Individual artists, art monographs Books
D Giles Ltd George Bellows
Book SynopsisA major new volume celebrating the lithographs of George Wesley Bellows, regarded as one of America's greatest artists.
£36.00
Giles Grace Hartigan
Book SynopsisImportant new publication brings together a selection of forty significant works by American Abstract Expressionist artist Grace Hartigan.Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention explores the significant impact mid-century American poets and poetry had on painter Grace Hartigan?s early career during the 1950s and 1960s. Through a compelling introduction and three illuminating essays, the authors explore how key literary figures?supporters that included Daisy Aldan, Barbara Guest, James Merrill, Frank O?Hara, and James Schuyler?sparked Hartigan?s creativity, providing a fuller examination of the art she created during this time. This book not only spotlights Hartigan within the renowned circle of New York School painters and poets but also highlights the influence of several queer writers whose daring work and lifestyles profoundly shaped Hartigan?s outlook on art and life.The volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name opening at North Carolina Museum of Art, NC in 2025, before traveling to various venues through 2026.Hartigan''s works can be found in the Art Institute of Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Figge Art Museum, McNay Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MOMA New York, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art and Worcester Art Museum.
£32.40
Distributed Art Publishers James Brooks: A Painting Is a Real Thing
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£35.69
Actes Sud Machines de ville
Book SynopsisFor many years now the company La Machine has been creating shows featuring fascinating giant machines which delight huge audiences of young and old alike in the cities of France and around the world. Gradually, these performing machines have become permanent installations in cities around France, an integral and integrated feature of urban development. Through four emblematic projects in Nantes, La Roche-sur-Yon, Toulouse and Calais, François Delarozière demonstrates how the elegant dynamics of this mechanical bestiary relates to space and to human performers. He speaks of the machines’ creation and charts the daily lives of the company, its members, artists, technicians and artisans and how they undertake such visionary projects of mechanical urban architecture working in tandem with local authorities. After the book La Machine spectacle, here is Machines de ville, highlighting the machines which have slipped into people’s daily lives, churning out dreams, sparking discussion, stirring emotions and reflecting us back to our own humanity by their mere presence in the city.
£22.49
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Françoise Pétrovitch
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£33.75
Kerber Christof Verlag Mariechen Danz Edge Out
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£30.40
Kerber Christof Verlag Sissa Micheli
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£32.00
Kerber Christof Verlag Thomas Riess
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£33.60
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany My Name Is Maryan
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£27.20
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Matt Mullican: Mapping the World
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£33.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Valie Export: In Her Own Words
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£22.50
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Richard Nonas
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£36.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Ian Burn: Collected Writings 1966-1993
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£27.20
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Grace Weaver in Morocco
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£64.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Movement Notation
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£25.50
Transcript Verlag Artistic Provenance Research
Book SynopsisWhat can art and artists bring to researching the origins and biographies of objects? How do they shed new light on - or even unsettle - existing approaches to such questions? Proposing the new term - artistic provenance research - the contributors to this innovative book illuminate art's capacity to expand provenance research in critical and provocative ways. Artists, anthropologists and curators offer perspectives on a recent artwork that implicates human remains, potential histories and the politics of visibility. Through theorizing historical and contemporary examples, contributors explore knowledge-imagination dynamics, and the transformative potentials of artistic provenance research.
£29.24
Arnoldsche Art Publishers Dana Meyer
£33.60
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Lucio Fontana: Sculpture
Book SynopsisThe first scholarly monograph in English devoted to Lucio Fontana's sculptural production, this richly illustrated volume charts the uncategorizable artist's exploration of sculpture from the 1920s until his death in 1968. Lucio Fontana: Sculpture considers bodies of work from different periods together, highlighting continuity and evolution in his oeuvre. Edited by Luca Massimo Barbero in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, this richly illustrated volume allows readers to discover Fontana's rarely seen sculptural works, exhibited at Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street from November 2022 until February 2023.
