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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP The Cycle of Life in the Paintings of Thai Artist
Book SynopsisThe paintings of contemporary Thai artist Pichai Nirand (b. 1936) are a vivid exploration of the interplay between Thailand’s Buddhist roots and its modern aspirations and struggles. Pichai engages fully with the world and belief system around him. Accompanying the full-color paintings is an incisive examination of the Thai moral and social themes of Pichai’s paintings in terms of the Buddhist cycle of life. Philip Constable’s sensitive analysis of the social, political, economic, and moral dimensions affecting the artist, coupled with careful reference to other contemporary Thai artists, illuminates the deep meaning and expression behind each painting. This book showcases a celebrated Thai artist who has spent a lifetime providing a Thai Buddhist perspective on the dilemmas and contradictions of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
£27.99
Getty Trust Publications Spectacular Rubens – The Triumph of the Eucharist
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Ruben's artistic process. The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado's superb collection of Remish paintings. Completed in 1626, these brilliantly detailed sketches were painted at the behest of the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in preparation for a series of monumental tapestries that are now considered among the finest made in Europe in the 17th-century. Unfortunately, additions to the wooden supports, introduced after the paintings were created, made the panels considerably larger than Rubens intended and over time caused serious damage to the original sections. With the aid of the Getty Foundation's Panel Paintings Initiative, the panels have been restored and returned to their original dimensions by the Prado, and the magnificent oil sketches can once again be placed on public view. This exquisitely illustrated volume provides new insight into the history of the Eucharist series of paintings and tapestries and attests to Rubens' exhilarating art.
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Harvard University Press The Dada Painters Poets An Anthology 2e
Book SynopsisThis incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations offers the authentic answer to the question What is Dada? Prepared by Motherwell in collaboration with such major Dada figures as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Max Ernst, the book creates a composite picture of Dadaits convictions, antics, and spirit.Trade ReviewThe single most instructive book on Dada… [T]he items collected are readable, pungent, and representative. It is one of those ‘essential works’ on twentieth-century art. -- T. J. ClarkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Jack Flam Preface Introduction, by Robert Motherwell List of Illustrations PART I: PRE-DADA 1. Exhibition at the independents, by Arthur Cravan: 1914 2. Arthur Cravan and American Dada, by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia: 1938 3. Memories of an Amnesic (Fragments), by Erik Satie: 1912-13 i. What I Am ii. The Day of a Musician PART II: EN AVANT DADA: A HISTORY OF DADISM, by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1920 PART III: DADA FRAGMENTS, by Hugo Ball: 1916-17 PART IV: MERZ, by Kurt Schwitters: 1920 PART V: A DADA PERSONAGE Two Letters, by Jacques Vache (to Andre Breton): 1917-18 PART VI: SEVEN DADA MANIFESTOES, by Tristan Tzara: 1916-20 1. Manifesto of Mr. Antipyrine 2. Dada Manifesto 1918 3. Proclamation without Pretension 4. Manifesto of mr. aa the anti-philosopher 5. Manifesto on feeble love and bitter love Supplement: how I became charming delightful and delicious Colonial Syllogism PART VII: HISTORY OF DADA, by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes: 1931 PART VIII: THE DADA SPIRIT IN PAINTING, by Georges Hugnet: 1932 and 1934 1. Zurich and New York 2. Berlin (1918-22) 3. Cologne and Hanover 4. Dada in Paris PART IX: THREE DADA MANIFESTOES, by Andre Breton: Before 1924 1. For Dada 2. Two Dada Manifestoes 3. After Dada PART X: MARCEL DUCHAMP, by Andre Breton: 1922 New York Dada, edited by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray New York, April 1921. Facsimile PART XI: DADA FRAGMENTS FROM ZURICH Notes from a Dada Diary, by Jean (Hans) Arp. 1932 monsieur duval vases with umbilical cords sketch for a landscape End of the World, by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1916 PART XII: DADA FRAGMENTS FROM PARIS (Two Poems), by Paul Eluard: 1921 Project for a History of Contemporary Literature, by Louis Aragon: 1922 Facsimile The Magnetic Fields, by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault: 1920 PART XIII: FROM THE ANNALS OF DADA 1. Zurich Chronicle, by Tristan Tzara: 1915-19 2. Collective Dada Manifesto, by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1920 3. Lecture on Dada, by Tristan Tzara: 1922 PART XIV: SOME MEMORIES OF PRE-DADA: PICABIA AND DUCHAMP, by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia: 1949 La Pomme de Pins, edited by Francis Picabia St. Raphael February 25, 1922. Facsimile PART XV: THEO VAN DOESBURG AND DADA, by Kurt Schwitters: 1931 PART XVI: DADA LIVES! by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1936 PART XVII: DADA X Y Z..., by Hans Richter: 1948 PART XVIII: DADA WAS NOT A FARCE, by Jean (Hans) Arp: 1949 Sophie, by Jean (Hans) Arp: 1946 Appendices A. The Dada Case, by Albert Gleizes: 1920 B. A Letter on Hugnet's "Dada Spirit in Painting," by Tristan Tiara: 1937 C. Marcel Duchamp: Anti-Artist, by Harriet and Sidney Janis: 1945 D. Sound-Rel 1919, and Birdlike 1946, by Raoul Hausmann Bibliography Did Dada Die? a Critical Bibliography by Bernard Karpel (Librarian, Museum of Modern Art, New York) Index to Bibliography Addenda: Dada Alive and Well, by Benard Karpel: 1981 Additional Bibliography Dada Manifesto 1949, by Richard Huelsenbeck An Introduction to Dada, by Tristan Tzara General Index
