Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
Oxbow Books Limited The Tomb of Amenemhab
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£33.20
Dirimart Karin Kneffel: Haymatlos
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£17.10
Yale University Press Edward Hoppers New York
Book SynopsisA revealing exploration of Edward Hopper’s inspired relationship to New York City through his paintings, drawings, prints, and never-before-published archival materials
£47.50
Yale University Press Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago
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£29.95
Tate Publishing Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art &
Book SynopsisThe first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive and collection. Revealing over 150 esoteric and mystical pieces, some never before seen, this book gives a new understanding to the artists in the Tate collection and the history and practice of the occult. A lavishly illustrated magical volume acts a potent talisman connecting the two worlds of Tate – the seen public collection and the unseen secrets lurking in the archive. The pages of this book explore the hidden artworks and ephemera left behind by artists, and shed new light on our understanding of the art historical canon. It offers an in-depth exploration of the occult and its relationship to art and culture including witchcraft, alchemy, secret societies, folklore and pagan rituals, demonology, spells and magic, psychic energies, astrology and tarot. Expect to find the unexpected in the works and lives of artists such as Ithell Colquhoun, Paul Nash, Barbara Hepworth, Cecil Collins, John William Waterhouse, Alan Davie, Joe Tilson, Henry Moore, Eileen Agar, William Blake, Leonora Carrington and Pamela Colman Smith. For the first time, the clandestine, magical works of the Tate archive are revealed with archivist Victoria Jenkins exploring relationships between art and the occult, and how both can act as a form of resistance to challenging environments. This book challenges perceptions and illuminates the surprising breadth and extraordinary ways in which artists interpret not just the physical world around them but also the supernatural, to make the unseen, seen. If you think you know Tate artists, it’s time to think again.
£21.25
V & A Publishing Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Textile Society of America's R.L. Shep Award 2020. The kimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exotic fascination. The iconic garment is often viewed as traditional, unchanging and timeless, but this book counters that conception, presenting the kimono as highly dynamic and fashionable dress. The cultural and sartorial significance of the kimono is explored in historical and contemporary contexts, both in Japan and the West, where its impact on clothing styles has been felt since the seventeenth century. Beautifully illustrated, the book features over 250 kimono and kimono-inspired garments from the V&A and collections around the world, revealing its sartorial influence on pop stars from David Bowie to Bjoerk and examining the ways in which fashion designers such as Issey Miyake, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen have reworked its legacy.Trade ReviewThe ground covered in the book and accompanying exhibition is vast: rich food for thought and glorious artistry to admire. Hettie Judah, iNews, 27th April 2020Table of ContentsForeword, Tristram Hunt Introduction: Kimono, Kyoto to Catwalk, Anna Jackson Kimono in Japan Status, Style and Seduction, Anna Jackson Creation and Commerce, Anna Jackson and Iwao Nagasaki Clothed in Splendour: Bridal Kimono from the Edo Period to the Present Day, Masami Yamada Picturing Fashion in Edo-Period Japan, Masami Yamada Fashion for the Foreign A Taste for the Exotic: Foreign Textiles and Japanese Dress, Anna Jackson The 'Nippon Kimono' Voyages to Europe, Yuzuruha Oyama Interwoven Gowns: A Tale of Global Trade, Ariane Fennetaux Geographically Confused, but Familiarly Exotic: The Influence of Kimono in Seventeenth-Century England, Susan North Shifting Styles Fashioning Modernity in Japan, Anna Jackson The 'Kimono Craze': From Exoticism to Fashionability, Elizabeth Kramer and Akiko Savas Picturing Kimono in Britain, Europe and America, Elizabeth Kramer Radical Restructure: The Impact of Kimono, Akiko Fukai Kimono as Costume Kimono Codified: Uniform for the Nation, Josephine Rout Geisha: Perpetuating the Kimono Mystique, Lesley Downer Kimono Rental, Tourism and Sartorial Expression, Elizabeth Kramer Behind the Screen: Kimono as Costume, Josephine Rout Kimono Reinvention Kimono Reborn, Rupert Faulkner Moriguchi Kunihiko, Anna Jackson Kikuchi Nobuko: Stylish Rebellion, Kohka Yoshimura Kimono Transformation Kimono Dreams, Claire Wilcox Statement Piece: The Kimono Jacket Trend, Elizabeth Kramer Kimono Revolution, Sheila Cliffe Jotaro Saito, Anna Jackson From Edo to Instagram: Japanese Fashion, Josephine Rout
£34.00
GINGKO Treasures of Herat: Two Manuscripts of the
Book SynopsisAn illustrated reference book for students and scholars of Persian art, poetry, and literature. With this book, Barbara Brend provides thorough consideration of two celebrated Persian manuscripts housed in the British Library. These two copies of the Khamsah (Quintet) a set of five narrative poems by twelfth-century poet Nizami, a master of allegorical poetry in Persian literature, were produced in Herat in the fifteenth century, one of the greatest periods of Persian painting. Although well known, the manuscripts have never before been written about in relation to each other. Brend tells the story of each poem and the painting that illustrates it, and she formally analyzes the images, placing them in their historical and artistic context. The images from both highly prized manuscripts are beautifully reproduced in color, and the ownership history of one of the manuscripts-recorded in the form of seal impressions and inscriptions- is also included. Ursula Sims-Williams provides a translation and commentary of these important marks of ownership which identify the Mughal rulers Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, and Aurangzeb, among many others.Trade Review"Brend’s Treasures of Herat performs a deep dive on the two manuscripts, providing unique insights into the purpose and the means used to produce them. . . . Brend’s summary of the tradition of Persian painting and survey of other royal 15th-century manuscripts makes Treasures of Herat a valuable introduction to the topic." * Asian Review of Books *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 Herat and the Timurids CHAPTER 2 The Painting Tradition of Timurid Herat CHAPTER 3 Manuscript and Illumination in Add. 25900 CHAPTER 4 Illustrations in Add. 25900 CHAPTER 5 Manuscript and Illumination in Or. 6810 CHAPTER 6 Illustrations in Or. 6810 CHAPTER 7 Conclusions on Add. 25900 and Or. 6810 APPENDIX A Break-lines in Add. 25900 and Or. 6810 CHAPTER 8 Or. 6810: The Afterlife of a Manuscript URSULA SIMS-WILLIAMS APPENDIX B Transcriptions of the Notes and Seals in Or. 6810 URSULA SIMS-WILLIAMS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£54.00
D Giles Ltd Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a
