The Sunderland Empire is one of the grand old provincial theatres. This collection of more than 150 archive photographs is a comprehensive history of the building. It charts the evolution of the Empire from the days of Victorian music hall to the Girl who Loves a Soldier', to the jazz age, the revues of the post-war era and the plays and concerts.
"An accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time. Taking a global view, it covers the key ideas, approaches and contentious issues in the field. Balancing theory and practice, the book address important questions such as: What are museums and galleries? Who decides which kinds of objects are worthy of collection? What do I need to know about practical care, conservation and collection management? How are museums and galleries funded? What ethical concerns do practitioners need to consider? How is the field of Museum and Gallery Studies developing?"--
By experimenting with industrial materials and processes, Mathias Bengtsson, the Danish-born, London-based furniture designer produces sculptural furniture which is visually arresting and technically innovative. When he developed his Slice series of sculptural furniture, he combined the latest computerised laser-cutting techniques with handwork to create a series of chairs and chaise longues which make the most of both technology and handcraftsmanship. Having produced the first Slice pieces in plywood, he then adapted the same process for aluminium.
Uncovering the rich taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy, this interdisciplinary study explores how the Victorians conceptualised poverty, mobility and homelessness. It offers an important resource for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and history, situating major canonical texts within illuminating cultural contexts.
An Unusually Innovative Landscape Photographer Dan Holdsworth (b. Welwyn Garden City, England, 1974; lives and works in London and Newcastle upon Tyne) creates large-scale photographs and digital art characterized by the use of traditional techniques and unusually long exposure times, and by radical abstractions of geography. “Spatial Objects” is the result of Holdsworth’s ongoing enquiry into contemporary photographic imaging processes and what he calls the “surface interface of the image.” In computer science, spatial objects refer to values that exist within a specific place simultaneously in the real and the virtual spheres. The starting point for his Spatial Objects series is U. S. Geological Survey mapping data of the American West; it also draws on the vocabulary of Minimalist sculptural practices of the 1960s and 1970s. Holdsworth transposes aerially scanned scientific data of geological landscapes into 3D virtual models, working deep within the material to explore the underpinning architecture of the virtual. Going beyond the limits of representation, what one sees in these works are the edges and fragments of the pixel resolved within the geometry of the interface itself, transformed into structures of pure color and light. With an essay by Alistair Robinson.
Continuum präsentiert eine Auswahl aus Wolfgang Weileders Oeuvre der vergangenen fünfzehn Jahre. Seine Arbeiten gelten der Erkundung und kritischen Dekonstruktion von Architektur, öffentlichem Raum und unserer Interaktion mit dem urbanen Umfeld. Sie untersuchen die Beziehung zwischen Zeit und Raum sowie die Schnittmenge von Realität und Virtualität, mit dem Ziel, unser Verständnis vom öffentlichen Raum in Frage stellen. Der Band versammelt eine Reihe von Originalbeiträgen, ein Interview mit dem Künstler sowie ausführliches Anschauungsmaterial zu Weileders Arbeiten.