Art & Photography Books
Hachette Books Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born
Book SynopsisOver the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the show''s cultural relevance through a book that is part oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a personal fandom that has universal resonance still, decades later.Katz-with the help of the show''s cast, creators, and crew-reveals that although Buffy contributed to important conversations about gender, sexuality, and feminism, it was not free of internal strife, controversy, and shortcomings. Men-both on screen and off-would taint the show''s reputation as a feminist masterpiece, and changing networks, amongst other factors, would drastically alter the show''s tone.Katz addresses these issues and more, including interviews with stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson, James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, Seth Green, Marc Blucas, Nicholas Brendon, Danny Strong, Tom Lenk, Bianca Lawson, Julie Benz, Clare Kramer, K. Todd Freeman, Sharon Ferguson; and writers Douglas Petrie, Jane Espenson, and Drew Z. Greenberg; as well as conversations with Buffy fanatics and friends of the cast including Stacey Abrams, Cynthia Erivo, Lee Pace, Claire Saffitz, Tavi Gevinson, and Selma Blair.Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born engages with the very notion of fandom, and the ways a show like Buffy can influence not only how we see the world but how we exist within it.
£15.29
Little, Brown & Company Start with the Art
Book SynopsisMost interior decorating books save hanging pictures on the wall for last. But Natalie Papier, star of Magnolia''s Artfully Designed, wants you to start with the art. To create a room you love, simply begin with something that moves you. Art is everywhere, and Papier shows you how to find it-whether it''s a beloved heirloom object, a painting, a fun collection, or a textile. With visual guides, insightful ideas, and straight talk, she helps you build from your inspiration to incorporate the textures, patterns, colours, and furnishings that make spaces feel perfect for you.This revolutionary approach gives you endless freedom to decorate with what you already have, liberating you from budget pressure while transforming rooms that speak to-and from-the soul.
£27.20
Taylor & Francis Photography as Activism
Book SynopsisThis fully revised and updated second edition of Photography as Activism is both a study of activist photography, and a call to action. It offers students and documentary photographers insights into the theory, history, philosophy, and practice of photography as activism. The book is lavishly illustrated with 85 key historical and contemporary images. Chapters have been revised to include contemporary ideas about representation, gaze, agency, and decolonizing the camera, as well as an expanded history that includes work from the global South and the civil rights movements in the US. A new fourth chapter focuses on activist practices that go beyond traditional reportage. It features 19 new interviews and updates on the original interviews. Photographers talk about their practices, the challenges they face in the twenty-first century, advice on working with NGOs and non-profits, and how to form partnerships to expand the dissemination of their work.Photography
£38.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Circus and the AvantGardes
Book SynopsisThis book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual shaping, and why this is still relevant today. This book aims to produce a better sense of the artistic work and cultural achievements that have emerged from the interplay of circus and avant-garde artists and projects, and to clarify both their transhistorical and trans-medial presence, and their scope for interdisciplinary expansion. Across 14 chapters written by leading scholars from fields as varied as circus, theatre and performance studies, art, media studies, film and cultural history some of which are written together with performers and circus practitioners, the book examines to what extent circus and avant-garde connections contribute to a better understanding of early 20th century artistic movements and their enduring legacy, of the history of popular entertainment, aTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsChapter 1Arts for all Senses: Circus and the Avant-Gardes – Introduction Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam HildbrandPART 1HISTORICAL CIRCUS, POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT AND AVANT-GARDES – INFLUENCES AND INTERRELATIONS Chapter 2A Treasure Trove for Avant-garde Artists? Metropolitan Circus Performances around 1900Mirjam HildbrandChapter 3Circus, Dada, Vaudeville: Historical Avant-Garde – Between Popular and Experimental TheatreMartina GrossChapter 4‘Attractive Novelties’: Spectacular Innovation and the Making of a New Kind of Audience within Colonial ModernityMartyn JollyPART 2STAGING CIRCUS OUTSIDE THE RING: AVANT-GARDE EXPERIMENTS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURYChapter 5Typocircus and the Czech Avant-GardesAnne HultschChapter 6The Present as a Trick or the Assault on the Spectator’s Psyche: Circus and the Soviet Avant-Garde Oksana BulgakowaPART 3STAGES OF TECHNOLOGY: CIRCUS, AVANT-GARDES AND (NEW) MEDIA Chapter 7‘Like a Three-ring Circus’: The Avant-garde Appropriates the Circus in the Battle between Distraction and AttractionsTom GunningChapter 8The Animated Circus and New Arts of Motion Kristian MoenPART 4 CIRCUS-AVANT-GARDE BODIES: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC PHYSICALITIESChapter 9‘Glitter and Broken Bones’: Professional Wrestling, Circus, Avant-Garde and the Radical Participatory Body Claire WardenChapter 10Glam Clowning: From Dada to Gaga – A Conversation with Le PustraAnna-Sophie Jürgens and Le PustraChapter 11The Aesthetics of Queer Work: Loïe Fuller’s Exhausting Life as Performance Art in Stéphanie Di Giusto’s The Dancer (2016)Wesley LimPART 5 CIRCUS AND AVANT-GARDES REIMAGINED SINCE THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY Chapter 12Political Clowns, Thrilling Strong Women and Animal-Free Excitement: Circus Reimagined through 1970s Avant-Garde Political TheatreJane Mullett and Peta Tait Chapter 13Avant-Garde Gestures and Contemporaneity in Today’s Circus Louis Patrick LerouxChapter 14‘Today for the last time’? On the Cultural Meanings of Circus and the Avant-Gardes – Some Final Provocations Mirjam Hildbrand, Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Aiden Essery Notes on ContributorsIndex
£37.04
Taylor & Francis Voice Vision
Book SynopsisDevelop your creative voice whilst acquiring the practical skills and confidence to use it with this new and fully updated edition of Mick Hurbis-Cherrier's filmmaking bible, Voice & Vision. Providing a solid grounding in the tools, techniques, and processes of narrative film, this comprehensive manual covers all the essentials whilst foregrounding artistic vision throughout.Gustavo Mercado author of the best selling filmmaking books âœThe Language of the Lensâ and âœThe Filmmakerâs Eyeâ, joins Hurbis-Cherrier to walk the reader through every step of the process â from the transformation of an idea into a cinematic story, to the intricacies of promotion and distribution.Key features include: Comprehensive technical information on video production and postproduction tools, allowing filmmakers to express themselves with any camera, in any format, and on any budget An emphasis on the collaborative filmmaking process, including t
£56.99