£52.50
Pie International Co., Ltd. Little Animals of the Forest 100 Writing
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£26.99
Yale University Press Horace Pippin American Modern
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Horace Pippin shines in the midst of an overdue racial reckoning in the United States, to which it makes a substantial scholarly contribution.”—Clara Barnhart, caa.reviews“[T]his well-researched study challenges the continued classification of Pippin as a naïve outsider artist [and] expands our understanding of modern art in the United States.”—Rebecca VanDiver, Panorama: Journal of Historians of American Art“To resist a purely biographical reading, Monahan's book replaces historical teleology with a thematic structure arranged in chapters...Nothing is taken for granted, and Pippin cyclically emerges and re-emerges out of a narrative driven by forensic readings of specific works, both iconographically and as visual reference to contemporary lived experience.”—Colin Rhodes, The Burlington Magazine“Not only does Anne Monahan offer insights into the mind and methods of Horace Pippin, but she also gives us a rarely explored, comprehensive view into the inner workings of a burgeoning American art scene, an enterprise which relied upon this self-taught luminary for its own identity and advancement.”—Richard J. Powell, Duke University“Monahan has achieved such an impressive sense of Pippin's internal developments and career-long motifs that she can adeptly shuttle between works, genres, and themes to build complex arguments about the artist’s cumulative impact.”—Jennifer Jane Marshall, University of Minnesota“Monahan challenges the predominant narrative of Pippin’s life and work, convincingly demonstrating the problems of previous scholarship and providing sound evidence for her own.”—John P. Bowles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
£40.38
Yale University Press Caspar David Friedrich
Book SynopsisTrade Review “A triumph of bookmaking.”—Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street Journal“In a detailed study of exemplary works by Friedrich and on the basis of an impressive knowledge of relevant natural-philosophical literature, Amstutz elaborates [her] thesis in her pleasantly readable and beautifully designed book. The lasting value of this monograph lies in the fact that it pursues the hypothesis of a natural-philosophical interpretation of Friedrich's works for the first time with consistency.”—Johannes Grave, Art Newspaper“A work of intellectual depth and subtlety, it models how art history can engage more creatively and expansively with scientific and philosophical ideas about the natural world. Amstutz enjoins us, like Friedrich, to seek out unexpected resemblances.”—Stephanie O’Rourke, Art HistoryWinner of the 2019 Novalis Prize for innovative research on European Romanticism in any field, sponsored by Novalis GesellschaftShortlisted for the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize, sponsored by the The University of WaterlooFinalist for the Klaus Heyne Prize for Research on German Romanticism, sponsored by Goethe-Universität Frankfurt“In beautiful and, at times, poetic prose, Nina Amstutz masterfully explores Friedrich’s late work through the lens of German Romantic nature philosophy and the life sciences. Her revisionary analysis establishes a new place of central importance for these paintings.”—Marsha Morton, author of Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Threshold of German Modernism“Amstutz persuades the reader that Friedrich’s paintings explore the mutual constitution of self and nature, of body and earth; that they do via Romantic philosophy’s blend of metaphysical and empirical inquiry.”—Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University
£49.50
Yale University Press Rodin in the United States
Book SynopsisA compelling examination of French sculptor Auguste Rodin from the perspective of his enthusiastic American audience
£42.75
University of California Press Philip Guston
Book SynopsisA collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (1913-1980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters. It lets us hear Guston's voice - as the artist delivers a lecture on Renaissance painting, instructs students in a classroom setting, and discusses various artists and writers.Trade Review"Lovingly compiled" Artforum "This hefty volume is 344 pages of smart art takes (Clark Coolidge, ed.) by the largely self-taught painter who, with pal Jackson Pollock, got expelled from L.A.'s Manual Arts High School in 1929." -- Christopher Knight Los Angeles Times, Culture Watch Blog "This is a book of wisdom, not only for artists but for anyone seeking to learn something from art." The Nation "Expansive" San Francisco Bay Guardian "Until now his influence has been through his art rather than his words. This collection gathers together interviews and studio discussions and commits the artist's words to print. -- Alexander Adams Art Newspaper "[Guston's] voice at its effusive best." Jewish ExponentTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction by Dore Ashton Statement in Art News Annual (1944) Statement in Twelve Americans (1956) Notes on Bradley Walker Tomlin (1957) Interview with Sam Hunter (1957) From the Chicago Panel (1958) Statement in Nature in Abstraction (1958) Statement in It Is (1958) Statement in The New American Painting (1957–58/1959) Interview with David Sylvester (1960). From Panel at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (1960) Conversation with Bill Berkson (1964) Interview with Joseph S. Trovato (1965) Piero della Francesca: The Impossibility of Painting (1965) Philip Guston’s Object: Conversation with Harold Rosenberg (1965) Faith, Hope, and Impossibility (1965/66) Conversation with Joseph Ablow (1966) Interview with Karl Fortess (1966) On Morton Feldman (1967) Conversation with Morton Feldman (1968) The Image (1969) On Piero della Francesca (1971) Talk at Yale Summer School of Music and Art (1972) Conversation with Louis Finkelstein (1972) Conversation with Clark Coolidge (1972) Talk at Yale Summer School of Music and Art (1973) On the Nixon Drawings (1973) Ten Drawings (1973) On Survival (1974) On Drawing (1974) Conversation with Harold Rosenberg (1974) Talk at “Art/Not Art?” Conference (1978) From Panel at “Art/Not Art?” Conference (1978) Interview with Jan Butterfield (1979) Interview with Mark Stevens (1980) Interview with Joanne Dickson (1980) Studio Notes (1970–78) Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£23.25
University of California Press Drawing the Line
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that the rapidly evolving creative processes and pictorial solutions Martin developed between 1940 and 1967 define all her subsequent art. This title offers descriptions of the networks of art, artists, and information that moved between New Mexico and the creative centers of New York and California in the postwar period.
