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London Postcards

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

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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.

Postcards from Penguin

Author : Penguin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0141044667
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Postcards from Penguin written by Penguin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime, here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box. In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway station, looking for a good book for the journey to London. His disappointment at the poor range of paperbacks on offer led him to found Penguin Books. The quality paperback had arrived. Declaring that 'good design is no more expensive than bad', Lane was adamant that his Penguin paperbacks should cost no more than a packet of cigarettes, but that they should always look distinctive. Ever since then, from their original - now world-famous - look featuring three bold horizontal stripes, through many different stylish, inventive and iconic cover designs, Penguin's paperback jackets have been a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture. And whether they're for classics, crime, reference or prize-winning novels, they still follow Allen Lane's original design mantra. Sometimes, you definitely should judge a book by its cover.

Dear Data

Author : Giorgia Lupi
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616895462
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Dear Data written by Giorgia Lupi and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn postcards they exchanged via mail weekly—small portraits as full of emotion as they are data, both mundane and magical. Dear Data reproduces in pinpoint detail the full year's set of cards, front and back, providing a remarkable portrait of two artists connected by their attention to the details of their lives—including complaints, distractions, phone addictions, physical contact, and desires. These details illuminate the lives of two remarkable young women and also inspire us to map our own lives, including specific suggestions on what data to draw and how. A captivating and unique book for designers, artists, correspondents, friends, and lovers everywhere.

Postcards

Author : Lydia Pyne
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178914485X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Postcards written by Lydia Pyne and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global exploration of postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. When they were invented, postcards established what is now taken for granted in modern times: the ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally they are about creating personal connections—links between people, places, and beliefs. Lydia Pyne examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. In doing so, she shows how postcards were the first global social network and also, here in the twenty-first century, how postcards are not yet extinct.

London postcards

Author : Lki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781856699822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book London postcards written by Lki and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

London Sketchbook

Author : Jason Brooks
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780677146
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book London Sketchbook written by Jason Brooks and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This follow-up to Jason Brooks's highly successful Paris Sketchbook is a stunning gift book that brings the big smoke to life through beautiful imagery. From the West End to the Square Mile and from Liberty to hipster hang-outs, Brooks explores modern-day London through his unique visual repertoire that unites high fashion, fine art, and traveler's sketches made on the fly. Although best known for his gorgeous fashion illustrations, which feature regularly in Vogue and Elle, travel has been a recurrent theme in Brooks's work and, with this new volume, his picturesque adventures continue to amuse and inspire. Part guide book, part illustrated journal, this whimsical take on the swinging city will appeal to both London lovers and fashionistas. Sumptuous production with different stocks and inks will make this a must for anyone who loves fashion illustration and beautiful books.

City of London

Author : Warren Grynberg
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445654970
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book City of London written by Warren Grynberg and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fabulous collection of images perfectly evokes memories of early 20th century London.

David Gentleman's London

Author : David Gentleman
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 *

Paris Sketchbook

Author : Jason Brooks
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780675372
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Paris Sketchbook written by Jason Brooks and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris Sketchbook is a stunning gift book from leading international fashion illustrator Jason Brooks. Although he is best known for his beautiful fashion imagery, which has regularly graced the pages of Vogue and Elle magazines, travel has been a recurrent theme in his work and his adventures continue to inspire and inform his visual repertoire. During his time on fashion assignments at the couture shows in Paris, Brooks developed a fascination for the city, drawing and painting beautiful travel journals that demonstrate his passion for all things Parisian. This book is a whimsical take on Paris, part guide book, part illustrated journal, it will appeal to both travellers and fashionistas. Sumptuous production with different stocks and inks will make this a must for anyone who loves fashion illustration and beautiful books.

British Postcards of the First World War

Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747811865
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book British Postcards of the First World War written by Peter Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcards sent by men on the front, and to them by their families, are among the most numerous, and most telling, surviving artefacts of the Great War. They tell us much about attitudes towards the war, and provide a great insight into men's lives, and into the thoughts and emotions of those left behind. Very different in their illustration, and in their writing, between the beginning of the war and the end, postcards provide a social history of the war in microcosm. Illustrated with a wide range of postcards, this is a fascinating look into the response of the British people to the horrors of the war.

Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards

Author : Ian Berry
Publisher : Delmonico Books
ISBN 13 : 9781636810096
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards written by Ian Berry and published by Delmonico Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of rarely seen collages from the master of abstraction Over the course of more than 50 years, renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly made approximately 400 postcard collages, some of which served as exploratory musings and others as studies for larger works in other mediums. They range from his first monochrome in 1949 through his last postcard collages of crashing ocean waves, in 2005. Together, these works show an unbounded space of creative freedom and provide an important insight into the way Kelly saw, experienced and translated the world in his art. Many postcards illustrate specific places where he lived or visited, introducing biography and illuminating details that make these pieces unique among his broader artistic production. Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards is the most extensive publication of Kelly's lifelong practice of collaged postcards. Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was born in Newburgh, New York. In 1948 he moved to France, where he came into contact with a wide range of classical and modern art. He returned to New York in 1954 and two years later had his first exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized his first retrospective in 1973. Subsequent exhibitions have been held at museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tate in London, Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Real Cities

Author : Steve Pile
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780761970415
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Real Cities written by Steve Pile and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of city life. Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel, Pile explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city. Such experiences are, he argues, best described as phantasmagorias. The phantasmagorias of city life, though commonplace, are far from self-evident and little understood. This book is a path-breaking exploration of urban phantasmagorias, grounded empirically in a series of unusual and exciting case studies. In this study, four substantial phantasmagorias are identified: dreams, magic, vampires and ghosts. The investigation of each phantasmagoria is developed using a wide variety of clear examples. Thus, voodoo in New York and New Orleans shows how ideas about magic are forged within cities. Meanwhile vampires reveal how specific fears about sex and death are expressed within, and circulate between, cities such as London and Singapore. Taken together, such examples build a unique picture of the diverse roles of the imaginary, fantastic and the emotional in modern city life. What is "real" about the city has radical consequences for how we think about improving city life, for all too often these are over-looked in utopian schemes for the city. Real Cities forcefully argues that an appreciation of urban phantasmagorias must be central to what is considered real about city life.

Postcard From The Past

Author : Tom Jackson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008220549
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Postcard From The Past written by Tom Jackson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real messages from the backs of old postcards.

London Postcards to Colour

Author : Struan Reid
Publisher : Postcards to Colour
ISBN 13 : 9781409551102
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book London Postcards to Colour written by Struan Reid and published by Postcards to Colour. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis coming soon.......

Postcards from the Wandering City

Author : Carlo Stanga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788867325764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Postcards from the Wandering City written by Carlo Stanga and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Picturing the Postcard

Author : Monica Cure
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452957746
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Postcard written by Monica Cure and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has “died” many times—this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our collective, modern-day obsession with new media. The postcard, almost unimaginably now, produced at the end of the nineteenth century the same anxieties and hopes that many people think are unique to twenty-first-century social media such as Facebook or Twitter. It promised a newly connected social world accessible to all and threatened the breakdown of authentic social relations and even of language. Arguing that “new media” is as much a discursive object as a material one, and that it is always in dialogue with the media that came before it, Monica Cure reconstructs the postcard’s history through journals, legal documents, and sources from popular culture, analyzing the postcard’s representation in fiction by well-known writers such as E. M. Forster and Edith Wharton and by more obscure writers like Anne Sedgwick and Herbert Flowerdew. Writers deployed uproar over the new medium of the postcard by Anglo-American cultural critics to mirror anxieties about the changing nature of the literary marketplace, which included the new role of women in public life, the appeal of celebrity and the loss of privacy, an increasing dependence on new technologies, and the rise of mass media. Literature kept open the postcard’s possibilities and in the process reimagined what literature could be.

Postcard from London

Author : Iván Mándy
Publisher : Hungarian List
ISBN 13 : 9780857428868
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Postcard from London written by Iván Mándy and published by Hungarian List. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive volume in English from one of Hungary's most popular twentieth-century writers. Iván Mándy (1918-1995) has been called "the prose poet of Budapest," and this volume of short stories presents the first comprehensive collection of his work in English. His early oeuvre created an urban mythology full of picaresque characters inhabiting the seedier neighborhoods of the city: its flea-market stalls, second-run cinemas, and old-fashioned coffeehouses. The stories from the later decades of Mándy's life, often bordering on the absurd, introduce many autobiographical elements spun around the author's alter-ego, János Zsámboky, whose hapless adventures on a rare trip abroad constitute this group of stories, including "Postcard from London." Mándy's unique style at times borrows techniques from films and radio plays, his quirky cuts creating a flicker of images seen in the mind's eye. Memory and perception, time and place spin in narrative legerdemain that invites and rewards the reader's active participation.