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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.
Not only Mao before the masses, but also dozens of housewives armed
with brooms, scores of Gillette razors and hundreds of Mon Cheri
chocolates. In a play on perceptions in which nothing (or
everything) is what it seems, in the midst of a profusion of food
tins, cleaning products, cars, reinforced concrete buildings and
motorways that populate the works of Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937).
Acclaimed as one of the voices of Pop Art in Germany, the truth is
that Bayrle's ironic, repetitive, almost grotesque visual displays
ultimately subvert the paradigms of the Pop movement. His works are
practically psychedelic maps constructed from mosaics of images and
hallucinatory to a point far beyond pop's hypnotic and surface
effects. This book, based on the first retrospective devoted to
this artist of artists, reproduces part of his work.
Parisian churches are revered around the globe. Their stunning
stained-glass windows and intricate Gothic architecture are
accomplishments of unrivalled elegance. Churches of Paris gathers
37 of the finest in the City of Light, spanning the 12th to the
19th centuries. Each entry is embellished with beautiful colour
photography and behind-the-scenes historical commentary. Offering
insight into the buildings' construction and genesis, this book
narrates how each church was shaped by war, revolution and time.
With information on restoration and preservation, this is an
invaluable guide for Francophiles and curious armchair travellers
alike. Featured churches include: Basilique du Sacre-Coeur de
Montmartre, Basilique Sainte-Clotilde, Basilique Cathedrale de
Saint-Denis, Notre-Dame Cathedral, La Chapelle de l'Epiphanie des
Missions Etrangeres et la Salle des Martyrs, La Chapelle Notre-Dame
de la Medaille Miraculeuse, La Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, La
Madeleine, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux,
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Cathedral Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky,
Saint-Augustin, La Sainte-Chapelle, Sainte-Elisabeth-de-Hongrie,
Sainte-Marguerite, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, La Sainte-Trinite,
Saint-Eugene-Sainte-Cecile, Saint-Eustache, Saint-Francois-Xavier,
Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois,
Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais, Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas,
Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes, Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre,
Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile, Saint-Merry, Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis,
Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, Saint-Roch, Saint-Severin,
Saint-Sulpice, Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, The
American Cathedral in Paris
This book is a retrospective volume on Latin American new media
arts, arising from the Cities in Dialogue exhibition that was held
in in FACT in conjunction with the University of Liverpool and the
Liverpool Independents Biennial in 2014. There is also plenty of
detail about the other events that were held during 2014 and into
2015, including workshops, artist talks, Twitter galleries and the
Artist in Residence and his activities. One chapter is dedicated to
each artist and the works they presented at the exhibition: Brian
Mackern from Uruguay, Barbara Palomino from Chile, Marina Zerbarini
from Argentina, and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga from the US. There is
also an extensive chapter about the exciting new residence artwork
created by Artist in Residence Brian Mackern. Entitled This Too
Shall Pass// Affective Cartographies, this work is based on footage
obtained through a series of unplanned journeys along Liverpool's
urbanscape. The gathering of information and recording of sound and
visual material during these journeys is then remixed in this
artwork by different parameters (volume levels, transparencies,
zooms, fragmentations, crossfadings, speeds of timelines, etc.)
controlled by Liverpool's "socio economic historic curve" of the
last century. In this book you can find out about all of these
works, and other pieces by these artists. The book includes full
colour images throughout, including exclusive images of works in
progress, as well as excerpts of interviews with the artists. At
the back of the book you can find links to online resources,
including the art works themselves, audio interviews with the
artists, image galleries, and more.
Presented in a beautiful gift format and filled with a wealth of
new photography, this engaging book aims to introduce to a general
audience the National Trust's vast collections - a treasure chest
of history. Arranged chronologically, starting with Roman sculpture
and ending with 20th-century design, it focuses on museum-quality
objects as well as important examples of decorative arts,
furniture, textiles, books and items with fascinating stories
behind them. Selected by the National Trust's curators from more
than 1.5 million objects in its collections, the featured
highlights include an ancient-Egyptian obelisk; Cardinal Wolsey's
purse; the first English globe; one of the earliest surviving
sofas; an incredible 18th-century dolls' house; an elephant
automaton; a tent made for a sultan; a dress made of beetle-wing
cases; hand-written manuscripts by Beatrix Potter and Virginia
Woolf; Rodin's bust of George Bernard Shaw; rare, early colour
photographs of the Sutton Hoo discovery; a sculpture by Barbara
Hepworth and paintings by Holbein, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt,
Velazquez, Reynolds, Stubbs, Burne-Jones, Monet and Sargent. Each
featured object is accompanied by an illuminating, easy-to-read
caption, a timeline of key moments in the Trust's history and a
list of properties housing important collections items appear at
the end.