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Harvard University Press Bathers Bodies Beauty
Book SynopsisLinda Nochlin explores the contradictions and dissonances that mark experience as well as art. Her book confronts the issues posed in representations of the body in the art of impressionists, modern masters, and contemporary realists and post-modernists.Trade ReviewIt is a pleasure to hear Nochlin thinking aloud even where she is deliberately inconclusive. Particularly absorbing is her examination of Trouville, a liminal dream-kingdom which in the 1860s rapidly became both Paris by the sea and a potentially perilous vantagepoint from which the sublime vastness of the Atlantic Ocean might be glimpsed. A sceptic could point out that she reads a lot into Monet’s ambiguous use of perspective in his Hotel des Roches Noires of 1870, but it is a rare pleasure to encounter anyone thinking seriously about Monet at all. Similarly, the motif of the bather (in the sense of bath-taker rather than swimmer) provides a springboard for a highly original reading of Pierre Bonnard, another artist often dismissed as a woolly-headed sensualist… [Nochlin has a] knack for looking at canonical artists from fresh perspectives. -- Keith Miller * Times Literary Supplement *
£42.46
David Zwirner Alice Neel, Uptown
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National Gallery Company Ltd An American Experiment: George Bellows and the
Book SynopsisIn the first decades of the 20th century, George Bellows and other painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of the city from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri's insistence that artists should make "pictures from life," the Ashcanners renounced the polished academic style taught in art schools of the time. Instead they practiced a more urgent manner working with bold, highly saturated color, seeking to catch the ebb and flow of life in urban America. Some of them, particularly Bellows, also produced vivid landscapes and portraits. This book introduces the artists of the Ashcan School and the key characteristics and themes of their work. Detailed commentaries are provided for twelve significant paintings by George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, and John Sloan, ranging from depictions of the metropolitan throng to Bellows's vivid seascapes. In their visual contemplation of early-20th-century America, these artists offer deep insights into the nature of ordinary life not only in their time but also in our own.Published by National Gallery Company / Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule:The National Gallery, London(03/03/11-05/30/11)
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The University of Chicago Press The Great Image Has No Form or On the Nonobject
Book SynopsisIn premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this book explores the "nonobject" - a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.Trade Review"This is one of those rare, precious, and necessary books that, once you have completed a first reading, you realize you have only just begun." (Magazine Litteraire)"
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Yale University Press William Nicholson
Book SynopsisWilliam Nicholson (1872-1949) is among the most admired and elusive painters in the history of British art. This catalogue represents Nicholson's oil paintings and the comprehensive chronology of his life.Trade Review"[S]umptuous."—William Feaver, Art News -- William Feaver * Art News *Shortlisted for the 2013 Historians of British Art Book Prize in the Multi-Author category, given by the Historians of British Art. -- 2013 Historians of British Art Short List in the Multi-Author category * Historians of British Art *Winner of the 2012 Spear's Book Award as an outstandingly produced book, award is sponsored by Harbottle & Lewis. -- Spear's Book Award * Harbottle & Lewis *
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The University of Chicago Press Cezanne and the End of Impressionism A Study of
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The University of Chicago Press SelfPortrait in Words Collected Writings and
Book SynopsisThis work reveals German artist Max Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in the United States. The collection of Beckmann's writings serves as a companion to his art and a testament to the complexities of his life.
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Flame Tree Publishing Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2026 Art
Book SynopsisJamaican-born Tamara Natalie Madden created work that sought to heighten the overlooked and forgotten. This stunning calendar features 12 of her artworks that shine with nobility and grace. The datepad features previous and next months views in this art calendar. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.
