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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch
Book SynopsisGodefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune is the first book in English dedicated to the entire artistic output of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Godefridus Schalcken (1643–1706). It examines the artist’s paintings and career trajectory against the background of his ceaseless pursuit of fame and fortune. Combining a comprehensive analysis of Schalcken's artistic development and style with our increasing biographical knowledge, it provides an authoritative overview of Schalcken’s ample production as an artist. It also integrates his art into the circumstances of his life in relation to his ambitious career aspirations, exploring how economic conditions, a concomitantly oversaturated art market, talent and ambition, demographics, and even sheer luck all played a role in Schalcken’s great professional success. Since Schalcken’s art, like that of all Dutch painters, provides a plethora of information about seventeenth-century culture—its predilections, its prejudices, indeed, its very mind-set—the book inevitably links his work to the broader socio-cultural contexts in which it was created.Table of Contents1. Beginnings; 1643-73; 2. Crafting a Reputation: The 1670s; 3. An Internationally Famous Master: 1680-1692; 4. Schalcken in London: 1692-6; 5. The Final Years: 1696-1706; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index
£58.50
Anomie Publishing Sarah Medway – the River Series
Book SynopsisThis, London-based painter Sarah Medway’s second publication from Anomie Publishing, is devoted to the subject of the River Thames. The publication presents a series of twenty-eight oil paintings created in Medway’s canal-side studio in central London during the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020-21.The Thames is beautiful, terrifying, powerful, alluring and dangerous. Medway captures the river’s eclectic dynamics, rhythms and energy through the language of abstract painting, the ripples, bubbles, eddies and currents, the reflections and refractions denoted through sinuous lines, ellipses and spots, dots and loops, flecks and swirls. Referencing 20th-century modernist movements such as De Stijl, Tachisme and post-war American Abstract Expressionism, Medway’s own, lyrical, often graphic approach to painting the Thames results in a vivid interplay between pattern and colour. The paintings have overt musical resonances – tempo, rhythm and dynamics as might be encountered in an orchestral score. Like the river, the paintings are at times joyous and playful, at other times brooding and menacing, yet always moving, in flux, traveling onwards towards the sea.An introductory text by critic and writer Sue Hubbard takes readers through the series, exploring how the paintings engage with the qualities and complexities of the river. An in-person conversation between Medway and writer, editor and curator Anna McNay provides insight into the artist’s life and work, discussing the processes by which Medway makes her paintings and the thinking behind them. Designed and produced by Peter B. Willberg, this foil-blocked, cloth-bound hardback publication with a special dustjacket also features an illustrated chronology documenting Medway’s life and career.Sarah Medway (b.1955, Seaton Carew, UK) is a painter based in London. As well as group exhibitions at institutions such as Tate Britain, the Whitechapel, the Royal Academy, the World Trade Center and Austin Museum of Art, Medway’s solo shows include Flowers East, London, Chelsea Hotel, New York, Kienbaum Gallery, Frankfurt, The Mandalai, Thailand, and Atelier Gallery, Spain. She has works in many public, private and corporate collections in the UK, US, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Hong Kong and Thailand.
