Individual artists, art monographs Books
Valiz Brian O'Doherty/Patrick Ireland: Word, Image and
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£23.75
Valiz Destroyed House
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£28.50
MER Paper Kunsthalle The Department of Subterranea
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£33.25
MER Paper Kunsthalle Mare Medi Terraneum
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£10.93
MER Paper Kunsthalle Werner Cuvelier
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£28.02
MER Paper Kunsthalle La Chose, Meme
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£27.55
MER Paper Kunsthalle Ground
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£26.12
MER Paper Kunsthalle Mystic Transport
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£23.75
MER Paper Kunsthalle Tongue
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£38.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle Off by Heart and Out of Breath: A Silva Rerum
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£23.75
MER Paper Kunsthalle Parallellen 1975-2016
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£23.75
MER Paper Kunsthalle Projet Pour Un Jardin
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£27.55
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Fred Bervoets: 2015 - 2019
Book SynopsisFred Bervoets (b. 1942) is a legend in the Belgian art world and revered by the younger generation of artists. For years he has made both expansive, teeming artworks and extremely traditional prints, the latter of which has seen him develop his own unique technique. Although his spontaneous and gestural style seems to accord with Expressionism, Fauvism or Cobra art, Bervoets is above all an idiosyncratic artist who uncompromisingly treads his own path and gives free reign to his imagination. A simple anecdote from a friend in a café might provide the catalyst for a work in which the story assumes new proportions and adopts its own twists. His personal life also engenders self-portraits or other types of artworks, all crowned with an essential degree of self-mockery and irony. Bervoets allows everyday events to expand into miniature universes governed by their own rules and laws. The horror vacui of his large paintings conceals countless details, all of which contribute to the narrative. Bervoets' works might seem playful but they are tinged with melancholy. His caricatural figures are compelled to stand their ground in a denuded world. They achieve this by completely surrendering, with the necessary humour, to the inevitability of life. In recent years, Bervoets has increasingly presented himself as a peintre-graveur. This means he does not use the etching technique as a method of reproduction but as a means of expression. Each and every one of his chaotic and colourful works testifies to his pictorial passions, consummate skill and unbridled energy. This book presents the evocative work produced by Fred Bervoets between 2015 and 2019, including his most recent Night Drawings series, the masterful embodiment of the nocturnal reveries and memories that persistently haunt his mind.
£31.20
Ludion Pieter Vermeersch: Variations
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£28.00
Onomatopee Deep Scroll
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£999.99
Kontejner Kontejner: Curatorial Perspectives on the Body,
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£28.50
Zavod October Re-evaluation
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£15.00
Landmark Books Pte.Ltd ,Singapore Changi Murals: The Story of Stanley Warren's War
Book SynopsisWhen Bombardier Stanley Warren first painted the Changi Murals in Luke's Chapel, Roberts Barracks, Singapore in 1942, his fellow prisoners knew so little about him that they made up their own 'myths' about the mysterious painter. This carefully researched account reveals the truth behind the man and his murals. It follows Stanley Warren's journey through World War II: from soldier, to prisoner of war, and his return to civillian life. It also tells of his remarkable, long-standing relationship with the murals - from when he was seriously ill as he began to paint the first of the five murals to how he was identified in 1959 as the lost artist of Changi, and how he returned twice to Singapore to restore the paintings. With over 70 illustrations, including full colour reproductions of the Changi Murals, archival photographs, sketches and maps.
£18.99
Chose Commune Words on Paper
£32.30
Chose Commune A. Duprez
£36.00
Cosmo Edition Amy Winehouse London girl
£20.15
Bloomsbury Academic Translating Warhol
Book SynopsisReva Wolf is Professor of Art History, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA.
