The arts: general topics Books
Yale University Press Picturing War in France 17921856
Book SynopsisFrom the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how these pictures provided citizens with an imaginative stake in wars being waged in their name. As she traces the evolution of images of war from a visual form that had previously been intended for mostly elite audiences to one that was enjoyed by a much broader public over the course of the 19th century, Katie Hornstein carefully considers the influence of emergent technologies and popular media, such as lithography, photography, and panoramas, on both artistic style and public taste. With close readings and handsome reproductions in various media, from monumental battle paintings to popular prints, Picturing War in France,17921856 draws on contemporary art criticism, war reporting, and the burgeoning illustrated press to reveal the cruciaTrade Review“Hornstein’s methodology, groundbreaking research, wealth of documentation, and visual model make this book an innovative work that will be vital as a study reference. It also provides rich insight into the transformations that occurred in French society in the first half of the nineteenth century.” —Camilla Murgia, caa.reviews“Hornstein respects the complexity of her subject, and the result is a deeply fascinating book.”—David O’Brien, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide“This exciting and ambitious study offers a major contribution to an expanded history of nineteenth-century French art, in which Hornstein demonstrates that depictions of war represented a vital and immensely—perhaps uniquely—popular form of image making.”—Sarah Betzer, University of Virginia“A compelling account of the complex relations between diverse images of conflict in a time of rapid social, political, and aesthetic change.”—Richard Taws, University College London
£61.75
Yale University Press Donald Judd
Book SynopsisAn authoritative look at the art, life, and legacy of a revered artist
£38.00
Yale University Press Pol Bury
Book SynopsisPol Bury (1922-2005) was a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, writer, and graphic artist, but is perhaps best known to the general public for his fountains and sculpture in public spaces throughout the world. Acclaimedas one of the first proponents of moving works, driven by a motor, he became one of the protagonists of kinetic art and was without doubt one of Belgium's most important postwar artists. Accompanying a major exhibition in Belgium, this publication presents an opportunity to rediscover Bury's multifaceted oeuvre. Distributed for MercatorfondsExhibition Schedule:BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (02/23/1706/04/17)
£38.00
Yale University Press Technologies of the Image
Book SynopsisThe diverse and beautiful art of QajarIran (17791925) has long been understudied and underappreciated. This insightful publication reassesses Qajar art, particularly its four principal mediumslacquer, painting and drawing on paper, lithography, and photographyand their intertwined development. The Qajar era saw the rise of new technologies and the incorporation of mass-produced items imported from Europe, Russia, and India. These cultural changes sparked a shift in the Iranian art world, as artists produced printed and photographic images and also used these widely disseminated mediums as sources for their paintings on paper and in lacquer. Technologies of the Image illustrates dozens of Qajar works, including sketches and designs from Harvard's extraordinary album of artists' drawings, photographs by Ali Khan Vali, and stunning Persian lacquer from private collections. The book considers Qajar art as the product of a rapidly changing art world in which images moved across and between media, highlighting objects thatspan contexts of production and patronage, from royal to sub-royal. Distributed for the Harvard Art MuseumsExhibition Schedule:Harvard Art Museums (08/26/1701/07/18)
£38.00
Yale University Press The Condition of Being Here
Book SynopsisArguably the most important living artist in America, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has been a leading advocate of drawing as an artistic genre in its own right, not just a preparatory medium for other works. This catalogue brings together 41 of Johns's drawings, spanning more than 60 years of his illustrious career and, beginning in 1954, the origin of his mature practice. It encompasses his most famous recurring motifs, including flags, targets, and numbers, and an essay by David Breslin contextualizes this reiterative aspect of Johns's career. Exquisite reproductions and large-scale details reveal the touch and process of this master draftsman, imparting to the reader a feeling of being in close contact with the artist himself. As this intimate book shows, Johns's art, at once simple and enigmatic, is above all a meditation on the world around him, a constant investigation of what he calls the condition of being here.Distributed for The Menil CollectionExhibition Schedule:The Menil Collection, Houston (11/03/1801/27/19)