£35.70
University Press of Mississippi Chris Claremont
£14.24
University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Lynn Johnston
£19.79
Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Gogh's Cypresses
Book SynopsisThe first book to study Vincent van Gogh’s fascination with cypresses, the “tall and dark trees” that feature in some of his most iconic pictures Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) immortalized the cypress tree in signature images that have become synonymous with his fiercely original power of expression. This richly illustrated publication illuminates the backstory of his invention for the first time, from his initial investigations of the motif in benchmark drawings from Arles to his realization of their full evocative potential in such iconic canvases as The Starry Night and Wheat Field with Cypresses, painted at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. Susan Alyson Stein retraces the Dutch artist’s inspired response to the flamelike evergreens as they gained ground in his works and artistic thinking over the course of his sojourn in the South of France. The volume provides further insight into Van Gogh’s creative process through a technical study focused on two celebrated works from the artist’s epic painting campaign of June 1889. The visual and literary heritage of the cypresses is featured in a compilation of images and excerpts from nineteenth-century poetry, novels, and travel writing—many translated into English for the first time. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 22–August 27, 2023)
£38.00
GMC Publications Biographic: Monet
Book SynopsisMany people know that Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a founder of French Impressionism, a master of landscape painting whose works include Impression, Sunrise and Water Lilies. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he created the ponds featuring those water lilies and spent 30 years painting 250 oils of them; that his water-lily work Le Bassin aux Nymphease sold in 2008 for $40 million; that his painting Cliffs Near Dieppe was stolen not once but twice; and that he was almost blind when he painted some of his most famous works. Biographic: Monet presents an instant impression of his life, work and fame, with an array of irresistible facts and figures convered into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures.
£8.99
GMC Publications Biographic: Rembrandt
Book SynopsisThe Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher, a master of light and shadow who is regarded as one of the greatest of all portrait artists. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he taught over 50 apprentices; that he produced over 2,000 artworks, of which 120 were self-portraits; and that, after buying one of the finest houses in Amsterdam, he ran up so many debts that he was forced to sell his wife's grave. Biographic: Rembrandt presents an instant portrait of his life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures.
£8.99
Reaktion Books The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place
Book SynopsisEnglish art critic John Ruskin was one of the great visionaries of his time, and his influential books and letters on the power of art challenged the foundations of Victorian life. He loved looking. Sometimes it informed the things he wrote, but often it provided access to the many topographical and cultural topics he explored--rocks, plants, birds, Turner, Venice, the Alps. In The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place, John Dixon Hunt focuses for the first time on what Ruskin drew, rather than wrote, offering a new perspective on Ruskin's visual imagination. Through analysis of more than 150 drawings and sketches, many reproduced here, he shows how Ruskin's art shaped his writings, his thoughts, and his sense of place.Trade Review"Dixon contends that, far from being mere illustrations to his writings, Ruskin’s drawings were the first necessary step in his approach to beauty, words coming second. The aim of the book is to examine how Ruskin saw things, how he learnt to look at places, in particular, and how to represent them." * Cercles *"This beautifully produced book takes readers on a closely and sensitively observed grand tour of Ruskin’s pictorial imagination. In a moving return to an early subject, Hunt supplies this bibliographic equivalent of Ruskin’s restless journeying, a visual odyssey in honor not only of the places he cared about, but also of his sense of place, understood physically, emotionally, spiritually, chromatically. The images reproduced here are more than illustrations: thanks to Hunt’s hospitality and judgement as a guide, they take their place as staging-posts along a beguiling travelers’ road." -- Marcus Waithe, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
£38.00
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd George Stubbs: 'All Done from Nature'
Book SynopsisGeorge Stubbs: ‘all done from Nature’ presents the first significant overview of Stubbs’s work in Britain for more than 30 years and brings together 80 paintings, drawings and publications from the National Gallery’s Whistlejacket to pieces never previously seen in public.Stubbs produced exceptional images of animals and people throughout his career. These were a product of his keen scientific eye and uncommon sense of compassion. Rather than trust to history and the untested example of his precursors, he championed doing as a way of thinking and deployed picture-making in pursuit of reality.On the title page of The Anatomy of the Horse, his groundbreaking publication that rewrote our understanding of equine biology, Stubbs confirmed that everything that followed was ‘all done from Nature’ – meaning that it all derived from his own painstaking analysis of the subject in front of him.George Stubbs: ‘all done from Nature’ accompanies the major exhibition at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes and the Mauritshuis in The Hague and includes new writing on the artist by Nicholas Clee, Martin Myrone, Martin Postle, Roger Robinson, Jenny Uglow and Alison E. Wright.
