The Book of Pebbles: From Prehistory to the Pet Shop Boys - Softcover

Stocks, Christopher; Lewin, Angie

 
9780500023754: The Book of Pebbles: From Prehistory to the Pet Shop Boys
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500023751 ISBN 13: 9780500023754
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Why do we pick up pebbles on the beach? What is it we see in them, and why do we take them home to display on our shelves? Is it their inherent beauty, their infinite variation, or simply their associations with a happy time and place? In this book – part social history and part practical guide – writer and pebble collector Christopher Stocks unearths the sometimes surprising story of our love-affair with pebbles, and considers how the way we see them today has been influenced over the years by artists, authors and even archaeologists. Printmaker Angie Lewin is widely admired for her alluringly stylish images of the natural world. She celebrates the experience of walking and sketching along the British coastline, often incorporating pebbles in her limited edition prints and paintings. Many of these feature in the book alongside a series of new images.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Christopher Stocks is an author, journalist and trainee bell-ringer. His first book, Forgotten Fruits, a social history of British fruit and vegetables, became an unlikely success, with Monty Don choosing it as his favourite book of the year.

Angie Lewin studied fine art at the Central School of Art and has since become a highly regarded artist and printmaker.

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Why do we pick up pebbles on the beach? What is it we see in them, and why do we take them home to display on our shelves? Is it their inherent beauty, their infinite variation, or simply their associations with a happy time and place? In this book – part social history and part practical guide – writer and pebble collector Christopher Stocks unearths the sometimes surprising story of our love-affair with pebbles, and considers how the way we see them today has been influenced over the years by artists, authors and even archaeologists. Printmaker Angie Lewin is widely admired for her alluringly stylish images of the natural world. She celebrates the experience of walking and sketching along the British coastline, often incorporating pebbles in her limited edition prints and paintings. Many of these feature in the book alongside a series of new images.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500023751
ISBN 13 
9780500023754
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
116
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