Paintings and painting Books
Phaidon Press Ltd Jonas Wood
Book SynopsisThe first monograph on a rising star who is one of contemporary art's most celebrated painters
£31.50
The History Press Ltd The Sketchbook War
Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War, British artists produced over 6,000 works of war art, the result of a government scheme partly designed to prevent the artists being killed.
£8.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sketchbook Traveler Southwest
Book SynopsisKeeping visual journals has been popular for centuries among artist-travelers like Albrecht Dürer, J. M. W. Turner, Katsushika Hokusai, and David Hockney. Explorers like Jacques le Moyne, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and Marianne North also recorded their journeys in sketchbooks and diaries. Topographical drawing was essential. Knowing what destinations looked like let voyagers know they had arrived.Carrying this concept to the next level,Sketchbook Travelerexpands plein air painting beyond the range of easels and backpacks, providing educators with instructional concepts. It gives professional artists many new (and old) ways to hone mobile sketching skills. Inviting readers to explore their surroundings through drawing and writing, Sketchbook Traveler is a field guide to mindful engagement with personal experience in ways that make every day an adventure.
£19.54
Rizzoli International Publications Mary Weatherford The Flaying of Marsyas
Book SynopsisMary Weatherford: The Flaying of Marsyas documents an exhibition of new paintings by Mary Weatherford, which were presented in 2022 at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, to coincide with the 59th Biennale di Venezia.
£64.00
Rizzoli Anna Weyant
Book SynopsisCapturing the development of a rising star in the art world, Anna Weyant unveils the artist’s sharp-witted commentary on the representation of women in pop culture and the art historical canon. This book chronicles six years of Weyant’s artistic output and is the most comprehensive publication about her painting practice to date.Anna Weyant is the first monograph published by Gagosian that is devoted to the New York-based artist best-known for her precisely rendered figures with their creamy curves and soft beauty, which simmer with the tensions between feminine sexuality and purity, tragedy, and comedy.With a dark sense of humor, Weyant unpicks the tropes and traditions of art historical representation, interrupting masculine expectations to often absurd and excruciating effect. Particularly drawn to the uncertainties of adolescence, the artist captures young females in situations of intimate weirdness and cata
£57.75
Rizzoli Richard Phillips
Book SynopsisRichard Phillips’s new work hinges on the self-awareness of real-life subjects, using collaborative forms of image production to reorder the relationship of pop art to its subjects. For Richard Phillips, critique is as much an intrinsic material in the conception and staging of his work as the materials of their making. His conflating of subject and genre continues to provide challenging commentary on the condition and reach of contemporary art. His first two films, Lindsay Lohan (2011) and Sasha Grey (2011), are erotically posed motion portraits. The notorious actresses pose erotically—Grey in a modernist John Lautner home, and Lohan in an aquamarine infinity pool. First Point (2012) marks his second collaboration with Lohan and third collaboration with legendary surf filmmaker Taylor Steele. In addition to working with Lohan and Grey, Phillips has collaborated with Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima to create a series of paintings that depict her against backdrops of icon
£50.00
Rizzoli Lichtenstein Expressionism
Book SynopsisAccompanying catalogue of an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Paris. The catalogue includes a fully illustrated, comprehensive listing of the paintings, drawings, and prints in Lichtenstein’s Expressionism series. Among the styles and movements appropriated by Lichtenstein, his borrowing of Expressionist motifs—from Alexei Jawlensky’s close-up, pensive faces to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s jagged, feline figures—strikes the clearest irony. Including key paintings, sculpture, drawings, and woodcuts, this catalogue demonstrates the bold paradox that Lichtenstein posed by translating Expressionist subjects into the primary colors and pop flatness of his signature style.
£60.00
Rizzoli Albert Oehlen New Paintings
Book SynopsisThis book documents two new bodies of work; a series of large four-part aluminum panel paintings incorporating Oehlen’s recurring motif of trees and a series titled Finger Paintings, in which color-blocked advertisements are an extension of the canvas, providing fragmented, ready-made surfaces for Oehlen’s visceral markings, made with his hands as well as with brushes, rags, and spray cans. Both series were exhibited at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, in summer 2014.
£40.38
Rizzoli Eric White
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive and long-overdue monograph of visual artist Eric White, containing mostly previously unpublished work. Eric White generates a world of psychologically charged narratives in his masterfully executed and surreal figurative paintings. His work is inspired by cinema—especially the golden age of Hollywood—and an obscure pop culture seen through the lens of a satirical and fantastical schizophrenic dream logic. This book covers the breadth of his career so far, from his earliest acrylics, oils, and works on paper, to his subverted album cover paintings, work he describes as paranoid social realism, and his 1/3 Scale Retrospective installations. White's work opens a window into an alternate universe, one that is distorted, dark, and extremely witty.
