Paintings and painting Books
Yale University Press Van Gogh
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented, in-depth exploration of the dawn of Van Gogh's artistic career
£38.00
Yale University Press Van Goghs Bedrooms
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at the genesis and meaning of Van Gogh's famed paintings of his bedroom
£28.50
Yale University Press Mapplethorpe Munch
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at how Mapplethorpe and Munch, although separated by many years, shared certain affinities in their lives and artwork
£33.25
Yale University Press Album Picabia
Book SynopsisAlbum Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (18791953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protégée, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951, two years before Picabia's death, the album is a collection of souvenirs, sketches, newspaper clippings, photographs, and annotations that document the artist's public and private lives with acute affection and appreciation. This rich visual account grants us entry into one of the greatest, yet one of the least known, creative and romantic partnerships of the 20th century.Distributed for Mercatorfonds
£28.50
Yale University Press Venice Illuminated
Book SynopsisTrade Review“An important contribution to the wider history of the art and culture of Renaissance Venice, the book is also highly informative about a range of related topics [. . .] It is to be hoped that Yale University Press will continue its tradition of producing art-historical books of such elegant design and excellent scholarship.” —Peter Humfrey, The Burlington MagazineWinner of The 2019 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Best Book Prize in Renaissance Venetian Studies, sponsored by the Renaissance Society of AmericaRecipient of the 2019 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association
£61.75
Yale University Press Jasper Johns
Book SynopsisThe essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the world's foremost contemporary artistsTrade Review“[Bernstein’s] scholarship on Mr. Johns assumed magisterial proportions . . . with the publication of a five-volume catalogue raisonné of his paintings and sculptures.”—Deborah Solomon, New York Times“This definitive five-volume publication is a super feat of scholarship, documenting Johns’ entire output — 355 paintings and 86 sculptures – from 1954 to 2014. Every work is illustrated with a full-page reproduction.”—Apollo‘Meticulously researched and clearly written’—Catherine Craft, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. CLIX (December 2017)
£517.50
Yale University Press Whistler to Cassatt
Book SynopsisA revelatory look at an underexplored chapter of American art, which took place not on American soil but in France
£38.00
WW Norton & Co Diego Rivera
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated in-depth study of the most important North American work by the best-known Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera.
£53.99
WW Norton & Co A Revolution in Color
Book SynopsisThis bold new history recovers the American Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley.Trade Review"Jane Kamensky has not only crafted a stunning biography but also a truly singular account of The American Revolution. A Revolution in Color masterfully unravels any easy distinctions between patriots and loyalists." -- Amanda Foreman"... I commend Kamensky's skill as a writer. Even if you had little interest in such a man as Copley, this is a deeply enjoyable book." -- David Aaronovitch, Book of the Week - The Times"... lively and insightful book... Kamensky has produced an exemplary historical biography... A Revolution in Color is a thumping good read and makes a significant contribution to our appreciation of the often misunderstood and underappreciated Copley." -- Loyd Grossman - The Burlington Magazine
£26.59
WW Norton & Co A Revolution in Color
Book SynopsisThis bold new history recovers the American Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley.Trade Review"... I commend Kamensky's skill as a writer. Even if you had little interest in such a man as Copley, this is a deeply enjoyable book." -- David Aaronovitch, Book of the Week - The Times"Jane Kamensky’s brilliant new biography... a spirited and at times heartbreaking narrative of [Copley’s] life and the tumultuous world he inhabited." -- Literary Review"...intriguing... richly layered biography..." -- Times Literary Supplement"Jane Kamensky has not only crafted a stunning biography but also a truly singular account of The American Revolution. A Revolution in Color masterfully unravels any easy distinctions between patriots and loyalists." -- Amanda Foreman"... lively and insightful book... Kamensky has produced an exemplary historical biography... A Revolution in Color is a thumping good read and makes a significant contribution to our appreciation of the often misunderstood and underappreciated Copley." -- Loyd Grossman - The Burlington Magazine"... very readable account of the life and times of John Singleton Copley." -- The Art Newspaper"Copley was in London when resistance escalated into war. This profile brings his world alive, exploring the difficult relationships between liberty and slavery, family duty and personal ambition." -- What We're Reading - The Independent
£15.19
WW Norton & Co Airbrush Illustration for Architecture Norton
Book SynopsisThis book dispels common misconceptions and gives instructions for mastering the airbrush.
