History of art Books
Gill Threads
Book SynopsisA fascinating history of Irishmen, woven through the clothes they wear.Taking the clothes they wore as a starting point, Paul Galvin skilfully weaves together a collection of stories of Irish men who defined the culture and mood of their time.In Push' he tells the story of the legendary Walker Brothers cyclists and soldiers who pedalled through a storm for Ireland at the 1912 Stockholm Games. In Born Mad', discover another side to Samuel Beckett sartor and prolific sportsman who had knockout power as a champion boxer in school. In Boland' we learn about Harry Boland's background as a trained tailor, and in Jack' we encounter Jack B. Yeats at the Olympic Games in Paris.These are just some of men who have inspired Paul's own fashion collections and whom he writes about here in a fascinating collection that shines a light on how history is woven into the clothes Irishmen wear.
£18.69
James Clarke & Co Ltd The Shining Sands
Book SynopsisThis is the remarkable story of the colony of artists who were inspired by the people, landscape and light of West Cornwall. Now internationally celebrated, they are forever to be associated with the small fishing ports of Newlyn and St Ives. Arriving from the artists'' colonies of France, the Barbizon and Pont-Aven, and the painting schools of London and Paris, they set up their studios in the cottages and net lofts overlooking the sea. Here they painted; their subjects centred on the working life and conditions of the people they lived amongst, and the stark beauty of the rugged Cornish landscape. Challenging the accepted styles of the Victorian masters, their bold work, full of light and colour, often drew upon the working life of the fishermen and their families, recording the tragedies and simple pleasures of their lives.In The Shining Sands, Tom Cross records the life and work of these artists, from the earliest arrivals in the 1870s through to the decade preceding the Second WorTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Pursuit of Realism Chapter 2: Artists from the Midlands Chapter 3: 'A Breath of Fresh Air' Chapter 4: Friends from the Slade Chapter 5: An International Community Chapter 6: The Royal Academy and the New English Art Club Chapter 7: Changes in Newlyn Chapter 8: A Romantic Vision Chapter 9: The Lamorna Valley Chapter 10: Modernism Chapter 11: A Holiday Paradise Chapter 12: A Meeting in St Ives Index
£52.35
Manchester University Press Love and authority in the work of Paula Rego
Book SynopsisRosengarten explores the narrative operations of Rego''s work by mobilising both psychoanalytic theory and social history. She confronts, as case studies, three complex figure paintings from different moments in Rego''s oeuvre: The Policeman''s Daughter (1987), The Interrogator''s Garden (2000), and The First Mass in Brazil (1993). The content of the three specimen paintings links them to the political context of the Estado Novo, the fascist-inspired regime that dominated Rego''s childhood. Plotting links between the spheres of the political and the personal, Rosengarten throws light on the complex intertwining of state power and parental authority in Rego''s work, focusing on the labour of socialisation and resistance that Rego''s work evinces in relation to the Freudian model of the family romance.Rosengarten unveils the political context of Portugal under Salazar, and the workings of colonial fantasy, Catholic ideology and gender construction. In prodding the inalTable of ContentsAcknowledgements1. Reading the Family Romance: Is there a feminist version? 2. Romancing the Father: The Policeman’s Daughter3. Men Don’t Make Passes at Women with Moustaches: The Interrogator’s Garden4. Possession and Loss: The First Mass in Brazil Conclusion: Painting History Bibliography
£76.50
Pluto Press Peter Kennard
Book Synopsis50 years of hard-hitting protest art from Britain’s foremost political artistTrade Review'These images refuse to be forgotten ... they remind us of the need to speak out in protest, the protests of the dead and the living' -- John Berger'This art is a a jolt of electricity. A shot in the arm. A kick up the backside. You know what? It’s a wake-up call' -- Jarvis Cocker'Britain's most important political artist' -- The Guardian'I take my hat off to you Sir' -- Banksy'Art cannot change the world but while Kennard is still working, there is at least hope' -- Laura Cumming, The Observer'Kennard sees the skull beneath the skin all right: an area dominated by greed, indifference, ruthlessness, naked force against the powerless; the holy grail of the Big Buck' -- Harold Pinter'In its form and power, Peter Kennard's art ranks among the most important in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His pictures brilliantly evoke the faces that cry out from the silent war' -- John Pilger, The Guardian'Peter Kennard's work is a harrowing x-ray of the shadow side of the world. He perfectly captures the brutal asymmetries of our age: heavy weaponry trained on broken people, all-seeing technologies and disappearing identities, perpetually exhaling industry and an asphyxiating planet' -- Naomi Klein'Peter Kennard's work is redolent of the best anti-war imagery of Goya, it is iconic in our movement and beyond' -- Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)Table of ContentsSeries Preface Preface 1. Feminist Futures: A Conditional Paeon for the Anything-Digital 2. Scale, Subject and Stories: Unreal Objects 3. Bland Ambition? Automation's Missing Visions 4. Driving at the Anthropocene, or, Let's Get Out of Here: How? 5. Technological Feminism and Digital Futures Bibliography
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The 1950s Home Shire Library No 488
Book SynopsisIntroduces the homes that people fell in love with in the 1930s, and the fixtures and fittings that went in them. This book features illustrations and informative chapters on architectural styles, gardens, furnishings and technology in the home.
