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British Architects & Craftsmen
- £20.00
- Full title: British Architects and Craftsmen, a Survey of Taste, Design and Style During Three Centuries 1600 to 1830. 'The genius of English architecture is the glory of England, second only to the printed word.' Thus Sacheverell Sitwell (younger brother of Edith and Osbert Sitwell) concludes British Architects and Craftsmen,…
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Cupid and the Jacaranda
- £16.00
- This is another book by Sacheverell Sitwell belonging to the series which began with his Dance of the Ouick and the Dead in 1936. It is, in fact, the fifth volume of this series Cupid and the Jacaranda, like its predecessors, ranges the wide field between fact and fiction. Partly,…
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Journey to the Ends of Time: Vol 1. Lost in the Dark Wood
- £30.00
- Journey to the Ends of Time is the knowledge and experience of a lifetime projected into the form of fantasias of the mind and soul. They are exercises of the imagination, and variations upon the greatest of all human themes. But it is not written from a religious angle, and…
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Little History of Music (Little Histories)
- £20.00
- Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest…
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Looking For A New England 1975-1986
- £12.00
- What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins…
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Morning, Noon and Night in London
- £16.00
- These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London.…
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Mozart: Traces of Transcendence
- £10.00
- In a theological study of Mozart's music, Kung discusses the composer's Catholic background--something that, surprisingly, has hardly been treated by scholars--and reveals, among other things, the possibility of a new creative understanding of Mozart's "Coronation Mass", as interpretated by Mozart's music. A provocative study that may even surpass Karl Barth's…
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Queen Mary and Others
- £20.00
- A posthumous anthology of essays by Osbert Sitwell published 5 years after his death, including some previously unpublished. Foreword by his close friend Sir Harold Acton.
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Sacred and Profane Love
- £9.00
- Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH (1897 - 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older…
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
- £18.00
- A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.
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The Art of New Creation Ð Trajectories in Theology and the Arts
- £22.00
- The biblical themes of creation and new creation are inextricably bound to each other. For the God who created the world is the same God who recreates humanity in Jesus Christ and the same God who promises a new heaven and a new earth. How might the relationship between creation…
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The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War
- £75.00
- The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, David Caute establishes the nature of the extraordinary cultural competition set up post-1945 between Moscow, New York, London and Paris, with the most intimate frontier war…
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The Hunters and the Hunted
- £16.00
- This work, written in the concluding months or years of war, has for subject the tentative returning of the arts of peace. Through its pages, by way of interior drama, there runs some thread of connection with the Tales of Hoffmann. The same characters are invoked, but the larger frame…
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The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
- £14.00
- Families are societies in miniature.' The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations: George, one of Australia's leading painters; his talented composer-conductor son Constant; and grandson Kit, who managed the…
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British Architects & Craftsmen
- £20.00
- Full title: British Architects and Craftsmen, a Survey of Taste, Design and Style During Three Centuries 1600 to 1830. 'The genius of English architecture is the glory of England, second only to the printed word.' Thus Sacheverell Sitwell (younger brother of Edith and Osbert Sitwell) concludes British Architects and Craftsmen,…
- Add to basket
-
Cupid and the Jacaranda
- £16.00
- This is another book by Sacheverell Sitwell belonging to the series which began with his Dance of the Ouick and the Dead in 1936. It is, in fact, the fifth volume of this series Cupid and the Jacaranda, like its predecessors, ranges the wide field between fact and fiction. Partly,…
- Add to basket
-
Journey to the Ends of Time: Vol 1. Lost in the Dark Wood
- £30.00
- Journey to the Ends of Time is the knowledge and experience of a lifetime projected into the form of fantasias of the mind and soul. They are exercises of the imagination, and variations upon the greatest of all human themes. But it is not written from a religious angle, and…
- Add to basket
-
Little History of Music (Little Histories)
- £20.00
- Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest…
- Add to basket
-
Looking For A New England 1975-1986
- £12.00
- What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins…
- Add to basket
-
Morning, Noon and Night in London
- £16.00
- These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London.…
- Add to basket
-
Mozart: Traces of Transcendence
- £10.00
- In a theological study of Mozart's music, Kung discusses the composer's Catholic background--something that, surprisingly, has hardly been treated by scholars--and reveals, among other things, the possibility of a new creative understanding of Mozart's "Coronation Mass", as interpretated by Mozart's music. A provocative study that may even surpass Karl Barth's…
- Add to basket
-
Queen Mary and Others
- £20.00
- A posthumous anthology of essays by Osbert Sitwell published 5 years after his death, including some previously unpublished. Foreword by his close friend Sir Harold Acton.
- Add to basket
-
Sacred and Profane Love
- £9.00
- Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH (1897 - 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older…
- Add to basket
-
Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
- £18.00
- A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.
- Add to basket
-
The Art of New Creation Ð Trajectories in Theology and the Arts
- £22.00
- The biblical themes of creation and new creation are inextricably bound to each other. For the God who created the world is the same God who recreates humanity in Jesus Christ and the same God who promises a new heaven and a new earth. How might the relationship between creation…
- Add to basket
-
The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War
- £75.00
- The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, David Caute establishes the nature of the extraordinary cultural competition set up post-1945 between Moscow, New York, London and Paris, with the most intimate frontier war…
- Add to basket
-
The Hunters and the Hunted
- £16.00
- This work, written in the concluding months or years of war, has for subject the tentative returning of the arts of peace. Through its pages, by way of interior drama, there runs some thread of connection with the Tales of Hoffmann. The same characters are invoked, but the larger frame…
- Add to basket
-
The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
- £14.00
- Families are societies in miniature.' The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations: George, one of Australia's leading painters; his talented composer-conductor son Constant; and grandson Kit, who managed the…
- Add to basket