Book SynopsisAn expansive collection catalogue that offers a multiplicity of fresh perspectives on recent modern and contemporary art acquisitions in The Phillips Collection. Planned to coincide with The Phillips Collection's centennial and exhibition, this ground-breaking volume offers an unprecedented breadth of insights and inclusive narratives on the Phillips's growing art collection from a range of voices, including artists, critics, and scholars. Seeing Differently features works across wide-ranging media by renowned artists from the 19th to the 21st centuries, including Benny Andrews, Alexander Calder, Edgar Degas, Simone Leigh, and Renee Stout. An opening essay by Dorothy Kosinski, artist conversations, thematic essays, and 150 plates with 50 object responses by notable contributors, ensure that this will be a lasting art historical resource. AUTHORS: David C. Driskell is an artist, scholar, and professor emeritus at the University of Maryland. Mary Jane Jacob is professor and executive director of exhibitions at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dorothy Kosinski is Vradenburg Director & CEO of The Phillips Collection. Elsa Smithgall is senior curator at The Phillips Collection. 278 colour illustrations
£31.96
D Giles Ltd Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the
Book SynopsisFocusing on production and patronage, this new volume features over 150 images of magnificently illustrated books and precious bindings, drawn largely from North American collections. The book's three sections are arranged chronologically, yet in each case with a different thematic focus. Opening with a look at the precedents set by the Carolingian forerunners of the Empire, the first section considers deluxe imperial manuscripts associated with the Ottonian emperors. The second section examines the role of imperial monasteries in the production of manuscripts, considering in particular the patronage of aristocratic elites. The final section offers a tour of imperial cities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, from Vienna and Prague to Augsburg and Nuremberg. This final stop considers the impact of Albrecht Durer and humanism on the arts of the book. The volume features a glossary, indexes, and maps showing the shifting borders of the Empire over 700 years.Trade Review"It is a densely and richly illustrated narrative." "This well-produced book will become a useful resource."—William J. Diebold, The Burlington Magazine. "Joins the authors’ meticulous historical analysis with more than 150 lush, full-color illustrations of these magnificent books and their elaborate bindings."—Lauren Moya Ford, Hyperallergic. "Expertly combines cogent, insightful text with superlative illustrations."—Ed Voves, Art EyewitnessTable of ContentsDirector's Foreword by Colin B. Bailey; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; I Introduction; II Imperial Networks; III Imperial Monasteries; IV Imperial Cities; The Main Imperial Dynasties; Glossary; Bibliography; Index of Objects; General Index; Credits
£31.96
D Giles Ltd In the Mind's Eye / La Mirada de Quien Contempla:
Book SynopsisIn the Mind’s Eye opens new avenues of inquiry about the Caribbean island which has played an outsized role in global politics, economics, and culture. For centuries an Edenic image of fantasy and escapism has been projected onto Cuba by observers from North America and Europe. Until recent times, the harsh historical and contemporary realities of servitude, racial strife, and environmental degradation rarely colored artists portrayal of the country, presenting a skewed perspective on this nation. While the dynamics of the Revolution in 1959 frame many conversations about Cuba, this volume seeks a longer historical trajectory by focusing on the 19th century—with visual interpretations and commentary by 21st-century artists. American artists William Glackens, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, and Willard Metcalf are featured alongside contemporary artists including Juan Carlos Alom, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Juana Valdes. Two new interviews with artists Juana Valdes and Carlos Martiel conducted by Donette Francis and Elvia Rosa Castro highlight the importance of contemporary Cuban art.Table of ContentsLenders to the Exhibition; Acknowledgments; In the Mind's Eye: Director’s Foreword by Jordana Pomeroy; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Amy Galpin; Turning the Landscape into a Homeland: Landscape Painters in Cuba, 1850–1920 by Jorge Duany; Cultural Exchanges between Cuba and the United States, 1850–80 by Katherine Manthorne; The Waters in Between and the Art of Juana Valdes: Artist interview by Donette Francis, Associate Professor, University of Miami; The Locks of Carlos Martiel: The Body as a Political Device: Artist interview by Elvia Rosa Castro, art critic and independent curator; Catalogue; Illustrated Chronology of Cuban History/events since the late 19th century; Selected bibliography; Photo credits
£29.71
D Giles Limited Seeing Us
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking volume increases our understanding of the dynamism and richness of American art, drawing on the work of artists who have often created from the artistic margins.Out of Many: Reframing an American Collection offers a re-examination of select works from The Phillips Collection, the Howard University Gallery of Art and the David C. Driskell Center. This volume, and its accompanying exhibition features 75 works of art in various media-paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and mixed-media-by a diverse array of artists, including William H Johnson, Doris Lee, Elisabeth Poe, David Driskell, Ralston Crawford, William Christenberry, Jacob Lawrence, and Romare Bearden to name a few. Each of the selected works offers a unique perspective on how these diverse artists living and working across the United States view (or have viewed) America while presenting an inclusive narrative of American art based on The Phillips? unique history, collection, relationships with artists and collaborations with other institutions. Arranged into five thematic sections?People, Places, Spaces, Things, and Chronicles?the authors consider why artists have certain been omitted from our current narratives; and how do we properly contextualize the work of marginalized artists.
£34.88
Actes Sud Memoria: Tales of a different History
Book SynopsisMemoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad of stories, stories, questions and experiences scattered in our individual and personal memories. Revealed here, through the works of artists whose work refers to the (re) construction of a common whole, a universal whole, which renews our look at contemporary creation from Africa and its diasporas. Featuring fourteen artists who's work stand out for their desire to move the boundaries of art, to “bring together elsewhere” and to show the diversity of our common individual and ultimately collective histories. The selected works explore painting, textiles, sculpture, video and even performance. They make up a journey that echoes on the one hand a demystified reading of parts of history and commonly disclosed beliefs about the African continent, and on the other hand the way in which the devices of imaginary stories are still in the making. work, particularly in the economic and resource redistribution fields. Through this multiplicity of mediums, the works deliver their essence and show us artists with engaged practice, strong in their narrative power, anchored in their fluctuating geographies and in their time. By questioning our thought mechanisms, Memoria: stories from another History intends to open a discussion on our ability to renew our knowledge, to listen to different stories and to (re) question stereotypes and received ideas.