£31.34
WW Norton & Co Trompe lOeil Today
Book SynopsisFrom a countryside panorama in a windowless room to a faux mosaic wall, an intricately painted Oriental carpet to a soaring cathedral dome in a single-story room, Trompe l'oeil painting offers an art form ideal for contemporary interiors, adding color and aesthetic atmosphere and responding to specific architectural needs and situations.Trade Review"An inspirational resource for any readers wanting to learn more about this art form. The book in part celebrates trompe l'oeil's colourful past, but adapts the traditional style, with inspiration for the future. Learn how decorating walls can be more interesting than watching paint dry."
£45.59
W. W. Norton & Company Edwin Howland Blashfield
Book SynopsisThe first book in several decades to focus on the muralist, an esteemed exemplar and advocate of the classical tradition.Trade Review"….. a heroic force for good on America’s walls….an important, overdue volume….a triumph." -- Traditional Building"[A] succinct overview of Blashfield’s work, illustrated by dozens of color photographs of murals from courthouses, capitols and colleges." -- Milwaukee Express"Over 100 large color photographs many taken expressly for this publication and extensive new scholarship combine with an exhaustive list of known murals, a detailed chronology, and a bibliography to make this work valuable either as an introduction to the artist or for the reader already aware of this great American muralist." -- Style 1900"An impressive work of impeccable scholarship and a strongly recommended addition to personal, academic, and library American Art History collections." -- Midwest Book Review"[T]he richly illustrated study provides much in the way of new material on the artist and his milieu." -- Art History
£37.99
University of California Press German Expressionist Painting
Book SynopsisA study of one of the most pivotal movements in the art of the 1957. This title seemed like an eccentric manifestation far removed from what was then considered the mainstream of modern art.
£29.75
University of California Press Minimal Art A Critical Anthology
Book SynopsisIncluding an introduction and bibliography, this is a collection of writings by and about the work of the 1960s minimalists, generously illustrated with photographs of paintings, sculpture, and performance.Table of ContentsAnne M. Wagner: Reading Minimal Art Preface Lawrence Alloway: Systemic Painting Michael Benedikt: Sculpture as Architecture: New York Letter, 1966-67 Mel Bochner: Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism David Bourdon: The Razed Sites of Carl Andre Nicolas Calas: Subject Matter in the Work of Barnett Newman Michael Fried: Art and Objecthood Bruce Glaser: Questions to Stella and Judd E. C. Goossen: Two Exhibitions Dan Graham: Photographs Clement Greenberg: Recentness of Sculpture Peter Hutchinson: Mannerism in the Abstract David Lee: A Systematic Revery from Abstraction to Now Allen Leepa: Minimal Art and Primary Meanings Lucy R. Lippard: Eros Presumptive Robert Morris: Notes on Sculpture Toby Mussman: Literalness and the Infinite Brian O'Doherty: Minus Plato John Perreault: Minimal Abstracts Yvonne Rainer: A Quasi Survey of Some "Minimalist" Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A Barbara Rose: A B C Art Harold Rosenberg: Defining Art Irving Sandler: Gesture and Non-Gesture in Recent Sculpture Willoughby Sharp: Luminism and Kineticism Elayne Varian: Schemata 7 Samuel Wagstaff, Jr.: Talking with Tony Smith Richard Wollheim: Minimal Art Martial Raysse, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson: Writings Bibliography (compiled by Alicja T. Egbert) Index
£28.05
University of California Press Hoppers Places 2e
Book SynopsisThis work compares paintings by Edward Hopper with photographs of the subjects of paintings done in New York, Maine, Gloucester, Cape Cod, Charleston, Mexico and Paris. It demonstrates how Hopper made art of everyday scenes and how he sometimes made intentional changes from what he observed.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Hopper's Places New York and Environs Maine Gloucester Cape Cod Gettysburg Charleston Western United States Mexico Paris Credits Acknowledgements
£24.30
University of California Press Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622
Book SynopsisTaking as case studies two paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, this text examines the ways that identity, gender and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and conoisseurship that have surrounded it.Trade Review"In her new book, Garrard has taken two bold steps that challenge much received opinion in the 'discipline' of art history. Analyzing two of Gentileschi's least violent but most moving images, Garrard argues that the painter's personality is discernible no less in the subjects and their interpretation than in the 'style' of the works; consideration of both aspects is essential to understanding the meaning of these extraordinary pictures and her authorship. Perhaps even more important. Garrard makes crystal clear that Artemisia Gentileschi, far from a 'good woman painter,' was one of the major visual thinkers of her time." -Irving Lavin, coauthor with Marilyn Aronberg Lavin of La Liturgia d'Amore: Immagini dal Canto dei Cantici nell'arte di Cimabue, Michelangelo, e Rembrandt (Modena, 2000) "Linda Nochlin once famously asked: 'Why are there no great woman artists?' Challenged by that question, Mary Garrard has been brilliantly establishing the greatness of the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Now Garrard's findings culminate in a great book - one with all the acerbic panache of one of Artemisia's pictures." -George Hersey, author of Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque "By revealing a great woman painter's ways of expressing uniqueness while negotiating expectations, Mary Garrard helps each of us with the subtleties of remaining authentic while living in the world. Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622 is art history to live by." -Gloria Steinem"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Connoisseurship in a New Key Gender and the Social Construction of Artistic Identity Gender and the Personal Formation of Artistic Identity PART ONE: A New Magdalen A Tale of Two Pictures Artemisia and Mary Magdalene The Example of Caravaggio The Example of Michelangelo Artemisia as the Allegory of Painting The Magdalen as Melancholy The Reappropriation of Gendered Melancholy PART TWO: The Burghley House Susanna A Problem Picture Susanna in the Garden of Love Susanna as Social Scapegoat The Picture: Technical Analysis and Documentation Collaboration or Unauthorized Alteration? Artemisia and Susanna, Public and Audience Conclusion: The Shaping of a Complex Identity Notes Works Cited Index
£35.70
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.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
£49.30
University of California Press Charles Willson Peale
Book SynopsisCharles Willson Peale (1741-1827) produced an unparalleled body of work, including the iconic The Artist in His Museum. He was a revolutionary soldier, a radical activist, an impresario of moving pictures, a natural historian, an inventor, and the proprietor of one of the first modern museums. This book presents his autobiography.Trade Review"A masterly portrait, and an interpretive tour de force." - Charles C. Eldredge, author of Tales from the Easel "This is an invaluable critical study of Charles Willson Peale - clear, erudite, and imaginative. Ward shows what went wrong as well as right in Peale's lifelong attempts at self-fashioning, giving us a richer picture than ever before of this restless American figure." - Alexander Nemerov, author of The Body of Raphaelle Peale; "One of the hallmarks of public life after the Revolution was the desire of notable Americans to fashion their own enduring reputations. This exquisite book lucidly and compellingly investigates how Charles Willson Peale expressed and controlled his image. David C. Ward takes us on a remarkable journey through the labyrinth of a major artist's evolving self-consciousness during the early Republic." - Paul Staiti, Mount Holyoke College"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface. Charles Willson Peale: This New Man Part I "Why Not Act the Man?" 1. Forgeries: Charles Willson Peale and His Father 2. "This Faint Spark of Genius": Fortune, Patronage, and Peale's Rise as an Artist 3. "Application Will Overcome the Greatest Difficulties": Work, Career, and Identity in Peale's Art and Life Part II "I Scrutinize the Actions of Men" 4. A Good War and a Troubled Peace: Charles Willson Peale's Search for Order, 1776-94 5. "The Medicinal Office of the Mind": The Peale Museum's Mission of Reform, 1793-1810 6. "The Hygiene of the Self": Work, Writing, and the Enlightened Body Part III "It Would Seem a Second Creation" 7. The Struggle against Dispersal: Work, Family, and Order in Peale's Family Portraits 8. "I Bring Forth into Public View": Peale's SecularApotheosis in The Artist in His Museum Notes Index
£56.80
University of California Press The Genesis of a Painting
Book SynopsisExplores the creative process through the sketches executed by Picasso for his mural "Guernica". The drawings and paintings shown herein, as well as the photographs of the stages of the final painting, represent the visual record of the creative stages of a major work of art.Trade Review"A beautiful book, and a unique record of the steps in the creation of Picasso's impassioned mural." - San Francisco Chronicle "Fascinating. To follow the protean composition step by step tells more about the process of painting, with its daily interplay of form and psychological demands, than any course in aesthetics.... It is reassuring to observe that the picture remains in the end triumphantly mysterious." - The Observer "The main trend and tendency of the creative process is interpreted by Arnheim with a unique combination of intuition and logical reasoning." - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism "Arnheim's language is clear and simple, the data are organized logically, and there is no superfluous camouflage by words. In addition to these rare qualities in a writer, there is the author's broad knowledge and his grasp of many disciplines, which make the reading of this book stimulating and important." - Art Journal"Table of ContentsI NOTES ON CREATIVITY II THE PAINTING III STEPS TOWARD GUERNICA IV CONCLUSIONS NOTES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
£27.00
University of California Press Pictures for Use and Pleasure
