My Town

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014199312X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis My Town by : David Gentleman

Download or read book My Town written by David Gentleman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of it on the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spent observing, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing together work from across his whole career, from his earliest sketches to watercolours painted just a few months ago. Here is London as it was, and as it is today: the Thames, Hampstead Heath; the streets, canals, markets and people of his home of Camden Town; and at the heart of it all, his studio and the tools of his work. Accompanied by reflections on the process of drawing and personal thoughts on the ever-changing city, this is a celebration of London, and the joy of noticing, looking and capturing the world. 'David has spent a lifetime depicting with wit and affection a London he has made his own' Alan Bennett 'He delivers a poetry of exultant concentration ... The surface fusion of the sensuous and the sharply modern is echoed by Gentleman's imagery' Guardian 'The artist and illustrator has been responsible for some of the most-seen public artworks in this country' The Times 'Perhaps the last of the great polymath designer-painters' Camden New Journal

London, You're Beautiful

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141974885
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book London, You're Beautiful written by David Gentleman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life, and for the past year has spent his days focused on looking afresh at the city. The resulting book of sketches, drawings and watercolours, arranged month by month, shows a year in the life of London and reveals the city that is hidden in plain view. From its surprising expanse of sky to the crushed closeness of the tube, from Rainham Marshes to Hampstead Heath, David Gentleman gives us London on a human scale. Accompanied by his thoughts on looking and drawing, whether it is what catches his eye in a certain square or selecting the media - pencil, pen and ink, watercolour - best suited to capture each of the city's various aspects, as well as his reflections on the place he has lived in for over sixty years, this is a book for all those inspired by London, art and design. David Gentleman is a watercolourist and printmaker, working in many media and scales. He has designed British stamps and coins and the platform-length mural at Charing Cross tube station, well-known to Londoners, that is blown up from his wood engravings. His studio is at the top of an early Victorian house in Camden Town between the crowded, rackety Camden Lock and the green spaces of Regent's Park and Primrose Hill.

David Gentleman's London

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Publisher : Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN 13 : 9781851496228
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book David Gentleman's London written by David Gentleman and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book is a portrait of two Londons. One is a familiar and majestic capital; the other is a city less well known and often taken for granted. 'David Gentleman's London' covers the capital from the inner city to the outer limits. The traditional sights of London - Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square and St Paul's - appear alongside many less familiar splendours such as Queen Anne's Gate and Spitalfields, and often in powerful contrast to the new London that continues inexorably to develop unchecked around them. ILLUSTRATIONS 280 colour & 40 b/w illustrations *

London Postcards

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Publisher : Particular Books
ISBN 13 : 9780241443927
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (439 download)

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Book Synopsis London Postcards by : David Gentleman

Download or read book London Postcards written by David Gentleman and published by Particular Books. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over seventy years of quintessential London views in one box. In 1950, aged 19, David Gentleman arrived in the capital, ready to begin his life as an artist. Over the next seven decades, he would sketch, paint, and engrave his way through London, documenting the cityscape, and shaping it, too - most notably through his iconic mural in Charing Cross Underground Station. Combining world-famous imagery with unexpected scenes of daily life in the city, this box of London artworks is a treasure trove for all those who flock to the capital.

David Gentleman's Britain

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Publisher : Acc Art Books
ISBN 13 : 9781851496235
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book David Gentleman's Britain written by David Gentleman and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Isle of Wight to the Orkneys David Gentleman's stunning pen and watercolour illustrations combine with an insightful commentary to create a matchless portrait of the British Isles today.

David Gentleman's Paris

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Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781841880525
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book David Gentleman's Paris written by David Gentleman and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enchanting City of Lights shines as never before--in watercolor! Stoll through the city of Paris, with its leafy boulevards, Metro, and Luxembourg Gardens. History lives in splendid 17th-century buildings of the Marais and the Faubourg St. Germain. Sidewalk cafes also spring to life. "A marvelous watercolour guide to the splendours of the city."--The Sunday Times. "A satisfying and strongly personal celebration of the sights of Paris..."--Spectator.