£33.25
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness
Book SynopsisA revelatory study of one of the 18th century’s greatest artists, which places him in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), though conventionally known as a ‘painter of light’, returned repeatedly to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old age, loss of innocence, isolation and tragedy. In this long-awaited book, Matthew Craske adopts a fresh approach to Wright, which takes seriously contemporary reports of his melancholia and nervous disposition, and goes on to question accepted understandings of the artist. Long seen as a quintessentially modern and progressive figure – one of the artistic icons of the English Enlightenment – Craske overturns this traditional view of the artist. He demonstrates the extent to which Wright, rather than being a spokesman for scientific progress, was actually a melancholic and sceptical outsider, who increasingly retreated into a solitary, rural world of philosophical and poetic reflection, and whose artistic vision was correspondingly dark and meditative. Craske offers a succession of new and powerful interpretations of the artist’s paintings, including some of his most famous masterpieces. In doing so, he recovers Wright’s deep engagement with the landscape, with the pleasures and sufferings of solitude, and with the themes of time, history and mortality. In this book, Joseph Wright of Derby emerges not only as one of Britain’s most ambitious and innovative artists, but also as one of its most profound.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“A bold, punchy thesis, sure to ruffle academic feathers, and one that Craske, a reader in art history at Oxford Brookes, has been mulling for some time”—Alistair Sooke, The Daily Telegraph“In this beautifully illustrated volume Matthew Craske takes a fresh approach to one of Britain’s most exceptional and profoundly thoughtful painters.”—Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times ‘Best Art Books of the Year 2020’ “The “darkness” identified in the subtitle of this perception-shifting book was in the artist’s personality as well as on the canvas.”—Michael Prodger, The Sunday Times 'Best Art Books of 2020' "Matthew Craske's fascinating biography of Joseph Wright looks afresh at the artist known as the 'painter of light' [and] provides an alternative reading of this 'self-professed melancholic', drawing on neglected sources to mine the motivations and forces behind the creation of Wright's oeuvre...Craske's ambitious and innovative book invites the reader to reconsider this melancholy mind, this painter of darkness."—Emily Knight, Apollo Magazine"In this beautifully illustrated new book Matthew Craske overturns this view of the artist as a spokesman for scientific progress and reveals him to be someone very different."—ArtMag"[Joseph Wright's] most famous works show experiments and create the sense of wonder that must have accompanied them. He was much more than that, though, and this magnificently thorough biography and analysis includes a wide range of other figurative and landscape works."—Henry Malt, Artbookreview.net “Matthew Craske’s analysis of Wright’s life and art is clear and ample, with a combative streak that is an echo of Wright’s own demeanour...Craske does not merely address current scholarship; he also shakes it.”—James Hamilton, Literary Review“Matthew Craske’s spectacular new book directly challenges...our understanding of this enigmatic 18-century artist.”—Christopher Masters, World of Interiors“It is good to read a book so intent on its argument about a British painter, so sure that there is much at stake, so determined to break free of both neutral surveys and theoretical schemes...This intricate study leaves little doubt that Wright is not an intriguing minor artist with an attractive line in candlelit drama but among the great European painters of the eighteenth century.”—Alexandra Harris, Times Literary Supplement“Meticulous and eye-catching, [Wright’s] work is justly celebrated, and Matthew Craske goes to great lengths to explore his mindset and way of life.”—Elizabeth Fitzherbert, The Lady“Craske sees in Wright a much more complex and multifaceted character than previously portrayed.”—Mark Jones, Albion Magazine
£42.75
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated biography of James Gillray, inventor of the art of political caricature James Gillray (1756–1815) was late Georgian Britain’s funniest, most inventive, and most celebrated graphic satirist and continues to influence cartoonists today. His exceptional drawing, matched by his flair for clever dialogue and amusing titles, won him unprecedented fame; his sophisticated designs often parodied artists such as William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, and Henry Fuseli, while he borrowed and wittily redeployed celebrated passages from William Shakespeare and John Milton to send up politicians in an age—as now—where society was fast changing, anxieties abounded, truth was sometimes scarce, and public opinion mattered. Tim Clayton’s definitive biography explores Gillray’s life and work through his friends, publishers—the most important being women—and collaborators, aiming to identify those involved in inventing satirical prints and the people who bought them. Clayton thoughtfully explores the tensions between artistic independence, financial necessity, and the conflicting demands of patrons and self-appointed censors in a time of political and social turmoil. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire describes not just the caricaturist’s life and tragic end as creeping insanity took hold, but also the bracing effect he had on the art of satire itself.”