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The Human Touch
(Hardcover)
Elenor Ling, Suzanne Reynolds, Jane Munro
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Touch is our first sense. Through touch we make art, stake a claim
to what we own and those we love, express our faith, our belief,
our anger. Touch is how we leave our mark and find our place in the
world; touch is how we connect. Drawing on works of art spanning
four thousand years and from across the globe, this book explores
the fundamental role of touch in human experience, and offers new
ways of looking. In a series of lavishly illustrated essays, the
authors explore anatomy and skin; the relationship between the
brain, hand, and creativity; touch, desire and possession;
ideological touch; reverence and iconoclasm. A final section
collects a range of reflections, historic and contemporary, on
touch. Objects range from anonymous ancient Egyptian limestone
sculpture, to medieval manuscripts and panel paintings, to
devotional and spiritual objects from across the world, to love
tokens and fede rings. Drawings, paintings, prints and sculpture by
Raphael, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Carracci, Hogarth, Turner, Rodin,
Degas, and Kollwitz are explored, along with work by contemporary
artists Judy Chicago, Frank Auerbach, Richard Long, the Chapman
Brothers, and Richard Rawlins. The events of 2020 have made us
newly alive to the preciousness and the dangers of touch, making
this exploration of our most fundamental sense particularly timely
and resonant.
This absorbing book explores the crown jewel of the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum's collection of rare books and manuscripts:
Jean Bourdichon's Boston Hours. As court artist to King Francois I
of France, Bourdichon produced paintings, books and even parade
floats for the sovereign and his entourage. This publication
accompanies the museum's first ever exhibition dedicated to this
spectacular illuminated manuscript. Painter to two kings, Jean
Bourdichon remains today one of the most celebrated artists of the
French Renaissance. By age twenty-four, he was already serving as
"peintre du roy," a title which Bourdichon held for the rest of his
life. His illustrious career at the French royal court led to a
wide range of commissions - from portraits to wall maps to stained
glass - but he is remembered principally for astonishing
illuminated manuscripts. The peerless Grandes Heures for Queen Anne
of Brittany remains the touchstone of this group which includes
some of the most lavishly painted books of hours ever produced. One
of these masterpieces - Bourdichon's Boston Hours - in the
collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is the subject of
this book. Bourdichon's only intact book of hours in the United
States was acquired by Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1890 and became
the crown jewel of her collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Leading scholars Nicholas Herman and Anne-Marie Eze explore its
history in depth, shedding new light on the book's patronage and
provenance - from the shelves of a wealthy Catholic landowner in
Lincolnshire to the shop of a Venetian art and antiques dealer.
This book is the latest in the Gardner's Close Up series, each
installment focusing on an individual, outstanding work of art in
the collection. This publication is the first dedicated to this
rare treasure, and precedes an exhibition opening in summer 2022.
In the last decade of his life, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
undertook a printmaking project that changed the conventions of
portraiture. In a series later named the Iconography, he portrayed
artists alongside kings, courtiers, and diplomats-a radical
departure from preexisting conventions. He also depicted his
subjects in novel ways, focusing on their facial features often to
the exclusion of symbolic costumes or props. In addition to
illustrating approximately 60 works by Van Dyck and other artists
from his era-particularly Rembrandt-this catalogue traces the
artist's influence over hundreds of years. Showcasing both 17th
century portraits in a variety of media and portrait prints by a
wide range of artists spanning the 16th through the 20th
centuries-including Albrecht Durer, Hendrick Goltzius, Francisco de
Goya, Edgar Degas, and Jim Dine-the book demonstrates the indelible
mark that Van Dyck left on the genre. Distributed for the Art
Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago
(03/05/16-08/07/16)
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Push The Sky Away
(Hardcover)
Piotr Zbierski; Contributions by Eleonora Jedlinska
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R1,051
R961
Discovery Miles 9 610
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Over his long and successful career David Remfry MBE RA RWS has
achieved a mastery of watercolour that few have matched. Unusually
for the medium, he works on a large scale and often focuses on
people, exploring the dance hall and the nightclub in breathtaking
images that are at once beautiful and edgy. This book is the first
full-length monograph devoted to the artist's watercolours. Its
author, James Russell, is well known for his writing on
20th-century British artists. Russell brings his scholarship,
humour and fascination for people and their lives to his study of
Remfry's career, tracing the evolution of a remarkable talent,
looking in depth at the most significant works and placing Remfry
in the context of both the British watercolour tradition and
international contemporary painting. This is at once a glorious art
book and an intimate portrait of city life. Having spent 20 years
living and working at the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York,
Remfry has a following on both sides of the Atlantic. New Yorkers -
often in party mode - feature in many of his watercolours, and his
recollections of people and places add colour to the text.
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