Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
Thames & Hudson Ltd Edward Bawdens England Victoria and Albert Museum
Book SynopsisA beautiful and informative gift book devoted to Edward Bawden's representations of England. Edward Bawden (1903-1989) was a printmaker, painter, illustrator and designer. He studied and later taught at the Royal College of art, served as a war artist in WW2 and worked extensively as a commercial artist for companies including London Transport, Fortnum and Mason, Shell-Mex, the Folio Society and Chatto and Windus. Aside from the years he spent in France, the Middle East and North Africa while serving as a war artist, and later visits to Canada and Ireland, Bawden rarely travelled far from home, but found inspiration in the fields and farms of his native Essex, at the seaside, and in classic London scenes: Kew Gardens, the Royal Parks, the Tower of London and St Paul's Cathedral, and the iron-and-glass monuments to Victorian engineering such as Liverpool Street station and the markets in Spitalfields and Smithfield. This book celebrates England as represented by Bawden in 85 works held in the V&A's collection, including prints, posters, drawings, paintings, murals and advertising material. The illustrations include such early pieces as his poster Map of the British Empire for an exhibition in 1924; his mural English Garden Delights, designed for the Orient Line Navigation Company in 1946; illustrations for books including Good Food, The Gardener's Diary and Life in an English Village; advertising work for London Transport, Shell and Fortnum & Mason; the poster Lifeguards, created to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953; and a varied selection of linocuts and watercolours. As this book demonstrates, it was England, with its quiet landscapes, its pleasures and pastimes, its history and ceremonies, its traditions and recreations, that was the source of Bawden's finest and most engaging work.Trade Review'A jewel box containing numerous reproductions of Bawden’s cheerful art' - The New Criterion
£13.49
Thames & Hudson Ltd Museum of Islamic Art
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive reference publication on the world-class collection at the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, featuring examples of dazzling artistic achievements from across the Islamic world. With flagship architecture by I. M. Pei, an interior designed by J.-M. Wilmotte, and one of the world's finest collections of its type, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, is a dazzling showcase of the artistic achievements of the Islamic world. The collection represents the highest expression of artistic culture, covering lands from Spain to Central Asia and India, and ranging in date from the early Islamic period to the nineteenth century, including metalwork, miniatures, carpets, calligraphy and ceramics. Published to coincide with the re-opening of the museum galleries, this book brilliantly conveys the quality and significance of the Museum of Islamic Art collection, presenting impressive images of objects alongside new research and discoveries by the museum curatorial team. Also including thirty-seven specially commissioned essays by scholars of Islamic Art, Museum of Islamic Art: The Collection is an outstanding and detailed contribution to the field.Trade Review'An essential addition to the library of any collector with a serious interest in the field, whilst being accessible enough for those simply wishing to expand their knowledge of Islamic art' - Homes & Antiques
£56.00
Thames and Hudson Ltd PicassoAsia
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£36.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent Pierre
Book SynopsisThe star pieces from fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's art collection includes works by Cezanne, Picasso, Mondrian and Matisse. Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge amassed the collection together before the designers death in June 2008. This book shows the collection in situ in the pairs homes.
£48.75
University of California Press Phenomenal
Book SynopsisDuring the 1960s and 1970s, a loosely affiliated group of Los Angeles artists embraced light as their primary medium. This title explores and documents the unique traits of the work produced in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s and traces its influence on different generations of international artists.Trade Review"Of the many superb books related to 'Pacific Standard Time,' Phenomenal is among the most elegant." Art In America "Beautifully illustrated and impressively researched... Represents an important contribution to the deepening of scholarship on this still poorly understood yet fundamental dimension of postwar Los Angeles art." Choice "Impressive... Notable for including many large-scale, immersive works that are rarely shown to the public." Southern California QuarterlyTable of ContentsForeword Hugh M. Davies Acknowledgments Hugh M. Davies and Robin Clark Lenders to the Exhibition Artists in the Exhibition Phenomenal: An Introduction Robin Clark Stealth Architecture: The Rooms of Light and Space Michael Auping Practically Nothing: Light, Space, and the Pragmatics of Phenomenology Dawna Schuld The Material of Immateriality Stephanie Hanor Work and Words Adrian Kohn Selected Exhibition History Exhibition Checklist Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index MCASD Board of Trustees MCASD Staff Image Credits
£32.30