£28.99
Fantagraphics Go Figure
£23.79
IDW Publishing Jack Kirbys Forever People Artists Edition
Book SynopsisCelebrate the King of Comics and marvel at the art of one of the greatest artists in comics history!Jack Kirby’s classic Fourth World epic told the story of a group of New Gods sent to Earth to oppose Darkseid. Featuring Beautiful Dreamer, Big Bear, Moonrider, and others, this was Kirby’s take on super-powered flower children!Included in this volume are the full issues for #1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and select pages from #8, with nearly all pages scanned from the originals. Like all of IDW’s award-winning Artist’s Edition books, each page has been painstakingly scanned from the original art to ensure the finest possible reproduction, mimicking the experience of seeing Kirby's hand-drawn pages—it’s the next best thing to owning the art! While appearing to be in black and white, each page is scanned in color to replicate as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual original art, including corrections, blue pencils, paste-overs, and all the other little nuances that make original art unique.
£102.00
Notion Press, Inc. Justin Bieber
£9.54
The University of Chicago Press Bas Jan Ader
Book SynopsisOn July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. The author resituates Ader's art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.Trade Review"Alexander Dumbadze is a wonderfully engaging writer. He concentrates tremendous psychological energy in the telling of a taut and revealing story. This is one of the most compelling pieces of art writing that I have yet encountered." (Matthew Jesse Jackson, University of Chicago)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press A General History of Quadrupeds
Book SynopsisShowcases the author's engraving techniques that allowed text and images to be published on the same page. This book features engravings of over four hundred animals alongside descriptions of their characteristics as scientifically understood at the time.
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Picturing Time
Book SynopsisA complete, illustrated survey of Etienne-Jules Marey's work that investigates the far reaching effects of her inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Pt. 1: Marey and His Work 1: Brains in His Fingertips 2: The Writing of Life: The Graphic Method 3: Reinventing the Camera: The Photographic Method 4: Animating Images: The Cinematographic Method 5: The Last Work Pt. 2: Marey's Legacy 6: Marey, Muybridge, and Motion Pictures 7: Marey, Modern Art, and Modernism 8: Marey and the Organization of Work Conclusion: Inventing the Inventor Catalog 1: Photographic Negatives and Prints Catalog 2: Original Chronophotographic and Photographic Experiments Catalog 3: Films Notes Bibliography of Works by Marey Index
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Pope.L
Book SynopsisWorking in range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and writing, this book pokes fun at and interrogates American society's pretenses, the bankruptcy of contemporary mores, and the resulting repercussions for a civil society.
£39.00
The University of Chicago Press Bas Jan Ader
Book SynopsisOn July 9, 1975, artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, for Palmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. He was never seen again. This book features biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Aders' work.Trade Review"Dumbadze strips away the romantic-tragic myth to reveal a deliberate, ambitious, and philosophical artist. He compares Ader to other important Southern California figures like Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein, and Allen Ruppersberg....And he suggests that Ader's spectacular final voyage is just one of many reasons we should be thinking about him today." (New York Times)
£18.58
The University of Chicago Press Aspects
Book SynopsisStretching lengths of yarn across interior spaces, American artist Fred Sandback (1943 2003) created expansive works that underscore the physical presence of the viewer. This book, the first major study of Sandback, explores the full range of his art, which not only disrupts traditional conceptions of material presence, but also stages an ethics of interaction between object and observer. Drawing on Sandback's substantial archive, Edward A. Vazquez demonstrates that the artist's work with all its physical slightness and attentiveness to place, as well as its relationship to minimal and conceptual art of the 1960s creates a link between viewers and space that is best understood as sculptural even as it almost surpasses physical form. At the same time, the economy of Sandback's site-determined practice draws viewers' focus to their connection to space and others sharing it. As Vazquez shows, Sandback's art aims for nothing less than a total recalibration of the senses, as the spectator is caught on neither one side nor the other of an object or space, but powerfully within it.
