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Address book companion to the exciting and luxurious Flame Tree
Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine
art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then
foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the
back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid magnetic
side flap. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling
gift. This example features William Morris' Seaweed. Born in Kent,
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.
The horror of the First World War brought out a characteristic
response in a group of English artists, who resorted to black
humour. Among these, John Hassall, a pioneering British illustrator
and creator of the influential 'Skegness is so bracing' poster,
holds a special place. Early in the war, he hit on the idea of
drawing a parody of the Bayeux Tapestry to satirize German
aggression and add to the growing genre of war propaganda. Taking
the scheme of the famous tapestry which celebrates William the
Conqueror's invasion of England, Hassall uses thirty pictorial
panels to tell the story of Kaiser Wilhem II's invasion of
Luxembourg and Belgium. In mock-archaic language he narrates the
progress of the German army, never missing an opportunity to
lampoon 'bad' behaviour: 'Wilhelm giveth orders for frightfulness.'
The caricatured Germans loot homes, make gas from Limburg cheese
and sauerkraut, drink copious amounts of wine and shamefully march
through Luxembourg with 'women and children in front.' With comic
inventiveness Hassall adapts the borders of the original to
illustrate the stereotypical objects with which the English then
associated their enemy: they are decorated with schnitzel,
sausages, pilsner, wine corks and wild boar. Drawn with Hassall's
distinctive flat colour and striking outlines, Ye Berlyn Tapestrie
is a fascinating historical example of war-induced farce, produced
by a highly talented artist who could not then have known that the
war was set to last for another two years. Together with an
introduction which sets out the historical background of its
creation, every page of this rarely seen publication is reproduced
here in a fold-out concertina, just like the original, to resemble
the style of the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Picasso
(Hardcover)
Jose Maria Faerna
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This publication places the emphasis on the artist's work, rather
on stylistic accordances or biographical details, giving a concise
yet comprehensive overview of Picasso's work and style.
From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all
manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable
treasures they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman
Empire. In "Hitler's Holy Relics, "bestselling author Sidney
Kirkpatrick tells the riveting and never-before-told true story of
how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered
these cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they
could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and
equally unholy Reich.
Anticipating the Allied invasion of Nazi Germany, Reichsfuhrer
Heinrich Himmler had ordered a top-secret bunker carved deep into
the bedrock beneath Nurnberg castle. Inside the well-guarded
chamber was a specially constructed vault that held the plundered
treasures Hitler valued the most: the Spear of Destiny (reputed to
have been used to pierce Christ's side while he was on the cross)
and the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, ancient artifacts
steeped in medieval mysticism and coveted by world rulers from
Charlemagne to Napoleon. But as Allied bombers rained devastation
upon Nurnberg and the U.S. Seventh Army prepared to invade the city
Hitler called "the soul of the Nazi Party," five of the most
precious relics, all central to the coronation ceremony of a
would-be Holy Roman Emperor, vanished from the vault. Who took
them? And why? The mystery remained unsolved for months after the
war's end, until the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D.
Eisenhower, ordered Lieutenant Walter Horn, a German-born art
historian on leave from U.C. Berkeley, to hunt down the missing
treasures.
To accomplish his mission, Horn must revisit the now-rubble-strewn
landscape of his youth and delve into the ancient legends and
arcane mysticism surrounding the antiquities that Hitler had looted
in his quest for world domination. Horn searches for clues in the
burnt remains of Himmler's private castle and follows the trail of
neo-Nazi "Teutonic Knights" charged with protecting a vast hidden
fortune in plundered gold and other treasure. Along the way, Horn
has to confront his own demons: how members of his family and
former academic colleagues subverted scholarly research to help
legitimize Hitler's theories of Aryan supremacy and the Master
Race. What Horn discovers on his investigative odyssey is so
explosive that his final report will remain secret for decades.
Drawing on unpublished interrogation and intelligence reports, as
well as on diaries, letters, journals, and interviews in the United
States and Germany, Kirkpatrick tells this riveting and disturbing
story with cinematic detail and reveals-- for the first time--how a
failed Vienna art student, obsessed with the occult and dreams of
his own grandeur, nearly succeeded in creating a Holy Reich rooted
in a twisted reinvention of medieval and Church history.
A great way to learn about a truly unique artist, Jackson Pollock.
The Jackson Pollock Artist Box is designed to introduce you to
Pollock the person and Pollock the artist, and to provide projects
that will put you in touch with his creative process. Using his
techniques, you can invent your own images and arrive at your own
statement.
A reissue of the beautifully illustrated and authoritative biography of Frida Kahlo, publishing in time for a major London exhibition
Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was the victim of an accident that left her crippled and unable to bear children. To salvage what she could from her unhappy situation, Kahlo had to learn to keep still – so she began to paint.
Kahlo's unique talent was to make her one of the century's most enduring artists. But her remarkable paintings were only one element of a rich and dramatic life. Frida is also the story of her tempestuous marriage to the muralist Diego Rivera, her love affairs with numerous, diverse men such as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, her involvement with the Communist Party, her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture, and of the inspiration behind her unforgettable art.
Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora
Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over.