£19.00
Yale University Press Jasper Johns
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive overview of Jasper Johns's work in an innovative medium that the artist has singlehandedly redefined over the course of four decades
£108.00
Yale University Press William Kentridge
Book SynopsisSouth African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities as an opera and theater director. This book offers a unique selection of Kentridge's work curated for Sint-Janshospitaal in Brugesat 800 years one of Europe's oldest surviving hospital buildings organized around the themes of trauma,healing, and compassion. The book featuresan introduction by Margaret K. Koerner, and also includes essays by diverse distinguished contributors: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh considers Kentridge's alternate reception of the historical avant-garde from a perspective of exile;Joseph Leo Koernerexplores the artist's work as a self-styled process of working through in which the past simultaneously disfigures and redeems; andHarmon Siegel examines Kentridge's approach to film history. Distributed for MercatorfondsExhibition Schedule:Groeningemuseum, Bruges (10/21/17-02/25/18)
£38.00
Yale University Press The PreRaphaelites and Science
Book SynopsisThis revelatory book traces how the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their close associates put scientific principles into practice across their painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture. In their manifesto, The Germ, the Pre-Raphaelites committed themselves to creating a new kind of art modeled on science, in which precise observation could lead to discoveries about nature and humanity. In Oxford and London, Victorian scientists and Pre-Raphaelite artists worked together to design and decorate natural history museums as temples to God's creation. At the same time, journals like Nature and the Fortnightly Review combined natural science with Pre-Raphaelite art theory and poetry to find meaning and coherence within a worldview turned upside down by Darwin's theory of evolution. Offering reinterpretations of well-known works by John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, and William Morris, this major revaluation of the popular Victorian movemenTrade ReviewWinner of The British Society for Literature and Science Prize“The author offers reinterpretations of well- known works through the Brotherhood’s focus on scientific principles in a society disturbed by evolutionary theory.”—The William Morris Society Magazine“It is this now almost forgotten view of a ready alliance between science and nature that Holmes brilliantly recreates in his very sumptuously presented book”–Bernard Richards, Oxford Magazine “One of the novel and rewarding aspects of Holmes's account is his combined treatment of painting, poetry and architecture (including sculpture) [. . .] This range of coverage, uniformly competent and incisive, is one of Holmes's chief achievements”–G.A. Bremner, Burlington Magazine“John Holmes may be said to have achieved the near impossible in finding a little studied aspect of Pre-Raphaelitism and producing a stimulating book covering not only painting and architecture but also poetry and prose [. . .] There are other interesting themes and pockets of research in this judiciously illustrated study (half of the 150 plates are in colour), all benefiting from Yale’s impeccable editing and design”–Stephen Wildman, The Art Newspaper“Perhaps one of the most valuable results of reading The Pre-Raphaelites and Science is that it helps to refocus the PRB firmly within the context of their historical and social milieu rather than treating them as, by default, an exceptional artistic movement which had only tenuous links to all the Victorian background noise from which they sought to extricate themselves”—Mark Jones, Pre-Raphaelite Society ReviewLong listed for the Historians of British Art Book Prize
£35.00
Yale University Press Sculptural Seeing
Book SynopsisAlthough perspective has long been considered one of the essential developments of Renaissance painting, this provocative new book shifts the usual narrative back centuries, showing that medieval sculptors were already employing knowledge of optical science, geometry, and theories of vision in shaping the beholder's experience of their work. Meticulous visual analysis is paired with close readings of medieval texts in examining a series of important relief sculptures from northern and central Italy dating from the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, including the impressive sculptural programs at the cathedrals of Modena and Ferrara, and the pulpits by Giovanni and Nicola Pisano at Pisa and Pistoia. Demonstrating that medieval sculptors orchestrated the reception of their intended religious and political messages through the careful manipulation of points of view and architectural space, Christopher R. Lakey argues that medieval practice was well informed by visual theory and that the concepts that led to the codification of linear perspective by Renaissance painters had in fact been in use by sculptors for hundreds of years.Trade Review“Lakey pores over medieval sculpture at Modena and Ferrara cathedrals, plus pulpits at Pisa and Pistoia by father and son Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, to explode the established theory that Renaissance painters 'invented' linear perspective.”