University of California Press Twilight Visions Surrealism and Paris
Book SynopsisThrough an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, this title portrays the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis-in a kind of twilight state.Trade Review"Broad in its perspective but acute in its examinations, Twilight Visions shows us not only how hard the Surrealists worked but how their love for the city necessitated their psychic separation from the tragic course it was taking." Silliman's Blog "Makes palpable the inimitable frisson of Paris after hours." The Magazine
£23.80
University of California Press The Photographic Object 1970
Book SynopsisIn 1970 photography curator Peter C Bunnell organized an exhibition called Photography into Sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This title proposes precedents for contemporary artists who continue to challenge traditional practices and categories.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Case Study: Photography into Sculpture Conversation with the Curator, Peter Bunnell Mary Statzer Peter Bunnell's Photography as Printmaking and Photography into Sculpture: Photography and Medium Specificity at MoMA circa 1970 Mary Statzer "New Prominence": Photography at MoMA in the 1960s and 1970s Eva Respini and Drew Sawyer Expanding Photography circa 1970: Photographic Objects and Conceptual Art Lucy Soutter Panel Discussion with Ellen Brooks, Darryl Curran, and Leland Rice Britt Salvesen, Moderator Delightful Anxiety: Photography in California circa 1970 Erin O'Toole The Evolving Photographic Object Rebecca Morse INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTISTS Ellen Brooks Robert E. Brown Carl Cheng Darryl Curran Michael de Courcy Andre Haluska Richard Jackson Jerry McMillan Bea Nettles James Pennuto Giuseppe PironeDouglas PrinceDale Quarterman Charles Roitz Michael Stone Ted Victoria Lynton Wells Notes Illustration Credits Index
£35.70
University of California Press Postdate
Book SynopsisFeatures contemporary artists who mine the uneasy history of photography in India as a means to challenge outmoded narratives, share hidden stories, and make personal connections with tradition.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Susan Krane) Acknowledgments (Jodi Throckmorton) ESSAYS Photography and Inherited History in India (Jodi Throckmorton) Belatedness and Simultaneity: A Short History of Photography from India (Atreyee Gupta) ARTISTS Latika Gupta with Jodi Throckmorton Nandan Ghiya Gauri Gill Jitish Kallat Annu Palakunnathu Matthew Madhuban Mitra and Manas Bhattacharya Pushpamala N. and Clare Arni Raqs Media Collective Vivan Sundaram Surekha RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE It is a Comfort to Gaze at You In the Theater of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive
£30.60
University of California Press Procession
Book SynopsisNorman Lewis was the sole African American artist of his generation who became committed to issues of abstraction at the start of his career and continued to explore them over its entire trajectory. This is an illustrated catalogue that accompanies the first major museum retrospective of the painter Norman Lewis (1909-1979).Trade ReviewWinner, 2017 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award College Art Association
£36.80
University of California Press Puja and Piety Hindu Jain and Buddhist Art from
Book SynopsisCelebrates the complexity of South Asian representation and iconography by examining the relationship between aesthetic expression and the devotional practice, or puja, in the three native religions of the Indian subcontinent. This title presents 150 objects created over the past two millennia for temples, home worship, festivals, and more.Trade Review"... a visually stunning coffee table conversation piece, and a stellar tool for use in a classroom to provide graphic, tactical examples of function and worship. Puja and Piety is a photographic journey exploring the intricate relationship that art holds within religion and lived spirituality." Reading Religion
£56.80
University of California Press Of Dogs and Other People
Book SynopsisPublished in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of the American painter's fifty-year career, this book reassesses De Forest's art-historical position, placing him in a national rather than solely West Coast context.Trade Review"It is a major book, a deeply researched biography of De Forest and an analysis of his art and career." -- Charles Desmarais The San Francisco Chronicle "In this thoroughly professional, immaculately organized, and factually overflowing book, the reader is set to be inspired by the adventure that was Roy De Forest." New York Journal of BooksTable of ContentsDirector’s Foreword and Acknowledgments Lori Fogarty Introduction Roy De Forest: Tough Nut Michael Duncan 1 Origins 2 Postwar San Francisco 3 In Pursuit of the Marvelous 4 Valley of the Dots: The Early Years at UC Davis 5 The Phantasmagoric Artist 6 Framing the Journey: Sculpture and Late Work Chronology Tirumular Chandrasekaran Narayanan Selected Bibliography Kristina Baybayan Index
£35.70
University of California Press Harvey Quaytman Against the Static