£29.75
Rizzoli International Publications Kerry James Marshall Mastry
Book SynopsisThe definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall, accompanying a major traveling retrospective. This long-awaited volume celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s greatest living painters. Born before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in Birmingham, Alabama, and witness to the Watts riots in 1965, Marshall has long been an inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African American experience. Best known for large-scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth-century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition. With luscious color and brushstrokes and highly detailed patterning, his direct and intimate scenes of black middle-class life conjure a wide range of emotions, resultinTrade Review"Kerry James Marshall is the first comprehensive study of the life and oeuvre of one of America's greatest modern painters. Marshall has not received the attention he deserves and Kerry James Marshall aims to change that. This book is packed with stunning replicas of Marshall's paintings. It is simply a pleasure to hold it. It is a must have for all students and experts of painting."-THE WASHINGTON BOOK REVIEW"This beautifully conceived and produced catalog for a 2016-17 survey organized jointly by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a stunning overview." —ARTBLOG
£38.25
Rizzoli International Publications Painting California Seascapes and Beach Towns
Book SynopsisLuminous, gorgeously realized landscape paintings made en plein air by members of the California Art Club over the past 100 years. This volume showcases 200 works by California Art Club artists who have focused on the evocative seascapes, charming seaside towns, and beach communities from San Diego to San Francisco, demonstrating a breathtaking range of natural settings suffused with atmosphere, drama, and light. Since the dawn of the twentieth century, California has been home to artists from all over America and Europe who aspired to depict the state’s compelling natural landscapes on canvas. In 1909, these artists founded the California Art Club, which stands today as one of the most esteemed painting societies in the United States. This volume, which follows Skira Rizzoli’s luminous California Light: A Century of Landscapes, presents more of the club’s distinctive and lush plein air painting, an impressionistic style in which painters woTrade Review"Artists have been coming to California to paint along its coast since the late 1860s. Among the earliest painters to capture its pristine shores, charming seaside towns, and magnificent views were Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran. Their works grace are among the 200 that grace the new 276-page book “Painting California: Seascapes and Beach Towns,” the second in a series about the century-old California Art Club."—Orange County Register
£38.25
Rizzoli International Publications Picasso Minotaurs and Matadors
Book SynopsisCurated by noted Picasso biographer John Richardson, this exhibition catalogue examines the intersection of Picasso's bullfighting imagery with the mythological (and biographical) compositions of the 1930's. Including works dating from 1897 to 1972, this fully illustrated catalogue presents a career-long survey of Picasso's engagement with ancient bullfighting and mythological narratives and includes essays by noted Picasso scholars Michael FitzGerald and Gertje Utley.
£65.62
Rizzoli International Publications Unrealism
Book SynopsisFigurative painting of the past five years, represented here by an exciting young generation of artists and vital practitioners, addresses the challenge of contemporary representation through expressionistic compositions and new techniques reflecting digital fluency.
£60.00
Rizzoli Frederic Churchs Olana on the Hudson
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look inside Olana, one of America's greatest estates, which was designed and built by Frederic Church, the most renowned of the Hudson River School painters.Frederic Church, the leader of the much-loved group of artists known as the Hudson River School, made his name as a painter of monumental landscapes in the mid-1800s, helping to develop our vision of landscape and shaping the cultural identity of America. He applied his artistic talent to the house and property that he named Olana, known today as Olana State Historic Site and located in the heart of the beautiful Hudson River Valley. The 250-acre naturalistic landscape surrounding the house is a work of art in itself, and the magnificent views beyond Olana were an essential part of Church's composition, which he carefully designed with an artist's eye to the property's 360-degree views of neighboring hills, valleys, the Hudson River, and distant mountains. Church was an observer of the cosmos, and OlaTrade Review"While the beauty of Frederic Church’s Hudson Valley estate Olana is stunning in person, this book lets the arm-chair visitor experience the paintings, landscape and historic house that were all part of Church’s artistic vision. Essays from specialists like a curator, historian and architect explore all aspects of the 19th century artist’s work, while reproductions of dozens of his paintings juxtaposed with the views he created in the landscape make clear the grand work he carefully cultivated around him." —Brownstoner
£999.99
Rizzoli Lucian Freud Monumental
