Product Description: This book builds on the guidance given by the Primary Strategy for Literacy. By 'filling in the gaps' that the planning documentation leaves, the book provides teachers with the structures and ideas to plan creatively and effectively for their children whilst following and enhancing the recommendations of the strategy...read more

Product Description: Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning nearly 80 years she produced innovative designs for furniture, lighting, carpets, interiors and architecture...read more

Product Description: David Inshaw’s much-admired pastoral landscapes are rich in mystery and emotional power, suggestive of stories and meanings unfolding over time. At the same time, he is known for his figure painting, which he approaches with obvious relish and a sense of celebration, conveying the distinct individuality of his models and imbuing his images of them with a human warmth and empathy that are unmatched...read more

Product Description: Illustrated throughout and with an empathetic text by Andrew Lambirth, this is a timely appraisal of a leading exponent of the abstract collage whose work should be more widely known.This is the first major study of the life and art of London-born painter and collagist Francis Davison (1919-1984)...read more

Product Description: Painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling has made a name for herself as one of the most interesting and creative artists in Britain today, and this book offers the closest look we’ve ever had at her own thoughts about her work and career...read more

Product Description: As art critic of The Spectator, Andrew Lambirth writes a regular weekly contribution to the literature of art criticism which is much valued by the magazine s readers.

This engaging text explores discourses involved in the teaching of literacy which can be conceptualised as deriving from the political 'left'. The concept of a 'left' and a 'right' in politics are fully defined and a unique analytical framework is introduced to examine and categorise perspectives for teaching literacy. The book creates a language of critique for methods advocated from liberal, 'left-leaning' sources within the field of education and connects them to left political agendas that aspire to either reform or revolution to change and improve society. These left approaches are then contrasted with politically 'right' agendas.Methods for the teaching of literacy have for many years been seen to be politically motivated by commentators on the left and the right of politics. This book considers the ideological sources of educational practice in literacy. Methods advocated from more liberal perspective are rarely critiqued and examined for their ideological and political roots.

Product Description: Teaching Early Reading and Phonics: Creative Approaches to Early Literacy supports teachers using phonics in their teaching of early reading. The authors show 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...read more

Product Description: Scottish artist Barbara Rae (b. 1943) is renowned for her vivid, expressionistic paintings and graphic works. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Rae’s prints, Andrew Lambirth charts her development as a printmaker, from her early experiments at Edinburgh College of Art to her recent collaboration with Coriander Studios, one of Europe's most highly regarded producers of limited-edition artists' prints...read more

Product Description: After showing exceptional early promise, Rose Hilton's artistic career was brought to an abrupt halt in 1959 when she met the painter Roger Hilton. It was not until 1975, the year of her husband's death, that Rose Hilton was able to take up the interrupted thread of her work and give it her full attention...read more

Product Description: 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.

Product Description: One of the foremost sculptors of his generation, Nigel Hall’s preoccupation with space and balance has led him to create some of the most beautiful works of sculpture in the last thirty years. The first comprehensive survey of Hall’s work, this beautifully produced book includes an extensive selection of images, not only of finished work, but also of working drawings that reveal Hall as a consummate draftsman...read more

Product Description: "The book’s strength lies in the ability of the contributors to draw conclusions in relation to the reading debate and constructively justify moving away from the reliance on a single phonics approach based on evidence from empirical research...read more

Roger Hilton (1911-75) was one of the pioneers of British abstract art. This work presents an account of his life, which is illustrated with works from all stages of his career. It also includes anecdotes and reminiscences recalling his sometimes outspoken relations with other artists such as Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost, and Patrick Heron.

Product Description: Accompanies Portraits of People and the Sea, a major exhibition of Hambling's new work at Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BY, from January 25 to February 25, 2006

Product Description: 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 source material and his own photography, this is the first publication to survey his career...read more

Product Description: This Reflective Reader contains extracts from books, journals and current research that have been chosen to stimulate trainee teachers' thinking about teaching English. It sets challenges about the daily work of teaching children to become literate, and creates a framework within which teachers will learn to become reflective practitioners...read more

Product Description: This clear yet authoritative book affirms the vital role of creativity in writing and considers and encourages flexible, innovative practices in teaching. Importantly, the book reflects upon teachers' imaginative and artistic involvement in the writing process as role models, collaborators, artists, and as writers themselves...read more

Product Description: This monograph is a suberb guide to the work of 'the most inventive of living representational painters'. This groundbreaking book contains a new and wide-ranging interview with the artist, a selection of 60 of Kitaj’s finest paintings, drawings and prints, and previously unpublished documentary images from his personal archive...read more

Product Description: This major new monograph on the internationally renowned artists Gilbert & George provides a fascinating insight into their lives and work.Since first meeting in the St Martin's School of Art in 1967 while studying sculpture, the two artists have become inseparable, living and working together in their home in London's East End...read more

Product Description: L S Lowry is one of Britain’s best-loved artists. In "LS Lowry: Conversation Pieces", gallery owner Andras Kalman tells of his long friendship with the man and his experiences as a dealer in Lowry’s work. An Hungarian émigré, Kalman opened his first gallery in Manchester in 1949 - an establishment that soon attracted a visit from the great Mancunian artist...read more