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- Guides and Information Theatres, Museums, Galleries,
Libraries, Arts
- London
Theatre Walks
Jim De Young Paperback - 240 pages
Applause Books; ISBN: 1557832803
This text takes the reader on a guided tour through the
streets of London focusing on London theatre's history and sights, gossip
and legend
London is in the midst of a massive theater-renovation project, with managers buffing up
many of the century-plus vintage theaters. The whole West End is booming, with new
buildings going up left and right. Jim DeYoung's book helps you find the best of
the old, while introducing you to what is indispensable in the new:
the rehabilitation of the long-shuttered Lyceum, the resurrected Globe Theater near the
actual site of Shakespeare's original, the booming Seven Dials and Covent Garden
neighborhoods, including the Donmar Warehouse. The book will help theater fans
find everything from the the place where Nell Gwynne used to meet King Charles,
to the palaces of Shaftesbury Avenue--to the location of Andrew Lloyd Webber's bank, where
the money of so many playgoers is kept.
Little-known
Museums in and Around London
Rachel Kaplan / Paperback - 215 pages Harry N. Abrams, Inc.;
ISBN: 0810926997 
This guidebook offers readers a glimpse into 30
often overlooked museums. It includes a profile and photographs
of each museum, plus information such as addresses and phone
numbers, hours of admittance and travel directions.There is even a map
showing the surroundings and location of each institution. From the Bank of England Museum
to the Bramah Tea & Coffee Museum to the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre and the Museum of
Garden History, this fully illustrated guidebook offers readers an unparalleled glimpse
into some of the artistic, cultural and historical
gems of London and its surrounding countryside.
A reader from Hoboken,New Jersey , June 6, 1999: Beautifully written and photographed,
impeccably researched. As an American who lived in London for 15 months, I thought I knew
every museum in and around the city. But Ms. Kaplan's beautifully written guide introduced
me to several unkown gems. What makes this guidebook so appealing, and unusual, is that in
addition to decribing the museum's contents she tells you the story of how the museum came
to be. Ms. Kaplan's fascinating anecdotes put the museums and their collections in the
appropriate historical and political context making for a more meaningful visit.
The Great
Theatres of London
Ronald Bergan, et al Hardcover - 200 pages
Prion Books Ltd; ISBN: 1853750573
National Gallery
- The National
Gallery Companion Guide
Erika Langmuir Paperback - 344 pages
National Gallery Company Ltd; ISBN: 185709218X
This revised and enlarged edition of the National Gallery's guide includes
paintings recently acquired by the Gallery and long-term loans, such as Durer's
painting of "Saint Jerome" and Gauguin's "Faa Iheihe".
- Costume in
Art | Heaven in Art
| Places in Art
| People in Art
(Fine Art Series)
National Gallery of London Paperback - 144 pages
Watson-Guptill Publications
- 100 Details:
from Pictures in the National Gallery, London | Paperback
- Kenneth Clark Hardcover
- 120 pages Harvard University Press; ISBN: 067463862X
This catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery,
London, focuses on 32 of the paintings by Guercino remaining in Britain, most of which are
illustrated in colour. It includes an essay by Francis Russell, a director of Christie's,
London, on the collecting of, and taste for, Guercino in Britain, and an outline of
Guercino's career by Michael Helston, Curator of Spanish and later Italian painting at the
National Gallery.
- Treasures of
the National Gallery, London
- Erika Langmuir / Paperback /
- The First
Christmas
London National Gallery Hardcover Simon
& Schuster Books; ISBN: 0671793640
Reading level: Ages 4-8
- Giotto to
Durer : Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Jill Dunkerton, et al Paperback -
408 pages Yale; ISBN: 0300050828
The collection of Early Renaissance painting in the National Gallery
in London is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. This book provides a
survey of European painting between 1260 and 1510, in both northern and southern
Europe, based largely on the National Gallery collection, and is at the same time a guide
to the paintings in the Gallery. It is published to coincide with the opening of the
Sainsbury Wing in which the Early Renaissance collection will be exhibited. The authors
explain the background of relious belief and devotional practice for which many of the
paintings were created, and the secular requirements and ambitions which influenced them.
They discuss the social context in which art was created and then
displayed in the street, the palace or the church; and consider the role of the patron and
the dealer. They describe the artist's workshop, consider the role of apprentices and
assistance, discuss the influence of guilds and courts and explore the reasons for the
introduction of new subjects and techniques and also the survival of traditions. The book
goes on to supply an account of the materials and techniques of the early
Renaissance artist. The preparation of panels, the application of gold leaf, the
use of tempera and oil paint are all explained on the basis of research. After this
introduction, some 70 of the finest and best known paintings in the gallery are examined
in detail, including masterpieces by Duccio, Van Eyck, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca,
Bouts, Bellini, Memling, Raphael and Leonardo.
