This accessible yet authoritative book considers and encourages flexible, playful and innovative practices in the teaching of writing, and shows how certain practices can develop children's creative and linguistic potential and their overall skill[...]
A superb classical painter and draughtsman, Armstrong also undertook much work in film, theatre, and ballet, as well as being a successful designer of ceramics and murals. Armstrong was also a supporter of the Labour party, contributing designs to its election leaflets in 1945, and a political campa[...]
Stephen Chambers is one of the painter Royal Academicians who has emerged as one of the most interesting and resourceful artists of his generation with work in both public and private collections across the world.[...]
Margaret Mellis (1914-2009) was an artist of diverse skills: a painter, a maker of collages and reliefs and a sculptor. She was a key figure in British Modernism and with her first husband, the author and critic Adrian Stokes, was pivotal in establishing the influential artists' colony in St Ives. [...]
Supports teachers using phonics in their teaching of early reading. This book shows how important it is to ensure that children acquire a wide range of reading strategies, while also setting out practical 'pointers' which will enable teachers to translate the theory into effective practice.[...]
As art criEc of The Spectator, Andrew Lambirth writes a regular weekly contribuEon to the literature of art criEcism which is much valued by the magazine's readers.[...]
Top-shelf magazine meets fine art. High-heeled, fetishistic women parade through a world of Matissean color. Allen Jones's use of these apparent stereotypes has made him a controversial figure in the art world. Tackling issues of gender and power raised by his work, and including images of Jones's s[...]