Book SynopsisTraditional Chinese collectors, like present-day scholars of Chinese painting, have favored the 'literati' paintings of the Chinese male elite, disparaging vernacular works, often intended as decorations or produced to mark a special occasion. This book deals with the field of Chinese pictorial art history.Trade Review"A thought-provoking book for serious readers wanting a deep immersion in Chinese art history, social culture, and gender studies." Library Journal "Lavishly illustrated, this is an absolutely crucial book for all students, scholars, and connoisseurs of Chinese painting." Choice "A breakthrough in ... the study of Chinese visual arts and material culture." Oxford Art Journal "Will undoubtedly serve as a starting point for all future studies of the subject." China Review International "An important book... Cahill draws attention to a category of paintings that have hitherto been little studied." -- Marion S. Lee, Associate Professor, School of Art, Ohio University CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ONE Recognizing Vernacular Painting TWO Studio Artists in Cities and Court THREE Adoptions from the West FOUR The Artists’ Repertories FIVE Beautiful Women and the Courtesan Culture Conclusion Appendix: Poem by Zhou Qi Glossary List of Chinese Names and Terms Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£60.35
University of California Press In Pursuit of Universalism
Book SynopsisA comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. It constructs a critical theory of artistic modernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugoro, whose paintings she casts as a polemic response to Japan's late-nineteenth-century encounter with European art.Trade Review"Definitively illuminates a new horizon for the field of modern Asian art... It is precisely what the discipline needs." -- Chun-Wa Chan, The University of Hong Kong Journal Of Oriental Studies "Forceful and eloquent... A substantially rigorous and provocative probe into the search for universalism in a differentiated world." -- Alice Y. Tseng International Journal Of Asian Studies "Deserves to be read by all historians of modern art and East Asian culture and contributes to the growing field of East-West cultural exchange." Journal Of Asian Stds (Jas) / Se Asia & Western Pacific "An impressive book, beautifully produced and sustaining intellectual rigour with its detailed, stimulating research." -- Helenkilpatrick Japanese Studies "Excellent... Exquisitely written." Art Bulletin (CAA) "Written beautifully and compellingly." Journal Of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translation and Names Introduction: Painting "X" 1. Reverse Japonisme and the Structure of Modern Art in Japan 2. Nude Beauty: A Modernist Critique 3. Inventing the Self: The New Woman and the Revolutionary Artist 4. Expressionism and the "New Period of the Primitive" 5. Unified Rhythm: Toward a Universal Painting Epilogue: Japanese Modern Art in the World Notes Further Reading List of Illustrations Index
£60.35
University of California Press Envisioning Howard Finster
Book SynopsisFinster began preaching as a teenager in the South in the 1930s. But it was not until he received a revelation from God at the age of sixty that he began to make sacred art. This book explores the life and religious-artistic significance of Finster and his work.Trade Review"An important book for anyone interested in outsider art, folk art, Southern studies, and American religion." - STARRED REVIEW Library Journal "Entertaining and insightful ... a thoroughly researched and illuminating book." -- John Foster Raw Vision "How [Girardot] came to write a book about Finster and Finster's art after a decade and a half of visiting him- and an additional decade of visiting his garden-is a story in itself, and Girardot's book is as much about that narrative as it is about the mythico-religious structure behind Finster's immense quantity of artwork. In many ways, this book is sui generis." Art Papers "Gives the flavor of the particular religious environment from which Finster emerged and how he transformed it through his art... Of importance, and contrary to typical readings of the work, the only fundamentalism that Girardot recognizes in Finster is the artist's own fundamental strangeness. But the core of that strangeness was core to his liberating message." The Outsider "Densely written but supremely readable. Much of its density comes from the author's often hilarious and often riotously poetic language, which echoes the ecstatic excesses of Paradise Garden itself... His inquiry, which both complicates and elucidates the Finster myth, demonstrates why Finster's lifework matters." Folk Art MessengerTable of ContentsNote on Internet Citations and Additional Web Resources Preface: Stories about Stories Introduction. Once upon a Time: Encountering the Word Made Flesh 1. On the Finster Trail: The Business of Howard Finster's Divine Busyness 2. Signs of the Times: Howard Finster and Prophetic Reenchantment 3. The Matter of My Mission: Howard Finster's Religious Template 4. The First and Second Noah: Howard Finster's Ark of Myth and Meaning 5. The Finster Mythos: Just the Facts in Howard Finster's Mythic Life 6. Snakes in the Garden: Life and Death in Paradise 7. The Strange Beauty of Bad and Nasty Art: Toward a Finsterian Aesthetic Conclusion. Howard Finster: The Hidden Man of the Heart Notes Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Index
£22.50
University of California Press Telling Stories
Book SynopsisFocuses on Philip Guston's controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. This title looks at the early critical reception of these works to see what the artist was actually doing and, at another level, to investigate the odd alchemy of artists and their audiences. It deals with Guston's complicated relationship to Judaism.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sick of Purity 2. Thinking Thoughtlessness 3. Allegory 4. Jewish Jokes Acknowledgments Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press David Park