£25.50
Kerber Christof Verlag Other People Think
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£30.40
Hatje Cantz Late Gothic: The Birth of Modernity
Book SynopsisHardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and shadow, body and space, became increasingly more realistic. Everyday life found entry into the arts. With the invention of printing, images and texts were distributed to an extent previously unheard of. Artists such as Nicolaus Gerhaert and Martin Schongauer became widely known and influenced the development of the visual arts throughout Europe and across all genres. Featuring a wide selection of works, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin present the first extensive exhibition of Late Gothic art in the German-speaking regions. Its comparison and contrast of the various genres turns the catalogue into a handbook for the arts at the threshold of the modern era.
£36.00
Hatje Cantz Verlag Jadwiga Maziarska Assembly
£36.00
Arnoldsche Buddhist Ritual Art of Tibet: A Handbook on
Book SynopsisTibetan Buddhist art is not only rich in figural icons but also extremely diverse in its symbols and ritual objects. This first systematic review is an abundantly illustrated reference book on Tibetan ritual art that aids our understanding of its different types and forms, its sacred meanings and ceremonial functions. Eighteen chapters, several hundred different implements are documented in detail, in many cases for the first time and often in their various styles and iconographic forms: altar utensils and amulets, masks and mirrors, magic daggers and mandalas, torma sculptures and prayer objects, vajras and votive tablets, sacrificial vessels and oracle crowns, stupas and spirit traps, ritual vases, textiles, furniture, and symbolic emblems. These are accompanied by many historical and modern text sources, as well as rare recorded oral material from high-ranking Tibetan masters. This long-awaited handbook is a must-have for all those with an interest in Buddhist art and religion.
£68.00
Yale University Press Vittore Carpaccio
Book SynopsisAn authoritative and comprehensive celebration of the life and work of one of the most prominent artists of the Venetian Renaissance
£45.00
Yale University Press Electrifying Design
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented survey of modern lighting design foregrounding its materials, innovators, and far-reaching influenceTrade Review“A user-friendly and thought-provoking volume thanks to its easy-to-navigate structure and carefully considered themes, which are explored in a series of wide-ranging essays...An excellent introduction.”—Charlotte Fiell, World of InteriorsCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022
£35.62
Yale University Press Pattern and Flow
Book SynopsisShowcasing marbled paper, paste paper, fold-and-dye papers, and more, this book reveals a little-known arts phenomenon from its grass roots in the 1960s to artistic heights in the following decadesTrade Review“Brilliantly illustrated, based on an encyclopedic archive, it is an eloquent history of this colorful counterculture movement.”—John Bidwell, curator emeritus, The Morgan Library and Museum
£45.00
Metropolitan Museum of Art Modern Times: British Prints, 1913-1939
Book SynopsisA look at the artistic and technical innovation of British printmaking from World War I to the eve of World War II, as artists from the Grosvenor School and beyond harnessed an emerging modernist style Throughout the tumultuous decades of the early twentieth century, the graphic arts flourished in Great Britain as artists sought to portray everyday life during the machine age. This richly illustrated volume reintroduces rare print works from the collection of Leslie and Johanna Garfield into the narrative of modernism, demonstrating their relationship to other movements such as Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism. Essays explore how artists turned to printmaking to alleviate trauma, memorialize their wartime experiences, and capture the aspirations and fears of the twenties and thirties. Special attention is given to the linocut technique revolutionized by Claude Flight and his students at London’s Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Highlighted as well are the pioneering works of artists such as C. R. W. Nevinson, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Edith Lawrence, Ursula Fookes, and Lill Tschudi. In their quest to promote a more democratic art, these artists created innovative graphics that portrayed in subject, form, material, and technique the dynamic era in which they lived.Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (October 21, 2021–January 17, 2022)Trade Review“[In] Modern Times…there is a particularly good range of bold lino cuts by Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews and their contemporaries.”—Catherine Croft, C20 Magazine
£38.00
National Gallery Company Ltd Raphael
Book SynopsisA definitive overview of one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian Renaissance Among the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael (1483–1520) is unarguably the artist who has been most widely and consistently admired across the centuries. He had an extraordinary and perhaps unrivaled capacity for self-reinvention—as he progressed from Umbria to Florence and Rome—and an ability to draw strength from the other great artists around him, seemingly growing in stature the more daunting the competition became. This insightful, impeccably researched, and comprehensive volume chronicles the progress of his career in all its richness and complexity. Sumptuous production values and generous illustrations go hand in hand with its rigorous and wide-ranging scholarship. The essays explore Raphael’s paintings and drawings, his frescoes in the Vatican Stanze, his designs for tapestries, sculptures and prints, and his engagement with architecture. Detailed and authoritative catalogue entries examine many of Raphael’s finest works. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
£38.00
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for
Book SynopsisThe Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris exploring Samuel Courtauld’s role as one of the great collectors of the twentieth century. The catalogue and exhibition showcase Courtauld’s extraordinary collection, which will be on display in Paris for the first time in over sixty years.One of the finest collections of Impressionism anywhere in the world was assembled by the English industrialist and philanthropist Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947).During the 1920s, Courtauld acquired seminal works by all of the major Impressionists, from Renoir’s early masterpiece La Loge to Manet’s last great work, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. His collection grew to include such iconic works as Gauguin’s great Tahitian nude Nevermore and one of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. Courtauld was particularly devoted to Cézanne and put together the largest collection of his work in the United Kingdom, including the epic Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine and one of the celebrated Card Players. After a decade of collecting, Courtauld gave the majority of these remarkable works to establish The Courtauld Institute of Art and Gallery in London.This will be the first time that Samuel Courtauld’s collection has been shown in Paris in over 60 years. The landmark exhibition will bring together masterpieces from The Courtauld Gallery alongside works formerly in Courtauld’s collection and now dispersed internationally. It will be a unique opportunity to enjoy some of the greatest modern French paintings of the 19th century and will shed light on Courtauld’s pioneering role in shaping public taste for Impressionism in the United Kingdom.The lavishly illustrated catalogue presents new research on the personality of Samuel Courtauld as well as his taste, collecting habits and wide-ranging philanthropy. It also explores afresh his network of dealers and places him within the wider context of contemporary collectors of Impressionism throughout Europe and the United States. The exhibition features almost a hundred works, each given its own entry and enhanced with close-up images and comparative illustrations to provide an in-depth exploration of this extraordinary collection.