£23.80
HarperCollins Publishers Van Gogh: in 50 works
Book Synopsis A captivating and highly illustrated introduction to Vincent Van Gogh, told through 50 major works. This new book presents all you need to know about Vincent Van Gogh’s turbulent and prolific creative life, featuring fifty works from the world’s leading art collections and museums. Art historian John Cauman analyses the career and works of, arguably, the best-known artist in the world today. A detailed introduction examines Van Gogh’s development as an artist and explores the themes, methods and driving forces behind his extraordinary paintings and drawings, as well as his relationships with his brother Theo and fellow artists. The book includes both major paintings and lesser-known sketches and artworks. The latest digital technology has been used to ensure that the reproductions are as faithful to the original works as possible. For all art lovers and students interested in Post-Impressionism and 19th-century art, Van Gogh in 50 Works provides a dazzling recreation of the viewing experience. Among the fifty paintings featured, the book includes The Potato Eaters (1885), Père Tanguy (1887), Self-Portrait in Front of the Easel (1888), Sunflowers (1888), Café Terrace at Night (1888), Bedroom in Arles (1888), Van Gogh’s Chair (1888), Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889), Irises (1889), The Starry Night (1889) and Wheatfield with Crows (1890).Trade Review‘The prefect "greatest hits" compilation.' * Artists & Illustrators *
£18.00
Imperial War Museum Wartime London in Paintings
Book SynopsisDuring World War II, London was at its most perilous moment since the Great Fire of 1666. Districts were transformed at night by falling bombs, fires, and searchlights. During the day, when the results of the previous night's bombing were laid bare, ordinary people dealt with the aftermath as best they could. In 1939, the Ministry of Information set up the War Artists Advisory Committee (WAAC) to compile an artistic record of Britain during the war. After the war had ended, more than half of the paintings commissioned--some three thousand works--ended up in the Imperial War Museums collection. Wartime London in Paintings showcases seventy oil paintings from the IWM's unmatched collection in one stunning illustrated volume, portraying the ordinary and the extraordinary of London at the time. Featuring works by some of the most famous war artists of the conflict--including Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, Edward Ardizzone, and more--this incredible visual exploration of a wartime city gives readers a firsthand look at how London coped during one of the most significant periods of its history.
£17.99
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Listening to What you See: Selected Contributions
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together over 25 scholarly essays, reviews and shorter contributions by Peter Hecht, preceded by an introduction on what he thinks his life in art history has taught him. The title indicates what his collected papers have in common: together they represent an attitude of listening to what you see. Hecht is very suspicious of applying a method and believes that looking at an image until it speaks is essential to understanding it. Also, he has done much to prove that it not only pays to study the subject of a picture as part of an iconographical tradition, but that one should study it within the oeuvre of the artist who made it as well.
£33.25
Modern Art Press Nineteenth-century French Paintings in the
Book SynopsisA fully illustrated, comprehensive, and scholarly catalogue of the paintings in the Ashmolean Museum’s collection by French artists born between 1775 and 1875 The only complete catalogue of French paintings of the period in the Ashmolean Museum, this comprehensive and scholarly study explores their rich collection of nineteenth-century French art. Continuing a convention set by earlier Ashmolean catalogues that mirrors the concept of the long nineteenth century, the book defines nineteenth-century French artists as those born between 1775 and 1875. Stretching into the twentieth century, it covers a fascinating range of paintings including works by Louis-Léopold Boilly, Camille, Lucien, and Félix Pissarro, Henri Fantin-Latour, Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Henri Matisse. The catalogue was compiled by the late distinguished art historian Jon Whiteley. In each entry, Whiteley draws upon his encyclopaedic knowledge of French art and the Ashmolean holdings. Provenance, literature, and exhibition history are recorded as well as extensive technical notes and information on frames. The entries on each work are accompanied by new, high-quality photography and comparative images, resulting in a complete and thorough documentation of this important part of the Ashmolean collection of Western art, providing an informative contribution to existing scholarship. Distributed for Modern Art Press
£112.50
Eiderdown Books Painting Women Writers: Susanne du Toit
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£27.00
Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US Nelson Sandgren: An Artist's Life
Book SynopsisThe Oregon artist Nelson Sandgren (1917-2006) worked in three distinct media - oil painting, watercolor, and lithography - distinguishing himself in each of these modes throughout his sixty-five-year career. Nelson Sandgren: An Artist's Life is the first in-depth study of this mid-century Oregon modernist who was born in Canada, grew up in Chicago, and moved with his family to Oregon during the Depression. As a watercolorist who loved to paint on site, often on the Oregon coast, Sandgren worked in the tradition of Winslow Homer and John Marin. In oil painting, he combined modernist abstraction with Pacific Northwest landscape imagery, in this practice paralleling Louis Bunce, Carl Morris, and other Oregon moderns. As a lithographer, Sandgren was central to the printmaking culture that Gordon Gilkey promoted at Oregon State university, where Sandgren taught for thirty-eight years. Roger Hull provides a detailed biography and a close analysis of Sandgren's key artworks while demonstrating Sandgren's significant place in Pacific Northwest modernist tradition.
