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The first monograph on New York-based contemporary artist Richard
Phillips, best known for his large-scale paintings that are
'ultra-cool' in execution and very hot in effect. Richard
Phillips's hyper realistic oil paintings embody themes as broad as
power, politics, celebrity, fashion, ideology, beauty, and sex, and
pose questions about the status of painting today: Does the medium
remain valid, or has it become a historical pastime? Pornography,
propaganda, advertising, entertainment, fashion-Phillips
incorporates material from a range of sources to confront what is
at the core of contemporary image making, from the power of
celebrity branding to complicity between viewer and viewed. The
book's exploitative design strategy celebrates the commercial and
fashion alliances of the artist's practice, while revealing the
complex politics behind the imagery the artist chooses to paint.
The first monograph and only substantial publication on the work of
Patrick George (born 1923), this book will reveal to a largely
unsuspecting public the lyrical paintings of a rare and original
talent. George is better known as a teacher; he taught for forty
years at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
before eventually becoming Director there. He has only shown his
work infrequently, yet perceptive commentators have identified him
as a School of London painter, to be viewed in the same context as
Lucian Freud (a friendly rival), Frank Auerbach (a strong supporter
of George's work), and Euan Uglow (George's close friend and
colleague). For too long dismissed as a follower of Coldstream,
Patrick George is in fact very much his own man, a Northern
European landscape and figure painter, working in the tradition of
Gainsborough and Constable. In this book, his unique contribution
to the development of contemporary landscape painting is for the
first time examined and evaluated.
The definitive art book for the remastered Spyro Reignited Trilogy,
for fans young and old. In 2018 Toys for Bob Studios thrilled fans
world wide by releasing Spyro Reignited Trilogy, a faithful
remaster encompassing all three titles from the beloved Spyro
trilogy introduced in 1998. The Art of Spyro is a meticulously
crafted compendium filled with in-depth behind-the-scenes content,
insightful quotes from top illustrators in the industry, anecdotes
from the game developers, and a dazzling assortment of incredible
concept art, some of which has never been seen by the public. It is
a must-have for art lovers, games, fans... and the fun-loving
adventurer in all of us.
"Art+ NYC" is anart-lover s guide to New York City that combines a
crash course in 20th- and 21st-centuryarthistory with in-depth bios
of nine celebrated New York City artists: Jackson Pollock, Andy
Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Yoko Ono, Mark Rothko, Jeff Koons, Donald
Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg. Each segment is
written by a leading art writer from publications such as "Art in
America," "Flaunt," and the "New York Times." Filled with useful
information for both locals and tourists, "Art + NYC" includes
comprehensive neighborhood-by-neighborhood gallery and museum
listings, along with studios and other artsy places of interest. In
addition, sidebars include the hotels and restaurants that are
steeped with history artist hangouts, residences, and events of
infamy. Also included is an extensive index of paintings,
sculptures, and public art by New York City artists; detailed maps
for 13 neighborhoods; a Q&A with a curator, gallerist, or
artist for each NYC neighborhood; and a museum, gallery, and studio
directory."
From Russia to Poland and Romania, and from the Czech Republic to
Yugoslavia and East Germany, Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe is
an ambitious attempt to chart the changing realities of the eastern
half of Europe as seen through the eyes of artists, critics,
photographers and curators. If the Iron Curtain and the antagonisms
of the Cold War era had often kept the richness and diversity of
Eastern European art hidden from the rest of the world, the
contemporary era has been a witness to its unparalleled creative
explosion and fruitful dialogue with the global art scene. The work
featured in this book explores the correlations between shifts in
the political, cultural, economic and geographical realities of
Eastern Europe and the region's contemporary art. The artists in
this book revisit the region's past to envision a better future,
reaching challenging conclusions and producing some of the most
powerful and inspiring art being produced today. The book features
essays from respected writers in the field and profiles the most
influential artists producing work in and from the region today,
including Marina Abramovic, Christo, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Zofia
Kulik, Komar and Melamid, IRWIN, Natalia Lach-Lachowicz, Alexander
Brodsky, Ewa Partum, NSK, Group OHO, Stano Filko, Laibach,
KwieKulik, Post Ars, Weekend Art, Zbigniew Libera, Marjetica Potrc,
and Mladen Stilinovic. The following countries are covered in this
anthology: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Czech Republic, East Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic,
Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe is the
third title in the ARTWORLD series following Contemporary Art in
the Middle East and Contemporary Art in Latin America.
This monograph brings together the work of artist David Medalla.
Born in Manila, in the Philippines in 1942, and based since 1960
mainly in London, Medalla has distinguished himself internationally
as an innovator of the avant-garde. His work has embraced a
multitude of enquiries and enthusiasms, forms and formats, to
express a singular yet deeply coherent vision of the world.
