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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Exhibition catalogues and specific collections

New Art Scales - Rethinking Local in a Global Art World (Hardcover): Ingrid Luquet-Gad New Art Scales - Rethinking Local in a Global Art World (Hardcover)
Ingrid Luquet-Gad; Afterword by Suela Cennet
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ashmolean Museum: Wood Engravers Wall Calendar 2023 (Art Calendar) (Calendar, New edition): Flame Tree Studio Ashmolean Museum: Wood Engravers Wall Calendar 2023 (Art Calendar) (Calendar, New edition)
Flame Tree Studio
R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 (Paperback): Piano Nobile Drawn to Paper - Degas to Rego (Paperback)
Piano Nobile
R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Kyosai: The Israel Goldman Collection (Hardcover): Sadamura Koto Kyosai: The Israel Goldman Collection (Hardcover)
Sadamura Koto
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Yokai Museum - The Art of Japanese Supernatural Beings from Yumoto Koichi Collection (Paperback): Pie Books Yokai Museum - The Art of Japanese Supernatural Beings from Yumoto Koichi Collection (Paperback)
Pie Books
R752 R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Save R65 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Shepard Fairey - 3 Decades of Dissent (English, Italian, Hardcover): Shepard Fairey, Maria Vittoria, Marini Clarelli, Claudio... Shepard Fairey - 3 Decades of Dissent (English, Italian, Hardcover)
Shepard Fairey, Maria Vittoria, Marini Clarelli, Claudio Crescentini, Federica Pirani, …
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

After Darkness Light - The Birth of the Liverpool Autumn Exhibitions 1871-1876 (Paperback): Alex Kidson After Darkness Light - The Birth of the Liverpool Autumn Exhibitions 1871-1876 (Paperback)
Alex Kidson
R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
European Fans - The Untold Story (Hardcover): Hahn Eura Eunkyung European Fans - The Untold Story (Hardcover)
Hahn Eura Eunkyung
R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Animation Sketchbooks (Hardcover): Laura Heit Animation Sketchbooks (Hardcover)
Laura Heit
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Gathering of Leaves, A - Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022 (Hardcover): Stuart And Louise... Gathering of Leaves, A - Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022 (Hardcover)
Stuart And Louise Brockman
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 of St Paul's Cathedral (Paperback): Simon Carter Artists' Corner of St Paul's Cathedral (Paperback)
Simon Carter
R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Claude Gillot - Satire in the Age of Reason (Hardcover): Jennifer Tonkovich Claude Gillot - Satire in the Age of Reason (Hardcover)
Jennifer Tonkovich
R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Pabellon Cuba: 4D - 4 Dimensions, 4 Decades (Paperback): Pabellon Cuba: 4D - 4 Dimensions, 4 Decades (Paperback)
R925 Discovery Miles 9 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Inspiring Walt Disney - The Animation of French Decorative Arts at the Wallace Collection (Paperback): Helen Jacobsen Inspiring Walt Disney - The Animation of French Decorative Arts at the Wallace Collection (Paperback)
Helen Jacobsen
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Karin Kneffel: Haymatlos (Hardcover): Karin Kneffel Karin Kneffel: Haymatlos (Hardcover)
Karin Kneffel
R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Sara Haq, the Overland Project (Paperback): Sara Haq Sara Haq, the Overland Project (Paperback)
Sara Haq; Mark O'Neill, Coline Milliard, Awet Johans, Marcus Verhagen, …
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Causes of Things - L'origine Des Choses - De Oorzaak Der Dingen (Paperback): Sebastien Faucon, Carine Fol The Causes of Things - L'origine Des Choses - De Oorzaak Der Dingen (Paperback)
Sebastien Faucon, Carine Fol
R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Sublime Ideas - Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Hardcover): John Marciari Sublime Ideas - Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Hardcover)
John Marciari
R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Pictures of the Floating World - An Introduction to Japanese Prints (Paperback): Sarah E. Thompson Pictures of the Floating World - An Introduction to Japanese Prints (Paperback)
Sarah E. Thompson
R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Subjective Maps / Disappearances (Hardcover): Little Constellation Subjective Maps / Disappearances (Hardcover)
Little Constellation
R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
ROT Therese Hilbert RED - Schmuck 1966-2020 Jewelry (English, German, Hardcover): Die Neue Sammlung The Design Museum ROT Therese Hilbert RED - Schmuck 1966-2020 Jewelry (English, German, Hardcover)
Die Neue Sammlung The Design Museum
R955 Discovery Miles 9 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

In the Round: Angelica Mesiti (Paperback): Emily Doolittle, Tessa Giblin, Jennifer Higgie, Angelica Mesiti, Mihaela Mihai In the Round: Angelica Mesiti (Paperback)
Emily Doolittle, Tessa Giblin, Jennifer Higgie, Angelica Mesiti, Mihaela Mihai
R705 R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Save R60 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Kurt Ryslavy: Flemish Art Assets (Paperback): Johan Pas, Peter Wachtler Kurt Ryslavy: Flemish Art Assets (Paperback)
Johan Pas, Peter Wachtler
R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Making of the Chinese New Working Class - Thirty Years of Migration (Paperback): Tobi Maier, Marty Kirchner, Amran Frey The Making of the Chinese New Working Class - Thirty Years of Migration (Paperback)
Tobi Maier, Marty Kirchner, Amran Frey; Edited by Tobi Maier
R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Pioneering Printer - Lund Humphries of Bradford (Paperback): Ruth Artmonsky A Pioneering Printer - Lund Humphries of Bradford (Paperback)
Ruth Artmonsky
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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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