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press Like Andy Warhol
Book SynopsisScholarly considerations of Andy Warhol abound, including very fine catalogues raisonne, notable biographies, and essays in various exhibition catalogues and anthologies. But nowhere is there an in-depth scholarly examination of Warhol's oeuvre as a whole until now. Jonathan Flatley's Like Andy Warhol is a revelatory look at the artist's likeness-producing practices, not only reflected in his famous Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe silkscreens, but across Warhol's whole range of interests including movies, drag queens, boredom, and his sprawling collections. Flatley shows us that Warhol's art is an illustration of the artist's own talent for liking. He argues that there is in Warhol's productions a utopian impulse, an attempt to imagine new, queer forms of emotional attachment and affiliation, and to transform the world into a place where these forms find a new home. Like Andy Warhol is not just the best full-length critical study of Warhol in print, it is also an instant classi
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press The Evolutionary Biology of Plants
Book SynopsisMathews's standard biography of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), based on extensive research in archives in this country and family records in France, where Tanner emigrated before the turn of the century to find freedom and acceptance, provides a full account of Tanner's life and art.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Andy Warhol Publisher
Book SynopsisMulroney finds a new way in for thinking about Warhol: through his multifarious publishing activities, which included Interview magazine and mainstream books of pop philosophy and artistic reflection, and which ran throughout his career and formed a big part of his own understanding of how to communicate about art.
£39.90
The University of Chicago Press Poetry of Mourning The Modern Elegy from Hardy to
Book SynopsisO'Gorman discusses the individual and collective achievement of the recognized trinity of American architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). He traces the evolution of forms created during these architects' careers, emphasizing the interrelationships among them and focusing on the designs and executed buildings that demonstrate those interrelationships. O'Gorman also shows how each envisioned the building types demanded by the growth of nineteenth-century cities and suburbs--the downtown skyscraper and the single-family home. [A] brilliant analysis ...a major contribution to our understanding of the beginnings of modern American architecture.--David Hamilton Eddy, Times Higher Education Supplement.
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press WritingsInterviews
Book SynopsisFrom essays like Extended Notes from Sight Point Road to Serra's extended commentary on the Tilted Arc fiasco, the pieces in this volume comprise a document of one artist's engagement with the practical, philosophical and political problems of art.
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The University of Chicago Press William Kentridge
Book SynopsisSouth African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art, media, and theater. In 2010, and again in 2013, he staged Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera; after the premiere, the New York Times noted that Kentridge, who directed this production, helped design the sets and created the videos that animate the staging, received the heartiest bravos. In this book, Jane Taylor, Kentridge's friend and frequent collaborator, invites us to take an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at his work for the show. Kentridge has long been admired for his unconventional use of conventional media to produce art that is stunning, evocative, and narratively powerful and how he works is as important as what he creates. This book is more than just a simple record of The Nose. The opera serves as a springboard into a bracing conversation about how Kentridge's methods serve his unique mode of expression as a narrative and political artist. Taylor draws on his etchings, sculptures, and drawings to render visible the communication that occurs between his mind and hand as he thinks through the activity of making. Beautifully illustrated in color, William Kentridge offers striking insights about one of the most innovative artists of our present moment.
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The University of Chicago Press Like Andy Warhol
