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This atmospheric calendar features 12 wood engravings from the
collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. With artworks from
Paul Nash, Thomas Edmund Chadwick, William Nicholson and others,
these intricate engravings are beautifully reproduced. Informative
text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and
next month's views. Printed on FSC-certified paper.
Drawn to Paper: Degas to Rego is a publication showcasing works on
paper by some of the leading figures of European modernism. The
selection is built around a group of works from a private
collection and have not been seen in public since they were
acquired in the 1970s and early '80s. At the heart of the
collection is a group of works made by leading artists on the
mid-twentieth-century Paris art scene, including the American
Alexander Calder and Spaniards Picasso, Dali and Miro, as well as
the French artists Raoul Dufy and Fernand Leger. The publication is
fully-illustrated with a prefatory essay and catalogue entries.
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.
The volume is dedicated to Shepard Fairey (Charleston, 1970), one
of the best known urban art artists in the world. Established under
the pseudonym of OBEY thanks to a successful campaign of stickers
spread in a viral way, depicting the face of wrestling champion
Andre The Giant, the American artist has achieved international
visibility thanks to the portrait of Obama, immortalised in the
iconic 2008 'Hope' poster for his presidential campaign. In these
pages the artist presents 30 recent unpublished graphic works
(2019), which retrace 30 years of activity through his most famous
icons: many social and political themes that inspired his
production, from the struggle for peace and against racial
violence, the defense of human and gender dignity up to environment
protection. The graphics constitute a unique and unrepeatable
concept, designed specifically for the Gallery of Modern Art in
Rome, where they are put in dialogue with important works from the
contemporary art collection of the Capitoline Superintendence,
selected by the artist himself. The volume, with an intervention by
Shepard Fairey and numerous critical texts, is completed by a
biography and bibliographical apparatus. Text in English and
Italian.
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.
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.
Plants and gardens play a central role in life on Earth. They have
provided food, clothing, shelter, medicines, employment, leisure
and enjoyment throughout history. Both also have many symbolic uses
in art, mythology and literature, making plants and gardens the
perfect theme for the Designer Bookbinders fourth International
Competition held at the Bodleian Library in 2022. The chosen theme
also celebrates 400 years since the founding of Oxford Botanic
Garden. This beautiful catalogue features richly illustrated texts
and finely printed volumes which are bound with skill and
creativity using varied materials by binders from all over the
world. The fourth in a series following on from 'Bound for Success'
in 2009, 'Prize Volumes' in 2013 and 'Heroic Works' in 2017, 'A
Gathering of Leaves' is a celebration of the stunningly inventive
winning bindings featured alongside all the competition entries.
Artists' Corner in St Paul's Cathedral is the final resting place
for some of the greatest artists working in the United Kingdom,
including Turner, Leighton and Millais. British painters of the
19th century are shoulder to shoulder with artists from America and
Continental Europe who made Britain their home and helped to shape
national taste. Artists' Corner reflects a golden age of artistic
production, when the visual arts were central to British cultural
pride and identity, when the funerals of the cultural figures were
occasions of national mourning, and their achievements were marked
with monuments and enduring plaques. All of the painters and
sculptors memorialised in Artists' Corner are brought together in
this guide, with references to some of their master works which
chart a trajectory from history painting to the arrival of
impressionism and abstraction in the 20th century.
This scholarly publication presents the work of the designer,
painter and illustrator Claude Gillot (1673-1722). The first volume
on the artist in English, it accompanies a major exhibition at the
Morgan Library& Museum that explores Gillot's inventive and
highly original draftsmanship and places his work in the context of
artistic and intellectual activity in Paris ca. 1700. The history
of eighteenth-century French art under the ancien regime is
dominated by great names. But the artistic scene in Paris at the
dawn of the century was diverse and included artists who forged
careers largely outside of the Royal Academy. Among them was Claude
Gillot. Known primarily as a draftsman, Gillot specialized in witty
scenes taken from the Italian commedia dell'arte plays performed at
fairground theaters and vignettes of satyrs enacting rituals that
expose human folly. The book will address Gillot's work as a
designer, painter, and book illustrator, and advance a chronology
for his career. Crafting a timeline for Gillot's life and work will
clarify his relationship with his younger collaborators Antoine
Watteau and Nicolas Lancret. Through an artistic biography and six
chapters, each devoted to an aspect of his oeuvre, Gillot's role in
developing quintessential rococo subjects is established. We follow
Gillot from his start as the son of a decorative painter in the
bishopric of Langres to his arrival in Paris in the 1690s, as the
city and its secular entertainments flourished apart from the royal
court at Versailles. Myriad opportunities awaited artists outside
official channels, and Gillot built his career working in the
theater and as a painter and designer long before seeking official
academic status. His involvement with writers, playwrights, and
printmakers helped define his sphere. Gillot's preference for
theatrical subjects brought him critical attention, and also
attracted talented assistants such as Watteau and Lancret. Gillot
came to prominence around 1712 working at the Paris Opera and as a
printmaker and illustrator of books, lending his droll humor to
satires. By 1720, Gillot was enlisted to design costumes for the
last royal ballet, one of the final projects of his career. He died
nine months after his most celebrated pupil, Watteau. The sale of
his estate, which including his designs and many etched copper
plates, provided material for printmakers and publishers and
ensured Gillot's lasting fame among print connoisseurs. His oeuvre
as a draftsman and painter, however, was largely forgotten until
drawings and canvases began to emerge in the first half of the
twentieth century.