WW Norton & Co Why Buildings Stand Up
Book Synopsis"Readers will rejoice... in the physical discoveries, ancient and modern, that create and govern the artifacts inside of which readers spend most of their natural lives."—New York Times
£14.24
Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Architecture
Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. This new edition brings in the new emphasis on sustainability, urbanism, urban regeneration and cultural identity, in order to take a holistic approach to the subject of architecture. Highly illustrated, this book enables the reader to make sense of the experience of architecture and the built environment by understanding more about the form, construction, meaning and history of the subject.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Architecture and Building 3. Architectural History 4. Space and Function 5. Plans and Images 6. Materials and Construction 7. The Exterior 8. Styles and Periods 9. Site and Place 10. Sources
£45.99
Taylor & Francis Emotionally Durable Design
Book SynopsisEmotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our âthrowaway societyâ by developing powerful design tools, methods and frameworks that build resilience into relationships between people and things. The book takes us beyond the sustainable design fieldâs established focus on energy and materials, to engage the underlying psychological phenomena that shape patterns of consumption and waste. In fluid and accessible writing, the author asks: why do we discard products that still work? He then moves forward to define strategies for the design of products that people want to keep for longer. Along the way we are introduced to over twenty examples of emotional durability in smart phones, shoes, chairs, clocks, teacups, toasters, boats and other material experiences.Emotionally Durable Design transcends the prevailing doom and gloom rhetoric of sustainability discourse, to pioneer a more hopeful, meaningful and resilient form of material culture. ThiTrade Review'Emotionally Durable Design poses two key questions: "Why do we throw away products that still work?" and "How can we design products that people want to keep for longer?" Jonathan Chapman analyses our patterns of consumption and waste, and successfully offers strategies and tools which can act as an alternative to our ‘throwaway society’. Emotional durability is vital to creating designs that people love and cherish, instead of simply making products to be thrown away. A wonderful and enjoyable read.’ - Marcel Wanders, designer and director, ‘Marcel Wanders’, The Netherlands'Jonathan Chapman dares to think differently about design. His inspiring insights are potentially hugely influential. By unpicking the complex emotions and psychology behind the way we relate to and feel about the objects with which we surround ourselves, he radically reimagines those relationships. Chapman suggests a more powerful, sustainable "story of stuff" – one where design delights and is cherished once again. Compelling, convincing and credibly evidenced, this is a very important book.' - Ed Gillespie, co-founder, Futerra Sustainability Communications, UK'Applying Jonathan Chapman's philosophy of emotional durability has helped our team to rethink not only the type of products that can be developed in the future but also the role they can play in our ever-changing world. In this second edition his rationale for environmental change is eloquently powerful and it is supported with new insights and product examples that are inspiring and motivational.' - Dr. Jon Mason - design researcher, Philips, The Netherlands'Emotionally Durable Design provides intelligent and accessible perspectives on how design can be valued beyond market forces. Highlighted are more resilient relationships between people and material things, as well as new sustainable business models for longer lasting products. Already influential on design professionals, academics, and governments, this welcome second edition is essential reading for anyone concerned about the current and future roles and responsibilities of design and the worlds it inhabits.' - Hazel Clark, PhD, Professor, Design Studies and Fashion Studies, Parsons The New School for Design, USA'Emotionally Durable Design offers a profoundly original view on sustainability by shifting our focus from the durability of products to the durability of consumer-product relationships. With six opportunities to foster empathetic bonds between users and their products, Jonathan Chapman shares his uplifting vision on durability that puts the mystery and wonder back into design, revealing how sustainable design can be a central pioneer of positive social change.' - Pieter Desmet, Professor, Design for Experience, Delft University, The Netherlands'While a coterie of theorists try to convince us that our objects are the albatross around our neck to blame for the environmental malaise, and must be rejected, Chapman makes the compelling argument that more, not less connection is needed. His passionate and accessible treatise explains how, by combining material and emotional intelligence, we can achieve the responsible and rewarding cycles we need in order to survive. This revised and updated edition is essential reading for any responsible individual involved in the conception, design, development, sale or consumption of objects.' - Tim Parsons, Associate Professor, Designed Objects, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USATable of ContentsList of Figures. Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. The Progress Illusion 2. Consumer Motivation 3. Attachments with Objects 4. Authors of Experience 5. Sustaining Narrative 6. De-fictioning Utopia 7. Real World Feasibility References. Index
£43.99
Crown Picassos War
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£15.29
John Wiley & Sons Inc Sun Wind and Light Architectural Design
Book SynopsisThis fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.Table of ContentsWHAT'S IN THE SWL PRINTED I NAVIGATION 20 SWL Printed Contents SWL Electronic Contents Additional Navigation Methods II USING SUN, WIND & LIGHT 50 Buildings and Energy Use Design Decision Chart for Net-Zero III SYNERGIES 78 7 essential themes for net-zero design IV BUNDLES 94 Bundles Explained Selecting Bundles and Making Your Own Some Fundamental Bundles: 9 sets strategy sets for high-performance design V FAVORITE DESIGN TOOLS, condensed 194 VI FAVORITE DESIGN STRATEGIES, condensed 216 VII HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS 250 6 techniques for net-zero energy and carbon-neutral design Appendices A-E 293 Indices 339 WHAT'S IN THE SWL ELECTRONIC VIII DETAILED DESIGN STRATEGIES E.1 106 energy design strategies with precedents and preliminary design tools for passive cooling, solar heating, daylighting, fresh air ventilation and renewable power IX DETAILED ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES E.277 29 analysis techniques for climate assessment, loads estimation and design strategy selection Appendices F-H E.364 Sun Charts and Sundials, covering the world Climate Maps for the USA and Canada ADDITIONAL DIGITAL RESOURCES Climate data for the USA Climate analysis reports for the USA SWL Tools, spreadsheet for net-zero energy analysis Bibliography, searchable
£73.76
Dover Publications Inc. Une Semaine De Bont A Surrealistic Novel in
Book SynopsisThe great surrealist's 1934 collage masterpiece features 182 bizarre, darkly humorous scenes of violent dreams and erotic fantasies. "One of the clandestine classics of our century."â The New York Times.
