Search results for ""Author Richard Calvocoressi""
Thames & Hudson Ltd Georg Baselitz
Book SynopsisRichard Calvocoressi is currently a director at Gagosian Gallery, and is a former Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He wrote the catalogue text for Baselitz's first exhibition in a commercial gallery in London, and in 1983 was author of the main catalogue essay for his first retrospective in Britain at the Whitechapel Gallery. As curator responsible for German art at Tate, Calvocoressi was instrumental in the acquisition of his works for the UK national collection.Trade Review'Brilliantly illustrated and documented by the fine narrative provided here by esteemed author and interlocutor Richard Calvocoressi' - The World of Interiors'Beautifully written with revealing insight into the artist’s motivations at each stage, it is the most authoritative work on Baselitz to date' - The Art Newspaper'Beautifully illustrated' - The Telegraph'Elegantly written and splendidly illustrated, this is by far the best study of Baselitz in English' - The Spectator'Meticulous … With its grasp of the relevant art-historical readings and cultural-historic issues, and its compelling readings of so many individual works, this new, definitive publication is a masterclass' - The Times Literary Supplement'Sumptuously illustrated … Calvocoressi’s achievement is to blend art and biography into what will prove to be a useful first monograph in English on this major German artist' - The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Early Years: Third Reich and East Germany 1938 – 1956 • 2. West Berlin: Finding a Voice 1957 – 1965 • 3. Rural isolation: Osthoven and Forst 1966 – 1974 • 4. Schloss Derneburg: from New York to the Venice Biennale 1975 – 1980 • 5. International recognition: from A New Spirit in Painting to the fall of the Wall 1981 – 1989 • 6. Reunification and reassessment 1990 – 2004 • 7. Remix: mortality and later work 2005 –
£72.25
Rizzoli International Publications Jenny Saville
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive monograph on figurative painter Jenny Saville, whose large-scale nudes continue to challenge accepted ideals of beauty.Thirteen years after her first Rizzoli monograph, British artist Jenny Saville, an original member of the Young British Artists, releases her most definitive book, including never-before-published paintings from her most recent exhibition at Gagosian in New York. This much-anticipated volume unites new work with many of Saville's paintings and drawings to date, accompanied by essays that explore Saville's continuing fascination with the human body within a broad art-historical context. The book also features Saville in an extensive conversation with acclaimed American photographer Sally Mann. An illustrated chronology of Saville's career completes this elegant volume. This beautifully produced monograph is an important addition to the library on one of the world's most influential and enduring living painters.
£86.25
Rizzoli International Publications Francis Bacon Couplings
Book SynopsisA focused look at double-figure paintings by the celebrated British artist, whose disturbing portrayals radically altered the genre of figurative painting in the twentieth century.This book highlights a theme that preoccupied Francis Bacon throughout his career: the relationship between two people, both physical and psychological. At its heart are two of the most uninhibited images that Bacon ever painted: Two Figures (1953) and Two Figures in the Grass (1954). After completing these interrelated works, Bacon did not return to the subject until 1967, the year that homosexual acts in private were decriminalized in England and Wales, when he painted Two Figures on a Couch, also featured in this volume. In Bacon's paintings, the human presence is evoked sometimes viscerally, at other times more fleetingly, in the form of a shadow or a blurred, watchful figure. In certain instances, the portrayal takes the form of a composite in which male and female bodily traits are transp
£61.60
Phaidon Press Ltd Magritte
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the work of Magritte.Trade ReviewOn the Colour Library Series "Ideal introductions for students and museum-goers."—Independent "Phaidon’s excellent Colour Library series: [...] a good introduction to nearly 50 key artists and movements in art history."—Antiques Trade Gazette "The Phaidon Colour Library Series provides an invaluable introduction to key artists and movements in art history."—Art & Craft
£8.92
National Galleries of Scotland Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous
Book SynopsisThis book brings together over 160 of the finest surrealist artworks by legendary artists including Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró and Man Ray. The works hail from the four renowned and extraordinary private collections of Edward James, Roland Penrose, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, and together offer a superb overview of surrealist art. Ten essays explore the different origins, historical contexts and creative urges behind these collections. Artworks, perhaps more than anything else that one can acquire, are objects of desire and surrealist artworks even more so. The sheer quality of the works acquired (and, in the case of the Pietzsches, still being acquired) is astonishing and, while passionate about their private visions, all the collectors have been mindful of contributing something to the public good. The collections complement each other to an extraordinary degree and allow us to follow some of the artists'' careers from beginning to end. By uniting them, exciting new juxtapositions emerge along with a fuller and richer picture of the surrealist movement as a whole.
£24.90
