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Pie International Co., Ltd. The Art of Yogisya: Fantasy Illustrations from an
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Yokai Storyland: Illustrated Books from the
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Edo-Punk!: The Dynamic World of Ukiyo-e by
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Tuttle Publishing Japanese Kabuki Stories
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Tulika Books Vasudha Thozhur – Diaries, Projects, Pedagogy,
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Apartamento Publishing S.L.v Mel Odom Gorgeous
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At Last Books Final Copy
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Rizzoli International Publications Damien Hirst To Live Forever For a While
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Set Margins' publications Becoming the Product
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Paris Grafik Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Map
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Double 9 Books What Is Art?
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Onomatopee Copy This Book, An Artist's Guide to Copyright
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Artbook D.A.P. Is Art History
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Rocky Nook Drawing Manga
Book SynopsisThe fun way to learn how to create exciting manga comics!All beginning mangaka (manga creators) face the same challenges: how to create expressive drawings, convey perspective, depict the body, hands, and face, and tell a compelling story. With this unique guide written in the style of a comic book, you will learn how to depict your favourite manga and anime characters, as well as create your own original characters and stories!In this book, a fun and engaging story introduces you to the secrets of manga drawing. Each technique is explained step-by-step to help you get started. After following the adventures of a complete beginner mangaka, you will be drawing your own awesome characters and stories in no time.
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Topsafe London High on eBay Again
Book SynopsisParisian artist Antwan Horfee reprises his 2017 High on eBay (Wrong Culture editions), with another investigation of the magic of the now ubiquitous shopping platform. Compiling found ceramics with a new body of his own ceramic works, Horfee honors the aesthetic of eBay and brings focus to what he notes is the format of amateur pictures. Fellow eBay fanatic Melchior Tersen offers thoughts via essay a contextualizing of the culture of scrolling. Tersen''s reflection touches on the charm of these amateur photographs and crude attempts to mark the genuine which are then mirrored by the framing Horfee brings to his documentation of new works within the book. The fact that you watch so many of these pictures when you search for something that it becomes a style you are accustomed with, says Horfee. Balancing his discoveries, inclusive of whimsical cookie jars and salt shakers, with the new works, Horfee reveals the intersection of internet culture, hobby and artistic practice which in
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Yale University Press How to Enjoy Art
Book SynopsisAn entertaining and lively guide to rediscovering the pleasure in art
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Sternberg Press The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning
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Oxford University Press Oxford IB Diploma Programme Visual Arts Course
Book SynopsisStrengthen potential in IB Visual Arts. Matched to the updated IB Visual Arts Guide for first examination in 2017, and developed directly with the IB, this essential Course Book breaks down and clarifies all the assessment components of the course. Guiding learners through each assessment task, a range of artwork examples contextualize the exam criteria, reinforcing comprehension and confidence. Build assessment potential enable learners to fully understand and engage with all the assessment tasksDevelop exam strategies equip students with tested means to develop ideas and evaluate their workDrive reflective learning built-in TOK links, questions and discussion points help you fully adopt the IB approach to learningFully matched to the most recent IB Visual Guide for first examination 2017Trade Review"IB Visual Arts Course Book is a well written comprehensive text that gives the reader clarity on IB DP Visual Arts assessments. It has a range of relevant examples that can help the teachers in giving their students a fruitful learning experience. The structure of the book is easy for the students to follow. The book has engaging TOK links and discusses a multiplicity of different perspectives which makes it an interesting read not only for the IB community but also for any art lover. This book is a great course companion and is surely a one stop book for one and all." * Meenakshi Joshi, MYP Coordinator and HoD Visual Arts, The Aga Khan Academy, Hyderabad *Table of Contents1: The visual arts journal What is the visual arts journal? Making the visual arts journal a habit Format Using your visual arts journal as a learning tool Linking with the assessed components 2: Formal elements of art What are the formal elements of art? Composition Light Form Space and depth Line Colour Texture Time and motion Materials, process and technique 3: The comparative study