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New expanded 248pp 2019 Edition. The single best collection of
photography of Banksy's street work that has ever been assembled
for print. If that isn't enough there are some words too. You Are
An Acceptable Level of Threat covers his entire street art career,
spanning the late '90s right up to the 'Seasons Greetings'
Christmas 2018 piece in Port Talbot, Wales. This new edition
includes his self-destructing 'Love is in the Bin' intervention,
which according to Sotheby's is "the first artwork in history to
have been created live during an auction." The groundbreaking
'Dismaland' show, his Paris '68 revisited works, The Walled Off
Hotel, Brexit, Cans Festival, Brookyln and Basquiat, as well as new
works from Gaza and New York. Also featuring the controversial
'Cheltenham Spies' as well as 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', 'Art
Buff' and the spectacular 'Mobile Lovers' which appeared outside
Bristol Boys Boxing Club. 248 pages featuring his greatest works of
art in context.
The Japanese artist Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) was celebrated for
his exciting impromptu performances at calligraphy and painting
parties. Dynamic, playful and provocative, Kyosai delighted his
audience with spontaneous and speedy paintings of demons,
skeletons, deities and Buddhist saints. These were often satirical,
reflecting a time of political and cultural change in Japan. Among
his most charming and inventive works are his brilliant depictions
of animals, which humorously play the roles of protagonists of
modern life. Kyosai's important place in Japanese art is here
explored in depth by Sadamura Koto, a leading authority on the
artist, in this catalogue of the exceptionally rich holdings of the
Israel Goldman Collection.
This handy, practical and inspirational little book is perfect for
the pocket or art bag. It shows watercolour painters of all levels
how to loosen up their paintings and maintain spontaneity by
painting simple watercolour studies in no more than 10 minutes.
Written by popular artist Hazel Soan, the book is arranged in three
parts: the first section explains all about the equipment you will
need; the second section covers techniques and shows what can be
achieved with watercolour in a short time span; the third section
looks at various subjects that are ideal for painting quickly. All
the essential techniques are covered, focusing particularly on
maximizing brushstrokes and exploring colours, and there is useful
advice on deciding what to include and what to leave out. With
helpful chapters on painting a wide range of subjects - people,
landscapes, seascapes, buildings, gardens, flowers and still life -
this little guide is ideal for quick reference when working in the
studio or out in the field.
It is rare that a story comes along that sweeps you into its heart.
Painstakingly handwritten over a three year period, it is the life
story of William Zulu, a linocut artist, highly acclaimed for his
evocative art-works. Having contracted spinal TB as a baby, William
underwent misplaced corrective surgery to his spine in his late
teens which left him paralysed and permanently wheelchair bound.
William's story is no victim's litany. It recounts with zest and
humour the events of his life, his unfolding artistic development
and the world of deep rural Africa in which he is rooted. His
artist's eye paints in the details of his world with vivid
observation. This book is full of disarming lapses, diverting
anecdotes - such as how he acquired a car in order to travel to
Jo'burg in the hope of finding there a woman who might be more
willing to love someone disabled. Weaving through the personal
narrative is a strong political consciousnesss that sketches the
fortunes of a country in violent transition, wracked by the ethnic
rivalries that overshadowed every aspect of black life in the
1980s. William Zulu's writing is informed and articulate. He has an
instinctive grasp of storytelling with pace. He conveys the
unrelenting hardship of rural life and offers a fascinating window
to the world of traditional Africa - with all its superstition,
patriarchal rigidity and prejudices on the one hand, and its
humour, shrewd observance and innovative survival strategies on the
other. Reading his work, one is left with a strong sense of the
battles for survival that pit ingenuity against lack of resources -
and of the redemptive power of 'ubuntu' demonstrated in the
kindness of strangers of all races, who extend helping hand and
heart in the midst of penury. Spring Will Come is a story that
lives up to its title.
Colour Quest (R): Animals takes colouring books to a whole new
level, with 30 wild and wonderful animals waiting to be revealed.
Use colouring pens, pencils or paints to colour the numbered shapes
and uncover stunning and intricate artwork hidden on the page. The
easy-to-use number system is perfect for beginners. Shade in a
magnificent mandrill, a colourful kingfisher or a beautiful
butterfly, and let Colour Quest: Animals take you on a magical
journey as you bring hidden gems to life by shading in shapes. This
colouring challenge is perfect for adults who wish to rediscover
their playful side, or for children who enjoy an artistic
challenge! Colour Quest is a trade mark of Michael O'Mara Books
Limited.