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Yale University Press How to Read Chinese Paintings
Book SynopsisThe Chinese often use the expression du hua, 'to read a painting', in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume 'reads' thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopaedic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to reveal the major characteristics and themes of this pictorial tradition.Trade Review"Ingeniously conceived as a manual for those unfamiliar with or daunted by Chinese painting, this volume offers splendid photographic details of thirty-six works of painting and calligraphy in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. . . . Hearn invokes the literati practice of 'reading a painting' (du hua), imbuing the learning process with a balance between intellectual gravitas and playful enjoyment."—Nixi Cura, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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Penguin Books Ltd Leonardo da Vinci
Book Synopsis''In this painting of Leonardo''s there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.''Often called the first art historian, Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists .Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin''s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574). Vasari''s works available in Penguin Classics are Lives of the Artists Volume I and Volume II.
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Sansom & Co Last Days of Hilton: Gouaches of Roger Hilton
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Paintings of the Razmanama
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Portfolio: Beginning Pen & Ink: Tips and
Book SynopsisPortfolio: Beginning Pen & Ink will teach you everything you need to know about the fundamentals of drawing with pen and ink. From the beloved and best-selling Portfolio art series by Walter Foster Publishing comes Portfolio: Beginning Pen & Ink, a book that invites you to explore this classic art medium in new and refreshing ways. This comprehensive guide is packed with valuable resources for artists of all skill levels, starting with the basics and ending with intricate, original step-by-step projects that are sure to impress—and inspire. Portfolio: Beginning Pen & Ink introduces drawing basics, including stippling, hatching, and crosshatching; how to master the fundamentals of mark-making and line work; and helpful exercises for contour drawing, gesture drawing, perspective, and more. Chapters on value, tone, mood, light and shadow, and texture follow, ensuring that artists gain the drawing knowledge they need before working on the step-by-step projects featured in the book. Artists can even learn to add color to their black-and-white art using watercolor for a fresh, modern take on an age-old art form. Whether you're a new artist looking to try a celebrated art technique, a pen-and-ink enthusiast, a mixed-media master, or a graphite-pencil fan looking to branch out to new mediums, Portfolio: Beginning Pen & Ink will teach you everything you need to know. The Portfolio series covers essential art techniques, core concepts, and media with an approach and format that’s perfect for aspiring, beginning, and intermediate artists.Also available from the series: Beginning Acrylic, Beginning Drawing, Beginning Watercolor, Beginning Pastel, Beginning Colored Pencil, Beginning Color Mixing, Expressive Painting, Beginning Color Mixing, and Beginning Composition.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Poetry and Painting in Song China The Subtle Art
Book SynopsisDuring the Song dynasty (960–1278), some of China’s elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, painting titles, contemporary inscriptions, and the historical context, Murck shows that certain paintings expressed strong political opinions—some transparent, others deliberately concealed.Trade ReviewIn late eleventh-century China, a group of disaffected government officials, their careers in disarray and their lives sometimes at risk, found ways to express political dissent and personal grievances through the use of literary allusions. Expressing dissatisfaction could be dangerous, so these allusions had to be oblique...Circulating among like-minded people, these coded expressions of protest and discontent were relatively secure from outsiders' scrutiny. They are even more difficult to access today—or have been, I should say. This impressively researched, deeply ruminated book opens the door to their meaning. -- Susan E. Nelson * College Art Association Reviews *Focusing on one of the best-known themes in Chinese (and later, Japanese) ink-painting, from one of the pivotal moments in the formation of the painting-poetry relationship, this book delves into a classic example of polities turning to the arts for expression. And because the politicians of this dangerous time coded their painted-poetry with such subtle indirectness, Dr. Murck's inquiry unfolds like a good mystery undertaken by a master sleuth. Every reader, whether Asian scholar or arm-chair detective, will come away with a far deeper appreciation of the painting-poetry-politics triad in Chinese history. -- Jerome Silbergeld, University of Washington and Princeton UniversityFreda Murck's richly detailed book teaches us how to crack the code by which important Song scholar-artists expressed their anguished laments and political protests through seemingly innocuous landscape paintings. Explaining how secret messages were encoded in poetic allusions and translated into visual imagery, she uncovers a new and important dimension of Song literati painting. Through a series of ease studies, she shows how painting gained new expressive possibilities by adopting the functions, metaphors, and conventions of poetry. -- Julia Murray, University of Wisconsin-MadisonMore than any other study, this brilliantly researched hook carries the reader into the intellectual environment of scholars, painters, and poets who created new forms of visual and verbal expression during the Song dynasty. -- Robert E. Harrist, Jr., Columbia University
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Princeton University Press From Drawing to Painting
