Pamela Todd

El ocio es algo que se asocia fácilmente con los impresionistas todos ellos intentan capturar un nuevo mundo de esparcimiento al mismo tiempo que ellos también lo disfrutan. Destacando una amplia y original seleccion de sus obras asi como fotografias contemporaneas y reflexiones procedentes de diarios y cartas, este libro resucita muchos momentos felices que han quedado plasmados en las pinturas impresionistas. Tambien documenta las pasiones, intereses y amores de los propios artistas: les seguimos por bulliciosos bares y restaurantes de Paris, pasamos dias tranquilos con ellos en el rio, vamos a pistas de patinaje sobre hielo, a mercados, a jardines y les acompañamos de vacaciones a la orilla del mar, cada vez aprendiendo mas acerca de los propios artistas y observando su trabajo con una luz nueva.

Monet y Giverny, Renoir y Les Collettes, Pissarro y el Hermitage en Pontoise: los artistas impresionistas están inseparablemente ligados a sus hogares. Para cada uno de ellos, «hogar» tenía un signif

When her family falls apart, fourteen-year-old Zoe feels like her whole world is going to pieces. Zoes mother takes her kids away from their father, a fisherman who ships out to Alaska, and moves them to a run-down farmhouse shes inherited in the Midwest. Zoes stuck -- in more ways than one. Surrounded by strangers and a sea of prairie grass, she loses her bearings. A brush with the law lands Zoe in a work program at a local nature preserve. But the work starts to ground and steady her. When she meets a wild boy who shares her love of untamed places, it seems he might help Zoe find her way. Or is he too lost, too damaged himself? Funny and poignant, sharp-eyed and real, this is a portrait of a girl looking for her own true self and a place she can call home.

This illustrated account, written by Pamela Todd, is a helpful companion and guide to the arts and crafts movement.

Following on from the success of Bloomsbury at Home, Pamela Todd turns her attention to the fiery group of young artists, designers and thinkers, led by the charismatic figure of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which, in 1848, came together as the semi-secret Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. She explores their personalities and work through the places and haunts they made their own, presenting an intimate view of an important section of the avant-garde artistic community and placing it firmly in its Victorian context. The Pre-Raphaelites at Home is a book about personality and place. Biographies of each of the extensive cast of characters open the book, followed by a chronology of the significant events affecting the group over more than 60 years. In the succeeding chapters Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Thomas Woolner are joined by William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and their intimate circle. Place by place, we are led through the story of subtly shifting allegiance, of love and deaths, adultery and illness, as the angry young men became successful, and, in some cases, even respectable. The lively narrative, packed with quotation from their own work, is lavishly illustrated with full colour reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and portraits, photographs of interiors, furnishings and textile designs, and black and white contemporary photographs of the artists, their homes and their studios, as well as line drawings, sketches and cartoons from Punch and material from the Illustrated London News.

Now available in paperback, Pamela Todds book celebrates William Morriss genius, presenting a thorough overview of his life and career, while setting out his guiding principles so that a modern audience can recreate the Arts and Crafts style in their own homes. A series of Case Studies explores six contemporary houses from a modern London townhouse to a traditional Arts and Crafts home in Massachusetts that have followed and adapted Morriss dicta, brilliantly demonstrating how the style can be applied to our environment today. The book concludes with a comprehensive style-sourcing section, as well as a gazetteer of places to visit for inspiration. An excellent book The Times The definitive source book for anyone interested in the Arts & Crafts style ... stunning Period Living and Traditional Homes Gorgeous ... packed with intelligently researched information and more than 200 exquisite illustrations ... Get this if youre tempted to introduce the true spirit of Morris to your home Grand Designs