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The Wilton House sculptures constituted one of the largest and most
celebrated collections of ancient art in Europe. Originally
comprising some 340 works, the collection was formed around the
late 1710s and 1720s by Thomas Herbert, the eccentric 8th Earl of
Pembroke, who stubbornly 're-baptized' his busts and statues with
names of his own choosing. His sources included the famous
collection of Cardinal Mazarin, assembled in Paris in the 1640s and
1650s, and recent discoveries on the Via Appia outside Rome. Earl
Thomas regarded the sculptures as ancient - some of them among the
oldest works of art in existence - but in fact much of the
collection is modern and represents the neglected talents of
sixteenth-and seventeenth-century artists, restorers and copyists
who were inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture. About half of the
original collection remains intact today, adorning the Gothic
Cloisters that were built for it two centuries ago. After a long
decline, accelerated by the impact of the Second World War, the
sculptures have been rehabilitated in recent years. They include
masterpieces of Roman and early modern art, which cast fresh light
on Graeco-Roman antiquity, the classical tradition, and the history
of collecting. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs,
this catalogue offers the first comprehensive publication of the
8th Earl's collection, including an inventory of works dispersed
from Wilton. It re-presents his personal vision of the collection
recorded in contemporary manuscripts. At the same time, it
dismantles some of the myths about it which originated with the
earl himself, and provides an authoritative archaeological and
art-historical analysis of the artefacts.
In early 1930's era Italy, bounty hunters and high flyers of all
sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots
is Porco Rosso, a man cursed with the head of a pig after watching
the spirits of the pilots killed in the last air battle he fought
in rise to the heavens. He now makes a living taking jobs, such as
rescuing those kidnapped by air pirates. Donald Curtis, Porco's
rival in the air and in catching the affections of women, provides
a constant challenge to the hero, culminating in a hilarious,
action-packed finale.
This photo series captures moments of periphery in Croatian Istria
with 26 bus stops. Documentary and conceptual, the photographic
cartography approaches the different perceptions of the places. Ed
Ruscha's methodology, and in particular his photographic series
Twentysix Gasoline Stations, serve as a method and inspiration to
examine the stops and their identity in the urban fabric. With this
photographic concept as well as the texts, the observations are
presented analytically and at the same time unfold a greater poetic
meaning. How does it feel to live in the environs of urban reality?
The book transmits the fascination for simple building methods,
locations as well as the aesthetics of decay.
This guide displays the rich and varied collection of the Museum of
Lisbon and its five sites. From prehistory to the end of the 20th
century, the book reveals the various layers of one of Europe's
oldest cities, highlighting structural themes in Lisbon's history
and also emblematic pieces in the museum's collection: the Roman
Theatre of Olisipo; the international character of the Franciscan
Saint Anthony; the importance of Lisbon as a force behind the
Discoveries; the model of the city before the earthquake of 1755;
the legacy of a city which produced ceramics and azulejos (glazed
wall tiles); the rationalism and illuminism of the Pombaline
reconstruction of the city after 1755; and finally the Expo '98.
In 1949 Georgia O'Keeffe chose the National Gallery of Art as the
custodian of nearly 1,600 photographs by Alfred Stieglitz - the Key
Set, as it has become known. With the formation in 1990 of the
Gallery's department of photographs under Sarah Greenough, the
collection has grown to 14,000 works of art, an assemblage that
both charts the development of the medium and reveals the beauty
and dynamic versatility of photography over its course of more than
175 years. This elegant book presents some of the most significant
and compelling photographs acquired over the years, ranging from
experimental photographs made in the earliest years of the medium's
history to key works by major twentieth-century figures and
contemporary pieces that reset the ways in which photography shapes
our experience of the modern world. The guides on this enlightening
walk through the history of the medium are members of the
extraordinary curatorial team that established the National
Gallery's international reputation for photography exhibitions and
publications over the past twenty-five years, ever advancing the
recognition of photography as a fine art.
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Power! Light!
