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Book SynopsisNew title in the Flame Tree Foiled Quarto Journal collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production: bleed-proof, acid-free FSC pages, a pocket, ribbon bookmarks and a magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift or for all notetakers, list-makers and journal users. A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the Foiled Quarto Journals combine high-quality production and FSC pages with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, list-makers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. A NEW SERIES. The Quarto format is named after the earliest form of European printed publication, dating back to the 1400s when Gutenberg invented the first moveable-type printing press, heralding a revolution in mass communication, spreading ideas of literature, science and philosophy of the Renaissance. We celebrate this wit

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Book SynopsisSurrealist women’s writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the historical, linguistic, and culturally contextual breadth of this writing. It also highlights how the specifically surrealist poetics and politics of these writers’ work intersect with and contribute to contemporary debates on, for example, gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.Drawing on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, the essays in the volume focus on the writing of numerous women surrealists, many of whom have hitherto mainly been known for their visual rather than their literary production. These include Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Kay Sage, Colette Peignot, Suzanne Césaire, Unica Zürn, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, and Rikki Ducornet.Trade Review'This book does not attempt to impose a harmonious, all-encompassing feminist perspective that would gloss over the complexities of being a ‘woman writer’ within the grand scheme of surrealism, but looks, rather, to highlight differences and ambivalences, enriching the discourse surrounding this literature. An enthralling and intensely intellectual investigation into surrealist women’s writing, this study is of critical importance for literary scholars and admirers of surrealism as it offers a profound reconsideration of these ten authors.'French Studies'The 11 essays in the collection look at the work of Claude Cahun, Lenora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Colette Peignot, Kay Sage, and Unica Zürn, among others. Beyond examining the women’s literary work, the essays show how these writers’ work informs contemporary discussion of gender, sexuality, ecocriticism, the Other, and the Anthropocene. Wetz’s excellent introduction frames the questions and concerns surrealist women writers explored in their work.'CHOICE(Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.)'This book has much to offer to animal studies, queer studies, and ecocritical and ecofeminist studies... and it will enrich scholarship on auto/biography and confessional writing... It will expand and enliven the category of women’s modernism. In spite of its focus on text, the collection will leave its readers with some startling images. But mostly, in ways both serious and playful, Surrealist Women’s Writing will show the imaginative gains to be made by breaking down barriers—of both gender and genre—and daring to stand out.'Modern Language Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionAnna Watz1 ‘The dung beetle’s snowball’: the philosophic narcissism of Claude Cahun’s essay-poetryFelicity Gee2 Identity convulsed: Leonora Carrington’s The House of Fear and The Oval LadyAnna Watz3 Recasting the human: Leonora Carrington’s dark exilic imaginationJeannette Baxter4 Colette Peignot: the purity of revoltMichael Richardson5 Suzanne Césaire’s surrealism: tightrope of hope Kara M. Rabbitt6 Kay Sage alive in the worldKatharine Conley7 Outside-in: translating Unica ZürnPatricia Allmer8 Ithell Colquhoun’s experimental poetry: surrealism, occultism, and postwar poetryMark S. Morrisson9 Leonor Fini’s abhuman familyJonathan P. Eburne10 ‘Open sesame’: Dorothea Tanning’s critical writingCatriona McAra11 Magic language, esoteric nature: Rikki Ducornet’s surrealist ecologyKristoffer NohedenBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisCreativity Explored celebrates its 40th anniversary with a collection of powerful artwork and perspectives from its talented studio artists. This vibrant book uplifts the voices of the artists of Creativity Explored, a nonprofit that gives people with developmental disabilities the opportunity to express themselves through art and share their work with audiences from their local community and in the contemporary art world. This curated collection features over 100 original paintings, drawings, illustrations, and sculptures - as well as quotes and stories from the artists - inviting readers to examine and challenge their perceptions about disability. Some artworks are humorous and blunt, while others are affecting and abstract, speaking to the artistic community's diversity and creativity. This book offers an engaging introduction into person-centered thinking for art lovers or anyone interested in learning about disability justice in a visual way.

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Book SynopsisEven if they don't speak of art very skilfully, what artists say is generally alive. Wassily Kandinsky was not only the inventor of abstract painting, but also its gifted propagandist. His letters reveal an artist who thought deeply and communicated and organised incessantly. He was also a straightforward and warm-hearted individual. It seems surprising that a significant part of his correspondence has remained unpublished. Wassily Kandinsky was not only the inventor of abstract painting, but also its gifted propagandist. His Kandinsky's letters reflect his life and thoughts as well as his art. Through the astute, sometimes witty and polemical letters to his colleagues and friends, gallerists and authors, we gain an insight not only into Kandinsky's way of thinking and his everyday life, but also into the dramatic times in which he lived: two revolutions, two world wars, the Nazi regime, four emigrations and epoch-making art events of which he was one of the main protagonists. In thi

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This radiantly beautiful book takes us on a journey through the methods and devices used in Western cultures to catalogue colours developed since the 15th century by doctors, naturalists, dyers and painters."---Jad Adams, The Art Newspaper"There is a riot of colour on almost every page, in a stunning array that illuminates the eye."---Elizabeth Fitzherbert, The Lady"In Color Charts: A History, French author Anne Varichon reveals the inventive and poetic ways in which colour has been collectively understood, telling the story of the transformation from pigment makers and craftworkers, dependent on their charts, to the age of synthetic colour, through which the ‘western world began to become colourful, and finally, colourful for everyone’."---Alexander James, Financial Times

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Book SynopsisBeautifully packaged, this lavish volume is certain to become the definitive study of one of the most significant periods in European art history. Coinciding with the rise of the Habsburg dynasty and the expansion of the Spanish Empire, the Spanish Golden Age created a fertile environment for cultural and scientific discovery. Some of the country's greatest music, literature, and architecture was created in the period between the mid-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-and painting was no exception. Rich in illustrations and fascinating texts, this overview takes a thematic and chronological approach to the era and its later influences. Opening with Spain's emergence as a European power, it explores how developments such as the construction of El Escorial ushered in a new era for painting; how the cities of Madrid, Toledo, and Seville developed as centers of intellectual, political, and artistic activity; and how the Baroque period gave way to the Rococo after the collapse of the Habsburg empire. Every major painter of the period is included here, with 250 gloriously reproduced works by El Greco, Ribera, Vela zquez, Zurbara n, Murillo, Ribalta, Goya, and dozens more. A final chapter reveals how Spanish painters of the twentieth century, such as Picasso and Dali , were shaped by their Golden Age forebears.

