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THE DEVILS KEN RUSSELL: POCKET MOVIE GUIDE By Jeremy Mark Robinson. The Devils is a celebrated 1971 picture based on the Loudun demonology trials in the 17th century, scripted by Ken Russell from Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun (1952) and the 1961 play by John Whiting (1918-63). The Devils was undoubtedly director Russell's most notorious hour. It was the site of conflicts between the filmmakers, the American film studio (Warners), the ce...

Sir Thomas Wyatt: Love For Love: Selected Poems Selected and Introduced by Louise Cooper This is a collection of Sir Thomas Wyatt's poetry, featuring his Petrarchan sonnets, songs, ballads, epigrams and rondeaux. The poems, in meticulously wrought stanzas, are mainly about love: love lost, won, and desired. Sir Thomas Wyatt was the first of the great English Renaissance love poets. Wyatt's poetry is too often neglected, beside towering talents...

EMILY DICKINSON: WILD NIGHTS: SELECTED POEMS selected and introduced by Miriam Chalk One of the most extraordinary poets of any era, American poetess Emily Dickinson wrote a huge amount of poetry (nearly 1800 poems). This book ranges from her early work to the late pieces, and features many of Dickinson's most famous pieces. This new edition includes many new poems. Emily Dickinson's poetry is among the strangest, the most compelling and the m...

SEX IN ART: PORNOGRAPHY AND PLEASURE IN THE HISTORY OF ART By Cassidy Hughes A comprehensive and detailed survey of erotic art from ancient times to the modern era. All of the major erotic artists of the Western tradition are analyzed (Egon Schiele, Hans Bellmer, Thomas Rowlandson, Pablo Picasso, Titian, Jean Baptiste Dominique Ingres, Felicien Rops, Leonardo da Vinci, Edgar Degas, and Eric Gill). Other chapters include erotica in ancient Gree...

MARK ROTHKO: THE ART OF TRANSCENDENCE By Julia Davis REVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS Mark Rothko (1903-1970, born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia) is one of the great 20th century American artists. A huge amount of material that has grown up around Rothko. Like Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Leonardo da Vinci, Mark Rothko has been lionized by hundreds of art critics. Rothko remains a greatly admired painter. ...

LAND ART IN GREAT BRITAIN By William Malpas A new book on land art in Great Britain. There are chapters on land artists such as Chris Drury, Hamish Fulton, David Nash, Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy. All of the major practitioners of land and environmental art in the U.K. are discussed. The book also considers prehistoric art, stone circles, Romanticism, poetry, religion, women's art, contemporary art, and the impact of the British landscap...

GERMAN ROMANTIC POETRY By Carol Appleby REVISED AND UPDATED A study of German Romantic poetry, focusing on four of the great poets of the modern era: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hplderlin, Heinrich Heine and Novalis. The book includes lengthy extracts from the poetry of German Romanticism, with a selection of poems by Goethe, Novalis, Holderlin and Heine at the back. This new edition (the 4th) has been revised. Illustrated. ISBN 9781...

WILD ZONES: PORNOGRAPHY, ART AND FEMINISM By Kelly Ives REVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS Kelly Ives explores the worlds sexual representation in art and pornography, from a feminist viewpoint. The book includes chapters on the depiction of sexuality in art, from contemporary art and pornography back through the Renaissance to prehistory, on the problematic relations between showing sexuality and censorship, the history of porn, and ...

THE ART OF RICHARD LONG ----- By William Malpas ----- REVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS ----- The central fact and act of Richard Long's art is walking. His work is founded on the art of walking, the act of walking, the actuality of walking, and on walking as art, as act, as experience. His walks become 'artwalks', artwalks which become artworks. Richard Long is a British land artist and sculptor who works with and in the natural wor...

KURT JACKSON: PAINTING-SEA-SKY-LIGHT-LAND-CORNWALLBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonA new book about the British landscape painter Kurt Jackson (b. 1961). This new edition includes a text which has been completely updated. There are also many new illustrations. including photographs taken for this new edition. EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 4: One of Kurt Jackson's appealing concepts is that the ocean is one of the last true wildernesses left on the planet. It's a...