As a land artist Strijdom van der Merwe uses the materials provided
by the chosen site. His sculptural forms take shape in relation to
the landscape. It is a process of working with the natural world
using sand, water, wood and rocks, he shapes these elements into
geometrical forms that participate with their environment,
continually changing until their final probable destruction. He
observes the fragility of beauty while not lamenting its passing.
What remains is a photographic image, a fragment of the
imagination. While a visual record is materially all that is left,
he also leaves us a reminder of the capacity, however feeble, of an
individual to alter the universe by embracing the ceaseless
changing of nature, actively contributing to it and in so doing,
modulating and beautifying the outcome.
First published in 1996. The art of the extraordinary French
artist, Henri Matisse (1869- 1954), has provided visual pleasures
and intellectual challenges to its viewers for the last hundred
years. This is collection of gathered, summarized, and evaluated
major literature on the artist primarily from France, the United
States, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries, where major
Matisse collections bear witness to early and intense interest in
the artist's work.
Women artists have made a huge contribution to contemporary mainstream art, and their rise to international prominence has accompanied the development of feminism, feminist theory and history of art. Jo Anna Isaak's important new study of the work of women artists discusses the work of individual women artists in the context of contemporary art practices and in relation to key feminist issues in art history. Isaak looks at the work of a diverse range of artists including women from the United States, the former Soviet Union and the United Kingdom - discussing, among others, the work of Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and the Guerilla Girls. Isaak discusses work by 20th century Soviet women artists, providing a fascinating case study of the production of art in non-Western economic, political and ideological circumstances.
Draw the cutest unicorn pictures for a whole year and never be
bored again! This fun book for the young, and young at heart,
covers the widest range of unicorn designs ever - 365 of them no
less! In the magical universe all animals can have wings, unicorn
horns and rainbow colours. And where unicorns live there are kawaii
objects, pretty landscapes and sweet treats to make life joyful. To
communicate, unicorns write with cute letters, decorate their
messages with pretty motifs and even have their own emoticons!
Learn the secrets of kawaii drawing, from sketching the outlines to
adding personality and choosing colours. Then follow 365
step-by-step sequences showing you exactly how to build up a huge
range of unicorn-themed designs, starting with simple shapes and
progressing to add details and colours. Each sequence is entirely
visual, with no complicated instructions to read, so it really is
easy to create your own unicorn-themed drawings straight away. All
you need is paper and some pens! Inside you'll find every type of
unicorn you could possibly imagine... and many more! They all have
their own unique characters - will you choose to draw the
flamboyant, thoughtful, romantic or angry unicorn first? Some are
even carrying out fun activities, such as horse-riding, meditating,
skipping, roller-skating, ice-dancing, boxing, reading,
cheerleading, guitar-playing and diving. The unicorn's magical
world is full of kawaii objects, buildings, vehicles, clothing,
food and scenery too. You can recreate sweet houses, fairytale
castles, trees, flowers, fruits, musical instruments, magic
potions, and even some everyday items like a toothbrush, candle,
headphones and backpack. There's also a range of other wonderful
animals to draw, including a uni-bear, uni-rabbit, uni-cat,
uni-pig, uni-fox, uni-puppy, uni-llama, uni-monkey, uni-bat,
uni-otter, uni-penguin, uni-whale, uni-dinosaur, squirrel, raccoon,
hedgehog, reindeer, sheep, toucan, lion, rainbow fish, duck and
zebra. Discover your animal mascot according to Chinese astrology
and draw a fun version of its character. Finally, learn how to
communicate with the unicorns by creating a range of letters,
numbers, symbols and emoticons, all with a cute kawaii twist. This
adorable value-packed book will entertain endlessly and open the
door to a rainbow-filled unicorn world every day of the year.
Ateliers have produced the greatest artists of all time - and now
that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These
studios, a return to classical art training, are based on the
nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with a
master artist over a period of years. Students begin by copying
masterworks, then gradually progress to painting as their skills
develop. On every page, Aristides uses the works of works of Old
Masters and today's most respected realist artists to demonstrate
and teach the principles of realist drawing and painting, taking
students step by step through the learning curve yet allowing them
to work at their own pace. Unique and inspiring, Classical Drawing
Atelier is a serious art course for serious art students.
Throughout history, fans have had numerous roles: personal items to
cool the user, tools for religious and ceremonial events, symbols
of royal power and authority or important fashion accessories. As
practical, symbolic and decorative objects, they are the meeting
point of multiple arts. This book focuses on European fans made in
the French Rococo style in the 18th century and the Rococo Revival
style that emerged in the 19th century. Sixty-six superb examples,
selected from the Eurus Collection in South Korea, offer a glimpse
into the lives of European royalty and aristocracy, including their
aesthetic preferences, ideals and views on nature, and demonstrate
the intermingling of cultures in the newly emerging painting and
craft styles which resulted from trade between Europe and the East.
