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Glasgow Museums has the finest collection of Italian paintings of
any civic museums service in the UK. It includes some 150 paintings
ranging from the late 14th century to the late 19th century. This
catalogue begins with an historical introduction to the collection
and its donors, and includes 192 colour reproductions.
Iconoclasm and the Museum addresses the museum's historic tendency
to be silent about destruction through an exploration of
institutional attitudes to iconoclasm, or image breaking, and the
concept's place in public display. Presenting a selection of
focused case studies, Boldrick examines long-standing desires to
deface, dismantle, obscure or destroy works of art and historic
artefacts, as well as motivations to protect and display broken
objects. Considering the effects of iconoclastic practices on
artworks and cultural artefacts and how those practices are
addressed in institutions, the book examines changing attitudes to
the intentional destruction of powerful artworks in the past and
present. It ends with an analysis of creative destruction in
contemporary art making and proposes that we are entering a new
phase for museums, in which they acknowledge the critical roles
destruction and loss play in the lives of objects and in
contemporary political life. Iconoclasm and the Museum will be
important reading for academics and students in fields such as
museum and gallery studies, archaeology, art history, arts
management, curatorial studies, cultural studies, history, heritage
and religious studies. The book should also be of great interest to
museum professionals, curators and collections management
specialists, and artists.
The Bodleian Library possesses a significant collection of Latin
medieval manuscripts from Germany, most of them acquired and
donated by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s. They are precious
survivals from the period of the Thirty Years' War. Their
significance arises not just from the number of individual
manuscripts but from the fact that they represent substantial
portions of the libraries of ecclesiastical houses in Wurzburg,
Mainz and Eberbach. This book presents a detailed description of
the fifty-six manuscripts from Wurzburg in the Bodleian, most of
them from the cathedral chapter (the Domstift St. Kilian). The
majority date from the ninth century, and are extremely important
from a textual and palaeographical point of view: they constitute
the most important single library of Carolingian manuscripts in the
British Isles. Wurzburg was one of the leading Anglo-Saxon
foundations on the continent of Europe, planting cultural roots
which are manifested in almost every aspect of the manuscripts
themselves. The catalogue provides authoritative and superbly
detailed descriptions of these manuscripts in all their aspects,
especially their texts - there are many important early copies of
the texts of the Church Fathers - and their scripts, some of whose
forms are unique to Wurzburg. Detailed attention is also paid to
the physical characteristics of the manuscripts, their decoration,
binding, and provenance. Each of the manuscripts is illustrated.
Who were the young woman and child buried with magnificent gold and
luxurious finery in an Egyptian mummy dated around 1550 BC?
Evidence suggests the woman may have been a queen. If so, the
National Museums Scotland houses the only Egyptian royal burial
seen anywhere outside Cairo. Sixty-five stunning funerary items,
coffins, mummy-cases, masks, portraits, jewelry and other
adornments of the well-equipped mummy are illustrated and annotated
in this new hardcover that is as reader-friendly as it is
comprehensive. We are reminded of the humanity here these coffins
began with a life and text provides a glimpse into their stories.
Included are the coffin of the priest Iufenamun and the double
mummies of half-brothers, Petamun and Penhorpabik. Annotations
include item owner, dating, dimensions, materials, description,
provenance and mode of acquisition. Organized sequentially, the
expert authors explain styles and techniques and the changes in
each epoch taking their story from the age of the pyramids around
2,000 B.C.to the time of Roman Rule ending in the third century
A.D., after which Egypt would transform into a Christian society.
Concordances, chronology of Egypt, and a glossary are included.
*For the Egyptologist - laypeople and professionals alike, for
collectors, curators, historians, archeologists *Unveils
information on a superb collection
Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with
leading contemporary artists, Parkett has been the foremost
international journal on art for nearly two decades.
Plus, the issue features a special Parkett Inquiry: "Learning
from Documenta?" Parkett #65 will feature three of today's most
exciting mid-career painters: John Currin, Laura Owens, and Michael
Raedecker.