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Jonathan Flatley's Like Andy Warhol presents a compelling alternative to the preconceived conception of Warhol as a cold, crass materialist making affirmative icons to bolster transcendent, glamorous, consumer identification. Flatley instead shows Warhol thinking through ways to approach and share in the feelings of loss, failure, and disidentification that the United States’s glossy consumerist iconography generates.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Offers an uncensored look at Warhol, emphasizing his identity as a gay man and his importance as a gay icon. Flatley includes extensive treatment of Warhol's risqué side and explorations of cultural taboos. . .Recommended.” * Choice *“Flatley’s Like Andy Warhol emerges from a rich and inventive essay on Warhol that he wrote for October, ‘Like: Collecting and Collectivity’.5 If you liked that, then you’ll like this. In its exploration of Warhol and the complex dynamics of liking, Like Andy Warhol extends Flatley’s longstanding interrogation of Warhol’s career and his interest in the operations of affect. Like Andy Warhol draws heavily on several previously published essays, but synthesizes these (with much new material) into an elaborate, erudite, and sophisticated whole. This is a major contribution to academic writing on Warhol, and will I suspect serve as a major touchstone and reference point for future work on the artist.” * Oxford Art Journal *“Ambitious and intriguing. . .Flatley offers a compelling argument against the commonplace understanding that Warhol’s art, “and machine-like use of repetition,” as a stance against being affected.” * The Gay and Lesbian Review *“An inventive and wholly persuasive reconsideration of Warhol, Like Andy Warhol is easy to read; it is also beautifully organized. In clear, jargon-free prose, the book follows ideas, not arguments. It draws on the strengths of queer theory, affect theory, social theory, and art history without getting bogged down in side battles, often the locus for disciplinary turf wars. Yet it is not reductive: it delivers the full complexity of its ideas without compromising accessibility. Flatley has written an exemplary book that will change people’s understanding not only of Warhol but of what interdisciplinary scholarship can do. It will attract readers interested in the 1960s and its influence on the political conditions of our own times, and will persuade anyone skeptical of the powerful effects art can have.” * GLQ *“This is a brilliant, remarkably original study of Andy Warhol. Flatley will change—even reverse—the way in which both specialists and laypersons understand Warhol, his oft-noted repetitions, his seeming affectlessness, and his importance to late twentieth and twenty-first-century culture. Like Andy Warhol is not just the best full-length critical study of Andy Warhol in print. It is destined to become an instant classic of queer theory.” * Sianne Ngai, author of Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting *“Flatley takes Warhol’s promiscuous interests—his extraordinary ‘talent for liking things’—seriously as a utopian praxis. In doing so, Flatley shows how Warhol helps us see likeness across differences, whether those differences are between a gay man’s sense of his identity and what he desires—say, James Dean—or between the whiteness of Marilyn Monroe and the blackness of the African Americans who are attacked by racist police in the race riots. Like Andy Warhol is beautifully written, always clear and readable, and carefully, methodically argued. It is a groundbreaking book and a pleasure to read.” * Douglas Crimp, author of Before Pictures *“What I like most about Flatley’s book is that mostly, it isn’t just about great works of art, but rather misfits, rejects, and things that don’t fully belong–like Warhol’s favorite swimmer in the Esther Williams film who jumped at the wrong time. . . . Where Flatley succeeds in giving us a Warhol that we could use more of today.” * Social Text *“Across four chapters that examine different facets of Warhol’s practice—his extensive collecting, his desire to be a machine, his interest in boredom, and his paintings that meditate on race—Flatley takes seriously Warhol’s mission to like everything and everybody. In doing so, the author provides a monograph that it is not simply another study of the artist, but a breakthrough for theories of queerness and affect. For Flatley and Warhol, liking serves as a condition of possibility for living a life that is open to being affected in a world that actively discredits affect.” * ASAP Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Like 1 Collecting and Collectivity 2 Art Machine 3 Allegories of Boredom 4 Skin Problems Acknowledgments Abbreviations Index
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Columbia University Press Artaud the Moma
Book SynopsisIn 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art on Antonin Artaud. Artaud the Moma reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida—and to art and its institutional history. It is a powerful interjection into the museum halls, a crucial moment in Derrida’s thought, and an insightful reading of a challenging writer and artist.Trade ReviewOne of Derrida's most extraordinarily deep and and virtuosic texts and one of the best ever written about Artaud. -- Denis Hollier, New York UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceArtaud the MomaAfterword, by Kaira M. CabañasNotesAcknowledgments, by Kaira M. Cabañas