£19.79
Outskirts Press Painting Oil Portraits: And Bones and Muscles
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£22.75
De Gruyter Vermeer und Epikur: Lebenslust in der Kunst der
Book SynopsisVermeer van Delft gilt als der bedeutendste Schilderer holländischen Lebens im sog. Goldenen Zeitalter. Viele Studien zu seinen Gemälden haben sich mit der Entschlüsselung verborgener Zusammenhänge und symbolischer Bezüge beschäftigt. Bisher ging die Forschung dabei davon aus, dass die Philosophie Spinozas und Descartes' den Maler beeinflusst haben könnte. Andeas Prater zeigt hingegen, dass und wie bestimmte Maximen und Sentenzen Epikurs und seines lateinischen Herolds Lukrez in Vermeers Malerei Eingang gefunden haben. Epikur wurde im 17. Jahrhundert wiederentdeckt und hinsichtlich seiner lange in Verruf geratenen Lehre von Freude und Lust rehabilitiert. Die bisher völlig unbeachteten und unbekannten Aspekte lassen das Werk des großen holländischen Malers in einem ganz neuen Licht erscheinen.
£32.85
De Gruyter Mythos Spanien: Ignacio Zuloaga 1870–1945
Book SynopsisFew other artists have shaped the image of Spain abroad around 1900 as much as Ignacio Zuloaga (1870-1945): proud toreros and spirited flamenco dancers; the simple life of the rural population, ascetics and penitents in vast, barren landscapes, and beggars, diminutive people and witches who invoke the legacy of old masters such as Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Goya. In times of massive industrialisation and Spain’s increasing orientation towards European modernism, Zuloaga aimed to preserve the “Spanish soul” with such scenes. The artist’s painting was celebrated internationally during his lifetime. This volume is the first comprehensive monographic publication on the artist to appear in German. Look inside https://issuu.com/deutscher_kunstverlag/docs/blick_ins_buch_mythos_spanien?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ Catalogue for the first posthumous exhibition on Ignacio Zuloaga outside Spain - the formative artist of Spain’s image abroad around 1900. Exhibitions: Kunsthalle Munich, 15.09.2023-04.02.2024; Bucerius Kunst Forum Hamburg, 17.02.-26.05.2024
£37.35
De Gruyter Symphonie in Schwarz: Eine Spurensuche zwischen
Book Synopsis In 1904, Saxon artist Oskar Zwintscher painted the portrait of a lady smoking a cigarette. Today, the work has cult status at the Albertinum in Dresden. Her hair loose, a burning cigarette held casually in her hand, the sitter in a black reform dress is sitting in front of a black curtain. But who is behind the young woman who looks out of the picture so confidently? Andreas Dehmer and Susanna Partsch embark on a fascinating search for clues to the identity of the lady smoking. They find emancipated women who earned their living as artists, actors or writers, preferred reform dress to the corset, and regarded smoking as a symbol of independence. They follow them to metropolises like Berlin, Dresden or Munich, where they lived as part of the bohemian scene. A captivating picture of the way art and life intertwined around 1900 emerges in this search for the unknown.
