A comprehensive handbook covering the finest walks, scrambles, climbs and ski tours in Scotland, with a variety of wild landscapes ranging from the Southern Uplands to the great granite plateaus of the Cairngorms and jagged aretes of the Cuillin on the Isle of Skye. All the information the independent mountain lover needs for any activity.
Produced in association with the Rambler’s Association and Harvey’s Maps, this brand new series covers some of the most popular walking areas in Britain and Ireland, combining detailed route descriptions with information on the local history and wildlife.
Looks at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. This book discusses and moves beyond the 'spectacle of death' in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality brings us face to face with profound ethical issues.
Published in co-operation with Channel Four in conjunction with the British television series of the same name, "Vile Bodies" is a collection of photographs and accompanying essays which penetrates the most urgent contemporary taboos concerning the human body and how we perceive it.
With astonishing acuity and a dazzling array of images, Rapture surveys the collision of two glamorous worlds, art and fashion. Modern icons and iconographers—supermodels, fashion designers, artists, and photographers—have increasingly been crossing boundaries to create new and seductive images for a sophisticated audience. From Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin's inspirational photography of the 1970s, through Kate Moss's recent collaborations with yBas and Nan Goldin for Vogue , to the use of reworked catwalk footage and mutilated magazine images by young artists, this crossover is fertile ground for the creative and the original. Whether covering an art installation in a SoHo boutique, Cindy Sherman's complicity with the tools of mass-media, a Keith Haring image advertising vodka, the use of street-art graffiti on a Louis Vuitton bag, or Tracey Emin as a Vivienne Westwood model, author Chris Townsend shows how the alluring, illusory faces of fashion and art are fused in the new mix. Raising questions about identity, style, culture, commerce, and beauty, this book reveals the ambivalent relationship between art and fashion and shows the spectacular visual results as artists succumb to fashion's powerful lure and at the same time recoil from it. 165 illustrations and photographs, 160 in color.
Covering over 450 wilderness-related topics, this comprehensive guide serves as an essential resource for outdoor enthusiasts engaged in various activities such as hiking, skiing, and climbing. Authored by experts with over forty years of combined experience, it provides detailed information on crucial skills like navigating deserts, treating hypothermia, and avoiding bear attacks. The entries are cross-referenced for easy access, ensuring readers can quickly find reliable advice on everything from building snow shelters to Leave No Trace principles.
A Solo Hike Through the Sky Islands and Deserts of the Arizona Trail
The narrative follows long-distance hiker Chris Townsend as he embarks on a solo expedition through Arizona's desert landscape in March 2000. It captures the challenges and beauty of traversing some of the most rugged and isolated terrains in the Lower 48, offering readers an intimate glimpse into the experience of solitude and the wonders of nature.
The career of Tracey Emin, one of the best-known contemporary British artists, has become a potent symbol of the relationship between art and celebrity in our time. When it was exhibited in London at the Tate in 1999, her now notorious installation "My Bed" was denounced by conservative critics as a national scandal, but this and her other work have continued to attract ever larger audiences. Whether storming drunkenly out of live television debates, talking tearfully about her abortions, or modeling evening gowns for Vivienne Westwood, Tracey Emin makes headlines. Yet if Emin is now universally recognized as a media phenomenon, her work has also begun to attract serious critical attention. In The Art of Tracey Emin, distinguished critics from Britain and the United States address her achievement in depth for the first time, tracing Emin's influences from Egon Schiele to Judy Chicago and establishing her place in a larger tradition of postmodern and feminist art. Adopting a variety of critical approaches, contributors explore the full range of Emin's work, from photography and monoprints to installation art and videos, showing that, however raw and personal it may seem to be, it actually represents a carefully meditated response to vital issues in contemporary culture and society.
Exploring the connections between Neoclassical and Romantic verse cultures, this book focuses on mid-eighteenth-century poet Mark Akenside and his influential work, Pleasures of Imagination. It argues that Akenside's poetry reveals significant continuities between the two movements, challenging the notion of their opposition. By positioning verse as a competitor to philosophy, Akenside emphasizes the importance of feeling over factual knowledge, ultimately illustrating how imagination serves as a bridge between these literary traditions.
Chris Townsend's 1200 mile walk along the Pacific Northwest Trail, which runs for 1200 miles from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean through the states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.