Book SynopsisIntimate portraits from one of the most innovative figurative artists of the twentieth century and the master of painted flesh.Curated by the artist's longtime studio assistant and friend, David Dawson, this important volume features twenty major and rarely seen paintings by Lucian Freud (1922-2011). The book begins with works from 1990, when Freud began painting the performance artist Leigh Bowery: these large-scale portraits of Bowery ushered in a new sense of monumentality in the artist's oeuvre. Inspired by Bowery's impressive physique, Freud began working on a larger scale, which emphasized the physical presence of his subjects. Despite their grand scale, Freud's subjects are still depicted with a sense of intimacy, penetrating honesty, and psychological depth.The naked body is a subject that has special significance in Freud's oeuvre. Nakedness was a way for Freud to get a more truthful portrait. Freud's probing oils get fresh consideration in this monograp
£36.00
Rizzoli International Publications Luigi Lucioni
Book SynopsisA revelatory look at this Italian-American modernist painter of highly realistic and romanticized still lifes, landscapes, and portraits drawn from his life in the gay New York scene and rural Vermont.This first comprehensive survey of the life and work of Luigi Lucioni (1900–1988) places him in the context of fellow Regionalist painters Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and Maxfield Parrish. Lucioni is known for meticulously rendered still lifes, landscapes, and arresting portraits drawn from his close-knit circle of queer New York artists and cultural figures, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Platt Lynes, and Lincoln Kirstein. In the early 1930s, Lucioni discovered Vermont, whose landscapes reminded him of northern Italy. It was there that he met Electra Havemeyer Webb, who was to become his single most important patron. For more than 50 years, the New York City–based artist spent ev
£31.96
Rizzoli Carrie Moyer
Book SynopsisCarrie Moyer’s first major monograph expansively represents the influential abstract painter’s work and queer agitprop. Carrie Moyer consciously centers her painting as a practice about painting, with history as a subtext. Known for her incursions into Color Field painting, Moyer also traces her influences to iconic female artists of the twentieth century, such as Georgia O’Keeffe, and surrounding questions of taste, once quipping of her paintings that “[Helen] Frankenthaler and [Fernand] Léger met in a dark corner and had Elizabeth Murray.” Moyer’s complex work merges abstract aesthetics and legible imagery: vividly colored and textured forms are embedded with a range of historical, stylistic, and physical references to Surrealism, Modernism, 1960s and ’70s counterculture graphics, and ’70s feminist art. Moyer often works on the floor, pouring, rolling, stippling, mopping the paint, and embelli
£44.00
Rizzoli International Publications Edward Hopper Cape Ann
Book SynopsisA fresh look at one of America’s best-known and beloved artists at a pivotal but little-known moment in his life that profoundly shaped both his art and career.Edward Hopper & Cape Ann tells the largely ignored but significant origin story of Edward Hopper’s years in and around Gloucester, Massachusetts—a period and place that imbued Hopper’s paintings with a clarity and purpose that had eluded his earlier work. This volume focuses on summers Hopper spent there in the 1920s, starting in 1923, when he first embraced watercolor during outdoor painting excursions on Cape Ann and discovered one of his favorite subjects: houses and vernacular architecture. The success of Hopper’s Gloucester watercolors transformed his work in all media and set the stage for his monumental career.Accompanying a major retrospective at the Cape Ann Museum, including an unprecedented loan of twenty-eight works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, tTrade Review"A lavishly produced catalogue, the text thoroughly researched and beautifully written by Elliot Bostwick Davis (a former head of American art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). If you can’t go, the book will do nicely. But the show is worth traveling to see." —The Washington Post"This once-in-a-generation exhibition, and the accompanying 224-page catalog being published by Rizzoli Electa, are curated by nationally recognized curator and former museum director Elliot Bostwick Davis, PhD. 'Despite painting in Gloucester in 1912 and in Maine for six more summers, Hopper initially struggled to find a distinctive artistic voice,' writes Davis. 'Hopper understood that Gloucester, familiar from his earlier trip in 1912, was perhaps his last chance to make a name for himself as a painter at the age of 41. By 1923, he was supporting himself as an illustrator and etcher; his only painting sale had occurred over a decade earlier.'" —AUCTION CENTRAL NEWS
£38.25
Last Gasp,U.S. It Feeds Itself
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£21.25
Last Gasp,U.S. Soft Candy
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£21.21
Last Gasp,U.S. Glenn Barrs Faces
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£14.36
Last Gasp,U.S. Anatomy of Sorrow
Book SynopsisThe latest monograph by prolific and influential artist Daniel Martin Diaz
£29.75
Hurtwood Press Gilbert George The Paradisical Pictures
Book SynopsisThe paperback edition of THE PARADISICAL PICTURES is created to celebrate the opening of the Gilbert & George Centre in East London. Gilbert & George's work confounds and rejects all art historical classification or affiliation to other schools or movements in art. As affirmed by THE PARADISICAL PICTURES, there is no formalist, aesthetic or conceptual precedent to the ideology and vision they convey with such intensity. The paintings are fantastical, allegorical, narrative, representational, psychedelic, absurdist, modern yet archaic, surrealist-grotesque, inflected with both tragedy and comedy, filled with pathos, touchingly eloquent of human frailty, age and exhaustion. THE PARADISICAL PICTURES suggest a chapter in a story that has been unfolding before them and will continue beyond them. This 'paradise' is not a destination but a stage on a longer journey. It is a dream of paradise and the exploration of an archetype that is both secular and sacred.
