Individual artists, art monographs Books
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Adam Pendleton
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£999.99
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Sadie Benning Shared Eye
Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated volume offers an in-depth look into artist Sadie Benning's exhibition Shared Eye, presented at the Renaissance Society and the Kunsthalle Basel. The forty mixed-media panels in Shared Eye defy easy categorization: they include collage, painting, photography, and sculpture. The seriality of the installation also nods to the artist's history with the moving image. Throughout the 1990s, Benning created an extraordinary body of experimental video work, improvising with materials at hand and a toy camera. More than two decades later, in Shared Eye we see the handmade aesthetic, grainy imagery, and durational logic of Benning's early videos take on different forms to correspond to our current moment. The catalog documents the exhibition in full color, and it features an interview between the artist and Julie Ault, essays by John Corbett and Christine Mehring, and an introduction by the Renaissance Society's executive director, Solveig Øvstebø, and Elena Filipovic, director of Kunsthalle Basel. These texts provide illuminating framework for the exhibition and key insights into how Benning pushes the limits of abstraction in response to our present political climate.
£999.99
Reaktion Books The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash
Book SynopsisA full survey of Paul Nash's work, from the ravaged Flanders landscapes of World War One to the spectacular aerial battles of World War Two and the meditative late oils, his final masterpieces.
£999.99
Wheelwright Museum of American Indian Arthur Amiotte Collages 19882006 Collages
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£999.99
Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art Complementary Contrasts
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£33.25
West Virginia University Press Richard Kidwell Miller
Book SynopsisWith striking contrasts, bold colors, and powerful textures and lines, Richard Kidwell Miller's art is abstract, yet integrated and powerful, while sensuous. In 2004, Richard Kidwell Miller's work was displayed at West Virginia University. This lushly illustrated book encompasses that exhibit, as curator John A. Cuthbert narrates Miller's development as a student, artist, and teacher.Trade Review“This is the first book to describe Miller’s oeuvre and it does so handsomely.”E.H. Teague, University of OregonTable of Contents•Foreword •Richard Kidwell Miller: "What's Next?" •Catalogue of he Exhibition •Artist's Statment •Appendices • Selected Exhibitions • Selected Collections • Awards •Bibliography •Acknowledgements
£999.99
Saturnalia Books Midnights PoetArtist Collaboration
Book SynopsisPoet Jane Miller collaborates with artist Beverly Pepper on a highly personal journey through the debris of the poet's crumbling relationship, and her mother's descent into illness. Beautifully rendered poems and short chapters of poetic prose combine with Pepper's chalk and oil drawings to form an intimate and unique meditation on the nature of love, of heartache, of the many midnights we, each and every one of us, live through and carry with us through our lives. The goal is not to make sense of, but art of this story, writes poet C.D. Wright in her introduction. The goal is not to make a story but to experience the whole mess. There are mental sufferings and physical sufferings to go through; to apprehend if one can. There are the spent casings of history to sift through, pick up and examine. Calm-like, hysterical, forensic. This life not just a worn passage. In the end, the light shines through Miller's midnights and the rewards of passing through the darkness with her are countles
£15.00
Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. Transcultural Pilgrim
Book SynopsisInvites the reader into Bedia's spiritual worlds, which range from his Cuban birthplace to Central Africa and to the indigenous Americas
£26.59
Square Halo Books The Art of Guy Chase
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£18.99
The Trout Gallery Reflections Undercurrents
Book SynopsisRoth's most important achievements are the views he did of Venice between 1905 and 1941
£26.60
Power Publications Jacky Redgate
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£28.50
University of Washington Press Paul Havas
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£30.40
Wheelwright Museum of American Indian Lit The Work of Rose B Simpson The Work of Rose B
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£999.99
Sequence Press Doomed and Famous Selected Obituaries