Book SynopsisInterweaves biographical information about 5 renowned French artists - Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. This book presents over 260 illustrations, and explores drawing as a site of reflection, the space between the idea of a painted image and its realization on canvas.Trade Review"Beginning with a general introduction to the background and style of each artist's work, Rosenberg discusses what the drawings meant to each artist, who collected them, how drawings fit into the practice of the creation of paintings, and the tricky practice of attributing drawings."--Library Journal "[A] wonderful, charming and witty book... The scholarship is personable and engaging, yet unobtrusive. A book for everyone, and a model of the unity, and expansiveness, of the art historical enterprise."--Choice "Rosenberg poses in six chapters a series of basic questions on the nature, function, and connoisseurship of drawings. 'Basic' is, or course, a deceptive word, for the most basic questions can be the most challenging to answer. For general audiences, this book ... is the equivalent of a tour with a patient guide through terrain that otherwise might be perceived as rarified or inhospitable... For specialists, this volume of synthesis and reflection will prove a useful complement to the weighty compilations of fact and documentation in the catalogues raisonnes... One can hope that younger scholars will be inspired to follow Rosenberg's example and give equal attention to drawing and painting as two sides of the same coin, as, of course, they are."--Perrin Stein, Master DrawingsTable of ContentsPREFACE INTRODUCTION ix CHAPTER 1 Five Exceptional Artists 2 CHAPTER 2 The Drawings: Their Histories, Techniques, and Themes 26 CHAPTER 3 Practice and Idea 66 CHAPTER 4 On the Attribution and Dating of the Drawings 96 CHAPTER 5 Drawing and Money 144 CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Design 176 NOTES 211 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 234 INDEX 238
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Essential Dürer
Book SynopsisThe Essential Durer offers an accessible and up-to-date look at one of Germany's most famous artists. Essays explore his life as well as his art and its remarkable reception across Europe.Trade Review"Provides a new and comprehensive introduction to Dürer's art, life, and times. Written throughout in a lucid yet scholarly style, it is deservedly destined to feature prominently on syllabi throughout the English-speaking world." * Burlington Magazine *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations 1 Dürer—Man, Media, and Myths —Larry Silver 2 Dürer's Drawings —Christiane Andersson and Larry Silver 3 Dürer and the High Art of Printmaking —Charles Talbot 4. Dürer as Painter —Katherine Crawford Luber 5 Dürer and Sculpture —Jeffrey Chipps Smith 6 Dürer and Venice —Andrew Morral 7 The Artist, His Horse, a Print, and Its Audience: Producing and Viewing the —Ideal in Dürer's Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513) —Pia F. Cuneo 8 Civic Courtship: Albrecht Dürer, the Saxon Duke, and the Emperor —Larry Silver 9 Dürer and the Netherlands: Patterns of Exchange and Mutual Admiration —Dagmar Eichberger 10 Agony in the Garden: Dürer's "Crisis of the Image" —Donald A. McColl 11 Albrecht Dürer between Agnes Frey and Willibald Pirckheimer —Corine Schleif 12 Impossible Distance: Past and Present in the Study of Dürer and Grünewald —Keith Moxey Notes Short Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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Getty Trust Publications Chatting with Henri Matisse - The Lost 1941
Book SynopsisIn 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just weeks before the book was to come out-the artist even had approved the cover design-Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at the Getty Research Institute.; This rich conversation, conducted during the Nazi occupation of France, is published for the first time in this volume, where it appears both in English translation and in the original French version. Matisse unravels memories of his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Moreau's atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors, including Alfred Barnes. He discusses fame, writers, musicians, politicians, and, most fascinatingly, his travels. Chatting with Henri Matisse, introduced by Serge Guilbaut, contains a preface by Claude Duthuit, Matisse's grandson, and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence Bertrand Dorleac. The book includes unpublished correspondence and other original documents related to Courthion's interview and abounds with details about avant-garde life, tactics, and artistic creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Full of reminiscences, apercus, and surprising revelations from the master."--ARTnews "[Chatting with Henri Matisse] sheds light on [Matisse's] process and his approach to color."--ArtInfo "[A] comprehensively contextualised restoration of this rare and uninhibited testimonial, emerging from a moment that Matisse correspondingly called his 'resurrection' from near-death."-- Burlington Magazine "[These interviews] give valuable insight into a major artist who was not only a painter but a sculptor, set designer and maker of memorable cut-paper collages."--South China Morning Post "An extensive interview in which Henri Matisse freely shares his thoughts on everything from drawing to depression."--Guardian "This important book provides great insight into Matisse as an artist and individual, as well as into [Courthion's] interviewing and editing process."--Publishers Weekly
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National Gallery Company Ltd The Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings,
Book SynopsisThe National Gallery, London possesses an important collection of paintings by 16th-century Netherlandish artists, including Joachim Beuckelaer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jean Gossart, and Quinten Massys. They are grouped here with a small number of French paintings, some by artists who came from the Low Countries (Corneille de Lyon, probably Jean Hey, and perhaps the Master of Saint Giles). Lorne Campbell’s catalogue is a model of scholarship; he examined all the pictures with conservators and rigorously researched their histories, subjects, and styles. New discoveries about artists’ techniques and practices have led to many reattributions, and the rescue from anonymity of over twenty paintings. The identities of several patrons are established or suggested, while an introductory essay explains how contemporaries regarded these paintings. Generously illustrated, with many details and technical photographs, and beautifully produced, this comprehensive catalogue is essential reading for scholars, while also introducing general readers to a vital part of the Gallery’s collection.Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University PressTrade Review‘Lorne Campbell’s scholarly and sumptuously produced catalogue contains a multitude of discoveries about the National Gallery’s rich holdings of 16th-century Netherlandish paintings.’—Apollo Magazine * Apollo Magazine *“A milestone in scholarship of Early Netherlandish painting . . . a lasting legacy.”—Larry Silver, HNA Review of Books (Historians of Netherlandish Art) -- Larry Silver * HNA Review of Books *‘Turn to the weakest paintings in the field and we realise that Campbell writes not merely to record but to inform and draw the reader into the debate so that he may take an interest in matters seemingly arcane – but that is precisely the purpose of great art history as an academic discipline. This is the perfect catalogue.’ —Brian Sewell, Evening Standard. -- Brian Sewell * Evening Standard *
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F&W Publications Inc Painting Acrylics First Steps
Book SynopsisProvides step-by-step instructions for beginning painters with exercises in painting flowers, trees, bricks, fur, and other simple subjects.
