Murals and wall paintings Books
Kapon Editions Mycenae (English language edition): A Journey in
Book SynopsisMycenae, in the north-eastern corner of the plain of Argos in Greece, built atop a natural stronghold, became the preeminent centre of the advanced culture that dominated mainland Greece from the C16th BC to the C12th BC. That advanced culture was named after this location—the Mycenaean civilization. This new book, lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout, offers a full picture of the archaeological site of Mycenae and its local museum, and describes the basic cultural expressions of the Mycenaean world. Concise texts, colour pictures and original photographic compositions highlight the imposing walls and buildings of the acropolis, the tombs of the Mycenaean rulers, and the museum exhibits, all of which represent various aspects of life and death in the Mycenaean world. Items described and illustrated range from wall-paintings, vases and idols to weapons and precious works of art in gold and ivory. In addition, the book offers an overview of Mycenae through the centuries, beyond Prehistory, until modern times and the excavations at the site. The presentation of the exhibits in the book follows the arrangement of the museum at Mycenae. At the same time, the reader will have the opportunity of an overall view of the achievements of the Mycenaean era, not only of those housed in the Mycenae Museum, but also of all those that vividly reflect the wealth and splendour of this culture. Colour illustrations throughout English language edition
£16.62
Search Press Ltd Pop Art: Create Your Own Striking Wall Art
Book SynopsisPop Art is eye-catching, bold, recognisable and, best of all, it’s easy to reproduce – making it fantastic for beginners. Thomas Böhler explains all the fundamentals including materials, tools and the basic techniques as well as everything you need to know about this fashionable art form. The book is packed full of inspirational pop art pieces partly inspired by famous pop art artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; but including plenty of contemporary references and subjects. More than just a decorative hobby, this book will inspire you to create your own unique works of pop art.Trade ReviewAugust 2016 Freelance illustrator and graphic designer Thomas Bohler, encourages us to create our own unqiue works of pop art with his new book on the art form. Eye-catching and 'simplified', Pop Art is easy to reproduce, making it ideal for beginners. The book opens with information on the materials, tools and basic techniques you will need to get started. There's tips on how to use photographs as well as real life as your reference for your own paintings, plus lots of inspiration to be gained from famous Pop Art artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. * Leisure Painter *I didn't know much about Pop Art until I read this book and didn't even realised I had been using it in posers I desgned for drama Groups. I found this book interesting and informative and full of fresh ideas. It is certainly a rich colourful book bursting with enthusiasm and novel ideas. I would certainly recommend it to those who know little about Pop Art * Barbara Noton *April/May 16 Pop Art by Thomas Bohler is a colourful book that shows how to achieve this fantastic art style. Pop Art prints are characterised by bold and vibrant images, lending themselves to reproduction and making them perfect for beginners. With advice on everything from choosing the correct material to using photographs or a real life reference and adding colour and bold design effects. More than just a decorative hobby, this book will inspire one-of-a-kind pop art designs. * Craft Focus *Table of ContentsIntroduction 6 What is Pop Art? 8 Materials and tools 10 From motif to picture – the techniques 12 Pop Art made easy! 18 POP ART CLASSICS Coke Bottle 20 Pop Art Logo 22 Flower Collage 24 Lips 26 Zip 28 BRANDS AND CULT OBJECTS Light Bulb 30 Cadillac 32 Sneakers 36 Handbag 38 QR Code 40 Cuckoo Clock 42 MAN AND ANIMAL Beethoven 44 Cat 46 Cow 48 Portrait 50 Rabbit 52 Butterfly 54 THE WORLD OF COMICS Pear 56 Hot Chilli 58 Smartphone 60 High Heel 62 Afterword 64
£8.54
Taschen GmbH Diego Rivera. The Complete Murals
Book SynopsisA veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico’s most important artist—along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo—Diego Rivera (1886–1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded himself with other artists and embraced the Cubist movement, he returned to Mexico and began to paint the large-scale murals for which he is most famous. In his murals, he addressed social and political issues relating to the working class, earning him prophetic status among the peasants of Mexico. He was invited to create works abroad, most notably in the United States, where he stirred up controversy by depicting Lenin in his mural for the Rockefeller Center in New York City (the mural was destroyed before it was finished). Rivera’s most remarkable work is his 1932 Detroit Industry, a group of 27 frescos at the Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan. This volume features numerous large-scale details of the murals, allowing their various components and subtleties to be closely examined. In addition to the murals is a vast selection of paintings, vintage photos, documents, and drawings from