£7.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fashion in the Time of the Great Gatsby 773 Shire
Book SynopsisThe Great Gatsby is that rare classic that inescapably defines the age from which it sprang: the Roaring ''20s, an era of economic boom, stylish excess and above all an explosion of new and exciting fashions. This book chronicles the sparkling spectacle of Jazz Age fashion as it moves from the corseted world of the 1910s to flapper dresses, fedoras and bejeweled headbands.Illustrated with period photographs, designer sketches and key excerpts from The Great Gatsby novel, the book fully captures the style and glamour of the age of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Miller. It spans the entire wardrobe of both men and women, including day and evening wear, accessories, casual attire and fads like smoking jackets, tiaras and cigarette holders.Table of ContentsCapturing the 1920s / The Good Times / Women's Fashions / Men's Fashions / Accessories for Women and Men / Places to Visit / Further Reading / Index
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The History Press Ltd Gloriana
Book SynopsisThe story of England's first great queen – and how she wielded power with a meticulously crafted imageTrade Review“An introduction to the wonderful art of the Elizabethan age.” -- Tudor Times“Utterly fascinating and so well researched.” -- Tudor Blogger“If you’re interested in Elizabeth I & her image & portraiture you won’t want to miss Gloriana.” -- Dr Nicola Tallis“Fascinating insights into what portraiture can reveal about Elizabeth I.” -- Sarah Gristwood“Beautifully illustrated and highly recommended!” -- Alison Weir"GLORIANA does an incredible job of covering each aspect of Elizabeth's life and the Cult of Gloriana..." * All About History *
£17.09
The History Press Ltd Prehistoric Pottery in Britain and Ireland
Book SynopsisIt can be precisely dated, can tell us about the diet, economy, and even ritual acts of prehistoric people, and it is often richly decorated. As this new study convincingly shows, pottery can tell us more about prehistoric society than any other artifact.
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The History Press Ltd Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors
Book SynopsisThis revised edition is an accumulation of two decades of research and fieldwork by the authors, and presents a comprehensive account of the little known prehistoric rock art within the North York Moors area.
£26.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Art and the Politics of Identity in
Book SynopsisThe eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relatively neglected field within art history. While women''s private lives, their involvement with cultural production, the project of Enlightenment, and the public sphere have been the subjects of ground-breaking historical and literary studies in recent decades, women''s engagement with the arts remains one of the richest and most under-explored areas for scholarly investigation. This collection of new essays by specialist authors addresses women''s activities as patrons and as patronized artists over the course of the century. It provides a much needed examination, with admirable breadth and variety, of women''s artistic production and patronage during the eighteenth century. By opening up the specific problems and conflicts inherent in women''s artistic involvements from the perspective Trade Review'This wide-ranging series of in-depth studies of women as artists, as subjects of art, and as interlocutors and practitioners in artistic production in Europe during the eighteenth century offers new research on little-known figures, and at the same time provides valuable insights into the lives and working conditions of recognised artists.' Marcia Pointon, Professor Emerita, School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester 'A bold new interpretation of how eighteenth-century women produced, commissioned, acquired, and used art to shape their sense of self . . . Written by many of the most prominent art historians of early modern Europe, each piece in this ’"nterventionist project" is excellent, and the whole is still greater than the sum of the parts.' Nina Gelbart, Professor of History and Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women’s Studies, Occidental College 'This collection of eleven essays is notable for its consistently high quality and thematic coherence.' Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, British Journal of 18th-Century Studies ’This long-awaited work is an excellent study of a key monument in Byzantine art and culture... Eastmond's study stands out for its broad-ranging engagement with questions of interpretation helped by an extensive use of theological, liturgical and historical writings showing an exemplary command of the primary sources.... The book is lavishly produced with good black and white and coloured photographs. The generous number of the colour plates is eminently laudable. Equipped with useful appendices, indexes and ample annotations, Eastmond's study of the church of St Sophia contributes significantly to the reappraisal of the monument, setting the tone for similar publications/studies and making a lasting contribution to the field.’ Byzantinische ZeitschriftTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: art, cultural politics and the woman question, Melissa Hyde and Jennifer Milam; 'An ornament of Italy and the premier female painter of Europe': Rosalba Carriera and the Roman academy, Christopher M.S. Johns; Lovisa Ulrike of Sweden, Chardin and enlightened despotism, Paula Rea Radisich; Practicing portraiture: Mademoiselle de Clermont and J.-M. Nattier, Kathleen Nicholson; Commerce in the boudoir, Jill H. Casid; Matronage and the direction of sisterhood: portraits of Madame Adélaïde, Jennifer Milam; Under the sign of Minerva: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's Portrait of Madame Adélaïde, Melissa Hyde; The cradle is empty: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Marie-Antoinette, and the problem of intention, Mary D. Sheriff; Ancient matrons and modern patrons: Angelica Kauffman as a classical history painter, Wendy Wassyng Roworth; Angelica's odyssey: Kauffman's paintings of Penelope and the weaving of narrative, Angela Rosenthal; The 'other atelier': Jacques-Louis David's female students, Mary Vidal; Goya's portraits of the Duchess of Osuna: fashioning identity in enlightenment Spain, Andrew Schulz; Bibliography; Index.