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Ann Dumas, Emmanuelle Hincelin, Christopher Lloyd, Emilia Philippot, Bill Robinson, …
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Pablo Picasso's artistic output is astonishing in its ambition and
variety. This handsome publication examines a particular aspect of
his legendary capacity for invention: his imaginative and original
use of paper. He used it as a support for autonomous works,
including etchings, prints and drawings, as well as for his
papier-colle experiments of the 1910s and his revolutionary
three-dimensional 'constructions', made of cardboard, paper and
string. Sometimes, his use of paper was simply determined by
circumstance: in occupied Paris, where art supplies were hard to
come by, he ripped up paper tablecloths to make works of art. And,
of course, his works on paper comprise the preparatory stages of
some of his very greatest paintings, among them Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937). With reproductions of more
than 300 works of art and additional texts by Violette Andres,
Stephen Coppel, Emmanuelle Hincelin, Christopher Lloyd, Johan
Popelard and Claustre Rafart Planas, this sumptuous study reveals
the myriad ways in which Picasso's genius seized the potential of
paper at different stages throughout his career.
Although Pablo Picasso spotted Dora Maar at a cafe in January 1936
it is highly likely that she had come to his attention prior. As
Brassai, a Hungarian-French photographer, recalled, It was at Les
Deux-Magots that, one day in autumn 1935, [he] met Dora On an
earlier day, he had already noticed the grave, drawn face of the
young woman at a nearby table, the attentive look in her
light-colored eyes, sometimes disturbing in its fixity. When
Picasso saw her in the same cafe in the company of the surrealist
poet Paul Eluard, who knew her, the poet introduced her to Picasso
(Brassai, a.k.a. Gyula Halasz, Conversations with Picasso
[University of Chicago Press, 1999]). Tinged with a seductive mix
of violence and dark eroticism, this first meeting has attained
mythical status in the story of the artists life. It reads like an
unreal fantasy. A mysterious and feline beauty, which Man Ray had
captured in the pictures he took of her, a companion of Georges
Bataille, Dora was an accomplished photographer, close to the
Surrealists revolutionary aesthetics. Picasso addressed her in
French, which he assumed to be her language; she replied in
Spanish, which she knew to be his. For the next decade, the painter
would translate not just his fascination with the woman who had
seduced him on the spot, but also his desire to escape the grip of
someone who, for the first time, could intellectually aspire to be
his equal. Dora would appear in his works as a female Minotaur, a
Sphinx, a lunar goddess and a muse. Because of her intense artistic
sensibility, her poetic gifts and her ability to participate in
suffering, she was especially qualified to resonate Picassos own
inner torments during these troubled years.
In light of the recent rise of right-wing populism in numerous
political contexts and in the face of resurgent nationalism,
racism, misogyny, homophobia, and demagoguery, this book
investigates how historical and contemporary cultural producers
have sought to resist, confront, confound, mock, or call out
situations of political oppression in Germany, a country which has
seen a dramatic range of political extremes during the past
century. While the current turn to nationalist populism is global,
it is perhaps most disturbing in Germany, given its history with
its stormy first democracy in the interwar Weimar Republic; its
infamous National Socialist (Nazi) period of the 1930s and 1940s;
and its split Cold-War existence, with Marxist-Leninist
Totalitarianism in the German Democratic Republic and the Federal
Republic of Germany's barely-hidden ties to the Nazi past. Equally
important, Germans have long considered art and culture critical to
constructions of national identity, which meant that they were
frequently implicated in political action. This book therefore
examines a range of work by artists from the early twentieth
century to the present, work created in an array of contexts and
media that demonstrates a wide range of possible resistance.
The Birmingham Art Book is a tribute to a unique city whose
visionary scientists and inventors made it famous as a
manufacturing powerhouse. From heavy metal industry - here is where
the first steam trains were built- to heavy metal music - Black
Sabbath made their mark here, this is a place with a proud
heritage. Its handsome university is the original of the 'Redbrick'
universities, founded by a farsighted mayor in 1900 as a civic
place of learning, open to all, now with many world famous alumni
and staff, 10 of whom have won Nobel prizes. Local artists convey
the architectural glory of Victoria Square and the city centre
Museum and Art Gallery (which holds a sumptuous collection of
Pre-Raphaelite art). In their drawings, they echo the modern
vibrancy of buildings such as the iconic Selfridges department
store and the REP theatre. Collages and sketches depict a city
buzzing with vitality -from the world-renowned Hippodrome theatre,
to the shopping centres and legendary nightlife that are national
attractions. Quirky nooks like the Jewellery Quarter, the Electric
Cinema or the tranquil Botanic gardens hidden so close to the
centre are reflected in this lovely book. The green city with 8000
acres of public parks and many miles of canal paths dating from its
heyday in the Industrial Revolution is lovingly drawn and painted
by its artists. The Birmingham Art Book is where local artists
shine a light on the grand and the humdrum with equal affection.
Their love for the modern city is evident and their pride in its
heritage comes to the fore in this lovely book.