£999.99
Hurtwood Press Jai Chuhan Small Paintings
Book SynopsisSmall Paintings presents the gestural, intimate and hauntingly beautiful paintings by Indian-born British artist Jai Chuhan from her solo exhibition at Qrystal Partners, London. Small Paintings presents the gestural and hauntingly beautiful paintings by Indian-born British artist Jai Chuhan. The book showcases the art created for her solo exhibition of the same name at Qrystal Partners in London in the summer of 2023. Chuhan often depicts lone figures in indistinct, nebulous interiors, exploring love and alienation. In other works, couples are huddled together, potentially locked in an embrace. The paintings evoke the psychological tensions between genders, agency and subjection, the familiar and the unreal. Their small scale creates a sense of voyeurism, reminiscent of what is felt when one looks through a window. Glimpses of bodies are shown in expressive poses that speak to moments of privacy, intimacy and vulnerability. Chuhan emigrated to London with her family in the late 1960Table of ContentsForeword The World of Art Is My Home by Hannah Marsh Installation Photography at Qrystal Partners, London Paintings Biographies
£20.40
Hurtwood Press Tang Shuo Shadows of Boulder Hill
Book SynopsisTang Shuo (b. 1987) lives and works in London. He studied installation and material art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, China, and after moving to the UK in 2020, he turned solely to painting. In his work, Tang draws on memories of his childhood in rural southern China and he appears as a figure in different roles and guises. Selected exhibitions include Shadows of Boulder Hill (2023), Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland; Paper (2022), Beers Gallery, London, UK; and Sync in Progress (2022), Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China. Fabienne Levy was born into a family of collectors in Lausanne. After studying art history at New York University, she became an art consultant in Milan. In 2019 she launched her eponymous contemporary art gallery in Lausanne, near the new Musée cantonal des BeauxArts, curating five to six exhibitions annually. Her Space Invasion project nurtures local art school talent, providing a professional
£20.40
Hurtwood Press Ben Sadler
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£20.40
Golgonooza Press Cecil Collins the Artist as Writer and Image
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£18.00
Kala Press Sonia Boyce Speaking in Tongues
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£11.95
HENI Publishing Gerhard Richter Night Sketches
Book SynopsisThis book contains reproductions of sketches taken from a notebook made by Gerhard Richter between 2004 and 2009.
£20.00
HENI Publishing Sabine Moritz Lilies and Objects
Book SynopsisFollowing on from her Roses publication of 2010, Cologne-based artist Sabine Moritz presents a selection of over 50 charcoal, pastel and/or oil pastel drawings of lilies and curious objects created between 1994 and 2011.
£28.50
HENI Publishing Cage Six Tableaux De Gerhard Richter
Book SynopsisGerhard Richter's Cage paintings pay homage to the American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912-92) and were first displayed at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Leading critic Robert Storr considers the importance of the Cage paintings within Richter's practice and the wider context of abstract art. Translated into French by Christian-Martin Diebold.
