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Machine-Age Comedy (Hardcover): Michael North Machine-Age Comedy (Hardcover)
Michael North
R3,746 Discovery Miles 37 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by industrialization have forever altered the comic mode. With keen analyses, North examines the work of a wide range of artists - including Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, and David Foster Wallace - to show the creative and unconventional ways the routinization of industrial society has been explored in a broad array of cultural forms. Throughout, North argues that modern writers and artists found something inherently comic in new experiences of repetition associated with, enforced by, and made inevitable by the machine age. Ultimately, this rich, tightly focused study offers a new lens for understanding the devlopment of comedic structures during periods of massive social, political, and cultural change to reveal how the original promise of modern life can be extracted from its practical disappointment.

Marc Vaux (Hardcover): Norbert Lynton Marc Vaux (Hardcover)
Norbert Lynton
R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Great Exhibition in Colour (Hardcover): Heritage Hunter The Great Exhibition in Colour (Hardcover)
Heritage Hunter; Edited by Andrew Chapman
R782 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R121 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Patrick George (Hardcover): Andrew Lambirth Patrick George (Hardcover)
Andrew Lambirth
R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Out of stock

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.

Autopsia - Thanatopolis (Paperback): Alexei Monroe Autopsia - Thanatopolis (Paperback)
Alexei Monroe; Designed by Ivan Mecl
R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Your Loving Friend - The Great War Correspondence Between Stanley Spencer and Desmond Chute (Paperback): Paul Gough Your Loving Friend - The Great War Correspondence Between Stanley Spencer and Desmond Chute (Paperback)
Paul Gough
R379 R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Save R43 (11%) Out of stock
Art + NYC - A Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists (Paperback): Museyon Guides Art + NYC - A Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists (Paperback)
Museyon Guides
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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."

Inside Photography - Ten Interviews With Editors (Paperback): David Brittain, Clinton Cahill Inside Photography - Ten Interviews With Editors (Paperback)
David Brittain, Clinton Cahill
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Inside Photography', a collaboration between the writer/editor, David Brittain and graphic artist, Clinton Cahill, is a book of interviews that sheds light on the art photography magazine. Inciteful and often irreverent, the book demonstrates how this critically overlooked type of publication can be an invaluable resource for creative and historical investigations.

100 Artists See Satan (Paperback): Mike McGee 100 Artists See Satan (Paperback)
Mike McGee
R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One hundred artists showcase their conceptions of the world's all-time favorite bad boy, Satan, in this subversive response to the popular traveling exhibit "100 Artists See God. As the popularity of angels rises, so does their oversaturation in the art world. This is a tongue-in-cheek balancing of the cultural phenomena of angels: 100 devilish works of art, sincere, irreverent, and parodic.

Exploding Galaxies - Art of David Medalla (Paperback): Guy Brett Exploding Galaxies - Art of David Medalla (Paperback)
Guy Brett
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Santa Playing Cards (Cards): Monte Beauchamp Santa Playing Cards (Cards)
Monte Beauchamp
R170 Discovery Miles 1 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Charles Simpson - Painter of Animals and Birds, Coastline and Moorland (Paperback): John Branfield Charles Simpson - Painter of Animals and Birds, Coastline and Moorland (Paperback)
John Branfield
R354 R149 Discovery Miles 1 490 Save R205 (58%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Life of Newlyn/St Ives artist famed for his paintings of animals and birds.

Thomas Mostyn - An Enchanted World (Hardcover): Eelco Kappe Thomas Mostyn - An Enchanted World (Hardcover)
Eelco Kappe
R1,049 Discovery Miles 10 490 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Treasured Oases: A Selection of Jao Tsung-i's Dunhuang Studies (Hardcover): Tsung-I Jao Treasured Oases: A Selection of Jao Tsung-i's Dunhuang Studies (Hardcover)
Tsung-I Jao; Edited by David J. Lebovitz
R4,390 Discovery Miles 43 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Jao Tsung-i was China's last great traditional man of letters, polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry during Hong Kong's global heyday. Dunhuang is China's traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. In this volume, Jao proposes an entirely new school of Chinese landscape painting, reconsiders Dunhuang's oldest manuscripts as its newest research field, and explores topics ranging from comparative religion to medieval multimedia.