Book SynopsisHarvey Quaytman's paintings are distinct for their inventive, whimsical exploration of shape, meticulous attention to surface texture, and experimental application of color. While his works display a rigorous commitment to formalism, they are simultaneously invested with rich undertones of sensuality, decorativeness, and humorexpressed, too, in his playful poetic titles, such as A Street Called Straight and Kufikind. Demonstrating the arc of Quaytman's oeuvre, from his radically curvilinear canvases of the late 1960s and 1970s, to his exploration of serialized geometric abstraction in the 1980s, and finally to his serene cruciform canvases of the 1990s, this retrospective exhibition and accompanying illustrated catalogue is a timely reconsideration of Quaytman's influential work, placing him and his work more prominently in the trajectory of American modern art. With contributions by Suzanne Hudson and John Yau, as well reflections by R. H. Quaytman, an artist and the daughter of Harvey Quaytman, on her father's work and life. Published in association with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Exhibition dates: October 17, 2018January 27, 2019, Berkeley Museum of Art Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).Table of ContentsDirector’s Foreword Acknowledgments Harvey Quaytman’s Arc: Against the Static Apsara DiQuinzio Plates HQ of My Mind R. H. Quaytman The Opposite of Irony Suzanne Hudson Picture and Sound: Harvey Quaytman’s Titles John Yau Reflections on an “Art Soldier”: A Conversation between Gregory Amenoff and William Corbett Ten Thoughts on Color Harvey Quaytman Dr. Kremer’s Magic Powders: A Color Glossary for Harvey Quaytman Lauren R. O’Connell Selected Exhibition History and Awards Bibliography Works in the Exhibition Index BAMPFA Board of Trustees Contributors Photography Credits
£42.50
University of California Press Wayne Thiebaud
Book SynopsisWayne Thiebaud: 1958-1968 examines Thiebaud's ongoing impact on contemporary art through in-depth analysis of the paintings and drawings made at the launch of his career, at a seminal moment when the art world was moving beyond Abstract Expressionism and redefining itself. By questioning Thiebaud's relationship to Pop art, his self-imposed distance from the movement, and the popular urge to affiliate him with it, Teagle explores the role of his painting in the traffic of images at the end of the twentieth century. Organized in close cooperation with the artist, this is the first study of the emergence of Thiebaud's mature style and the only museum exhibition to date to delve into a specific period of his production, a time that coincides with the start of his teaching career at University of California at Davis. Thiebaud's art, like that of the celebrated Pop artists with whom he shared early exhibitions, is ripe for critical reappraisal. The soft nature of Thiebaud's famous subjects, his creamy pies and dripping ice creams, positioned his art as fodder for social-political review on occasion, but rarely for serious historical analysis. Since the beginning of his career Thiebaud reminded critics of his formal interests and his deep affiliation with the history of painting. This exhibition takes as its starting point an understanding of Thiebaud's painterly language-its historical sources and contemporary affiliations. Shaped around the seminal exhibitions that marked Thiebaud's entrance onto the stage of contemporary art, it concludes with a close reading of the artists' expanded subject matter presented in a major traveling exhibition in 1968. Portraits and landscapes now joined the food that prevailed in early exhibitions, and all pictured in the artist's now signature style of objects deployed in neutral space, bounded by halated light and casting long shadows of saturated color. With contributions from Alexander Nemerov and Margaretta Lovell. Published in association with the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis. Exhibition dates: Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis: January 16-May 15, 2018Trade Review“...a strong and cohesive survey that offers a chance to reconsider Thiebaud’s early work and its influence on 20th century American painting.” * Sacramento Bee *"...an extraordinary opportunity to see original works from Thiebaud’s breakout period, together in one place." * San Francisco Chronicle *Table of ContentsForeword Ralph J. Hexter Acknowledgments Rachel Teagle Presence from Absence: Wayne Thiebaud and the Future of Painting Rachel Teagle Wayne Thiebaud’s Early Landscapes: Picturing Gravity Margaretta Lovell Exaggerations of the Real: Wayne Thiebaud and Joseph Heller Alexander Nemerov Plates with entries by Francesca Wilmott Artist’s Statement Wayne Thiebaud Illustrated Chronology Arielle Hardy Selected Bibliography Manetti Shrem Museum Advisory and Honorary Boards Lenders to the Exhibition Index
£39.10
University of California Press Separating Sheep from Goats
Book SynopsisSeparating Sheep from Goats investigates the history of collecting and exhibiting Chinese art through the lens of the career of renowned American curator and museum director Sherman E. Lee (19182008). Drawing upon artworks and archival materials, Noelle Giuffrida excavates an international society of collectors, dealers, curators, and scholars who constituted the art world in which Lee operated. From his early training in Michigan and his work in Occupied Japan as a monuments man to his acquisitions, exhibitions, and publications for museums in Detroit, Seattle, and Cleveland, this study traces how Lee shaped public and scholarly understandings of Chinese art. By examining transnational efforts to collect and present Chinese art and scrutinizing scholarly and museological discourses of the postwar era, this book contributes to the historiography of both Chinese art and American museums.Table of ContentsPreface • vii Introduction • 1 1. Discovering Chinese Art in the American Heartland • 12 2. China, Japan, and Seattle: Navigating the Study of Chinese Art in the 1940s • 41 3. An American Epicenter: Collecting and Exhibiting Chinese Paintings in the 1950s • 76 4. Diplomacy and Revolution: Presenting Chinese Art in the 1960s • 121 5. Reorientations: Turning to Japan and China in the 1970s and 1980s • 144 Conclusion • 177 Notes • 183 Selected Bibliography • 223 List of Illustrations • 243