Disney's British Gentleman

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Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750997575
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Book Synopsis Disney's British Gentleman by : Nathan Morley

Download or read book Disney's British Gentleman written by Nathan Morley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A wonderful account of a life filled with far more ups and downs than its subject's languid demeanour ever suggested.' Miles Jupp. Even if the name doesn't ring a bell, you'd recognise David Tomlinson's face – genial and continually perplexed, he was Mr Banks in Mary Poppins, Professor Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug. To many, he's the epitome of post-war British comedy. But at times his life was more tragedy than comedy. A distinguished RAF pilot in the Second World War, his first marriage was to end in horrific tragedy and his next romance ended with his lover marrying the founder of the American Nazi Party. He did find love and security in his second marriage, but drama still played its part in his life – from the uncovering of an earthshattering family secret to the fight for an autism diagnosis for his son, up against the titans of the British medical establishment. Tomlinson may have died over twenty years ago, but his star continues to shine. In Disney's British Gentleman, Nathan Morley reveals the remarkable story of one of Disney's most beloved icons for the very first time.

In the Country

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Publisher : Uea Publishing Project (Formerly Egg Box Publ)
ISBN 13 : 9780957152854
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (528 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Country by : David Gentleman

Download or read book In the Country written by David Gentleman and published by Uea Publishing Project (Formerly Egg Box Publ). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Gentleman records in words and pictures his observations gathered over 40 years of inhabiting an 18th century end-of-terrace house on the edge of a small rural village in mid-Suffolk.

David Gentleman's Italy

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Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780340649138
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book David Gentleman's Italy written by David Gentleman and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

TM

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Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780676360
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis TM by : Mark Sinclair

Download or read book TM written by Mark Sinclair and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TM offers graphic designers and those interested in the history of design and branding a uniquely detailed look at a select group of the very best visual identities. The book takes 29 internationally-recognised logos and explains their development, design, usage and purpose. Based on interviews with the designers responsible for these totems, and encompassing the marks from a range of corporate, artistic and cultural institutions from across the globe, TM reveals the stories behind such icons as the Coca-Cola logotype, the Penguin Books’ colophon and the Michelin Man. Authoritatively written, comprehensively researched and including a wealth of archival and previously unpublished images, TM is an opportunity to discover how designers are able to squeeze entire identities into 29 simple logos.

The Shell Book of Roads

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Shell Book of Roads written by Geoffrey Grigson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Family Britain, 1951-1957

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408803496
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Family Britain, 1951-1957 by : David Kynaston

Download or read book Family Britain, 1951-1957 written by David Kynaston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Britain continues David Kynaston's groundbreaking series Tales of a New Jerusalem, telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. 'The book is a marvel ... the level of detail is precise and fascinating' Sunday Telegraph 'A wonderfully illuminating picture of the way we were' The Times As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive the narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in Chingford; the self-absorbed civil servant Henry St John perfects the art of grumbling. These and many other voices give a rich, unsentimental picture of everyday life in the 1950s. We also encounter well-known figures on the way, such as Doris Lessing (joining and later leaving the Communist Party), John Arlott (sticking up on Any Questions? for the rights of homosexuals) and Tiger's Roy of the Rovers (making his goal-scoring debut for Melchester). All this is part of a colourful, unfolding tapestry, in which the great national events - the Tories returning to power, the death of George VI, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Suez Crisis - jostle alongside everything that gave Britain in the 1950s its distinctive flavour: Butlin's holiday camps, Kenwood food mixers, Hancock's Half-Hour, Ekco television sets, Davy Crockett, skiffle and teddy boys. Deeply researched, David Kynaston's Family Britain offers an unrivalled take on a largely cohesive, ordered, still very hierarchical society gratefully starting to move away from the painful hardships of the 1940s towards domestic ease and affluence.

The Gentlemen's Clubs of London

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Publisher : Stacey International Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781906768201
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book The Gentlemen's Clubs of London written by Anthony Lejeune and published by Stacey International Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On its first publication in 1979, Lejeune's The Gentlemen's Clubs of London rapidly established itself as a widely sought-after and quoted work around the world among those intrigued by and participating in the rarefied world of the famous clubs of London society. This is a new, thoroughly updated edition. This book lays forth the histories of the clubs, why and how each came into being, who belongs and belonged to which, how members are chosen, and how the clubs have changed down the generations - if indeed they have. This work tells of the ambiance and grace of the clubs, their privacies and eccentricities, and of the yarns, disputes and scandals to which they have given rise. Here are new and archival photographs of the clubs' interiors, ranging from the elegant to the snug, premises which are sometimes secret and quirky and sometimes grand, each unique and fitting the character and contributing to the needs and lives of its members.