—Michael Prodger, Times (UK), “Top 10 Art Books”“Mr. Clayton’s well-researched . . . study makes a strong case for Gillray as the creator of a genre of graphic art—and as a forceful commentator. . . . [The] selection takes readers on a journey through Georgian politics and society with a guide who spared no one . . . and reminds us just how potent satire can be.”—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal“Tim Clayton’s new biography, the product of meticulous attention to the milieu printmakers worked in, suggests that in Gillray’s case circumstance and exceptional skill went hand in hand.”—Clare Bucknell, New York Review of Books“Nuanced and convincing. . . . The level of detail in this massive and masterly book is breathtaking.”—Martin Rowson, The Guardian“A fascinating, well-rounded life of Gillray. . . . Clayton has done an impressive, thorough job.”—Peter Brookes, Times (UK)“Clayton’s book is a magisterial study . . . and a biography that warrants comparison with the best ever done on an 18th-century artist.”—David Bromwich, London Review of Books“Exploring the tensions between patrons and censors, artistic independence, and financial necessity, this lavishly illustrated biography lights up a life and an anxious fast-changing society.”—Damian Thompson, World of Interiors, “Holiday Roundup”“A wonderful book. . . . Clayton guides us through every aspect—technical, practical, commercial and collaborative—of platemaking and printmaking in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and explains the markets at home and abroad to whose demanding tastes Gillray had to cater.”—Freya Johnston, Literary Review“The diversity of Gillray’s work across four decades displays both a rare technical ability to imbue his prints with dynamic energy and an imaginative, excoriating wit.”—Nicholas Babbington, Apollo
£45.00
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason
Book SynopsisThis scholarly publication presents the work of the designer, painter and illustrator Claude Gillot (1673–1722). The first volume on the artist in English, it accompanies a major exhibition at the Morgan Library& Museum that explores Gillot’s inventive and highly original draftsmanship and places his work in the context of artistic and intellectual activity in Paris ca. 1700.The history of eighteenth-century French art under the ancien régime is dominated by great names. But the artistic scene in Paris at the dawn of the century was diverse and included artists who forged careers largely outside of the Royal Academy. Among them was Claude Gillot. Known primarily as a draftsman, Gillot specialized in witty scenes taken from the Italian commedia dell’arte plays performed at fairground theaters and vignettes of satyrs enacting rituals that expose human folly. The book will address Gillot’s work as a designer, painter, and book illustrator, and advance a chronology for his career. Crafting a timeline for Gillot’s life and work will clarify his relationship with his younger collaborators Antoine Watteau and Nicolas Lancret.Through an artistic biography and six chapters, each devoted to an aspect of his oeuvre, Gillot’s role in developing quintessential rococo subjects is established. We follow Gillot from his start as the son of a decorative painter in the bishopric of Langres to his arrival in Paris in the 1690s, as the city and its secular entertainments flourished apart from the royal court at Versailles. Myriad opportunities awaited artists outside official channels, and Gillot built his career working in the theater and as a painter and designer long before seeking official academic status. His involvement with writers, playwrights, and printmakers helped define his sphere. Gillot’s preference for theatrical subjects brought him critical attention, and also attracted talented assistants such as Watteau and Lancret. Gillot came to prominence around 1712 working at the Paris Opéra and as a printmaker and illustrator of books, lending his droll humor to satires. By 1720, Gillot was enlisted to design costumes for the last royal ballet, one of the final projects of his career. He died nine months after his most celebrated pupil, Watteau. The sale of his estate, which including his designs and many etched copper plates, provided material for printmakers and publishers and ensured Gillot’s lasting fame among print connoisseurs. His oeuvre as a draftsman and painter, however, was largely forgotten until drawings and canvases began to emerge in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade ReviewUntil now, there has been no full-length study of Gillot in English, which makes Jennifer Tonkovich’s book very welcome. Produced to accompany an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, it stands on its own as a major work of scholarship. * The Art Newspaper *As beautifully proposed in ‘Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason’—a novel, revelatory exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum organized by Jennifer Tonkovich, curator of prints and drawings—the artist’s neglected story and oeuvre are ripe for another look. * The Wall Street Journal *[S]omething to marvel at. * The New York Sun *[The] artist shines, delivering proto-rococo gaiety with a delightful edge. * The New Yorker *
£38.00
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Far and Away
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated and scholarly catalogue presents a selection of exceptional drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection. It accompanies an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum. The drawings assembled by Clement C. (Chips) Moore constitute one of the preeminent private collections of Dutch drawing in America. The collection also includes works by Flemish, French, Italian and British artists, ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. These works have long been intended to join the collections at the Morgan Library & Museum, and this exhibition timed to coincide with the Morgan's centennial celebrations makes formal the promised gift. Accompanying the exhibition, this catalogue will demonstrate the breadth of the Moore Collection with a selection of around eighty works that highlight the principal themes of Dutch art, the various functions and techniques of Dutch drawings, and the connections between the Dutch and other European artistic traditions. Work