No art form is more associated with the Native Americans of the
Southwest than pottery. For centuries, Pueblo people have made
beautiful pottery, often painted with intricate designs, for
everyday activities such as cooking, food storage and gathering
water, and for ceremonial use. Vessels of these types have been
found at ancient sites including Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. The
tradition of pottery-making continues to thrive among Pueblo
communities in the Southwest, and while pottery is still made for
practical purposes, it is also commonly produced for the art
market. Since the time of the Ancestral Puebloans, pottery has been
made predominantly by women. The pots are created from natural clay
using a coil method; they are hand-painted and then fired outdoors.
Designs vary from one Pueblo to another, but many symbols and
motifs are shared by the Pueblos. An impressive survey of more than
100 pieces of historic Pueblo pottery, Grounded in Clay is
remarkable for the fact that its content has been selected by
Pueblo community members. Rather than relying on Anglo-American art
historical interpretations, this book foregrounds Native American
voices and perspectives. More than 60 participants from 21 Pueblo
communities in the Southwest - among them potters and other
artists, as well as writers, curators and community leaders - chose
one or two pieces from the collections of the Indian Arts Research
Center at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
and the Vilcek Collection in New York. They were then given the
freedom to express their thoughts in whichever written form they
wished, prose or poem. Their lively, varied contributions reveal
the pottery to be not only a utilitarian art form but also a
powerfully intangible element that sits at the heart of Pueblo
cultures. With magnificent photography throughout, Grounded in Clay
showcases the extraordinary history and beauty of Pueblo pottery
while bringing to life the complex narratives and stories of this
most essential of Native American arts.
A fascinating view of the career of Bridget Riley, one of the most
significant living artists, through her personal archive of her own
works on paper Devoted exclusively to the artist's works on paper,
Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio explores the
importance of these works not only as a means of visual
experimentation but as works of art in their own right. Throughout
her working life, Riley has preserved works of particular
significance, creating an archive that records her constant
artistic inquiry and development. The studies presented in the book
are drawn entirely from this personal collection, with Riley's own
input. They demonstrate the artist's progression from early
figurative works, through the monochrome geometry of the 1960s, to
the examination of color that has characterized the second half of
her long career. The choice of work explores the themes that have
absorbed Riley in different periods and highlights key influences:
the importance of life drawing to her and the significance of
artists such as Seurat and Mondrian. The book illustrates-literally
and figuratively-the story of a productive and constantly
experimental career, underpinned by drawing. Distributed for Modern
Art Press Exhibition Schedule: The Art Institute of Chicago
(September 17, 2022-January 16, 2023) Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
(January 29-May 7, 2023) The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
(June 16-October 22, 2023)
Parkett 76 features three rising stars of the international art
scene: Julie Mehretu, Yang Fudong and Lucy McKenzie. As her marks
and gestures are flung into motion upon the canvas, Julie Mehretu
paints a picture of an infrastructure gone awry. Their layered,
calligraphic density suggests Leonardo da Vinci's ecstatically
charged tidal drawings. In the frozen situations encountered in
Yang Fudong's images, the viewer must always ask, "Will the
protagonist survive?" Fudong's narratives read like brief,
melancholic confessions, an "abstract cinema" that, in his own
words, functions as "a non-describable collision in one's heart."
Over the last decade, Lucy McKenzie has been umbilically attached
to Glasgow's underground, guided by her elegant draftsmanship and
continuously undermining her own adopted visual rhetoric--which
includes facades from Tintin, Socialist mural projects and
Mackintoshian Modernism. Texts by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Chris
Abani, Madeleine Schuppli, Marcella Beccaria, Yuko Hasegawa, Zhang
Wei, Neil Mulholland, Bennett Simpson, Isabelle Graw, Trevor Smith,
Philipp Kaiser, Johanna Burton, Vincent Precoil, Hans Rudolf Reust,
Matthias Haldemann and Bill Arning.
