This is a vintage cook book focusing on creating a plethora of impressive and delicious sweets and desserts, with supplementary sections on pastry making. From cakes and buns to fancy biscuits, Sweetmeats, and beyond, this profusely-illustrated collection of recipes will appeal to those looking to impress dinner guests or simply expand their confectionery repertoire. Perfect for inclusion in cu…
"Ideal Breakfast Dishes, Savouries and Curries" is a classic cookbook by Charles Herman Senn focusing on breakfast dishes. Thinking of what to have for breakfast can often be a chore, and most of us follow a strict pattern when it comes to having our first meal of the day. This volume aims to provide the reader with a plethora of interesting and delicious ideas for breakfast, presented as simpl…
"Senn's War Time Cooking Guide" is a classic cook book by Charles Herman Senn that aims to provide fantastic recipes for hearty meals that can be made on a budget and with limited ingredients. Written for people living with the terrors of war and the scarcity of food that comes with it, the book has recipes for dishes that are both extremely nutritious and easy to produce. Highly recommended fo…
First published in 1911, "The Paper-Bag Cookery Manual" is a vintage cook book by Charles Herman Senn, focusing on economical cooking. With simple, clear instructions and a great tips from a master chef, this classic guide will appeal to those with an interest In saving money when it comes to preparing meals, and it would make for a useful addition to culinary collections. Charles Herman Senn (…
The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian, highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement fundamentally shaped the revolutions of the late 1960's, most famously in Paris in May '68. They took on their shoulders the history of the workers' struggle, saw that it had been corrupted by authoritarianism and transformed it, with influences incorporating the…
*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2016* *Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, 2015* * Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015* Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company's sponsorship of the arts in Britain. Based on the high profile campaign 'Liberate Tate', Mel Evans targets Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell's collaborati…
The politics of Utopia have already produced a rich and varied literature - St. Simon, Buber, Bloch, and many others. Utopian Pulse explores this tradition from the perspective of art practice and asks how we can engage with and contribute to it. This book will be published alongside an exhibition of the same name and will include artwork from the exhibition itself. The work's contributors invo…
From museums and the preservation of old buildings to broader questions of community and identity, heritage is now a political issue. This book explores what heritage means now heritage is big business and how it is used to encourage people to identify with particular places and 'traditions', now it is entangled with capitalism. Examining a range of questions, including the way contemporary soc…
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. Although the aesthetic was a crucial part of Marx and Engels's thought, they left no full statement on the arts. Although there is an abundant scholarship on Marxist approaches to literature, the historiography of the visual arts has been largely neglected. This book encompasses a range of influential thinke…
In 2005, a group of photographers took a stand alongside the people of the small town of Bil'in, and documented their fight to stop the Israeli government building the infamous West Bank Barrier. Inspired by what they had seen in Bil'in, the group went on to form Activestills, a collective whose work has become vital in documenting the struggle against Israeli occupation and everyday life in ex…