£45.00
Princeton University Press Keith Haring/Jean–Michel Basquiat – Crossing
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art Keith Haring (1958–1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) changed the art world of the 1980s through their idiosyncratic imagery, radical ideas, and complex sociopolitical commentary. Each artist invented a distinct visual language, employing signs, symbols, and words to convey strong messages in unconventional ways, and each left an indelible legacy that remains a force in contemporary visual and popular culture. Offering fascinating new insights into the artists’ work, Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat reveals the many intersections among Haring and Basquiat’s lives, ideas, and practices.This lavishly illustrated volume brings together more than two hundred images—works created in public spaces, paintings, sculptures, objects, works on paper, photographs, and more. These rich visuals are accompanied by essays and interviews from renowned scholars, artists, and art critics, exploring the reach and range of Haring and Basquiat’s influence.Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat provides a valuable look at two artistic peers and boundary breakers whose tragically short but prolific careers left their marks on the art world and beyond.Distributed for the National Gallery of Victoria in association with No More RulersTrade Review"A big, beautiful coffee-table book. . . . [Crossing Lines] is for art lovers. . . . a book to be treasured and enjoyed again and again."---Jonah Raskin, New York Journal of Books
£37.80
Prestel Kuniyoshi
Book SynopsisBest known for his depictions of fierce samurai warriors in battle, Utagawa Kuniyoshi also produced landscapes, portraits of Kabuki actors, and images of mythical animals. His dynamic action scenes and fantastic creatures are recognized today as precursors of manga and anime. This dazzling volume by Matthi Forrer, one of the leading experts on ukiyo-e art, traces Kuniyoshi’s entire career. Chapters look at the major aspects of Kuniyoshi’s oeuvre; his book illustrations and portraits of fashionable women; his enormously popular series featuring actors, warriors, and landscapes; and the influence of Western art on his career. Meticulous, large-scale reproductions highlight the work’s clear outlines, elegantly muted palette, and precise details—from electrifying depictions of a tiger, mid-pounce, and light-hearted interpretations of Chinese folktales, to the terrifying figures of samurai swordsmen and romantic winter landscapes. A Japanese-style binding and box complete this luxurious package that promises an endlessly absorbing journey into the life of Kuniyoshi during the latter days of Japan’s Edo period.
£74.25
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds
Book SynopsisHannah Höch (1889–1978) moved between differing worlds: as an editorial assistant with a major Berlin-based magazine publisher, and as the only woman who could hold her own in the German capital’s vibrant Dada scene of the 1920s. Höch broke with the traditions of representation and vision. Her works dissected a world marked by the catastrophe of the Great War and an intense consumer culture, and reassembled it in revolutionary, poetic, and often ironic ways. Höch kept to her artistic means and her poetic-radical imagination, shimmering between social observation and dream world, even in the post-WWII period. Scissors and glue were the weapons of her art of montage, of which she was a co-inventor. Cutting and montage also shaped film, still a new medium in the 1920s, which strongly influenced Höch’s art: she understood her assembled pictures as static films. This richly illustrated and expertly annotated book explores comprehensively for the first time Höch’s fascination with film and the visual culture of the modern industrial age. It demonstrates how montage evolved in a field of tension between artistic experimentation, commercial exploitation, and political appropriation. A text-collage on the history of montage, in which major protagonists of Modernism and Avant-garde such as Sergej Eisenstein, Raoul Hausmann, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttman, Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, and Dsiga Wertow, have their say, rounds out the volume.
£28.80
Skira Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work edited by Germano Celant in collaboration with the artist and her New York studio that enriches our knowledge of Louise Bourgeois Louise Bourgeois, who has produced art since the 1930s, began in the 1990s to use her clothes and the clothes of her loved ones as components in her sculptures and drawings. It is as much a reincarnation of her past and her childhood as a confirmation of her relationship with memory. Her visual approach to fabrics transforms decorative accessories into emotional and personal references which, especially in her Cells and later in her drawings, create representations of a tormented and at the same time powerful womanhood. Further development of the artist’s work began in 2002: exploiting the iridescent colours and formal structural properties of pieces of her clothing, she created “The Fabric Drawings,” astonishing works alternating between floral figurative pieces and chromatic abstractions. This set of images is collected here in its entirety for the first time, constituting the closest thing yet to a general catalogue.
