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Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is renowned for his
architectural achievements on a public and domestic scale, interior
design, and furniture design. This book reviews his work in
context, and considers how his ideas can be interpreted. His
handling of colour, use of materials, and graphic approach to form
are explored, and photographs show original designs and plans.
Inspired by nature, fired by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts
movement, rooted in the vernacular traditions of his native region,
Mackintosh's genius was to forge an entirely new style for a new
age. Radical but intensely personal, his architecture, interiors
and furnishings retain all their essential vigour nearly a century
after they were first conceived. In this compelling study Elizabeth
Wilhide considers Mackintosh's sensitive handling of colour, robust
use of materials and graphic approach to form. The abundance of
photographs of original schemes still in existence provide direct
inspiration. His items of furniture are icons of early modern
design and suppliers and listed for those currently in production.
Written by the art dealer and friend who was among the first to
recognise Rousseau's importance, these Recollections present a
movingly personal portrait of the artist known as Le Douanier (the
Customs Officer).
Hierdie publikasie gee n volledige beeld van die kunstenaar Frans
David Oerder (18671944) se oeuvre sy Anglo-Boereoorlogtekeninge,
landskappe, genrestukke, portrette, blomstudies en stillewes,
interieurs, dierestudies en grafiese werk. Geen moeite is ontsien
om hierdie boek so volledig en betroubaar moontlik te maak nie.
Argivale bronne in die Kunsargief van die Universiteit van
Pretoria, die Argief van die Johannesburg Kunsmuseum en die
Nasionale Argief van Suid-Afrika in Pretoria het grootliks bygedra
tot die toevoeging van inligting oor hierdie kunstenaar wat nie
voorheen bekend was nie. Dieplakboek van Gerda Oerder en n lang
lesing met detailinligting oor Oerder se vroee lewe deur mev.
Lorimer in die Kunsargief van die Universiteit van Pretoria het
bygedra tot n nuwe vertolking van die lewe en werk van hierdie
belangrike Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar. Tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog
was Oerder die enigste amptelike kunstenaar aan Boerekant, maar tot
dusver is nog geen volledige geskiedenis van sy deelname aan die
oorlog geskryf nie. In hierdie boek word Oerder se
Anglo-Boereoorlogtekeninge nou vir die eerste keer so volledig
moontlik afgedruk en beskryf.
From water lilies to haystacks, Claude Monet, the founder of French
Impressionism, is famous for his interpretations of color and light
across landscapes, Parisian life, and the coast of Normandy. His
style redefined French painting in the late 19th-century and opened
the door for 20th-century modernism, as he created countless works
of art alongside aspiring masters Degas, Manet, Pissarro, and
Renoir. Printed with soy-based inks on FSC certified paper, this
deluxe wall calendar features large monthly grids that offer ample
room for jotting notes, along with six bonus months of July through
December of 2022. It also includes moon phases (CST), standard U.S.
and international holidays.
The exciting follow-up to the bestselling Harry Potter Knitting Magic,
this volume offers 28 new and official patterns for knits ranging from
spellbinding stuffed toys to cosy Hogwarts house apparel to all-new
costume replicas – including bewitching projects inspired by the
Fantastic Beasts films!
Discover even more knitting magic with a brand-new collection of
patterns inspired by the characters, creatures and artefacts of the
wizarding world. Harry Potter Knitting Magic: More Patterns from
Hogwarts and Beyond includes patterns for toys, apparel, and costume
replicas pulled straight from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts
films, all pictured in gorgeous colour photography.
Projects: Knit yourself a mini sock garland that spells ‘Dobby Is
Free’. Support your favourite team with a Hogwarts Quidditch Pullover.
Channel the elegance of Professor McGonagall with the stunning Vero
Verto Cape. Travel beyond Hogwarts to 1920s New York with projects
inspired by the Fantastic Beasts films, including a gorgeous colourwork
scarf inspired by Newt’s case, a mischievous stuffed Niffler and a
sparkling Gigglewater Shawl.
Copyright © 2021 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WIZARDING WORLD
characters, names and related indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros.
Entertainment Inc. – WB SHIELD: © & ™ WBEI. Publishing Rights ©
JKR. (s21)
"Martin Bailey has written some of the most interesting books on
Vincent's life in France, where he produced his greatest work" -
Johan van Gogh, grandson of Theo, the artist's brother Studio of
the South tells the story of Van Gogh's stay in Arles, when his
powers were at their height. For Van Gogh, the south of France was
an exciting new land, bursting with life. He walked into the hills
inspired by the landscapes, and painted harvest scenes in the heat
of summer. He visited a fishing village where he saw the
Mediterranean for the first time, energetically capturing it in
paint. He painted portraits of friends and locals, and flower still
life paintings, culminating in the now iconic Sunflowers. He rented
the Yellow House, and gradually did it up, calling it 'an artist's
house', inviting Paul Gauguin to join him there. This encounter was
to have a profound impact on both of the artists. They painted side
by side, their collaboration coming to a dramatic end a few months
later. The difficulties Van Gogh faced led to his eventual decision
to retreat to the asylum at Saint-Remy. Based on extensive original
research, the book reveals discoveries that throw new light on the
legendary artist and give a definitive account of his fifteen
months in Provence, including his time at the Yellow House, his
collaboration with Gauguin and its tragic and shocking ending.
Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art
For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.
Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life.
Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.
Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers,
the worldās only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of
skilled craftspeople make exquisite terrestrial, celestial and
planetary globes for customers around the world. The story began
after his attempt to find a special globe for his fatherās 80th
birthday. Failing to find anything suitable, he decided to make one
himself which took him on an extraordinary journey of rediscovering
this forgotten craft. The chapters of The Globemakers take us
through the journey of how to build a globe, or āearth applesā
as they were first known, and includes fascinating vignettes on
history, art history, astronomy and physics, as well as the
day-to-day craftsmanship at the workshop itself. This beautiful
book uses illustration, photography and narrative to tell the story
of our globe and many different globes it has inspired.
Kelmscott Manor is forever linked with the name of William Morris,
pioneer conservationist and utopian socialist, designer and father
of the Arts and Crafts tradition. The manor played a crucial role
in shaping his thought: at the climactic moment of his futuristic
novel, News from Nowhere, Morris lifts the latch of the Manors
garden gate and finds his personal holy grail. Morris was drawn by
the organic relationship between Kelmscott and its landscape: the
linkage of stone walls and roof tiles to the geology and the soil,
and the honest toil of the people to the agricultural cycle . The
fruits of the Kelmscott Landcape Project established in 1996 by the
Society of Antiquaries of London, the owners of Kelmscott Manor
today, this book is a multi-faceted examination of Kelmscotts
history. Archaeology, from prehistory to the present day, the
architectural development of the Manor before and after Morris knew
it, and the art that the village and Manor have inspiredall
received rich, illustrated coverage. The result is a vivid portrait
of a Thames-side village transformed by its association with
Morris, a book which demonstrates the rich connections between
culture and landscape in a particular place.
William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being
an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his
Kelmscott Press, an important figure of the Arts and Crafts
movement. Many of us probably know him best, however, from his
superb furnishings and textile designs, intricately weaving
together natural motifs in a highly stylized two-dimensional
fashion influenced by medieval conventions. William Morris
Masterpieces of Art offers a survey of his life and work alongside
some of his finest decorative work.
George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts--poet, historian,
ethnographer, artist, cartographer, and prolific writer. A
geologist by profession, he became acquainted, through his work in
the field, with the extraordinary wealth of rock paintings in the
caves and shelters of the South African interior. Enchanted and
absorbed by them, Stow set out to create a record of this creative
work of the people who had tracked and marked the South African
landscape decades and centuries before him.
"Unconquerable Spirit "reveals the scope and the beauty of his
labors. Stow's paintings are more than just copies of what he found
on the rocks. They are interpretations of the art of the San,
informed by his own understanding of a particularly turbulent time
in South African history and his sense of the tragic demise of the
San way of life. This book celebrates his pioneering achievement
and reminds us, too, of the richness of the imaginative universe of
the San.
"I recall the long hours I sat for him... From time to time, as I
posed, half-asleep, I looked at the artist standing at his easel,
with features drawn, clear-eyed, engrossed in his work. He had
forgotten me, he no longer knew I was there, he simply copied me,
as if I were some kind of human beast, with a concentration and
artistic integrity that I have seen nowhere else." Zola's writings
on Manet, the most important of which are presented in this volume,
were the first to identify the painter's seminal role in the
emergence of modern art.
This is a concise and engaging, yet detailed and informative
monograph that explores Gauguin's most Important works. Paul
Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most important artists of the
late 19th century, and one whose work was to have a profound
influence on the development of art in the 20th century. He began
as an Impressionist, but went on to develop a richly-coloured style
in his constant search for pristine originality and unadulterated
nature. This concise monograph collects the most important works by
Gauguin, not only of his best known paintings of Tahiti in which
the artist attempted to reconstruct the perfect life which he had
failed to find in reality, but also of many powerful works that
reflect the artist's contact with other seminal early modern
masters like Van Gogh or Cezanne.
Degas was a celebrity in Britain in his lifetime, thanks originally
to George Moore's pioneering essay, The Painter of Modern Life.
When Degas died Moore reprised the essay with some further
recollections, in part as a riposte to the memoir published by
Degas's great admirer and follower, Walter Sickert. Sickert's
essay, sparkling, engaged, witty and occasionally combative, is
amongst the best of his writings. Together these memoirs represent
some of the most vivid responses to Impressionism in English - as
well as painting an intimate picture of arguably the most important
and most influential - and the most humane - of the painters of the
later 19th century. Hitherto difficult to find, these essays are
reprinted here with an introduction by Anna Gruetzner Robins and
are illustrated with 30 pages of colour plates covering the span of
Degas's dazzling career.
