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Marina Warner is the author of The Skating Party (1983), Enfleshings (1989), Cinema and the Realms of Enchantment (1993), Indigo, Or, Mapping the Waters (1992), The Inner Eye (1996).

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The Skating Party

The Skating Party
Depicting a skating party on a frozen river in the Fens, this novel draws together fragments of myth, painting and tribal custom, to create a picture of people tragically at odds in their need for love and in their mastery of the ways to meet it.

Cinema and the Realms of Enchantment

release date: Nov 04, 1993

Indigo, Or, Mapping the Waters

release date: Jan 01, 1992
Indigo, Or, Mapping the Waters
Inspired by "The Tempest", the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an imaginary island and one family.

The Inner Eye

release date: Jan 01, 1996
The Inner Eye
Exhibition held at various locations 14 September 1996 - 1 June 1997.

Helen Chadwick

release date: Sep 13, 2022
Helen Chadwick
An illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick’s erotic, playful, and fierce 1986 installation. In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen Chadwick (1954–1996). What Chadwick conceived for the ICA exhibition explored her characteristic themes—the female body (her own), the aesthetics of pleasure, the material variety and wonder of phenomena—but took them in a new, flamboyant direction. In this illustrated volume, Marina Warner examines one part of Chadwick’s installation, The Oval Court. This work was erotic, playful, and fierce; it showed imaginative ambition on an exceptional scale and a unique, piquant sensibility, both raunchy and delicate. Despite the work’s recognition as a feminist monument of rare intensity, it has rarely been shown or discussed since the author’s catalogue essay for the original exhibition. Warner here reconsiders Chadwick’s influence as an artist who helped to shift conventional aesthetics and transvalue despised, even abominated forms. Exploring the work’s richly layered composition in light of intervening years, Warner shows how Chadwick’s imagination has shaped many artists’ ideas and ethics, and emboldened their adventures with materials.

Curiosity

release date: Jan 01, 2013
Curiosity
Artists featured include Tacita Dean, Katie Paterson, Nina Canell, Pablo Bronstein, Charles Le Brun, Gerard Byrne, Phillip Henry Gosse, John Dee, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Corinne May Botz, Gunda Forster, Matt Mullican, Toril Johannessen, Anna Atkins, Nina Katchadourian, Laurent Grasso, Salvatore Arancio, Aurelien Froment, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, and the taxidermy of Thomas Grunfeld.

Eyes, Lies and Illusions

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Eyes, Lies and Illusions
Light and shadow, reflection, colour and motion - these are the primary elements of visual art. Shadow play, tricks of perspective, anamorphoses and magic lanterns have fascinated artists and craftsmen throughout the centuries and continue to inspire and stimulate the imagination to this day. The Art of Illusion explores this world of perceptual paradox through the astonishing collection of the German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes, and the work of contemporary artists including Christian Boltanski, Carsten Holler, Tony Oursler and Markus Raetz.The Art of Illusion illustrates a vast range of intriguing optical media and artworks from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries - manuscripts, prints and books, optical devices and experiments, early cameras, games and toys. This handsome volume incorporates optical tricks, puzzles and illusions, which are sure to make it a collector''s item.

Kiss and Part

release date: Sep 19, 2019
Kiss and Part
ufeffWhat does it mean to ''kiss and part''? This collection of previously unpublished short stories from a stellar list of contemporary women novelists is a literary celebration of the spirit of place. Each contributor shares one thing in common - they have all stayed at a small cottage in the village of Clifford Chambers near Stratford-upon-Avon, courtesy of a trust set up to provide women writers with ‘a room of one’s own’, as Virginia Woolf put it. Clifford Chambers was the home of the Jacobean poet Michael Drayton, who incorporated the phrase ‘Kiss and part’ into a sonnet. Each of the ten short stories in this collection takes this as its theme and the result is wonderfully eclectic mix of storytelling of the highest quality. All royalties go the Hosking Houses Trust to further encourage women’s writing. Contents List Preface ‘Kiss and Part’ by Michael Drayton Introduction by Margaret Drabble Buck Moon Marina Warner ‘A Merrie Meeting’ Salley Vickers The Incumbent Elizabeth Speller ‘Colossal Wreck’ Maria McCann The Visitation Maggie Gee And the River Flows On Joan Bakewell The Creature Jill Dawson The Turn Catherine Fox The Fabric of Things Jo Baker ‘Place of Dreams’ Lucy Durneen The Writers Afterword by Sarah Hosking Acknowledgements of Photographs

Inventory of a Life Mislaid: an Unreliable Memoir

release date: Mar 04, 2021
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: an Unreliable Memoir
A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. ''Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination'' JENNY UGLOW

Managing Monsters

release date: Nov 30, 2010

The Lost Father

release date: Jan 01, 1989
The Lost Father
The Lost Father is the narrator''s story of her search for her own and her family''s identity. Davide Pittagora, her grandfather, died from a bullet wound and his "duel" is the pivot on which this independent, modern woman turns an imaginary memoir of her mother''s family. As she is drawn into her own invention, the story becomes distorted and her family are forced to "re-invent". the absent Davide.

The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tzʻu-hsi, 1835-1908, Empress Dowager of China

Murderers I Have Known Proof

release date: Nov 07, 2002
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