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The Volga recommended in the Financial Times
Added on 17/02/2021
Well-researched and accessible to general readers…Hartley has a good eye for the significant detail…
READ MOREShoddy reviewed in The TLS
Added on 12/02/2021
Hanna Rose Shell has infused the history of shoddy – a cheap shredded material nowadays often used to fill mattresses – with a keen sense of drama.
READ MOREArts & Crafts Churches reviewed in Church Times
Added on 12/02/2021
In the Essex village of Great Warley, a unique gem sparkles with Arts and Crafts flair. In 1904, the Church of St Mary the Virgin was designed by Harrison Townsend…
READ MOREThe Inscriptions of Ralph Beyer featured in The Art Newspaper
Added on 11/02/2021
The joy of our new book bag means we can shine a light on artists and aesthetes who have been overlooked in the annals of art history. Ralph Beyer is one such figure…
READ MOREDandy Style reviewed in The Financial Times
Added on 04/02/2021
Fashionistas will pore over the archive illustrations in Dandy Style, including many gorgeous close-ups of detailed embroidery and tailoring
READ MORERed Metropolis recommended in Architecture Today
Added on 03/02/2021
‘Red Metropolis’ is primarily a political rather than an architectural history, and yet it provides essential background for anyone interested in the topic of social architecture today.
READ MOREPostcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures featured in Huck
Added on 03/02/2021
Ahead of an event hosted at the ICA in his memory, three of the late Mark Fisher’s students remember their lecturer and describe the ways they have endeavoured to keep his fierce spirit and energy of his music writing alive.
READ MOREThe Blue Light of the Screen reviewed in Full Stop
Added on 03/02/2021
The book tests the force of ingrown questions the writer has nursed since adolescence: about the facets of devotion that inspire reverence or obsession; about cultivation of ritual for the purposes of self-soothing or healing…
READ MOREOn the Suffering of the World – Eugene Thacker in dialogue with the LA Review of Books
Added on 03/02/2021
Typically the so-called existential concerns of Western philosophy are obsessed with mortality, finitude, and death as they are projected back onto a life that is then lived with this awareness.
READ MOREArchitecture Through Drawing in A Daily Dose of Architecture blog
Added on 02/02/2021
Owen Hatherley’s Red Metropolis extracted in Tribune
Added on 02/02/2021
In the interwar years, the Labour Party used London as an example to the country of what a socialist government could provide – and how to wrest housing from the grip of slum landlords.
READ MOREThe Folk Singers and the Bureau reviewed in America Magazine
Added on 02/02/2021
Among the artist files Leonard digs into are those on Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, the archivist Alan Lomax, Lead Belly, Aunt Molly Jackson and more.
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