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Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an
appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she
fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about
taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental oeuvre remains one
of the most vivid visual documents of 1920s Art Deco. De Lempicka's
style deployed cool colors and tight post-cubist forms into an at
once neoclassical and voluptuous figuration. Her subjects are often
nude and always sensual, aloof, and powerful. Bedecked in seductive
light and textures, they command our attention but typically avert
their gaze with an aspect of haughty grandeur. They include both
high-society patrons and progressive portraits of emancipated and
lesbian women, such as Women Bathing and Portrait of Suzy Solidor.
De Lempicka's notorious Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti,
meanwhile, was commissioned for the cover of German magazine Die
Dame and became an icon of speed, sophistication, and female
independence. Through some of de Lempicka's finest, most compelling
portraits, this introduction explores the artist's unique visual
language and its privileged place not only in the annals of
interwar art but also in the history of female artists and our
collective consciousness of the Roaring Twenties. 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
'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory is the
companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial exhibition that is
scheduled for Fall 2022 and will run at the National Underground
Railroad Freedom Center until Spring 2023. This project considers
the historic and contemporary role that photography and film have
played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath while
examining the social lives of Black Americans within various places
including the land, at home, in photographic albums, at historic
sites, and in public memory. This exhibition acknowledges artists'
constant involvement with efforts to explore the possibilities of
freedom and their relationship to it. Their quest to be 'as free as
they want to be' is envisioned in the subject matter they explore
as well as in their persistent drive to innovate aesthetic
practices in photographic media. The publication presents some 20
artists working in photography, video, silkscreen, projection, and
mixed media installation. Free as they want to be is inspired by
the words of James Baldwin and the timely theme of FotoFocus, World
Record, as well as events of late that have shaped the world as we
know it. The artists selected for this publication are on the
frontlines, creating, documenting, and writing. The works they have
conceived reflect defining moments in the struggle for racial
justice and equality. Free as they want to be presents an occasion
to reflect upon the past, to mark significant defining moments -
both triumphs and tragedies - that characterize a people and their
experiences in the present - and to propose future possibilities.
The artists offer images that advance a different sense of
empowerment. Their images thus play an integral part in casting
resilient narratives as they commemorate endurance, longevity, and
accomplishment. The timing of a publication like this could not be
more urgent given the human toll of the pandemic, widening economic
disparities, the threat of war, voting rights, global migration
crises, and quotidian violence. Proposed Artists: Terry Adkins;
Radcliffe Bailey; J.P. Ball Studio; Sadie Barnett; Dawoud Bey;
Sheila Pree Bright; Bisa Butler; Omar Victor Diop; Nona Faustine;
Adama Delphine Fawundu; Daesha Devon Harris; Isaac Julien; Cathy
Opie; Hank Willis Thomas; Lava Thomas; Carrie Mae Weems; Wendel
White; William Earle Williams; anonymous tintype photographer -
photo album
This volume is dedicated to 100 of the artist's most beautiful and
unforgettable canvases, as well as a rich selection of lesserknown
works. It explores the paintings in the context of Van Gogh's short
but brilliant career, allying the works to his correspondence,
which provides the narrative thread around which this study
develops.
This is a book for the curious and open-minded, for people of all
faiths and none. It is bursting with richness and diversity,
vulnerability and exploration, colour and fragility, treasure and
beauty. The featured artists care about our world and the life it
sustains. Their persistent probing to find meaning and
understanding through what they create is hugely important to us
all. Does God exist? If He is real, where is He and what does He
have to offer? Don't expect answers but rather a multitude of
original and provocative responses that will draw you further into
the mystery of just where is God in our 21st-century world.
The revolutionary artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian
(1647-1717) has come into the spotlight in recent years. The life
and work of this German-born woman, who would later settle in the
Netherlands, has been studied internationally by entomologists,
botanists and historians and are a source of inspiration for
contemporary artists and writers. In 2016, Lannoo Publishers, in
collaboration with the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, republished her
masterpiece 'Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium' as a
facsimile. This well-illustrated book assembles the most recent
scientific knowledge about this remarkable woman. The authors
examine, among other things, Merian's pioneering work on the
reproduction and development of insects, the methods and materials
she used for her work, her remarkable journey to Suriname, her
network of family, friends and patrons and her widespread influence
on the history of art and science. Her work is compared to that of
early modern and contemporary artists and scientists.