—Apollo“An erudite study…. The author’s larger argument concerning the origins of perspective may not convince all readers but should fuel productive reflection and discussion about medieval sculpture and its place in the narratives of art history.”—Peter Scott Brown, caa.reviewsFinalist for the 2020 ICMA Book Award"Sculptural Seeing rewards the reader with marvelous new and original insights. It will have a significant impact on the fields of art history and medieval studies and beyond."—Beate Fricke, author of Fallen Idols, Risen Saints“Sculptural Seeing is an original and provocative study of the visual experience of medieval sculptural art.”—Suzanne Akbari, author of Seeing Through the Veil
£54.62
Yale University Press Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence
Book SynopsisThis study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected to the sight of violence, whether in carefully staged rituals of execution or images of the suffering inflicted on Christ. There was nothing new in this culture of pain, unlike the aesthetic of violence that developed towards the end of the 15th century. It emerged in the work of artists such as Piero di Cosimo, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, and the young Michelangelo. Inspired by the art of antiquity, they painted, engraved, and sculpted images of deadly battles, ultimately normalizing representations of brutal violence. Drawing on work in social and literary history, as well as art history, Scott Nethersole sheds light on the relationship between these Renaissance images, violence, and ideas of artistic invention and authorship. Trade Review“This erudite, sophisticated book is far more than a series of case studies. The power of the argument comes from its elegant structure and the way Nethersole moves cumulatively from studying images that are related to actual violence to those where the violent representation is a manifestation of the skill of the maker”—Caroline Campbell, The Art Newspaper“Nethersole writes well about many individual works, such as Domenico Ghirlandaio's Massacre of the innocents (1486-90; S. Maria Novella, Florence) and Piero di Cosimo's Battle of the lapiths and centaurs (c.1500-15; National Gallery, London).”—Charles Dempsey, The Burlington MagazineListed on Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles List for 2019
£61.75
Yale University Press Frank Stella Unbound Literature and Printmaking
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£24.00
Yale University Press The Power of Color
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] sumptuously illustrated survey” —Barbara Kiser, NatureCHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2020“Marcia Hall covers a familiar historical path but in a way that encourages readers to look at works of art through a different and more subtle lens. She explains and illustrates her argument with wonderful clarity.”—Jo Kirby, formerly Senior Scientific Officer, National Gallery, London“Marcia Hall has written a wide-ranging, ambitious book that is the fruit of long reflection on the significance of color in early modern and modern Western painting.”—Stuart Lingo, University of Washington"This book would make an excellent addition to art history curricula, especially those built to expand students’ interest and knowledge into materials and process—both key concepts for pursuing study in conservation and curatorial work. Hall’s clear writing and ability to illustrate connections across time and space make this an excellent resource for a general audience. The extensive notes and bibliography will provide specialists with avenues for additional and deeper research."—L. L. Kriner, Berea College
£33.25
Yale University Press Modernism for the Masses Painters Politics and
Book SynopsisA fascinating history of the artistic innovation and political debates that took shape in New Deal–era muralsTrade Review“Patterson engagingly rewrites the history of midcentury art by questioning assumptions about the relationship between leftist politics and aesthetic sensibilities.”—Diana L. Linden, caa.reviews“This informative and balanced book is an ideal guide to one aspect of the WPA, an organisation which left a lasting legacy.”—Alexander Adams, The Jackdaw“Modernism for the Masses explores the richness and range of modernist abstraction, recuperating, as no other book in the field does, its political and social ambitions.”—Angela Miller, Washington University in St. Louis“A work of original and impeccable scholarship on this short-lived but remarkable moment in history.”—Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum
£45.12
Yale University Press The American PreRaphaelites
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£45.12