What is the comparative study? Making choices What do we mean by culture? How to research Assessment criteria for the comparative study Visiting museums, exhibitions and galleries How to interpret function and purpose What do we mean by context and audience? How to make comparisons How to present your comparative study How to make connections to your own art 4: The process portfolio What is the process portfolio? What are the requirements of the process portfolio? Assessment criteria for the process portfolio Assembling your process portfolio 5: The exhibition What is the exhibition? Starting points Developing ideas and intentions Developing skills and considering art-making forms Themes, ideas and concepts Sensitive issues/provocative art Academic honesty and the artworks you present The impact of your school, your culture, and your teacher Assessment criteria for the exhibition Selecting the artworks for your exhibition The exhibition
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MIT Press Ltd Selected Works 20102024
Book SynopsisAn arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky.Forlorn and spiritually bankrupt, tender or abject?the subjects in the figurative paintings of Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982) convey an uneasy, dark humor. They seem trapped in a precarious inner monologue, or under the spell of mundane lived experience. Sanya Kantarovsky: Selected Works 2010-2024 is published with the support of Aspen Art Museum, following Kantarovsky''s exhibition A Solid House (2022). It includes more than 140 full-color image plates and spans the artist''s oeuvre, focusing on his most recent output since his previous monograph No Joke (2014).The publication also includes a conversation between Kantarovsky and art historian Isabelle Graw, as well as essays by the psychoanalyst and writer Jamieson Webster and art historian George Baker.
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Verso Books What Comes After Farce
Book SynopsisIf farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions? How to belittle a political elite that cannot be embarrassed, or to mock party leaders who thrive on the absurd? How to out-dada President Ubu? And, in any event, why add outrage to a media economy that thrives on the same? What Comes After Farce? comments on shifts in art, criticism, and fiction in the face of the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. A first section focuses on the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, paranoia, and kitsch. A second reviews the neoliberal makeover of art institutions during the same period. Finally, a third section surveys transformations in media as reflected in recent art, film, and fiction. Among the phenomena explored here are m
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Not Stated Turner and the Slave Trade
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MIT Press The New Television
Book SynopsisOn the rich history of video art and its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices.The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices. Open Circuits was an important event in establishing video art in American museums and articulated a range of conflicting teloses for the medium, some which materialized (like local cable television) and others that remain unrealized. The conference proceedings were published in 1977 as The New Television: A Public/Private Art, and the radical design of the book reflected the conference’s utopian aims. This two-part publication includes a facsimile of the long-out-of-print conference proceedings and new essays and discussions by over a dozen scholars and artists. The new scholarly texts and previously unpublished arc
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Edition Skylight Teen Dreams
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Kerber Christof Verlag Von Shitpostings und Kleinen Eiszeiten
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Hanuman Editions The Kuruntokai and Its Mirror
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Columbia University Press History of Art in Japan
Book SynopsisIn this book the leading authority on Japanese art history sheds light on how Japan has nurtured distinctive aesthetics, prominent artists, and movements that have achieved global influence and popularity. The History of Art in Japan discusses works ranging from earthenware figurines in 13,000 BCE to manga, anime, and modern subcultures.Trade ReviewTsuji Nobuo’s encyclopedic, authoritative, and insightful survey of the history of Japanese art—informed by over six decades of groundbreaking research—is presented in a lively and eminently readable translation by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, his trusted colleague and an expert on Japanese culture in her own right. -- John T. Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art, Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe appearance of Professor Tsuji Nobuo’s history of Japanese art in an English edition is a watershed moment both for the field and for the discipline of art history as a whole. The most important Japanese art historian of his generation, Tsuji weaves a narrative covering millennia of art in the archipelago by intertwining themes and concepts he has long championed, such as the roles of the decorative, playfulness, and eccentricity, all of which serve to liberate the arts of Japan from standard tropes of style, form, and iconography that have dominated western art historical discourse. Balanced, extensive attention devoted both to the prehistoric Jōmon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods as well as to the modern era take his book far beyond the parameters of previous survey texts, and highlights the dynamism, imagination, and visual spectacle of Japanese art. In this beautifully illustrated volume Professor Tsuji brings home the point that from wooden Buddhist sculptures to “Superflat,” it is in the startling visual impact of Japanese art that its greatest pleasures can be discovered. -- Matthew McKelway, Columbia UniversityTsuji has earned recognition for combining authority and accuracy with interesting and imaginative insights. In every chapter, History of Art in Japan provides a thorough and engaging account of individual works in their social context while maintaining an international frame of reference. It is an immense gift to readers of all levels. -- Chelsea Foxwell, University of ChicagoReaders will likely close this book satisfied and inspired to search out monographs on certain artists and periods. * Alexanderadamsart *Tsuji does this for Japanese art with ease, elegance, humor and consummate erudition in an attractive volume. * Asian Review of Books *Table of ContentsPreface to the English EditionTranslator’s PrefaceNengō Era ChartMap of Archaeological SitesTimelinesIntroduction1. Jōmon: The Force of Primal Imagination2. Yayoi and Kofun: Influences from the Continent3. Asuka and Hakuhō: The Sphere of East Asian Buddhist Arts4. Nara: The Spread of the Tang International Style5. Heian: Jōgan, Fujiwara, and Insei Art6. Kamakura Period: Aristocratic Aesthetics in Flux7. Nanbokuchō and Muromachi: Zen Buddhism and Chinese Art8. Azuchi-Momoyama: The Flowering of Kazari9. Edo: Townspeople and the Rise of Urban Culture10. Meiji to Heisei: Modern and Contemporary ArtNotesRecommended Reading for Further StudyImage CreditsIndex
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Columbia University Press The Met
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Yale University Press The Artist as Economist
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] singular and substantive contribution to the study of the dematerialization of art in a moment when both the capitalist world and its enemies were at a point of inflection, much as we are now.”—Marina Vishmidt, caa.reviews“Artist as Economist, in its exemplary equilibrium of specificity and breadth, is one of a number of recent publications that suggest the persistent virtue of thinking between and across contexts, not least when analysing the relationship between capitalism and culture.”—Niko Vicario, Art History“The Artist as Economist makes a vital contribution to the study of 1960s art, offering fascinating insights into the complex intersection of art and money, in all its material as well as abstract forms.”—Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano: Not Working
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Yale University Press Alain Locke and the Visual Arts
Book SynopsisA fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem RenaissanceTrade Review“Reflecting on works by Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Loïs Mailou Jones, and others, Mercer demonstrates that mourning was central to Harlem Renaissance Africanism. . . . In a striking interpretation of Jones’s celebrated painting Les Fétiches (1938), which depicts an ensemble of African statuary swirling in a charged darkness, he writes that the work embodies not a straightforward reclamation of roots but the tragedy and the promise of diaspora.”—Julian Lucas, New Yorker“Mercer’s sumptuously illustrated study . . . succeeds in positioning Locke as an important philosophical voice in the ‘not yet finalized story of Afro-modern art and culture.’”—Douglas Field, Times Literary SupplementShortlisted for the MSA Book Prize2024 recipient of CAA's Frank Jewitt Mather Award for Criticism2023 Josephine Miles Award Winner, sponsored by PEN Oakland“In this brilliantly argued book, Kobena Mercer convinces us that it was the visual art of Africa and the New Negro Renaissance that fashioned the queer international modernity we love today.”—Jeffrey C. Stewart, author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and editor of The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings by Alain Locke“Kobena Mercer’s highly original work virtually defines the field of Locke’s views concerning the visual arts and will be indispensable to Locke studies in the future.”—Charles Molesworth, Queens College, CUNY“A meticulous, complex, and poignant account of the profound entanglements that condition Modernist aesthetics as we know it today. Through the key figure of Alain Locke, Mercer traces how African American artists of the Harlem Renaissance confronted, negotiated, trafficked, reimagined, and ultimately re-valued the objects of their ‘ancestral origins.’”—Anne Anlin Cheng, author of Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface“This masterful and indispensable reassessment upends Locke’s persistent caricature as a dogmatic ancestralist and synthesizes the complexities of his sprawling oeuvre and his sexuality into a fresh, compelling account of his Afromodern aesthetic philosophy.”—John Ott, James Madison University
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Yale University Press Art Graphic Design