£128.25
Running Press,U.S. Forbidden Cocktails
Book SynopsisA stunning package for classic film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike, all the “forbidden” fun of Pre-Code Hollywood and the Prohibition and speakeasy era meet in this stylish cocktail book. What might Jean Harlow have sipped for Dinner at Eight? What did Barbara Stanwyck take to steel herself in Baby Face? If you’re a classic film fan who’s ever pondered these questions, or are a bartender or at-home entertainer who adores Prohibition-era cocktails, this guide to mixed drinks inspired by Pre-Code Hollywood is essential reading. The stars and stories of the “forbidden” time in moviemaking before strict censorship was enforced and the movies reflected a raucous freedom that would be unseen again for decades take the spotlight in Forbidden Cocktails. With 50 film-and-drink pairings and packaged handsomely with more than 100 full-color and black-and-white photos throughout, this is a practical and stu
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Running Press Book Publishers More Than Muses
Book SynopsisDraw a card and gain inspiration from 40 incredible women—across art, architecture, dance, literature, and more—whose culture-defining contributions have, until now, been overshadowed by their role as 'muses' to history's better-known men. What does it mean to be someone's 'muse'? Historically, to be called a “muse” among artistic circles has been marketed as a flattering title. It is a commendation that most often refers to a woman whose vivacity and beauty are the source of inspiration for a (usually) male artist or creator. This deck, from author-researcher Lori Zimmer and artist Maria Krasinski, repositions 40 of these women—casting them as the main characters of their own narratives and allowing users to draw inspiration from these iconic cultural figures, from 'The Mother of the Movies' Alice Guy-Blaché to Modernist designer Eileen Gray, prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, storied Harlem Renaissance editor Jessie Redmon Fauset, and many more. Each of these women advanced the narrative of culture and society, pushing the boundaries of visual arts, dance and movement, commercial architecture, music, journalism, and the performing arts. Whether by historical accident or cruel design, their contributions have historically been overshadowed by those of their male counterparts, and often collaborators. This set includes: 40 full-color inspiration cards. These vibrantly illustrated cards (3 X 5') depict original portraits of each of the inspiring women, and are perfect to display or incorporate into inspiration readings, self-care rituals, or personal artistic practices. 88-page, fully illustrated paperback guidebook. This enclosed guidebook features brief, engagingly written snapshots of the women on the cards, each with key information about their lives, careers, and legacies. Magnetic closure case. This durable magnetic closure case is perfectly sized for travel or display, and holds the paperback book and cards securely in dedicated sleeves. Featured women include: Amanda Aldridge Louise Blanchard Bethune Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore Leonora Carrington Minnette de Silva Clara Driscoll Jessie Redmon Fauset Loie Fuller Martha Gellhorn Eileen Gray Belle da Costa Greene Alice Guy-Blaché Malvina Hoffman Katie Horna Lois Mailou Jones Miss La La Edmonia Lewis Neysa McMein Hildreth Meière Victorine Meurent Lee Miller Lucia Moholy Jane Morris May Morris Na Hye-Sŏk Fernande Olivier Pan Yuliang Ethel Reed Aurora Reyes Clara Rockmore Amrita Sher-Gil Barbara Shermund Ada “Bricktop” Smith Maria Tallchief Alice B. Toklas Suzanne Valadon Rose Valland Remedios Varo Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Sada Yacco
£15.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Western Art of the TwentyFirst Century
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Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Digital Art
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MB - Cornell University Press The Practice of Theory
Book SynopsisMany art historians regard poststructuralist theory with suspicion; some even see its focus on the political dimension of language as hostile to an authentic study of the past. Keith Moxey bridges the gap between historical and theoretical...
£26.59
Johns Hopkins University Press As Witnessed by Images The Trojan War Tradition
Book SynopsisLowenstam identifies a variety of images and interpretations-some regarded Achilles as a hero, others believed him to be a cruel bully-that reflect and directly respond to the ancient heroic tradition from which the Iliad and Odyssey evolved.Trade ReviewHighly recommended. Choice 2009 A thought-provoking book that also well illustrates the salient points of the author's argument. -- Peter A. Clayton Minerva 2009Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword, by T. H. carpenterIntroductionParadigms and the Role of PoetryChronologyPurposes and Methodology1. GreeceThe François VaseCorinthian PerspectivesTroilos and AchilleusExekiasSirensRansom of HektorFifth-century Portraits of Achilleus and OdysseusKabiric VasesConclusions2. Megale HellasTrojan TopicsThe Funeral of PatroklosThetis' Touch and an Embassy to AchilleusThe Dolon PainterThersitesLykaonConclusions3. EtruriaThe Monteleone di Spoleto ChariotThe First Pania PyxisThe Ambush of TroilosFifth-century MirrorsAchilleus' Immolation of Trojan YouthsThe Torre San Severo SarcophagusAftermath and ConclusionsConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex
£47.50
Tuttle Publishing Origami Kaleidoscope Paper Pack Book
£5.70
Northwestern University Press Walls of Prophecy and Protest
Book SynopsisFeaturing thirty-five colour images of William Bill Walker's work, this edition reveals the artist who was the primary figure behind Chicago's famed Wall of Respect and who created numerous murals that depicted African American historical figures; protested social injustice; and centered imagination, love, respect, and community accountability.
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Basic Books Timeless Cities
Book SynopsisFor Italian city builders over the course of a thousand years, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In Timeless Cities , architect David Mayernik reveals how Venice, Rome, Florence, Siena, and Pienza emerged from the cultural ideas of humanism that characterized Italian society from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. Cities were literally designed to be models of the mind and images of heaven. Mayernik takes the reader on an architect''s tour of these five cities and describes the cultural beliefs and ideas behind the buildings. Not only a journey into the past, Timeless Cities also explains why these city-building ideas are relevant today. Whether travelling on holiday or appreciating the art and architecture of Italy from home, Mayernik helps bring the wonder and beauty of the Italian mind and its great cities a little closer.Trade Review"A thoughtful, passionate, learned and unexpected examination of cities past, present and ideal, written with conviction and humour." Ingrid Rowland "Erudite travelers will enjoy [Mayernik's] thoughtful meditations." Chicago Tribune "A thoughtful, passionate, learned, and unexpected examination of cities past, present, and ideal, written with conviction and humor." Ingrid Rowland"
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Taylor & Francis Inc Titian And Venetian Painting 14501590