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Andreas Beitin; Text written by Andreas Beitin, Gottfried Boehm, Carolin Bohlmann, Holger Broeker, …
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The Barnes Foundation s holdings of works by the renowned
Post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne (1839 1906) sixty-one oils on
canvas and eight works on paper are among the most significant in
the world. The Barnes Foundation was established in 1922 by
scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a
passionate supporter of European modernism. His virtually
unrivalled collection, which can only be viewed at the Barnes
Foundation, also includes exceptional paintings by Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and many others. Beginning in
1912, Barnes acquired works by Cezanne from major Paris dealers
such as Paul Durand-Ruel and soon ranked among the artist s most
prominent collectors. At the time, this expressed a pioneering
taste that Barnes shared with only a small group of enthusiasts,
even though Cezanne had been posthumously hailed as a father of
modern art at the turn of the twentieth century. The foundation s
impressive holdings of Cezannes never before published in a single
study in their entirety span every period of the artist s career
and include his largest rendition of The Card Players and one of
the three versions of The Large Bathers, one of his signal
testaments. This lavishly illustrated landmark volume is both a
work on Cezanne and his time, and an impetus for further study of
an artist whose oeuvre is at once luminous, austere, challenging,
and deeply confounding.
With a Probability of Being Seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer:
Archives of an Attitude focuses primarily on the personality of
Konrad Fischer - as a painter, as an exhibition maker and as a
gallery owner. The influence of this key figure in the development
of contemporary art from the 1960s to the 1990s is presented in the
exhibition in three ways: through his own works, through archived
documents and through the works of his artists, which he collected
together with his wife Dorothee. Numerous documents and
photographs, shown in public for the first time, convey a richly
faceted picture of Konrad Fischer's activities and a captivating
panorama of this great period of contemporary art in the Rhineland.
This collection, too, testifies to the consistent attitude that
characterised Konrad Fischer, an attitude that cannot be readily
explained or quantified in material terms.
`Sound Art` is the catalogue that accompanies a new exhibition at
the Fundacio Juan Miro Gallery in Barcelona. It offers a critical
interrogation of this category in art and presents an overview of
the sonorisation of the art object from the later C19 to today. The
exhibition examines how, in the late C19 and early C20 many visual
artists worked references to sound and music into their pieces
using a variety of strategies. In turn, it also addresses the
influence of visual arts on contemporary musical practices. It
considers how several composers and visual artists turned the music
score into a space for experimentation and performativity, and
explains how the introduction of sound enables art objects to state
their presence in a radically different, augmented way. In the text
of this book, the experimental musician and artist Max Neuhaus
questions the validity of the term `Sound Art` and so creates the
starting point for the various artists and critics who also
contribute to the discussion, including Suzanne Delehanty,
Jean-Yves Bosseur, Maija Julius and Miki Yui, David Toop, Fiona
McGovern, Ursula and Rene Block and Arnau Horta, who is the curator
the exhibition and editor of this book.
An intimate survey of Cecily Brown's paintings, drawings, and
prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still
life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work Cecily Brown (b. 1969)
transfixes viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and
complex narratives that relate to some of European painting's
grandest and most time-honored themes, including still life motifs
and meditations on mortality through vanitas This intimate survey
of the acclaimed British painter reexamines the work of an artist
whose influential output references both modern heavyweights, such
as Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, and Joan Mitchell, and Old
Masters like Goya, Hogarth, Manet, and Rubens. The book features 21
paintings and 26 works on paper-drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks,
and monotypes-that span the three decades of Brown's career to
date, including recently completed and never-before published
works. A conversation with the artist provides insight into her
process and sources, while an insightful essay situates Brown in
the lineage of the great artists of the last five hundred years.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale
University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York (April 4-September 24, 2023)
Numbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80
historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the
collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust
is considered to be one of the most significant in the world.
Numbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80
historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the
collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust
is considered to be one of the most significant in the world. As a
whole, these precious works of art represent the highest standard
of artistry and provide a history of miniature painting in Britain.
They range from Holbein's 1533 portrait of A Man Holding a Pink at
Upton House in Warwickshire through to Wainwright's portrait of
Evelyn Ward (1916), painted several decades after the advent of
photography had begun to supersede the art of the miniature. This
comprehensive catalogue, featuring every miniatures in the National
Trust's care, is being prepared in volumes, divided by region. The
first volume, covering Northern Ireland, was published in July
2003. This second volume looks at miniatures from the Trust's
historic houses in the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset,
including those that recently came to the Trust as part of its
acquisition of the magnificent Victorian mansion of Tyntesfield,
south of Bristol.
Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) is one of the most celebrated British
Portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for
his images of elegance, glamour and style. His influence on
portrait photography was profound and lives on today in the work of
many contemporary photographers. Beaton used his camera, his
ambition and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with a
flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and
partygoers. These 'Bright Young Things' captured the spirit of the
roaring twenties and thirties as they cut a dramatic swathe through
the epoch. Beaton quickly developed a reputation for his beautiful,
often striking and fantastic photographs, which culminated in his
portraits of Queen Elizabeth in 1939. More than a photographer,
Beaton became a society fixture in his own right. In a series of
themed chapters, covering Beaton's first self-portraits and
earliest sitters to his time at Cambridge and as principle society
photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, over 60 leading figures who
sat for him are profiled and the dazzling parties, pageants and
balls of the period are brought to life. Among this glittering cast
are Beaton's socialite sisters Baba and Nancy Beaton, Stephen
Tennant, the Mitfords, Siegfried Sassoon, Evelyn Waugh and Daphne
Du Maurier. Beaton's photographs are complemented by a wide range
of letters, drawings and ephemera and contextualised by artworks
created by those in his circle, including Christopher Wood, Rex
Whistler and Henry Lamb.
Highlights from the palatial Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg,
Russia, are beautifully reproduced in an accessible volume
celebrating the museum's 250th anniversary. For 250 years, the
State Hermitage Museum has been one of the world's most palatial
and significant museums. The Hermitage collections were developed
beginning in 1764 by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, and
now encompass more than 3 million works of art and artifacts
displayed within a spectacular architectural ensemble, the heart of
which is the famed Winter Palace. Now, on this important
anniversary, this stunning volume captures the masterpieces that
make this world-famous institution a cultural destination and a
global treasure.
"The Hermitage: 250 Masterpieces" explores this sumptuous
collection in the manner of a private tour, showcasing the museum's
extraordinary and uniquely underpublished treasures: no other
institution has thirty-six Rembrandts; works by Italian Renaissance
artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Titian;
Spanish artists such as Vel+zquez, Ribera, and Murillo; Flemish
baroque artists such as van Dyck, Rubens, and Jan Brueghel the
Elder; impressionist and post-impressionist works by Renoir, Monet,
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Degas; and modern paintings by
Matisse, Picasso, Malevich, and Kandinsky. Priceless antiquities,
feats of mechanical engineering such as the famous Peacock Clock,
and works of sculpture and decorative arts will also be shown. With
lavish reproductions accompanied by texts by the museum's leading
curators, this volume is sure be cherished by art lovers around the
world.
In this timely book, three noted fashion historians examine the
global transformations in the fashion industry today, and identify
the challenges of the future. Since the dawn of designer fashion at
the beginning of the 20th century, the role and position of the
designer has drastically changed. This book addresses how the
interpretation of creativity, authorship, craft, and innovation
have evolved in this new context, and asks what role designers play
in a globalised and digitised fashion world.
Inspiration fresh from the studios of 131 master artists! A
celebration of creative drawing, the Strokes of Genius series
showcases standout work from today's top artists. This 8th volume
focuses on how artists use texture to bring life and depth to
subjects ranging from soulful portraits and expressive still lifes,
to beautiful landscapes and pulsing city scenes. Texture plays an
essential role in each of these drawings--capturing character,
building mood, and paying homage to everyday moments that often go
unnoticed. These pages serve up a tantalizing buffet of tactile
impressions, from rough tree bark and silky fur to peeling paint
and timeworn fabrics. Complete with fascinating, firsthand insights
on the drawing techniques behind the textures, Strokes of Genius 8
offers hours of browsing and inspiration for artists and art-lovers
alike. Inside you'll find: 139 magnificent works in charcoal,
pencil, pastel, colored pencil, scratchboard and pen+ink An
exciting range of styles and approaches, presented in
subject-themed chapters A behind-the-scenes look at the tools and
methods used to evoke a wide range of natural and manmade textures
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