£49.50
Columbia University Press Robert Rauschenberg An Oral History The Columbia
Book SynopsisRobert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that tells the story of one of the twentieth century's great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his lifefamily, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators.Trade ReviewFall in love with Robert Rauschenberg, galactic master of art and life, through his worldwide collaborations. -- Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein FoundationThe informative and entertaining voices of this solid work are as idiosyncratic as the artist himself. This is an excellent history for fans of Rauschenberg and mid-20th-century art. * Publishers Weekly *This makes oral history a peculiarly apposite way of approaching him. The voices in Sara Sinclair’s new book appear as randomly put together as do the car tyre and stuffed goat of Rauschenberg’s combine 'Monogram'. . . . And it is this fabrication that makes Sinclair’s book so fine. Rauschenberg emerges from it less as a painting than as a combine; which is to say, a Rauschenberg. -- Charles Darwent * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPrefaceReader’s GuideAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Small World2. Collaborations3. 381 Lafayette Street4. Captiva5. Travelogue6. Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI)7. Curating and Installations8. An Expanding American Art Market9. No One Wanted It to EndNetwork DiagramsNarratorsNotesIndex
£80.39
Columbia University Press Robert Rauschenberg
Book SynopsisRobert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that tells the story of one of the twentieth century's great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his lifefamily, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators.Trade ReviewFall in love with Robert Rauschenberg, galactic master of art and life, through his worldwide collaborations. -- Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein FoundationThe informative and entertaining voices of this solid work are as idiosyncratic as the artist himself. This is an excellent history for fans of Rauschenberg and mid-20th-century art. * Publishers Weekly *This makes oral history a peculiarly apposite way of approaching him. The voices in Sara Sinclair’s new book appear as randomly put together as do the car tyre and stuffed goat of Rauschenberg’s combine 'Monogram'. . . . And it is this fabrication that makes Sinclair’s book so fine. Rauschenberg emerges from it less as a painting than as a combine; which is to say, a Rauschenberg. -- Charles Darwent * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPrefaceReader’s GuideAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Small World2. Collaborations3. 381 Lafayette Street4. Captiva5. Travelogue6. Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI)7. Curating and Installations8. An Expanding American Art Market9. No One Wanted It to EndNetwork DiagramsNarratorsNotesIndex
£22.00
University of Illinois Press Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago
Book Synopsis Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jóse Gamaliel González, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted over a period of six years by his friend Marc Zimmerman, González looks back on his life and his role in developing Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art as a fundamental dimension of the city he came to call home. Born near Monterey, Mexico, and raised in a steel mill town in northwest Indiana, González studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. Settling in Chicago, he founded two major art groups: El Movimiento Artístico Chicano (MARCH) in the 1970s and Mi Raza Arts Consortium (MIRA) in the 1980s. With numerous illustrations, this book portrays González''s all-but-forgotten communiTrade Review"A fascinating personal and artistic odyssey. González's story is about community art and community organizing, how art informs politics, and, conversely, how politics informs art."--Victor Alejandro Sorell, University Distinguished Professor of Art History and Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Chicago State University "A unique contribution to the story of Latino arts. Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago reveals a highly personal story of one participant's involvement in events that illuminate the difficulties, obstacles, and conflicts he experienced in the arts movement."--Theresa Delgadillo, assistant professor of comparative studies at Ohio State University "Gónzalez was a tireless and forceful artist-activist who struggled to promote Latino arts in the community and mainstream. His life story gives the reader a glipse into the rise of Latino popular art and politics. His autobiography fills a substantial gap in the cultural history of Chicago's Latino community."--Latino Studies "[Editor] Zimmerman has filled an important need to document the life and art of José González . . . . the story, politics, and images are an important part of the history of Chicago and of the Latino community there."--Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