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Book SynopsisA monumental gathering of more than 60 contemporary artists, photographers, musicians, writers and more, showcasing diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms and mediums This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey Gibson, a renowned artist of Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee descent, An Indigenous Present presents an increasingly visible and expanding field of Indigenous creative practice. It centers individual practices, while acknowledging shared histories, to create a visual experience that foregrounds diverse approaches to concept, form and medium as well as connection, influence, conversation and collaboration. An Indigenous Present foregrounds transculturalism over affiliation and contemporaneity over outmoded categories. Artists include: Neal Ambrose-Smith, Teresa Baker, Natalie Ball, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Rebecca Belmore, Andrea Carlson, Nani Chacon, Raven Chacon, Dana Claxton, Melissa Cody, Chris T. Cornelius, Lewis deSoto, Beau Dick, Demian DineYazhi’, Wally Dion, Divide and Dissolve, Korina Emmerich, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Yatika Starr Fields, Nicholas Galanin, Raven Halfmoon, Elisa Harkins, Luzene Hill, Anna Hoover, Sky Hopinka, Chaz John, Emily Johnson, Brian Jungen, Brad Kahlhamer, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Adam Khalil, Zack Kahlil, Kite, Layli Long Soldier, Erica Lord, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Tanya Lukin Linklater, James Luna, Dylan McLaughlin, Meryl McMaster, Caroline Monnet, Audie Murray, New Red Order, Jamie Okuma, Laura Ortman, Katherine "KP" Paul/Black Belt Eagle Scout, Postcommodity, Wendy Red Star, Eric-Paul Riege, Cara Romero, Sara Siestreem, Rose B. Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Arielle Twist, Marie Watt, Dyani White Hawk and Zoon a.k.a. Daniel Glen Monkman.Trade ReviewThis is a gorgeous coffee table book that offers a visual delight of art by the leading practitioners of contemporary art from the Native American, Alaska Native, Inuit, and First Nations communities...I'd highly recommend. -- Bishara Hakim * Hyperallergic *

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Book SynopsisGesina ter Borch (1631-1690) was a Dutch watercolourist and draughtswoman whose work survives primarily in the form of three albums of watercolours and calligraphy, now held at the Rijksmuseum. Despite the fact that her oeuvre is securely attributed and thoroughly catalogued, Ter Borch has surprisingly never been the subject of a dedicated monograph, until now. For the first time, this book highlights Ter Borch's watercolours and calligraphy in their own right, as well as her work as an art teacher, an archivist, and an artist's model, and questions a historiography of women's art that frequently values oil painting over other media, and work for the market over 'amateur' production. Adam Eaker revisits Gesina ter Borch's role in the genesis of Dutch 'high-life' genre painting and its construction of gender and social class, comparing her art with that of her brother Gerard, and in so doing allows for a more nuanced understanding of the ideologies and achievements of Dutch genre pai

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Book SynopsisAs well as showing a particular region and historical situation, an old map endlessly provokes new questions. In Groundbreakers, map historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik delves into the stories behind various maps, prints, atlases, globes and instruments from the Phoebus Foundation's world-famous collection. The objects tell of the glory days of the history of cartography, but also of darker matters, from the struggle against flooding and the Eighty Years' War to colonial expansion and the Belgian struggle for independence. Well-known mapmakers such as Gerard Mercator, Abraham Ortelius and Joan Blaeu are featured in addition to numerous anonymous surveyors and cartographers.Groundbreakers invites us to discover and question the history of cartography in the Netherlands, in order to explore and expand the horizons of our own world.

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Book SynopsisThe Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History includes essays on topics from historical chronicles to contemporary historiography, and case studies from textile production to map-making and historical linguistics. Contributors include specialists of Mongol history and historiography as well as Islamic, East Asian, and European art.Trade ReviewThe various contributions are of high scholarly standard, yet accessible to nonspecialists as well, and the combination of historical and art historical approaches, with a large role for material culture, is a valuable one. -- Josephine van den Bent * Asian Review of World Histories *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Financial Times Best Summer Book""A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- History""A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year""A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year""An impressively evocative look at material life in the USSR, from gulags and the planned economy to Red Moscow perfume and the Soviet toilet — a “lost civilisation” of utopian fantasy and unbridled terror." * Financial Times *"Who else could have a whole chapter on Soviet-era doorknobs? This is a fascinating book about the material loose ends, the pamphlets, the clothes, the non-existent phone books, the shop signs, the chest medals, and the bric-a-brac — among many other items — of the Soviet Union. . . . This is in my view one of the better books for understanding the Soviet Union."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"The Soviet Century . . . presents history in a novel way, showcasing customs and traditions, values and artefacts, that offer many poignant insights and helps readers understand the Russian psyche today. . . . It’s a fascinating, multi-faceted read that both takes historical stock and zooms in on miniature details."---Jana Bakunina, Financial Times"His focus is not on the foreign relations or domestic crises of Soviet rule but on outward appearances: the look, the smell, the sounds of everyday life. Based on decades of research and an intimate knowledge of history and culture, ‘The Soviet Century’ is a fascinating chronicle of a not-so-distant era."---Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal"A detailed examination of the relics of ordinary communist life. Perfect for dipping into."---Fred Studemann, Financial Times"In a work of remarkable range and quality, Karl Schlögel explores the everyday life and material culture of the Soviet Union in ways that show the communist experiment in a compellingly fresh light. One of the most innovative books on Soviet history to appear since the state’s collapse in 1991."---Tony Barber, Financial Times"Schlögel – assisted by his excellent translator, Rodney Livingstone – is an eloquent writer and a captivating travel guide around this Soviet “lost world”."---Stephen Lovell, Times Literary Supplement"Karl Schlögel . . . and his wonderful noticing of things and how they sit in space is on full display in the 900-plus pages of The Soviet Century. Schlögel variously calls his book an archaeology, an exhibition, and a museum of the Soviet “'ifeworld.' Its focus on the things of everyday life makes it, in his view, not an 'encyclopedia of banalities”'(a phrase used by the Russian historian Natalia Lebina about her own history of everyday life) but rather 'an encyclopedia of fundamentals.' Just about everything memorable and (to a Westerner) odd about Soviet everyday life is there."---Sheila Fitzpatrick, Foreign Policy"Extremely timely and utterly indispensable."---Vitali Vitaliev, Engineering and Technology"[A] magnum opus. . . . This invaluable study casts a lost world in a new light." * Publishers Weekly (Starred review) *"Who knew that, apart from his experiments with dogs, Ivan Pavlov wrote a preface concerning nutrition for a bestselling Soviet cookbook? That’s one of just many oddments Schlögel assembles in this utterly absorbing tour through the material goods that defined the Soviet era, from pulpy wrapping paper to the medals veterans wore, from canned goods to perfume and tchotchkes and everything in between. . . . A superb blend of social history and material culture, essential for students of 20th-century geopolitics." * Kirkus Reviews (Starred review) *"A pinnacle in Soviet studies. . . . A splendid book." * Library Journal (Starred review) *"Formidable. . . . The emergence of this book in our intellectual landscape is timely, as we seek to better understand Russia in an era when systematic political, economic, social, and even cultural approaches have failed to explain or predict the current resurrection of the 'Soviet Leviathan.' Indeed, perhaps 'the devil is hidden in the details,' and by diving yet again into these minute but culturally rich details of Soviet banal routine, spiritual life, and rituals, we can make a step forward in our comprehension of why the dark side of 'Soviet civilization' keeps reemerging again and again."---Oksana Ermolaeva, EuropeNow (Editor's pick)"Nine hundred pages in length and wonderfully illustrated throughout. . . .It is a welcome and unique contribution to Soviet studies."---Steven Andrew, Morning Star"Fascinating. . . . The scholarship of the work is evident throughout, but 'The Soviet Century' is both more powerful and more subtle than a typical work of scholarship. At its heart, it’s a gigantic, heartfelt elegy, one of the most stunning tributes ever paid to the Soviet Union."---Steve Donoghue, Big Canoe News"A work of deep scholarship and significant breadth about a relatively brief period of recent history when it seemed that there might be an alternative economic system to capitalism."---Joseph Brady, Society"The wealth of this book cannot be sufficiently explored within the limits of a review. Gibbonian in scale, it is a veritable cornucopia of jewels. “In Russia, radical changes and catastrophic experiences occur in their pure form,” Schlögel states. Reading his chronicle of this massive churn in all its sensory whimsies, we gain fresh insights into the lost world of the Soviet Union."---Prasenjit Chowdhury, Hindustan Times"A terrific book – eye opening, captivating and wholly revealing."---David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews"Schlögel’s book is ingenious – thrilling, even – introducing readers to a [sic] extraordinary array of things that rarely find a place in history books: tattoos, wrapping paper, the place of pianos, and nameplates on apartments and houses."---Peter Frankopan, BBC History Magazine

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide that every manga illustrator needs to have with scores of full-colour examples from dozens of professional illustrators!