Brussels 1900 Vienna - Networks in Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, and other Cultural Practices (Hardcover): Piet... Brussels 1900 Vienna - Networks in Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, and other Cultural Practices (Hardcover)
Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer, Chris Reyns-Chikuma
R4,140 Discovery Miles 41 400 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century period (1880-1930). Through archival research and critical methods of cultural transfer as a network, it contributes to the study of Modernism in all its complexity. Seventeen chapters analyse the interconnections between new developments in literature (Verhaeren, Musil, Zweig), drama (Maeterlinck, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), visual arts (Minne, Khnopff, Masereel, Child Art), architecture (Hoffmann, Van de Velde), music (Schoenberg, Ysaye, Kreisler, Kolisch), as well as psychoanalysis (Varendonck, Anna Freud) and cafe culture. Austrian and Belgian artists played a crucial role within the complex, rich, and conflictual international networks of people, practices, institutions, and metropoles in an era of political, social and technological change and intense internationalization. Contributors: Sylvie Arlaud, Norbert Bachleitner, Anke Bosse, Megan Brandow-Faller, Alexander Carpenter, Piet Defraeye, Clement Dessy, Aniel Guxholli, Birgit Lang, Helga Mitterbauer, Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Silvia Ritz, Hubert Roland, Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Guillaume Tardif, Hans Vandevoorde.

Concrete Toronto Map - Guide to Concrete and Brutalist Architecture in Toronto (Paperback): Graeme Stewart, Ya'el... Concrete Toronto Map - Guide to Concrete and Brutalist Architecture in Toronto (Paperback)
Graeme Stewart, Ya'el Santopinto, Michael McClelland; Photographs by Jason Woods; Series edited by Derek Lamberton
R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Knacker's Yard - A Book of Appalling Drawings by Sexton Ming (Paperback): Sexton Ming Knacker's Yard - A Book of Appalling Drawings by Sexton Ming (Paperback)
Sexton Ming
R265 R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Save R20 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From Zappa hurting someone to Kurt Cobain hurting himself. From trees of peace (except one) to bicycles of terrorism and crappy nappies, this book contains everything you ever need to know - and some things you wish you didn't This is to be Sexton Ming's first ever mass market paperback, and the first book ever to be devoted to his strange and wonderful drawings. Ming is a writer/musician/painter extraordinaire and his meandering mind can take you on an otherworldly journey steeped in so much black humour, tangential weirdness and biting observation of the human race it makes this world a much better place. He is little known in mainstream culture but is in fact world famous. He was a founding member of the Medway Poets, has appeared on over 20 albums, painted some of the strangest paintings in the world, supported Sonic Youth live, was called a failed intellectual by Ralph Steadman, once saved Billy Childish's life

Zola's Painters (Hardcover): Robert Lethbridge Zola's Painters (Hardcover)
Robert Lethbridge
R2,502 Discovery Miles 25 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Reclaiming Biblical Heroines - Portrayals of Judith, Esther and the Shulamite in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art... Reclaiming Biblical Heroines - Portrayals of Judith, Esther and the Shulamite in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art (Hardcover)
Monika Czekanowska-Gutman
R5,500 Discovery Miles 55 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Although recently more studies have been devoted to the representations of Biblical heroines in modern European art, less is known about the contribution to the portrayals of Biblical women by modern Jewish artists. This monograph explores why and how heroines of the Scripture: Judith, Esther and the Shulamite received a particular meaning for acculturated Jewish artists originating from the Polish lands in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century. It convincingly proves that artworks by Maurycy Gottlieb, Wilhem Wachtel, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Maurycy Minkowski, Samuel Hirszenberg and Boris Schatz significantly differed from renderings of contemporary non-Jewish artists, adopting a "Jewish perspective", creating complex and psychological portrayals of the heroines inspired by Jewish literature and as well as by historical and cultural phenomena of Jewish revival and the cultural Zionism movement.

20th Century Indian Art - Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary (Hardcover): Partha Mitter, Parul Dave Mukherji, Rakhee... 20th Century Indian Art - Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary (Hardcover)
Partha Mitter, Parul Dave Mukherji, Rakhee Balaram
R1,939 Discovery Miles 19 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 A landmark volume presenting the history of Indian art across the subcontinent and South Asia from the late 19th century to the present day, published in association with Art Alive. Recent decades have seen significant growth in the interest, acquisition and exhibition of modern Indian and South Asian art and artists by major international museums. This essential textbook, primarily aimed at students, presents an engaging, informative history of modern art from the subcontinent as seen through the eyes of prominent Indian academics. Illustrated throughout with strong narrative content, key experts contribute multiple perspectives on modernism, modernity and plurality, and expansive ideas about contemporary art practices. A range of subjects and topics feature including Group 1890, the Madras Art Movement, Regional Modern and Dalit art, as well as artists such as Amrita Sher-Gil and Raqs Media Collective. This book also has sections devoted to the art of Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and other parts of South Asia. Together with lively academic discussions and a selection of absorbing interviews with artists, this title meets a clear demand for a comprehensive and authoritative sourcebook on modern, postmodern and contemporary Indian art. It is the definitive reference for anyone with an interest in Indian art and non-Western art histories. Published in association with Art Alive