£77.35
University of Illinois Press The Architecture of Barry Byrne Taking the
Book SynopsisCharts the entire length of Byrne's work, highlighting its distinctive features while discussing the cultural conditions that kept Byrne in the shadows of his more famous contemporaries.Trade Review"Vincent Michael effectively promotes awareness of the innovative architecture of Barry Byrne, a prominent and important designer of modernist Catholic churches. This volume will be welcomed by readers interested in modern architecture and design, religious architecture, Catholic history, Chicago architecture, or Frank Lloyd Wright."--Dale Allen Gyure, author of The Chicago Schoolhouse: High School Architecture and Educational Reform, 1856-2006 "Michael's discussion of Byrne's work and life is rich with insight into the significance of the twentieth century Midwest. . . . While Michael's goal with this book was clearly to place Byrne within the larger story of modern architecture, we might just as easily use Byrne to place the Midwest within the larger story of the twentieth century."--Middle West Review "A very exciting topic and a study that is long overdue. Michael puts Barry Byrne's modernist perspective into the context of Catholic doctrine and Catholic architecture in a way that is illuminating and convincing."--Paul Kruty, author of Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens“Highly recommended to readers and scholars interested in modern architecture, Catholic church architecture, or the architecture of Wright and his Chicago buildings.”—Library Journal "Vincent L. Michael helps to restore Byrne to his rightful place as an important American architect who in many ways battled against the dominant trends of his time--both the traditionalists who resurrected past styles and also the European-based abstract modernism that became the dominant trend in the mid-twentieth century. An extremely valuable, well researched and written book that opens new doors into the architecture of the Midwest."--Journal of Illinois History
£45.00
University of Illinois Press Pop Trickster Fool
Book SynopsisAnalyzes Warhol's persona as performance art.Table of ContentsCultivating naivete, conjuring postmodernism; New York school's "out": Andy Warhol presents dumb and dumber; Anti-gogito: The search for Warhol's brain; "Free Andy" open forum:Tracking a man without a rudder; Rejuvenating camp; Conclusion
£16.14
Indiana University Press Railroads Art and American Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Few industries have contributed to the development of the United State as the railroads have. Behind the muscle and reach of these networks, the locomotives, the engineering feats is a human story. J. Craig Thorpe is one of the great artists we have who has captured the awe of this industry, its people and the land it serves. His art both educates and inspires us because there is a reverence to his work and an incomparable dedication to detail. What could have been a book simply cataloging his art is so much more because it is also about his journey in life, the people he met, the way he conceptualized his art and, perhaps most poignantly, wondering how this type of art will survive in a digital age. Whether you simply like trains or appreciate the beauty of art in its purest form, then this book should be a part of your library."—Joe McHugh; Amtrak Executive, 1994-2020"J. Craig Thorpe is a dear friend to the White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) because he augmented the brand with artwork that communicated the railway's history, scenery and experience. His work was featured on more than a decade of the coveted annual wall calendars and an extensive retail product line. His numerous works showcasing the White Pass' events, rolling stock and facilities are testament to the depth of WP&YR relationship with Craig. I celebrate his friendship and artwork as a legacy memory of my years at the White Pass. I invite everyone to join Craig through this book as he shares highlights of this vision and passion for railroads through his experience and artwork."—Michael D. Brandt; former Sr. Vice President, White Pass & Yukon Route"Craig Thorpe has put together a fascinating collection of railroad art. Most of these images are Thorpe's posters done for railroad advertising and some for fans for good rail art. There are historic scenes such as GN's Empire Builder arriving in Minneapolis and a B&O streamliner at Silver Spring, MD. Contemporary settings include a dramatic late afternoon view of an Amtrak train on Hell Gate Bridge and trains passing Glacier National Park. Some vintage rail art, such as Jasper Cropsey's "Starrucca Viaduct" and Pennsy's WWII version of "Rosie the Riveter" are included. Unquestionably Thorpe has produced a book worthy of many a library."—Rush Loving Jr., author of The Men Who Loved TrainsTable of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Unfolding a Career2. Shaped by the Message3. Painting the Past4. Painting the Present5. Painting the Possible6. From Commission to CelebrationEpilogueNotesIndex