Yale University Press Islamic Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Sparking constructive dialogue and tackling elusive definitions . . . Incredibly valuable.” —Cindy Helms, New York Journal of BooksCHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2020
£49.50
Yale University Press Going There
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Wide-ranging and painstakingly researched, Going There situates Black visual satire in historical, political, and discursive contexts that tease out the nuances of the form.”—crystal am nelson, caa.reviews“An amazing book that dares to ‘go there,’ plunging into the depths of black visual satire, an abyss where monsters and minstrels revel in the madness of racism. Richard Powell’s deeply learned and brilliantly written text dances alertly through the minefield of stereotype and caricature to reveal the critical power of satire.”—W. J. T. Mitchell, author of Seeing Through Race and Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia“Going There is a groundbreaking study of African-American visual satire. Powell presents a comprehensive, rigorous, and well-researched investigation into this thorny arena, illuminating some of the most controversial artworks of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”—Derek Conrad Murray, author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights“With a steady hand, Powell grounds the tradition of black visual satire in its historical, political, and discursive context. But he doesn’t drain the images of their risk. Powell honors the intelligence and audacity of the works and their creators and, most importantly, gives black satire its full historical, aesthetic, and political due.”—Mike Sell, author of The Avant-Garde: Race, Religion, War“Satire and the black condition. An endless quagmire of slippery slopes, and inverted dialogues. Richard Powell skillfully dissects the social dynamics of humor in the black context demonstrating how we are perpetrators, and those perpetrated upon. It is a must read for all Americans willing to implicate themselves. No one will escape.”—Lowery Stokes Sims, co-editor, Race and Art Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
£40.38
Yale University Press The Eternal Feast Banqueting in Chinese Art from
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£33.60
Yale University Press Jet Age Aesthetic
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Jet Age Aesthetic is a landmark achievement, laying the foundation for a new kind of critical history of the present.”—W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want? “Decades before the Internet, there was the Jet Age. In this visually delicious study, Vanessa Schwartz returns to a time just before our own, when all that was solid took to the air and the future became as weightless as a cloud out the window. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. You’ll be amazed at what you see.”—Fred Turner, author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties“Vanessa Schwartz’s archaeology of the jet age has taught me that the railway journey of the nineteenth century was not the last word but rather the beginning of a new story.”—Wolfgang Schivelbusch, author of The Railway Journey“Gracefully written, engagingly narrated, and accompanied by brilliantly selected images, this is a book that anyone interested in the post–WWII world can read with pleasure and profit.”—Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine“A dazzling and stylish journey through the art and culture of the jet age. Beautifully illustrated, this important book offers a new way of understanding the modernity of the 1950s and 1960s.”—Lynda Nead, author of The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain
£30.88
Yale University Press Britain in the World Highlights from the Yale
Book SynopsisA captivating look into the highlights from the Yale Center for British Art
£21.38
Yale University Press Sanford Biggers Codeswitch
Book SynopsisWhat I want to do is code-switch. To have there be layers of history and politics, but also this heady, arty stuffinside jokes, black humorthat you might have to take a while to research if you want to really get it.Sanford Biggers Sanford Biggers (b. 1970) is a Harlem-based artist working in various media including painting, sculpture, video, and performance. He describes his practice as code-switchingmixing disparate elements to create layers of meaningto account for his wide-ranging interests. This catalogue focuses on a series of repurposed quilts (many madein the 19th century) that embodies this interest in mixture. Informed by the significance of quilts to the Underground Railroad, Biggers transforms the quilts into new works using materials such as paint, tar, glitter, and charcoal to add his own layers of codes, whether they be historical, political, or purely artistic. Insightful essays survey Biggers's career, his art in relation to music, and the history upon which the serie
£999.99
Yale University Press Danish Golden Age Painting
Book SynopsisA vibrant survey of visual culture in Golden Age Denmark (1801-1864).