- The National
Gallery London Address Book
Hardcover - 112 pages Frances Lincoln; ISBN: 0711214085
This address book features full-page reproductions of works
of art featuring flowers and fruit from the National Gallery, London.
- The National
Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol 19
London The National Gallery Paperback
- 52 pages () Museum of London; ISBN: 0904818527
This bulletin records research carried out on all aspects of the
conservation, technical study and care of paintings in the Collection. Drawing on the
combined expertise of curators, conservators and scientists, it brings together a wealth
of information on the subject area.
- 20 Maresfield
Gardens
The Freud Museum, Marina WarnerPaperback - 144 pages (22
October, 1998) Serpent's Tail; ISBN: 1852425369
Fleeing from the Nazis, Sigmund Freud arrived in London in
June 1938. His house there was 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead where he lived with his
family until his death in September 1939. All his life Freud was an avid art-collector. 20
Maresfield Gardens is now a major museum of the history of psychoanalysis
containing his art collection, the famous couch his patients reclined on, and many unique
documents relating to Sigmund and Anna Freud and the history of psyhcoanalysis.
The reader moves from room to room, from anecdote to insight, as 20
Maresfield Gardens uses the many and various artefacts on display in the
Museum--Krüger's engraving of Moses with the Tablets of the Law, for example; Yoshida's
"Mount Fuji"; Freud's Goethe collection; the famous couch; the portraits of
Charcot--to weave a narrative around the Freuds' lives in Vienna and London. At the same
time, as the story of a home shared between Freud and his analyst-daughter, Anna, the
guide is concerned with the development of psychoanalysis after the death of its founder:
the War Nurseries in Hampstead and Essex, for example; Dorothy Burlingham's work at the
Hampstead Clinic, and the establishment of the Freud Museum itself as a "living"
archive and vital resource for psychoanalytic research. --Vicky Lebeau
- The Grosvenor
Gallery : A Palace of Art in Victorian England
Susan P. Casteras, et al Hardcover - 209 pages (March
1996) Yale; ISBN: 0300067526
London's Grosvenor Gallery opened in 1877 as an alternative to the
Royal Academy. Although it only existed until 1890, it advanced the careers of
many progressive artists. This work comprises essays exploring critical aspects of the
gallery, such as the significance of its social ambience.
- Video Spaces
: Eight Installations (A Museum of Modern Art Book)#
Barbara London, Samuel R. Delany Paperback - 80 pages
(September 1995) Museum of Modern Art; ISBN: 0810961466
The works represented in this book are state-of-the-art video
installations, each a separate and carefully delineated environment created
through multimedia technologies. The viewer enters these spaces and becomes a part of what
he or she observes. These works demonstrate the range and sophistication of an art form
born in the last decades of the 20th century.
- The Courtauld
Gallery at Somerset House
Courtauld Institute of Art, John Murdoch Paperback - 128
pages (18 January, 1999) Thames and Hudson; ISBN: 0500280916
The renowned art collection originally built up by Samuel Courtauld in the
1920s and since expanded thanks to generous gifts and bequests, is now permanently housed
in the splendid surroundings of Somerset House.
- A Grand
Design : The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum, Brenda Richardson Hardcover
- 432 pages (October 1997) Abrams; ISBN: 0810933993
- The First
World War in Posters, from the Imperial War Museum, London
Joseph Darracott Paperback - 80 pages (18 November,
1974) Dover Publications; ISBN: 0486229793
Shakespeare's
Globe Rebuilt
J. R. Mulryne, et al Paperback - 192 pages (June 1997)
Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521599881
The rebuilding of the Globe theatre (1599-1613) on London's
Bankside, a few yards from the site of the playhouse in which many of Shakespeare's plays
were first performed, has aroused much interest among scholars and the general public
worldwide. This book is designed to coincide with the official opening of the Bankside
Globe in June 1997. It offers a fully-illustrated account of the research that has
gone into the Globe reconstruction, drawing on the work of leading scholars,
theatre people and craftsmen to provide an authoritative view of the 20 years of research
and the hundreds of practical decisions entailed. Documents of the period are explored;
the techniques of timber-framed building and the decorative practices of
Elizabethan craftsmen explained; and all of this reconciled with the requirements
of the actors and restrictions of modern architectural design.