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Miro
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Janis Mink
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With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miro
(1893-1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing
masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and
ceramics, and embracing ideologies as varied as Fauvism,
Surrealism, Dada, Magic Realism, Cubism, and abstraction. Over the
course of his prodigious output, Miro evolved constantly, seeking
to eschew categorization and the approval of "bourgeois" art
critics as much as he pursued his own dreamlike worlds. Emerging
into the public spotlight in the early 1920s, he first experimented
with Fauvism and Cubism before developing a distinctive style of
symbols and pictograms, arranged in elusive visual narratives, with
frequent reference to Catalan life. As his career progressed, Miro
moved towards Surrealism, and, despite never fully identifying with
the movement, emerged as one of its most celebrated practitioners
with techniques including automated drawing, Lyrical Abstraction,
and Color Field painting. In later years, he diversified his media
further, working with ceramics, textiles, and even proposing
sculptures made of gas. Through his vivid colors, dreamlike
fantasies, and enigmatic symbols, this book brings together the
numerous strands of Miro's kaleidoscopic oeuvre to introduce his
fascinating career, its interaction with major modernist movements,
and how it made him into a modernist legend. 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
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Durer
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Norbert Wolf
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A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored
everything from religion to art theory to philosophy. His vast body
of work includes altarpieces, portraits, self-portraits,
watercolors, and books, but is most celebrated for its astonishing
collection of woodcut prints, which transformed printmaking from an
artisan practice into a whole new art form. Durer's woodcuts
astonish in scale as much as detail. Through works such as
Apocalypse and the Triumphal Arch for Emperor Maximilian I, he
created dense, meticulous compositions that were much larger, much
more finely cut, and far more complex than any earlier woodcut
efforts. With an ambitious tonal and dynamic range, he introduced a
new level of conceptual, emotional, and spiritual intensity. His
two major woodcut series on Christ's Passion, named The Large
Passion and The Small Passion after their size, are particularly
remarkable for their vivid human treatment of the Christian
narrative. In his copper engraving, Melancholia I, meanwhile, Durer
created a startling vision of emotional ennui, often cited as a
defining early image of a depressive or melancholic state. Ever
inquisitive, Durer absorbed ideas not only from masters and fellow
artists in Germany but also from Italy, while his own influence
extended across Europe for generations to come. In this essential
TASCHEN introduction, we explore this pioneering figure's complex
practice, his omnivorous intellect, and the key works which shaped
his enduring legacy. 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
At sixty-two meters the Leshan Buddha in southwest China is the
world's tallest premodern statue. Carved out of a riverside cliff
in the eighth century, it has evolved from a religious center to a
UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular tourist destination. But
this Buddha does not stand alone: Sichuan is home to many cave
temples with such monumental sculptures, part of a centuries-long
tradition of art-making intricately tied to how local inhabitants
made use of their natural resources with purpose and creativity.
These examples of art embedded in nature have altered landscapes
and have influenced the behaviors, values, and worldviews of users
through multiple cycles of revival, restoration, and recreation. As
hybrid spaces that are at once natural and artificial, they embody
the interaction of art and the environment over a long period of
time. This far-ranging study of cave temples in Sichuan shows that
they are part of the world's sustainable future, as their continued
presence is a reminder of the urgency to preserve culture as part
of today's response to climate change. Temples in the Cliffside
brings art history into close dialogue with current discourse on
environmental issues and contributes to a new understanding of the
ecological impact of artistic monuments.
Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh is an art book introducing the
Scottish-Italian artist, Eduardo Paolozzi, to as wide an audience
as possible: his pan-European vision; his eclecticism; his hybrid
identity; his erudition; his modernity. This book focuses on twelve
pieces of Paolozzi's work - his major pieces in Edinburgh, the city
where he was raised. Paolozzi's work was often informed by his
voracious reading and he used text in his creations. Each piece
will therefore also be linked to a response poem by the former
Edinburgh Makar, Christine De Luca.
Etch Art: Flora and Fauna is a mindful pastime encouraging creative expression – simply drawing on the etch art panels with the stylus uncovers bright foil or patterns beneath, making the wildlife-themed images burst to life! For those who wish to push their etching skills further, they can use this kit to create a forest scene, an owl poster, a bunny birthday card and more!
This kit contains everything the would-be etcher needs to get started, including an etching stylus and eight illustrated etch-art panels, eight blank etch-art panels, a sixteen-page instruction and project book, and three stencil sheets.
In this stimulating book, a leading authority on the Spanish master
Diego Velazquez discusses this enigmatic artist and explores the
mysteries presented by his paintings. The essays collected here,
written over the course of Jonathan Brown's distinguished career,
include some which are published in English for the first time and
one which has never before been published. Two themes unite them.
