Paul Greenhalgh

Art Nouveau: The Architecture of Modern Life is the first book to expand the scope of Art Nouveau beyond its traditional canon, covering 23 countries and featuring newly commissioned photography. With special access to many iconic buildings – including renowned Art Nouveau landmarks rarely open to the public – the author and photography provide an unprecedented visual and scholarly exploration of this widely recognised and beloved style. Offering fresh theoretical and intellectual perspectives, this groundbreaking new book redefines our understanding of Art Nouveau. It uniquely examines the architectural heritage of Art Nouveau, exploring how it is preserved and presented today, as well as its lasting impact on contemporary design. The concluding chapter highlights Art Nouveau’s enduring influence, showcasing its presence in contemporary architecture. Throughout, the book also considers the social and political context in which the movement emerged.

The great World's Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the mid-19th century were among the largest and most dramatic cultural events ever staged. In both beneficial and detrimental ways, they affected the lives of tens of millions of people. Fair World tells the story of these extraordinary exhibitions from the Victorian period to the present day.

"Full of surprises [and] evocative." The Spectator "Passionately written." Apollo "An extraordinary accomplishment." Edmund de Waal "Monumental." Times Literary Supplement"An epic reshaping of ceramic art." Crafts "An important book." The Arts Society Magazine In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millennia. Indeed, the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society.This fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Romans and the medieval world; Islamic ceramic cultures and their influence on the Italian Renaissance; Chinese and European porcelain production; modernity and Art Nouveau; the rise of the studio potter, Art Deco, International Style and Mid-Century Modern, and finally, the contemporary explosion of ceramic making and the postmodern potter. Interwoven in this journey through time and place is the story of the pots themselves, the culture of the ceramics, and their character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually every country and historical period, and have worked as a commodity servicing every social class. They are omnipresent: a ubiquitous art. Ceramic culture is a clear, unique, definable thing, and has an internal logic that holds it together through millennia. Hence ceramics is the most peculiar and extraordinary of all the arts. At once cheap, expensive, elite, plebeian, high-tech, low-tech, exotic, eccentric, comic, tragic, spiritual, and secular, it has revealed itself to be as fluid as the mud it is made from.Ceramics are the very stuff of how civilized life was, and is, led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects.

Through the treasures of the Anderson Collection at the Sainsbury Centre, ‘The Nature of Dreams’ will showcase English masterpieces in avant-garde design during the fin de siècle to explore its importance and influence on Art Nouveau in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and the United States. A major feature of Art Nouveau was its debt to English art, design, and architecture. This is all the more interesting given that a substantial Art Nouveau movement didn’t really emerge in England. The Europeans, including Victor Horta and Henri Van de Velde in Brussels, Hector Guimard in Paris, and Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, openly acknowledged and celebrated the contribution, for example, of William Morris, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the Aesthetic Movement, to the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

Complementary Contrasts: The Glass and Steel Sculptures of Albert Paley highlights the significance of glass in the work of the celebrated sculptor Albert Paley. Though best known for his large-scale metal sculptures, Paley has incorporated glass in many works for over a decade.After beginning his career as a jewelry maker, Paley soon transitioned to furniture and freestanding sculpture. In the 1970s, Paley delved into large, site-specific works that blurred the line between sculpture and architecture. Despite disparity in size, Paley's collective artworks display a synergy of forms and philosophy, favoring natural curves and lines that defy their rigid materials.In 1999 Paley was invited to Pilchuck Glass School to collaborate with artist Dante Marioni. His experience utilizing fire to manipulate metal translated naturally into his glass design and allowed him to embrace the new material with ease. Since this initial introduction, Paley has collaborated with a number of glass artists and created over a hundred sculptures incorporating glass.The first book to focus on Paley's glass and steel sculpture, Complementary Contrasts includes approximately forty new sculptures created at the Museum of Glass in collaboration with Seattle-based glass sculptor Martin Blank. These sculptures will be supported by earlier works from Paley's personal collection. Thirty works on paper that illuminate Paley's process of incorporating glass in his sculpture are also illustrated. Collectively, the objects in this publication demonstrate a culmination of Paley's talents as a sculptor.

When working with children, an understanding of the social interactions and relationships which influence emotional growth and learning is essential. Emotional Growth and Learning clarifies these processes and serves as a practical and theoretical resource for the training of teachers and other professionals. Paul Greenalgh draws on case studies from his own experience to illustrate the relevant concepts of Jungian, psychoanalytic and humanistic psychology . Individual and group exercises help adults to explore their own participation in the growth and learning processes and the book's multi-disciplinary approach and accessible style will appeal to teachers, parents and those working in clinical psychology, counselling and social work.

When working with children, an understanding of the social interactions and relationships which influence emotional growth and learning is essential. Emotional Growth and Learning clarifies these processes and serves as a practical and theoretical resource for the training of teachers and other professionals. Paul Greenalgh draws on case studies from his own experience to illustrate the relevant concepts of Jungian, psychoanalytic and humanistic psychology . Individual and group exercises help adults to explore their own participation in the growth and learning processes and the book's multi-disciplinary approach and accessible style will appeal to teachers, parents and those working in clinical psychology, counselling and social work.