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Infinity
[Buy it!] | Hickman, Jonathan; Marvel Various | USD 34.00
(Thu May 23 12:04:18 2024) | Alibris | ThriftBooks-Baltimore via Alibris | Marvel Universe 2014 Softcover Good Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. THIS IS A 1ST EDITION HARDCOVER. Wear and bumping to corners is consistent with age and use. Binding is tight and secure. All pages are intact and free of all marks or highlights. Dust jacket wrapped in Mylar by library. Book is poly bagged for further preservation. Secure packaging for safe delivery. |
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Stanley Spencer (Paperback)
[Buy it!] | Paul Gough | USD 41.13
(Thu May 23 12:04:22 2024) | AbebooksAU | AussieBookSeller | ISBN10: 1904537464, ISBN13: 9781904537465, [publisher: Sansom & Co, Bristol] Softcover Paperback. Stanley Spencer was one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century artists. He became famous for two things: his celebration and immortalisation of his home town of Cookham in Berkshire - his 'heaven on earth' as he lovingly called it - and the fusion in his paintings of sex and religion, the heavenly and the ordinary. In 1915, Spencer left home to serve as a medical orderly in the Beaufort Military Hospital in Bristol. Aged 24, he had rarely stayed away overnight from home. For ten months he scrubbed floors, bandaged convalescent soldiers and carried supplies around the vast, former lunatic asylum. In 1916, he signed up for overseas duty in Macedonia, where he saw violent action up to the eve of the Armistice. Five years after the war, Spencer started making large drawings of a possible memorial scheme based on his wartime experiences. So extraordinary were his sketches, and so committed was he to realising them in paint, that the Behrend family became his patrons, funding a purpose-built memorial chapel at Burghclere, near Newbury.For five years he toiled, often on top of a giant scaffold, to produce the painted chapel now regarded as his masterpiece - one of the unsung artistic glories of Europe. Drawing on Spencer's own letters, illustrations and paintings, Paul Gough tells the story of the artist's journey from cosseted family life, through the drudgery of a war hospital and the malarial battlefields of a forgotten front, to his unique vision of peace and resurrection in Burghclere. The book locates Spencer's work alongside other soldier-artists of the time. Stanley Spencer was one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century artists. This book tells the story of the artist's journey from cosseted family life, through the drudgery of a war hospital and the malarial battlefields of a forgotten front, to his vision of peace and resurrection in Burghclere. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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