Book SynopsisAn obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.In Doomed and Famous, an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to memorialize those whose eccentricity or criminality made them unlikely candidates for the fleeting immortality of a newspaper necrology. Dannatt maintained a veritable lust, perverse certainly, for capturing and celebrating such wayward existences. This book is a selection of some of the best—meaning most improbable—of these miniature biographies.Here are arranged an almost fictive cast of characters including an imaginary Sephardic count in Wisconsin, a sadomasochist collector of the world's rarest clocks, a dis
£22.95
Random House USA Inc Keeping an Eye Open Essays on Art Vintage
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art—from the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending. “An engaging and empathetic volume.” —The New York Times Book Review As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting … But it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.” This is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. In his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Barnes had a chapter on Géricault’s The Raft of the Medus
£18.00
Penguin Putnam Inc In Montparnasse
Book SynopsisAs she did for the Modernists In Montmartre, noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tells the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse. In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dalâi''s Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary years unfolded, the Surrealists found ever more innovative ways of exploring the interior life, and asking new questions about how to define art. In Montparnasse recounts how this artistic revolution came to be amidst thesalons and cafâes of that vibrant neighborhood. Sue Roe is both an incisive art critic of these pieces and a beguiling biographer with a fingertip feel for this compelling world. Beginning with Duchamp, Roe then takes us through the rise of the Dada movement, the birth of Surrealist photography with Man Ray, the creation of key works by Ernst, Cocteau, and others, through the arrival of Dalâi. On canvas and in their readymades and other works these artists juxtaposed objects never before seen together tomake the viewer marvel at the ordinary--and at the workings of the subconscious. We see both how this art came to be and how the artists of Montparnasse lived. Roe puts us with Gertrude Stein in her box seat at the opening of The Rite of Spring; with Duchamp as he installs his famous urinal; at a Cocteau theatrical with Picasso and Coco Chanel; with Breton at a session with Freud; and with Man Ray as he romances Kiki de Montparnasse--
£15.30
Picador USA Koba the Dread
£19.10
St Martin's Press The Shores of Bohemia
Book SynopsisAn intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth centuryTheir names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropiusthe list goes on and on. Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation's workforce and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century, they gathered in the streets of Greenwich Village and on the beachfronts of Cape Cod. They began as progressives but soon turned to socialism, then communism. They founded theaters, periodicals, and art schools. They formed editorial boards that met in beach shacks and performed radical new plays in a shanty on the docks, where they could see the ocean through cracks in the floor. They welcomed the tremendous wave of talent fleeing Europe in the 1930s. At the end of their era, in th
£16.14
St Martin's Press Sybil Cyril
Book SynopsisFrom Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocutsstreamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow's Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depres
£999.99
WW Norton & Co Kiki Man Ray
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Exquisitely crafted…[S]harp and succinct…Kiki Man Ray rescues its protagonist from the dustbin of history and advocates eloquently for the vitality and importance of the world she helped to forge." -- Hamilton Cain - Wall Street Journal"Absorbing and insightful…[Braude] has written a biography worthy of [Kiki de Montparnasse], alive with anecdote and incident…You just become so glad to know her." -- Charles Finch - Boston Globe"[A] heady romp through the galleries and nightclubs of interwar France." -- Vogue"[An] exuberantly entertaining biography." -- Joanna Scutts - New York Times Book Review"Braude’s biography argues that the pair’s long love affair was mutually galvanizing, and that Kiki was not just a muse but an artist in her own right." -- The New Yorker"Splendid…Braude brings [Kiki de Montparnasse] vividly to life and argues that she deserves to be remembered as a significant cultural figure in her own right." -- Ann Levin - Associated Press"If the only 'Kiki de Montparnasse' you are aware of is a lingerie brand, please check out this top-notch, highly readable nonfiction from cultural historian Mark Braude right now." -- Cat Auer - A.V. Club"[A] comprehensive page-turner." -- Sloane Crosley - Departures