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Fiona MacCarthy
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. ‘Fascinating on the work and fair to the man;
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In Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian…
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Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, October 16, 2014-January 11, 2015.
A wonderful snapshot of a moment in history - the final swansong for the debutantes and an era of aristocratic British social history.
After Gropius’ agonized decision to leave Nazi Germany in 1933, she explores his life in exile by tracing how a disorientating period in London evolved into a peaceful marriage with…
A wonderful evocation of a highly celebrated period of art history from one of the most acclaimed biographers of our time.
Fiona MacCarthy challenges the image of Walter Gropius as a doctrinaire architectural rationalist, bringing out the vision and courage that carried him through a politically hostile age. Approaching the Bauhaus…
A new edition of the acclaimed biography of the great nineteenth century English designer.
Fiona MacCarthy’s definitive biography republished by Byron’s own publisher.
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In 1976, British Pop artist Allen Jones (born 1937) created a painting for a film poster for Barbet Schroeder’s eponymous film about a seductive, leather-clad dominatrix.In recent years, the Maitresse…
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Marking the 125th anniversary of William Morris’s death, this is the most wide-ranging, comprehensive - and beautiful - illustrated study of William Morris ever published.
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Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern is the first book to document the work of the internationally renowned post-war British product and industrial designer Kenneth Grange.