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Book Synopsis A treasure trove of noteworthy letters, arranged thematically to provide an insight into the lives and work of great artists. Trade Review"This attractive volume includes letters from artists to fellow artists, friends, patrons and lovers. Hearing from artists in their own words gives an extraordinary glimpse into their lives and artistic thought process. Some of these people could paint with words, too!" * Sartle: Rogue Art History *"Fascinating, instructive, thought-provoking, and memorable." * Midwest Book Review *"A great book to dip into when you have a few moments or when you’d like to put on a pot of coffee or tea and indulge yourself for a few hours." * COLOR Magazine *Table of Contents006 Introduction 1 ‘I saw the new giraffe’ Family & Friends Salvador Dalí to Paul Éluard Francisco Lucientes y Goya to Martín Zapater Lucian Freud to Stephen Spender Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant Michelangelo Buonarroti to Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni Philip Guston to Elise Asher Beatrix Potter to Noel Moore Piet Mondrian to Kurt Seligmann Gustav Klimt to Josef Lewinsky Jasper Johns to Rosamund Felsen Edward Burne-Jones to Daphne Gaskell William Blake to William Hayley Alexander Calder to Agnes Rindge Claflin Zhu Da to Fang Shiguan Camille Pissarro to Julie Pissarro Marcel Duchamp to Suzanne Duchamp Dorothea Tanning to Joseph Cornell 2 ‘Like a sleepwalker’ Artist to Artist Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin Sebastiano del Piombo to Michelangelo Buonarroti Paul Signac to Claude Monet David Alfaro Siqueiros to Jackson Pollock, Sande Pollock and Harold Lehman Pablo Picasso to Jean Cocteau Mark Rothko to Lee Krasner Édouard Manet to Eugène Maus David Hockney to Kenneth E. Tyler Francis Picabia to Alfred Stieglitz Robert Smithson to Enno Develing Claude Monet to Berthe Morisot Ulay and Marina Abramović to Mike Parr Mike Parr to Marina Abramović and Ulay Benvenuto Cellini to Michelangelo John Constable to John Thomas Smith 3 ‘Your book on witchcraft’ Gifts & Greetings Cindy Sherman to Arthur C. Danto Joseph Cornell to Marcel Duchamp Leonora Carrington to Kurt Seligmann Wang Zhideng to a friend Yayoi Kusama to Donald Judd George Grosz to Erich S. Herrmann Yoko Ono and John Lennon to Joseph Cornell Joan Miró to Marcel Breuer 4 ‘The best I have painted’ Patrons & Supporters Guercino and Paolo Antonio Barbieri to unknown recipient Nancy Spero to Lucy Lippard Pierre-Auguste Renoir to Georges Charpentier Roy Lichtenstein to Ellen H. Johnson Peter Paul Rubens to Balthasar Gerbier Cy Twombly to Leo Castelli Winslow Homer to Thomas B. Clarke Eva Hesse to Helene Papanek Mary Cassatt to John Wesley Beatty Jackson Pollock to Louis Bunce Leonardo da Vinci to Ludovico Sforza Egon Schiele to Hermann Engel William Hogarth to T.H. Joseph Beuys to Otto Mauer Agnes Martin to Samuel J. Wagstaff Judy Chicago to Lucy Lippard 5 ‘Hey beautiful’ Love Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera Joan Mitchell to Michael Goldberg Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres to Marie-Anne-Julie Forestier Paul Nash to Margaret Odeh Ad Reinhardt to Selina Trieff Jules Olitski to Joan Olitski Jean Cocteau to unknown recipient Alfred Stieglitz to Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe to Alfred Stieglitz Auguste Rodin to Camille Claudel Camille Claudel to Auguste Rodin Ben Nicholson to Barbara Hepworth Eileen Agar to Joseph Bard 6 ‘My 1244 guilders’ Professional Matters Nicolas Poussin to Paul Scarron Henry Fuseli to unknown recipient Henry Moore to John Rothenstein James McNeill Whistler to Frederick H. Allen Joshua Reynolds to Philip Yorke Anni Albers to Gloria Finn Naum Gabo to Marcel Breuer Rembrandt van Rijn to Constantijn Huygens Gustave Courbet to Philippe de Chennevières Aubrey Beardsley to Frederick Evans Kazimir Malevich to Anatoly Lunacharksy John Linnell to James Muirhead Andy Warhol to Russell Lynes 7 ‘I hope to get to Venice’ Travel Edward Lear to Hallam Tennyson Berenice Abbott to John Henry Bradley Storrs Georges and Marcelle Braque to Paul Dermée and Carolina Goldstein John Ruskin to unknown recipient Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell to Maria and Hans Hofmann Albrecht Dürer to Willibald Pirckheimer Carl Andre to Eva Hesse Francis Bacon to Erica Brausen Ana Mendieta to Judith Wilson Lee Krasner to Jackson Pollock 8 ‘I see better’ Signing Off Thomas Gainsborough to Thomas Harvey Paul Cézanne to Émile Bernard Timeline Index Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisThis catalogue will accompany the Bruegel to Rubens exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford between 22 March and 23 June 2024. Through a selection of over 100 world-class drawings created by Flemish artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, an insightful and comprehensive overview will be given into how these drawn sheets were used as part of artistic practice, within or beyond the artist's studio. By revealing the drawings' function, rather than on their attribution or iconography, these sheets will become more fully understood through the eyes of contemporary readers. Identifying how and why these sheets were created will render these artworks more accessible to a wider audience. The three main essays will each deal with one of the principal functions of drawings at the time: studies (copies and sketches), designs for other artworks (paintings, prints, tapestries, metalwork, stained glass, sculpture and architecture), and finally the independent drawings. Each essay will discuss the relevant works within their functional context and compared with other related objects. Introductory chapters will focus on what precisely can be considered a drawing, including its materials, media and techniques, in addition to an attempt to explain the notion of Flanders and Flemish art. Emphasis will be placed throughout the catalogue on how Flemish artists collaborated in creating the most astonishing artworks of their time, unveiling their networks and friendships, as well as their travels across Europe, revealing their international importance. The exhibition is a partnership with the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp and will bring together for the first time the most stunning drawings from both the Ashmolean and the Plantin-Moretus collections, in addition to further loans from renowned Antwerp and Oxford institutions like the Rubenshuis and Christ Church Picture Gallery. Many of the sheets coming from Antwerp are registered on the Flemish Government's Masterpieces List and will not be shown again for the next five to ten years to protect them from fading. Prominent artists featured in this catalogue include Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacques Jordaens, among many others. Highlights will include a sketchbook in which a young Rubens has copied Holbein's Dance of Death woodcuts, intricate pen and ink drawings by Pieter Bruegel, meticulously drawn miniatures by Joris Hoefnagel, portrait studies by Anthony van Dyck, and a rare survival of a friendship album containing numerous drawings and poems dedicated to its owner. Two recently discovered sheets by Rubens will also be included, a design for a book-illustration on optics and an anatomical study of three legs.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Director's Foreword (500 words) Acknowledgements (500 words) Lenders (500 words) Introduction: General (1000 words) Introductory Essay 1: What is a drawing: materials, techniques, functions, collecting (3000 words) Introductory Essay 2: Flemish artists and their drawings: Historical Context, Flemish/Flanders, Networks and Collaborations (3000 words) Map of Flanders Essay 1: Drawings as Copies and Sketches (5000 words) Feature 1: Flemish artists in Rome and their Networks (1000 words) Essay 2: Drawings as Designs for other artworks (8000 words) Feature 2: Collaborations when designing prints and book-illustrations (1000 words) Essay 3: Drawings as Independent Works (5000 words) Feature 3: Friendship books and their Relationships (1000 words) Endnotes List of Exhibited Works Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPhotography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures' Don McCullinJourneys Across Roman Asia Minoris driven by an eye for beauty and an ear for history. It is an album of the most recent photographs taken by Don McCullin, informed by a life full of hard-won experience. Working the ineffable magic of a master-craftsman, he frames an ancient sanctuary known to Homer, then focuses on the broken face of an exhausted emperor, before turning his eye on the sensuous torso of a goddess.While most of us were sheltering from Covid, Don explored the mountains, valleys and coast of western Turkey, hunting out the most poignant and powerful ruins of the Roman Empire. He has created a meditation on landscape, the effects of light on ancient stone, the way clouds animate the past, but it is also inescapably about past coTable of ContentsForeword – William Dalrymple Introduction – Barnaby Rogerson Preface – Sir Donald McCullin Maps I. Ancient Art in Istanbul II. Pergamon III. Bergama Museum IV. The Troad V. Troy Museum VI. Aphrodisias VII. Aphrodisias Museum VIII. Sardis to Ephesus IX. Ephesus Archaeological Museum X. From Phrygia to the Lycian Shore XI. Antalya Museum XII. Pisidia XIII. Burdur Museum XIV. Pamphylia Achilles to Augustus: The Story of Asia Minor – Barnaby Rogerson The Stories behind the Pictures Acknowledgements Bibliography