£18.90
De Gruyter Matisse, Derain und ihre Freunde: Die Pariser
Book SynopsisEine Gruppe von Künstlern um Henri Matisse und André Derain führte zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts revolutionäre Farbexperimente durch. Der Kunstkritiker Louis Vauxcelles gab ihnen 1905 ihren Namen: „Fauves". Ins Deutsche übersetzt bedeutet es so viel wie „Bestien" oder „wilde Tiere". Anlässlich der ersten Überblicksschau zu den Fauves seit Jahrzehnten in der Schweiz erscheint der Katalog, der die expressive Malweise und die ungewöhnlichen Farbkombinationen von Matisse, Derain und ihren Weggefährten in den Jahren 1904 bis 1908 vorstellt und sie in den ästhetischen und sozio-politischen Debatten der Zeit verortet. Der männlich konnotierte Begriff der Fauves suggeriert bereits auf begrifflicher Ebene den Ausschluss von Künstlerinnen. Ausstellung und Katalog stellen diese traditionelle Sichtweise infrage und machen auch auf Akteurinnen in der Pariser Kunstszene aufmerksam. Reich bebildert und ergänzt um neue kunsthistorische Forschungsbeiträge bietet das Buch einen Einblick in die Vielfalt der farbenreichen Malerei der „Wilden". Der Fauvismus – die erste Avantgarde-Bewegung des 20. Jahrhunderts Großartige Farbexperimente im Bruch mit akademischen Konventionen Ausstellung: Kunstmuseum Basel, Neubau, 2. September 2023 bis 21. Januar 2024 Blick ins Buch https://issuu.com/deutscher_kunstverlag/docs/blick_ins_buch_matisse_derain_und_ihre_freunde
£45.45
De Gruyter Michael Müller & Lukas Töpfer: Am Abgrund der
Book SynopsisThis book is dedicated to works by Michael Müller (*1970) commenting on four paintings by Gerhard Richter (*1932) entitled "Birkenau"; they aim to reappraise the cruel historical fact of Auschwitz II/Birkenau extermination camp in various artistic forms. Direct as the critical comments on Richter may be, they are accompanied by many less conspicuous, quieter, one might even say wounded works by Müller, which were shown at the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg in 2022/23 and will be exhibited at St. Matthew’s Church in Berlin’s Kulturforum in spring 2023 to coincide with the publication of this book. The thematic focus of both exhibitions is the so-called "Sonderkommando", a work detachment of selected Jewish prisoners from 1942 to 1944/45, who were forced to prepare for and clear up after the extermination of their fellow human beings under SS supervision and facing a constant threat to their lives. The book documents the key works of this demanding artistic investigation by Michael Müller and contextualises them in a detailed essay by art historian Lukas Töpfer (*1988). Look inside
£25.20
De Gruyter Rudolf Levy: Magier der Farbe
Book SynopsisDer Maler Rudolf Levy (1875–1944) war eine zentrale Figur der Münchner und Pariser Avantgarde und feierte mit seinen farbkräftigen Bildnissen, Landschaften und Stillleben auch im Berlin der 1920er-Jahre große Erfolge, unter anderem in der legendären Flechtheim-Galerie. Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten führte zu einem jähen Karriereende. Nach einer Flucht-Odyssee konnte Levy sich schließlich in Florenz niederlassen, wo sein Schaffen bis zur Deportation und Ermordung im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz einen letzten eindrucksvollen Höhepunkt erlebte. Als erstes deutsches Ausstellungshaus widmet sich das Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern in einer Retrospektive nun Werk und Leben von Rudolf Levy. Der Katalog öffnet den Blick auf einen Künstler europäischen Ranges, dessen reiche Bildwelt immer wieder neu zu entdecken ist. Beiträge namhafter Autorinnen und Autoren beleuchten Levys Schicksal als verfolgter Künstler und als verfolgter Jude, das künstlerische Kaleidoskop seiner Zeit, die Jahre im Florentiner Exil sowie die Rezeption und Re-Kanonisierung seiner Kunst in der jungen Bundesrepublik. Wiederentdeckung eines großen Klassikers der Moderne anlässlich einer ersten Retrospektive in Deutschland – Internationales Kooperationsprojekt mit den Uffizien in Florenz Standardwerk zu Rudolf Levy in deutscher Sprache Mit einem zeitgenössischen Kunst- und Wortbeitrag von Edmund de Waal Ausstellung, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 28. Oktober 2023 bis 11. Februar 2024 (Schirmherrschaft Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier) Blick ins Buch
£34.65
De Gruyter Nan Hoover – Anneliese Hager – Maria Lassnig
Book SynopsisThree books in one (Ger./Engl.) Nan Hoover, Anneliese Hager and Maria Lassnig are women artists who expressed themselves experimentally and innovatively in various media. They were interested in alienation effects, body perception, and reflections about time and space. All three explored Surrealism early on and found their own individual visual language in different ways: the common denominator is a preoccupation with light, space and the body, as well as the existential question of self-perception and one’s place in the world. While American Hoover was one of the pioneers of international light, video and performance art and produced a surprising painterly early oeuvre close to pop art, Hager, who is one of the most interesting female photographers of the 20th century, remains very little known. Today, Austrian painter Lassnig is one of the most important female artists of the 20th century, but she only achieved her international breakthrough late – in the 1980s. This publication, three books in one, enables readers to rediscover the three artists, or even discover them for the first time. Nan Hoover (1931–2008), light, video and performance artist Look inside Anneliese Hager (1904–1997), photo artist, poet Look inside Maria Lassnig (1919–2014), painter, graphic artist Look inside Art, body, (self-)perception - a focused, concentrated introduction to the work and biography of three 20th century women artists Exhibition: Kunsthalle Mannheim, 10 November 2023 to 28th April 2024