£19.12
Dover Publications Inc. Drawing the Living Figure A Complete Guide to
Book SynopsisInnovative approach to artistic anatomy focuses on specifics of surface anatomy, rather than muscles and bones. 177 drawings of live models in front, back, and side views, and in widely varying poses.
£11.24
Dover Publications Inc. Nielsens Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color
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£13.04
Dover Publications Inc. Art Deco Interiors
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1935, this rare portfolio of full-color plates reflects the influence of 1930s Art Deco modernism on designers and interior architects. Designs for every kind of space include living and dining rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, offices, terraces, and other settings. Equally eye-catching are the lights, furniture, floor and wall treatments, and other interior design elements. Includes a new English translation of the original French Introduction.
£17.84
Dover Publications Inc. Tall Ships Tattoos
Book SynopsisThis collection of body art features six stalwart ships, all reminiscent of when sails ruled the seas and all rigged for high-seas adventure. Tattoos include a pirate ship, clipper, frigate, other vessels.
£999.99
Dover Publications Inc. Creating Celtic Knotwork
Book SynopsisSuitable for artists at all levels, these simple, amply illustrated instructions explain not just how to duplicate examples but also how to take the next steps to creating unique designs.
£16.14
Dover Publications Inc. Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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£11.24
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Field Guide to Supergraphics
Book SynopsisAward-winning designer Sean Adams presents over 100 case studies of environmental graphics and murals from around the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction • Types of Supergraphics • Corporate Projects • Wayfinding Projects • Retail Projects • Cultural Projects • Civic Projects • List of Contributors
£15.26
Thames & Hudson Ltd Maison Lesage Haute Couture Embroidery
Book SynopsisThe definitive monograph on the most illustrious haute-couture embroidery house in the world, featuring specially commissioned photography of Maison Lesage’s Paris archive collections.Trade Review'Dazzling' - Times LuxxTable of Contents1. Providers of excellence • 2. The birth of luxury • 3. A stroke of luck • 4. Handover 5. Bias cut • 6. Mainteuses and Lunévilleuses • 7. Marie-Louise • 8. A house is born 9. A change of address • 10. Schiaparelli • 11. Acrobats and butterflies • 12. The unexpected • 13. Survival • 14. Embroidery, trimmings and textiles • 15. François 16. American adventures • 17. Return to Paris • 18. Asparagus and flowers • 19. Old and new regime • 20. Six hundred hours • 21. When fashion is in fashion • 22. 29 and 92 • 23. A passage to India • 24. A long friendship • 25. Changes
£42.50
Thames & Hudson Ltd Arcade Game Typography The Art of Pixel Type
Book SynopsisArcade Game Typography presents readers with a fascinating new world of typography the pixel typeface. Video game designers of the 70s, 80s and 90s faced colour and resolution limitations that stimulated incredible creativity: with letters having to exist in an 8x8 square grid, artists found ways to create expressive and elegant character sets within a tiny canvas. Featuring pixel typefaces carefully selected from the first decades of arcade video games, Arcade Game Typography presents a previously undocumented outsider typography' movement, accompanied by insightful commentary from author Toshi Omagari, a Monotype typeface designer himself, and screenshots of the type in use. Exhaustively researched, this book gathers an eclectic typography from hit games such as Super Sprint, Pac-Man, After Burner, Marble Madness, Shinobi, as well as countless lesserknown gems. The book presents its typefaces on a dynamic and decorative grid, taking reference from high-end type specimens while adding a suitably playful twist. Unlike print typefaces, pixel type often has bold colour baked in' to the characters, so Arcade Game Typography looks unlike any other typography book, fizzing with life and colour.Trade Review'An eclectic compendium of 70s, 80s and early 90s arcade video game pixel typography' - TypeRoom'Expansive … special' - Better Letters'A deep dive into the distinctive typefaces of the golden age of arcade games' - Creative Review'Celebrates the under-appreciated world of arcade game typography' - Design Week'The first book of its kind … it gives an all-encompassing and incredibly well-researched insight into an undocumented movement characterised by “outsider typographers”' - Mr Porter'Fantastic' - It’s Nice That'Our favourite book … explores the fascinating new world of typography' - TypeRoom'A definitive guide to 70s, 80s and early 90s arcade game pixel typography' - HypeBeast
£17.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Wyvern Collection Medieval and Renaissance
Book SynopsisThis catalogue of the Wyvern sculpture collection, which is not open to the public, comprises outstanding European sculptures of the medieval period, as well as some Late Antique and Byzantine pieces and related works of the post-medieval era. Objects are made from wood, stone (including alabaster and marble) and terracotta. Also included are medieval works of art in metal, mostly consisting of crucifix figures (corpora), and other functional metalware such as aquamanilia (water vessels for the washing of hands) and candlesticks. This sumptuous publication will interest all those concerned with the material culture of the Middle Ages.Trade Review'There could be few more qualified guides to an important private collection of medieval art than Paul Williamson' - Apollo'The combination of the unfaltering taste of the collector, who has, as he acknowledges in his foreword, been advised by some of the best medieval curators of our time, and Williamson’s erudition and deep understanding of sculpture make this volume a landmark. … this volume is also a useful primary source in the history of taste. After reading it, one can only impatiently await the publication of the next' - Burlington magazine'Of the right calibre and breadth to guide us confidently through the salient moments of the history of European medieval sculpting and casting' - The Art NewspaperTable of ContentsForeword • Introduction • I. Late Antique and Byzantine (cat. 1–8) • II. Romanesque and Early Gothic 1050-1200 (cat. 9–44) • III. Europe in the 13th Century (cat. 45–68) • IV. Europe in the 14th Century (cat. 69–92) • V. Europe in the First Half of the 15th Century (cat. 93–126) • VI. Europe in the Second Half of the 15th Century (cat. 127–164) • VII. Europe in the First Half of the 16th Century (cat. 165–179) • VIII. Post-Medieval (cat. 180–187)