Accompanying an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, Inspiring
Walt Disney explores the influences of the art and architecture of
France on Walt Disney and his studio artists, highlighting in
particular the Disney classics of hand-drawn animation, Cinderella
(1950) and Beauty and the Beast (1991). Pairing preparatory
material from these films - including concept art for talking
furniture and fairy-tale castles - with masterpieces from the
eighteenth century reveals hidden sources of inspiration and allows
us to appreciate the extraordinary talents behind Disney animated
films and French decorative arts. Just as the dynamic, twisting
movements of the Rococo sought to breathe life into what was
essentially inanimate - silver, porcelain, furniture - so too did
Disney animators seek to create the illusion of movement, action
and emotion. Illustrated with innovative works by artists such as
Mary Blair, Hans Bacher and Peter J. Hall, and the animated and
anthropomorphic furniture, Sevres porcelain and gilt bronze of
rococo designers, the catalogue explores the shared creative roots
of these two seemingly disparate artistic realms and looks to
revitalise the feelings of excitement, awe and marvel, which both
eighteenth-century craftsmen and Disney animators sought to spark
in their audiences.
This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition at the Morgan
Library & Museum of the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(1720–1778). It is the most important study of Piranesi’s
drawings to appear in more than a generation. In a letter written
near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi explained to
his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he
could find no patrons there willing to support “the sublimity of
my ideas.” He resided instead in Rome, where he became
internationally famous working as a printmaker, designer,
architect, archaeologist, theorist, dealer, and polemicist. While
Piranesi’s lasting fame is based above all on his etchings, he
was also an intense, accomplished, and versatile draftsman, and
much of his work was first developed in vigorous drawings. The
Morgan Library& Museum holds what is arguably the largest and
most important collection of these works, more than 100 drawings
that include early architectural caprices, studies for prints,
measured design drawings, sketches for a range of decorative
objects, a variety of figural drawings, and views of Rome and
Pompeii. These works form the core of the book, which will be
published on the occasion of the Morgan’s Spring 2023 exhibition
of Piranesi drawings. More than merely an exhibition catalogue or a
study of the Morgan’s Piranesi holdings, however, this
publication is a monograph that offers a complete survey of
Piranesi’s work as a draftsman. It includes discussion of
Piranesi’s drawings in public and private collections worldwide,
with particular attention paid to the large surviving groups of
drawings in New York, Berlin, Hamburg, and London; it also puts the
large newly discovered cache of Piranesi material in Karlsruhe in
context. The most comprehensive study of Piranesi’s drawings to
appear in more than a generation, the book includes more than 200
illustrations, and while focused on the drawings it offers insights
on Piranesi’s print publications, his church of Santa Maria del
Priorato, and his work as a designer and dealer. In sum, the
present work offers a new account of Piranesi’s life and work,
based on the evidence of his drawings.
In Edo Japan, woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the
Floating World") captured the entertainment culture of the urban
elite and eventually many other subjects as well. These beautiful
prints were the result of a meticulous craft process, in which an
artist's initial drawing was translated by expert carvers into
multiple printing blocks for different colours. In this attractive
volume, Sarah E. Thompson, curator of Japanese art at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, provides a highly readable overview of the
cultural and artistic history of ukiyo-e, showcasing 120
exceptional prints from the museum's world-class collection, by
masters including Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. She explores
each of the principal genres in turn: beauty and fashion, the
kabuki theatre, landscape, nature, history and literature, and
fantasy. Pictures of the Floating World features a traditional
Japanese stab binding and is housed in a durable slipcase together
with three remarkable prints, suitable for framing. It will be a
must-have for all art lovers.
This exhibition catalogue for a show at the Neue Sammlung (Design
Museum) in Munich documents the first solo show by Swiss jewellery
artist Therese Hilbert, former student of Max Froehlich in Zurich
and Hermann Ju nger in Munich. It features 250 works, going back 50
years and beginning with her earliest, unknown pieces through to
her newest work created in 2020. One of her life-long passions is
volcanoes: she has climbed many of them and has used them as a
theme in her jewellery design for many years. The sense of heat
below the surface of her minimalist designs underlines her passion
for the subject. Her work is in the collections of the Design
Museum (Munich), the National Gallery of Victoria, the Dallas
Museum of Art, and Museum of Arts and Design (New York). Features
texts by Heike Endter, Otto Kunzli, Ellen Maurer-Zilioli, Pravu
Mazumdar, Angelika Nollert, Warwick Freeman and Petra Hoelscher.
Text in English and German.
Lund Humphries, today, is known for publishing books on
contemporary art and artists; few know that its roots are in a
jobbing printers in Bradford. But Bradford, at the turn of the
century, was no provincial backwater, but a city at the centre of
the world's wool industry and Percy Lund Humphries was not merely a
jobbing printer serving the local industry, but a progressive firm
with ambitions well beyond the boundaries of Yorkshire. In its time
it was to publish The Penrose Annual, an essential read for those
interested in printing and the graphic arts and Typographica, the
most avant garde journal on typography; it mounted extraordinary
exhibitions in its grand London office in Bedford Square it carried
type for languages across the world, crucial for the governments
need for language textbooks for those serving overseas in WWII; and
much more. A Pioneering Printer, Lund Humphries of Bradford tells
its remarkable story.
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