Book SynopsisAn innovative exploration of the intersection of graphic design and American art of the 1960s and 1970sTrade Review"Informed by deep archival research, interviews with artists, historical context, and theoretical analysis, this book offers a truly original and riveting analysis of the intersection of graphic design and visual art."—Cécile Whiting, author of Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s
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Yale University Press Alberto Giacometti
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary Swiss artist, this book illustrates and examines more than 100 of his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints
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Princeton University Press The Aesthetics of Architecture
Book Synopsis"Paperback reissue, with a new introduction by the author."Trade Review"Compelling and readable... [O]ne not just to read but to return to and to query with persistence and concentration, a book in fact not to borrow and peruse, but to possess and make one's own."--Anthony Savile, Times Literary Supplement "This book is powerful and unusual... The author combines wide knowledge of both buildings and the main writings on architecture with searching philosophical analysis."--Literary Review "A remarkable contribution that should interest designers, teachers, critics, and historians."--Michael McMordie, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians "This is a highly readable book, valuable in its examination of philosophical concepts in the immediate context of architecture, and valuable in its overview of architecture itself."--Kenneth Nugent, Month "This is an important book which deserves to be read, not just by students and academics, but by all who take an intelligent interest in architecture."--Peter F. Smith, RIBA JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction to the 2013 Edition ix Acknowledgments xxi Preface xxiii 1 Introduction: The problem of architecture 1 Part I 2 Architecture and design 21 3 Has architecture an essence? 34 4 Experiencing architecture 66 5 Judging architecture 96 Part II 6 Freud, Marx and meaning 127 7 The language of architecture 146 8 Expression and abstraction 165 9 The sense of detail 190 10 Conclusion: Architecture and morality 218 Part III Summary 239 Notes 243 Bibliography 275 Index of Names 277 Index of Subjects 283
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Princeton University Press The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"José Ortega y Gasset is certainly the greatest philosophical essayist of the first half of the 20th century, and very likely one of its few genuinely seminal minds. . . . The Dehumanization of Art is still among the best efforts to define and interpret the radical break in continuity between modern art and the whole Renaissance tradition of representation which ended in the 19th century."—Joseph Frank, New Republic"An erudite and magnanimous capitulation of the old to the young . . . both wise and noble."—Mark Helprin, New Criterion
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Princeton University Press Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry] contains a wealth of concrete perception on the most varied aesthetic problems. It is impossible to do more than mention M. Maritain’s beautifully balanced chapter on abstract art, his discussion of the difference between classical and modern poetic imagery, and the gentle irony with which he chides the over-zealousness of modern critics who use Dante to denigrate modern poetry. . . . It is a rare pleasure to read a work characterized by this habit of mind and this sensibility . . . the best attempt yet made to write a poetics of modern art."---Joseph Frank, New Republic
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Princeton University Press The Atlas of World Embroidery A Global Exploration of Heritage and Styles
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Princeton University Press Finding Ella Briggs
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Princeton University Press Pink
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Princeton University Press Art in a State of Siege
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Princeton University Press Gold from Newtons Apple Tree Historical Recipes for Natural Inks Paints and Dyes
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Princeton University Press The Archetypal World of Henry Moore
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Looking at Pictures
Book SynopsisA special side of Robert Walser: his essays on artTrade Review"This jeweled box of a book... float[s], wonderfully, somewhere in a land between short story and criticism." -- Randy Kennedy - The New York Times""Walser achieved a remarkable tone, in which perfect assurance and perfect ambiguity combine."" -- Benjamin Kunkel - The New Yorker""Everyone who reads Walser falls in love with him."" -- Nicholas Lazard - The Guardian""A Paul Klee in prose, a good-humoured, sweet Beckett, Walser is a truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer."" -- Susan Sontag""Bold and idiosyncratic."" -- Lydia Davis""Singular—genius."" -- Ben Lerner""Written between 1902 and 1930 and, with two exceptions, previously untranslated, the pieces gathered here elaborate a nervous, slapstick sort of hack journalism that set the stage for a fabulously experimental modernist writing situation whose fans included Kafka, Musil, and Benjamin."" -- John Kelsey - Artforum
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Stanford University Press Communicology: Mutations in Human Relations?