A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine
high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift,
and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers,
travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of
well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published
throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted
covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped,
complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The
covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many
hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces
that feel good in the hand and look wonderful on a desk or table.
PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical
features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two
ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list;
robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to
collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps
everything neat and tidy. THE ARTIST. With a high horizon, the
foreground dominates this oil painting, creating a sense of a vast
expanse of poppies. Although this subject was explored by Claude
Monet (1840-1926) and Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), stylistically it
is extremely different from Impressionism. The tightly packed
poppies provide detail, while the elevated view displays the whole
landscape. THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in
your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be
beautiful."
Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural
History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between
artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect
Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with leading
Pre-Raphaelite artists on the design and decoration of the
building. The decorative art was modelled on the Pre-Raphaelite
principle of meticulous observation of nature, itself indebted to
science, while individual artists designed architectural details
and carved portrait statues of influential scientists. The entire
structure was an experiment in using architecture and art to
communicate natural history, modern science and natural theology.
'Temple of Science' sets out the history of the campaign to build
the museum before taking the reader on a tour of art in the museum
itself. It looks at the facade and the central court, with their
beautiful natural history carvings and marble columns illustrating
different geological strata, and at the pantheon of scientists.
Together they form the world's finest collection of Pre-Raphaelite
sculpture. The story of one of the most remarkable collaborations
between scientists and artists in European art is told here with
lavish illustrations.
This fascinating, absorbing, and beautifully illustrated work tells
the story of one small London street which played host to some of
the greatest artistic and intellectual minds of the Victorian era.
Quiet and unassuming on first glance, Tite Street in Chelsea, West
London was nevertheless one of the most influential and important
streets in the cultural life of the capital during the 19th and
20th centuries. Playing host to the likes of Oscar Wilde,John
Singer Sargent, James Whistler and Radclyffe Hall, the rich
cultural history of this street is explored in characterful and
captivating detail by acclaimed art historian Devon Cox. This
brilliant and lively biography gets inside the lives of those who
lived here, creating a vivid image of one small street which became
the beating heart of London's artistic life. Throughout its
turbulent existence, Tite Street mirrored the world around it. From
the Aesthetic movement and its challenge to Victorian values,
through the Edwardian struggle for women's suffrage, to the bombs
of the Blitz in the 1940s, it remained home to innumerable artists
and writers, socialites and suffragettes, musicians and madmen.
With beautiful and insightful writing, Cox paints a vibrant picture
of a street where artists and intellectuals flocked, exploring the
connections, rivalries and competing artistic visions of the great
minds who lived and thrived here. The Street of Wonderful
Possibilitiesreveals this complex history, tying together private
and professional lives to form a colourful tapestry of art and
intrigue, illuminating their relationships to each other, to Tite
Street and to a rapidly modernising London at the fin de siecle.
Celebrate the holidays with Christmas Carolers Square Boxed 1000
Piece Puzzle from Galison. Piece together to reveal a classic scene
of friends and family charoling in the snow by Louise Cunningham. -
Assembled puzzle size: 20 x 27'' - Box: 8 x 8 x 2.5'' - Contains
informational insert about artist and image
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In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside
near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), busily plied his
brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of
modern art. With compact, intense dabs of paint and bold new
approaches to light and space, he mediated the way from
Impressionism to the defining movements of the early 20th century
and became, in the words of both Matisse and Picasso, "father of us
all." This fresh artist introduction selects key works from
Cezanne's oeuvre to understand his development, innovation, and
crucial influence on modern art. From compositions of fruits and
pears to scenes of outdoor bathers, we trace his experimentation
with color, perspective, and texture to evoke "a harmony parallel
to Nature," as well as the very process of seeing and recording.
Along the way, we discover Cezanne's celebrated Card Players, his
layering of warm and cool hues to build up form and surface, and
the geometric rigor of his landscapes from the vicinity of
Aix-en-Provence, as bright with the light of southern France as
they are bold with a radical new rendering of dimensions and depth.
About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has
evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published.
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed
chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist,
covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise
biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber
Eyes As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by
accident. I know your street rather well. The Camondos lived just a
few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears. Like de Waal's
family, they were part of belle epoque high society. They were also
targets of anti-Semitism. Count Moise de Camondo created a
spectacular house filled with art for his son to inherit. Over a
century later, de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed
archives and, in a haunting series of letters addressed to Camondo,
he tells us what happened next. 'Illuminating... A wonderful
tribute to a family and to an idea' Guardian 'Letters to Camondo
immerses you in another age... Dazzling' Financial Times
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