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Bridget Riley by Lucy Askew; Richard Shiff (Contribution by); David Sylvester (Contribution by); Cliff Lauson; Marina Warner; Eric de Chassey (Contribution by); Michael Bracewell (Contribution by); John Elderfield (Contribution by); Dave Hickey (Contribution by); Robert Kudielka (Contribution by); Bridget Riley (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
- Includes a selection of critical writings starting with David Sylvester's review of her first exhibition in 1962 and ending with Dave Hickey's foreword to her 2019 exhibition in LA- Featuring reviews, essays, statements and conversations that have been specially selected by the artist and include her ...Show more
Esmond and Ilia - An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
Category: Biography
By one of the finest English writers of our time, a luminous memoir that travels from southern Italy to the banks of the Nile, capturing a lost past both personal and historical. Marina Warner's father, Esmond, met her mother, Ilia, while serving as an officer in the British Army during the Second World ...Show more
Fairy Tale by Marina Warner
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic storieshave travell ...Show more
Fairy Tales by Amanda Slack-Smith (Curated by); Sophie Hopmeier (Curated by); Holly Ringland (Contribution by); Marina Warner (Contribution by); Jack Zipes (Contribution by)
Category: Art
Fairy Tales celebrates art and film that explores this evolving narrative form and the fascination it has commanded for centuries.Drawing on popular themes of magic, enchantment and transformation, the paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, film clips, props and costumes draw not only on well-k ...Show more
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds : Ways of Telling the Self by Marina Warner
Category: Fiction
Fly Away Home by Marina Warner
Category: Fiction
A long-awaited new collection of Marina Warner’s short stories. Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear.
Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art .. by Marina Warner
Category: Art and Design
Art writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity, and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues author Marina Warner in this new anthology. Here, some of Warner's most compelling writing captures the visual experience of the work of a diverse group of artists--with a notable focus ...Show more
Forms of Enchantment - Writings on Art and Artists by Marina Warner
Category: Art Literature
An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics. Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she captures the ...Show more
From the Beast to the Blonde - On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner
Category: Fiction
Looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of tales and to the social and cultural contexts in which the tales are told. This volume considers tales through the centuries, from the ancient sibyl to 18th-century salonieres, from Disney to Angela Carter. With illustrations (so ...Show more
Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court by Warner, Marina
Category: Art and Design | Series: Afterall Books / One Work Ser.
An illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick's erotic, playful, and fierce 1986 installation. In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen Chadwick (1954-1996). What Chadwick conceived for the ICA exhibition explored her characteristic themes-the fema ...Show more
Indigo or Mapping the Waters by Marina Warner
Category: Fiction
Inspired by "The Tempest", the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an imaginary island and one family. The author's previous novel "The Lost Father" was Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.