£34.65
De Gruyter „Die wahre Kunst ist immer da, wo man sie nicht
Book SynopsisGerman-english edition As an artist, and as a theorist and collector of Art brut, Jean Dubuffet changed the concept of art in the 20th century. He provided a definition of Art brut in 1949: "we understand it as works executed by people untouched by artistic culture [...]." These included Gaston Chaissac, Louis Soutter, Adolf Wölfli, Madge Gill and Margarethe Held. The self-taught artists and social outsiders gave him inspiration on his own path in art; they released the delight in experimentation so characteristic of Dubuffet’s work, along with anti-cultural and anti-aesthetic ideas. The book presents a selection of works from the extensive holdings of the Klewan Collection. Jean Dubuffet and Art brut – focusing on six artistic positions Exhibition: 16.09.2023–25.02.2024, Gutshaus Steglitz, Berlin Look inside https://issuu.com/deutscher_kunstverlag/docs/blick_ins_buch_die_wahre_kunst_ist_immer_da_wo_ma
£25.20
De Gruyter Francis Bacon: Portrait, 1962
Book SynopsisFrancis Bacon’s portrait of his first partner Peter Lacy is somehow simultaneously attractive and repulsive. The monumental portrait dating from 1962 was unknown to the public for a long time. Shortly after it was painted, Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni acquired the work and it remained in private hands for decades. This is a key work, created at a turning point in Bacon’s oeuvre. Markus Rath embeds the painting into Bacon’s visual world for the first time. The English painter reveals a biographically oriented representationalism in the portrait, concentrating his compositional arrangement on the stage-like interior and forcing a contrast between the two-dimensional ground and the colour-saturated figure – these are pioneering approaches to composition that shaped his late work decisively.
£18.90
De Gruyter Emil Noldes Malweise: Eine Farbe verlangt die
Book SynopsisThe painting technique and artist’s materials of the renowned Expressionist Emil Nolde (1867–1956) have been examined for the first time by an interdisciplinary team of restorers, art historians, and scientists. The research included an evaluation of Nolde’s studio estate and his text sources from the perspective of art technology, as well as detailed microscopic, imaging, and material-analysis examinations of his paintings. Known as a master of coloring, the choice of canvas, primer, and paint, as well as diverse application techniques are essential to the effect of his pictures. The impressive spectrum of Nolde’s working methods and his struggle to arrive at artistic solutions are explained clearly based on forty-four works from all the phases of his long career. Exhibitions:Hamburger Kunsthalle, October 16, 2021 until April 18, 2022Emil Nolde. Meine Art zu malen…, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, March 31, 2022 until February 28, 2023Presentation in the Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, expected from summer 2022
£31.05
Dietrich Reimer Nach Dem Bildersturm: Die Ausstattung
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£41.80
Hirmer Verlag Picasso & Les Femmes D'Alger (Multi-lingual
Book SynopsisThis volume collects the fifteen oil paintings in Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger" series, which are scattered in museums around the world.Picasso’s study of the old masters forms an impressive focus of his late work. At the beginning of this new interest stood the works series Les Femmes d’Alger, which was on view in Paris, Munich, Cologne and Hamburg in 1955 and which today is scattered across several continents. The volume presents the series within the context of its reference works by Delacroix and Matisse. Pablo Picasso was 73 years of age during that winter when he created the unique ensemble of fifteen oil paintings, over 100 drawings and lithographs during his study of Eugene Delacroix’ The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (1834, 1849) and works by Henri Matisse like Odalisque with Red Trousers (1924/25) within the space of just three months. In addition to the cycle, this lavishly illustrated volume will also present the reference works and their reception. Two Algerian writers introduce a modern aspect with their contributions to the catalogue.
£31.96
Divus Josef Bolf: Black Book
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£25.65
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