£44.00
University of California Press Changing and Unchanging Things
Book SynopsisIn May 1950 Isamu Noguchi (190488) returned to Japan for his first visit in 20 years. He was, Noguchi said, seeking models for evolving the relationship between sculpture and societyhaving emerged from the war years with a profound desire to reorient his work toward some purposeful social end. The artist Saburo Hasegawa (190657) was a key figure for Noguchi during this period, making introductions to Japanese artists, philosophies, and material culture. Hasegawa, who had mingled with the European avant-garde during time spent as a painter in Paris in the 1930s, was, like Noguchi, seeking an artistic hybridity. By the time Hasegawa and Noguchi met, both had been thinking deeply about the balance between tradition and modernity, and indigenous and foreign influences, in the development of traditional cultures for some time. The predicate of their intense friendship was a thorough exploration of traditional Japanese culture within the context of seeking what Noguchi termed an innocent synthesis that must rise from the embers of the past. Changing and Unchanging Things is an account of how their joint exploration of traditional Japanese culture influenced their contemporary and subsequent work. The 40 masterpieces in the exhibitionby turns elegiac, assured, ambivalent, anguished, euphoric, and resignedare organized into the major overlapping subjects of their attention: the landscapes of Japan, the abstracted human figure, the fragmentation of matter in the atomic age, and Japan's traditional art forms. Published in association with The Noguchi Museum. Exhibition dates: Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan: January 12March 21, 2019 The Noguchi Museum, New York: May 1July 14, 2019 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco: September 27December 8, 2019Trade Review"Will undoubtedly be an important reference for future studies on Hasegawa, Noguchi, and postwar art by Japanologists and non-Japanologists alike." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsFOREWORD JENNY DIXON INTRODUCTION Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan DAKIN HART AND MARK DEAN JOHNSON ONE Modernist Passions for “Old Japan:” Saburo Hasegawa and Isamu Noguchi in 1950 BERT WINTHER-TAMAKI TWO “Accumulated Impressions”: A Photographic Travelogue of Noguchi and Hasegawa in Japan MATTHEW KIRSCH THREE Regretting the Future: Noguchi, and Hasegawa Consider the Direction of Postwar Japanese Art KOICHI KAWASAKI FOUR Isamu Noguchi’s Memorial to the Dead of Hiroshima: The Monument that Never Was and an Artistic Vision Shared with Saburo Hasegawa NAOAKI NAKAMURA FIVE Saburo Hasegawa in America: A Wide Open Road MARK DEAN JOHNSON SIX True Development of an Old Tradition: Isamu Noguchi’s Work in the 1950s DAKIN HART SEVEN Toward Abstraction: Saburo Hasegawa’s Exploration of the Photogram YASUFUMI NAKAMORI PLATES Saburo Hasegawa and Isamu Noguchi PRIMARY SOURCES Remembrance of Saburo Hasegawa ISAMU NOGUCHI Noguchi in Japan SABURO HASEGAWA CHRONOLOGY Isamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa: 1904–April 1959 MATTHEW KIRSCH Japanese Translations Contributors Photography credits
£46.75
University of California Press The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa Second Edition
Book SynopsisAn expanded edition of the definitive book on Ruth Asawa's fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art. The work of American artist Ruth Asawa (19262013) is brought into brilliant focus in this definitive book, originally published to accompany the first complete retrospective of Asawa's career, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2006.This new edition features an expanded collection of essays and a detailed illustrated chronology that explore Asawa's fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art.Beginning with her earliest worksdrawings and paintings created in the 1940s while she was studying at Black Mountain Collegethis beautiful volume traces Asawa's flourishing career in San Francisco and her trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized internationally for her innovative wire sculptures, public commissions, and activism on behalf of public arts education. Through her lifelong experimentations with wire, Trade Review"The revised edition of The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air, a copious catalog first published in 2006 . . . offers stunning images of Asawa’s work. The essays here provide a fuller picture of the artist’s time at Black Mountain; the racial prejudices she encountered in her early life; her public commissions; her prints and drawings, which often display her more fantastical side; and her relationship with [Imogen] Cunningham, an early neighbor whose son worked for Lanier’s firm. . . . A fitting homage to this remarkable woman." * Wall Street Journal *"Together this publication and the exhibition [it coincided with] serve