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Initially constructed as an episcopal residence, this manor house provided a country retreat for the pleasure and relaxation of bishops of York, yet was close enough to allow a visit to London and the Royal Court whenever necessary.     At Bridges Wharf evidence for the revetments which controlled and modified the waterfront was revealed, whilst at Regent and Groves wharves an 18th-century sugar plant gave way to a turpentine factory. York House suffered changing fortunes. Variously used as a prison, private residence and industrial premises, by the mid-19th century the site had become the location of one of the country’s foremost candle manufactories. Amongst various industries the site was home to the Battersea Enamelling Manufactory; only in existence for three years, between 1753 and 1756, this operation was short but highly innovative and influential. Recent development has seen the area turn full circle and return once more to residential housing.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49631875531025,"sku":"GOR012614306","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1999615530.jpg?v=1750836433"},{"product_id":"rethinking-malevich-book-alistair-douglas-9781904597483","title":"Rethinking Malevich","description":"\"Rethinking Malevich\" is an English-language collection of sixteen innovative essays by leading international scholars that document new and intriguing aspects of Kazimir Malevich's art and biography. This latest research on the Russian modern artist appears after more than seventy years of political and cultural difficulties - including the East-West bifurcation of his artistic and written legacy - that impeded the study and understanding of his work. For the first time, the greater portion of Malevich's work and writings was available for the scholarly research and study undertaken here.  The result is a wealth of new details about this pioneer of abstraction, including: explorations of his early art education; the differences in the reception of his abstract art by Western and Russian audiences; the appearance of his work in 1936 at the Museum of Modern Art; the artist's special relationship with Ukraine. The development of his art is considered alongside that of Vasily Kandinsky and Giorgio De Chirico, and his philosophy is examined in comparison with the ideas of Nikolai Fedorov and Ortega-y-Gasset. The history of Russian and Soviet art in the 1920s and 1930s is intricately interwoven with the revolutionary social changes taking place throughout the country. Here are details of the political maneuverings Malevich went through in Russia to protect his art and his friends, and his reaction to Lenin's death in 1924 and the subsequent growth of the \"Lenin myth.\"   Rethinking Malevich  reveals the complex early interweaving of Suprematism and Constructivism, considers little-researched aspects of the artist's Post-Suprematist period, and the history of Malevich's literary legacy. 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