£28.80
University of Texas Press Covarrubias
Book SynopsisA sparkling account of the life and times of a couple who fostered a renaissance of interest in the history and traditional arts of Mexico's indigenous peoples.Trade Review"[Williams'] detailed account of the lives, work and friends of Miguel and Rosa Covarrubias brings alive what some regard as the Golden Age of Mexican art in the 30s and 40s... Covarrubias is a handsomely produced and well presented book that gives a full and enlightening account of the career of the man who Antonio Rodriguez described as '...the encyclopedic artist of Mexico's rebirth...' in his El Nacional eulogy." - British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain "The rich tapestry of Mexican cultural life in the 1940s that [this book] evokes is spellbinding ..." - Cynthia Steele, associate professor of Spanish, University of WashingtonTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beginnings (1904-1923) 2. The Twenties, Part One (1923-1924) 3. The Twenties, Part Two (1924-1929) 4. The Thirties, Part One (1930-1932) 5. The Thirties, Part Two (1932-1937) 6. The Thirties, Part Three (1935-1939) 7. The Forties, Part One (1940-1942) 8. The Forties, Part Two (1942) 9. The Forties, Part Three (1943-1949) 10. The Fifties, Part One (1950-1952) 11. The Fifties, Part Two (1952-1954) 12. The Fifties, Part Three (1955-1957) 13. Afterward (1957-1970) Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press Dan Rizzie
Book SynopsisInternationally acclaimed for paintings, collages, and prints that draw inspiration from sources as diverse as twentieth-century modernism, the geometry of Cubism and Minimalism, nineteenth-century English botanical illustrations, and the floral and geometic forms of traditional Indian and Egyptian art, Dan Rizzie is an artist with a seemingly endless capacity to absorb visual information and transform it into a unique iconography of the natural world. Since the mid-1970s, he has had some ninety solo exhibitions and has been included in over one hundred group exhibitions. Rizzie’s work is in the permanent collections of leading art museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Parrish Art Museum, and the Dallas Museum of Art.Dan Rizzie is the first monograph on this major American artist. It presents a hundred works to showcase an artistic career trajectory that has been both broad-ranging and consistent over four decades. Jane Livingston sets Rizzie’s wTable of ContentsIntroduction. Dan Rizzie: Building and Repairing (Jane Livingston)Plates 1My Train of Thought Makes Many Stops: Interview with Dan Rizzie (Terrie Sultan)Plates 2A Singular Modernist: Dan Rizzie as Printmaker (Mark Smith)List of PlatesExhibition HistorySelected CollectionsSelected BibliographyAcknowledgments
£48.60
MU - University of Texas Press José Clemente Orozco
Book SynopsisThe autobiography of one of Mexico's greatest artists.Table of Contents Introduction Presentation 1. Posada Inspires Me. San Carlos. Fabrés. 2. Dr. Atl and Julio Ruelas. Artistic Colonialism. The Revolution in Mexican Painting. Copying Velázquez. 3. Gedovius’ Studios. Rival Exhibitions in 1910. The Artistic Center. The Son of Ahuizote. The Student Strike. Raziel Cabildo. 4. Ramos Martínez. Barbizon in Santa Anita. My Studio on Illescas. My Wartime Exploits. Victoriano Huerta. Gambling Halls and Conscription. The Theatre Maria Tepache. 5. Dr. Atl Returns. Handing Out Money. The House of the World Worker. Orizaba. Storming and Sacking Churches. Red Battalions. The Vanguard. 6. Customs Officers in Laredo, Texas. San Francisco, California. Fernando G. Galván and Company. The League of Nations. Expulsion from Canada. 7. Shocks and Conflicts. Mass Meetings. The Bearded Lady. Costumed Fleas. The Sermon on the Mount Falsified. The Donkey Paints a Picture. 8. The Table Is Set. First Efforts. The Painters, Their Critical Powers. Jean Charlot. European Painting. Artists Today. 9. The Syndicate of Painters and Sculptors. The Manifesto. Socialization of Art. Bourgeois Art and Proletarian Art. Rectifications. 10. The History of Mexico. Indians, Spaniards, and Mestizos. How the Conquest Should Have Gone. 11. The Machete. The United Group of the Working Class Movement. Asúnsolo and His Stonecutters. Vandalism. Fanfare. Pulque-Shop Painting. 12. My Second Visit to New York. Harlem. The Yiddish Theatre. Naples in New York. Alma Reed and Eva Sikelianos. And Sarojini Naidu. The Untouchables. 13. I Become a Greek. Laurel Wreaths. The Crash. Surrealistic Economy. The Delphic Studios. The Tsar of Russia’s Clock. Pomona and Prometheus. Home, Sweet Home. 14. Painting in the School for Social Research. Dynamic Symmetry. The Secret of Beauty. 15. Raphael’s Cartoons—London, Paris, Italy, and Spain. Dartmouth College. Index
£15.19