to reinforce this important artist’s work in the history of American modernism." * Art Daily *“Published to accompany the first complete retrospective of her career, The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air is a superb accomplishment. The book examines her pioneering modernist contributions and convinces the reader that Asawa’s work is well-deserving of the wide recognition it has received." * Leonardo Reviews *"A retrospective exhibition in 2007, and the accompanying catalog . . . . help[ed] relocate Asawa as an important figure in post-war American art." * Interior Design *“The first major efforts to reevaluate the art of Ruth Asawa. . . . This catalog will serve to give weight and purpose to Asawa’s lifetime of creative experimentation.” * Woman’s Art Journal *"The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa provides considerable and useful detail on her background, training, working processes, and community involvement." * Textile: Cloth and Culture *"A definitive collection of material on and about the artist." * Rain Taxi Review of Books *
£32.30
Princeton University Press Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth Through
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£147.25
Cambridge University Press Flower Drawings
Book SynopsisA chronological selection of flower drawings, showing illuminated manuscripts, contributions from the Renaissance, the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and the present day. The illustrations bring out the stunning detail and colour characteristic of the form.Trade Review'With so much marvellous material to choose from the author has made a varied and interesting choice with some strong and vivid images.' The Garden, Journal of the Royal Horticultural SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. French school, c.1415: Des proprietez des choses; 2. Netherlands school, fifteenth century: Horae: Book of Hours; 3. Netherlands school, 1526: Horae: Book of Hours; 4. Antoine du Pinet: Narcissus pseudo-narcissus L.; 5. Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger: Tulip; 6. Jacob Marrell: An open wicker basket of flowers in a window embrasure, with a frog and insects; 7. Nicholas Robert: Three broken tulips; 8. Nicholas Robert: Six diverse flowers with an insect and a tropical butterfly; 9. Nicholas Robert: Rose and lavender with birds and a butterfly; 10. French school, seventeenth century: Pasque flower and cowslip with a butterfly; 11. French school, seventeenth century: Bluebell and a drogonfly; 12. Maria Sibylla Merian: Sisyrinchium with two butterflies; 13. Pieter Withoos: Rose of Provence; 14. Pieter Withoos: Digitalis purpurea; 15. Claude Aubriet: Mirabilis dichotoma L.; 16. Herman Henstenburgh: A garland of mixed flowers attached to a wall; 17. Pieter Snyers: Thistles; 18. Michael van Huysum: Mixed flowers in a Chinese vase; 19. Barbara Regina Dietzsch: Iris Germanica; 20. Margareta Barbara Dietzsch: Taraxacum officionale; 21. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Gentiana acaulis; 22. Georg Dionysius Ehret: A rose, seen from behind, with two ranuculus; 23. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Opuntia; 24. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Arum; 25. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Hura crepitans L.; 26. Georg Dionysius Ehret: Musa; 27. Thomas Robins the Elder: A bunch of ornamental flowers tied with a ribbon, surrounded by moths and butterflies; 28. Thomas Robins the Elder: Yucca, Cape marigold and mesembryanthemum; 29. Thomas Robins the Elder: Auriculas in a flower pot; 30. Alexis-Nicolas Perignon the Elder: Rose bush with a butterfly; 31. Augustin Heckel: Horse chestnut; 32. Mary Moser: Mixed flowers in an urn ornamented with the astrological symbol for Aries, on a stone ledge; 33. Dorothée-Anne Vallayer-Coster: Still life of mixed flowers in a glass on a ledge; 34. Friedrich Kirschner: Weeds from a German roadside; 35. Elizabeth Burgoyne: Halimium formosum; 36. Peter Brown: Clematis sp.; 37. Amelia Fancourt: Epilobium; 38. Mary Compton, Countess of Northampton: Amygdalus persica; 39. Antoine Berjon: An urn of poppies and convovulus on a stone ledge; 40. James Sowerby: Iris persica; 41. James Sowerby: Erythronium des canis; 42. Pierre-Joseph Redouté: Magnolia macrophylla; 43. Pierre-Joseph Redouté: Paeonia suffruticosa; 44. Francis Bauer: A surround of mixed flowers framing a manuscript note by Sir Joseph Banks; 45. Ferdinand Bauer: Malvaceae species; 46. Zacharie-Félix Doumet: Spring and summer flowers seen beyond a balustrade, with a view across a river to a distant castle; 47. Jan Frans van Dael: Bouquet of mixed flowers; 48. Pancrace Bessa: Potted auricula; 49. German school, c. 1820: White field rose and dog rose; 50. Henrietta Geertruida Knip: Selenicereus grandiflorus; 51. Patrick Nasmyth: Rumex obtusifolius; 52. Lucy Cust: Paeonia suffruticosa; 53. Nathalie D'Esménard: Noisette Rose; 54. John Lindley: Doryanthes excelsa; 55. Alfred Chandler: Camellia japonica eclipsis; 56. Isabella Selwin: Heliocereus speciosus; 57. Charles Rosenberg: Rosa x centifola 'Bullata'; 58. Cornelius B. Durham: Cattleya dolosa Rchb. fil.; 59. Augusta Innes Withers: Datura rosei; 60. Mrs William Duffield: Fruit and flowers on a straw mat in a window frame; 61. Dominique Dumillier: Flowering branch of a snowball tree with parrot tulips; 62. W. Mussill: Climbing tea roses and a humming bird; 63. Raymond Charles Booth: Antirrhinum; 64. Margaret Stones: Magnolia campbellii.