£42.75
Dulwich Picture Gallery Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism
Book SynopsisBerthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism is the first major UK exhibition of the renowned Impressionist since 1950. In partnership with the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, it will bring together around 30 of Morisot’s most important works from international collections, many never seen before in the UK, to reveal the artist as a trailblazer of the movement as well as uncovering a previously untold connection between her work and 18th century culture, with around 20 works for comparison. A founding member of the Impressionist group, Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was known for her swiftly painted glimpses of contemporary life and intimate domestic scenes. She featured prominently in the Impressionist exhibitions and defied social norms to become one of the movement’s most influential figures. Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism will draw on new research and previously unpublished archival material from the Musée Marmottan Monet to trace the roots of her inspiration, revealing the ways in which Morisot engaged with 18th century art and culture, while also highlighting the originality of her artistic vision, which ultimately set her apart from her predecessors. Highlights will include Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight (1875), painted while Morisot was on honeymoon in England, and her striking Self-Portrait (1885), which will appear alongside Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Young Woman (c.1769) from Dulwich Picture Gallery’s collection. Apollo revealing his divinity to the shepherdess Issé, after François Boucher (1892), In the Apple Tree (1890) and Julie Manet with her Greyhound Laerte (1893), are among nine paintings on loan from the Musée Marmottan Monet, many receiving their first ever showing in the UK. Table of ContentsColophon (includes list of thanks) Title Contents Foreword – Jennifer Sc Desmazières (1000 words) I - ESSAY Berthe Morisot a dialogue with Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard by Marianne MATHIEU max 8,000 words [max. 12 comp images] II - FOCUS A Youth in a XVIIIth century setting by Dominique d’ARNOULT max 8,000 words [max. 8 comp images] Berthe Morisot and the XVIIIth century English painting by Lois OLIVER max 8,000 words for the English version [max. 12 comp images] Impregnation of XVIIIth century in the art of Morisot by Dominique d’ARNOULT max 8,000 words [max. 8 comp images] Fragonard, Grasse, Berthe Morisot, Julie Manet between myth and reality by Claire GOODEN max 4,000 words [max. 6 comp images] C. 45 cat plates C. 30–40 comparative images List of works Biography Bibliography
£999.99
Taschen GmbH The National Gallery. Paintings People Portraits
Book SynopsisGet to know the National Gallery's masterworks through the eyes of leading cultural figures and contemporary artists photographed in the Gallery and behind-the-scenes spaces. Organized chronologically, this book tells the story of 700 years of art history through a selection of over 200 paintings in the collection, from Margarito d'Arezzo to Claude Monet.
£148.75
Munch Museum Edvard Munch
Book SynopsisThe jarring emptiness following the loss of a loved one, the expansive out-of-body sensation of sensual touch, the lassitude of melancholy and the ecstatic receptivity to sunshine. His ability to capture and convey sensation and feelings through the materials of art, places the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (18631944) at the forefront of European art at the turn of the last century.Interestingly, Munch's artistic exploration of perception, and his persistent questioning of the objectivity of vision, intersect with ideas that matured within the fields of psychology and experimental optics at the time.Edvard Munch: Inner Fire examines these connections, demonstrating his continuing exploration of the conditions of sight. The essays in this catalogue examine this phenomenon while also probing a lesser-known aspect of the artist's work: Munch's relationship to Italy.The first essay, Lasse Jacobsen's Edvard Munch. Italian Impressions', explores this connection explicitly, as part of a general overview of Munch's life and work.The second text, Reflections in Munch's Inner Eye' by Patricia G. Berman, charts the art historical context of Munch's exploration of experience's subjective dimension. Emil Leth Meilvang's Seeing without Sight. Munch's Vision', on its part, explores the relationship between Munch's artistic development and simultaneous developments within the perceptual sciences. Edvard Munch. Inner Fire includes essayistic pieces by authors Melania G. Mazzucco and Hanne Ørstavik: I am a Romantic' and Who Am I'. Each demonstrates Munch's continuing ability to light the inner fires of other artists.
£33.25
Yale University Press Henry Scott Tuke
Book SynopsisA timely survey of this significant British artist and the complexities surrounding his work and reputation today
£23.75
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Trees
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£999.99
Silvana illy Art Collection: 30 Years of Beauty
Book SynopsisFor 30 years illy has entrusted its iconic coffee cups to the hand of the protagonists of contemporary art, so that they interpret the white surface, to offer their own customers an experience that involves senses and mind. In these pages it’s possible to retrace the history of the illy Art Collections: a collection of unique art objects for everyday use, which since 1992 brings together signed designer cups by over 120 internationally renowned artists. Artists: Marina Abramovic, Neil Aitken, Pedro Almod var, Hannah Anderson, Ron Arad, Felipe Arturo, Atelier Van Lieshout, Matteo Attruia, Felipe Baeza, Ernesto Bautista, Michael Beutler, Francesco Bonami, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, David Byrne, Waltercio Caldas, Maria João Calisto, Maurizio Cargnelli, Giulia Cenci, Paolo Cervi Kervischer, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Michel Comte, Ross Cooper, Francis Ford Coppola, Antonio Dias, Gillo Dorfles, An Du, Hope Esser, Jan Fabre, Willie Filkowski, Clo’e Floirat, Franco Fontana, Fratelli Fortuna, Cosimo Fusco, Maurizio Galimberti, Giorgio Galli, Anna Gelman Bagaria, Mario Giacomelli, Tatiana Goloviznina, Geni Grabuleda, Mona Hatoum, Jessica Iborra, Ernesto Illy, Francesco Illy, Vittoria Illy, Cameron Jamie, Natasha Jancovich, Anish Kapoor, William Lehmann, Nelson Leirner, Michael Lin, Marco Lodola, Emanuele Luzzati, Susan Mac William, Anna Maria Maiolino, Andrea Manetti, Marino Marini, Lorenzo Mattotti, Simone Meentzen, MentalKLINIK, Gintare Minelgaite, AD Minoliti, Luca Missoni, Soto Montserrat, Alanis Morissette, Marcelo, Moscheta, Ulrike Müller, Hironori Murai, Emmanuel Nassar, Norma J., Precious Okoyomon, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Mimmo Paladino, A.R. Penck, Max Petrone, Esteban Piedra León, Roberta Pietrobelli, Alexandra Pirici, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Darryl Pottorf, Emilio Pucci, MarcQuinn, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Robert Rauschenberg, Tobias Rehberger, Peter Roesch, James Rosenquist, Paolo Rossetti, Stefan Sagmeister, Sebastião Salgado, Beatrice Santiccioli, Aki Sasamoto, Julian Schnabel, Regina Silveira, Elias Sime, Slavs & Tatars, Kiki Smith, Haim Steinbach, Joseph Maria Subirachs, Annamaria Testa, MatteoThun, Padraig Timoney, Dean J. Toumin, Luca Trazzi, Adan Vallecillo, Alfredo Luiz Vasquez, Cecilia Vicuña, Ai Weiwei, Liu Wei, Rufus Willis, Robert Wilson, Shizuka Yokomizo, Olimpia Zagnoli, Elisabeth Zawada. Text in English and Italian.