Book SynopsisCommunicology is Vilém Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomenon that permeates every aspect of human existence. Clearly organized around questions such as "What is Communication?," "What are Codes?," and "What is Technical Imagination?," the work touches on theater, photography, film, television, and more. Originally written in 1978, but only posthumously published in German, the book is one of the clearest statements of Flusser's theory of communication as involving a variably mediated relation between humans and the world. Although Flusser was writing in the 1970s, his work demonstrates a prescience that makes it of significant contemporary interest to scholars in visual culture, art history, media studies, and philosophy.Trade Review"Flusser is a painter of oblique strokes, dismantling familiar perspectives. Never less than entertaining, Communicology refreshes, challenges and blasts open unexpected vistas."—Seán Cubitt, University of Melbourne"If you are in search of Flusser the media theorist, indeed, if you are seeking to understand how information works, Communicology is it. Flusser teases out the kinds of fundamental questions that are at the core of the human experience."—Anke Finger, University of Connecticut"Communicology is a central work for any appraisal of Flusser's thinking, and an innovative and singular introduction to media theory."—Erick Felinto, State University of Rio de Janeiro"Communicology is an important work for the study of media theory in general and, more specifically, Flusser's own communication theory."—Rodrigo Petronio, Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation"New theories in communication are rare. However,Communicology—written in 1978, posthumously published (in German), and now newly translated into English—leads the reader to consider contemporary answers to age-old questions.... Though Flusser builds on philosophers suchas Heidegger, this work is original and seminal. Flusser's work is now more important than ever, given the present rapid and radical changes to communication such as ChatGPT. Highly recommended."—K. L. Majocha, CHOICETable of Contents0. Synopsis 1. What Is Communication? 2. What Are Codes? 3. What is Technical Imagination?
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Getty Trust Publications Out of Bounds – The Collected Writings of Marcia
Book SynopsisJointly published by the Getty Research Institute and the New Museum. The first anthology to assemble the writings of the groundbreaking art historian, critic, and curator Marcia Tucker. These influential, hard-to-obtain texts—many of which have never before been published—by Marcia Tucker, founding director of New York’s New Museum, showcase her lifelong commitment to pushing the boundaries of curatorial practice and writing while rethinking inherited structures of power within and outside the museum. The volume brings together the only comprehensive bibliography of Tucker’s writing and highlights her critical attention to art’s relationship to broader culture and politics. The book is divided into three sections: monographic texts on a selection of the visionary artists whom Tucker championed, among them Bruce Nauman, Joan Mitchell, Richard Tuttle, and Andres Serrano; exhibition essays from some of the formative group shows she organized, such as Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials (1969) and Bad Girls (1994), which expanded the canons of curating and art history; and other critical works, including lectures, that interrogated museum practice, inequities of the art world, and institutional responsibility. These texts attest to Tucker’s tireless pursuit of questions related to difference, marginalization, access, and ethics, illuminating her significant impact on contemporary art discourse in her own time and demonstrating her lasting contributions to the field.
