London Art Worlds Applin, Jo; Spencer, Catherine; Tobin, Amy
2017
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The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw ...an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and thinking about art.
The contributors to London Art Worlds examine the many activities and movements that existed alongside more established institutions in this period, from the rise of cybernetics and the founding of alternative publications to the public protests and new pedagogical models in London’s art schools. The essays explore how international artists and the rise of alternative venues, publications, and exhibitions, along with a growing mobilization of artists around political and cultural issues ranging from feminism to democracy, pushed the boundaries of the London art scene beyond the West End’s familiar galleries and posed a radical challenge to established modes of making and understanding art.
Engaging, wide-ranging, and original, London Art Worlds provides a necessary perspective on the visual culture of the London art scene in the 1960s and ’70s. Art historians and scholars of the era will find these essays especially valuable and thought provoking.
In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Elena Crippa, Antony Hudek, Dominic Johnson, Carmen Juliá, Courtney J. Martin, Lucy Reynolds, Joy Sleeman, Isobel Whitelegg, and Andrew Wilson.
In this series of sketches Dickens brings the city of London and its inhabitants vividly to life. His travels take him to the workhouse, the theatre, and further afield to the Liverpool docks and the ...Paris morgue. Combining autobiography with reportage, the book showcases Dickens's characteristic wit, humour, and social concerns.
Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London,Metropolitan Tragedydemonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in ...London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny.
Drawing on a rich archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of England's capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the metropolis that mediated responses to theatrical tragedy. The first study of early modern tragedy as an urban genre,Metropolitan Tragedyadvances our understanding of the intersections between genre and history.
In the wake of the 1688 revolution, England’s transition to financial
capitalism accelerated dramatically. Londoners witnessed the rise of credit-based currencies,
securities markets, speculative ...bubbles, insurance schemes, and lotteries. Many understood these
phenomena in terms shaped by their experience with another risky venture at the heart of London
life: the public theater. Speculative Enterprise traces the links these observers drew between
the operations of Drury Lane and Exchange Alley, including their hypercommercialism, dependence
on collective opinion, and accessibility to people of different classes and
genders.
Mattie Burkert identifies a discursive theater-finance
nexus at work in plays by Colley Cibber, Richard Steele, and Susanna Centlivre as well as
in the vibrant eighteenth-century media landscape. As Burkert demonstrates, the stock market and
the entertainment industry were recognized as deeply interconnected institutions that, when
considered together, illuminated the nature of the public more broadly and gave rise to new
modes of publicity and resistance. In telling this story, Speculative Enterprise combines
methods from literary studies, theater and performance history, media theory, and work on print
and material culture to provide a fresh understanding of the centrality of theater to public
life in eighteenth-century London.
This volume investigates the portrayal of London in recent British literature and culture and looks at the way in which they have articulated competing versions of the contemporary city.
This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the ...Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth.
St Paul's Cathedral Schofield, John
2016, 20160930, 2016-09-08, 2016-09-30
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This is the first volume concerned solely with the archaeology of a major late 17th century building in London, and the major changes it has undergone. St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London was ...built in 1675–1711 to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren and has been described as an iconic building many times. In this major new account, John Schofield examines the cathedral from an archaeological perspective, reviewing its history from the early 18th to the early 21st century, as illustrated by recent archaeological recording, documentary research and engineering assessment. A detailed account of the construction of the cathedral is provided based on a comparison of the fabric with voluminous building accounts which have survived and evidence from recent archaeological investigation. The construction of the Wren building and its embellishments are followed by the main works of later surveyors such as Robert Mylne and Francis Penrose. The 20th century brought further changes and conservation projects, including restoration after the building was hit by two bombs in World War II, and all its windows blown out. The 1990s and first years of the present century have witnessed considerable refurbishment and cleaning involving archaeological and engineering works. Archaeological specialist reports and an engineering review of the stability and character of the building are provided.