£52.00
3DTotal Publishing Ltd Windows to Worlds: The art of Devin Elle Kurtz
Book SynopsisIllustrator and concept artist Devin Elle Kurtz shares her journey, from childhood ambitions to be an artist and finding the best educational fit, to working in the industry as she continues to develop her craft. The Art of Devin Elle Kurtz bursts with the stunning color, light, and storytelling that Devin has mastered, using traditional and digital methods. This is a unique opportunity to learn from a young industry professional. Devin recalls navigating educational opportunities, looking for the combination of formal classes and personal study that suited her needs. Color and light play a huge part – whether she uses traditional or digital techniques – and specially commissioned tutorials give aspiring artists the chance to sample her methods while evolving their skills. Readers will also enjoy the intriguing subject of storytelling, as Devin explores the themes that feature the most in her own work, including where they originated from. These insights and reflections are not only fascinating, but also help readers unlock their own authentic storytelling potential. Devin has been handpicked to join the ranks of superstar artists who have produced their Art of… books with 3dtotal Publishing, creating the unique blend of advice, tutorials, inspiration, and galleries that we love to see.
£25.19
Taschen GmbH Monet oder Der Triumph des Impressionismus
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£18.00
David Zwirner Giorgio Morandi: Late Paintings
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£28.00
Cultureshock Media Ltd Aesthetic Dining
Book SynopsisI went to Noma and interviewed René (Redzepi). We were talking about art and food but the restaurant was closed. Everybody asked me how was the food, what did you eat - and he basically gave me some marmite. The best marmite I''ve ever had. - David ShrigleyThis is not a coffee table book.notions of taste' get a grilling, while there are some fruity artist interviews....that make for entertaining accompaniments. - Melanie Gerlis, The Financial TimesThis comprehensive and expansive explorations of art restaurants marries the nourishment of senses, both visual and taste, along with the meeting of minds.-Chris Corbin, Corbin and King groupA new and unique book. -Layla Maghribi, The National NewsThis is the definitive guide to Art Restaurants a new way to appreciate food. Christina Makris, collector of art and a Patron of The Tate and RA, takes the reader oTrade Review"A new and unique book." - Layla Maghribi, The National News“This is not a coffee table book….notions of “taste” get a grilling, while there are some fruity artist interviews....that make for entertaining accompaniments.” - Melanie Gerlis, The Financial Times"This comprehensive and expansive explorations of art restaurants marries the nourishment of senses, both visual and taste, along with the meeting of minds.” - Chris Corbin, Corbin and King group“Restaurants are cultural institutions that reveal the spirit of the place, but more than that, they can change people’s perception. Aesthetic Dining celebrates this phenomenon of art collections in restaurants.” - Lara Gilmore and Massimo Bottura, Osteria Francescana"This global guide to 25 restaurants where great art and memorable food meet includes interviews with chefs, restaurateurs and artists, all illustrated with images of the art in its context." - ArtMagTable of Contents1 INTRODUCING THE ART RESTAURANT 5 FROM TABLE TO TABLEAU: TASTE IN ART RESTAURANTS THE RESTAURANTS 31 Abou el Sid 41 Casa Lever 49 Del Cambio 57 Castello di Ama 65 China Club 75 Colombe d’Or 83 Château la Coste 93 Dooky Chase 101 The Groucho Club 111 The Gunton Arms 119 Hix 127 The Ivy 135 Kronenhalle 143 Langan’s Brasserie 153 Lucio’s 161 Michael’s 171 Mr Chow 179 Osteria Francescana 189 Paris Bar 197 Scott’s 205 Sketch 213 Red Rooster 223 Wallsé 233 Bar Boulud and beyond INTERVIEWS 244 Ai Weiwei 245 Antony Gormley 247 Beatriz Milhazes 248 Bill Jacklin 250 Conrad Shawcross 252 Damien Hirst 255 David Bailey 256 David Hockney 257 David Shrigley 259 Gary Hume 261 John Beard 264 John Olsen 266 Julian Schnabel 268 Maggi Hambling 271 Michael Craig-Martin 276 Michael Landy 278 Peter Blake 284 Polly Morgan 285 Sanford Biggers 288 Tracey Emin 289 Vik Muniz 293 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 294 BIBLIOGRAPHY 295 INDEX
£999.99
Reaktion Books Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea
Book SynopsisExquisite Dreams is the first full account of Dorothea Tanning's art and life. Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning's lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures, abstract paintings and films. Setting Tanning's writings, biography and art into the contexts of advertising, fashion, popular culture and art in New York and Paris, Lyford brings Tanning's ideas and feelings to life. Using new archival sources and analyses of Tanning's work in a variety of media, Lyford broadens our understanding of the artist. This amply illustrated book is an important contribution to the history of women artists, gender and sexuality studies, as well as the history of Surrealism. It will appeal to art historians and art lovers alike.Trade Review'Amy Lyford has shaped a plethora of archival information into a story of Dorothea Tanning's life and works. Exquisite Dreams is a highly readable page turner that engages fully with Tanning's canny critiques of gender and sexuality and illuminates the complexities of Tanning's life showing Tanning to be one of the most intriguing artists of the twentieth century.' - Jennifer Shaw, Sonoma State University, author of Exist OtherwiseTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Refashioning Surrealism Chapter 2: Screening Female Desire Chapter 3: Miseducated Girls Chapter 4: Aux environs de Paris and Historical Memory Chapter 5: Sculpture and Narrative: Body Hauntings Chapter 6: No Exit: Tanning's Cinematic Vision Epilogue References Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index
