New Releases by Peter Blake

Dive into the remarkable journey of Victor Wembanyama, a generational talent who transformed the NBA. From his early days as a lanky teenager with unmatched potential to his reign as a dominant champion, this biography chronicles his rise to superstardom. Witness his impact on the court, ushering in an era of positionless basketball and redefining the center position.But Victor''s legacy extends beyond wins and championships. Explore his influence as a global icon who inspired young athletes worldwide. This captivating narrative goes beyond the games, delving into his philanthropic endeavors and his dedication to social causes. Beyond the Blockbuster: The Legacy of Victor Wembanyama is a testament to the power of hard work, dedication, and a kind heart. It''s a story that will resonate with basketball fans and anyone who dares to dream big.

Roberta Karmel was more than just a lawyer or commissioner she was a trailblazer. This biography chronicles her remarkable journey, shattering glass ceilings on Wall Street and in academia. As the first woman commissioner of the SEC, Roberta championed reforms that safeguarded investors and ensured fair play in the financial markets. Her dedication to ethical practices and investor education left a lasting legacy.The Trailblazer explores not just her policy achievements, but the impact she had on generations of women pursuing careers in law and finance. This inspiring story offers valuable lessons in leadership, perseverance, and the enduring fight for a just and equitable financial system.

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Sala’s personal style, along with his innovations in form, influenced the New Journalism at the end of the nineteenth century. Blake places Sala at the centre of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals and examines his prolific contributions to newspapers and periodicals in the context of contemporary debates and issues surrounding his work. Sala’s journalistic style, Blake argues, was a product of the very different mediums in which he worked, whether it was the visual arts, bohemian journalism, novels, pornographic plays, or travel writing. Harkening back to a time when journalism and fiction were closely connected, Blake’s book not only expands our understanding of one of the more prominent and interesting journalists and personalities of the nineteenth century, but also sheds light on prominent nineteenth-century writers and artists such as Charles Dickens, Mathew Arnold, William Powell Frith, Henry Vizetelly, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

An obsession that has spanned almost 30 years, Dylan Thomas''s seminal mid-century ''play for voices'', ''Under Milk Wood'', has long been present in the imagination of Peter Blake. From trips during his Brotherhood of Ruralists'' days to Thomas''s creative refuge at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, to repeated playing of the recorded versions in his treasure trove of a studio, the ''dismays and rainbows'' of these sequences of 110 watercolours, pencil portraits and etchings will form one of Blake''s most substantial single bodies of work.

Presents a series of alphabetical spreads featuring objects gathered in Peter Blake's studio throughout his career.

The 224 page book Peter Blake: Alphabets, has been created by Douglas Wilson, a graphic design lecturer in the university''s School of Art and Design, and features 18 previously published and unpublished alphabets produced by Sir Peter.Sir Peter - who was behind the iconic design of the Beatles'' album Sgt Pepper''s Lonely Hearts Club Band - has had a love of letters since the beginning of his artistic life and produced his first alphabet in 1991, a set of bold and colourful silkscreen prints representing each letter. Many more followed, including one created from Polaroid images, one which he sculpted and one created from objects he found and collected.

postcards, but then subverts it to consistently surprising ends." "The city is invaded by penguins and engulfed in icebergs, used as a stage set by dance companies and as a camp site by scout troops, it tranquility shattered by plane crashes, madly over-crowded regattas, fishermen, motorboat racers and ''magic crowds''. On the Piazza San Marco, citizens from ancient times rub shoulders at a cafe with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, quintessential American tourists happily consuming their own picnic. Teeming with detail, these humorous and highly entertaining pictures show Blake at his imaginative best." --Book Jacket.

The Skipper''s account of the 1981-82 Whitbread Round the World Race.

The story of modern architecture is told here through the lives and works of three men who changed the face of the cities we live in. Le Corbusier gave to modern design a sure and brilliant sense of form; Mies brought an almost Gothic discipline of structure; and Wright heralded a new and dramatic concept of space and freedom. Through this triple focus, Peter Blake provides a perspective on the entire range of twentieth-century architecture.

"For more than half a century, Peter Blake has lived in the mainstream of contemporary architecture and art. As writer, magazine editor, critic, and practicing architect, he has numbered among his friends and acquaintances (and occasionally enemies) virtually all of the major figures of modern architecture, and a good many famous artists as well. In this crisp and lively memoir, he brings them - and the time he shared with them - vividly and memorably to life." "The anecdotes are memorable. Here is Frank Lloyd Wright (regarded by Blake as a perfect example of "the Artist as Ham," though he greatly admired his buildings) exploding at the discovery of young Blake''s savage review of his Autobiography ... Bertrand Russell trying to escape visitors by hiding up a tree in Pennsylvania, as he calmly puffs away on his pipe ... Buckminster Fuller tap-dancing on a drafting table to demonstrate the metrical affinity between bebop and a new mathematical system he is working on ... Mies van der Rohe at work, stolidly gazing at a model of an ITT building while assistants scurry around making alterations ... Marcel Breuer telling how he invented his famous chair ... Philip Johnson delightedly answering a solemn question about heat loss from a visitor to his glass house: "The heat loss is absolutely tremendous" - and beaming from ear to ear." "But No Place Like Utopia also has a deeper theme: how modern architecture, born and raised between the wars and after with a strong sense of social and political idealism, in the 1960s gradually fell back into its ancient role as an elitist pursuit dedicated to flattering the rich and powerful. Only now, as Blake makes clear, can we see the beginnings of a return to its original principles." "From the push-and-pull of politics, culminating in the witch-hunts of the McCarthy period, to heady days in the magazine business, first with Architectural Forum and then with the brilliant but ultimately doomed Architecture Plus, Peter Blake has always been energetically involved with his art and with his era. No Place Like Utopia is thus doubly valuable, as a wonderfully readable historical and personal document, and a pungent commentary on where modern architecture went wrong and right."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

In this beautiful and practical book, one of the world''s foremost sailors, Peter Blake, now head of the Cousteau Society, tells you all you need to know about the basics of sailing.

A chronicle of modern architecture and three creative designers whose work has set the tone for the character of the modern city.