£56.25
Thames & Hudson Ltd Wayne Thiebaud
Book SynopsisBest known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman since he began his career in the 1940s as an illustrator and cartoonist. This book of 116 drawings?compiled with the full cooperation of the artist to accompany a major new exhibition at the Morgan Library Museum?explores the wide range of Thiebaud?s production on paper, including early sketches, luminous pastels, and watercolors, and charcoal drawings made in connection with his teaching. In subjects ranging from deli counters and isolated figures to dramatic views of San Francisco?s plunging streets, Thiebaud?s drawings endow the most banal, everyday scenes with a sense of poetry and nostalgia.Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, with illuminating texts, including an extensive interview with the artist, Wayne Thiebaud: Draftsman is the first major publication devoted to his lifelong engagement with drawing.Table of ContentsDirector’s Foreword • Acknowledgments • Lenders to the Exhibition • Drawing Keeps You from Cheating • Plates • Thumbnails and Notations: Thiebaud’s Sketches • Sketches The Fastest Pencil in the West: A Conversation with Wayne Thiebaud • Bibliography
£21.21
Thames & Hudson Ltd Seaside Photographed
Book SynopsisAround eighty photographers capture over a century of the British seaside in all its raucous, joyful and sometimes seedy glory.Trade Review'Surveys over a century of iconic and humorous holiday experiences and trips to the beach' - Aesthetica'Features a unique and engaging cast, both behind and in front of the lens, from the 1850s and into the 21st century' - HUCK'Jam-packed with holiday snaps, shoreline street photography and alluring tourism material' - ElephantTable of ContentsIntroduction • Waves on the Beach • Shell Stories: Editing the Seaside from the Thirties to the Eighties • Seaside Bohemias • Reporting Back • Halcyon Days • Road Trips • Who’s Looking at the Family? Seaside Chronicles from Then until Now • Worlds in a Small Room: The Seaside Hotel • Gazing Up Close and from a Distance: Performing Studio Portraiture in the 21st Century • Undercurrents: Revising the Seaside from the Sixties to the Nineties
£16.96
Thames & Hudson Ltd Louis Vuitton A Perfume Atlas
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£106.25
Thames & Hudson Ltd Why We Photograph Animals
Book SynopsisA compelling visual anthology of one of photography's most popular subjects, reframing our understanding of why we photograph animals and why photographing them matters to us and the planet. A visual overview of the history and future of animal photography, Why We Photograph Animals encourages us to think and rethink the way we have looked at - and used - animals and to consider our future relationships with non-human species. Multi-stranded, this book features the work of more than 100 photographers supported by thematic essays that provide historical context; interviews with and contributions by leading contemporary photographers that explore their influences, methods and motivations; and dazzling visual collections that present the very best animal photography from its inception to the present day. The result is a book that will engage those with an interest in wildlife photography and the natural world, but also those with a concern for the future of the planet. Huw Lewis
£28.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd New Psychedelia
Book SynopsisThe first monograph of the celebrated mind-altering artist and album cover designer Leif Podhajsky.Trade Review'Come dip your toes into the psychedelic stream of Leif Podhajsky’s imagination for some striking abstractions of nature – mirrored vistas, engulfing waves, rippling, melting cosmic landscapes' - It's Nice That'Leif Podhajský has put together what is arguably the most unforgettable album cover portfolio of the last few years' - Pitchfork'Remarkable artwork … It’s clear that Podhajský’s practice goes beyond simply making something beautiful. He evidently lives and breathes the world of psychedelic artworks, giving weight to his designs in a way that transcends pretty patterns' - Creative Review'Leif Podhajsky's 'New Psychedelia' moves beyond the overworked tropes of paisley, fractals and op-art that have accreted around the genre since the 1960s and recovers the sense of experiment that originally inspired it: a fascination with sensory cross-currents and overloads, the liquid and the luminous, and the hidden patterns of mind and nature' - Mike Jay'Podhajsky’s work is near peerless in evoking mood' - The AgeTable of ContentsIntroduction • Tame Impala • The Horrors • Bonobo • Theme 1: Synaesthesia • Foals • Kelis • Mount Kimbie • All We Are • Theme 2: Nature • Lykke Li • Duke Dumont • Young Magic • Crooked Colours • Theme 3: Digital Ritual • London Grammar • Nick Mulvey • Of Monsters and Men • Theme 4: Anthropocene • Endmatter
£24.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd Natural Light
Book SynopsisA brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected in this moving account of overlooked artistic genius Adam Elsheimer, by an outstanding writer and critic. Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and debates over what was real and what constituted 'nature', currents that would soon gather force to form modern science. Natural Light deliberates on the eraâs uncertainties, as distilled in the work of painter Adam Elsheimer â a short-lived, tragic German artist who has always been something of a cult secret. Elsheimerâs diminutive, intense and mysterious narrative compositions related figures to landscape in new ways, projecting unfamiliar visions of space at a time when Caravaggio was polarizing audiences with his radical altarpieces and circles of ânatural philosophersâ â early modern scientists â were starting to turn to the new âworld systemâ of Galileo. Julian Bell transports us to the spirited Rome of the 1600s, where ElsheTrade Review'Beautiful. . . . The gentle play with the size of pictures, when so much in Elsheimer depends on size, is especially touching. The book speaks eloquently to Elsheimer’s new pictorial world' - TJ Clark'Julian Bell writes on painting as