This handsome catalogue accompanies an exhibition celebrating the
bicentenary of the 60-year reign of King George III. It presents
one mezzotint portrait for each year of his reign. Mad about
Mezzotint traces the history of mezzotint in the reign of King
George III by looking at three aspects of the art form: the
astonishing method of mezzotint, the absorbing history of the form
in the late eighteenth century and Regency period and the endless
fascination with London as a subject. Although the mezzotint
originated in Germany as early as 1642, its golden age came in
England in the eighteenth century. Its beauty lay in its ability to
create the subtlety of tone found in an oil painting. Crowds
marvelled at the new technique and seized upon the opportunity to
popularize their work and disseminate their images more widely.
Conditions in eighteenth-century London were ripe for this
revolution in printing. England had a new king and queen on the
throne, an ever-expanding court and flourishing commercial
interests overseas. The city of London was expanding at an
astonishing rate and money was pouring into the capital. This fully
illustrated publication includes an introduction on the history of
mezzotint and full catalogue of the works, as well as indexes of
artists and persons depicted. Artists featured include Valentine
Green, John Hoppner, John Jones, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and
Charles Turner. People depicted include King George, George, Prince
of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, Admiral Horatio
Nelson and Earl and Lady Spencer.
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Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt
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Elizabeth Brown, Andrew Nairne; Contributions by John Tancock, James J. Lally; Interview of Ai Weiwei; Interview by …
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Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, exhibition catalogue on the
internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957,
Beijing) in which new and existing work will be shown alongside
historic Chinese objects. The exhibition will explore notions of
truth, authenticity and value, as well as globalisation, the
coronavirus pandemic and the current geopolitical crisis. Ai Weiwei
will reflect upon the liberty in the West, in contrast to China and
other authoritarian regimes, to question truth and authority,
express doubt and seek transparency in political matters. However,
in relation to art appreciation, the Chinese have a long tradition
of a more fluid and less fixed view in relation to authenticity
than is the case in the West, often valuing the act of copying.
This book reveals that Pablo Picasso wasn't simply a figurehead of
the Modern Age. He grew up in the 19th century: the extraordinary
mixture of values that was fin de siecle Europe penetrated deep
into his personality, remaining with him through his life. While he
was the quintessential Modern in so many ways, he was also a
Victorian, and this duality explains the complexity of his genius.
He was simultaneously looking forwards and backwards, and feeding
off the efforts of others, before developing his own idioms for
depicting the contemporary world. The young artist recognised that
society was increasingly in a process of transformation, not in a
transitory or temporary way, but permanently, under the inexorable
pressures of modernisation. He realised that the emergence of
Modern art through the last quarter of the century was a product of
this transformation. Throughout his life, Picasso would feel the
tension between modernity and the histories it replaced. He would
also struggle with the role of the individual, and subjectivity, in
this new environment. Each chapter shows how the young artist
embraced successive styles at large in the art world of his time.
By the age of 14 well capable of drawing in a highly competent
Beaux Arts mode, he drew in a Classicist manner of redolent of
Ingres, or early Degas. He then moved through various forms of
Impressionism, Symbolism, and Post-Impressionism, before arriving
in his early twenties at his first wholly individual style, the
Blue period, albeit that all these earlier sources were still
evident. The Rose period followed, after which the artist began a
truly seminal period of experimentation which culminated in the
development of Cubism. By 1910, Cubism had become a fully mature
vision, practiced by a wide range of artists. It was to provide the
springboard for much Modern art across the disciplines, and it
positioned Picasso as perhaps the single most important artist of
the new century.
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Join Chris Ayers and his menagerie as they make their Parisian
debut on the walls of Galerie Daniel Maghen. Fifty-eight pieces
were created especially for the gallery show in year six of The
Daily Zoo and they are all captured in this book in their full
glory. Do not miss meeting Le Chic Sheep, Le Penseur (The Thinker),
Alien Accountant and Rosie On Skates, to name only a few, as they
are certain to become close cartoon friends.
This publication emanates from an exhibition by the same title,
displayed for the first time at the Alliance Francaise de Delhi. It
is an attempt to trace the development of photography and the other
allied visual arts in Pondicherry spanning the late 19th and early
20th centuries. Drawn exclusively from The Alkazi Collection of
Photography, at the core of this initiative is the unpublished
album by renowned photographer Henri CartierBresson, co-founder of
Magnum Photos, who visited the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in April 1950.
