In this remarkable biography, Sally Festing shows us how impressions of Gertrude Jekyll have become distorted in the popular imagination: how her real contribution to garden design is underrated, especially the profound influence she was to have upon the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. The plain, myopic figure who stares sternly from Victorian photographs was, the author suggests, altogether more complicated, abrasive, autocratic, impatient, fun-loving, and lovable than she has ever been made out to be. An illuminating portrait of a formidable and admirable woman.

Gertrude Jekyll

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Festing, Sally

Gardening & Landscape Design

Penguin Uk

This a biography of sculptor, Dame Barbara Hepworth. With her second husband, Ben Nicholson, and her contemporary, Henry Moore, she led a group of artists moving away from representative to abstract art. She produced a form that was entirely hers. From the beginning of the 1930s she broke new ground and ten years later she was prominent among avant garde artists working in St Ives and winning international acclaim. Like others, Hepworth received much hostile criticism, but her faith in her work remained unswerving and her talent was rewarded during her life. This book analyzes Hepworth's personal life, her relationships with family and friends. She is portrayed as a woman who set herself standards that filled her life with conflict and contradiction; a person of fierce emotions and little sense of humour; and who, during the 1960s, in the opinion of some who knew her well, from the generous and composed person who had once seemed an oasis of stillness became increasingly arrogant and self-absorbed.

Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin

Traces the life of the garden designer, artist, craftswoman, and writer, describing the influence her family, the arts and crafts movement, and John Ruskin, had on the course of her life

Gertrude Jekyll: A Biography

Arts & Photography

Viking Adult

Barbara Hepworth: A life of forms

VIKING

This is a book about a people whose life had a timeless quality which our machine age living can never hope to emulate. Their customs and beliefs are disappearing fast. The author has tried to capture something of the spirit of the fishing people before the spirit disappears forever, because when it does we will be poorer. History of recent Sheringham fishing and fishermen, by anecdote and quotation.

Fishermen

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

David & Charles Publishers

Showmen: The Voice of Travelling Fair People

Shaun Tyas

In response to mental health issues experienced by his two siblings, my father Derek Richter became a noted neuro-psychiatrist and founder of the Mental Health Research Fund (now Foundation). For more than sixty years, the Foundation has funded pioneering research and challenged the status of mental health in the UK. After his death, I inherited hundreds of family letters, diaries and medical notes that are the source of my poems. They reveal how his personal life affected his dedication to discover the cause and treatment of mental illness, and how this became the driving force of his life.

My Darling Derry: Letter-poems about Derek Richter founder of The Mental Health Foundation

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Fair Acre Press

Sally Festing's White Queens Last Stand is a collection with a strong ekphrastic dimension inspired by the sculptures of Germaine Richier. "French Sculptor, Germaine Richier, was the first woman to be given a solo retrospective at the Musée National d'Art Moderne (in Paris, 1956). Following her early death, she was largely forgotten in the art world. But she had a few champions. In 1955, David Sylvester asserted that 'nobody perhaps occupies so central, so crucial a position in contemporary sculpture.' He was right. 'Surely one of the most original sculptors of our century', echoed American critic and historian, Michael Gibson in 1996. 'Form and subject matter display a no-nonsense authenticity which deserves to be prized above all else.' Such recognition came many years before her work began to feature in academic feminist studies. She was one of the very few women artists to receive international success in the 1940s and 1950s. I've been obsessed with Richier's work for a long time, looked at it in the Tate, read about the artist, and paid my respects by visiting the landscape that was seminal to her. On Sunday, 3 March 2003, I printed 'Stes Maries-de-la-Mer' across the page of my holiday-diary. Wake from a siesta in the back of a Citroën parked round a stone-covered square. Hard-pollarded trees. Grubby white hotel. The rest of the page was written outside in a wobbly hand. Long grey beaches. Trees peppered with holes & striped with algae drift into weird beasts. Wedges of wood entombed in shifty, sifty sand. Great tufts of marram, flapping in the wind. Dead birds. Uprooted willows. Huge skies. Tamarisks. Perennial samphire. Sea purslane. The unexpected part: all these plants were familiar. It was a coincidence that the landscape of Richier's childhood had strong similarities with a spot on the North Norfolk coast that's part of mine. I swam in her sea and felt at home. The Camargue is, of course, more 'extreme', and this is a word Richier used about her work. Critics used it too. Through metamorphoses, one argued, Richier appears to ask what lies at the extreme reaches of the human body. Richier's sculpture became a point of reference for my poetry, Because of this, some diary jottings, and comments are woven between poems as well as in the four-page Timeline." - Sally Festing

White Queen's Last Stand: Poems on the Life and Work of Germaine Richier (1902 - 1959)

Knives Forks and Spoons

Biografía de una de las pioneras en la escultura británica y en un arte hasta ahora dominado por hombres.

Barbara Hepworth (Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

Circe Ediciones, S.L.U.

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