William
Shakespeare & the Globe
Aliki Hardcover - 48 pages (May 1999) HarperCollins
Childrens; ISBN: 006027820X
Reading level: Ages 4-8
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Architecture of London
- The Art and
Architecture of London : An Illustrated Guide
Ann Saunders / Paperback / Published 1990
- Guide to the
Architecture of London
Edward Jones, Christopher Woodward / Paperback / Published 1992
- GUIDE TO THE
ARCHITECTURE OF LONDON
Christopher Woodward / Paperback / Published 1999
- London: a
Guide to Recent Architecture
Samantha Hardingham / Paperback / Published 1999
Return to an
Address of the Honourable the House of Commons Dated 30th June 1998 for the Report on the
Future of Lyric Theatre in London: [HC]: [1997-98]: House of Commons Papers: [1997-98]
Richard Eyre, Review Working Group on the Future of Lyric Theatre in London /
Paperback / Published 1998
Who Keeps the
Score on the London Stages?
Kalina Stefanova / Hardcover / Published 1999
Excavations
and Their Objects : Freud's Collection of Antiquity
Stephen Barker / Paperback / Published 1995
The Quiet
Conquest
T.V. Murdoch, Museum of London / Paperback
Survey of
London Vol XXXVIII: The Museum Area of Kensington and Westminister
Hermione Hobhouse / Hardcover / Published 1975
J.M.W.
Turner, 'That Greatest of Landscape Painters : Watercolors from London Museums
Richard P. Townsend, et al / Paperback / Published 1998
History
- Renaissance
Revivals : City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theatre, 1576-1980
Wendy Griswold Hardcover (June 1995) Cambridge
University Press; ISBN: 0521441269
This collection of essays adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a
diverse group of texts composed in London during the Renaissance. Eight literary scholars
and eight historians from two continents have been paired to write companion essays on
each text. This method opens up insights into London's social, political and
cultural life which would have eluded members of either discipline working in
isolation. "Theatrical" is taken to be a very flexible term, and is applied to
the civic rituals and public spectacles of the capital (such as the execution of King
Charles I) as well as the elite and popular theatre. The eight texts therefore include
historical accounts, political documents and polemical works, in addition to plays.
- The
Theatrical City : Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649'
David L. Smith, Richard Strier Hardcover (June 1995)
Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521441269
- Dramatic
Representations of British Soldiers and Sailors on the London Stage, 1660-1800
Terence M. Freeman Hardcover - 364
pages (1995) Edwin Mellen Press; ISBN: 0773489282
This volume opens a window on the popular image of the British
soldier and sailor from the Restoration through the end of the 18th century. For the
student of the London stage, this book not only provides the military flavor of prologues,
epilogues, songs, dances, music, spectaculars, mainpieces, and afterpieces, but also
demonstrates the contribution of casting and staging. For the student of British military
history, it demonstrates how dramatic entertainments provided insights on field and
shipboard life, recruitment, impressment, pay, and the militia. It also illustrates how
active stagecraft recreated the sights, sounds and smells of the man-of-war and camp.
- Italian Opera
in Late Eighteenth-century London Vol 1: The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791
Curtis Price, et al Hardcover - 736
pages (23 February, 1995) Clarendon Press; ISBN: 0198161662
This interdisciplinary study of opera and ballet at the King's
Theatre in London attempts to make artistic and financial sense of a distinguished company
that went spectacularly bankrupt, leaving debts that were to haunt opera in London for
more than 70 years. The theatre burned in 1789; it was rebuilt in defiance of the Lord
Chamberlain and Haydn was hired as house composer, but was not allowed to stage his last
opera. This is a serious study of the company's repertory, personnel, management, and
finances.
- A History of
the British Museum Library 1753-1973
P.R. Harris Hardcover - 920 pages (April
1998) British Library Publishing; ISBN: 0712345620
Designed to coincide with the move to St Pancras in 1998, this is a
comprehensive history of the British Museum Library, an institution regarded as a
repository of knowledge and a cornerstone of scholarship. It deals with the growth of the
Library from the 18th century to 1973, when the British Library absorbed the old British
Museum Library.
- A Checklist
of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737
- W. J. Burling / Hardcover / Published 1993
- Memories of
the London Theatre 1900-1914
- Allan Wade, Alan Andrews / Paperback / Published 1984
- New British
Drama in Performance on the London Stage, 1970 to 1985
- Richard Allen Cave / Paperback / Published 1989
- Instrumental
Music for London Theatres (1690-1699)
- Unknown Binding / Published 1987
- Penny
Theatres of Victorian London
- Paul Sheridan / Hardcover / Published 1981
- The
Archaeology of Roman London Vol 1: The Upper Walbrook Valley
- Catharine Maloney, et al / Paperback / Published 1990
- The
Archaeology of Roman London Vol 2: Development of Roman London West of the Walbrook
- Catharine Maloney, et al / Paperback
- LONDINIUM: A Descriptive Map and Guide to Roman London
- Ordnance Survey / Paperback / Published 1981
- Historical Map & Guide: Londinium (Roman London)
- Ordnance Survey / Unknown Binding / Published 1984