He took the last pictures of Sri Aurobindo Ghose in the company of
his spiritual companion, 'the Mother'. In addition, he meticulously
penned his observations almost daily, creating a meta-text around
the images, which presents a biographical and anecdotal supplement
for his photographic endeavour. The visual material is further
enhanced by some extraordinary images of Indian photographers from
the same period such as Tara Jauhar and Venkatesh Shirodkar at
Aurobindo Ashram, published here for the first time. In this
catalogue a conscious effort has been made to bring out a
non-linear, yet credible history of how Pondicherry has been
witness to the development of a unique visual trajectory. The use
of images as 'evidence' and 'document' create a subtle interplay
between cultural context and artistic intent, a conceptual linking
of mannerisms and tropes those of landscape, architectural and
portrait photography.
The Merton library is rightly known for its antiquity, its
beautiful medieval and early modern architecture and fittings and
for its remarkable and important collection of manuscripts and rare
books, yet a nineteenth-century plan to tear the medieval library
down and replace it was only narrowly frustrated. This brief
history of Europe's oldest academic library traces its origins in
the thirteenth century, when a new type of community of scholars
was first being set up, through to the present day and its multiple
functions as a working college library, a unique resource for
researchers and a delight for curious visitors. Drawing on the
remarkable wealth of documentation in the college's archives, this
is the first history of the library to explore collections,
buildings, readers and staff across more than 700 years. The story
is told in part through stunning colour images that depict not only
exceptional treasures but also the library furnishings and
decorations, and which show manuscripts, books, bindings and
artefacts of different periods in their changing contexts.
Featuring a timeline and a plan of the college, this book will be
of interest to historians, alumni and tourists alike.
Eileen Cooper OBE RA has been consistently successful across her
50-year career, the influence of her art seen in the range and
depth of her work as well as in her contribution to art education.
Cooper's artistic experiences - which, in the words of Linsey
Young, disrupt the neat patriarchal understandings of women - are
brought together in this thoughtfully designed and elegant
hardback. Early works are illustrated alongside previously unseen
drawings, paintings, prints, ceramics and portraits, many of which
will surprise readers. The authors also consider Cooper's work in
relation to the collections of Leicester Museum & Art Gallery,
including works by Peter Doig, Paula Rego, Pablo Picasso, Dame
Laura Knight and Lotte Laserstein.
WOW - a collaboration between Liss Llewellyn and the Laing Art
Gallery - showcases 38 British women artists working on paper
between 1905 and 1975, a transformative period for women in the
arts. The featured artists approached the medium in vari ous ways,
using traditional as well as innovative techniques to transform
paper into beautiful and complex works of art. The exhibition
celebrates the diversity of these approaches and highlights the
ways in which paper provided artists with a rich arena for artistic
innovation. Paper's adaptability allows for a multitude of
techniques. Using paper in its traditional role as a support for
drawings and prints, or creating collage and sculpture, the fea
tured artists responded to the medium's inherent qualities -
malleable, smooth and sensuous - to test ideas, express feelings or
create a finished work. It is often in the more formative moments
that the works in this exhibition most resonate; through these
studies we bear witness to the seed of an idea in germination, as
in Clare Leigh ton's iconic Southern Harvest, or Evelyn Dunbar's
celebrated works for the War Artist's Advisory Committee. Selecting
hand-made, mould-made or machine-made papers in various weights,
tex tures and tints - depending on their intentions - artists
worked with a variety of media from pencil, ink and pastel, to
watercolour, tempera and oil, sometimes incorporating extraneous
elements such as gold leaf and metallic forms. Working on
monumental sheets, such as Winifred Knights' cartoon for St
Martin's Altarpiece or tiny pages such as Edith Granger-Taylor's
Small Grey Abstract, women's choices were nevertheless some times
dictated by circumstance: the propensity of Frances Richards and
Tirzah Gar wood - by no means isolated cases - to work on paper on
a small scale was in part a result of not having access to a
studio. From portraits, landscapes, botanical studies and genre
scenes, many of the works in WOW highlight the artist's skill and
dexterity in drawing on paper, which was at the core of artistic
training and practice. Some artists have used the traditional
techniques of etching, screen printing and woodblock to create a
diverse range of images. Others highlight the ethereal properties
of paper through precise cuts, resulting in elaborate collages
combining shapes, patterns and designs, or compact and manipulate
paper to create inventive and surprising sculptures. Featuring both
famous and lesser-known talents, WOW celebrates the many ways in
which women artists expressed themselves through works on, and with
paper and highlights their unique contribution to the graphic arts
in 20th century Britain.
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
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