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Reaktion Books Eileen Agar: Dreaming Oneself Awake
Book SynopsisBorn in Buenos Aires in 1899, and reborn in Paris in 1928, Eileen Agar was an artist whose work throughout her long career synthesized elements of the two main art movements of the twentieth century: Cubism and Surrealism. This monograph, the first full account of Agar's complete works, including paintings, collages, photographs and objects, comes at a time when there is a major revival of interest in Surrealism in the UK and worldwide. Drawing on personal conversations with the artist as well as original research, Michel Remy examines the life and work of the artist through-out her long career, from her passage through Cubism and abstraction to Surrealism, as well as her dedicated participation in Surreal-ist activities in England and abroad. Each period is illustrated with many striking images, including rare photographs, and supported by penetrating interpretations. The powerful myth-making drive that underlies Agar's output is revealed, as well the tenderness, humour, poetry, love of nature and the world, subversion of the laws of reality, and celebration of femininity that suffuses each of her works.This is a timely, fresh and cogent account of a fascinating woman artist whose quality of work, independence of mind and freedom of imagination refute the assertion that women have not played a major role in the story of Surrealism. The book will appeal to anyone interested in art history and Surrealism.Trade Review'The first fully comprehensive study of Agar, whose importance has belatedly been recognised. Remy skilfully weaves biography into his detailed and illuminating discussion of her paintings, collages and objects. He has an unrivalled command of the subject and the access to unpublished material, diaries and letters enriches the story at every turn. A major contribution to our understanding of Agar's work.' - Dawn Ades, Professor Emeritus, University of Essex.
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Zone Books Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion
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ERIS Luminous Lives: A Biography of Anna-Eva Bergman
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Random House USA Inc Thread Folk: A Modern Makers Book of Embroidery
Book SynopsisThread Folk: A Modern Makers Book of Embroidery Projects and Artist Collaborations is a modern refresh of an age-old craft. Author Libby Moore teaches basic stitches and how to choose materials, and shares original patterns with easy-to-remove perforated pages. Thread Folk also features Artist Collaborations, a series of projects based on the curated artwork of several distinctive, talented artists, including clothing designer Audrey Smit, and illustrators Alli Koch and Lauren Merrick.Trade Review"Thread Folk will inspire new and seasoned artists alike to explore embroidery in ways they have not considered before. Libby Moore does a beautiful job of reintroducing this ancient craft as a contemporary medium with easy to follow projects." --Ekaterina Popova, founder and editor of Create! Magazine
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Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Winifred Nicholson
Book SynopsisRichly illustrated with colourful, quirky rag rugs (also known as hooked rugs), this delightful book examines Winifred Nicholson's relationship with the Cumbrian craft, the way in which she helped revive the tradition in the 1960s and '70s, and her influence on contemporary makers. For anyone interested in textiles, naive art, British folk traditions or mid-century craft, this book will be a treasure trove.British artist Winifred Nicholson (18931981) initially encountered rag rugs in Cumberland in the early 1920s, when, with her husband Ben Nicholson (18941982), she visited her neighbour Margaret Warwick, who was sat in her kitchen making a rug from scraps of old clothing. The Nicholsons were interested in naive art' at that time and had explored the work of Rousseau, as well as African sculpture, but this was the first time they had come face to face with naive art being made in their own country. In 1960 Winifred moved back to Banks Head, the old Cumbrian farmhouse she had owned since 1923. It was here that she helped to revive the local hooky' rag rug making tradition. Through Winifred's efforts, well over a hundred new rugs were made. Notable makers included Mary Bewick, Janet Heap and Florence Williams. Winifred herself designed a number of rugs, and she also encouraged her grandchildren, who were paid a pound a time for a design.This beautiful book also presents a number of contemporary rag rug makers, with direct links to Winifred. Emma Tennant, who lives in Scotland not far from Winifred's house, was inspired to start making rugs after seeing the ones in Winifred's home. Also included are works by Winifred's nieces Louisa Creed and the late Jenny Steinbugler. The author also discusses the extensive rag rug collection at Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, which has interesting parallels with Winifred Nicholson's approach to rug making, as well as the rug by Lucie Aldridge in the Fry Art Gallery, Essex.
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