solutions to the end-of-chapter exercises
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Centenary Review (Paperback)
Catherine Lampert, Guy Brett, Marco Livingstone, Jonathan Jones, Juliet Sheyu, …
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This centennial catalogue celebrates the remarkable achievements of
the Whitechapel Gallery between 1901-2001. Featuring essays by
Jonathan Jones, Jeremy Millar, Guy Brett, Mark Francis, Catherine
Lampert, Jon Newman, Juliet Styen, Marco Livingstone, Felicity
Lunn, Paul Bonaventura, Rachel Lichtenstein and Alan Dein, Janeen
Haythornthwaite and Brandon Taylor. Artists surveyed include Ian
McKeever, Tim Head, Alfredo Jaar, Ian Breakwell, Susana Solano,
Cathy de Monchaux, Tunga, Boyd Webb, Matthew Higgs and Paul Noble,
Zarina Bhimji, Hamish Fulton and John Murphy
In 1504, the informal rivalry between two of the most celebrated
artists in Florence became a direct competition. Michelangelo was
commissioned to paint a scene from the ancient battle of Cascina on
a wall of the Palazzo Vecchio--in the same room where Leonardo da
Vinci had already been commissioned to paint a scene from another
great Florentine victory, the battle of Anghiari. As the paintings
progressed, Michelangelo set out to prove that his work, not
Leonardo's, embodied the future of art. In fact, the influence of
both is visible in the works of subsequent generations of
artists.
Historian and art critic Jonathan Jones offers a riveting
exploration of this great rivalry, which would become a turning
point in the careers of both men, and brings to life an era of
fascinating political and cultural transformation.
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Plant Biology (Paperback)
Alison M Smith, George Coupland, Liam Dolan, Nicholas Harberd, Jonathan Jones, …
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Plant Biology is a new textbook written for upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students. It is an account of modern
plant science, reflecting recent advances in genetics and genomics
and the excitement they have created. The book begins with a review
of what is known about the origins of modern-day plants. Next, the
special features of plant genomes and genetics are explored.
Subsequent chapters provide information on our current
understanding of plant cell biology, plant metabolism, and plant
developmental biology, with the remaining three chapters outlining
the interactions of plants with their environments. The final
chapter discusses the relationship of plants with humans:
domestication, agriculture and crop breeding. Plant Biology
contains over 1,000 full color illustrations, and each chapter
begins with Learning Objectives and concludes with a Summary.
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