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Book Synopsis13 essays examine different media, including architecture, manuscripts, portable arts and textiles, as well as the contemporary arts of painting, photography, printmaking and video, from the early Islamic period to the present.

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Book Synopsis"...here’s eye candy on every page of the book." — Natural Diamonds This sumptuous book showcases the work of women jewellers in the 20th century. Beginning with Arts & Crafts jewellers in Britain, Europe and North America, the author then examines the key figures and movements of the pre-war period including Coco Chanel's legendary 'Bijoux de Diamants' exhibition of 1932, the designs of Suzanne Belperron and the roles of Jeanne Toussaint at Cartier and Renée Puissant at Van Cleef & Arpels. From the 1950s to the present day, a wide range of international designers are examined in detail with many examples of their work clearly illustrated. The author focuses on themes associated with jewellery, including colour, light, proportion, nature and legends. Among the many names included are Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe (designer for Georg Jensen), Margaret De Patta, Wendy Ramshaw, Angela Cummings, Paloma Picasso, Marina B, Lydia Courteille and Michelle Ong. Jewellery firms include: Boivin, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, Jensen, Tiffany & Co. Designers featured: Alma Pihl, Coco Chanel, Suzanne Belperron, Juliette Moutard, Olga Tritt, Elisabeth Treskow, Margaret de Patta, Jeanne Toussaint, Line Vautrin, Margret Craver, Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, Nanna Ditzel, Marianne Ostier, Barbara Anton, Gerda Flöckinger, Astrid Fog, Cornelia Roethel, Catherine Noll, Angela Cummings, Elsa Peretti, Wendy Ramshaw, Marina B, Marie-Caroline de Brosses, Marilyn Cooperman, Paloma Picasso, Victoire de Castellane, Alexandra Mor, Ornella Iannuzzi, Neha Dani, Paula Crevoshay, Nathalie Castro, Claire Choisne, Bina Goenka, Carla Amorim, Monique Péan, Michelle Ong - Carnet, Kara Ross, Lydia Courteille, Suzanne Syz, Sylvie Corbelin, Kaoru Kay Akihara - Gimel, Katey Brunini, Luz Camino, Cindy Chao, Aida Bergsen, Anna Hu, Barbara Heinrich, Jacqueline Cullen, Cynthia Bach.Trade Review”A copy of this book is held by the Goldsmith’s Company Library…It shares a space with the records of women goldsmiths…The beauty of this book represents a vindication of their efforts, and a victory for women in the industry.” -- Eleni Bide, Jewellery History Today"There’s eye candy on every page of the book." - Natural Diamonds"From the 1950s to the present day, a wide range of international designers are examined in detail, with many examples of their work clearly illustrated. The author focuses on themes associated with jewellery, including colour, light, proportion, nature and legends." - Lovely BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction 9 Arts and Crafts 12 PART I — Between the Wars: The Awakening Setting the Scene 18 Alma Pihl 24 Coco Chanel 28 Suzanne Belperron 36 Juliette Moutard 50 Olga Tritt 62 Elisabeth Treskow 66 Margaret de Patta 72 Jeanne Toussaint 74 PART II — Post-war to 1980s: Full Steam Ahead – The Search for the Perfect Design Setting the Scene 86 Line Vautrin 92 Margret Craver 98 Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe 100 Nanna Ditzel 108 Marianne Ostier 116 Barbara Anton 122 Gerda Flöckinger 124 Astrid Fog 126 Cornelia Roethel 128 Catherine Noll 130 Angela Cummings 134 Elsa Peretti 140 Wendy Ramshaw 148 Marina B 156 Marie-Caroline de Brosses 164 Marilyn Cooperman 172 Paloma Picasso 178 PART III — What is Happening Now in the Field of Jewellery Design Setting the Scene 182 Colour and Light 186 Victoire de Castellane 190 Alexandra Mor 198 Ornella Iannuzzi 204 Neha Dani 210 Paula Crevoshay 216 Designing for the Brands 222 Nathalie Castro 226 Claire Choisne 230 A Sense of Place 236 Bina Goenka 238 Carla Amorim 244 Monique Péan 250 Michelle Ong – Carnet 256 Stories to Tell 262 Kara Ross 264 Lydia Courteille 270 Suzanne Syz 276 Sylvie Corbelin 282 The Natural World 288 Kaoru Kay Akihara – Gimel 290 Katey Brunini 296 Luz Camino 302 Cindy Chao 310 Aida Bergsen 316 Anna Hu 322 The Past is the Future 328 Barbara Heinrich 330 Jacqueline Cullen 336 Cynthia Bach 342 Appendix 1: The Designers – extra information 348 Appendix 2: Toussaint 354 Appendix 3: L’Affaire Chanel 356