C O W B O Y B E B O P THE ANIME TV SERIES AND MOVIE by Jeremy Mark Robinson Sex + drugs + rock music + comedy + Westerns + crime + drifter lifestyles + space battles + bars + casinos + fashion - and more music - what's not to like in Cowboy Bebop?! - and how it wittily and cleverly mixes all of those elements, and many more. That Cowboy Bebop (first broadcast in 1998, and produced by Sunrise (a subsidiary of Bandai) and TV Tokyo), is a fan fav...

SEX-MAGIC-POETRY-CORNWALL: THE POEMS OF PETER REDGROVE A new study of the poems of one of Britain's best but underrated poets, Peter Redgrove (1932-2003). This book considers some of Redgrove's wildest and most passionate works, creating a 'flood' of poetry. Philip Hobsbaum called Redgrove 'the great poet of our time', while Angela Carter said: 'Redgrove's language can light up a page.' Redgrove ranks alongside Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. He ...

A Great Ring of Pure and Endless Light: Selected Poems By Henry Vaughan A cluster of the very best of Henry Vaughan's Metaphysical poems, which are filled with a 'deep, but dazzling darkness'. Lesser known Vaughan works, including some love poems, are collected here beside the famous pieces such as 'The Morning Watch', 'The World' and 'The Night'. Henry Vaughan is the Metaphysical poet from the Welsh borders (he was born at Newton-upon-Usk, Br...

TOMMY: KEN RUSSELL: THE WHO: POCKET MOVIE GUIDE By Jeremy Mark Robinson. Tommy is a 1975 movie based on the rock opera by the British pop band Who and directed by British genius Ken Russell. Shamelessly over-the-top, silly, wild, dynamic, primitive, glitzy and violent, Tommy ain't subtle: it presents pop psychology which's crude as a sledgehammer, symbolism which's heavy-handed like a pinball machine hurled out of a hotel onto Sunset Strip, it...

DANTE: HIS TIMES AND HIS WORK By Arthur John Butler An introduction to the life, times and work of Dante Alighieri, the great Italian poet. This reprint of a book published in 1902 includes chapters on the Divine Comedy and Dante's other works, influences on Dante, a chapter on poetry of the Middle Ages, and a biography of the poet. Includes a gallery of art featuring Dante Alighieri, appendices and bibliography. 168pp. www.crmoon.com

DANTE: AN ESSAY and DE MONARCHIA By R.W. Church & F.J. Church An introduction to the life and work of Dante Alighieri, the great Italian poet, written by the former Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, R.W. Church. This edition includes a translation (by F.J. Church) of Dante's essay Monarchy. Includes a gallery of art featuring Dante Alighieri, a list of contents of De Monarchia, and extensive footnotes. 256pp. www.crmoon.com

THOMAS HARDY: MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES Edited by A.H. Ninham A book of Thomas Hardy's poetry from 1917. Thomas Hardy's poetry lies at the core of his artistic achievement. But it is the novels, in particular Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders and The Return of the Native, that have made Hardy popular with readers and critics. For Hardy, though, t...

THOMAS HARDY: LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER WITH MANY OTHER VERSES Edited by A.H. Ninham A book of Thomas Hardy's poetry from 1922, including favourite pieces such as 'Growth In May', 'The Wanderer' and 'Going and Staying'. Thomas Hardy's poetry lies at the core of his artistic achievement. But it is the novels, in particular Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders and The R...

THOMAS HARDY: POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT Edited by A.H. NInham A book of Thomas Hardy's poetry from 1901, including some WWI poems, poems of an Italian trip, and favourites such as 'The Well-Beloved', 'At a Lunar Eclipse', 'The Darkling Thrush', 'The Self Unseeing', 'De Profundis' and 'Tess's Lament'. Thomas Hardy's poetry lies at the core of his artistic achievement. But it is the novels, in particular Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far Fr...

THOMAS HARDY TIME'S LAUGHING STOCKS AND OTHER VERSES Edited by A.H Ninham A book of Thomas Hardy's poetry from 1909, including some favourites such as 'In a Cathedral City' and 'At Casterbridge Fair'. Thomas Hardy's poetry lies at the core of his artistic achievement. But it is the novels, in particular Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders and The Return of the Nati...