Magazine"[An] affectionate biography…As irresistible as it is overdue." -- Chicago Review of Books"With vibrant prose as beguiling as Kiki herself…Braude's exuberant, absorbing biography stands Kiki at the 'white-hot center' of 1920s Montparnasse, reclaiming her rightful place." -- Janet Somerville - Toronto Star"[Kiki is] a vibrant force in a colorful world—and the heart of Braude’s history. A rich, affectionate look at bohemian Paris." -- Kirkus Reviews"Kiki Man Ray is a thoroughly researched and gracefully written life of the (until now) underestimated model, performer, painter, actress, and influencer known as Kiki de Montparnasse. Mark Braude’s biography brings her out of the wings and sets her firmly center stage in this evocative portrait of artistic life in the Paris of the 1920s." -- Carolyn Burke, author of Foursome and Lee Miller"Finally, a detailed and entertaining account of Alice Prin, a/k/a Kiki de Montparnasse, and her artistic and romantic relationship with Man Ray. Best known as a popular (and usually nude) artists’ model, Kiki was a singer and performer, a painter, a writer, and the central female instigator for the avant-garde demimonde of Paris in the 1920s. Mark Braude’s writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself." -- Jim Jarmusch"Kiki de Montparnasse was more than a muse—she was a vivacious, independent woman whose talent and magnetism helped make Paris the center of the art world in the 1920s. In Mark Braude’s riveting cultural history, the Queen of Montparnasse rises again. This is a lively and compassionate tribute to the chanteuse, model, and portraitist who held center stage in her life, and who inspired some of the finest Surrealist art of the twentieth century." -- Heather Clark, author of Pulitzer Prize–finalist Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath"A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just the kaleidoscopically talented Kiki herself, but the endlessly fascinating Montparnasse milieu over which she reigned." -- Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light"Man Ray captured 1920s Paris in his photographs, especially those of a singular muse: Kiki de Montparnasse, a hostess, a celebrity, a cabaret performer, a woman whose bawdy, heartfelt songs were the pulse of Paris. Mark Braude turns the tables—and the lens—and gives us a unique portrait: Man Ray from the perspective of that celebrated muse and her ephemeral art of performance." -- Tilar J. Mazzeo, New York Times best-selling author of The Hotel on Place Vendôme: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris"Kiki de Montparnasse—model, muse, artist—is the sole realist in a room of Surrealists. Unafraid of contradiction, she lived the fast life in the stillness of a pose, the intimacy of a public dream. Beautifully written, with a light touch and a wise eye, Mark Braude’s Kiki Man Ray arranges the elements of Kiki’s life, letting radiant patterns emerge." -- Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
£14.55
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Photographic Realism The Art of Richard
Book SynopsisKieran Cashell lectures in Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland. He is author of Aftershock: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art (2009).Trade Review[T]he first comprehensive monograph on the artist, complete with interviews ... Cashell stresses the iconographic and thematic correspondences that recur throughout Billingham’s work, whose camerawork constantly questions the conditions of a photographic realism that is neither sentimental nor sensationalist. * Critique d'Art *Kieran Cashell is a gifted writer and academic. He expertly draws from a wide palette of writers and theorists including Beckett and Freud to present us with a brilliant and original analysis of the complex and intriguing work of Richard Billingham. * Eoin Devereux, University of Limerick, Ireland and University of Jyvasklya, Finland *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Still Pursuing the Real 1. A Sociologist’s Paradise: Early Studies 1990-1994 2. Prole Art Threat: Ray’s a Laugh (1996) 3. They Fuck You Up: Sensation / Fishtank (1997-1998) 4. Outside: Black Country (1997-2003) / Landscapes (2001-2003) 5. Enclosure: Zoo (2004-2006) 6. Home: Recent Cinematic Work (2015-2018) Conclusion: Locating Billingham in the Context of British Neorealism Notes Index
£115.98
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ellen Emmet Rand