£14.44
Damiani Ciclos: Blooms of Mold: José Parlà
Book SynopsisParla’s painterly meditation on life and death in the wake of his perilous Covid encounter. The immersive, monumental paintings documented here were the first works that José Parlá created after his recovery from a life-threatening battle against Covid. The series was installed in the iconic Beaux-Arts Court at the Brooklyn Museum in 2022.
£36.00
Yale University Press G. F. Watts
Book SynopsisGeorge Frederic Watts (18171904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first in-depth biography of Watts, sheds new light on the pioneering spirit and breadth of mind of the artist. Drawing on Watts's abundant personal correspondence and diaries and an array of other contemporary documents, the book chronicles the artist's career and personal life, including his friendships with Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, William Gladstone, and Alfred Tennyson and his relationships with a series of singular women. The book also examines Watts's wide reforming zeal and political agenda as well as his role and dealings in the Victorian art world. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
£38.00
Yale University Press William Holman Hunt
Book SynopsisWilliam Holman Hunt was one of the major artistic talents of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, founded in 1848. Hunt's work was always characterised by great seriousness of purpose and his paintings include many of its most beautiful and powerful images. This two volume set takes an in-depth look at his work.
£166.25
Getty Trust Publications Futures & Ruins – Eighteenth–Century Paris and
Book SynopsisThis is as the favoured artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersection between aesthetics and modernity's dawning business culture. In this provocative study, Hubert Robert's paintings of urban ruins are interpreted as manifestations of a new consciousness of time, one shaped by the uncertainty of an economy characterized by the anxiety-inducing expansion of credit, frenzied speculation on the stock market, and foolhardy ventures in real estate. At the centre of this lively narrative lie Robert's depictions of the ruins of Paris - macabre and spectacular paintings of desolation - on the eve of the French Revolution. Drawing on a vast range of materials, Futures & Ruins interprets Robert's artworks as harbingers of a modern appetite for self-destruction: the paintings are examined as expressions of the pleasures and perils of a risk economy.
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Getty Trust Publications Color Science and the Visual Arts - A Guide for
Book Synopsis"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar." What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reader understand complex color-technology concepts and offers solutions to problems that occur when art is displayed, conserved, imaged, or reproduced. Berns writes for two types of audiences: museum professionals seeking explanations for common color-related issues and students in conservation, museum studies, and art history programs. The seven chapters in the book fall naturally into two sections: fundamentals, covering topics such as spectral measurements, metamerism, or color inconstancy; and applications, where artwork display, painting materials, and color reproduction are discussed. A unique feature of this book is the use of more than 200 images as its main medium of communication, employing color physics, color vision, and imaging science to produce visualizations throughout the pages. An annotated bibliography complements the main text with suggestions for further reading and more in-depth study of particular topics. Engaging, incisive, and absolutely critical for any scholar or student interested in color science, Color Science and the Visual Arts is sure to become a key reference for the entire field.Trade Review"Berns delivers . . . by providing novel and clear explanations of how colour is perceived in and around an artwork. [This book] provides an excellent introduction for students of conservation or any field dealing with the presentation of art objects. It is also a valuable source for anyone wishing to review or update their understanding of (mostly) painted surfaces, their display and reproduction. The text is intended to be an accessible, go-to source and succeeds." --Art Libraries Journal "Bridging the gap between chemistry, mathematics, psychology, art conservation, art history, and the fine arts, Color Science and the Visual Arts provides an unparalleled look at the way these discipline intersect and how the science of color relates to the display, creation, and reproduction of works of art."--Art Libraries Society, North America
£45.60
Yale University Press George Romney