£38.00
Yale University Press Mirror of Reality
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Filled with a wealth of information [and] lavishly illustrated...Due to the author’s engaging writing style, it is also eminently readable...The book provides relevant and fascinating analysis of important figures that are hardly known outside of the Netherlands.”—Cornelia Homburg, The Art Newspaper“[A] richly informative book…An excellent introduction to a century of Dutch art that will help to stimulate further interest in a period that remains far too little known and appreciated outside the Netherlands.”—John Leighton, Burlington Magazine
£42.75
Yale University Press No More Masterpieces Modern Art After Artaud
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the profound influence of Antonin ArtaudTrade Review“Offers a truly useful analysis that cuts a new path by accounting for the widespread influence of French poète maudit and dissident Surrealist Antonin Artaud.”—Natilee Harren, Critique d’ArtCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022“No More Masterpieces is impeccably researched, well written, and closely argued in the details. Bradnock forges new territory on Artaud’s direct influence on American art.”—Jenni Sorkin, University of California, Santa Barbara
£52.25
Yale University Press Marking Time Objects People and Their Lives
Book SynopsisAn engaging, encyclopedic account of the material world of early modern Britain as told through a unique collection of dated objects The period from 1500 to 1800 in England was one of extraordinary social transformations, many having to do with the way time itself was understood, measured, and recorded. Through a focused exploration of an extensive private collection of fine and decorative artworks, this beautifully designed volume explores that theme and the variety of ways that individual notions of time and mortality shifted. The feature uniting these more than 450 varied objects is that each one bears a specific date, which marks a significant momentfor reasons personal or professional, religious or secular, private or public. From paintings to porringers, teapots to tape measures, the objectsand the stories they telloffer a vivid sense of the lived experience of time, while providing a sweeping survey of the material world of early modern Britain. Distributed for the Yale CenterTrade Review"A change of focus reveals the design, the beauty, the meaning, and often the life stories, of this collection of bric-a-brac."—Historic House“The attention to detail, both in the archival research and the aesthetic presentation, make it a beautiful object and an impressive resource, one that at the present time, especially, stands as a fitting testament to the ongoing human determination to create, to mark time, and to endure.”—Christina J. Faraday, Apollo Magazine "The editors and authors are to be commended for the wonderful book they have written, and for the dedication, sensitivity, and nuance with which they have approached the humble yet delightful objects in their care.”—Francesca Kaes, Journal 18“. . . an ambitious exploration of a subject that has rarely—perhaps never—been addressed by design historians.”—Ellenor Alcorn, Magazine Antiques
£45.00
Yale University Press Allora Calzadilla Specters of Noon
Book SynopsisA beautiful presentation of a new suite of works made for the Menil Collection by Allora & Calzadilla
£42.75
Yale University Press The Presence of the Past in French Art 18701905
Book SynopsisThis innovative book introduces a vivid new reading of French art and society at a crucial period of history.