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Book SynopsisPicasso was one of the most creative and experimental talents ever to explore the medium of print. This book charts his career as a printmaker, which was characterised by close collaboration with skilled printers, through which extraordinary artworks were produced. Picasso was one of the most creative and experimental talents ever to explore the medium of print. This book charts his career as a printmaker, which was characterised by close collaboration with skilled printers, through which extraordinary artworks were produced. Together with a stunning selection of works on paper by Picasso, it also includes sculptures, drawings and prints by other artists and cultures of the kind that inspired Picasso. His prints often demonstrate his keen sense of belonging to an artistic lineage stretching back to antiquity (stemming from his kinship with the Mediterranean world of his birthplace, Málaga), as well as great artists of the past such as Raphael, Rembrandt and Ingres. One section explo

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Book SynopsisAs evidenced by the famed Book of Kells and monumental high crosses, Scotland and Ireland have long shared a distinctive artistic tradition. The story of how this tradition developed and flourished for another millennium through survival, adaptation and revival is less well known. Some works were preserved and repaired as relics, objects of devotion believed to hold magical powers. Respect for the past saw the creation of new artefacts through the assemblage of older parts, or the creation of fakes and facsimiles. Meanings and values attached to these objects, and to places with strong early Christian associations, changed over time but their ?Celtic? and/or ?Gaelic? character has remained to the forefront of Scottish and Irish national expression. Exploring themes of authenticity, imitation, heritage, conservation and nationalism, these interdisciplinary essays draw attention to a variety of understudied artworks and illustrate the enduring link that exists between Scottish and Irish cultures.

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Book SynopsisThe contributions that have been assembled in this volume present the story of queer lives – from the first emancipation movements around the turn of the (last) century via attempts at self-empowerment in the Weimar Republic to the destruction of queer subcultures under the National Socialist regime and the continued discrimination of LGBTIQ* persons in the postwar period. Since the late 19th century, increasing numbers of people have self-assuredly championed the recognition of queer lifestyles. These pioneers formed collectives, made their voices heard and questioned dominant gender categories politically, scientifically and artistically. Through essays, interviews and artworks the authors and artists illustrate this struggle for recognition which was forcefully prevented and destroyed following the seizure of power by the National Socialists and almost forgotten after 1945.

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Book Synopsis The art of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is synonymous with the female nude, with the term ‘Rubenesque’ first coined in the 19th century to describe a voluptuous female body. Yet remarkably, there has never been a focused study of Rubens’ depictions of women, making this book, and the exhibition that it will accompany, a first. Bringing together a diverse range of paintings and drawings from throughout the artist’s career and from a range of international lenders, the exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery (October 2023 – January 2024) will challenge the popular assumption that Rubens only painted one type of woman. Instead, it will present a more nuanced view of the varied and essential role that women played in the artist’s life and work, uniting and contributing to recent scholarly developments in subjects such as the identities of Rubens’ sitters, 17th century artistic theory and practice, and Rubens’ treatment of the human body. Rubens evidently enjoyed painting the female figure, especially in its sensual and unclothed form. But his women are never mere bodies trapped by the male gaze, on the contrary; they are proud and complex heroines, full of character and gravitas. No other male artist has created such potent images of female power, assurance, determination, commitment, and beauty. Providing a catalogue for the works in the exhibition and featuring three introductory essays that contextualise Rubens’ work, this publication will both contribute to the existing corpus of scholarly literature on Rubens and introduce his masterpieces to new audiences, discussing them in the context of current debates around sexuality, power and feminism. Table of Contents Director's Foreword and acknowledgements Artist timeline Joint Essay 1: The Women in Rubens’ life Essay 2: Rubens, Titian and the Concept of Beauty in the 17th c. Essay 3: Too Naked: Undressing Rubens’ Women Catalogue entries by section: (x 4 sections) Portraits Religious works Rubens and the female nude Mythological women Notes Select Bibliography Author biographies Index (Note essay titles are TBC)

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Book SynopsisThis is a fascinating exploration of the development of book design through some of the most treasured volumes in the British Library collections.

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Book SynopsisThe first book to chart Scott Burton's performance art and sculpture of the 1970s. Scott Burton (193989) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues that Burton looked to body language and queer behavior in public spacemost importantly, street cruisingas foundations for rethinking the audiences and possibilities of art. This first book on the artist examines Burton's underacknowledged contributions to performance art and how he made queer life central in them. Extending his performances about cruising, sexual signaling, and power dynamics throughout the decade, Burton also came to create functional sculptures that covertly signaled queerness by hiding in plain sight as furniture waiting to be used. With research drawing from multiple archives and numerous interviews, Getsy charts Burton's deep engagements with postminimalism, performance, feminism, behavioral psychTrade Review"Queer Behavior . . . seek[s] to inject art objects, sculptures, and performances that we might not necessarily consider as heavy with queer politics, with a queer aesthetic that moves beyond the surfaces of identity and identity politics." * Art History *“Building on unprecedented research, Queer Behavior is the first substantial study of Scott Burton’s anti-hierarchical, eclectic, desire-oriented art of the 1970s. Getsy has written a masterful work—rigorous, encyclopedic, sympathetic, and inspired—toward a loving recuperation of an artist whose work has at times been eclipsed in histories of art and performance. Argument-driven and lushly narrated, Getsy’s writing hybridizes close analysis, critical biography, cultural history, and art historiography. The resulting book is unyieldingly good, at times breathtakingly so.” -- Dominic Johnson, author of Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s“Getsy’s long-awaited, meticulously researched volume reads like a novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it as scholarship, history, ‘deep gossip,’ and prose. He has marshaled craft and discipline to produce an accessible, nuanced, and compelling account of Burton’s unconventional and uniquely queer development. It’s a tremendously important, insightful, and lucid contribution to the field. This book is necessary reading for performance art scholars and anybody—everybody—who needs a road map to navigate the constant challenges that lonely creatives face against the pressures of prejudice and conformity.” -- Gregg Bordowitz, author of General Idea: Imagevirus, Glenn Ligon: Untitled I Am a Man, and Some Styles of Masculinity“Getsy offers a rigorously researched and beautifully rendered account of Burton’s performance practice, focusing on the lesser-known arc of Burton’s work from the 1970’s and, in the process, establishing its importance for both the art historical record and for histories of queer life. This is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of performance art, queer performance, and the performance scene of 1970’s New York.” -- Joshua Chambers-Letson, author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color LifeArt historian and curator David Getsy has been observing how abstraction lends itself to often less obvious—though no less potent—ways of communicating aspects of queer experience and embodiment... Getsy asks the public and its institutions to grasp new alternatives that embrace multiplicity. “I’m interested in understanding that gender is as transformable as it is multiple, not limited to static options, and this implicates everything and everyone in a different way.” * ArtNet *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Scott Burton’s Queer Postminimalism Street and Stage: Early Experiments 1. Imitate Ordinary Life: Self-Works, Literalist Theater, and Being Otherwise in Public, 1969–70 2. Languages of the Body: Theatrical, Feminist, and Scientific Foundations, 1970–71 Performance and Its Uses 3. The Emotional Nature of the Number of Inches between Them: Behavior Tableaux, 1972–80 4. Acting Out: Queer Reactions and Reveals, 1973–76 5. Pragmatic Structures: Sculpture and the Performance of Furniture, 1972–79 Conclusion: Homocentric and Demotic Appendix: List of Performances and Additional Artworks by Scott Burton, 1969–80 Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMemory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and civil war. The book focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic, including William Kentridge, Vivan Sundaram, Doris Salcedo, Nalini Malani and Guillermo Kuitca, all of whom reflect on historical situations specific to their own countries but in work which has been shown to have a transnational reach. Andreas Huyssen considers their dual investment in memories of state violence and memories of modernism as central to the affective power of their work.This thought-provoking and highly relevant book reflects on the various forms and critical potential of memory art in a contemporary world which both obsesses about the past, in the building of monuments and museums and an emphasis on retro and nostalgia in popular culture, and simultaneously fosters historical amnesia in increasingly flattened notions of temporality encouraged by the internet and social media.Trade Review‘The art of memory allows us to ask a crucial question: what can we do to prevent these violent, traumatic events from happening again? Andreas Huyssen writes an essential book to imagine alternatives.’ – Andrea Giunta, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin AmericaTable of Contents1. Disappearances/Spaces of Violence: Kuitca’s Painting and Salcedo’s Sculpture; 2. Installation as Form: Sundaram’s Memorial and Salcedo’s Casa Viuda and Untitled; 3. Installation in Urban Space: Salcedo, Noviembre 6&7, Kentridge, Triumphs and Laments; 4. The Shadow Play as Medium: Nalini Malani and William Kentridge; 5. Traveling Trauma Tropes: Salcedo Atrabiliarios, Sundaram, 12 Bed Ward/ Trash/The Ascension of Marian Hussain; 6. Re-coding Museum Space: Salcedo, Shibboleth and Sundaram, History Project; 7. Memory Museums: Santiago de Chile’s Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos and Bogotá’s Fragmentos; Coda: Space/Time: Guzmán, La Nostalgia de la luz and Kentridge The Refusal of Time