Book SynopsisThis magnificent catalogue, in three volumes and with nearly 2,000 illustrations, will restore George Romney (17341802) to his long-overdue position with his contemporaries Reynolds and Gainsborough as a master of 18th-century British portrait painting. The product of impressive and thorough research undertaken over the course of 20 years, Alex Kidson asserts Romney's status as one of the greatest British painters, whose last catalogue raisonné was published over 100 years ago. In more than 1,800 entries, many supported by new photography, Kidson aims to solve longstanding issues of attribution, distinguishing genuine pictures by Romney from works whose traditional attribution to him can no longer be supported. The author's insights are guided by rich primary source material on Romneyincluding account books, ledgers, and sketchbooksas well as secondary sources such as prints after lost works, newspaper reports and reviews, and writings by Romney's contemporaries. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Alex Kidson’s catalogue has many virtues: It corrects erroneous, and reveals hitherto unknown, attributions; it chronicles how commissions were carried out; and it meticulously trawls account books, ledgers, sketchbooks, newspaper reports, reviews, and the writings of Romney’s contemporaries to supply the contemporary background for an oeuvre that spans nearly 2,000 portraits. But it also shows how Romney [brought] an altogether new inventiveness and élan to portraiture.”—Edward Short, Weekly Standard -- Edward Short * Weekly Standard *“There is no doubting Kidson’s heroic achievement in producing this catalogue, which has been designed and edited to an exceptionally high standard… By his meticulous research and with his fair-minded assessments Kidson has clearly placed Romney back on his pedestal in the pantheon of great British artists of the eighteenth century.”—Stephen Lloyd, Burlington -- Stephen Lloyd * Burlington *
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F&W Publications Inc Painting with Pastels: Easy Techniques to Master
Book SynopsisCome enjoy the art of pastel painting with beloved workshop instructor Maggie Price. In this step-by-step guide, she teaches you everything you need to know to make the most of this accessible art form. From selecting the right materials to learning the fundamentals of composition, Maggie starts with the basics and progresses to 21 complete pastel demonstrations that detail specific painting techniques and effects. You'll learn how to: Create depth and movement with color Paint using a range of strokes Blend colors to create luminous skies, reflections and more Underpaint to achieve brilliant light and deep shadows Mix pastels with watercolor and gouache to create fluid effects Create new compositions from photographs In addition to step-by-step guidance, you'll be inspired by the work of ten nationally renowned pastel artists. Their contributions to this book illustrate the limitless possibilities of pastel painting and offer additional insight for working with this versatile medium. Maggie also includes dozens of helpful sidebars to help you save time, avoid mistakes and work more efficiently. With its blend of visual instruction, thorough guidance and breathtaking artwork, this is the only guide you need to experience the joy and satisfaction of painting with pastels.
£19.79
The University of Chicago Press Gerhard Richter
Book SynopsisGerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. This book presents a foundational portrait of this artist and his profoundly influential oeuvre.Trade Review"At a time when art is full of doubt, Richter is the most self-critical of artists, putting painting to the most extravagant tests and taking nothing for granted. In the process, he makes disturbing and often utterly beautiful art.... His work asks people to think freshly and not romantically about control versus freedom, austerity versus exuberance, faith versus skepticism: about what we can trust in what we see.... Having grown up under the Nazis and then in Communist East Germany, he has had his share of dictators and ideologues, in life and in art. He is a solitary man who rarely grants interviews, aware that his solitude also enhances his aura." - New York Times"
£40.00
D Giles Ltd Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills
Book Synopsis. A single, encompassing view of the rise of landscape art in Britain from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. . Features masterpieces by renowned artists: JMW Turner, Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones, Frank Brangwyn, August John, Cedric Morris, Stanley Spencer, Claude Monet, Laura Knight, Alfred Sisley, Edward Lear, Graham Sutherland and John Piper. 'Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills' recounts the story of British landscape painting from the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century to the present day. Examining 88 paintings from the National Museum of Wales, this volume traces the history of the landscape through romanticism, impressionism and modernism right up to the post-industrial imagery of the 21st century. The book presents two major essays: one by Tim Barringer on the tradition of British landscape painting and its position within an increasingly industrialised society, the other by Oliver Fairclough on the significance of the Welsh landscape within the British tradition. Featuring masterpieces by renowned artists JMW Turner, Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones, Frank Brangwyn, August John, Cedric Morris, Stanley Spencer, Claude Monet, Laura Knight, Alfred Sisley, Edward Lear, Graham Sutherland and John Piper this volume offers new insights into the cultural history of Britain. Loosely chronological, and divided into six thematic sections, this new volume demonstrates the strong continuity between the British art of today and that of over 250 years ago: contemporary works, such as conceptual artist Richard Long's photo pieces based on hiking in the Welsh mountains echo the poetics of place as deeply as Richard Wilson's landscapes of the 1740s. AUTHOR: Oliver Fairclough is Keeper of Art, National Museum of Wales. Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University. 115 colourTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills by Tim Barringer Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd": Wales and the Evolution of Landscape Art in Britain by Oliver Fairclough Catalogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index Photo Credits