Book SynopsisThis up-to-date, well-illustrated, and thoughtful introduction to the life and works of one of the giants of Western Painting also surveys the golden age of Venetian Painting from Giovanni Bellini to Veronese and its place in the history of Western art. Bruce Cole, Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University and author of numerous books on Italian Renaissance art, begins with the life and work of Giovanni Bellini, the principal founder of Venetian Renaissance painting. He continues with the paintings of Giorgione and the young Titian whose work embodied the new Venetian style. Cole discusses and explains all of Titian''s major works--portraits, religious paintings, and nudes--from various points of view and shows how Venetian painting of this period differed from painting in Florence and elsewhere in Italy and became a distinct and fully-developed style of its own.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments -- Venice, 1510 -- Precursors -- Giorgione, Sebastiano, and the Young Titian to c. 1510 -- Titian: Early Success, 1516–1530 -- Titian -- Titian -- Titian -- Titian -- Titian’s Heirs
£52.24
Ohio State University Press The Real Life of the Parthenon
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The University of Alabama Press Alabama Creates 200 Years of Art and Artists
Book SynopsisA visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists. The works of art included in this volume have all emerged from a distinctive milieu that has nourished the creation of powerful visual expressions, statements that are both universal and indigenous.Trade ReviewAlabama artists have helped contextualize the state as a place that is embracing its past while visualizing its future. Artists such as the internationally hailed quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, public artist Rick Lowe, painters Jack Whitten and Thornton Dial, and photographer Carolyn Sherer have portrayed a richer understanding of Alabama that is appreciated not only by those of us who live here but also by the nation in general. Alabama would not have the exposure or the expanded worldview that are so apparent without the work of the visual artists who have helped us reveal the complexity, diversity, and multifaceted nature of our populations and our state. Alabama artists help us define who we are and what home is."" - From the introduction by Gail C. AndrewsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface by Al Head Introduction by Gail C. Andrews Part I. Prehistory to 1868 Chapter 1. William Frye Chapter 2. John Lehman Chapter 3. Nicola Marschall Chapter 4. S. Phillip Romer Chapter 5. William Carroll Saunders Chapter 6. Edward Troye Part II. 1869–1918 Chapter 7. Lucille Sinclair Douglass Chapter 8. Anne Goldthwaite Chapter 9. Louise Lyons Heustis Chapter 10. Mary Morgan Keipp Chapter 11. Giuseppe Moretti Chapter 12. Clara Weaver Parrish Chapter 13. Lois Slosson Sundberg Chapter 14. Maria Howard Weeden Part III. 1919–1968 Chapter 15. Frank Hartley Anderson Chapter 16. Frank Woodberry Applebee Chapter 17. Virginia Barnes Chapter 18. Richard Blauvelt Coe Chapter 19. Frank Engle Chapter 20. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Chapter 21. John Kelly Fitzpatrick Chapter 22. Crawford Gillis Chapter 23. Isaac Scott Hathaway Chapter 24. Draffus Lamar Hightower Chapter 25. Carrie Hill Chapter 26. John Lapsley Chapter 27. John Roderick Dempster MacKenzie Chapter 28. James ""Spider"" Martin Chapter 29. Geneva Mercer Chapter 30. Carlos Alpha ""Shiney"" Moon Chapter 31. Charles Moore Chapter 32. Ann Weaver Norton Chapter 33. Prentice Herman Polk Chapter 34. Alvin Conrad Sella Chapter 35. Charles Shannon Chapter 36. William Spratling Chapter 37. Arthur Stewart Chapter 38. Maltby Sykes Chapter 39. Bill Traylor Chapter 40. John Augustus Walker Chapter 41. Kathryn Tucker Windham Chapter 42. Richard Zoellner Part IV. 1969–2019 Chapter 43. Butch Anthony Chapter 44. Arthur L. Bacon Chapter 45. Pinky/MM Bass Chapter 46. Mozell Benson Chapter 47. Cal Breed Chapter 48. Jerry Brown Chapter 49. Roger Brown Chapter 50. Gay Burke Chapter 51. Richmond Burton Chapter 52. Gary Chapman Chapter 53. William Andrew Christenberry Jr. Chapter 54. Chip Cooper Chapter 55. Thornton Dial Chapter 56. Casey Downing Jr. Chapter 57. Nora Ezell Chapter 58. Howard Finster Chapter 59. Frank Fleming Chapter 60. Robert Lawrence ""Larry"" Godwin Chapter 61. Darius Hill Chapter 62. Lonnie Holley Chapter 63. Dale Kennington Chapter 64. Bettye Kimbrell Chapter 65. Janice Kluge Chapter 66. Simmie Knox Chapter 67. Cam Langley Chapter 68. Dale Lewis Chapter 69. Rick Lowe Chapter 70. Charlie Lucas Chapter 71. Kerry James Marshall Chapter 72. Dean Mosher Chapter 73. Nall Chapter 74. James Emmette Neel Chapter 75. David Parrish Chapter 76. Stephen Rolfe Powell Chapter 77. Noah Purifoy Chapter 78. Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend Chapter 79. Sonja Rieger Chapter 80. Guadalupe Lanning Robinson Chapter 81. Carolyn Sherer Chapter 82. Jerry Siegel Chapter 83. Charles Smith Chapter 84. Melissa Springer Chapter 85. Scott Stephens Chapter 86. Jimmy Lee Sudduth Chapter 87. Nina Gail Thrower Chapter 88. Mose Tolliver Chapter 89. Craig R. Wedderspoon Chapter 90. Yvonne Wells Chapter 91. Myrtice West Chapter 92. Jack Whitten Chapter 93. Hugh O. Williams Chapter 94. Evan Wilson Contributing Authors Where to see Visual Art in Alabama Resources to Learn More about Alabama Visual Arts and Artists Books and Exhibition Catalogues
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The University of Alabama Press The Cosmos Revealed Precontact Mississippian Rock
Book SynopsisContaining more than 130 paintings and engravings, Painted Bluff is perhaps the most elaborate prehistoric pictograph site east of the Mississippi River. This volume provides the first complete description and interpretation of one of the most important archaeological sites in eastern North America.Trade ReviewThe Cosmos Revealed is a landmark synthesis of one of the Native South's most unusual and intriguing archaeological sites. The authors provide a richly detailed account of this rock art complex, including its history, preservation, and meaning." - Thomas J. Pluckhahn, author of Kolomoki: Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South"Provides extremely thorough, state-of-the-art research on a well-known and very important site by providing a detailed empirical account, combined with a well-supported and logical symbolic interpretation." - David S. Whitely, author of Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit: The Origin of Creativity and BeliefTable of Contents Foreword by LaDonna Brown Acknowledgments Introduction: Painted Bluff and the Power of Place 1. Historical Background of Painted Bluff 2. The Geology and Archaeology of Painted Bluff 3. Methods for Documenting the Painted Bluff Rock Art 4. The Rock Art of Painted Bluff 5. Rock Art Stratigraphy at Painted Bluff 6. Ancient Paint Recipes at Painted Bluff 7. The Tennessee Valley Authority Management of Painted Bluff 8. Graffiti Removal at Painted Bluff 9. Materializing the Natural and Spiritual Worlds at Painted Bluff References Cited Index
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The University of Alabama Press Imperfect Fit Aesthetic Function Facture and Perception in Art and Writing Since 1950 Modern Contemporary Poetics
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University of Georgia Press Dynamic Design
Book SynopsisDetails Jay Hambidge and Mary Crovatt Hambidge’s cross-cultural and cross-historical explorations and examines their lasting contributions to twentieth-century art and cultural history.