Book SynopsisEllen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important and prolific portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the 20th century. She negotiated her career, reputation, family, and finances in modern and commercially savvy ways, revealing the complex negotiations needed to balance these competing pressures. Engaging with newly available archival documents and featuring scholars with radically different approaches to visual culture, this book not only seeks to interrogate the meaning of Rand's portraits and her career, but indeed to rethink gender, art, race, business, and modernism in the 20th century.Trade ReviewBoasting a stellar interdisciplinary lineup of scholars covering everything from body politics to market analysis, this collection brilliantly accomplishes its aim of ‘rewilding’ Rand into the art-historical landscape and doing full justice to the complexities of her art and life. * Sarah Burns, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA *In this invaluable exploration of Rand’s art and career, Boylan and her co-contributors critically mine an array of archival material, while attending closely to her portraits. Situating her personal aesthetic and patronage in a broader socio-economic context, they reveal why Rand matters then and now. * Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator In Charge of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Series Editor’s Introduction Acknowledgements Introduction, The Rewilding of Ellen Emmet Rand, Alexis L. Boylan (University of Connecticut, USA) Part 1: Crafting a Career 1. Ellen Emmet Rand’s Self-Portrait: Picturing the Professional Body, Betsy Fahlman (Arizona State University, USA) 2. Among Women, between Men: Launching a Career, 1896-1900, Elizabeth Lee (Dickinson College, USA) 3. People, Places, Prizes, and Prices, Susan Spiggle (University of Connecticut, USA) Part 2: Working the Scene 4. The Power of Profile: Ellen Emmet Rand and Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Thayer Tolles (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA) 5. Work What You’ve Got: The Contrasting Careers of Tade Styka and Ellen Emmet Rand, William Ashley Harris (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, USA) 6. Artist and Amazon: The Sporting Paintings of Ellen Emmet Rand, Claudia P. Pfeiffer (National Sporting Library & Museum, USA) Part 3: Shifting Bodies 7. Hide and Seek: Ellen Emmet Rand, Childhood and US Art Study in France, c. 1898, Emily C. Burns (Auburn University, USA) 8. Ellen Emmet Rand, Bourgeois Portraiture, and the Disruption of Ideological Fantasy, Christopher Vials (University of Connecticut, USA) 9. Painting the President: The Body Politics of Ellen Emmet Rand’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Portraits, Emily M. Mazzola (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Bibliography Author Biographies Index
£35.66
Arcturus Publishing Art Masters Paul Gauguin
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£999.99
Gale, a Cengage Group Warhols Muses
£37.10
Chronicle Books Arte Popular
Book SynopsisA lush collection of Mexican art and artifacts from the San Francisco Mexican Museum, timed to publish with grand opening of its new Yerba Buena museum in 2020.
£18.04
Chronicle Books Library of Luminaries Jane Austen An Illustrated
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£15.26
Chronicle Books Ai Weiwei Yours Truly
Book SynopsisRenowned artist Ai Weiwei engaged nearly 900,000 visitors in a conversation about human rights with his art installation @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz. In one participatory piece, Yours Truly, visitors sent 92,829 postcards to prisoners of conscience around the world. This book delves into those postcards'' lasting impact. Five former prisoners and their loved ones reflect on the experience of receiving hundreds of postcards while imprisoned. Essays and a statement by Ai Weiwei contextualize this extraordinary project. And photographs taken during the exhibition show visitors and the messages they wrote. The book also includes four pre-addressed, tear-out postcards, inviting readers—whether art lovers or activists—to send hope to individuals still imprisoned for defending human rights.Trade Review"The publication provides insightful and emotive essays by the artist and by Amnesty International USA, whilst revealing the experiences of five prisoners through their interviews, letters and biographies." -- Aesthetica"A book that forms part of an exhibition by artist and activist Ai Weiwei, Yours Truly is made up of postcards that visitors to his exhibition wrote to "prisoners of conscience" around the world. The result is a moving and interesting collection of letters and photos that will have you picking it up over and over again." -- Esquire
£18.04
Chronicle Books Recipes for Good Luck
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£17.95
Chronicle Books Pop Trash
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£20.89
Pelican Publishing Co New Orleans Impressionist Cityscapes
Book SynopsisThis collection of paintings examines the different areas of New Orleans in unique and intimate ways and, by doing so, captures the distinctive spirit of the city through extraordinary brushwork and vivid color. With 130 paintings and accompanying text demonstrating the growth and vivaciousness of the Crescent City, this devotional illuminates the beauty of one of the world's liveliest cities.