a painter himself, whose intense feel for light mirrors that of Adam Elsheimer, a German painter drawn to Italy in the age of Caravaggio and Galileo. Bell turns over Elsheimer’s little paintings like objects in amber to reveal their secrets, gently mapping intricate yet ultimately world-spanning webs of artistic allusion and scientific insight. A wunderkammer' - Jonathan Jones'Marvellous, engrossing and illuminating … Natural Light is as light and natural as its subject warrants, a ‘mysterious journey’ on which we will encounter wondrous sights and uncover troves of treasure. It’s even funny in places' - Observer'This is a book as rich in ideas as Elsheimer’s art. Rubens, in a eulogy to his friend, felt Elsheimer’s death to be a loss at which ‘our whole profession should clothe itself in mourning’, and this impressively scholarly and sympathetically intuitive book shows that he was not exaggerating. Bell has brought him back into the light' - Literary Review'Engrossing... Elsheimer's works, little only in size, unlocked new possibilities for art at a time when contemporary astronomy unlocked the heavens... Mr. Bell’s incandescent prose offers a perfect verbal analogue for Elsheimer’s hushed intensity; it has a tactile, prehensile quality, as if the words had formed themselves in the writer’s mind and then taken on a life of their own before he found the time to stick them in a sentence' - The Wall Street Journal'Bell explores the rich and significant detail, particularly botanical and astronomical, with Elsheimer’s pictures, in spite of their size, and takes us down the paths of his relationships to the art and science of his time' - RA Magazine'This study does discerning justice to [Adam Elsheimer's] achievement. Bell’s focus is not just on Elsheimer’s registering of natural details, as the title suggests, but also on his evocation of the supernatural - never richer than in his final masterpiece, "The Flight Into Egypt", with its miraculous interfusing of homeliness and immensity' - The New Yorker'Art historian Bell has produced a fascinating, meticulous book about a painter of whom a contemporary once said “grasped Nature’s spirit and essence”' - The Oldie
£21.25
Thames & Hudson Ltd AAM AASTHA
Book SynopsisA festival of Indian folk rituals and costumes bursting with colour, captured by renowned photographer Charles FrÃger, the creator of a distinctive and powerful new genre of portrait photography. Internationally renowned photographer Charles FrÃger continues to explore global traditions and cultures, by celebrating the powerful visual aspects of Indian folk culture and religious ritual. India is the home to a myriad of local traditions, legends and religions, each with their own festivals, rites and rituals. Celebrations burst with vivid colours and often wildly exuberant costumes, some representing gods and goddesses, others legendary heroes from Sanskrit epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. In Charles FrÃgerâs photographs, those who honour local cultural traditions are represented in single or group portraits, represented against carefully chosen landscapes and backdrops, from the heart of festivals and celebrations. FrÃgerâs unmistakable style of portraiture allowTrade Review'Fascinating portraits … examine questions around the intersection of uniformity and community' - Geographical
£24.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Drawings of Vincent van Gogh
Book SynopsisA compelling and authoritative overview of the drawings of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most celebrated and intriguing figures in the history of art. Vincent van Gogh believed that drawing was the âroot of everythingâ. This was reflected in the remarkable number of more than a thousand graphic works produced by the artist during his short, dramatic life â many of them personal, often lonely explorations of the emerging modern world, anxieties that still speak to us today. The Drawings of Vincent van Gogh is a comprehensive account celebrating the genius and singularity of the artistâs achievements in this field. Arranged by theme â from drawings of humble harvesters to beautifully rendered depictions of landscape, pensive life studies to memorable sketches of the famous Yellow House in Arles and other places â Van Goghâs works on paper are explored from a fresh perspective by art historian Christopher Lloyd, who records the artistâs successes, failures, experiments, trials and diTable of ContentsPreface Brief Chronology of the Life of Vincent van Gogh 1. Setting Out 2. Figures 3. Compositional Drawings: Figures and Landscapes 4. Place 5. Landscape 6. Portraits 7. Repetitions Epilogue
£31.50
Thames & Hudson Ltd Surreal Spaces
Book SynopsisAn illustrated biography of the remarkable and pioneering artist Leonora Carrington, told through the houses and locations that had meaning for her and are fundamental to an understanding of her work. An evocative visual chronicle on the life of Leonora Carrington as seen through interiors, international locations and vintage photographs, this book leads the reader on a personal journey through the many spaces she inhabited and which infused and haunted her art and the people she knew. Long underrated, Carrington is now considered as one of the vanguard, not only in histories of women artists but also Surrealism; her interests - feminism, ecology and life-enhancing art - are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society and England to embrace new experiences and mix with artists in Europe and America, and to forge her own unique artistic style. From Lancashire to London, Cornwall to France and Spain, then to Mexico, New YoTrade Review'An enjoyable and important account of one of the greatest artists of the surrealist movement whose relevance has only strengthened with time. Moorhead recounts Carrington's life as if a collection of stories, each one building to produce a memorable impression of the eccentric and wonderful Leonora Carrington' - Katy Hessel'Leonora leaps off the page in this fascinating biography of Britain’s peripatetic Surrealist. Moorhead’s fresh and personal account is every inch as compelling as Carrington’s mesmeric paintings' - Charlotte Mullins'A spirited account of Carrington’s work and life, with whom the author openly identifies and whose footsteps she has followed with care and imagination' - Matthew Gale, The Art Newspaper'Carrington’s personal qualities shine through: not just the acute observational powers and sheer wit that suffuse her art – and her extraordinary