£30.60
Royal Academy of Arts Impressionists on Paper: Degas to
Book Synopsis"Monet, van Gogh and Cezanne feature in a pleasurable Royal Academy show that demonstrates why the Impressionists remain the world's favourite set of artists." — Independent Best known for their superlative oils on canvas, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and numerous other Impressionists and Post-Impressionists also regularly used paper as a support for works in watercolour, gouache, pencil, tempera and that most elusive of media, pastel. Their practice transformed the status of these works from preparatory studies, to be left in the studio and not shown in public, to works of art in their own right. With insightful texts by acknowledged experts in the field, this sumptuous book brings together some 70 masterworks on paper by leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. Their bold innovations challenged traditional attitudes, radically transformed the future direction of art and ultimately paved the way for later movements such as Abstract Expressionism.Trade Review"Monet, van Gogh and Cezanne feature in a pleasurable Royal Academy show that demonstrates why the Impressionists remain the world's favourite set of artists." - Independent
£22.50
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Laura Knight: A Panoramic View
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM MB BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2022 A major survey of Dame Laura Knight, first female Royal Academician and popular British artist of the 20th century. Laura Knight (1877–1970) was one of the most famous and popular English artists of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, in 1965. In the following decades, her realist style of painting fell out of fashion and her work become largely overlooked. Anew generation has rediscovered her work, finding a contemporary resonance in her depictions of women at work, of people from marginalized communities and her contributions as a war artist. This beautifully illustrated book, which accompanied a major exhibition at MK Gallery, provides an overview of Knight’s illustrious career: from her training at Nottingham Art School at the age of 13 and her time in North Yorkshire and Cornwall, to her visits to traveller communities and a segregated American hospital. It also features her circus, ballet and theatre scenes, paintings of women during the war and her late paintings of nature. The selection of over 160 works combines celebrated paintings with less known graphic and design works, including ceramics, jewellery and costumes that reflect the artist’s enduring interest in the everyday activities of people from all walks of life.Trade ReviewMarvel at Knight’s works scattered throughout this beautiful book. * This England *This beautifully illustrated book also features her circus, ballet and theatre scenes and her late paintings of nature. * Art Mag *… a fascinating look at an artist who has often been overlooked, and stunningly illustrated with celebrated paintings as well as lesser known works. * The Artist *The quality of the reproductions is excellent, and the story of Knight’s life makes for fascinating reading. This is a real treat. * Leisure Painter *Beautifully relayed and interestingly formatted, Laura Knight: A Panoramic View is not only timely but imperative to our understanding of the artist it documents and is well worth the attention of us all. * #WomensArt *To further understand this eclectic artist from a twenty-first century perspective, the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition provides valuable additional material. It includes incisive essays and contributions from contemporary artists who provide personal responses to Knight’s work and demonstrate her enduring relevance, particularly in relation to the representation of women. * The Burlington Magazine *This beautifully illustrated book, which accompanies a major exhibition at MK Gallery, provides an overview of Knight’s illustrious career: from her training at Nottingham Art School at the age of 13 to her paintings of women during the war and her late paintings of nature. * Art Herstory *Table of ContentsA Panoramic View by Fay Blanchard & Anthony Spira Timeline Journey to Fame by Pamela Gerrish Nunn Early Work Newlyn The Heat of Their Bodies by Lubaina Himid The Interwar Years by Sophie Hatchwell Ballet Pictures Within Pictures by Hannah Starkey Circus Between Painting and Performance by Monster Chetwynd Theatre Between the Acts A Complicated Artist by Barbara Walker Gypsies The Sky for a Ceiling by Damian Le Bas Dame Laura’s One-Man Show by Sacha Llewellyn War Malvern Notes References Image Credits Index of Works Acknowledgements
£22.50
Yale University Press Black Artists in America
Book SynopsisExploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day—from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White
£28.50
Tate Publishing Keith Haring
Book SynopsisKeith Haring (1958 -1990) is widely recognised for his colourful paintings, drawings, sculptures and murals. Haring exploded onto the early 1980s New York art scene with his vivid graffiti-inspired drawings, many of which found exposure in the public realm, such as the Times Square billboard broadcast of his famous Radiant Child in 1982. Haring's instantly recognisable `cartoon-like' imagery not only drew on the iconography of contemporary pop and club culture but also looked back to the patterns and rhythms of Islamic and Japanese art, and primitive wall-paintings,. Furthermore his work also reflected a profound commitment to social justice and activism, and raised numerous issues that remain relevant today, including the AIDS crisis, the Cold War and fear of nuclear attack, racism, the excesses of capitalism and environmental degradation. Featuring around fifty works supported by rarely seen photography, film and archival documents from the Keith Haring Foundation, this accessible book will not only introduce Haring to a new audience but also throw fresh light on an artist whose work remains symptomatic of the subcultural and creative energy of 1980s New York. Three short texts exploring various aspects of Haring's practice will be interspersed with illustrations of his works and a rolling time-line featuring key social and political events of the 1980s (from the election of Reagan in 1980 and the explosion of hip hop from underground movement to global phenomenon to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989) and Haring's responses to them. The publication also aims to include select and unpublished reminiscences from those who collaborated and interacted with Haring, including performers such as Madonna and Grace Jones and artists Jenny Holzer and Yoko Ono.
£16.99
National Gallery Company Ltd The National Gallery: Masterpieces of Painting
Book SynopsisAn exceptional introduction to European paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century through one of the greatest collections in the world. This richly illustrated and beautifully designed book offers an ideal introduction to European painting from the 13th to the early 20th century. The National Gallery, London, houses one of the finest collections of Western European art in the world. Its extraordinary range includes exceptional paintings from medieval Europe through the early Renaissance and on to Post-Impressionism, including masterpieces by Leonardo, Hans Holbein, Titian, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Turner, Monet, and Van Gogh. This volume showcases more than 250 of the Gallery’s most treasured pictures, providing an opportunity to make connections across this uniquely representative collection. Paintings are accompanied by numerous details, as well as brief and illuminating texts, providing an informative and visually rich survey of hundreds of years of European painting.Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
£45.00
Skira Lee Miller. Man Ray: Fashion - Love - War
Book SynopsisVictoria Noel-Johnson is an independent British art historian and curator, specialising in early 20th century European art.
