Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. U...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Fiona MacCarthy.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian a...
William Morris: A Life for Our Time
Fiona MacCarthy · ISBN 9780571255597
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti nidottu
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and described by A.S.Byatt as 'one of the finest biographies ever published', this is Fiona MacCarthy's magisterial biography of William Mor...
* A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year ** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings *'A masterpiece.' Edmund de Waal'Comman...
The Simple Life (1981) was Fiona MacCarthy's first book, written while she was the Guardian's design correspondent (and before her acclaimed lives of Eric Gill, William Morris,...
A gorgeous new edition of Fiona MacCarthy's ground-breaking biography of the artist-craftsman, typographer, and lettercutter, master wood-engraver, and sculptor: Eric Gill.'Fasc...
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Fiona MacCarthy · ISBN 9780674065796
Julkaistu 2012 Kieli englanti sidottu
While still a student at Oxford, Edward Burne-Jones formed a friendship and made a renunciation that would shape art history. The friendship was with William Morris, with whom h...
Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive.She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childho...
Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus
Fiona MacCarthy · ISBN 9780674737853
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti sidottu
"This is an absolute triumph--ideas, lives, and the dramas of the twentieth century are woven together in a feat of storytelling. A masterpiece." --Edmund de Waal, ceramic artis...
Collecting, Ordering, Governing
Tony Bennett; Fiona Cameron; Nélia Dias; Ben Dibley; Rodney Harrison; Ira Jacknis; Conal McCarthy · ISBN 9780822362531
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti sidottu
The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early...
Collecting, Ordering, Governing
Tony Bennett; Fiona Cameron; Nélia Dias; Ben Dibley; Rodney Harrison; Ira Jacknis; Conal McCarthy · ISBN 9780822362685
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti pokkari
The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early...
In 1966 Jim Scott, aged 22, qualified as a veterinary surgeon and landed the job of his dreams working in Kenya. Just before leaving, he fell in love with Fiona, a Scottish girl...
This book highlights the imagination of a six-year-old girl who wants to be a doctor. In this book, she shares some knowledge about the solar system to convince the reader that...
The week of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day has always been one of my favorite weeks of the year. Besides my birthday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, I look forward to this week...
Fiona is a short and stout, lovable ball of energy who spends her days cuddling on the couch with her parents and visiting schools with her mom. But Fiona didn't always live thi...
Fiona likes her job as counselor at the Women's Crisis Center and she loves training Off Track Thoroughbreds during the evenings at the show barn where she lives. Some would say...
Fiona on vielä 23-vuotiaana isänsä holhouksen alainen. Hän uhmaa isänsä suunnitelmaa, jonka mukaan hänen pitäisi naida isän valitsema varakas kauppias. Hän on päättänyt aiemmin,...
With the sudden declaration of independence, the farmers in San Salvador lost all their subsidies from the Crown. To compensate, several locals plotted to loot the wealthy Spani...