writing … Moorhead’s account of wandering round her cousin’s apartment after her death is suggestive and moving' - Sunday Telegraph'A spirited account of Carrington’s work and life, with whom the author openly identifies and whose footsteps she has followed with care and imagination' - The Art Newspaper'Moorhead’s book is a major sense-making project that unfolds slowly, taking readers vividly – sometimes viscerally – into the places and phases of Carrington’s biography … Surreal Spaces paints a portrait of fragility and strength, passion and determination, and Carrington’s resolute sense of the geographical, artistic, and emotional place she wanted to occupy at every stage of her life' - The Conversation'Carrington’s zest, her intellectual curiosity and her defiant pursuit of personal autonomy and uncompromising artistic authenticity dazzle at every turn in this evocative, deeply-felt study of the spaces and places of the artist’s life and work … An exquisite contribution to art history and visual culture studies … positions Carrington as a seminal surrealist and celebrates a remarkable life in art and ideas' - The Conversation'Her cousin examines many of her paintings carefully, unlocking meaning and placing them in context, but it is in her vibrant navigation of the artist’s fascinating life (woefully overlooked) that this book shines' - Country Life'In Surreal Spaces, we meet an artist who, instead of the insular dream-weaver we might have pictured, is a visionary realist; one who, with dexterity and fidelity, could represent worlds past, present, future and imagined all at once; worlds that seemed, in a meaningful way, to coexist before her' - World of Interiors'In Surreal Spaces, we meet an artist who, instead of the insular dream-weaver we might have pictured, is a visionary realist; one who, with dexterity and fidelity, could represent worlds past, present, future and imagined all at once; worlds that seemed, in a meaningful way, to coexist before her' - World of Interiors'This collection of artworks, anecdotes and unseen photographs documenting the life and travels of the British Surrealist painter has been lovingly compiled by her journalist cousin' - Harper’s Bazaar
£24.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd Places of the Mind British Museum
Book SynopsisA fresh perspective on British landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern eras. The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of a landscape but also its emotional and spiritual impact - landscape as 'places of the mind', as the critic Geoffrey Grigson put it - is the focus of this fascinating new study of British watercolours produced between 1850 and 1950. Drawing on the British Museum's impressive collection, this book explores artists' spiritual quests to capture the essence of landscape and convey a sense of place. Artists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries drew on earlier traditions but developed and extended the genre through their imaginative, personal responses to the artistic, cultural and social upheavals of the time. The book includes works by Victorian artists Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Poynter and by many well known twentieth-century artists, such as Trade Review'One of the best surveys of British landscape painting you are likely to find' - The Artist'Fascinating and original ' - Times Literary Supplement'Not merely a catalogue, but stands alone as a very interesting read' - The LadyTable of ContentsIntroduction The ‘tormentingly elusive’ art of drawing landscape, Kim Sloan A new ‘golden age’ : The ‘modern’ landscape watercolour, Jessica Feather South Country and other Imagined Places, Anna Gruetzner Robins Representation and reality in West Country landscapes, Sam Smiles Some Versions of Pastoral, Frances Carey
£24.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd A Look at My Life
Book Synopsis'A thrilling insight into one of the 20th century's great artists. Agar's exuberant and colourful life and work come alive in this book' Katy Hessel 'A vivid panorama of an adventurous and stimulating age' Financial Times Whether dancing on the rooftops in Paris, sharing ideas with Pablo Picasso, or gathering starfish on the beaches of Cornwall, Eileen Agar (18991991) transformed the everyday into the extraordinary. Her legacy as a pioneering figure in the Surrealist movement is firmly established, and her work continues to captivate audiences with its otherworldly beauty and imaginative power. Agar's life was no less extraordinary than her art. Here, she traces her life from her birth in Argentina to the late 1980s. She gives an intimate account of very different worlds: grand house parties in Buenos Aires and Belgravia as a young girl give way to la vie bohème in London and Paris, and a peripatetic existence with her lifelong partner, Hungarian writer Joseph Bard. She enjoyed e
£28.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd Henri CartierBresson The Other Coronation
Book SynopsisThe coronation of George VI on 12 May 1937 was one of the biggest media events of the interwar period. While other photographers focused on the new King, his family and the ceremonial splendour of the day, Henri Cartier-Bresson turned his lens on the crowds that gathered in the streets of London to watch the pageantry. In a witty reversal of the expected order of proceedings, he shows us ordinary people of all ages and walks of life, some climbing on monuments or each other's shoulders, others straining to get a better view with cardboard periscopes and mirrors on sticks. A few even slump on the ground, the festivities having proved too much. Presented alongside contemporary news clippings from around the world, these remarkable images reflect Cartier-Bresson's unmistakeable photographic eye and capture the British public at a unique historical moment.Trade Review'Two coronations ago, Henri Cartier-Bresson was there to capture all the action. This charming book captures the ordinary folk at the heart of it all … a witty and warm look at those who made the journey to celebrate' - Amateur Photographer'The subjects of The Other Coronation give a remarkable glimpse of the smaller dramas behind the great imperial pageant' - Daily Telegraph
£36.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd Julian Bell on Painting
Book SynopsisRespected painter and writer Julian Bell offers original insights into the art, practice and ongoing importance of painting. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.