£26.99
The Natural History Museum The Art of British Natural History
Book SynopsisA remarkable collection of original illustrations from the early eighteenth century to modern times, accompanied by an essay which celebrates the diverse flora and fauna of the British Isles and the artists and naturalists who have documented it.
£15.11
Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum A Legacy of Armenian Treasures
Book SynopsisThe Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum in Michigan holds the gathering of Armenian art and artifacts outside Armenia, including illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, rugs and carpets, and more. This book features more than 160 of the museum's pieces, each reproduced in color and accompanied by a detailed entry.Trade ReviewThis beautiful work provides an excellent introduction to the art practices of the Armenian people. Artists, historians, and those interested in the culture of the Caucasus will enjoy reading this coffee-table book. * LIBRARY JOURNAL *This richly illustrated book . . . makes a significant contribution to an understanding of Armenian culture and history. . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword Thomas F. MathewsIntroduction Edmond Y. AzadianChapter 1. Illuminated Manuscripts and Printed Books Sylvie L. MerianChapter 2. Ceramics Amy S. LandauChapter 3. Inscribed Rugs Vahram Taitikian with S. Peter CoweChapter 4. Ancient and Medieval Coins Levon SaryanChapter 5. Paintings and Sculpture Garabed BelianChapter 6. Ancient Objects Alina Ayvazian and Felix I. Ter-MartirosovChapter 7. Garments, Lace, and Embroidery Sylvie L. MerianChapter 8. Sacred and Religious Objects Amy S. Landau, Theo Maarten van Lint, and Sylvie L. MerianChapter 9. Practical and Personal Metal Objects Sylvie L. MerianMapsTimeline of Armenian HistoryGlossary of Armenian TermsNotesBibliographyAppendix I: Key to Use of Armenian Letters to Represent NumeralsAppendix II: Indo-European Languages DiagramAcknowledgmentsAbout the Contributors
£55.80
State University of New York Press Mary Frank
Book SynopsisPresents sculpture, painting, drawings, prints, and photographs from throughout the artist''s illustrious career.This catalogue from the exhibition Mary Frank: The Observing Heart provides an overview of the American artist Mary Frank''s illustrious career, from the early 1950s until the present. It contains examples of her wide-ranging work in a variety of media, including clay, wood, and bronze sculpture; photography; painting; drawing; and monoprinting. It includes a foreword by Anna Conlan and an introductory essay by the curator David Hornung.Part of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art''s Hudson Valley Masters series, the exhibition presents Frank''s powerful artwork from over six decades, which has always centered on the twin themes of social justice and the preservation of the natural world. An acclaimed artist and activist, Frank has been making art in her Manhattan and Hudson Valley studios for over sixty years. She is an independent spirit who emerged during the years of rising feminism in the early 1970s and has always followed a personal vision distinct from prevailing art-world fashion. Mary Frank: The Observing Heart is a gathering of the artist''s sculpture, painting, drawings, prints, and photographs-a career overview of a brave artist who has never compromised her beliefs about art or life.
£15.26
University of Pennsylvania Press Out of Sight
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University of Pennsylvania Press Out of Sight
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Clark Atlanta University In the Eye of the Muses
Book SynopsisClark Atlanta University Art Galleries in Atlanta, Georgia celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the founding of its permanent collection and the sixtieth anniversary of the unveiling of the Art of the Negro murals with this commemorative volume. Initially conceived with works selected from annual exhibitions, the collection today constitutes a rare and remarkable assemblage of African-American art. In the Eye of the Muses tells the story of the Atlanta University Art Annuals held between 1942 and 1970, from which the collection stemmed, cataloging the 887 artists who participated and crucially enhancing our understanding of art by African Americans. In an accompanying essay, Hale Woodruff's Art of the Negro mural suite is eloquently explicated by art critic Jerry Cullum. In the Eye of the Muses presents a monumental catalogue of a unique collection.
