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Book Review
Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1212-1213
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Reviewer:
Calder, Barnabas (Calder, Barnabas)
Subjects
subjects:
Architecture / Urban planning / Cities / United Kingdom
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subjects:
Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain By Otto Saumarez Smith. 208 pp. incl. 37 b. & w. ills. (Oxford University Press, 2020), £22.99. ISBN 978–0–19–883640–7. | :
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Attributed works:
6. Central area redevelopment, Blackburn, Lancashire: the car park access stair tower on Lord Square. 1970. (Photograph Peter Baistow; Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections).
Book Review
Why Cities Look the Way They Do
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1212-1213
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Reviewer:
Calder, Barnabas (Calder, Barnabas)
Subjects
subjects:
Cities / United Kingdom / Urban planning / Urban history / Architecture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain By Otto Saumarez Smith. 208 pp. incl. 37 b. & w. ills. (Oxford University Press, 2020), £22.99. ISBN 978–0–19–883640–7. | :
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Why Cities Look the Way They Do By Richard J. Williams. 192 pp. incl. numerous ills. (Polity, Cambridge and Medford MA, 2019), £15.99. ISBN 978–0–7456–9181–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Central area redevelopment, Blackburn, Lancashire: the car park access stair tower on Lord Square. 1970. (Photograph Peter Baistow; Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections).
Book Review
Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 875-876
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Reviewer:
Fuhring, Peter (Fuhring, Peter)
Subjects
dates:
1850-1919
places:
United Kingdom
subjects:
Copyright / Prints / Photographs / Paintings / Authors
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subjects:
Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image By Elena Cooper. 304 pp. incl. 13 b. & w. ills. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018), £85. ISBN 978–1–107–17972–1. | :
Book Review
From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798–1898. Edited by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Katherine Manthorne
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 978-979
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Reviewer:
Wildman, Stephen (Wildman, Stephen)
Subjects
art literature:
Conferences / Essays
places:
Europe / United Kingdom / United States
subjects:
Art museums / Lighting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798–1898 Edited by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Katherine Manthorne. 394 pp. incl. 44 col. ills. (Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, 2019), £24.95. ISBN 978–1–78374–549–4. | :
Book Review
The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain. By Lynda Nead
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 527
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Jolivette, Catherine (Jolivette, Catherine)
Subjects
dates:
1940-1959
places:
United Kingdom
subjects:
Cultural history / Film (cinema) / Photography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain By Lynda Nead. 416 pp. incl. 190 col. + b. & w. ills. (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, published in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2017), £35. | :
Publication Received
German Architects in Great Britain: Planning and Building in Exile, 1933–1945. By Andreas Schätzke, in collaboration with Meike Schultz.
01/2015 | 1342 | 157
Pages: 40
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Reviewer:
Kidd, Alex (Kidd, Alex)
Subjects
dates:
1930-1939 / 1940-1949
places:
United Kingdom
subjects:
German architecture / Exiled artists / Architectural history
Book Review
British and Irish Art 1945–1951
04/2011 | 1297 | 153
Pages: 262
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Reviewer:
Hammer, Martin (Hammer, Martin)
Subjects
dates:
1940-1959
museums and institutions:
Arts Council / Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
British Council
places:
Great Britain / United Kingdom / Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland / Ireland / England
print:
British art
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Irish art
subjects:
Patronage / Collections, Public / Art market
subjects:
British painting / Irish painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
British and Irish Art 1945–1951 | author: Clark, Adrian
Illustrations
Attributed works:
57. Self-portrait, by John Luke. 1927. Pencil on paper, 30.2 by 25 cm. (Ulster Museum, Belfast).
Editorial
Cut and cut again
03/2011 | 1296 | 153
Pages: 147
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Subjects
places:
United Kingdom / Great Britain
print:
Arts funding
subjects:
Editorials
subjects:
Arts funding / Museum policy / Museums / Regional Museums / National museums / Government
Book Review
Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria. A Mirror to the World
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 751-752
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Reviewer:
Scarisbrick, Diana (Scarisbrick, Diana)
Subjects
dates:
1800-1899
museums and institutions:
British Library, London, Great Britain
places:
United States / United Kingdom / Great Britain / England
print:
Jewellery
subjects:
Jewellery / Victorian / Collections, Public / Collections, Private
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria. A Mirror to the World | author: Gere, Charlotte , author: Rudoe, Judy
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
64. Flower bouquet jewel, probably a hair ornament. ?English, c.1850. Gold and diamond, 9.4 cm. high. (British Museum, London).
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