Reactionary Modernism (Hardcover): Jonathan Bowden Reactionary Modernism (Hardcover)
Jonathan Bowden; Edited by Greg Johnson
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art - Experimental forms in Argentina, 1955-1968 (Hardcover): Elize Mazadiego Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art - Experimental forms in Argentina, 1955-1968 (Hardcover)
Elize Mazadiego
R3,004 Discovery Miles 30 040 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Award winner: Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies from the Latin American Studies Association Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art reconceptualizes mid-twentieth-century avant-garde practices in Argentina with a focus on the changing material status of the art object in relation to the country's intense period of modernization. Elize Mazadiego presents Oscar Masotta's notion of dematerialization as a concept for interpreting experimental art practices that negated the object's primacy, while identifying their promise within the sociopolitical transformations of the 1950s and 1960s. She argues that, in abandoning the traditional art object, the avant-garde developed new materialities rooted in Buenos Aires' changing social life. A critical examination of art's materiality and its social role within Argentina, this important study paves the way for broader investigations of postwar Latin American art.

Expressionism and Poster Design in Germany 1905-1922 - Between Spirit and Commerce (Hardcover): Kathleen G. Chapman Expressionism and Poster Design in Germany 1905-1922 - Between Spirit and Commerce (Hardcover)
Kathleen G. Chapman
R5,132 Discovery Miles 51 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Expressionism and Poster Design in Germany 1905-1925, Kathleen Chapman re-defines Expressionism by situating it in relation to the most common type of picture in public space during the Wilhelmine twentieth century, the commercial poster. Focusing equally on visual material and contemporaneous debates surrounding art, posters, and the image in general, this study reveals that conceptions of a "modern" image were characterized not so much by style or mode of production and distribution, but by a visual rhetoric designed to communicate more directly than words. As instances of such rhetoric, Expressionist art and posters emerge as equally significant examples of this modern image, demonstrating the interconnectedness of the aesthetic, the utilitarian, and the commercial in European modernism.

Land Art in the U.K. - A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the... Land Art in the U.K. - A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the United Kingdom (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
William Malpas
R1,261 Discovery Miles 12 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

LAND ART IN THE U.K.

A new book on land art in Great Britain. There are chapters on land artists such as Chris Drury, Hamish Fulton, David Nash, Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy. All of the major practitioners of land and environmental art in the U.K. are discussed.

EXTRACT FROM THW CHAPTER ON ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

One wonders whether Andy Goldsworthy would like to work in snow and ice more than in any other medium. In temperate snowlands one feels Goldsworthy is very much at home. Snow has all the right sorts of qualities Goldsworthy looks for in a material: it is malleable, it melts and changes, its whiteness makes for good, contrasty imagery photographically, and it seasonally alters the landscape, and later dissolves into it.

In Goldsworthy s snowworks one senses also the sheer fun working with snow. For people in most of Britain, snow is not a occurrence each year, as it is in, say, Northern Russia or Alaska. Snow can be an exciting event (but British adults usually gripe it). Snow was a perennial delight and shock for Goldsworthy. In Midsummer Snowballs he wrote that e]ven in winter each snowfall is a shock, unpredictable and unexpected.

Goldsworthy retained the child-like enjoyment of snow falling in Britain throughout his life. While much of the U.K. grinds to a halt at the sight of a snowflake, Goldsworthy has the child s joy when it snows (school s cancelled, snowball fights, ice skating, sledging, and making snowmen and snowballs).

Andy Goldsworthy speaks in wonder and awe of the effect, the excitement of the first snowfall. Some of this excitement comes across in Goldsworthy s snowworks. He has made, for example, patterns in the snow by rolling a snowball around a field, exactly as kids do when it snows (1982 and 1987).

Some of Goldsworthy s earliest works with snow were large snowballs. In some of these early snow pieces, Goldsworthy placed snowballs in areas such as woods and fields which didn t have any snow, so the snowballs stood out in the trees and grass (as in Ilkley, Yorkshire, 1981).

The Modernist Bestiary (Hardcover): Sarah Kay, Timothy Mathews The Modernist Bestiary (Hardcover)
Sarah Kay, Timothy Mathews
R1,056 Discovery Miles 10 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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