£25.60
British Museum Press Hew Locke
Book SynopsisA remarkable book a precious album or scrapbook of ideas, insights and specially chosen images of objects that have a multitude of stories to tell.' Art Africa magazine What have we here? presents us with the overlooked and excluded segments of British legacy, utilising the power of art to question what we already know, and what there is yet to learn.' Palatinate Together with his own artworks, contemporary artist Hew Locke uses the British Museum's collection as a springboard to explore themes of colonialism and cultural interactions. Hew Locke is interested in dissecting the messy and complex ways in which museums are implicated in histories of empire. This project has enabled me to engage with the museum's collections in a much deeper way than ever before, and in a way few artists have had the privilege of doing. I have always been interested in the way objects are interpreted through display in museums. What story has been distilled and is being told or implied about the past? How does it relate to the present? How can this telling be questioned, disrupted, or complicated?' The British Museum's history and collections are closely linked to those of the British Empire, which this book addresses alongside a consideration of today's often contentious and deeply felt debates around cultural heritage. Focusing on Britain's historic interactions with Africa, India and the Caribbean from around 1600 onwards, all of which had an impact on Guyana (where Locke grew up), Locke creates a personal exploration of the subject, weaving in his own works such as the Souvenir series and a new commission titled The Watchers. Using interventionist techniques to reframe the collection's historical objects, the artist hopes to leave readers with more questions than answers.
£24.00
Museum of Modern Art Neri Oxman: Mediated Matter
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£36.00
David Zwirner Rose Wylie: painting a noun…
Book SynopsisCelebrated British painter Rose Wylie—whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous—often draws her influence from a wide range of popular culture. Here her newest body of work references memories from her own life and mimics the way memories evolve and change over time. Wylie’s source material is culled from the vast visual world around her, ranging from sixteenth-century British estates to Serena Williams and the French Open. While initially these may seem random or aesthetically simplistic, through the nuanced use of humor, language, and compositional structure, Wylie creates wittily observed and subtly sophisticated meditations on the nature of memory, and visual representation itself, in line with the paintings she has become known for over the course of her career. A new essay by art critic Michael Glover explores the remarkable painter whose work has “spark, assurance, brash humor, an extraordinary, freewheeling eclecticism that seems to be just as ready to suck in references to the art of Ptolemaic Egypt and Roman portraiture as to pay homage to the films of Quentin Tarantino and the late paintings of Philip Guston.” Part of David Zwirner Books’s Spotlight Series, this book features Wylie’s newest paintings and drawings and is published on the occasion of the artist’s 2020 solo exhibition of these works at David Zwirner Hong Kong.Trade Review'"Expect a riot of colourful and unruly compositions, which delight with their exuberance."' - Staff "Sassy Hong Kong"'"Rose Wylie's painting a noun...exhibition is truly one-of-a-kind."' - Staff "Time Out Hong Kong"'"While Rose Wylie's artworks on first glance appear simplistic or even naive, a closer examination reveals many fascinating details and reminds the viewer of the cartoon-like images of Philip Guston and Jean Michel Basquiat."' - Joanne Shurvell "Forbes"'"Wylie fearlessly tackles the thorniest topics head-on, committing her thoughts and questions about politics, religion, fame, love, history, money and nature to canvas."' - Charlotte Brook "Harper's Bazaar'"In their multiple points of reference, and visual gourmandising, Wylie's paintings are a reminder of how things coexist in our mind's eye and how the memory of a place or time is never a simple, fixed thing: merely a few threads plucked in the moment from a shimmering tangle."' - Hettie Judah "Art UK"'"She eschews art-world artiness; instead, the paintings are unaffected and joyful, and critics are captivated."' - Harriet Baker "Apollo"
£21.25
Munch Museum Vanessa Baird
Book SynopsisVanessa Baird is confrontational, morbidly funny, even infamous, with her sharp, oblique observations of herself and her times. Go Down with Me, the book accompanying MUNCH's exhibition of the same name, is richly illustrated with works from her whole career. This includes the installation You Must Never Go Down to the End of Town if You Don't Go Down with Me, created especially for MUNCH, which reflects on the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip.Also included are thought-provoking essays by Kari Brandtzæg, Jon Refsdal Moe, Trude Schjelderup Iversen and Vegard Vinge, demonstrating Baird's ceaseless productivity and unique ability to hit where it hurts the most.
£27.00
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd The Art of Tapestry
Book SynopsisExtensively illustrated, this is the first accessible publication on the history of tapestry in over two decades. Woven with dazzling images from history, mythology and the natural world, and breath-taking in their craftsmanship, tapestries were among the most valuable and high-status works of art available in Europe from the medieval period to the end of the eighteenth century. Over 600 historic examples hang in National Trust properties in England and Wales – the largest collection in the UK. This beautifully illustrated study by tapestry expert Helen Wyld, in association with the National Trust, offers new insights into these works, from the complex themes embedded in their imagery, to long-forgotten practices of sacred significance and ritual use. The range of historical, mythological and pastoral themes that recur across the centuries is explored, while the importance of the ‘revival’ of tapestry from the late nineteenth century is considered in detail for the first time. Although focussed on the National Trust’s collection, this book offers a fresh perspective on the history of tapestry across Europe. Both the tapestry specialist and the keen art-history enthusiast can find a wealth of information here about woven wall hangings and furnishings, including methods of production, purchase and distribution, evolving techniques and technologies, the changing trends of subject matter across time, and how tapestries have been collected, used and displayed in British country houses across the centuries.Trade ReviewExamines the subject in technical and art historical terms and is profusely illustrated with images that convey the diversity and appeal of these remarkable - and sometimes undervalued - works of art. * Country Life *The book will be enlightening for any country-house buff and decorator who wants to know more about the historic tapestries they encounter in English country houses. It will also be an essential reference for historians of English visual culture, providing a fascinating account of the rise and fall and rise again of tapestry as an art form in its own right and as a medium of traditional splendour. -- Tom Campbell, Director of the Fine Art Museum of San FranciscoThis beautifully illustrated book looks at how tapestries were made, how they were used as political tools and how they came into and out of fashion. [...] it’s a fascinating look at an art form that doesn’t get the same attention as paintings. -- Tabish Khan * FAD Magazine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Tapestry Technique I: Art and Industry II: Ritual and Presence III: The Woven Image IV: Tapestry and History Appendix: Makers' Marks Notes Bibliography Picture Credits Index
£36.00
ACC Art Books The Art of Wallpaper: Morris & Co. in Context
Book SynopsisThis extensively illustrated volume focuses on William Morris (1834–1896), placing his wallpaper designs within the context of the radical changes in taste witnessed during the Victorian era. Against a backdrop of the fanciful, naturalistic patterns that typified fashionable papers in Morris’s youth, the impact of the Reform Movement of the mid-19th century is underscored, particularly the reformers' crusade against such multi-coloured ornamental decoration. Instead, the insistence on the concepts of honesty and propriety as promoted by A. W. N. Pugin and Owen Jones, are demonstrated as influences on Morris. The role of imported Japanese wallpapers is also explored, giving insight into a seldom-discussed cultural exchange evidenced within the story of Morris & Co, which produced wallpapers from 1864 until 1940 and, after a post-war hiatus, from the 1960s to the present. Amplifying Morris’s role in the creation of an influential and lasting style, his work is set within a selection by other designers, including Christopher Dresser and C. F. A. Voysey. Also introduced are firms of significance including Jeffrey & Co. and Arthur Sanderson & Sons, both of whom block-printed the Morris wallpapers. In a highly visual presentation, what is revealed are influences across time and within a global context, as pertinent to the creation of wallpaper art in the 19th century as it is today.