£20.00
Flapjack Press Art By Johnny
Book SynopsisA full-colour collection of art work by Johnny Carroll-Pell, a young artist from Brighton who is diagnosed as severely autistic.Trade Review"Some people paint sunsets or animals, some people paint faces, some people paint ideas. Johnny paints that feeling you get when you finally jump off the diving board and whoosh towards the water, when a brilliant idea breaks into your head, when you say yes ok let's do this and you jump on a toboggan with your kid. I'm not sure there's a word for that feeling, but thanks to Johnny I now know what it looks like." - Frank Cottrell Boyce; "Johnny is a true artist: prolific, instinctive and with a profound and purposeful sense of space, shape and colour. His joyous work is intense and warm, describing his world and those in it with a love and simplicity that is both moving and truthful." - Jessica Hynes; "Painting is his chosen outlet of expression and this collection ... is testament to his talent. It depicts a dazzling, sensual world of intense colours and lights. There is a spontaneity and energy about his work that is compelling." - Veronica Groocock, Literary Life
£11.40
Hassell Street Press Painting Made Easy
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£30.40
Legare Street Press El Greco
£21.56
LEGARE STREET PR Tintoretto
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£24.26
Pamela Sherriffs Very Simple Colour For The Confused Artist
£12.30
Forgotten Books Six Lectures on Painting Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy of Arts in London January 1904 Classic Reprint
£19.61
Forgotten Books Fromentin Classic Reprint
£18.70
Forgotten Books Hans Holbein From Holbein Und Seine Zeit Classic Reprint
£19.48
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Forgotten Books LArt Et la Mdecine Classic Reprint
£24.70
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Laugh Lines
Book SynopsisJulia Langbein is Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. An art historian specialising in 19th-century popular visual culture, she previously held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Oxford, UK.Trade ReviewWidely researched, and lavishly illustrated, Laugh Lines, makes both a challenging and inspirational reading. Supported by ample studies of the abundant primary sources, from Baudelaire and Champfleury to Grand-Carteret and Duret, as well as archival material in the Bibliothèque Nationale, the book straddles several areas: reproductive technologies, the practices of physiognomy, photography, Salon history, as well as into cultures of art viewing and the perception of laughter in nineteenth-century France. The book’s unquestionable strength are visual analyses. Langbein takes the readers on captivating journeys, which move with confidence between the original works by Delacroix, Ribot and many lesser-known artists, and the ‘hyperactive lines’ of the rapidly drawn caricatures by Cham and Bertall, sometimes including also polite reproductive engravings of the same paintings for comparison. * Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Journal of Art Historiography *Laugh Lines makes a significant contribution to our understanding of cultural and artistic changes in France from the 1840s to 1880s. It offers an important corrective to the historiography on caricature and modernist painting, and illuminates shifting relations between visual art, literature, and journalism. * Jillian Lerner, Instructor in Media History, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Canada *In this enthralling study of nineteenth-century Salon caricature, distinctive but neglected artists like Bertall and Cham benefit from being compared with Daumier and Nadar in a wide-ranging historical analysis which explores the extensive variety of printmaking techniques available at the time. * Stephen Bann, Emeritus Professor of History of Art, Bristol University, UK *Julia Langbein’s engaging and impeccably researched volume enriches our comprehension of the spatial and social dynamics of Salon spectatorship. It will become required reading for anyone interested in art headquartered in nineteenth-century Paris. * Hollis Clayson, Bergen Evans Professor Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of Art History, Northwestern University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Introduction 1. Comic Reproduction in July Monarchy Paris 2. Dueling and Doubling: The Antagonism of Salon Caricature 3. Salon Caricature and The Physiognomy of Paint 4. Salon Caricature in the age of Reproduction. 5. Gravity and Graphic Medium in Cham and Daumier 6. Caricature and Comic Spectacle at the Paris Salon 7. Salon Caricature and the Making of Manet Conclusion Bibliography Index
£85.50
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Edinburgh University Press Islamic Arts and Crafts
Book SynopsisThis anthology of written sources (dating from the seventh to the twentieth centuries) explores numerous aspects of the crafts of the Middle East from the processing of raw materials to the manufacture of finished artefacts.Table of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes for the Reader; Image and Text Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Foundations; 1. Theoretical Formulations; Part 2: Human Dimensions; 2. The Organisation of Labour; 3. Rituals, Songs and Poems; 4. Biographical Information; 5. The Lives of Artisans and Artists; Part 3: Resources; 6. Raw Materials I: minerals; 7. Raw Materials II: plants; 8. Raw Materials III: animals; 9. Mining and Metal Preparation; 10. City Descriptions; Part 4: Inorganic Media; 11. Copper; 12. Iron and Steel; 13. Other Metals: Gold, Silver and Tin; 14. Pottery; 15. Glass; Part 5: Organic Media; 16. Wood; 17. Basketry and Matting; 18. Leather; 19. Spinning, Bleaching and Dyeing; 20. Weaving; 21. Rugs, Carpets and Felt; Part 6: Writing and Painting; 22. Papyrus and Paper; 23. Calligraphy; 24. Painting; Part 7: Architecture and Engineering; 25. Building Techniques; 26. Vaulting and Architectural Decoration; 27. Engineering; Part 8: Economic Considerations; 28. Recycling and Repair; 29. Crafts in an Age of Competition and Change; Glossary; Names of Craft Activities in Arabic and Persian; Bibliography; Index.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Seeing Degree Zero
Book SynopsisIn literature and the visual arts, zero degree represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to and outside of the dominant cultural order. Starting from Roland Barthes' 1953 book Writing Degree Zero, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual aspects of the term in collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Modernism and Still Life
Book SynopsisThis book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.
£90.25