£11.69
Thames & Hudson Ltd Herb Lubalin American Graphic Designer
Book SynopsisAvailable again, a major monograph on the legendary US typographer and graphic designer Herb Lubalin. One of the original Mad Men, Herb Lubalin (19181981) was a giant of American design and typography whose passion for rebellion and innovation made him one of the most successful art directors of the 20th century and beyond. He is perhaps most recognized for his typeface Avant Garde, but his reach extended far and wide. A constant boundary breaker on both a visual and social level, he was a co-creator of the culture-shocking magazines Avant-Garde, Eros and Fact, and founder of the equally influential U&lc. Herb Lubalin: American Graphic Designer features hundreds of examples of Lubalin's work and previously unseen photographs of him at work and play. Divided into sections on his work in advertising, typography and editorial, it also features an extensive biographical text by Adrian Shaughnessy that includes interviews with George Lois, Seymour Chwast, Alan Peckolick, Carl Fische
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Thames and Hudson Ltd Black Earth Rising
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£40.00
Thames and Hudson Ltd Roger Ballen Spirits and Spaces
Book SynopsisThe first monograph to present Roger Ballen's work in colour: a visual revelation that remains grounded in the chaotic, absurd psychological space of the Ballenesque. Having previously expressed no interest in colour photography, Roger Ballen was inspired to engage with the medium after receiving a Leica SL camera as a gift in 2016. Opening up to the potential of colour in his work, Ballen used light in creative ways, exploring new avenues of experimentation. Spirits and Spaces eloquently captures the absurd and bizarre world of Roger Ballen, where animals and Art Brut-like drawings dominate, and humanity is reduced to obscure figures or fragmented body parts. The new colour images in Spirits and Spaces, created in conjunction with Ballen's artistic director, Marguerite Rossouw, were produced in a claustrophobic space, constructed of worn, wallpapered wooden panels and with minimalistic lighting. Here, in this dense, oppressive environment, Ballen creates what might be seen by many as a world that is unexplainable in words: one in which absurdity, chaos, comedy and tragedy apparently exist side by side. Both a visual revelation and an artistic evolution by one of contemporary photography's most unique voices, Spirits and Spaces is an essential and much anticipated photobook for all Roger Ballen fans.
£32.00
Thames and Hudson Ltd Aviary
Book SynopsisA joyful overview of contemporary photography of birds, featuring the work of 50 internationally recognized photographers. Photographs of birds are found in every decade of photography's 200-year-old history. Today, more photographers than ever before have taken them as their subjects, inspired by our heightened understanding and appreciation of their complexity. Aviary unites the work of more than 50 internationally recognized photographers to explore our complex relationship with birds, questioning how we observe them and respond to their presence. Taking an eclectic curatorial approach, William A. Ewing and Danaé Panchaud weave together photographs from the fields of art, landscape, fashion, portraiture, ornithology and wildlife into six 'acts' that propose intriguing new dialogues and visual theatre between these different modes of photographic expression. Aviary features 200 photographs from leading image makers including Leila Jeffreys, Sarah Moon, Roger Ballen, Sarker Protick, Tim Flach, Viviane Sassen and Nadav Kander. Aviary is much more than simply a book for bird lovers, but an essential, visually led study of the relationship between humans and animals a visual testament to the beauty, complexity and intrigue of the natural world.
£40.00
Thames and Hudson Ltd Art of the Nordic Nations
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated reference on the art of the five Nordic nations, covering a wide range of mediums, movements and styles. Modern art from the Nordic countries Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland tends to be represented by a few famous artists, and an aesthetic known for combining originality and continuity of tradition. Nevertheless, the region is far from homogeneous. Each country has its own artistic language, culture and history, sometimes co-existing with its neighbours in harmony, sometimes engaging them in hard-fought conflict. This extensively illustrated survey offers a new history of Nordic art, from the emergence of Impressionism in the 1870s, through the avant-garde experiments of the early decades of the 20th century and onward to the Second World War and beyond. A broad range of artists are featured, some familiar and others less renowned: Anders Zorn and Hilma af Klimt, Vilhelm Hammershøi and Franciska Clausen, Edvard Munch and Harriet Backer, Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Fanny Churberg, Finnur Jónsson and Öyvind Fahlström. Each artist's work is vividly placed in the context of their homeland as well as the international art movements of the time. The significant role of women artists is also showcased, chronicling their artistic legacy as well as their broader social contributions. The result is a comprehensive account of modern Nordic art in one impressive volume that is sure to become a definitive account.
£38.25
Thames and Hudson Ltd Zofia Kulik
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Thames and Hudson Ltd Paul Poiret
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Thames & Hudson Ltd The First Artists In Search of the Worlds Oldest
Book SynopsisTwo of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art take the reader on a journey across the globe and hundreds of thousands of years into the past to discover the deepest origins of art.Trade Review'A brilliantly researched, global survey of the very first stirrings of human art, which shows us, with admirable objectivity, that there is a deep-seated urge in all human beings to go beyond mere survival and impose visually creative patterns on our world, making us the first truly artistic animal' - Desmond MorrisTable of ContentsIntroduction: What is Art? • 1. Early Attempts to Tackle the Problem: Theories, Chimps and Children • 2. Finding art in Nature: the first stirrings of an aesthetic sense • 3. Can we see art in the first tools? • 4. All work and no play? Looking at marks on bones and stones • 5. Figuring it out – the first carvings • 6. Jingles and bangles: seeking the origins of music and decorated bodies • 7. First art in the landscape • 8. The writing’s on the wall • 9. The appearance of rock art around the world • Conclusion
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Thames & Hudson Ltd On the Line