The first concerns the changing relationship between Velazquez and
his patron Philip IV, which provides a framework for Brown to
interpret the painter's career. The centerpiece of this
relationship is Velaquez's masterpiece, Las Meninas, and this
painting is the subject of two essays. The second theme is the
problem of attributions and the related issue of Velazquez's
innovative technique. Since Velazquez was not a prolific painter,
questions of authenticity become increasingly contentious. Brown
considers this matter in its widest dimensions and participates in
the debate about individual attributions. Distributed for the
Centro de Estudios Europa Hispanica
The Tyrolean State Museums, Innsbruck, Austria, hold a
treasure-trove of over 5 million objects and offer an extensive,
interdisciplinary program of exhibitions and events to introduce
new audiences to the region and to explore the links between past
and present. The core of the collection, the Ferdinandeum, is a
sprawling art and culture complex that has continued to thrive
since it was founded in 1823. Named after Archduke Ferdinand, it is
the third oldest national Museum of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Inside, visitors can explore the Tyrol's past, present and future
through archeological, historical, scientific, cultural, music and
art exhibits that help define the Tyrol's place in the world.
Thirty-seven significant objects were selected for this guide in
order to highlight the wide range and complexity of the
collections. Uncover the secrets of the Tyrolean at this
world-class institution, which showcases the unique stories, events
and characters that have helped shape the Tyrol's history.
Experience spiritual calm with the first adult colouring book to
focus on the Rosary as you colour and reflect on the traditional
Catholic prayer. Renowned artist Daniel Mitsui provides exquisitely
detailed illustrations of the Glorious, Joyful, and Sorrowful
Mysteries, suitable for meditative colouring and for reflecting on
the lives of Jesus and the Blessed Mother. Just as repetition of
the Hail Mary during the Rosary can create a contemplative
awareness of its mysteries, careful attention to colouring these
captivating illustrations can open your heart to a deeper awareness
of the Rosary's truths. This unique colouring book contains thirty
illustrations -- fifteen full-page drawings of the mysteries of the
Rosary, each one beautifully bordered by traditional images of
animals and flowers; twelve vignettes featuring prophets,
evangelists, and Fathers of the Church; and three larger drawings
with the artist's commentary. It also contains descriptive copy
written by the author for the three sets of Mysteries.
Expand your colour confidence with a comprehensive dictionary of
colour combinations! Colour combinations are made simple with this
helpful reference that includes endless amounts of colour palettes
for artists to perfect their colour selection every time.
A killer of paupers, princes and presidents, typhoid was an
invisible threat in Victorian times and remains dangerous in many
areas today. In this exploration of the past, present and future of
typhoid control, Dr Claas Kirchhelle uses the stories of both
literary characters and real-life figures to trace typhoid's
transformation from a mysterious scourge into a controllable
microbial threat. Drawing on the award-winning Typhoidland
exhibitions, the author dispels the myth of typhoid as an
eradicated disease and shows how cutting-edge vaccines and
collective international action offer new hope amidst surging drug
resistance - a subject that has gained new relevance in a
post-COVID world.
From bestselling author Johanna Basford, a stunning new coloring
book that invites artists to explore the great indoors Through her
bestselling coloring books and distinctive illustrations, Johanna
Basford's beautiful forests, ocean depths, and hidden magical
kingdoms have enchanted millions of people around the world. In
this newest work, Basford takes her audience indoors, inviting them
to explore the wonders of the worlds within. Hidden within every
illustration in Rooms of Wonder is a secret key and a locked door.
Find the key, unlock the door and continue to the next room.
Discover a busy craft studio, a wizard's workshop, a mouth-watering
ice cream parlour and an opulent banquet hall. With hidden
treasures, curious spaces and a few enchanted interiors, all you
need to do is unlock the first door and begin your magical journey.
From young love to heartbreak, the fourth book in Christopher
Hart's bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series focuses on
the hugely popular Romance genre. The newest addition to
Christopher Hart's bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series
takes on one of the most popular styles in Japanese cartoons:
Romance. It provides an overview of romance subgenres and teaches
every aspect of drawing anime romance, from common male and female
character types to the dramatic--and funny--situations they find
themselves in. Hart covers the complete arc of romantic anime
stories--bliss, arguing, breaking up, and getting back
together--and explains how to draw the anime head and body, match
poses to the characters' personalities, craft emotional
expressions, design standout features, draw couples that click, and
create a romantic setting. Fans will welcome this deep dive into
the genre, and newcomers will be drawn in by the dynamic artwork
that is a hallmark of Christopher Hart's anime and manga titles.
The Art of Gouache contains 20 projects on how to paint with the
versatile water-soluable medium gouache, on its own as well as in
combination with collage and mark making. Packed with tips and
tricks, this book features fun practical projects on themes such as
still life, landscapes and people. With step-by-step instructions,
this is perfect for beginner or intermediate-level artists looking
for some inspiration and ideas on how to refine their technique.
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