£31.96
National Gallery Company Ltd National Gallery Catalogues: The
Book SynopsisThis highly anticipated catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings from the distinguished collection of the National Gallery in London encompasses artists who were active in Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona, cities characterized as much by the artistic interaction between them as by the influence of Venice. The artists include such well-known names as Lorenzo Lotto, Moretto, and Moroni, along with less familiar ones such as Bartolomeo Veneto and Callisto Piazza.For each of the paintings, distinguished scholar and curator Nicholas Penny provides information about technique and materials, conservation and condition, and subject and iconography. An account of the painting’s original patronage is followed by a discussion of changing tastes, interpretation, and how the picture was esteemed (or neglected) over the centuries. One third of the paintings catalogued here are portraits, and entries include fascinating sections on contemporary dress, furnishings, and accessories. An appendix provides an illuminating account of some of the great collectors and collections of the past. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University PressTrade ReviewThis highly anticipated catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings from the distinguished collection of the National Gallery in London encompasses artists who were active in Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona, cities characterized as much by the artistic interaction between them as by the influence of Venice. The artists include such well-known names as Lorenzo Lotto, Moretto, and Moroni, along with less familiar ones such as Bartolomeo Veneto and Callisto Piazza.For each of the paintings, distinguished scholar and curator Nicholas Penny provides information about technique and materials, conservation and condition, and subject and iconography. An account of the painting’s original patronage is followed by a discussion of changing tastes, interpretation, and how the picture was esteemed (or neglected) over the centuries. One third of the paintings catalogued here are portraits, and entries include fascinating sections on contemporary dress, furnishings, and accessories. An appendix provides an illuminating account of some of the great collectors and collections of the past.
£999.99
MER Paper Kunsthalle Love Letters
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£37.52
MER Paper Kunsthalle Ounce
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£32.30
Hachette Livre - BNF L'Académie Royale de Peinture Et de Sculpture: Étude Historique (Éd.1861)
£22.53
Princeton University Press Rembrandts Roughness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] very ambitious book that analyzes Rembrandt’s main works . . . [it] certainly made me look with new eyes at some of the best-known paintings and prints of the Dutch golden age."---Thijs Weststeij, The Art Bulletin
£46.75
£24.71
Viking Society for Northern Research Pilgrimage to the SagaSteads of Iceland 2015
Book SynopsisA facsimile reprint of the original 1899 edition of W. G. Collingwood's famous memoir of a tour in Iceland, illustrated with the author's paintings and sketches.
£27.00
Getty Trust Publications Masterpieces of Painting - J. Paul Getty Museum
Book Synopsis"I am convinced that the true collector does not acquire objects of art for himself alone. His is no selfish drive or desire to have and hold a painting, a sculpture, or a fine example of antique furniture so that only he may see and enjoy it. Appreciating the beauty of the object, he is willing and even eager to have others share his pleasure." -J. Paul Getty, The Joys of Collecting, 1965 Rooted in a passion for the Italian Renaissance as well as Dutch and Flemish Baroque works, the original collection of J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) has been transformed over four decades to include seminal pieces by celebrated masters such as Masaccio, Titian, Parmigianino, Cranach, El Greco, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Poussin, Canaletto, Fragonard, Turner, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, van Gogh, Cezanne, and Ensor. Masterpiece Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum surveys more than one hundred of the most exquisite and significant paintings displayed in the museum's famed, daylight-suffused galleries. Vibrant full-colour illustrations and engaging descriptions of these masterworks reveal their fascinating histories and cultural, social, and religious meanings. Sure to enchant and edify all art lovers, this book is a spellbinding tour through the history of Western painting.
£33.25
National Gallery Singapore Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna
Book SynopsisRaden Saleh and Juan Luna's agile navigation of these competing positions resulted in dramatic paintings that have been read as allegories of anti- colonialism in their respective homelands of Indonesia and the Philippines. From Orientalist hunting scenes to realist portrayals of the working class, their works trace stylistic shifts in painting through the 19th century, while re ecting the cultural and social dynamics of this period of enormous change.
£24.00
Last Gasp,U.S. A Blind Mans Journey
Book SynopsisWelcome to the mysterious, artistic world of Mike Davis - featuring his most surreal and fascinating paintings.