Book SynopsisA unique insight into the life and art of Sean Scully, an internationally celebrated artist and creative practitioner at the height of his powers. Sean Scullyâs paintings of brushy stripes and blocks of sumptuous colour are critically acclaimed and widely admired. Less well known is what a gifted storyteller and profound commentator on the history of art he is. In this fascinating book, the record of countless hours of conversations with Scullyâs friend, the art critic Kelly Grovier, the painter reflects on his extraordinary journey â from homelessness on the streets of Dublin in the mid-1940s to his current position as one of the most important abstract artists working today. In these revealing conversations, Scully recalls with poignancy and wit his rough-and-tumble childhood in London (where his family moved when he was a toddler), his tenacity in the face of rejection from nearly every art school in England, and his rise to prominence in New York in the 1980s. Illustrated througTrade Review'[Scully is] an artist whose name belongs on the shortest of the shortlists of major painters of our time' - Arthur Danto'An incredible account of a world-renowned artist, who never minces his words' - The Arts Society'Packed with [Scully’s] pungent opinions and tales of his wandering life' - The Spectator, Best Art Books of 2021Table of ContentsPreface 1. Abstract Two Blues 2. A Bedroom in Venice 3. Newcastle Boogie-Woogie 4. Blame 5. Falling Wrong 6. Backs and Fronts 7. Mexico Malloy 8. Hammering 9. Between You and Me 10. Language of Light 11. Because of the Other Sean Scully’s Life and Work Notes List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index
£23.75
Thames & Hudson Ltd David Hockney
Book SynopsisThe relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney, who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone traces those connections from the beginning of the artist?s career in the early 1960s through the more recent works that have contributed to Hockney?s international reputation. These include photocollages and highly acclaimed stage designs for the opera as well as his embrace of technology, which show the continuing preoccupation with invention and artifice that has made the artist?s work at once popular and enduring.The fourth edition of this best-selling World of Art title includes updated information on Hockney?s work in the past twenty years, such as his foray into the world of digital art including large-scale iPad drawings and video.Trade Review'A delight to read' - Apollo'A fresh reappraisal of Hockney's achievement … a clear and methodical account of the artist's development' - The Burlington Magazine'Intelligent, conscientious, sensitive' - Arts ReviewTable of ContentsPreface • 1. Demonstrations of Versatility • 2. Essays in Naturalism • 3. Inventions and Artifice • 4. Remaking Appearances • 5. Looking Closer • Afterword: A Personal View
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Scottish Art New Edition 1 World of Art
Book SynopsisThe most thorough and accessible short introduction to Scottish art available.Trade Review'An affordable first cut into Scotland’s rich and varied art history … cannot be beaten for its authority, its contextual reach, and its elegantly thought-through juxtapositions' - Art NorthTable of ContentsPreface • 1. Prehistory and Early History • 2. The Development of Christian Art • 3. Loss and Reconstruction • 4. Classicism and Celticism • 5. Art and Philosophy • 6. Nineteenth-Century Narratives • 7. Modernity and Revivals • 8. Twentieth-Century Pluralism • 9. Deconstructing Stereotypes and Reappropriating Symbols
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Black Art
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking book that explores the visual representations of black culture across the globe throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-firstTrade Review'With this new edition, the formidable Powell has achieved something that seemed impossible: making this landmark book more indispensable than ever' - Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City'Powell's writing provides that rare combination of being comprehensive and contemporary, expressed with such clarity … Black Art’s relevance is undiminished' - Zoé Whitley, Director, Chisenhale Gallery'Excellent artists’ profiles, lots of reproductions, and illuminating and original discussions of the social and cultural contexts and implications' - Booklist'Significantly advances the discourse on black art and culture' - International Review of African American ArtTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Dark Centre 1. Art, Culture and “the Souls of Black Folk” 2. Enter and Exit the “New Negro” 3. The Cult of the People 4. Pride, Assimilation, and Dreams 5. “Black is a Colour” 6. Culture as Currency 7. Through a Glass, Diasporally 8. Fin-de-Siècle Blues 9. The Price of Blackness Bibliographical Notes Select Bibliography and Sources List of Illustrations 00 Index
£15.29
Thames & Hudson Ltd Art and Climate Change
Book SynopsisCurators and art historians Dr. Maja Fowkes and Dr. Reuben Fowkes are co-directors of Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, and co-founders of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art, a research centre in Budapest that operates at the intersection between ecological thought and contemporary art. They are co-founders of the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative at Central European University and have curated contemporary art and ecology programmes for the Institute of Advanced Studies research streams on Turbulence and Waste (201920). They are the authors of several books, including Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950, also in the World of Art series.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Many Anthropocenes 1.1 Geological Records 1.2 Scars of Extraction 1.3 Crude Oil 1.4 Synthetic Environments 1.5 Expanses of Monoculture 2 Reconfiguring the Geosphere 2.1 Soil Reserves 2.2 Riverine Ecologies 2.3 Marine Permutations 2.4 Post-Glacial Landscapes 2.5 Golden Age of the Sky 3 Floral Collectivism 3.1 Vegetal Agency 3.2 Botanical Politics 3.3 Self-Management of Plants 3.4 Plants on the Move 3.5 Arboreal Worlds 4 Animal Solidarities 4.1 Animals in the Museum 4.2 Non-Human Persons 4.3 Countering Extinction 4.4 Political Ornithology 4.5 Magnified Natures 5 Pluriversal Ecologies 5.1 Entangled Terrestrials 5.2 Reparative Histories 5.3 Green Protocols 5.4 Climates of Transformation 5.5 Eco-futurisms Conclusion Further Reading
£15.29
Thames & Hudson Ltd Mary Cassatt
Book SynopsisThe definitive introduction to the artist Mary Cassatt, placing her work in the wider context of 19th-century feminism and art theory. A close ally of Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt was the only American painter at the heart of the Impressionist group in Paris. Highly respected on both sides of the Atlantic, Cassatt was a forthright advocate for womenâs intellectual, creative and political emancipation. She brought her discerning gaze and compositional inventiveness across many media to the subtle social interactions of women in public and private spaces, such as at the theatre, and in moments of intimacy with children, where she was one of the most attentive and unsentimental analysts of the infant body and the childâs emerging personality. Tracing key moments in Cassattâs long career, art historian Griselda Pollock highlights Cassattâs extensive artistic training across Europe, analysing her profound study of Old Masters while revealing herTrade Review'Subtle and incisive … manages brilliantly to locate Cassatt culturally both in general and in relation to the intertextual “web of references to past and present”' - Linda Nochlin, London Review of Books
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