£39.47
Duke University Press Shades of Black
Book SynopsisIn the 1980s - at the height of Thatcherism and in the wake of civil unrest and rioting in a number of British cities - the Black Arts Movement burst onto the British art scene with breathtaking intensity, changing the nature and perception of British culture irreversibly. This volume presents a history of that movement.Trade Review“Shades of Black is a remarkable document of creative thinking and archival importance. The editors have brought to life a decade rich in artistic experimentation and collaboration, which will shape the vision of artists and thinkers across generations and geographies.”—Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University“Shades of Black is an invaluable text for anyone and everyone in diaspora studies, cultural studies, and comparative British and American studies and for historians and critics of visual art. It brings together a wide range of visual art with a superb collection of essays that set the historical and critical context for understanding one of the most vibrant moments in art history.”—Hazel V. Carby, author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America“The explosion of creativity and the critical debates on black culture that emerged in Britain in the 1980s transformed reigning assumptions about black art around the world. This collection is an important effort to assess the work of that period and its lasting impact.”—Coco Fusco, interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsShades of Black: Assembling the 1980s / David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce xi Part One. Texts Assembling the 1980s: The Deluge—and After / Stuart Hall 1 The Success and Failure of the Black Arts Movement / Rasheed Araeen 21 Wait, Did I Miss Something? Some Personal Musings on the 1980s and Beyond / Keith Piper 35 Inside the Invisible: For/Getting Strategy / Lubaina Himid 41 Iconography after Identity / Kobena Mercer 49 A to Y (Entries for an Inventory of Dented "I"s) / susan pui san lok 59 On Becoming at Artist: Algerian, African, Arab, Muslim, French and Black British? A Dialogue of Visibility / Zineb Sedira in collaboration with Jawad Al-Nawab 67 CoRespondents / Young Soon Min and Allan deSouza 77 Triangular Trades: Late-Twentieth-Century "Black" Art and Transatlantic Cultural Commerce / Judith Wilson 89 Collaborative Projects: Toward a More Inclusive Practice / Dawoud Bey 103 Why Asia Now? Contemporary Asian Art and the Politics of Multiculturalism / Stan Abe 109 Choices for Black Arts in Britain over Thirty Years / Naseem Khan 115 A Case of Mistaken Identity / Gilane Tawadros 123 Color Plates 133 Part Two. The Conference Conference Papers and Speakers 166 Dialogues / Jean Fisher 167 Part Three. Time Lines Introduction / Adelaide Bannerman 199 Time Lines 210 Part Four. Recommended Readings Introduction / Leon Wainwright 307 Histories and Positions 309 Visual Practices 312 Exhibitions and Displays 314 Institutions, Policies, and Reports 316 Contributors 319 Acknowledgments 327 Index 329
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Duke University Press What We Made
Book SynopsisWhat We Made presents a series of fifteen conversations in which contemporary artists who create activist, participatory work discuss the cooperative process. Colleagues from fields including architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media join the conversations.Trade Review“These conversations by key practitioners and thinkers are a snapshot of thinking around the emergence of social and collaborative art, which seeks to improve society and address social issues. Finkelpearl ably situates collaborative and participatory art within the chronology of American art history.” -- Toro Castaño * Library Journal *"What What We Made does, perhaps better than anything I’ve read so far about this particular kind of art, is utterly refrain from arriving at singular summaries or judgments. Instead, the conversations foreground the nuanced and complex social relations tied up in any artwork, but particularly collaborative artwork that draws on communities operating largely outside of the arts marketplace. And the projects Finkelpearl has chosen to discuss and feature by and large demonstrate real possibilities for genuine exchange across networks and communities." -- Alexis Clements * Hyperallergic *“What We Made is a good sourcebook of art that tackles politics through participation and collaboration. The author’s introduction provides a useful overview of the situation in contemporary America. . . .” -- Sally O’Reilly * Art Monthly *“What We Made brings together the stars of the social practice world Rick Lowe, Tania Bruguera, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Harrell Fletcher, and more in conversations with urban planners, educators, and each other, to create a fluid and interdisciplinary dialogue about social practice and its complicated, beautiful and necessary implications in the world.” -- Katie Bachler * The Art Book Review *“Finkelpearl has provided his readers with a rich description of a particular, influential movement in the art museum world. This book illustrates his own commitment to social collaboration. By presenting the conversations that make up the core of this volume, he brings this aspect of the art museum world to a larger public.” -- George E. Hein * Curator *Table of ContentsPreface ix 1. Introduction The Art of Social Cooperation: An American Framework 1 2. Cooperation Goes Public Consequences of a Gesture and 100 Victoria/10,000 Tears 51 Interview: Daniel Joseph Martinez, artist, and Gregg M. Horowitz, philosophy professor Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group 76 Follow-Up Interview: Naomi Beckwith, participant 3. Museum, Education, Cooperation Memory of Surfaces 90 Interview: Ernesto Pujol, artist, and David Henry, museum educator 4. Overview Temporary Coaltions, Mobilized Communities, and Dialogue as Art 114 Interview: Grant Kester, art historian 5. Social Vision and a Cooperative Community Project Row Houses 132 Interview: Rick Lowe, artist, and Mark Stern, professor of social history and urban studies 6. Participation, Planning, and a Cooperative Film Blot Out the Sun 152 Interview: Harrell Fletcher, artist, and Ethan Seltzer, professor of urban studies and planning Ride Out the Sun 174 Follow-up Interview: Jay Dykeman, collaborator 7. Education Art Catedra Arte del Conducta 179 Interview: Tania Bruguera, artist Catedra de Conducta Follow-up Interview: Claire Bishop, art historian 8. A Political Alphabet 219 Interview: Wendy Ewald, artist, and Sondra Farganis, political scientist 9. Crossing Borders Transnational Community-Based Production, Cooperative Art, and Informal Trade Networks 240 Interview: Pedro Lasch, artist, and Teddy Cruz, architect 10. Spirituality and Cooperation Unburning Freedom Hall and The Packer School Project 269 Interview: Brett Cook, artist, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist The Seer Project 301 Interview: Lee Mingwei, artist 11. Interactive Internet Communication White Glove Tracking 313 Interview: Evan Roth, artist White Glove Tracking 335 Follow-up Interview: Jonah Peretti, contagious media pioneer Conclusion: Pragmatism and Social Cooperation 343 Notes 363 Bibliography 373 Index 381
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University of Hawai'i Press Queer Transfigurations
Book SynopsisThe boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity. Queer Transfigurations is the first detailed examination of the BL media explosion across Asia.