£42.50
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artists for Artists 50 Years of the Foundation
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Fields of Vision Work by SUNY New Paltz Art
Book SynopsisOffers a far-reaching survey of the latest trends in art and design by twenty-eight faculty members of the art department of the State University of New York at New Paltz. This catalogue was published by the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz in conjunction with the exhibition Fields of Vision: Work by SUNY New Paltz Art Faculty, curated by Carl Van Brunt. The participating artists teach courses in printmaking, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, ceramics, metals, art education, and basic foundation courses at New Paltz. They are also professional artists and designers who exhibit their work in major museums and galleries throughout the world. Born in Europe, South America, the Middle East, and across the United States, these professionals collectively bring a wealth of experience and perspectives to art and art education. The fully illustrated catalogue was designed by Anne Galperin and features texts by curator Carl Van Brunt and Sara J. Pasti, Mary Hafeli, and Anne Galperin. In our postmodern society, the art world is both more connected and more fragmented than ever before. New York City, once the capital of that world, is now just one of a network of regional centers spanning the globe. And close-up, contemporary practices appear to be a mash-up of disparate concepts, political agendas, media, and styles. Fields of Vision explores how art and design being made by full-time Department of Art faculty at SUNY New Paltz fits into this local/global picture.
£17.34
East of Borneo Performa 11 Staging Ideas
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£27.08
Marquand Books Inc Singular Spaces
Book SynopsisPublished by leading outsider art imprint Raw Vision, Singular Spaces is a groundbreaking survey of art environments created by self-taught artists from across Spain. The book introduces and examines 45 artists and their idiosyncratic sculptures, gardens and buildings, most of which have never been published. The sites are developed organically, without formal architectural or engineering plans; they are at once evolving and complete. Often highly fanciful and quixotic, the work is frequently characterized by incongruous juxtapositions, an approach that appears impulsive and spontaneous. Director of the organization SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments), Jo Farb Hernández, combines detailed case studies of the artists and their work with contextualized historical and theoretical references to art history, anthropology, architecture, Spanish area studies and folklore. Breaking down the standard compartmentalization of genres, she reveals how most creators
£63.90
National Gallery of Australia Robert Dowling Tasmanian Son of Empire
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£47.45
National Gallery of Australia Life Death Magic 2000 Years of Southeast Asian
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£65.09
National Gallery of Australia Face Australian Portraits 18801960
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£63.89
National Gallery of Australia Renaissance 15th 16th Century Italian Paintings
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£47.45
National Library of Australia Stars of the Tokyo Stage Natori Shunsens Kabuki
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£37.95
National Gallery of Australia Stars in the River The Prints of Jessie Traill
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£41.00
University of Washington Press Collection Highlights 2014 Edition
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£42.46
National Gallery of Australia George W Lambert Retrospective Heroes Icons
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£47.50
National Gallery of Australia Turner to Monet The Triumph of Landscape Painting
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£57.00
National Gallery of Australia Culture Warriors National Indigenous Art
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£57.00
Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Pedro Reyes
Book SynopsisMexico-based artist, architect, and cultural agent Pedro Reyes turns existing social problems into opportunities for effecting tangible change through collective imagination. Ad Usum: To Be Used is a full-color illustrated survey of Reyes's projects including images, interviews, and critical essays by leading scholars in diverse fields.Trade ReviewA handsome career-long survey accompanied by scholarly responses to the work. -- Jeremy D. Goodwin * Boston Globe *
£35.66
Harvard University Press James Loeb Collector and Connoisseur
Book SynopsisThe second James Loeb Biennial Conference focused on his multifaceted engagement with the material culture of the ancient world as a scholar, connoisseur, collector, and curator. The resulting essays also reflect on Loeb’s contemporary significance, as his collections continue to be curated and studied in today’s rapidly evolving arts environment.
£24.65
Harvard Department of the Classics Sculpture and Coins
Book SynopsisBased on a Harvard Art Museums symposium on the acquisition of Margarete Bieber’s coin collection, Sculpture and Coins addresses the relation between large statuary and miniature art in the private and public domain. Scholars from various disciplines explain the importance of coins for identifying and analyzing Greek and Roman portraiture.