Book SynopsisDavid Park (1911-1960), transplanted Bostonian turned ground-breaking West Coast painter, led the way in creating what became known as Bay Area Figurative Art - a daring move during the post-World War II years when abstract expressionism held sway. This biography traces Park's resolute search for a fresh kind of figuration.Trade Review"The first full biographical portrait, not a memoir, of Park (1911-1960), the reticent founder of Bay Area Figuration, the region's only modern art movement so far to win global recognition." -- Kenneth Baker San Francisco Chronicle "Even insiders who thought they knew this complicated artist will know him far better thanks to Boas." San Francisco Chronicle "Just as Park put the humanity back into an era of abstraction, Boas brings David Park the man into the foreground in a literary and historical sense." Huffington Post "A welcome volume." Los Angeles Times "[Boas's] passion shows in how persuasively she argues for a wider recognition of Park's importance." Art Critical "Shows how Park conferred a human presence on the painting of his time, influencing artists such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff." San Jose Mercury News "An enthralling read." San Francisco Magazine "[David Park's] bold colors and everyday subjects helped usher in a new modernism." Berkeleyside "[A project] put together with care." San Francisco ChronicleTable of ContentsPrologue. Values, Not Scenes 1. First Years, 1911--1928 2. Out West, 1928--1930 3. New Friends, 1931--1934 4. Genesis, 1934--1936 5. Back East, 1936--1941 6. The War Effort, 1941--1944 7. The California School of Fine Arts, 1945--1946 8. In the Studio, 1946--1949 9. I Call Them Pictures, 1950--1953 10. A Single Self, 1953--1955 11. From Domestic Scenes to Bathers and Nudes, 1955--1958 12. Image and Void, 1958--1959 13. End Story, 1959--1960 14. The Life of the Work, after 1960 Coda. The Blaze in the Darkness Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£22.50
University of California Press Cezanne Murder and Modern Life
Book SynopsisOffers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art's unprecedented psychological intensity. Focusing on the early work of Paul Cezanne, this title offers a competing version for modern painting rooted in the evocation of emotive "expression," emblematized by scenes of murder, sexual violence, and anxious domesticity.Trade Review"Throughout the arguments are supported with a stunning array of contextual information, including both the expected and unexpected... Recommended." -- E. K. Mix, Butler University Choice "Life is beautifully produced. The use of illustrations is materly." -- Alex Danchev Times Higher Education Supplement "That Andre Dombrowski has contributed a highly original and persuasive interpretation of Cezanne's early work is indubitable." H-France Review "Probing ... very rewarding ... [enables] a more complete view of the origins of modernist painting." -- Allison Morehead Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Violent Beginnings: The Murder 2. "I Is Another": Self-Portraiture and the Modernization of Olympia 3. Poetry, Portraiture, and Interiority: Paul Alexis Reading to Emile Zola 4. Art Arranged for Piano: The Overture to "Tannhauser" 5. The Emperor's Last Clothes: Cezanne, Fashion, and L'Annee terrible Epilogue: The End of Violence Notes Further Reading List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index
£60.35
University of California Press Out of Time
Book SynopsisFocusing on the thirty-three paintings Philip Guston exhibited at the Marborough Gallery in 1970, this title reconsiders the history of postwar American art and the conception of figuration in modern art history.Trade Review"A superb book." Modern Painters "A sophisticated monograph on the postwar American painter Philip Guston." -- C. N. Robbins Choice "Slifkin is clearly smart and this first book promises a strong career." -- David Kaufmann The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsPreface: Art, History, and the 1960s 1. Introduction: Figuration circa 1970 2. Literal, Lateral, Historical 3. Action Painting Refigured 4. Conclusion: Badness circa 1970 Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index
£42.50
University of California Press Reading Basquiat
Book SynopsisProvides an approach to understanding the range and impact of artist's practice, as well as its complex relationship to several key artistic and ideological debates of the late twentieth century, including the instability of identity, the role of appropriation, and the boundaries of expressionism.Trade Review"Amply illustrated . . . a lucid account that encourages the reader to look with refreshed eyes at the richness of the artist's work." * Times Higher Education *"Offers a compelling analysis that reveals and elucidates the complex language systems and cultural discourses at play in Basquiat’s work." * Art Practical *"In four chapters, the author gives the artist’s work the scholarly and historical attention it rightly deserves while contributing to the fields of American art, African American art, contemporary art, and diaspora art." * Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Reading Jean-Michel Basquiat 1. "The Black Picasso": Jean-Michel Basquiat and Questions of Race 2. Creativity Found and Made 3. The Language of Expressionism Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£27.00
Harvard University Press Designs on the Heart The Homemade Art of Grandma