public and private collections around the world, many of which the whereabouts were previously unknown to scholars and whose inclusion here is thanks to the most intense research performed on Rivera’s work since his death. Texts include an illustrated biography and essays by prominent art historians offering interpretations of each mural. One could not ask for a more comprehensive study of Rivera’s oeuvre; finally his work is the subject of the sweeping retrospective it deserves.Trade Review“This splendid edition from TASCHEN comes as a refreshing reminder of how sociologically, politically and artistically significant Diego Rivera’s work is.” * Force One *“Monumental in every way… The great pleasure of this book is that you can pore over every detail of the artist’s work, the details you inevitably miss if you see the works in situ.” * The Sunday Times *
£76.00
University of Texas Press Image Encounters
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of Moche mural art, this landmark book develops a methodology of archaeo art history to examine image-making and visual experience in an era of ancient Peruvian history before the use of writing.Trade Review[Image Encounters] offers a vibrant and compelling study of Andean mural painting, especially for the Moche (or Mochica) culture. It revels in the complexity that the subject demands...as a highly original study of the medium in Moche culture, not to mention its innovative theoretical apparatus to consider the logic, understandings, and experience of Andean mural painting more broadly, Trever’s volume is absolutely essential and there is much to recommend...Image Encounters affords a breath-taking tour of this least studied of Andean monumental arts, and extends guidance to consider Moche imagery, image-making, and society anew. Demanding, eclectic, and thoughtful throughout. * 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual *Image Encounters is an exceedingly thoughtful and carefully crafted book . . . It will not only serve as the defining study of Moche murals for years to come but also substantially reframe scholarly understandings of the origins of wall art—and perhaps even art generally—in the ancient Andes. * Latin American and Latinx Visual Art *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Image Encounters Chapter 1. Mural Origins and Coastal Corporealities Chapter 2. Ancestral Divinities, Norcosteño Design, and the Aesthetics of Replication in Moche Mural Art (200–650 CE) Chapter 3. Siting Narratives: Moche Mural Painting and the Condensation of a Medium (650–850 CE) Chapter 4. Archaeo-Iconology: An Archaeology of Image Experience and Response Conclusions. On the Huaca Notes Bibliography Index
£31.50
Pennsylvania State University Press Qayrawan The Amuletic City
Book SynopsisExplores the cultural and religious significance of a series artworks painted onto the walls of the Tunisian city of Qayrawān by women artists in the late nineteenth century. Trade Review“Gallois’s magnifying-glass-close archaeology of late nineteenth-century photographs, postcards, and related ephemera provides an ideologically engaging model for rethinking visual cultures of colonized people. Details accidentally captured in hegemonic images reveal push-back tactics and truths too long ignored. Unobtrusive graffiti on the walls of the Great Mosque and other buildings of Qayrawān (Kairouan), Tunisia, was talismanic expression by local women seeking to protect their communities from the ignominious physical and epistemic violence of racialized French pretense. Brilliant.”—Allen Roberts,Coeditor of Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint: Shirdi Sai Baba’s Presence
£67.16
Yale University Press Modernism for the Masses Painters Politics and
Book SynopsisA fascinating history of the artistic innovation and political debates that took shape in New Deal–era muralsTrade Review“Patterson engagingly rewrites the history of midcentury art by questioning assumptions about the relationship between leftist politics and aesthetic sensibilities.”—Diana L. Linden, caa.reviews“This informative and balanced book is an ideal guide to one aspect of the WPA, an organisation which left a lasting legacy.”—Alexander Adams, The Jackdaw“Modernism for the Masses explores the richness and range of modernist abstraction, recuperating, as no other book in the field does, its political and social ambitions.”—Angela Miller, Washington University in St. Louis“A work of original and impeccable scholarship on this short-lived but remarkable moment in history.”—Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum
£42.75
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press The Artist as Eyewitness
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£15.19
Cambridge University Press Michelangelos Art of Devotion in the Age of
Book SynopsisThis offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo's sculpture and graphic works in his late period. Emily Fenichel argues that much of Michelangelo's late oeuvre was engaged in solving the religious and artistic problems presented by the Counter-Reformation.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Public: criticism, penance, and the portrait medal; 2. Public: collaboration and religious art in Rome; 3. Private: Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and meditation; 4. Private: the Jesuits, the body, and meditation; 5. Conclusion.