£24.65
Princeton University Press Lars Jonssons Birds
Book SynopsisLars Jonsson is widely regarded as one of the greatest bird artists of all time. This illustrated book features 150 full-color, reproductions of works that Jonsson painted in the field and that reflect his favorite theme of birds in a wide landscape, such as gulls, waders, ducks, and raptors.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award in Design and Artistic Merit "It's no exaggeration to call [Jonsson] one of the world's greatest living bird artists. This book is a showcase of more than 150 works, most of which were painted from 2002 to 2008. And it's a reflection on the artist himself. Essays by a museum curator, an acclaimed sculptor, and a Swedish journalist capture Jonsson's genius. And notes from his sketchbooks offer insights into how he creates his art."--Matt Mendenhall, Birder's World "When I originally picked up this book thought it to be another pretty picture book on birds. What I found was a remarkable story about a skilled bird artist, told in prose and examples of his various works. It was a delightful surprise and an enjoyable read."--Robert Hoopes, Wildlife Activist "Many excellent wildlife artists work today. Lars Jonsson is, in my opinion, the greatest. He seems like a heir of the renowned bird artists John J. Audubon and Louis Agassiz Fuertes."--Dan Tallman, South Dakota Bird Notes "Jonsson who illustrated a highly successful field guide shows his diverse artistry in this impressive work. This is a coffee table book depicting the artist's renditions of numerous birds. The plates show a wide variety of the various techniques he used in showing the birds in their natural surroundings."--Indiana Audubon Quarterly
£55.46
Princeton University Press Pleasure and Piety
Book Synopsis"The exhibition is organized by the Centraal Museum Utrecht; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation."--Title page verso.Trade Review"Handsomely produced... The catalogue's generously scaled illustrations provide the visual delight that alone will surely attract new audiences to Wtewael's work."--Lisa Rosenthal, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contentsxv Directors' Foreword xvi Acknowledgments xix Lenders to the Exhibition xx Introduction: A Surprising and Diverse Life: Joachim Wtewael (1566 - 1638), Liesbeth M. Helmus 1 Desire and Devotion in Wtewael's Art, Anne W. Lowenthal 17 Love and Passion: Wtewael's Personal Statement, Liesbeth M. Helmus 25 Hastening to See Christ: Religious Painting in an Age of Conflict, James Clifton 37 Wtewael's Historical Reputation, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. 49 Wtewael as Draftsman, Stijn Alsteens 61 Catalog 194 Essay Notes 201 Bibliography 207 Index 210 Photography Credits
£51.00
Princeton University Press Americas National Gallery of Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This lavish volume presents a lively tour of the great museum founded by Andrew W. Mellon, taking in its history, architecture, and collections."--Apollo MagazineTable of Contentsxv Continuity and Transformation: The National Gallery of Art at Seventy-Five Earl A. Powell III The First Fifty Years 3 Andrew W. Mellon: Founder and Benefactor 33 A Building of Admirable Grace 53 David Finley and His Cohort 61 First Donors: Kress to Dale 77 The National Gallery's War Record 89 Ailsa and Paul: A New Mellon Era 101 John Walker: Last of the Old Guard 107 J. Carter Brown Launches the East Building Framing the Future 161 The Powell Era 167 The Physical Museum 181 Mission Expanded 203 Corcoran Connection 215 Growing the Collection 231 The Collection Selected acquisitions since 1937 307 Exhibitions Special exhibitions since 1973 350 A Visual Timeline 351 Benefactors, Trustees and Directors, Trustees' Council 356 Acknowledgments and Selected References 360 Index 368 Image Credits
£63.75
Princeton University Press William Blake The Artist
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Times Critics' Top Art Books of 2019""Published to accompany the major, one-stop-only Blake retrospective now at the Tate Britain (through Feb. 2), this beautiful book distills the spirit of the revolutionary poet, artist and prophet-saint of what we now call social justice. The scholar E. P. Thompson once said that to study Blake (1757-1827) is to realize that there are “a great many William Blakes.” And there’s a new one to be found here at every turn of the page."---Holland Cotter, The New York Times"With its art-historical focus, [William Blake] helpfully contextualizes Blake while still acknowledging his originality. Thus, it will be especially valuable for those new to Blake and the art of his time, but it will also be useful to Blake scholars focused on literature."---D.D. Schierenbec, Choice
£41.40
Princeton University Press The Double
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An extraordinary selection of over 120 works reveals the splits, juxtapositions, reflections, and multiplications deployed by modern and contemporary artists to explore sameness and difference, the original and the copy, the self and the other."---Rachel Vogel, CAA.Reviews"An elegant exhibition catalogue. . . . The Double remind[s] us vividly that virtually all art is inherently a self-reflection of its maker and a mirror of the times in which it was made."---Donald Brackett, Critics at Large
£46.75
Marquand Books Inc Witness Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary
Book SynopsisWhen justice is at stake, artists have spearheaded challenging conversations. The work in this book bears witness to stories that challenge dominant paradigms. Among the 50 artists represented here are Carlos Amorales, Loretta Bennett, Mark Bradford, Willie Cole, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Ellen Gallagher, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu and Wangechi Mutu.
£46.40
State University of New York Press Reading Objects 2015
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