This beautifully illustrated book explores the fans' thematic and
stylistic aspects as well as their assembly and production and
invites the reader to discover their untold stories.
Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some
the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small
corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock
revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer,
The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art: despite the
common claim that little is known of his biography, there is
actually an abundance of fascinating information about Vermeer's
life that Binstock brings to bear on Vermeer's art for the first
time; he also offers new interpretations of several key documents
pertaining to Vermeer that have been misunderstood. Lavishly
illustrated with more than 180 black and white images and more than
sixty color plates, the book also includes a remarkable color
two-page spread that presents the entirety of Vermeer's oeuvre
arranged in chronological order in 1/20 scale, demonstrating his
gradual formal and conceptual development. No book on Vermeer has
ever done this kind of visual comparison of his complete output.
Like Poe's purloined letter, Vermeer's secrets are sometimes out in
the open where everyone can see them. Benjamin Binstock shows us
where to look. Piecing together evidence, the tools of art history,
and his own intuitive skills, he gives us for the first time a
history of Vermeer's work in light of Vermeer's life. On almost
every page of Vermeer's Family Secrets, there is a perception or an
adjustment that rethinks what we know about Vermeer, his oeuvre,
Dutch painting, and Western Art. Perhaps the most arresting
revelation of Vermeer's Family Secrets is the final one: in
response to inconsistencies in technique, materials, and artistic
level, Binstock posits that several of the paintings accepted as
canonical works by Vermeer, are in fact not by Vermeer at all but
by his eldest daughter, Maria. How he argues this is one of the
book's many pleasures.
Used for self-exploration or divination, Tarot has, for more than a
500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric
tools, looming large in today's mainstream culture. Why? Because
the cards are inexpensive and easy to carry-a perfect traveling
companion and, therefore, an invitation to a journey inward and
out. Humans are drawn to playing games and feel driven to find
meaning in the chaos of paradoxical signs. The vivid iconography of
the "arcanas" speak to us like no other language, moving us to the
core, weaving through each cards a universal story, a metaphorical
pathway of transformation. This 400 page book presents for the
first time a close look at 500 years of figurative card decks
created or used for fortune telling, divinations, and oracle
purposes and will explore, one card at the time, their iconographic
roots at the cross-roads of the medieval imaginarium, Western
esoteric wisdom, folklore, and also contemporary art and pop
culture. With hundreds of images drawn from more than 100 decks,
rarely published and often forgotten in library archives, it will
offer the first visual history of tarot.
In Animation Sketchbooks, fifty of the leading contemporary talents
working in independent animation offer a glimpse into their private
sketchbooks. During the conceptual stages of their projects, these
groundbreaking and award-winning artists employ a variety of
mediums to exercise their creativity, including pencil, paint,
collage, puppetry, and photography. Each artist shares a selection
of their craft along with personal insights into their influences
and the artistic processes behind their unique sketches, character
studies, storyboards, and doodles. The range of visions and
techniques on display provide endless inspiration and allow a rare
insight into the scope of the animator's art.
Jo Spence was one of Britain's pioneering photographers. Born into
a working-class London family, she worked for many years as a
studio photographer. Her political concerns led to documentary
photography. Soon after completing her degree in the theory and
practice of photography, she discovered she had breast cancer.
Through her struggle to come to terms with the illness, to find
non-invasive treatments and to share her experience with others,
she developed unique ways of using photography.
"Cultural Sniping" brings together a wide range of Jo Spence's
photographs and writings for the first time. Through images and
texts she explores complex issues of gender, class, health and the
body, and their impact on her understanding of personal history and
the construction of identity.
"Cultural Sniping" includes images from Spence's early work in
documentary photography and from her pioneering photo-therapy
projects, undertaken in collaboration with other photographers. In
her later work Spence faces up to the experience of illness and
dying, and "Cultural Sniping" reproduces work from her "Return to
Nature" and "Death Mask" series, in which she tries to come to
terms with the reality of death. Jo Spence's commitment to engaging
with personal experience, political understanding and critical
theory make her writing and photography a vital contribution to our
understanding of the politics of representation.
Counting from one to ten has never been so fun with this
hide-and-seek, animal-packed picture book, written by the sisterly
duo, Leanne and Sara Miller. Come with us on an enchanting journey,
counting all the way to ten and spotting animals along the way!