£25.50
Phaidon Press Ltd Raymond Pettibon
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive monograph in print on this provocative artist, who has helped to redefine contemporary artTrade Review"A rich yet eclectic archive... Pettibon is an irreverent satirist and chronicler, who, armed with an observant eye and a steady hand, still remains unafraid to lead us into the darkest corners of the soul." —Aesthetica"Star-studded catalogue." —Artforum"Whether you already know a lot about the work of Raymond Pettibon, or whether you are coming to it fresh, this weighty tome is almost certain to include information and, more importantly, pictures, that you have never seen before... Fans will also appreciate the inclusion of his childhood drawings and unusual ephemera."—Illustration"The generous selection of work - largely pen and ink, but also using gouache or acrylic paint - intermittently traces an angry, alternative cultural and political history of the United States from the late 1970s to the Obama era... Big reproductions of the work are punctuated by essays and an articulate interview ('Speaking in tongues') in which Pettibon states: "My works don't claim to have an absolute veracity, and that's perhaps the biggest difference between political cartoons and my work. My work is not wrapped up in a punch line"."—EyeMagazine.com"Pettibon is an arch appropriator of culture... A purveyor of priapic pulp fiction... As well as a feverish draughtsman, Pettibon reveals himself as an epic landscapist, creating apocalyptic vortices of colour and ink." —World of Interiors
£47.96
Rizzoli International Publications Peter Doig
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive monograph on Turner Prize-nominated artist Peter Doig. In every generation of artists, there are a few-or perhaps just one-who propose a new set of questions and alter the way we understand art. Peter Doig is such an artist. While stories of painting’s demise in the early 1990s deemed painters and their work quaintly anachronistic, Doig-looking ahead as much as back for inspiration-forged a new painterly language: an ironic mix of Romanticism and post-impressionism to create haunting and sometimes dreamlike landscape vistas.In this lavish new volume devoted to his entire career-which includes paintings, drawings, and reference material, such as found photographs-art historians Richard Shiff and Catherine Lampert mine the artist’s rich and varied work. Doig’s landscapes have been inspired by the many places the artist has lived-England, Canada, Trinidad. So, too, does memory, or the idea of memory, inform much of his production. This volume is designed in close collaboration with the artist, with Doig specially creating the cover and various elements of the interior. Every facet of the painter’s singular vision is explored, from his earliest paintings of the early 1990s to the most recent series of works. Published in association with Michael Werner Gallery
£999.99
Princeton University Press The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
Book SynopsisPresents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Durer. This book covers Durer's career. With multiple indexes and more than three hundred illustrations, it is meant as a reference to understand the work of the great artist and printmaker, the greatest exponent of northern European Renaissance art.Trade ReviewPraise for Princeton's previous editions: "Whatever was immortal of Albrecht Durer is covered by this book."--Wolfgang Stechow, Art Bulletin "Panofsky'sDurer--the result of a lifetime of looking, thinking, reading and making connections--belongs in the library of anyone who takes art seriously. Everything we could want to know about one of history's stellar artists is here."--Victor M. Cassidy, ArtNet.com "The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer may be mandatory reading for students and scholars alike, but it is also one of the more enjoyable reading assignments out there, one that can be mined for material again and again... Smith's concise and well-paced introduction adds another layer to the history of the life of the book itself within the context of twentieth-century historiography."--Susan Maxwell, Sixteenth Century Journal
£42.50
Royal Academy of Arts Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits
Book SynopsisIn 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's self-portraits give us an insight into the development of his style as a painter. The works provide the viewer with a constant reminder of the artist's overwhelming presence, whether he is confronting the viewer directly or only present as a shadow or in a reflection. Essays by leading authorities - including those who knew him well - explore Freud's life and work, and analyse the importance of self-portraiture in his practice and the intensity that he maintained when studying his own.
£999.99