£66.60
Rizzoli International Publications The Wrigley Building
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Gagosian/Rizzoli Balthus
Book SynopsisFrom time to time, amidst all the trials and errors, it happens: I recognize what I was looking for. All of a sudden the vision that preexisted incarnates itself, more or less intuitively and more or less precisely. The dream and the reality are superimposed and made one. —Balthus Published to document Gagosian Gallery’s 2015 Balthus exhibition in Paris, this striking new book depicts the beautiful paintings, drawings, and photographs that were part of that career-spanning exhibition, the first of Balthus’s work in Paris since the 1983–84 retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou. Vibrant color reproductions of the artist’s interior portraits, street scenes, and landscapes, along with striking installation shots, present the self-taught classicism that Balthus cultivated as a framework for his more enigmatic artistic investigations. A conversation between Olivier Zahm and Setsuko Klossowska de Rola completes the catalogue, providing an in
£61.75
Rizzoli International Publications Ed Ruscha Eilshemius and Me
Book SynopsisEd Ruscha's Spied Upon Scene series of paintings, begun in 2017, depict majestic mountainscapes resembling the idyllic ranges of travel books, postcards, adventure movies, and the Paramount Pictures logo. These vistas, visible through oval-shaped lenses or window grids, seem to refer to the nineteenth-century tradition of the American Sublime. In fact, their lineage includes an obscure American painter from the turn of the century, Louis Michel Eilshemius (1864-1941), whose use of painted frames became an influence on Ruscha's approach.Commemorating an exhibition at Gagosian, London, this catalog is the first publication to examine the connections between these two artists' work. Two booklets in a softcover portfolio feature full-color plates and installation views. An interview with Ruscha and an essay by Margaret Iversen explain how Ruscha first encountered Eilshemius's enigmatic paintings, which of the artist's aesthetic innovations captured Ruscha's imaginatio
£44.00
Rizzoli International Publications Bob Crewe Sight and Sound Compositions in Art and
Book SynopsisThe first book to explore the extraordinary musical life and remarkable paintings of one of America's greatest ever songwriters.Best known for having written and produced some of the seminal records of American popular culture--from 'Big Girls Don't Cry' for the Four Seasons to 'Silence is Golden' for the Tremeloes and 'Lady Marmalade' for LaBelle--Bob Crewe was a multifaceted artist for whom a passion for painting and the visual arts provided a lifelong counterbalance to music. Collected here are more than 80 of Bob Crewe's artworks, stretching from his first forays into abstract expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s to more complex, tactile compositions made on his full-time return to painting in the 1990s--accompanied by archival images and ephemera that reflect Crewe's simultaneous contribution to popular music. Essays by Jessica May and Peter Plagens explore the development of an artist whose influences ranged from Rauschenberg and Johns to Warhol andTrade Review"Bob Crewe: Sight and Sound is the first book to explore both the extraordinary musical life and the remarkable paintings and sculptures of one of America's greatest-ever songwriters. Collected here are more than 80 of Crewe's original artworks, stretching from his first forays into abstract expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s, his more complex, tactile compositions made in the 1990s, and never-before-seen archival images and ephemera that reflect Crewe's simultaneous contribution to the visual arts and popular music. Original essays by Jessica May and Peter Plagens explore the development of an artist whose influences ranged from Rauschenberg and Johns to Warhol and Bacon; legendary record producer Andrew Loog Oldham captures the period of radical experimentalism in which Crewe wrote many of the most memorable songs in the canon of modern pop; and Donald Albrecht's introduction provides further insight into Crewe’s personal and creatives lives, as well as his relationships with icons of the music industry." —ARTDAILY.COM
£41.25
Gagosian/Rizzoli Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Book SynopsisIntended as a touchstone for all those interested in Nathaniel MaryQuinn?s work for years to come, this monograph, dedicated to the artist,encapsulates over ten years of paintings and works on paper, and provides multiple perspectives and insights into Quinn?s career to date. Archival photographs of the artist and his studio, offer a peak intoQuinn?s working process and reference materials. With an introduction by Larry Gagosian, the book features new texts by Dawn Ades and Andrew Winer. An in-depth interview between the artist and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis examines Quinn?s approach to his practice, his vision, and everything in-between.This monograph is the first comprehensive survey of Nathaniel Mary Quinn?s work, featuring paintings made since 2013. Quinn?s images combine bodily fragments derived from sources that include both personal images and those culled from the media. Working without preliminary sketches, he forms composite images of faces and figures that resemble collages but are in fact painted and drawn. Developed with oil paint, charcoal, gouache, oil stick, and pastel, these works address the hybridity of perception and identity.The book includes over 125 color plates of Quinn?s paintings, as well as studio photographs that offer an insight into his process. An introduction from Larry Gagosian is followed by an essay by Andrew Winer which discusses his work in terms of representation, abstraction, and memory. The volume also features a conversation between the artist and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis that offers firsthand reflections on the painter?s practice, as well as an essay by Dawn Ades contextualizing Quinn?s work in relation to Modern and contemporary collage, painting, and portraiture.
