* Reveals the story behind the infamous 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster * Gives readers insight into this worldwide phenomenon: Why was the poster created? Why was it never used? When was it rediscovered, and why did it become so incredibly popular? * Illustrated throughout with colour posters and photographs from IWM's unparalleled archive
ISBN-13: 9781904897347
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: TRUSTEE ROYAL ARMOURIES
In the ten years since Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge overwhelmed New Orleans’s levee system, the catastrophe has lived in the public imagination as a parade of dramatic images. Often overlooked are smaller, more gradual changes. For years, David G. Spielman has documented these inconspicuous changes, in haunting images whose simplicity evokes ......
Telling the story of IWM's most iconic painting, this book presents John Singer Sargent's newly conserved Gassed in all its glory, exploring the history of the artwork and its composition, and examining its importance in the art world.
ISBN-13: 9781912423712
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Following one of the most inspiring and fascinating stories linked to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, this book centres on the life and achievements of John Harrison - designer and builder of the first accurate marine chronometers.
Clemmer was the impetus behind the Smithsonian's 1985-87 traveling exhibition of Newcomb pottery, An Enterprise for Southern Women, as well as the organizer of the Newcomb Centennial 1886-1986 exhibition held at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1987.Distributed for the Historic New Orleans Collection
Jill Kennington was among the most successful models of her generation, embodying a fresh, youthful, and dynamic ideal of beauty that came to define the Sixties. Jill's memoir takes the form of an extended interview in which she responds vividly and with disarming frankness to questions from historian Philippe Garner, who initiated and shaped the ......
The book is an illustrated collection of projects carried out in silver and gold reflecting the many interesting personal stories that combine people with a place of significance portrayed in miniature for a special event in their lives.
Strata, 100 new paintings by landscape artist Jeremy Gardiner (b.1957), celebrates the spectacular Jurassic Coast on the 25th anniversary of its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Gardiner has studied this coast for decades, constantly developing new approaches to depict its changing textures. For Strata, he visited twenty locations each ......