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Book SynopsisPublished to accompany a major new exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre, this book examines the spectacular and controversial vision of art practice that raged across the Western world from the end of the 19th century: Art Nouveau.The role of nature is a key focus of the exhibition. The common theme of translating plants into patterns will be explored as a defining feature of the modern style. Art and objects will represent Art Nouveau from different countries, where it appeared characterised as flowing, tensile line, and dramatic movement, or by organic imagery combined with an informal geometry.Artists and designers include René Lalique, Edgar Degas, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, William Morris; Alphonse Mucha and Gabriel Dante Rossetti.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Barnes & Noble Best History Book of the Year""A Waterstones Best History Book of 2021""A CapX Book of the Year""One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of the Year""One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Biographies of the Year""A Library Journal Fall 2021 Nonfiction Must""What better escape from the woes of our present day than rolling around in the intrigues of the Roman Empire? Naughty Caesars! Pictures too! Avidly I plunge in!" * Margaret Atwood *"A mesmerizing read."---Michael Dirda, Washington Post"This deeply researched account explores how Roman art has shaped the Western world’s understanding of power for two millenniums, from ancient Roman imperial portraits to the work of the 19th-century American sculptor Edmonia Lewis." * New York Times *"Beard, a prolific author and a distinguished classical scholar, brilliantly describes the ways in which images of Roman emperors have influenced art, culture and politics for two millennia. . . . Twelve Caesars is a masterly demonstration of scholarship in a variety of fields, from republican Roman politics to Renaissance tapestry to contemporary British collage. Again and again, Ms. Beard gives us unexpected insights. . . . Twelve Caesars is wonderfully readable, with graceful prose and witty comments along the way."---Barry Strauss, Wall Street Journal"This thoroughgoing survey examines the relationship between ancient imperial imagery and the modern visual imagination. . . . With handsome illustrations of coins, canvases, frescoes, and teacups, Beard brings the prestige and power of these emperors’ half-invented faces into tighter focus." * The New Yorker *"Twelve Caesars is fascinating and not only because its author writes so engagingly. Many years in the making, the world into which it will be born is not quite the same as the one in which it was conceived. Its preoccupations—essentially, it’s about the way that images of Roman emperors from Caesar to Domitian have influenced culture across the centuries—are suddenly and newly of the moment in a Britain that has become completely fixated with statues."---Rachel Cooke, The Observer"A fantastic new book."---Tom Holland, The Rest Is History"In [Beard's] work, the consumption of classical culture is as revealing as the culture itself."---Josh Spero, Financial Times"[A] fascinating book, which embarks on a study of not just the Julio-Claudian dynasty of caesars made infamous by Suetonius and Robert Graves but also of their ubiquitous iconography—in statues, on coins, in paintings and sculpture. It’s an eye-catching field guide to these famous ancient rulers." * Christian Science Monitor *"Beard upends many of our assumptions by looking at how these rulers have been represented in art, from antiquity to the modern-day. It’s a clever and entertaining exercise in helping us reframe how we think about the distant past."---Darragh Geraghty, Irish Times ​​​​​​​"[A] rich disquisition on the Caesars’ visual representation. . . . [Twelve Caesars is] handsomely illustrated and brightly ringing with Beard’s enjoyment and scholarship. . . . Beard shows the joy of classical texts, and how they are the ultimate resource when visual art fails to be comprehensible to us."---Hermione Eyre, The Spectator"[Twelve Caesars] abounds in expert and keen-eyed readings of Roman imperial images, with insights into the meanings they might have held for those who displayed them. . . . [Beard’s] insights are always original and her lively, cheeky prose style always compelling."---James Romm, Daily Beast"Beard has written a fascinating book, one to browse happily. It sparkles with ideas, many of them characteristically provocative. Pictorially it is a sheer delight. As for the question of attribution or misattribution, well, you can read this delightful book in the spirit of a detective."---Allan Massie, The Scotsman"Beard provides a masterclass for art historians and classicists on the challenges of interpretation and the potentialities of meaning in this neglected area of classical studies, so important to elite visual power politics between the 15th and 19th centuries."---Simon J. V. Malloch, Literary Review"Beard wades boldly into muddy territory and emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives that is as vivid as the busts themselves. The book leaves little room for doubt as to how influential the role of later artists and buyers has been in adding muscle to the sinews of emperors passed down from the ancient world. The twelve Caesars are arguably among the finest inventions of posterity."---Daisy Dunn, The Critic"A leading scholar as well as a writer of bestsellers, [Mary] Beard, as always, asks important questions. . . . [In Twelve Caesars,] she leads us through the best available evidence and delivers insightful answers in lucid prose accompanied by dazzling images. . . . A lively treatise on Roman art and power, deliciously opinionated and beautifully illustrated." * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"Incisive prose and wit. . . . This lavishly illustrated volume will be accessible and interesting to a wide variety of readers; a must-read for anyone interested in classics or art history." * Library Journal *"A sumptuously illustrated, beautifully designed, gloriously rich work of history from the distinguished classicist with a lively literary voice, an extraordinary eye for telling detail, and a grand sense of humor. Twelve Caesars is a masterful, brilliant work of detection, a joy to read." * B&N Reads *"[Twelve Caesars] currently sits on my nightstand. . . . . I've been interested in power for quite a while: who has it, who doesn’t, how to acquire it and how to use it for the greater good."---Bernardine Evaristo, Elle.com"With her reputation for viewing Roman history through a feminist lens, Mary Beard may be the most popular classicist in the world. . . . Focusing on images of power throughout the ages, from ancient Rome to the present, [Twelve Caesars] will only grow her fan base." * ARTnews Magazine *"[Beard] explores in fascinating and entertaining detail how the long-dead Roman emperors have lived on in the Western imagination, providing a rich store of moral and political exemplars to instruct, warn and mock their successors. . . . Beard provides instruction as well as entertainment."---Stephen Mills, Inside Story"There’s lots of moments in this book that are surprising and very funny."---Andrew Roberts, BBC Radio Four: Start The Week"A detective masterpiece of entertaining misattributions, reinterpretations, and blatant fakes. "---Eugenia Ellanskaya, Minerva Magazine"From Beard’s reconstruction of Titian’s extraordinary lost Room of the Emperors to her reinterpretation of Henry VIII’s famous Caesarian tapestries, Twelve Caesars includes fascinating detective work and offers a gripping story of some of the most challenging and disturbing portraits of power ever."---Angela Crocombe, Readings"An enthralling story of how images of Roman emperors have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years. . . . Drawing on a wealth of research, and a multitude of paintings and sculptures, Beard explores the importance of portraits in Roman politics and provides interesting insights into famous pieces of art. A fascinating book." * Canberra Weekly *"Beard is a consummate reader of images. One of her great strengths is the way she is constantly alive to the potential for images to misbehave. . . . A clever, witty, thought-provoking book."---Alastair J. L. Blanshard, Australian Book Review"In discussing what the faces of imperial power looked like, Beard presents a fascinating detective story of changing identities told through a selection of historical artworks."---Lindsay Powell, Ancient History"Engaging, erudite and enormously informative. . . . Beard’s fascinating book asks its readers to be curious about, and critical of, redeployments of the images of Roman emperors from the Renaissance in Italy to 20th-century America."---Marguerite Keane, America"Beard’s style of investigation is often just as interesting as some of her find­ings. . . . 'Are we sure we know that?' is her consistent refrain. It’s a refreshing sort of intellectual humility—speak­ing confidently when an answer can be known, but also recognizing when caution is warranted."---Regina Munch, Commonweal"[Beard’s] latest triumph. Twelve Caesars takes readers on a delightful journey through artistic representations of Rome’s emperors. . . .This book could be read at the beach, then cited in a dissertation."---Mikayla Barreiro, Comitatus"An amazing, richly illustrated, book that reveals Mary Beard as a sleuth."---Scot McKnight, Christianity Today"[A] welcome contribution to the study of representation of Roman emperors in early modern visual arts."---Miryana Dimitrova, Classical Review"A tour de force of art and intellectual history."---James Corke-Webster, Greece and Rome"Twelve Caesars by Mary Beard is a brilliant and engaging historical account of the lives of twelve Roman emperors. The book is a remarkable feat of scholarship that brings to life the personal and political complexities of these powerful men." * The F *"[Mary Beard] masterfully combines expert knowledge and scholarly rigour with a clear and engaging writing style. . . .An important book with much to say about the place of the Classical World in modern society."---Donald MacLennan, The Journal of Classics Teaching