£71.25
Rizzoli International Publications Emily Mason
£45.00
Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd Under the Guise of Spring
Book SynopsisA mesage to a Medici, unseen for 500 years has been found. It reveals the true purpose of Botticelli''s Primavera, while opening a window on the cryptic world of the Renaissance Pagan Revival.Trade Review"This was a delightful book to read and review. It is beautifully produced, with a large number of excellent colour photographs, together with a separate colour print of La Primavera included for reference. Throughout the book are close-ups of the parts of the picture under discussion, as well as a number of other works of art which are of interest. Not being a lover of art of this period, I was at first a little dubious as to whether I would find anything in it to excite me. I need not have worried." Rosemary Arthur, Faith and Freedom // "An engaging book that should appeal to Botticelli scholars and to anyone drawn to this cultural period in Renaissance Florence." Gabrielle Langdon, Art Criticism TodayTable of ContentsHow the Discovery Came About, Interpretations, A Very Private Location, The Medici - Violent Politics and Sublime Aspirations, Botticelli - Painter and Mystagogue, Classical Rebirth, First Encounter, A Madonna called Venus, The Esoteric Graces, A Medici as Mercury, Changing Natures, Cupid and the Bride, Flowery Language for a New Alliance, Appendices: Location and Dating, Poetry to Inspire a Painter, An Important Letter.
£19.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
Book SynopsisGrace Lees-Maffei is Professor of Design History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Nicolas P. Maffei is Senior Lecturer in Graphics at Norwich University of the Arts, UK.Trade ReviewReaders (and not just students) interested in looking contextually at the history of graphic design will surely benefit from Grace Lees-Maffei and Nicolas P. Maffei’s latest book. It offers much food for thought, a gold mine of relevant historiographical literature, a wide range of worthwhile subjects and thoughtfully maps approaches to graphic design in relation to culture, whether through theory or the historical study of genres of graphic design practice. * Journal of Design History *Includes an excellent historical framing of the discipline’s transformations, both as a professional field and as an object of scholarly research ... The “expanded field” approach allows first for a richer and more complex understanding of design processes, liberated from the mere concern of commercial constraints and objectives and aesthetics ambitions and successes ... [The book is] a perfect match of graphic design in all its diversity, a clever analysis of the multiple interfaces that structure the back and forth movements between design and society, and a smart example of good writing ... An excellent springboard to further analysis and an invitation to return to traditional examples whose interpretation is still confined to strictly commercial or essentially art-historical schemata. The iconography is well-chosen, and the central full color section is a pleasure for the eye and the mind. * Leonardo Reviews *In this critical yet accessible book, Grace Lees-Maffei and Nicolas P. Maffei shift the popular perception of graphic design from surface treatment to complex cultural practice. * D.J. Huppatz, Associate Professor of Architecture and Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia *Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context is a refreshing and insightful contribution to design history and a valuable resource for teachers, students, and scholars of visual communication. This engaging set of historical case studies expands the discipline to consider such topics as the colonization of public space in both print and digital media; the relationship between legibility and ambiguity in modern and postmodern design; gender, race, and desire in fashion photography and advertising; wide-ranging information graphics from maps and sign systems to the “quantified self”; slogan t-shirts; music packaging; corporate brand identity; concerns for environmental sustainability; visual techniques of persuasion in guide books and advice literature; and the evolving medium of the book. It offers a clearly written, accessible, and compelling argument that semiotics continues to provide a dynamic, flexible model for making sense of a world increasingly saturated by visual signs today. It is an excellent critical guide, the best written thus far, to the study of signs, which emerged in structural linguistics and anthropology of Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Lévi-Strauss in the early twentieth century, and which evolved in the work of Charles Peirce and Roland Barthes. Students as well as general readers will appreciate this clear and concise overview of a topic that can easily confound even the sharpest thinkers. * Rebecca Houze, Professor of Art and Design History at Northern Illinois University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contents List of Illustrations Reading Graphic Design in the Expanded Field: An Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei Part One: On Message and Off Message 1 - Branding as Sign System: Semiotics in Action, Grace Lees-Maffei 2 – The Responsive Brand: Uniformity and Flexibility in Logo Design, Nicolas P. Maffei 3 – Whose Wall? From Posters to Digital Displays and the Colonization of Public Space, Nicolas P. Maffei 4 - Slogan T-shirts: Billboards of Identity Politics, Nicolas P. Maffei Part Two: On Legibility and Ambiguity 5 - Seeing Clearly? Legibility, Word and Image in Postmodern Print Design, Grace Lees-Maffei 6 - Signifying Orientalism, Chinoiserie and Japonisme: Fashion Photography in Vogue as a Case Study, Grace Lees-Maffei 7 – A Good Read? Corporate Literature and Brand Stories: Alessi SpA as a Case Study, Grace Lees-Maffei 8 – Information Overload: Negotiating Visual Complexity in a Data Rich World, Nicolas P. Maffei Part Three: On Paper and On Screen 9 - How To? Visual Techniques of Persuasion in Guidebooks and Manuals, Grace Lees-Maffei 10 – Driving Sales: Print and TV Advertising of Cars to Women Drivers, Grace Lees-Maffei 11 - Picturing Music: The Rise and Fall of Music Packaging, Nicolas P. Maffei 12 - EBook, iBook, weBook, youBook: Declensions of Digital Design, Nicolas P. Maffei Index
£25.64
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Seeing Race Before Race
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A seminal and ground-breaking volume, Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World will prove to be of immense interest to students of Art History, Philosophy, and Race Relations. While also available for students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subjects covered, Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World is an exceptionally impressive and unreservedly recommended addition to professional, community, college, and university library Art History and Philosophy Criticism collections, and supplemental Cultural History curriculum studies lists." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword- by Ayanna Thompson and Daniel GreeneIntroduction- by Lia Markey and Noémie NdiayePart 1: FIGURINGEssay 1. Manuscripts and Printed Books: Book History and Race. By Brandi K. Adams and Carissa M. Harris.Essay 2. Fashioning Racial Materiality in Nicolas de Nicolay’s Representations of Jews. By M. Lindsay Kaplan and Dana E. Katz.Note From the Field 1. “Touching each book”: Demystifying Special Collections in Community. By Analú María López.Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 1: Figuring. Entries 1-14. Part 2: MAPPINGEssay 3. Geographies of Race: Constructions of Constantinople/Istanbul in the Western European Imaginary. By Roland Betancourt and Ambereen Dadabhoy.Essay 4. Race, Empire, and Cartography. By Ricardo Padrón and Risa Puleo.Note From the Field 2. Displaying Black Art in the Medieval Galleries at The Met Museum. By Andrea Myers Achi.Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 2: Mapping. Entries 15-26. Part 3: PERFORMINGEssay 5. Back Bending Labor, Savage Dances, Pious Stances: Race in Motion between Africa and the Americas. By Elena FitzPatrick Sifford and Cécile Fromont.Note From the Field 3. Bringing Premodern Critical Race Consciousness to Shakespeare’s Globe. By Farah Karim-Cooper. Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 3: Performing. Entries 27-42. Interview. On Early Modern Critical Race Studies and Critical Indigenous Studies. By Kim F. Hall, Scott Manning Stevens, and L. Lehua Yim.GlossaryBibliography AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIndex
£60.80
Museum of Modern Art Robert Rauschenberg MoMA Artist Series
Book SynopsisPart of the MoMA Artist Series, this book explores Robert Rauschenberg works. It features works which are accompanied by a short essay that places the work in its historical moment in the development of modern art and the artists own life.