Errol Flynn

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Publisher : Aurum Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1781011702
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Errol Flynn written by David Bret and published by Aurum Press Limited. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his stunning looks and swashbuckling onscreen panache Errol Flynn was by all appearances the quintessential movie star who had it all. But Flynn's manicured Hollywood persona did little to hide his insatiable appetites off-screen - the binge drinking, brawling and womanising that would forever cement his place as a film legend. In this hard-hitting study, bestselling show business biographer David Bret traces the life and loves of the actor and man. It was Flynn's natural charisma and athletic prowess that made him as the heartthrob star of Captain Blood and The Adventures Of Robin Hood. But Hollywood's prodigal son was never far from controversy and scandal. In a series of extraordinary revelations Bret explores the star's love of underage girls, young men, binge drinking and drug experimentation, as well as his controversial background as a slave-trader in New Guinea, involvement with the Spanish civil war and his support for Castro. This is compelling and engrossing portrait of the original action-adventure star, who packed more into his fifty years than his high-living contemporaries ever could. The gifted, complex and rakish rebel remains without equal as the film icon of the 20th century. 2009 marks the tragic death of Flynn and this book is an excellent tribute to an extraordinary actor. David Bret was born in Paris and is a leading celebrity biographer. His many acclaimed books include biographies of Marlene Dietrich, Gracie Fields, Freddie Mercury, Tallulah Bankhead, Maria Callas, Rudolph Valentino, Edith Piaf and Joan Crawford. He lives in Yorkshire.

The Pattern Under the Plough

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571286879
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Pattern Under the Plough written by George Ewart Evans and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his two classics, Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay and The Horse in the Furrow, renowned oral historian George Ewart Evans continues his study of the vanishing customs, working habits and rich language of the farming communities of East Anglia with The Pattern Under the Plough (Faber, 1966). Although based on East Anglia, this book was and remains of wider interest, for - as the author pointed out at the time - similar changes were occurring in North America, and also happening with remarkable speed in Africa. In chronicling the old culture George Ewart Evans has taken its two chief aspects, the home and the farm. He describes the house with its fascinating constructional details, the magic invoked for its protection, the mystique of the hearth, the link of the bees with the people of the house, and some of their fears and pre-occupations. Among the chapters on the farm is one of Evans's most original pieces of research: the description of the secret horse societies. Beautifully illustrated by David Gentleman, this book is important not only for the material it reveals about the past but for the implications for present-day society. 'As real (and as valuable) as the evidence unearthed by the spadework of archaeology.' Observer

Westminster Abbey

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Westminster Abbey written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of a Pet Lamb

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Publisher : Chatto & Windus
ISBN 13 : 9780701188108
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (881 download)

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Book Synopsis Memoirs of a Pet Lamb by : David Sylvester

Download or read book Memoirs of a Pet Lamb written by David Sylvester and published by Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Sylvester, who died in June 2001, was one of the greatest art critics of our time. He achieved fame with his work on Cezanne but became known especially for his close, perceptive studies of artists who became personal friends: Giacometti, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon. A brilliant interviewer who could make the most reticent artists disclose their secrets, he rarely revealed his own - but in the weeks before his death he wrote this brief, unforgettable account of his childhood in the 1920s. Beginning with his bewildered shuttling between an English nursery school and the turbulent Yiddish-speaking 'parental country', he reaches back for his child's-eye view. We meet Grandma Rosen with her passion for Rudolph Valentino, and Grandpa returning from his fishmonger's shop and reading out next day's runners at Kempton in his thick foreign accent. We learn of the large Sylvester clan, and of his parents' contradictory ambitions for their son: British army officer or 'a career like Noel Coward's'. We hear of friends and nannies, picnics and outings, schools and siblings; of music, politics, rows and disasters; of love and tenderness and death. Dry, comic yet poignantly unforgettable, Memoirs of a Pet Lamb brings us a life and a whole world in miniature.