£24.00
Cercle d'art Car Racing 1968
Book SynopsisWhile the demonstrations of Spring 1968 all around the world were not the playing field of DPPI’s (Diffusion Presse Photo International) photographers, the latter happily continued to flourish in the extraordinary world of motor racing, the atmosphere of which they captured to perfection. Their purpose was both to translate into images impressions like the frightening average speed per lap of 243 km/hr of the Belgian Grand Prix on the Spa-Francorchamps track or the clearance, complete with major skidding, of a snow-covered pass during the Monte-Carlo Rally, and to serve as complicit witnesses to the mixture of tension and freedom that inhabits these men and women of the racing world who gathered each weekend to share triumph and tragedy. It comes as no surprise that such a concentration of action and emotion made a strong impression on the public and inspired brands and emerging marketing services seeking new channels of communication. Text in English and French.
£72.25
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Lill Tschudi: The Excitement of the Modern
Book SynopsisThe short intermezzo between the Great War and World War II and especially the “roaring twenties” with their a thrill of speed were a period of radical social change and artistic development, and of vibrant metropolitan life and. Born into a merchant family in the Swiss mountain canton of Glarus, Lill Tschudi (1911–2004) moved to London in 1929 to educate herself at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. She flourished in the imperial capital and soon gained wide recognition for her bold and often colourful modernist linocuts. In the Anglo-Saxon world her reputation as an accomplished printmaker has lasted and her works continue to fetch good prices at auctions in Britain and Australia. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art holds some 120 of her prints in its permanent collection, while she has until to date never been distinguished with a solo exhibition in a public museum in her native Switzerland. This book, published to coincide with the first such display at Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich, features some 50 of her unique linocuts. Designed as a proper picture book, it shows her refined and expressive compositions with their captivating narrative in full-page plates, which are supplemented by informative essays. Text in English and German.
£31.50
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Hockney'S Eye: The Art and Technology of
Book SynopsisThroughout his long career, David Hockney has insistently explored diverse ways of depicting the visible world. He has scrutinised the methods of the old masters, and explored radical departures from their cherished assumptions. The exhibitions accompanied by this volume are the first to focus on this central theme in his art. 'Western art' from the Renaissance until at least the late 19th century has been dominated by the depiction of nature. Was this to be accomplished by direct looking (called “eyeballing” by Hockney) or with the assistance of optical theory and devices, such as cameras? Hockney has experimented with the full range of existing strategies, overtly using perspective in some of his classic pictures and rigorously investigating optical aids for the imitation of nature, including the camera obscura and camera lucida.Yet he has come to reject the photograph as the definitive image of what we see. Along the way, he has identified a 'camera culture' in European painting from 1400, arguing very controversially that the supreme naturalism of painters like Jan van Eyck are the product of optical devices. His book, Secret Knowledge (2001), with its majestic panorama of paintings over the course of five centuries, claims that art historians have missed the central aspect of painters’ practice. The 'Hockney thesis' has been received more favourably outside the professional world of art history than in it.His own artistic practice has been in vigorous dialogue with his radical thesis, and he has progressively demonstrated new and dynamic ways of characterising the visual world without perspective and other conventional techniques. This quest results a series of joyous challenges to our ways of seeing in the major exhibition in Cambridge at the Fitzwilliam Museum and in the Heong Gallery (Downing College). It will look at the whole span of Hockney’s varied career and at the nature of the optical devices he has tested. His vision will be explored in the setting of traditional masterpieces of naturalistic observation, and in the context of modern sciences and technologies of seeing.The first section of the book looks at his thrilling experiments in seeing and representing in broad historical and contemporary contexts. This is followed by discussions of pre-photographic devices for capturing the appearances of things by optical means. The third section includes essays on Hockney’s experiments from the perspectives of neuroscience and computer vision. In short, it reveals in a new way the working of Hockney’s unique eye.