£999.99
Museum of Modern Art The Forever Now
Book SynopsisPresents the work of 17 contemporary painters whose works reflect a singular approach that is peculiarly of our time: they are a-temporal, a term coined by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, the originators of the cyberpunk aesthetic.
£24.00
Yale University Press Storied Stone Reframing the Philadelphia Museum
Book SynopsisA behind-the-scenes history of the sixteenth-century South Indian temple hall installation in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
£28.50
MFA Publications Songs for Modern Japan
Book SynopsisA delightful primer on early-to-mid-20th-century Japan's fruitful fusion of music and design, as materialized in sheet musicJapanese society underwent a whirlwind of change during the first half of the 20th century, a time period marked by rapid modernization. While Western influences catalyzed an increasingly rapacious appetite for consumer goods, new sounds and mass-produced images flooded the stereos and screens of Japanese citizens.Perhaps more than any other objects from the period, sheet music covers graphically embodied this vortex of sights, sounds, events and ideas. Most commonly arranged for harmonica, piano, guitar and violin, music scores encompassed songs ranging from traditional Japanese folk tunes to movie scores, Western jazz, opera and patriotic marches. Publishers of music churned out sheets bound in graphically designed covers as diverse as the music within, illustrated in both Japanese- and European-influenced styles, including Art Nou
£31.50
Museum of New Mexico Press Preternatural
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£45.00
Museum of New Mexico Press Harwood Centennial
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£40.50
Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S. Vasily Kandinsky Around the Circle
Book SynopsisTwenty-first-century Kandinsky: a reappraisal of the Russian abstractionist's art, life and thought through the extraordinary collection of the iconic museumOne of the foremost artistic innovators of abstraction in the 20th century, Vasily Kandinsky sought to liberate painting from its ties to the natural world and promote the spiritual in art. This richly illustrated publication looks at Kandinsky anew, through a critical lens, reframing our understanding of this vital figure of European modernism, who was also a prolific aesthetic theorist and writer.A series of thematic essays considers his engagement with avant-garde artistic communities including the Bauhaus, his relationship to improvisation and music, his travels in Europe and Russia, and the influences behind his self-declared anarchist mode of abstraction, among other topics. Tracing Kandinsky's life and work through his years in Moscow, several cities in Germany, and Paris, the texts offer strik
£40.50
Richard Dennis Golden Hours The Paintings of Arthur J Elsley
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£23.75
Hurtwood Press Moholinushk
Book SynopsisA monograph on the work of Annick Tonti (19512023), known by her alias moholinushk, featuring refined and singular drawings that observe the world around her through circles and balanced geometric compositions made across her eight years as a practising artist. Annick Tonti (19512023), known by her alias moholinushk, produced an incredibly refined and singular body of work in her eight years as a practising artist. Her drawings reveal keen observation of the world around her, expressed through circles and balanced geometric compositions. Later collections saw her language expand to include looser, organic forms, underpinned by a meticulous choice of materials. The publication features 163 drawings by Annick Tonti, along with a foreword by her husband, Matti Weinberg, a biography by Bettina Diem and an essay by Rebecca Alcaraz. Born in Tours, France, with Tunisian and French roots, Annick Tonti made drawings throughout the last eight years of her life, from 201523, following her retirement in 2013. The artist's practice was shaped by her career as a diplomat, leading on social, economic and political development in Palestine, Jordan and Bangladesh among other locations, and her discipline and sensitivity played vital roles in all aspects of her work. As Weinberg notes: In this way, her art reflects not just a section of her life but the whole of her person.' In addition to past interviews with the artist, the publication includes letters and notes written by Annick Tonti. These reflect on connections to Islamic geometry, Japanese graphic art and the Bauhaus, evidencing the research and careful thought that went into each of her smallscale abstract drawings, typically made with combinations of coloured pencil, chalk pastel, ink and watercolour on paper. New photography of the artist's studio near Zurich, taken by Zoe Tempest, further illuminates her practice in this calm and creative space.
£44.00
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Collective Vision Creating a Contemporary Art
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£19.00
The University of Chicago Press The Theatrical Baroque
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the dialogue between the newly-invigorated European theatre of the late 16th and 17th centuries, and the plastic arts. The interactions between the spectator and the spectacle, social performance and the staging of the individual are discussed.
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