£80.75
Abrams Seth
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£24.00
Manchester University Press Ford Madox Brown: The Manchester Murals and the
Book SynopsisThis book argues that Ford Madox Brown’s murals in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall (1878–93) were the most important public art works of their day. Brown’s twelve designs on the history of Manchester, remarkable exercises in the making of historical vision, were semi-forgotten by academics until the 1980s, partly because of Brown’s unusually muscular conception of what history painting should set out to achieve. This ground-breaking book explains the thinking behind the programme and indicates how each mural contributes to a radical vision of social and cultural life. It shows the important link between Brown and Thomas Carlyle, the most iconoclastic of Victorian intellectuals, and reveals how Brown set about questioning the verities of British liberalism.Trade Review'Ford Madox Brown: The Manchester Murals and the Matter of History offers readers a meticulous analysis of Brown’s final artistic project … The detailed visual analyses in these chapters are a major strength and contribution of Trodd’s book .. Trodd has taken the time to consider each image as part of a larger conceptual whole. His attentive readings reveal the coherent structure of the series and lend credence to his overarching argument that the murals have been largely misunderstood… , Trodd has done an exemplary job of articulating the stakes of his assertion in relation to larger concerns about British painting, Pre-Raphaelite conceptions of history, and the fraught relationship between Victorian art and dominant conceptions of modernism… Trodd’s reading has the dual benefit of enriching our understanding of Brown’s artistic motives and expanding our conception of how late-Victorian painting contributed to the history of British art… Without a doubt, Trodd’s interpretation of the murals is the most sustained and detailed to date.'Carolyn Porter Phinizy, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (Summer 2023)Ford Madox Brown and the Manchester Murals has been nominated for the William MB Berger Prize. -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionPART I: A WORKING LIFE1 Ford Madox Brown and the historical imagination2 The makingof Ford Madox BrownPART II: HISTORY EMBODIED3 Manchester, mythos, murals4 The endless periphery5 Manchester made modernAfterword: the last of Ford Madox Brown Index
£61.19
Archaeopress Soldados, Armas y Batallas en los grafitos
Book SynopsisSoldados, Armas y Batallas en los grafitos históricos, trata sobre la presencia y la representación de lo militar en los grafitos históricos. Pero también, de esos enclaves castrenses que a través de sus grafitos nos cuentan su historia. El eje vertebrador de esta publicación es el estudio de diversos conjuntos de grafitos históricos de temática militar (representaciones de batallas, de armamento, de infraestructuras, de guerreros y soldados, de consignas o proclamas, etc.), todos ellos dibujos y/o mensajes grabados en espacios vinculados a la cultura de defensa (las paredes de castillos, cuarteles, garitas, cárceles o búnkeres, entre otros). El compendio de capítulos recogidos nos plantea una visión holística y multitemporal desde el mundo antiguo hasta la época contemporánea; desde Pompeya a América, pasando por la Península Ibérica.Table of Contents1. Grafitos históricos de temática military – L. Alberto Polo Romero, Gonzalo Viñuales Ferreiro y Francisco Reyes Téllez ; 2. Traces of the Roman army among the graffiti of Pompeii – Rebecca R. Benefiel ; 3. Una ausencia reveladora: el momento de creación de un grafito y sus posibles ámbitos de uso. El caso de los grafitos post cocturam sobre ánforas Dressel 20 en el ámbito económico-militar provincial – Juan Manuel Bermúdez Lorenzo ; 4. El grafito como herramienta básica del proceso histórico: El caso del Caballero de la Pobla de Ifach (Calp, Alicante) – Jose Luis Menéndez Fueyo y Joaquín Pina Mira ; 5. Los caballeros en la Plena y Baja Edad Media: imagen y juego – Félix Palomero Aragón y Irene Palomero Ilardia ; 6. Conquistadores y hombres armados en los muros de los monasterios novohispanos del siglo XVI – Igor Cerdá Farías ; 7. Las representaciones indígenas de los ejércitos españoles durante la conquista a lo largo del Camino Real de Tierra Adentro – José Luis Punzo Díaz y Anel Punzo Díaz ; 8. Grafitos de temática militar en los hórreos y paneras del Concejo de Amieva (Asturias) – Fernando Mora Rodríguez ; 9. Los grafitos históricos del castillo de Sancti Petri (San Fernando, Cádiz) – Luis M. Cobos Rodríguez y Francisco Toledo Coello ; 10. Los vestigios incisos de Karl Von Holzing y de sus compañeros oficiales de Napoleón presos en el castillo de Bellver (Palma c. 1810) – Elvira González Gozalo ; 11. Grafitos históricos en contextos militares: el caso del Fortín de San Bartolomé (Pamplona, Navarra) – Pablo Ozcáriz Gil ; 12. Segovia, un espacio vivido a través de sus combatientes. Una aproximación desde los grafitos históricos – L. Alberto Polo Romero y Diana Morales Manzanares ; 13. Vestigios de la Guerra Civil en Villena (Alicante), a través de los grafitis de la Iglesia de Santiago – Laura Hernández Alcaraz ; 14. Representación del ejército a través del Graffiti histórico: la División Littorio y el final de la Guerra Civil española – Nicolás Pastor Alameda ; 15. La cocina del cuartel. Grafitos de la Guerra Civil en el Palacio de Aldovea – Francisco Reyes Téllez y Gonzalo Viñuales Ferreiro ; 16. Grafitos de tema militar y cuartelero en edificios de la ciudad de Granada (España) (1936-1962) – José Ignacio Barrera Maturana