£26.34
Pelican Publishing Co They Call Me Eddie Morrison Cherokee National
Book SynopsisThe life and work of the famous Cherokee sculptor. Eddie Morrison is perhaps the best-known living Native American sculptor. Morrison's pieces embody the best of Cherokee tradition by combining the heart, spirituality, and philosophy of his culture. His work is displayed in galleries all across the US, in private collections, and in several foreign countries. This lushly illustrated work is not just a compendium of Morrison's art: it is the story of a humble man with a deep passion for his heritage and a drive to ensure a thriving future for his people. With more than 100 images of Morrison's works and a foreword by Principal Chief Bill John Baker, this volume is a beautiful and invaluable resource.
£25.49
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Weir Farm National Historic Site
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£19.99
History Press Black Broadway in Washington DC American Heritage
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£18.69
History Press Early Galveston Artists and Photographers
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£18.69
History Press The Art of William Sidney Mount
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Cheyennes Capitol Avenue Bronze
£21.24
Amazon Publishing Van Gogh
Book SynopsisTrade Review“What distinguishes Bell’s elegant rendering is an astute perception of his artistic vision and shimmering descriptions of his work…A graceful, empathetic, deeply probing portrait.” —Kirkus Reviews “Bell brings his insight as a fellow artist to the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh in a condensed, accessible primer on the renowned artist.” —Publishers Weekly “Vincent Van Gogh’s life story is almost too well known, but Julian Bell has made it harrowing, urgent, and touching all over again. Bell’s pulsing, immaculately carpentered language is an event in itself. Passage after passage made me stare in wonder (and some jealousy) at his word choices and the never conventional rhythms of his sentences. And how great to have Van Gogh’s story told without heroics or sentimentality—and with the edgy vitality with which it was lived.” —Sanford Schwartz “Van Gogh writes beautifully about his own life and art, but his words don’t always match what he painted or what he did. Bell works the gaps, poring over a drawing, scanning the artistic horizon, backtracking to make a connection, delivering an irreverent aside. Bell interprets; the result is captivating.” —The New York Times Book Review “A splendid new biography.” —The New York Review of Books “An impressively concise biography.” —The Wall Street Journal “[A] short, fervent biography…a respectful portrait of van Gogh.” —The Washington Post “Bell, like van Gogh, writes to explain what painting won’t.” —The Toronto Star
£10.95
Thomas Nelson Publishers Sandstory
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£10.32
University of Minnesota Press Rene Magritte: Selected Writings
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£999.99
University of Minnesota Press Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of
Book SynopsisA retrospective and creatively collaborative review of this international feminist conceptual artist Young women victims of a garment factory fire in New York in 1911. An autobiographical progression through stages of womanhood. American veterans killed in Iraq. A giant trough filled with books and surrounded by an urban cornfield. The subjects of Harriet Bart’s art are as varied as the media and genres in which she works—sculpture, installation, textiles, painting, drawing, artist’s books. Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection is a comprehensive look at the prolific and dynamic career of this international feminist conceptual artist. A founder of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM, a nationally recognized feminist art collective in the Twin Cities) and of the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art in Minneapolis, Bart has sought deep and evocative expressions of memory through several decades of innovative artistic creation and collaboration. This book, which accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of her work at the Weisman Art Museum in 2020, features poetry and prose contributions by significant writers, artists, and curators who have been influenced by her art. Contributors: Betty Bright; Stephen Brown, Jewish Museum; Robert Cozzolino, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Elizabeth Erickson; Heather Everhart; Nor Hall; Matthea Harvey, Sarah Lawrence College; Joanna Inglot, Macalester College; Lyndel King, Weisman Art Museum; Eric Lorberer, Rain Taxi; Jim Moore, Hamline U; Diane Mullin, Weisman Art Museum; Samantha Rippner; Joan Rothfuss; John Schott; Sun Yung Shin; Susan Stewart, Princeton U.