£37.05
Goose Lane Editions Bonsai Penjing: The Collections of the Montréal
Book SynopsisThe beauty and evolution of an intriguing art form.The Montréal Botanical Garden's collections of bonsai and penjing are among the best in North America, including more than 350 trees, some dating from the 17th century. For the first time, these stylized horticultural creations have been brought together in a single volume, illuminating the evolution of the aesthetic tradition of this Asian art form.Featuring beautifully rendered photographs of many of the miniature trees in the collection, Bonsai Penjing: The Collections of the Montréal Botanical Garden offers an up-close view of these extraordinary specimens. Miniaturized reflections of their natural environment, these works of horticultural art translate the world views of bonsai and penjing masters from different philosophical traditions. In a few instances, they integrate contemporary North American vision of the ancient Asian traditions.Author Danielle Ouellet interviewed many of the artists who created these works, in some instances travelling to Asia to meet with some of the contemporary masters of this art form. As a result, she brings to life an historical portrait of Bonsai and Penjing, their underlying aesthetic principles, and an understanding of how to view and interpret the captivating living culptures of these traditions.Trade Review"The ultimate truth, for anyone who takes the time to contemplate one of these works of art, is one's personal emotional response, something experienced by every member of the production team for this book. Now it's your turn!" -- Danielle Ouellet
£50.39
Getty Trust Publications Imogen Cunningham - A Retrospective
Book SynopsisThoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham's work in over thirty-five years. Celebrated American artist Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) enjoyed a long career as a photographer, creating a large and diverse body of work that underscored her unique vision, versatility, and commitment to the medium. An early feminist and inspiration to future generations, Cunningham intensely engaged with Pictorialism and Modernism; genres of portraiture, landscape, the nude, still life, and street photography; and themes such as flora, dancers and music, hands, and the elderly. Organized chronologically, this volume explores the full range of the artist's life and career. It contains nearly two hundred color images of Cunningham's elegant, poignant, and groundbreaking photographs, both renowned and lesser known, including several that have not been published previously. Essays draw on primary sources at the Imogen Cunningham Trust, the Cunningham papers at the Archives of American Art, and contributing author Susan Ehrens's personal interviews with the artist's associates, incorporating a selection of letters, family albums, and other intimate materials to enrich readers' understanding of Cunningham's motivations and work. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center September 15, 2020, to January 10, 2021 and at the Seattle Art Museum, February 11 to May 23, 2021.Trade Review"A rare complete picture of Cunningham's oeuvre."-Alex Greenberger, ARTnews; ;"This retrospective . . . remind[s] us what a beloved, tough, industrious, and supremely independent photographer and person Cunningham was." Richard B. Woodward Collector Daily;;"The scholarly research that informs the text offers many surprises." Peggy Roalf DART: Design Arts Daily ;;"Few women chose to become photographers at the beginning of the 20th century, yet Cunningham's images-from female nudes to Hollywood portraits-smoothed the way for countless female artists that followed." The Guardian ;;"With "Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective" (Getty, 245 pages, $50), editor Paul Martineau means to fix Cunningham's place in the firmament of great 20th-century American photographers. For over 70 years, Cunningham (1883-1976) innovated and excelled in many photographic genres. Her portraits, a reviewer in 1913 said, are "a portrayal of the sitter's personality, spirituality-soul, if you will-which gives the beholder a sense of actual presence." While homebound taking care of her three young boys she photographed the plants in her garden, and what was said about her portraits also applies to her photographs of flora. She is one of the few to take successful nudes of both women and men. The book includes her intense "Martha Graham, Dancer" (1931), her celebrated "Magnolia Blossom" (1925) and the still startling nude "Triangles" (1928)." William Meyers Wall Street Journal ;;"This standout offering impresses on every page." Publishers Weekly ;;"These days, high modernism can sometimes look as distant as a faraway star, a place of heedless optimism and tranquil contemplation. For that very reason, though, the images can be tonic, lowering one's blood pressure as they induce concentration of sight. Imogen Cunningham took up a camera at the dawn of the 20th century, when few women were working in the field, and made pictures for nearly seven decades. She took every sort of photo; portraits, street scenes and landscapes all figure brilliantly in her body of work. What she did best, though, was to convey the sensual impact of harmonious forms, finding these especially in nudes, both male and female, and in the vegetable kingdom. Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective, by Paul Martineau, displays her ecstatic studies of flowers-lilies, tuberoses, magnolias-seen in extreme close-up as if they were worlds in themselves, and juxtaposes them with languorous sprawled bodies that become dunes and arroyos. She can turn her eye with similar entrancement to ceramics, textiles, the organically flowing wire sculptures of Ruth Asawa, and even industrial structures. She has never been granted anywhere near the attention accorded her counterpart and contemporary Edward Weston, but revision is clearly in order." Luc Sante The New York Times Book Review ;;"Imogen Cunningham's name may not come immediately to mind when you think about the great American photographers, but a new book, the catalog for a planned but temporarily postponed exhibition at LA's J. Paul Getty Museum, could make you think again. . . . Paul Martineau's Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective (Getty) makes it very clear that she belongs in the photo pantheon alongside her Bay Area colleagues Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange." Di Vince Aletti Vogue Italia
£45.60
Prestel Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and
Book SynopsisIn the final decades of the nineteenth century, the Glasgow Style introduced Art Nouveau in Britain and helped transform an industrial city into Scotland’s premier cultural capital. The predominant force behind the Glasgow Style was Charles Rennie Mackintosh, an architect and designer who personified the movement’s intellectual freedom, sensuality, and spirit of collaboration. This lively and informative book showcases the work of Mackintosh and contextualizes it in relation to a larger circle of designers and craftspeople with which he shared sources, stylistic features, and patrons. Filled with color illustrations, archival materials, and essays, this volume explores every aspect of the Glasgow Style—from beautifully appointed homes and restaurants to everyday works of needlepoint, cups and saucers, stained glass windows, magazine illustrations, and textiles. It traces the birth of the Glasgow Style to The Glasgow School of Art, where Mackintosh met fellow students, including his future wife, who would form an influential circle nicknamed the “Immortals.” And it reveals how the rise of the Glasgow Style went hand-in-hand with the founding of the city’s Technical Arts School, where students trained in both industrial and artistic crafts, which helped establish a talented and creative workforce. Far-reaching and influential, the Glasgow Style improved nearly every facet of daily life. This book celebrates the immense achievements of Mackintosh and his fellow designers and highlights their impact in the United States and beyond.Trade Review"A fine survey of a vibrant arts movement." —W. S. Rodner, emeritus, Tidewater Community College, CHOICE
£23.99
Uitgeverij de Kunst Jan Davidsz. de Heem
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£157.25
Emons Verlag GmbH 111 Museums in New York That You Must Not Miss
Book SynopsisNew Yorkers love their museums. It''s an obsession. From Gauguin to gangsters, finance to food, New York City has the richest museum culture in the world. Only here, can a former run down tenement, be transformed to one of the most beloved museums in the city. And for New Yorkers, simply finding the best museums is an urban sport itself; a personal quest to seek out the cool, the curious and the uncanny. Consider this book your little cheat sheet. A treasure guide to the secret corners of the iconic museums, a field guide to the little museums you never dreamed existed. Dive in. Press pause from the world and discover a curated reality. We learn, we grow, we are amused and inspired. And when we leave, we feel a little more connected to the city around us, and to ourselves. And that''s what being a New Yorker is all about.
£13.29