From dazzling deep blue waters to tropical jungles and snowy
mountain peaks, count the exotic creatures and spot who else is
hiding in their magical world. Join the fun - it's a PARTY PARADE!
Written by Leanne Miller and illustrated by her sister, Sara
Miller, founder of award-winning luxury lifestyle brand Sara Miller
London. Every spread in this beautiful book showcases a new animal
habitat, from oceans and treetops to snowy mountains and tropical
jungles. Bright and bold colours throughout -- a staple in all Sara
Miller's luxury brand products. Sara's the founder of Sara Miller
London, where she designs products from duvets and mugs to pencil
cases and birthday cards. These have won many awards and are sold
all over the world. Two very creative sisters have joined together
to create a beautiful book offering for children (and adults!) Lots
of animals to spot on each page, plus an extra page at the end
prompting little readers to find even more animals!
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019
SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY
TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
AND SPECTATOR 'A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone
from Princess Margaret to the Krays, a snapshot of grimy London and
a narrative of Freud's career and rackety life and loves ... Leaves
the reader itching for more' SUNDAY TIMES, ART BOOK OF THE YEAR
Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for
decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver -
about painting and the art world, but also about his life and
loves. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography. In
Youth, Feaver conjures Freud's early childhood: Sigmund Freud's
grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin,
escaping Nazi Germany in 1934. Following Freud through art school,
his time in the Navy during the war, his post-war adventures in
Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho - consorting with
duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo
and Princess Margaret - Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young
man's coming of age. 'Brilliant ... Freud would have approved'
DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Superlative ... packed with stories' GUARDIAN
'Anyone interested in British art needs it' ANDREW MARR, NEW
STATESMAN
"With each day spent outdoors I am reminded of what a beautiful
world we all call home, and the challenges that face ecosystems
across the world." - Alfie Bowen "The photographs are outstanding,
and the story behind them inspirational. Given the odds stacked
against Alfie throughout his life, this book is a significant
success and bodes very well for a continued and very inspiring
career as a world-class photographer." - Chris Packham Alfie Bowen
is an exceptionally talented young autistic photographer and
wildlife activist. His latest project offers a glimpse into the
private lives of numerous wild animals from across the globe and
reveals the highs and lows of living as an autistic environmental
campaigner. Bowen's photographs are truly breath-taking. Hours are
invested into every piece to ensure the results are exactly as
Bowen envisioned, and Bowen conducts in-depth research on every
animal he captures, believing it is of the utmost importance to
understand his subjects. In this book, Bowen discusses overcoming
the limitations of technology and how autism has given him the
obsession needed to persevere in often cold, lonely and difficult
circumstances. From Bowen's relation of his struggle to capture the
perfect picture of a cheetah, to his majestic portraits of some of
the most beloved animals on the planet, this book captures the
powerful sensory experience Bowen enjoys whenever he immerses
himself in nature. Featured animals include: lions, cheetahs,
leopards, tigers, snow leopards, Geoffrey's cats, red pandas,
chimpanzees, monkeys and colobuses, lemurs, elephants, rhinos,
giraffes, zebras, deer, flamingos, eagles and other birds, and koi.
Create nine lustrous and captivating little works of art with this
unique introduction to oil painting. Acclaimed artist Estelle Day
demonstrates all you need to know to embark on your oil painting
journey from what paints and supplies you'll need to essential oil
painting techniques. Beginners will build confidence by working on
small-scale, still life painting projects designed for canvases
measuring no more than 10cm (4in). Also included are outlines for
you to trace so you can get started right away! Easy Oil Painting
is the perfect beginner's guide to working with oils and mastering
this luminous and exciting medium.
Awestruck by the sight of a Grinling Gibbons carving in a London
church, David Esterly chose to dedicate his life to the art - its
physical control, intricate beauty and intellectual demands. Until
his death in 2019 he was the foremost practitioner of Gibbons's
forgotten technique, which revolutionised ornamental sculpture in
the late 1600s. After a fire at Hampton Court Palace in 1986
destroyed much of Gibbons's masterpiece, the job fell to David
Esterly to restore his idol's work to its former glory. It turned
out to be the most challenging year in Esterly's life, forcing him
to question his abilities and delve deeply into what it means to
make something well. Exploring the determination, concentration and
skill that go into achieving any form of excellence, Esterly
breathed life into the world of wood carving. This special
collector's edition of The Lost Carving reveals an astonishing life
and deftly illustrates the union of man and material necessary to
create a lasting work of art.
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