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Book SynopsisAn innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America’s most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have long preoccupied Johns

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Book SynopsisThe Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum explores the key battlegrounds in the design of the contemporary-art museum, describing the intersection of art, aesthetics and politics at the highest levels, and the commitment of states, cities and wealthy individuals to the display of art. Global in scope, the book examines key examples from Europe and the Americas to contemporary China. It describes museum building as the projection of political power, but also as a desire to acquire power. So it is a book about ambitious peripheries as much as the traditional centres: Dundee and Bilbao as well as New York and Paris. It is commonplace to assume that the contemporary-art museum has become ever more spectacular, and the place of art ever more subservient within it. This book argues that a tendency to spectacle coexists with another equally powerful tendency, to make art museums that celebrate the artistic process, typically attempting to recreate the feeling of the artist's studio. That tendency is strongly represented in the designs for the Centre Georges Pompidou, completed in 1977, and arguably in the many contemporary art museums which have adapted former industrial buildings. Richard J. Williams's stimulating text includes many historical examples to illustrate how we got to where we are now, from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, to the Guggenheim museums in New York and Bilbao, London’s Tate Modern, Oscar Niemeyer's work in Brazil and beyond, and the 798 Art District in Beijing.Trade Review‘Richard J. Williams's brief but enjoyable The Culture Factory critically explores how art museums went from places of art appreciation to spaces of consumption, media, money, and entertainment over the last fifty years.’ – A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books‘The Culture Factory takes the reader on an engaging tour of many of the most significant examples of museum architecture from the mid-twentieth to the early twenty-first century, to demonstrate its role in the emergence of art as merely “one point on a continuum of consumption” […] in the contemporary experience economy.’ – Burlington ContemporaryTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: How Did we Get Here?; Chapter Two: Making Sense of Industrial Space; Chapter Three: Museums and Architectural Icons; Chapter Four: Landscapes in the Vicinity of Art; Notes; Further Reading; Index

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Book SynopsisIn Kyffin Williams’ centenary year, this monograph examines the life and work of an artist who, over six decades from Slade student to Royal Academician to knighthood, achieved both success and remarkable popular appeal.Best known for his rendering of the Welsh landscape, Williams conjured the mountains of Snowdonia with an instinct that stemmed from knowing every inch of the terrain since boyhood. Yet he was primarily conditioned by a European aesthetic. His espousal of a bold and thickly impasto painting-knife technique, using characteristic close tones, owes much to the affinity he perceived with Vincent van Gogh, but also with the French-Russian Nicolas de Staël, whose canvases he greatly admired.Williams’ own passionate commitment to his craft and a restlessly creative make-up meant that his output was prolific across different media and genres. Indeed, his portraiture was regarded as highly as his landscapes. Featuring some of the finest examples of an impressive oeuvre, this book – scholarly robust and visually enticing – is essential reading for all those who appreciate the importance of this gifted British painter.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Inheriting Landscape; Chapter 2: Studying at the Slade; Chapter 3: The Alchemy of Oils; Chapter 4: European Horizons; Chapter 5: Truth and Interpretation; Chapter 6: The Continuing Excitement of Paint; Chapter 7: A Lasting Legacy; Epilogue; Chronology; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisArt + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood in light of wider social, technological, philosophical and art-historical conditions and concerns. Deftly combining writing on archives from different disciplines with artistic practices, the book clarifies the function and meaning of one of the most persistent artworld buzzwords of recent years, shedding light on the conceptual and historical implications of the so-called archival turn in contemporary art.Table of ContentsThe archive: a must-have accessory of the moment?Part I: The notion of the archive in art writing and theory1 Archive art discourse2 Archive theory3 The artworld as an archival structure Part II: Five themes in contemporary archive art4 Materiality5 Research6 Critique7 Curating8 TemporalityPostscriptIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat is a pyxis? Who was the Amasis Painter? How did Greek vases get their distinctive black and orange colours? This volume offers definitions and descriptions of these and many other Greek vase shapes, painters and techniques encountered in museum exhibitions and publications.