£36.10
HENI Publishing MadC: Street to Canvas
Book SynopsisMadC: Street to Canvas is the first monograph on the world-renowned contemporary artist and muralist MadC (Claudia Walde), whose practice moves dynamically between the street and the studio to capture the energy of painting and test the heights of its possibility. For more than two decades – from her beginnings in the 1990s as a graffiti artist in the local scene of Bautzen in east Germany to largescale public murals on an international level – MadC has captivated global audiences with her distinctive style, characterised by abstract compositions of bold, sweeping lines and transparent layers of vivid colours. Writer and curator Luisa Heese charts the artist’s career, exploring MadC’s immense body of work in locations across more than 35 countries. Over 200 artworks and personal photographs illustrate the book, showcasing her unique use of colour and the spontaneous movement of lines produced by spray cans and brushstrokes. From street to canvas, MadC adorns each surface with a vivacity that surpasses cultural barriers. Traversing private and public spaces, her work constantly blurs the lines between street art and fine art. What is revealed is the potential for art to be an inclusive and universal language to connect and inspire people and communities around the world.
£22.50
De Gruyter Britain and the Continent 1660‒1727: Political
Book SynopsisThis monograph examines the most prestigious political paintings created in Britain during the High Baroque age. It investigates a period characterized by numerous social, political, and religious crises, in the years between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy (1660) and the death of the first British monarch from the House of Hanover (1727). On the basis of hitherto unpublished documents, the book elucidates the creation and reception of nine major commissions that involved the court, private aristocratic patrons, and/or civic institutions. The ground-breaking new interpretations of these works focus on strategies of conflict resolution, the creation of shared cultural memories, processes of cultural translation, the performative context of the murals and the interaction of painted images and architectural spaces.
£73.95
De Gruyter Photomurals: Fotografische Wandbilder in
Book SynopsisThe photographic wall-mounted work, the so-called photomural, became an epitome of the USA’s national art in the 1930s; also as a counter-design to Mexican muralism. For the first time, Johanna Spanke analyzes the extent to which the rise of the photomural can be seen as emerging from a process of mediation between Mexico and the United States; one in which national identity constructs and discourses of modernity played a part, as well as negotiated competition between media. This publication makes an important contribution to perspectives on historical entanglements in U.S. art history, bringing to the fore intermedial and transnational debates, as well as gender-related factors. First study concerning a forgotten photographic medium Prehistory to the photo wallpaper A previously unfamiliar chapter in US American art
£61.62
De Gruyter Gegen Michelangelo: Die Bildparodie in der nord-
Book SynopsisThe European art scene of the 16th century was dominated by the person and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. However, Michelangelo's rapid artistic rise, widespread adoration, and elevation to the status of the norm and an unsurpassable authority in art triggered criticism as early as the Cinquecento. One of the critical art techniques used at the time to delegitimize norms, disparage competitors, and vituperatively discredit works of art was image parody. This study is dedicated to this particular technique of comicization and devaluation through a systematic and exemplary exploration of the "negative" reception of Michelangelo in northern and central Italian art of the period. The first comprehensive study of pictorial and written criticisms of Michelangelo in 16th-century northern and central Italy A study of the theory, function, and manifestations of pictorial parody in the early modern period
£72.68
Taschen GmbH Rivera
Book SynopsisDiego Rivera (1886–1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was at once husband and paladin of Frida Kahlo, advocate and adversary of Stalin’s Soviet Union, and liberator and traitor of Leon Trotsky. Vibrant, graphic, and often monumental, Rivera’s paintings carry the same live political and passionate charge as his personal biography. Fusing European influences such as Cubism with a socialist ideology and an exaltation of Mexico’s indigenous and popular heritage, he created a new iconography for art history and for his country. He became one of the most important figures in the Mexican mural movement and won international acclaim for his public wall paintings, in which he presented a utopian yet accessible vision of a post-revolutionary Mexico. In 1931, Rivera was the subject of MoMA’s second ever monographic exhibition. This book explores the unique blend of influence and ideology which secure Rivera’s place as both a unique and a universal painter, bound to the particular turbulent experience of early 20th century Mexico, and yet preoccupied with subjects such as revolution and class inequity which continue to speak to us today.