In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered
conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the
woman and the artist behind the iconic persona. He travels between
Leonora's native England and adopted homeland of Mexico, making
stops in New York and Paris and meeting some of the remarkable
figures she associated with, from Max Ernst and Andre Breton to
Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. At the same time, he
strives to depict a complex and very real Surrealist creator,
exploring Leonora not simply in relation to her romantic partners
or social milieus but as the artist she always was. A textured
portrait emerges from conversations, memories, stories and
Leonora's engagement with the books that she read. -- .
This book deals with the seminal surrealist. It explores Dali's
grandiose and grotesque oeuvre. Picasso called Dali "an outboard
motor that's always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a
right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter,
sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one
of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was
rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of
the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis
to the art of painting, approaching the subconscious with
extraordinary sensitivity and imagination. This publication
presents the entire painted oeuvre of Salvador Dali. After many
years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret finally
located all the paintings of this highly prolific artist. Many of
the works had been inaccessible for years - in fact so many that
almost half the illustrations in this book had rarely been seen.
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Laura Knight
(Hardcover)
Alice Strickland; Series edited by Katy Norris; Edited by Rebeka Cohen; Designed by Clare Skeats
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R299
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"Forget ordinary stationery! teNeues, the luxury German publisher,
transforms notecards, journals, puzzles and even clipboards into
works of art, with its latest lineup highlighting paintings by
celebrated names such as Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Jean-Michel
Basquiat and Claude Monet." - Life & Style Magazine Our
notecard set features Vasily Kandinsky's Variegation in the
Triangle in dynamic greens, yellows and reds with our gold foil
accent touches. Vasily Kandinsky was a master of abstraction in
it's earliest stages and brought bright geometrics to play in space
on the canvas - with the concept that geometry is spiritual and
alive, this painting was done during his Bauhaus years. The 4x5
notecards are blank inside, perfect for all occasions & adorned
with painterly foil accents.
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Lee Miller
(Hardcover)
Ami Bouhassane; Series edited by Katy Norris; Edited by Rebeka Cohen; Designed by Nicky Barneby
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R299
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Pailthorpe's important contributions to the development of
psychoanalysis are largely overlooked now * Many of her key
writings are published here for the first time * Her work ties into
the contemporary interest in links between psychoanalysis and
creative endeavour
Jean-Michel Basquiat's bold, grafitti style work titled: Mitchell
Crew from 1983 is reproduced in our luxe hardcover Mini Notebook
with black edge pages. Our Mini Notebooks are full colour hardcover
pocket sized books featuring special features like painted edge
accents. The paper is lightly printed with a dot-grid, perfect for
note taking, list making and doodling. Very portable and
eye-catching in lots of designs. We love Jean-Michel Basquiat's
Skull (Mitchell Crew) art.
Address book companion to the exciting and luxurious Flame Tree
Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine
art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then
foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the
back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid magnetic
side flap. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling
gift. This example features Bodleian Libraries: A Readers' Delight.
The Bodleian Library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and
is the main research library of the University of Oxford. It holds
over 13 million printed items and this handsome trio of spines are
just three examples of the beautiful objects in the Library's
collection. With colourful illustrations and charming tales, these
story anthologies showcase the sports and hobbies young people
could enjoy during the 1930s.
A facsimile edition of the classic High Street, which pairs the
timeless illustrations of Eric Ravilious with a fascinating text by
architectural historian J. M. Richards. First published in 1938,
this charming book introduces the British high street. Shops
include the family butcher, the cheesemonger, the baker and
confectioner and the oyster bar, as well as specialized
establishments such as the plumassier, the clerical outfitter and
the submarine engineer. Only 2,000 copies of the original book were
printed before the lithographic plates were destroyed in the London
Blitz. As a result, it has become one of the most collectible of
all artists' books from this period. This beautiful facsimile
edition features all 24 of Ravilious's colour illustrations, and
includes an essay by Gill Saunders, Senior Curator of Prints at the
Victoria and Albert Museum, that sets the book in its historical
context.
Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and
lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and
use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was
almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of "carving into
color," creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by
some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these
gouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a
revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the
age-old conflict between color and line. This edition of the first
volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough
historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to
his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years
in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare
images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau,
with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Teriade, the poets Louis
Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law
Georges Duthuit. In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs
achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist
abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of
artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale,
these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and
innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.
About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as
cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with
accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate
their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an
unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books
by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new
editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact,
friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to
impeccable production.
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Bacon
(Hardcover)
Luigi Ficacci
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Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious
impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic
compositions. Emerging into notoriety in the period following World
War II, Bacon took the human body as his nominal subject, but a
subject ravaged, distorted, and dismembered so as to writhe with
intense emotional content. With flailing limbs, hollow voids, and
tumurous growths, his gripping, often grotesque, portraits are as
much reflections on the trials and the traumas of the human
condition as they are character studies. These haunting forms were
also among the first in art history to depict overtly homosexual
themes. 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
The Day of the Dead is a festival of culture and youth, a feast of
the senses and celebration of life in death. Originating in Mexico
and the Latin American countries it began as a way of remembering
departed relatives, as a means of embracing rather than fearing
death. The beautiful rituals, the sugar skulls, the costumes and
the festivities have grown into a massive counter culture across
the western world. Art, movies, cartoons and literature have been
consumed by the brilliant power of the Day of the Dead, tendered
here in this lively new book, following Tattoo Art and Street Art,
the latest title in Flame Tree's hugely successful Inspiration and
Technique series.
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