Capturing the highlights of the major Victoria and Albert Museum
exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, this stunning
souvenir celebrates the House of Dior from its foundation in 1947
to the present day. Haute-couture gowns by Christian Dior and the
illustrious creative directors who followed him -Yves Saint
Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre, John Galliano, Bill Gaytten,
Raf Simons and Maria Grazia Chiuri-are showcased here, each
described by Oriole Cullen and atmospherically photographed by
Laziz Hamani.
In New York, Jason Nazmiyal has a rug collection like no other. For
the past three decades, interior designers and collectors have
flocked to his Manhattan gallery to source art for the floor, be it
a treasured antique classical carpet, an elegant Art Deco rug, or a
Scandinavian minimalist piece. This book delves into the history of
the handmade carpet across the world, before looking at the many
ways rugs can be used to bring together interiors in a variety of
styles. From a Mid-Century Modern residence to a contemporary urban
sanctuary and a classic Upper East Side apartment, there is a rug
for every space. With stunning interior photography and full of
practical advice for the professional decorator as well as the
amateur enthusiast, this publication is a useful and beautiful
addition to the library of anyone with an interest in interior
decoration.
Accompanying an exhibition at Philip Mould & Company, this
lavish catalogue tells the story of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's
enduring attachment to their home at Charleston Farmhouse, and
showcases the work the artists produced between the two world wars.
This stunning collection of artwork is beautifully presented
alongside illuminating, illustrated essays, an interview and
complete catalogue. Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's enduring
attachment to their home at Charleston Farmhouse, its idyllic
surroundings, and constant fl ow of visitors can be witnessed
through their art. Beginning with radical modern works influenced
by European trends - from painted furniture to depictions of food
preparation in the kitchen, from the barns to the pond, the people
to the household cat - this catalogue tells a story of over thirty
years of astonishing artistic productivity. Charleston was not just
the Bloomsbury Group's country retreat but a venue for their
progressive social self-expression. It was also a family home.
Focusing on Vanessa and Duncan's most productive years of
creativity, between and including two world wars, this catalogue
will explore how Charleston fed their artistic impulses and ideas
to produce a glorious canon of art.
John Ruskin assembled 1470 diverse works of art for use in the
Drawing School he founded at Oxford in 1871. They included drawings
by himself and other artists, prints and photographs. This book
focuses on highlights of works produced by Ruskin himself. Drawings
by John Ruskin are uniquely interesting. Unlike those of a
professional artist they were not made in preparation for finished
paintings or as works in their own right. Every one - and they
number several thousand, depending on what can be considered a
separate drawing - is a record of something seen, initially as a
memorandum of that observation but with the potential to illustrate
his writings or for educational purposes, notably to form part of
the teaching collection of the Drawing School he established after
election as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. In
addition, because of the range of interests of arguably the only
true polymath of his time, every drawing touches on some
interesting aspect of art and architecture, landscape and travel,
botany and natural history, often connected with his writings and
lectures. Ruskin's life is one of the best documented of any in the
19th century, through letters, diaries and the many
autobiographical revelations in his published writings: this allows
the opportunity to give almost any drawing a level of context
impossible for any other artist. When there is so much background
information, a single drawing reveals much about its creator, and
becomes a window into the great sprawling edifice of his life and
work.
Desperately Young introduces the masterpieces left behind by some
of the greatest rising stars in fine art - all of whom died before
their thirtieth birthday. Precocious talent seeps from each
artist's work, along with a sense of unfulfilled potential.
Informative biographies detail their legacies, while their tragic
deaths lead us to wonder what heights they might've reached, had
their lives not been cut short. Richly illustrated, Desperately
Young presents prime examples of each artist's work, demonstrating
how our cultural heritage is just a little narrower for their loss.