£22.61
Taschen GmbH Haring
Book SynopsisOne of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958–1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique, memorable effect. With thick black outlines, bright colors, and kinetic figures, his public (and occasionally illegal) interventions, sculptures, and works on canvas and paper have become instantly recognizable icons of 20th-century visual culture. From his first chalk drawings in the New York City subway stations, to his renowned “Radiant Baby” symbol, and his commissions for Swatch Watch and Absolut Vodka, Haring’s work was both emblematic of the manic work ethic of 1980s New York, yet distinctive for its social awareness. Belying their bright, playful aesthetics, his pieces often tackled intensely controversial socio-political issues, including racism, capitalism, religious fundamentalism, and the increasing impact of AIDS on New York’s gay community, the latter foreshadowing his own death from the disease in 1990. In this vivid introduction to Haring’s work, we explore the dynamic life and innovative spirit of this singular artist, who spent little more than a decade in the spotlight, but through the accessibility of his visual vocabulary and the strength of his political commitment became one of the most significant artists to emerge from New York’s vibrant, downtown community.
£13.50
Kapon Editions Mycenae (Greek language edition): A Journey in
Book SynopsisMycenae, in the north-eastern corner of the plain of Argos in Greece, built atop a natural stronghold, became the preeminent centre of the advanced culture that dominated mainland Greece from the C16th BC to the C12th BC, the Mycenaean civilization. This new book, lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout, offers a full picture of the archaeological site of Mycenae and its local museum, and describes the basic cultural expressions of the Mycenaean world. Concise texts, colour pictures and original photographic compositions highlight the imposing walls and buildings of the acropolis, the tombs of the Mycenaean rulers, and the museum exhibits, all of which represent various aspects of life and death in the Mycenaean world. Items described and illustrated range from wall-paintings, vases and idols to weapons and precious works of art in gold and ivory. In addition, the book offers an overview of Mycenae through the centuries, beyond Prehistory, until modern times and the excavations at the site. The presentation of the exhibits in the book follows the arrangement of the museum at Mycenae. At the same time, the reader will have the opportunity of an overall view of the achievements of the Mycenaean era, not only of those housed in the Mycenae Museum, but also of all those that vividly reflect the wealth and splendour of this culture. Colour illustrations throughout Greek language edition (an English language edition, ISBN 9786185209636, is also available from the same publisher)
£16.62
Kapon Editions The Odyssey (Greek/English bilingual): An
Book SynopsisGeorge Kordis has painted a frieze along the walls of the third floor of the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens. The mural constitutes a modern artistic creation, bold and brave: by deploying the simple colour system of Polygnotus, the artist has exploited the style of religious icon-making, keeping close to the norms that govern it, both internal and external. All the scenes of Homer's Odyssey that are presented on the mural are annotated using original Homeric text in the ancient script. The resulting artistic creation is in accordance with its grey surroundings, and it converses with the uninterrupted architecture of the building which was designed back in the 1960s. Furthermore, it lights up the building and foregrounds it through a harmonious composition resonant with rhythm through its shaped forms, its lively gestures, its elongated figures, its minute details.
£19.00
Silvana Leonardo da Vinci: The Sala delle Asse of the
Book SynopsisThe Monochrome of the Sala delle Asse is a portion of wall decoration left at the drawing stage and represents the roots of one of the sixteen mulberry trees that, regularly spaced on the walls of the room, intertwine above to create a polychrome arboreal pavilion on the vault. The Monochrome of the Sala delle Asse is a portion of wall decoration left at the drawing stage and represents the roots of one of the sixteen mulberry trees that, regularly spaced on the walls of the room, intertwine above to create a polychrome arboreal pavilion on the vault. The decoration of the room, which was never completed, is historically tied to the name of Leonardo da Vinci by a letter written in April 1498 by Gualtiero da Bascapé, the secretary of Ludovico il Moro, to the duke of Milan, explaining that Lunedì si desarmarà la camera grande da le Asse c[i]oè da la tore. Magistro Leonardo promete finirla per tuto Septembre. The room was subjected to radically changing fortunes over the centuries, and was later the object of two complex restoration campaigns, the first carried out between 1893 and 1902 by Luca Beltrami and the second between 1955 and 1956 by Costantino Baroni. This volume provides an account of the result of these restorations. It describes the complex diagnostic research and the technical assessments that form the foundations of a broader project for the conservation of the painted area. Text in English and Italian.
£23.96