£49.50
Yale University Press Groundwork
Book SynopsisA lush visual document of the Clark Art Institute’s first-ever outdoor exhibition, featuring the work of six significant contemporary artists working in sculpture today
£33.25
Yale University Press RisquonsTout Planetary Artists Venture into Risk
Book SynopsisThe work of 38 established and emerging artists explore the creative potential of risk-taking and transgression in contemporary life
£38.00
Yale University Press The Little Street
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary study of the central role that the neighborhood played in seventeenth-century Dutch painting and cultureTrade Review“A work of impressive research and important insight that offers a new and valuable lens through which to understand seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings.”—Alison M. Kettering, Carleton College“By highlighting the role of the neighborhood—the most local of communities—in structuring early modern Dutch life and values, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of both seventeenth-century Dutch paintings and the culture that produced them.”—H. Perry Chapman, University of Delaware
£45.00
Yale University Press My Barbarian
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented look at the contemporary collective’s theatrical art, charting their performances and exploring their social and creative commitments
£38.00
Yale University Press Vincent Geyskens
Book SynopsisAn amply illustrated examination of Vincent Geyskens’ work exploring of the position of painting in contemporary society
£38.00
Yale University Press The Farjam Collection of Islamic and Middle
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£315.00
Yale University Press Madame de Pompadour Painted Pink
Book SynopsisA fresh take on a beloved masterpiece of portraiture, focusing on the complex significance of the color pink in eighteenth-century France
£19.00
Yale University Press Kimbell Art Museum
Book SynopsisA handsome coffee table guide to the celebrated collection of the Kimbell Art Museum
£47.50
Yale University Press The Expanded Field of Conservation
Book SynopsisA global reconsideration and broadening of the definition of art conservation through the lenses of theory, ethics, culture, and history
£24.95
Yale University Press Shared Passion An African Art Collection Built
Book SynopsisHighlighting the strong bond between a collector and an art dealer, Shared Passion explores a remarkable collection of African art assembled in the twenty-first century
£76.50
Yale University Press Grief Made Marble
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking account of ancient Greek funerary sculpture and its emotional effectsTrade Review“Estrin offers a beautifully subtle analysis of funerary sculpture on its own terms—one that is sensitive to historical context, but that also builds a complex dynamic between the invisible body buried within the grave and the peculiarly elusive ‘presence’ of the stone forms. What emerges is a study that will be vital reading for anyone interested in classics, art history, or funerary art across all cultures and periods.”—Verity Platt, Cornell University“This book is beautifully written and makes many important, original contributions to the field. It made me rethink my own assumptions about this material, which is just what a good book should do.”—Sheila Dillon, Duke University
£42.75
Yale University Press American Art
Book SynopsisA tour through the Yale University Art Gallery’s holdings of American art, one of the most exceptional museum collections of its kind
£38.00
Yale University Press Jaune QuicktoSee Smith
Book SynopsisFive decades of work by groundbreaking Indigenous artist Jaune Quick-to-See SmithTrade Review“Responsibility, community building and care-taking are her cornerstones; several essays contained within Memory Map note Smith’s commitment to teaching, rallying other Indigenous artists and refracting her works.”—Gazelle Mba, World of Interiors
£45.00
Yale University Press Gilbert Spencer
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£28.50
Yale University Press Bill Viola
Book SynopsisThe story of how a trinity of California-based creatives pushed the boundaries to re-imagine a radical Tristan und Isolde opera for our times, resulting in a sensational major body of artwork by visionary American artist Bill Viola
£33.25
Yale University Press The Dark Path
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£30.00
Yale University Press The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie
Book SynopsisThe first posthumous survey of Ojibwe artist Jim Denomie’s paintings, which invite further conversation about American history, memory, and place
£30.00
Yale University Press Multiplicity
Book SynopsisAn engaging introduction to contemporary Black American collage brings together art by fifty artists that reflects the breadth and complexity of Black identityTrade Review“A lavish catalog published by Yale University Press is a worthy companion to the exhibition. It provides not just beautiful reproductions of the artworks but also commentary on the way these artists, and others, have used collage to address the full range of Black experience.”—Margaret Renkl, New York Times
£38.00
Yale University Press Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Art from
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£175.50
Alfred A. Knopf Painting Below Zero Notes on a Life in Art
Book SynopsisFrom James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors. A skilled traditional painter, he avoided the stencils and silk screens of Warhol and Lichtenstein. His vast canvases full of brilliant, surreally juxtaposed images would influence both many of his contemporaries and younger generations, as well as revolutionize twentieth-century painting.Ronsequist writes about growing up in a tight-knit community of Scandinavian farmers in North Dakota and Minnesota in the late 1930s and early 1940s; about his mother, who was not only an amateur painter but, along with his father, a passionate aviator; and about leaving that flat midwestern landscape in 1955 for New York, where he ha
£38.25
Alfred A. Knopf The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
Book SynopsisThe seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time.Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.”During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “
£53.10
Random House USA Inc Kazan on Directing
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£16.14