From Europe to America to Japan and the Indian Subcontinent, the
mid-14-hundreds to the late 20th century, this book hails the
acknowledged greats and introduces those who died before they could
leave an indelible mark on history. A compendium of 109 artists who
fell prey to sickness, warfare, heartbreak or bad luck, Desperately
Young is the only book to provide an in-depth study of artists who
died young. Contents: With works from Tommaso Masaccio, Frederic
Bazille, Thomas Girtin, Egon Schiele, Henri Regnault, Ernst Klimt,
Jeanne Hebuterne, Kaita Murayama, Hermann Stenner, Maurycy
Gottlieb, Fyodor Vasilyev, Marie Bashkirtseff, Richard Parkes
Bonington, Luisa Anguissola, Walter Deverell, August Macke, Pauline
Boty and Jean-Michel Basquiat - among many others.
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Joan Didion: What She Means
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Joan Didion; Edited by Hilton Als, Connie Butler; Introduction by Ann Philbin; Text written by Joan Didion
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A New York Times best art book of 2021 "[A] gold mine of a book . .
. Funny, biting, morbid, it's a page-turner for sure."-Holland
Cotter, New York Times Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a renowned maker
of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including
Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Emerging from the
interdisciplinary community of artists and poets at Black Mountain
College, Johnson was extraordinarily adept at using social
interaction as an artistic endeavor and founded a mail art network
known as the New York Correspondence School. Drawing on the vast
collection of Johnson's work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this
volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic
practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artist's
books, collages, drawings, mail art, and performance documentation.
In keeping with Johnson's democratic, rhizomatic, and
antihierarchical ethos, this indispensable resource on the artist's
oeuvre contains 700 illustrations, many of them never before
published, and twenty-one short essays by various contributors that
allow readers to dip into and out of the book in a nonlinear
manner. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition
Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago (November 26, 2021-March 21,
2022)
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(Paperback)
Lene Berg, Burak Delier, Avi Mograbi; Edited by Trevor Paglen, Superflex, …
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Focusing on production and patronage, this new volume features over
150 images of magnificently illustrated books and precious
bindings, drawn largely from North American collections. The book's
three sections are arranged chronologically, yet in each case with
a different thematic focus. Opening with a look at the precedents
set by the Carolingian forerunners of the Empire, the first section
considers deluxe imperial manuscripts associated with the Ottonian
emperors. The second section examines the role of imperial
monasteries in the production of manuscripts, considering in
particular the patronage of aristocratic elites. The final section
offers a tour of imperial cities in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, from Vienna and Prague to Augsburg and Nuremberg. This
final stop considers the impact of Albrecht Durer and humanism on
the arts of the book. The volume features a glossary, indexes, and
maps showing the shifting borders of the Empire over 700 years.
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Simone Martini in Orvieto
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Nathaniel Silver; Contributions by Machtelt Bruggen Israels, Joanna Cannon, Christopher Etheridge, Stephen Gritt, …
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A New York Times best art book of 2022 New insights into the
innovative multimedia work and early career of fourteenth-century
Italian painter Simone Martini Painter to popes, princes, and
scions of Renaissance dynasties, Simone Martini (ca. 1284-1344)
transformed Western painting with his groundbreaking devotional
images and masterful manipulation of gold. This beautifully
illustrated book highlights the astonishing novelty of his
paintings in terms of their construction, multimedia techniques,
and imagery. A focus of the book-the first on Simone Martini in
English in over thirty years-is the work that he produced for
churches in the Umbrian city of Orvieto, a papal refuge and
stronghold of the Guelph political faction. The publication sheds
light on Simone's early career and technical accomplishments with
extended catalogue entries for three Orvieto altarpieces and a
painting of private devotion, including the results of new
scientific analysis for the Gardner works. Leading scholars
consider Simone's patrons, artistic accomplishments, and
contributions to the development of the polyptych altarpiece.
Distributed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Exhibition
Schedule: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (October 13,
2022-January 16, 2023)
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