Book SynopsisBetween the cultural ephemera, folklore, song, and history embedded in Moses’s paintings and the potent advertising shorthand for Americana that her images rapidly became, this book reveals the widespread longing for the memories, comforts, and small victories of a mythic, intimate American past tapped by the phenomenon of Grandma Moses.Trade ReviewTo most Americans [Grandma Moses’s] art was real art, the genuine, accessible thing, as opposed to the Abstract Expressionist painting being promoted in certain quarters as the internationalist face of American culture in the 1950’s. It’s a little startling to revisit the art wars waged in the popular press of that era, as one can do in Designs on the Heart… Public battles over ‘highbrow’ versus ‘lowbrow’ had a heated, personal urgency rarely inspired by art today. -- Holland Cotter * New York Times *Asking Karal Ann Marling to write a catalogue for a museum exhibition…is a little like asking Jamie Oliver to fix a snack. That you will get anything less than a feast is unimaginable… Marling [is] a stunningly astute observer of American visual culture… Like the best works of cultural criticism, Designs on the Heart will leave the reader saying ‘Of course! How could I not have thought of this before, it’s so self-evidently true? And yet, I would never have asked these questions or connected these dots myself.’ And, like the best works of historical scholarship, it will leave readers asking new questions about our own cultural icons. -- Lauren F. Winner * Books & Culture *Delightful. Marling’s book is neither a straight biography nor a coffeetable picture book. Rather, it is an affectionate analysis of the ‘Grandma’ phenomenon, albeit laced with plenty of photos, biographical stories and images of Moses’ art. -- Mary Abbe * Minneapolis Star-Tribune *In Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses, Karal Ann Marling sets out to explain Grandma Moses’ continuing status as an American icon and her art’s eternal popularity. The book contains photos of Moses and her environs, as well as plenty of color plates of her work. -- Jay Strafford * Richmond Times-Dispatch *How Grandma Moses was discovered in the village of Hoosick Falls, New York, and how she went on to become a worldwide cultural phenomenon are questions answered in an extraordinary and compelling story revealed in Karal Ann Marling’s new book, Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses. -- Peter McLaughlin * Berkshire Living *Karal Ann Marling has long provided astute and sympathetic commentary on diverse facets of American popular culture. Designs on the Heart continues in this vein: a great read full of interesting insights about an American artist that we all really ‘know’ but really don’t know much about. Grandma Moses remains an icon of American art today, and Karal Ann Marling’s new book helps explain why. -- Erika Doss, Professor of Art History, University of Colorado, and author of Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American CommunitiesIt is no mean feat to recast a national icon in a new light, but Karal Ann Marling manages to do so. Marling’s text is a provocative delight—lively, insightful, and mercifully free of jargon. It is an important contribution to the appreciation of a singular artistic personality; equally significant, it provides new illumination to a telling episode in American taste. Students of both art history and American Studies—as well as the legions of Grandma Moses admirers—should find it a valuable addition to the literature. This is the way art history ought to be written. Another Marling triumph. -- Charles C. Eldredge, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture, University of Kansas, and author of Georgia O’Keeffe: American and Modern
£30.56
Harvard University, Asia Center Chinese Ways of Seeing and OpenAir Painting
Book SynopsisChinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form. In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors. They also adopted linear perspective and Cartesian optics. Yi Gu reflects on the complex interaction of local and Western aesthetics within the new form and on the nature of visual modernity in China.Trade ReviewYi Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of Chinese visual modernity…After reading Yi Gu’s book…we have a clearer and fresher view of open-air paintings in China and how they have reflected social, political, and cultural changes from the very beginning of open-air painting since 1910. -- Xiaoxiao Li * Chinese Historical Review *[A] penetrating study of 20th-century Chinese landscape painting. * Choice *
£53.51
Harvard University Press Chinese Ways of Seeing and OpenAir Painting
Book SynopsisChinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form. In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors. They also adopted linear perspective and Cartesian optics. Yi Gu reflects on the complex interaction of local and Western aesthetics within the new form and on the nature of visual modernity in China.Trade ReviewYi Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of Chinese visual modernity…After reading Yi Gu’s book…we have a clearer and fresher view of open-air paintings in China and how they have reflected social, political, and cultural changes from the very beginning of open-air painting since 1910. -- Xiaoxiao Li * Chinese Historical Review *[A] penetrating study of 20th-century Chinese landscape painting. * Choice *
£32.26
Harvard University Press Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese
Book SynopsisJuliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country, leading to the creation of a uniquely modern Chinese landscape imagery. Noth offers a new understanding of these experiments by studying them as transmedial practice, at once shaped by and integral to the modern global art world.Trade Review[An] important new volume…It will be necessary reading for all scholars of Republican China’s cultural politics. -- Craig Clunas * Journal of Chinese History *A comprehensive and insightful series of analyses on the problems of landscape painting and its practitioners at the junction of intermediation via photography, and on the need to proclaim and reinforce the continuity of ‘Chinese landscape painting’. Because of its detail and precise analysis this text will be an important reference for some time. -- John Clark * 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual *
£53.51
Princeton University Press Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Absolutely lavishly illustrated."--Rana Mitter, Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Beginning and Ending 5 2 The Gentleman 37 3 The Emperor 85 4 The Merchant 117 5 The Nation 155 6 The People 193 Conclusion 229 Notes 237 Bibliography 263 Index 277 Photography and Copyright Credits 287
£49.50
Princeton University Press Groundwork
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Apollo Book of the Year""A tour de force analysis."---Yve-Alain Bois, Artforum"A splendidly expansive work that successfully unites material with metaphor. Beautifully illustrated and playful in tone, this book should be celebrated for its originality and, above all, as an invitation to ever closer looking."---Imogen Tedbury, Apollo Magazine"Groundwork fuses traditional formal analysis of a superior and detailed order with a provocative discussion of how the various meanings of “ground” . . . are a critical determinant of the painting’s spatial order and meaning." * Choice *"David Young Kim takes familiar paintings (Bellini’s Saint Francis in the Desert; Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus) and surprises us with new ways of looking at them. Combining intellectual ingenuity with close-looking, the book defines ‘ground’ in three ways and works out the consequences of doing so in a manner that owes as much to historical treatises as to technical study." * Apollo Magazine *"Clever and erudite…. David Young Kim invites his reader into the deeper recesses of Renaissance art-making and provides profound multilayered insights into an oft-neglected subject. The book is an intellectual tour de force. - Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson, Comptes Rendus"
£46.75
Princeton University Press Kings and Connoisseurs
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Full of down-to-earth narrative about dickering and haggling among princes and their agents. . . . Brown is particularly good at converting the hard evidence of the Hapsburg acquisitions into a sort of poignant thriller."---Raymond Sokolov, Wall Street Journal
£29.75
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Lost Michelangelos
Book Synopsis* This book tells the remarkable story of the discovery of two lost paintings by Michelangelo D one held in a private collection in the US and the other held by an Oxford college.Trade Review"As much a story about the intransigence of the art establishment and the gaps in its tradition-bound methods for considering authentication claims as it is about the ultimate fate of the painting itself." New York Times "An art mystery for the ages." New York Post "An unlikely and rather miraculous piece of art history." Bay Area Reporter "In reconstructing the history of two lost paintings, Forcellino transforms the material into a cinematic plot worthy of a spy movie." Il Manifesto "This is an intriguing piece of artistic detective work...Reading Forcellino's investigations is like watching a jigsaw being painstakingly pieced together." The Saturday Age The story behind The Lost Michelangelos has garnered a lot of media attention including features in the following news outlets: The Huffington Post The Independent The Daily Mail BBC Oxford Sky News Daily News & Analysis "In compelling fashion, Antonio Forcellino traces the remarkable journey of a painting from Rome to Dubrovnik to Berlin, and finally to Buffalo, NY: could it be a masterpiece by the greatest genius of the Italian Rennaissance? William Wallace, Washington University, St Louis "Forcellino's new book reads like a detective story, draws on his expertise as a restorer and makes a good case for the rediscovery of two lost paintings by Michelangelo." Peter Burke, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsChapter One - NiagaraChapter Two - Mantua, 11 June 1546Chapter Three - Between legends and documentsChapter Four - A movable panelChapter Five - Isabel ArcherChapter Six - The meetingChapter Seven - The wax sealsChapter Eight - Flying back from New York Chapter Nine - Fabio TempestiviChapter Ten - The melancholic exileChapter Eleven - The last survivorChapter Twelve - Ragusa 1573Chapter Thirteen - The Madonna's teethChapter Fourteen - The hidden drawingChapter Fifteen - The Stone CityChapter Sixteen - Tempestivi's funeralChapter Seventeen - The island of SipanChapter Eighteen - OxfordChapter Nineteen - Back to BuffaloChapter Twenty - RestorationChapter Twenty-One - PentimentiEpilogue
£11.77
Cornell University Press The Mirror the Window and the Telescope