A dual portrait of America's first great architect, Henry Hobson
Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law
Olmsted--and their immense impact on AmericaAs the nation recovered
from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced
how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world
around them through their pioneering work in architecture and
landscape design. Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as
America's first and finest parkmaker and environmentalist, the
force behind Manhattan's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park,
Biltmore's parkland in Asheville, dozens of parks across the
country, and the preservation of Yosemite and Niagara Falls. Yet
his close friend and sometime collaborator, Henry Hobson
Richardson, has been almost entirely forgotten today, despite his
outsized influence on American architecture--from Boston's iconic
Trinity Church to Chicago's Marshall Field Wholesale Store to the
Shingle Style and the wildly popular "open plan" he conceived for
family homes. Individually they created much-beloved buildings and
public spaces. Together they married natural landscapes with built
structures in train stations and public libraries that helped drive
the shift in American life from congested cities to developing
suburbs across the country. The small, reserved Olmsted and the
passionate, Falstaffian Richardson could not have been more
different in character, but their sensibilities were closely
aligned. In chronicling their intersecting lives and work in the
context of the nation's post-war renewal, Hugh Howard reveals how
these two men created original all-American idioms in architecture
and landscape that influence how we enjoy our public and private
spaces to this day.
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Jose Maria Faerna
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This publication places the emphasis on the artist's work, rather
on stylistic accordances or biographical details, giving a concise
yet comprehensive overview of Picasso's work and style.
From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all
manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable
treasures they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman
Empire. In "Hitler's Holy Relics, "bestselling author Sidney
Kirkpatrick tells the riveting and never-before-told true story of
how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered
these cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they
could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and
equally unholy Reich.
Anticipating the Allied invasion of Nazi Germany, Reichsfuhrer
Heinrich Himmler had ordered a top-secret bunker carved deep into
the bedrock beneath Nurnberg castle. Inside the well-guarded
chamber was a specially constructed vault that held the plundered
treasures Hitler valued the most: the Spear of Destiny (reputed to
have been used to pierce Christ's side while he was on the cross)
and the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, ancient artifacts
steeped in medieval mysticism and coveted by world rulers from
Charlemagne to Napoleon. But as Allied bombers rained devastation
upon Nurnberg and the U.S. Seventh Army prepared to invade the city
Hitler called "the soul of the Nazi Party," five of the most
precious relics, all central to the coronation ceremony of a
would-be Holy Roman Emperor, vanished from the vault. Who took
them? And why? The mystery remained unsolved for months after the
war's end, until the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D.
Eisenhower, ordered Lieutenant Walter Horn, a German-born art
historian on leave from U.C. Berkeley, to hunt down the missing
treasures.
To accomplish his mission, Horn must revisit the now-rubble-strewn
landscape of his youth and delve into the ancient legends and
arcane mysticism surrounding the antiquities that Hitler had looted
in his quest for world domination. Horn searches for clues in the
burnt remains of Himmler's private castle and follows the trail of
neo-Nazi "Teutonic Knights" charged with protecting a vast hidden
fortune in plundered gold and other treasure. Along the way, Horn
has to confront his own demons: how members of his family and
former academic colleagues subverted scholarly research to help
legitimize Hitler's theories of Aryan supremacy and the Master
Race. What Horn discovers on his investigative odyssey is so
explosive that his final report will remain secret for decades.
Drawing on unpublished interrogation and intelligence reports, as
well as on diaries, letters, journals, and interviews in the United
States and Germany, Kirkpatrick tells this riveting and disturbing
story with cinematic detail and reveals-- for the first time--how a
failed Vienna art student, obsessed with the occult and dreams of
his own grandeur, nearly succeeded in creating a Holy Reich rooted
in a twisted reinvention of medieval and Church history.
Discover hundreds of stormtrooper helmet designs with a deluxe art
book, and customize your own unique helmet with this collector's
set! In 2014, creatives from Lucasfilm, Disney, Industrial Light
& Magic, Pixar, and Marvel Studios joined forces for an
incredible artistic endeavor, the Star Wars Legion project. The
task was simple--decorate, adorn, or transform a blank, vinyl
stormtrooper helmet--but the result was extraordinary, with artists
creating more than 200 radically unique helmets that were put on
display at the Robert Vargas Gallery in 2014. Now, you can
experience the Star Wars Legion project through a deluxe art book
showcasing incredible helmet designs, and a customizable
stormtrooper helmet. - BE INSPIRED BY MORE THAN 200 HELMET DESIGNS:
Includes a deluxe, hardcover photography book that showcases the
hundreds of stunning helmet designs created for the Legion project.
- EXERCISE YOUR CREATIVITY: This collector's kit includes a blank
helmet, based on the stormtrooper design from the beloved
television show Star Wars Rebels, which is ready for customization,
display, or even signing at conventions. - THE PERFECT GIFT FOR
STAR WARS FANS: A great value for fans of any age, this kit is the
perfect way to celebrate the boundless inventiveness of the Star
Wars galaxy. - COMPLETE YOUR STAR WARS COLLECTION: This kit stands
alongside fan-favorite Star Wars books, including Star Wars: The
Life Day Cookbook, Star Wars: The Secrets of the Sith, and Star
Wars: The Lightsaber Collection.
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Saying It
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Mieke Bal, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Renate Farro; Edited by Stefan van der Lecq
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