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Book SynopsisFrom Elizabeth Keckly's designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln's wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashion. However, many of their achievements have gone unrecognized. This book, inspired by the award-winning exhibition at the Museum at FIT, uncovers hidden histories of Black designers at a time when conversations about representation and racialized experiences in the fashion industry have reached all-time highs.In chapters from leading and up-and-coming authors and curators, Black Designers in American Fashion uses previously unexplored sources to show how Black designers helped build America's global fashion reputation. From enslaved 18th-century dressmakers to 20th-century star designers, via independent modistes and Seventh Avenue workers, the book traces the changing experiences of Black designers under conditions such as slavery, segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement. BlackTrade ReviewIn many ways [Black Designers in American Fashion] is a sad commentary about the world of fashion, but the knowledge gained here is irreplaceable and found in no other publication. This is not a coffee table book; this is a book that must actually be read in order to comprehend just how important Black designers have been and how in some cases made monumental and historical contributions to fashion. * New York Journal of Books *[Black Designers in American Fashion] provides a good introduction into this often overlooked chapter in fashion history ... Above all, the book highlights the emancipatory power fashion holds. * Journal of Dress History *This fresh collection of essays sheds much-needed light on Black fashion makers—recovering histories many thought were unknowable while centering on the genius of Black design. It is required reading for anyone serious about identity politics, craft, labor, and Black futurity. * Tanisha C. Ford, Author of Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion *Conveys the vast and important impact of Black designers on the American fashion industry through untold stories ranging from descriptions of rare extant garments to pioneering designers ... Required reading for all in the fashion industry. * Eulanda A. Sanders, Iowa State University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; Elizabeth Way Section I: Anonymous Histories 1.The Fabric of Fast Fashion: Enslaved Wearers and Makers as Designers in the American Fashion System; Katie Knowles 2.Liberty’s Warp, Slavery’s Weft: A Look at the Work of Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Enslaved Fashion Makers and Their Descendants; Jonathan Michael Square 3.A Matrilineal Thread: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Black New York Dressmakers; Elizabeth Way Section II: In the Atelier: Modistes and Independent Designers 4.Dressing Up: The Rise of Fannie Criss; Kristen E. Stewart 5.Ruby Bailey: Making for Oneself, A Regional Fashion Designer Case Study; Joy Davis 6.Arthur George “Art” Smith: An Artist About Form, A Man About Substance; Kristen J. Owens Section III: Into the Mainstream: Seventh Avenue and Beyond 7.Wesley Tann: The Glamour and the Guts; Nancy Deihl 8.Jay Jaxon: An Unsung Couturier; Darnell-Jamal Lisby 9.Dapper Dan: The Original Streetwear Designer and Influencer; Ariele Elia Section IV: The Star Designer: National and International Impact 10.Color Story: Stephen Burrows’s Impact on the World of Fashion; Tanya Danielle Wilson Myers 11.Scott Barrie: Designing 1970s New York; Elizabeth Way 12.Race WERK: Williwear and Patrick Kelly Paris; Eric Darnell Pritchard Postscript; Elizabeth Way Index

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Book SynopsisThis art book presents the award-winning portrait-based series 'Slaves of Fashion' by British artists The Singh Twins. -- .

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Book SynopsisFashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time.Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welters and Lillethun adopt a cross-cultural approach to explore a vast array of cultures around the globe. They explore key issues affecting fashion systems, ranging from innovation, production and consumption to identity formation and the effects of colonization. Case studies include the cross-cultural trade of silk textiles in Central Asia, the indigenous dress of the Americas and of Hawai''i, the cosmetics of the Tang Dynasty in China, and stylistic innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. Examining the new lessons that can be deciphered from aTrade ReviewFashion History: A Global View is inspirational for new studies on fashion history by showing how new styles were initiated at times, in places and in ways that ordinarily are not included in fashion history. The book can further extend the way fashion history is taught at the colleges and the universities. * Markets, Globalization & Development Review *How wonderfully well-timed is this book! A milestone in the field, Fashion History marks a point to which fashion scholarship has been evolving, and at which we can now pause and take stock. -- Antonia Finnane, University of Melbourne, Australia.This new fashion world history persuasively argues for a definition of fashion beyond the modern west. From Chinese lip fashions to ‘vernacular version of the standard suit’ (shorts and T shirts) this is an essential overview of the development and state of the field. Ranging in topic from the Ancient World to past and present East, South and South-east Asia, the book will surprise and delight. Notable for its clarity and precision, illustrated with fascinating examples, the book is essential reading for all students and devotees of fashion and its histories. -- Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and Aalto University, FinlandTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Joanne B. Eicher Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Europe and the People Without Fashion Part I. Understanding Fashion and Its History 2. The Lexicon of Fashion 3. Fashion Systems 4. How We Got Here Part II. Outside the Canon: Alternative Fashion Histories 5. Fashion Systems in Prehistory and the Americas 6. Fashion Systems and Trade Networks in the Eastern Hemisphere 7. Fashion Systems in East, South and Southeast Asia 8. Alternative Fashion Histories in Euro-America 9. Global Fashion 10. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA prolifically creative artistic polymath, American artist Amy Sillman (b.1955) works in drawing, zines, iPhone videos, installation, collaboration, teaching and curating, but painting has remained always at the very heart of her practice. This comprehensive monograph covers two decades of production, from the late-1990s to the present. Valerie Smith’s text reveals Sillman’s uniquely time-based approach to painting, influenced and inflected as much by filmmakers and musicians and the processes of her other chosen disciplines as by strictly art-historical forebears. Sillman’s works perform an intensive cognitive and gestural interrogation of her chosen materials: discovering, undoing and reforming trains of painterly thought, often over long periods of time and across large numbers of linked works. Sillman’s painting emerges as a radically expressive force; a pointedly self-reflexive practice that reformulates contemporary painting as an ever-evolving continuum and never simply a finished work. Trade Review‘Amy Sillman is one of the most important, inventive, and intelligent painters of our time. This book offers a cogent yet probing introduction to her life and work. If you’re already a fan, you’ll learn more. If you don’t know her work yet, welcome to its rigorous, rabble-rousing, often ravishing ride.’ - Maggie Nelson‘Amy Sillman is among a handful of painters whose work is essential for our time. Her paintings are formally astute, witty, anecdotal, and deeply felt. Valerie Smith has done an excellent job of documenting Sillman’s circuitous evolution, focusing our attention on the ways in which the artist’s multi-faceted interests are embedded in her paintings.’ – David Salle

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Book SynopsisAs an inescapable aspect of everyday life, money has appeared in the background of art throughout its history within the context of mythological, biblical and historic scenes. In the last seventy years however, as consumer culture has spread internationally, many artists have given money the centre stage in their work to reflect on various economic, political, social and symbolic concerns that relate to different currencies and formats. In some of these artworks, physical money banknotes and coins plus cheques and credit cards is the actual art material, used by artists to question and subvert notions of value or to examine the aesthetics of these quotidian objects. Others have embraced burgeoning digital currencies in their artworks, looking forward to a possible future where money is wholly intangible. Money in Art: From Coinage to Crypto is an engaging new book that features a diverse selection of modern and contemporary art. Presented chronologically from Pop art onwards, wit

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Book SynopsisBased on extensive archival research, this open access book provides a fresh perspective on the early history of Isotype and pictographic communication, with new information about largely unknown episodes throughout its development. The picture-script Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education), previously conceived as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics, evolved through numerous publications and exhibitions in the early 20th century. Christopher Burke and Günther Sandner trace how its development responded to differing cultural and political climates, through a period when the idea of a universal language an artificial or planned language was linked to ideas of internationality and democratic planning. This book explores in depth, for the first time, the early picture-statistical work carried out at Austrian institutions during a new era of visual education and communication during and after World War II. Examining the work of Isotype's i

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