Book SynopsisIn The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope, Samuel Y. Edgerton brings fresh insight to a subject of perennial interest to the history of art and science in the West: the birth of linear perspective. Edgerton retells the fascinating story of how perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence, growing out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives. And yet, ironically, its discovery would have a profound effect not only on the history of art but on the history of science and technology, ultimately undermining the very medieval Christian cosmic view that gave rise to it in the first place. Among Edgerton''s cast of characters is Filippo Brunelleschi, who first demonstrated how a familiar object could be painted in a picture exactly as it appeared in a mirror reflection. Brunelleschi communicated the principles of this new perspective to his artist friends Donatello, Masaccio, Masolino, and Fra AngeliTrade ReviewEdgerton's very readable book provides a clear history of linear perspective, with a detailed reconstruction of the Brunelleschi experiment set against the religious background of fifteenth-century Florence. It considers the spiritual and moral implications of geometric optics, and shows how artists as well as religious leaders used the new knowledge and adapted it to their traditional assumptions about visualized nature. * Christopher Stace *The power of Edgerton's central thesis in this very brief book rests in its clarity and elegance. He focuses on two dates 1425 and 1435 and two men Brunelleschi and Alberti, arguing that their differences reveal the transformation of linear perspective from an artistic practice rooted in medieval religious ideas to a secularized method for picturing the world.... His explanation of both Brunelleschi's and Alberti's methods is compelling and he does a remarkable job of capturing the excitement and anxieties that this new style of painting generated among artists like (surprisingly) Fra Angelico, Masaccio and Raphael Sanzio. There is no doubt, as well, that this innovation excites Edgerton himself, and the passion of a seasoned teacher seeps through and invigorates much of this book. -- Dallas G. Denery II * H-German *
£17.84
University of Toronto Press Art and the German Bourgeoisie
Book SynopsisKay's local study of the debate over cultural modernism in Imperial Germany makes a significant contribution both to the study of modernism and to the history of German culture.
£45.00
Stanford University Press Sublime Poussin Meridian Crossing Aesthetics
Book SynopsisPoussin was the artist to whom Marin returned most faithfully over the years. Since Marin did not live to write his proposed book on Poussin, the ten major essays in this volume will remain his definitive statement on the painter who inspired his most eloquent and probing commentary.Trade Review"[Marin's] mandarin prose, as foreign to our age of mass culture as Poussin's paintings, seems as self-sufficient as the strangely in accessible art it so beautifully describes."—Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsContents PART I: 1 2 3 4 5 PART II: 6 7 8 9 10 Appendix 1: Appendix 2: Appendix 3:
£25.19
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Winslow Homer in London
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£18.86
University of Hawai'i Press Modern Ink The Art of Xugu 2
Book SynopsisThe enigmatic Chinese monk-painter Xugu (1823â1896), with his daring brush techniques and implicit expression of spiritual insight, stands out among notable innovators in the late Qing period. This monograph, illustrated in full colour, examines seventeen paintings and one rare work of calligraphy by this extraordinary artist in the context of his life and stylistic development.
£28.46
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Asinou across Time
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£53.51
MP-TAM Texas A&M University Santa Barraza Artist of the Borderlands Artist
Book SynopsisA study of 34 paintings by Santa Barraza, who depicts the historical, emotional and spiritual land between Mexico and Texas, between present reality and the mythic world of the ancient Aztecs and Mayas. The work includes analyses of the forces that have shaped Barraza as a Chicana artist.
£31.96
Getty Publications Irises Vincent Van Gogh in the Garden
Book Synopsis. Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Remy, where he was recuperating from a period of mental illness. Featuring colour illustrations, this title presents a study of this Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings.Trade Review"How well he understood the exquisite nature of flowers!" - Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) French art critic and first owner of Irises"
£16.14
Getty Trust Publications Masaccio Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the Pisa Altarpiece, Masaccio's multi-panelled painting of which the Saint Andrew panel is thought to have once formed a part. It discusses Masaccio's short life and illustrious career; the commission of the altarpiece; its patron and programme; its original location; and more.
£16.14
Getty Trust Publications The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings
Book SynopsisThis volume presents 31 papers grouped into four topic areas: wood science and technology; history of panel manufacturing techniques; history of the structural conservation of panel paintings; and current approaches to the structural conservation of panel paintings.
£67.50
Getty Trust Publications The Index of Paintings Sold in the British Isles
Book SynopsisThis work, covering the years 1816-1820, makes the contents of some of the tens of thousands of sales catalogues published during the 19th century accessible to scholars. Information provided includes sales dates and lot numbers, prices and names of buyers and sellers, and locations of auctions.
£121.50
Getty Trust Publications Dossos Fate Painting and Court Culture in
Book SynopsisArising from the proceedings of two symposia, this text is composed of contributions by scholars who examine the social, intellectual and historical contexts of the work of the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni di Lutero, who used the name Dosso.
£42.75