£31.96
Rizzoli The Hudson River School Nature and the
Book SynopsisIn the mid-1800s, a group of painters based in New York turned their focus to the theme of the natural landscape to demonstrate the beauty of the wilderness. Their work enjoyed a popular national success that no other group of artists has achieved since. This seminal survey of the artists marks the first presentation of the outstanding collection at the New-York Historical Society. It features works by all the greatest artists of the group, including Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Church. Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, the book is also timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s first voyage up the Hudson River.Trade ReviewThe glorious landscape paintings of the Hudson River Valley—and beyond—which forged America’s first artistic movement.“In the first half of the 19th century, a group of painters working in New York City developed a distinctly American vision of the landscape. Their powerful interpretations of American scenery, which came to be known as the Hudson River School, ‘tell the story of how landscape imagery can shape both national and cultural identity,’ The book showcases more than a hundred of these images, many in full-page reproduction that convey the original paintings’ monumental scale…” ~Luxist.com “…The paintings show how American artists embodied powerful ideas about nature, culture and history—including a belief that a special providence was manifest to Americans in the continent’s sublime landscape.” ~NewYorkHistoryBlog.com
£39.93
Batsford Ltd Learn Acrylics Quickly
Book SynopsisA fun and accessible guide to acrylics, featuring step-by-step exercises and advice on technique to help your paintings flourish. Leading painter, teacher and writer Soraya French has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of time – in just one afternoon you can start acrylic painting. Learning to paint is one of the life-long aspirations of many of us, and painting with today's acrylics paints has never been easier or more accessible. Acrylics are becoming increasingly popular, especially for beginners because of their versatility and strength of colour. Acrylics can be used thickly like oils, but they dry much more quickly, or they can be watered down to look like watercolour. The author, known for her own vibrant and colourful acrylic paintings, covers equipment and the best colours to buy and shows the different ways of using acrylic to create a range of effects with simple instruction and easy-to-follow exercises. She shows how to use acrylics to paint a range of subjects: flowers and trees, landscapes, cityscapes and people.Trade Review'This excellent series concentrates on the fundamentals without reducing them to a lowest common denominator. The authors have been chosen not only because they are experts in their field, but are also popular with the intended audience – you’d actively seek their advice.’ -- Henry Malt * The Artist *
£12.73
Rizzoli International Publications Andrew Wyeth Snow Hill
Book SynopsisThe rich context behind one of Andrew Wyeth’s most beloved and mysterious late paintings. Perhaps nowhere else is Andrew Wyeth’s highly distinctive style more palpable, or moving, than in Snow Hill. His masterful tempera painting of 1989 provides a visual and poetic summary of the Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, residents who had provided artistic inspiration at key points in Wyeth’s career. With the figures depicted in a snowy landscape high above Kuerner Farm, a property of great personal significance to the painter, this enigmatic composition resonates with an elegiac air. Among Wyeth’s most popular works, Snow Hill in some ways encapsulates the spirit of his entire career. James H. Duff, a close acquaintance of the artist for more than three decades, invites an expansive reading of the work, including the wide-ranging art historical influences on this singular American artist. Published in association with tTrade ReviewPerhaps nowhere else is Andrew Wyeth s highly distinctive style more palpable, or moving, than in Snow Hill. His masterful tempera painting of 1989 provides a visual and poetic summary of the Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, residents who had provided artistic inspiration at key points in Wyeth s career. With the figures depicted in a snowy landscape high above Kuerner Farm, a property of great personal significance to the painter, this enigmatic composition resonates with an elegiac air. Among Wyeth s most popular works, Snow Hill in some ways encapsulates the spirit of his entire career. James H. Duff, a close acquaintance of the artist for more than three decades, invites an expansive reading of the work, including the wide-ranging art historical influences on this singular American artist. Published in association with the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA.
£23.76
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Fine Art of Painting on Silk
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£28.79
Flame Tree Publishing Ashmolean: A Japanese Garden Greeting Card Pack:
Book SynopsisSold in packs of 6. Gorgeous, foiled, handmade greeting cards, blank inside and shrink-wrapped with a gold envelope. Themed with our art calendars, foiled notebooks and illustrated art books. Our greeting cards are printed on FSC paper and wrapped in biodegradable cellobag, and are themed with our art calendars, foiled notebooks and illustrated art books.The peacock was emblematic not of glory but of compassion and care, and so it would appear to be in this intricate hanging. What we might expect to be its show-stealing splendour is almost upstaged by the pure-white peonies, lilies and roses all around. The eyes of its furled-up tail, though beautiful, blend into the background as though they were another flower.
£14.20
Taschen GmbH Cubism
Book SynopsisPioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitioners deconstructed European conventions of viewpoint, form, perspective to create flattened, fragmented, and revolutionary images. Picasso’s celebrated painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is typically regarded as the original cubist work, with its radical fracturing of objects and figures into distinct areas, corresponding to multiple different viewpoints. Cubism thereafter developed two distinct trends: Analytical Cubism, which continued to interweave perspectival planes in muted blacks, greys and ochre, and later Synthetic Cubism, characterised by simpler shapes, brighter colors, and collage elements such as newspaper. This book presents the prime protagonists of Cubism, with work from artists including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes, and Robert Delaunay.
£13.50