£999.99
Fordham University Press Composing Olana
£22.46
Candlewick Press,U.S. Quentin Blakes Fantastic Journeys
£15.47
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Purdue University Press The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists
Book SynopsisThe Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually and in collectives, but this history has been silenced over time. Their stories show that the city of Vienna was contradictory and cosmopolitan: despite men-only policies in its main art institutions, it offered a myriad of unexpected ways for women artists to forge successful public careers. Women artists came from the provinces, Russia, and Germany to participate in its vibrant art scene. However, and especially because so many of the artists were Jewish, their contributions were actively obscured beginning in the late 1930s. Many had to flee Austria, losing their studios and lifework in the process. Some were killed in concentration camps. Along with the stories of individual women artists, the author reconstructs the history of separate women artists' associations and their exhibitions. Chapters covering the careers of Tina Blau, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Bronica Koller, Helene Funke, and Teresa Ries (among others) point to a more integrated and cosmopolitan art world than previously thought; one where women became part of the avant-garde, accepted and even highlighted in major exhibitions at the Secession and with the Klimt group.Trade Review“This is an excellent addition to the literature on fin-de-siècle Vienna, well-researched and well-argued. It highlights little-known artists and situates them in a novel interpretation of women’s roles in the art world. The author challenges dominant tropes of feminist historiography and thus sheds new light on twentieth-century art history and historiography,” —Michael Gubser, James Madison University.
£38.19
Smithsonian Books Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American
Book SynopsisPresenting the first in-depth study of Thomas Moran's early western landscapes, Joni Louise Kinsey describes how the artist created three monumental paintings—The Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone (1872), The Chasm of the Colorado (1873-74), and The Mountain of the Holy Cross (1875)—that, in the aftermath of the Civil War, evoked the nation's spiritual journey and suggestsed its cultural upheaval. The author describes how the paintings reflected a new national identity of both failure and promise, and helped open the West for tourism and travel.
£27.90
Pelican Publishing Company Ezra Jack Keats
Book SynopsisA comprehensive volume on the famous childrens-book illustrators works. With work from his early days as a comic-book illustrator to the Caldecott Award-winning A Snowy Day, and including his many other graphic and book-illustration work, this book stands as a superb companion to Aldersons first volume.
£45.00
Milkweed Editions Saga Boy
£18.94
Monacelli Press Paula Hayes
Book SynopsisArtist Paula Hayes is most famous for her exquisite, high-end art terrariums of organically shaped, handblown glass, but her affinity for all things green extends to full gardens as well. She has created over twenty full gardens for private clients around the country. This volume, the first monograph on her work, is structured in a two-part format that devotes equal attention to both. A fixture of the New York art scene for over twenty years, Paula Hayes's popularity among art collectors and the public has swelled dramatically over the past few. Her installation in the lobby of MoMA, Nocturne of the Limax Maximus, garnered much critical acclaim and landed her a feature on CBS Sunday Morning. She installed an oversized terrarium in the lobby of Lever House in New York City, and a solo exhibition on her work was held at the Wexler Art Center in Columbus, Ohio, where she also installed a permanent garden adjacent to the museum's main entrance.Trade Review"The Lilliputian worlds artist Paula Hayes created inside bulbous blown glass balls started an obsession with terrariums that nearly a decade later shows no signs of fading.... [her] new, eponymously titled book features more than 200 photographs of her work.... Required reading." - Remodelista
£44.47
