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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General

Winifred Nicholson: Music of Colour (Paperback): Winifred Nicholson Winifred Nicholson: Music of Colour (Paperback)
Winifred Nicholson; Edited by Elizabeth A Fisher
R371 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R70 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book brings together some of Nicholson's most eloquent essays with extracts from previously unpublished letters between the artist and Ede, and the words of their mutual friends, the poet Kathleen Raine and collector Helen Sutherland. With an introduction by Kettle's Yard curator Elizabeth Fisher exploring Nicholson's relationship with Ede, the book is richly illustrated and includes reproductions of all works in the collection, a biography and bibliography.

The Great Exhibition, 1851 - A Sourcebook (Paperback): Jonathon Shears The Great Exhibition, 1851 - A Sourcebook (Paperback)
Jonathon Shears
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Great Exhibition, 1851 is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the Royal Commission, diaries, journals, celebratory poems and essays, the book provides an unparalleled resource for teachers and students of the Exhibition and a starting point for researchers new to the subject. Subdivided into six chapters - 'Origins and organisation', 'Display', 'Nation, empire and ethnicity', 'Gender', 'Class' and 'Afterlives' - it represents the current scholarly debates about the Exhibition, orientating readers with helpful, critically informed introductions. What was the Great Exhibition and what did it mean? Readers of The Great Exhibition, 1851 will take great pleasure in finding out. -- .

Parkett No. 65 John Currin, Laura Owens, Michael Raedecker (Paperback): John Currin, Laura Owens, Michael Raedecker Parkett No. 65 John Currin, Laura Owens, Michael Raedecker (Paperback)
John Currin, Laura Owens, Michael Raedecker
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading contemporary artists, Parkett has been the foremost international journal on art for nearly two decades.

Plus, the issue features a special Parkett Inquiry: "Learning from Documenta?" Parkett #65 will feature three of today's most exciting mid-career painters: John Currin, Laura Owens, and Michael Raedecker.

Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New edition): Allison Levy Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New edition)
Allison Levy
R4,519 Discovery Miles 45 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Whereas recent studies of early modern widowhood by social, economic and cultural historians have called attention to the often ambiguous, yet also often empowering, experience and position of widows within society, Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe is the first book to consider the distinct and important relationship between ritual and representation. The fifteen new interdisciplinary essays assembled here read widowhood as a catalyst for the production of a significant body of visual material-representations of, for and by widows, whether through traditional media, such as painting, sculpture and architecture, or through the so-called 'minor arts,' including popular print culture, medals, religious and secular furnishings and ornament, costume and gift objects, in early modern Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Arranged thematically, this unique collection allows the reader to recognize and appreciate the complexity and contradiction, iconicity and mutability, and timelessness and timeliness of widowhood and representation.

Marie Laurencin - Une femme inadaptee in Feminist Histories of Art (Hardcover, New edition): Elizabeth Louise Kahn Marie Laurencin - Une femme inadaptee in Feminist Histories of Art (Hardcover, New edition)
Elizabeth Louise Kahn
R4,506 Discovery Miles 45 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Marie Laurencin, in spite of the noticeable reputation she made in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century, has attracted only sporadic attention by late-twentieth century art historians. Until now the substance of her art and the feminist issues that were entangled in her life have been narrowly examined or reduced by an author's chosen theoretical format; and the terms of her lesbian identity have been overlooked. In this case study of une femme inadaptee and an unfit feminist, Elizabeth Kahn re-situates Laurencin in the on-going feminist debates that enrich the disciplines of art history, women's studies and literary criticism. Kahn's thorough reading of the artist's visual and literary production ensures a comprehensive overview which addresses notable works and passages but also integrates those that are less well known. Incorporating feminist theory and building on the work of contemporary feminist art historians, she avoids the heroics of conventional biography, instead allowing her subject to participate in the historical collective of women's work. Provocative and engagingly written, this fresh new study of Marie Laurencin's life and works also explores the multiple valences by which to connect the histories of, and find new connections between, women artists across the twentieth century.

Difficult Subjects - Working Women and Visual Culture, Britain 1880-1914 (Hardcover, New Ed): Kristina Huneault Difficult Subjects - Working Women and Visual Culture, Britain 1880-1914 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Kristina Huneault
R4,503 Discovery Miles 45 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The working women of Victorian and Edwardian Britain were fascinating but difficult subjects for artists, photographers, and illustrators. The cultural meanings of labour sat uncomfortably with conventional ideologies of femininity, and working women unsettled the boundaries between gender and class, selfhood and otherness. From paintings of servants in middle-class households, to exhibits of flower-makers on display for a shilling, the visual culture of women's labour offered a complex web of interior fantasy and exterior reality. The picture would become more challenging still when working women themselves began to use visual spectacle. In this first in-depth exploration of the representation of British working women, Kristina Huneault explores the rich meanings of female employment during a period of labour unrest, demands for women's enfranchisement, and mounting calls for social justice. In the course of her study she questions the investments of desire and the claims to power that reside in visual artifacts, drawing significant conclusions about the relationship between art and identity.

The Vanished Collection - Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman's quest for the truth (Paperback): Pauline... The Vanished Collection - Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman's quest for the truth (Paperback)
Pauline Baer De Perignon; Translated by Natasha Lehrer
R320 R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Save R126 (39%) Ships in 5 - 7 working days

A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle 'Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest, curious and open' Menachem Kaiser 'A terrific book' Le Point It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished, precious art collection. But the list drove her on a frenzied trail of research in the archives of the Louvre and the Dresden museums, through Gestapo records, and to consult with Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. What happened in 1942? And what became of the collection after Nazis seized her great-grandparents' elegant Parisian apartment? The quest takes Pauline Baer de Perignon from the Occupation of France to the present day as she breaks the silence around the wrenching experiences her family never fully transmitted, and asks what art itself is capable of conveying over time.

The Art of the Everyday - The Quotidian in Postwar French Culture (Hardcover, New): Lynn Gumpert The Art of the Everyday - The Quotidian in Postwar French Culture (Hardcover, New)
Lynn Gumpert
R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Ships in 4 - 6 working days

Perhaps more than anything else, it is the concept of the everyday that has most marked the arts and culture of the twentieth century. Nowhere has this been so clearly articulated as in France after World War II. Indeed, the 1950s and 1960s in France were awash in a sociological fascination with the transformed rhythms and accoutrements of daily lived experience.

"The Art of the Everyday" features essays by prominent writers on the topic of the quotidian in philosophy, cinema, theater, photography, and other visual arts of postwar France. In particular, a number of younger artists practicing today--such as JoAl BartolomA(c)o, Rebecca Bournigault, Claude Closky, FrA(c)dA(c)ric Coupet, Valerie Jouve, Philippe Mairesse, Jean-Luc MoulA]ne, and Rainer Oldendorf--find inspiration in the stuff of everyday life, rejecting an outmoded reverence for "le grand goAt," For them, the sophisticated urbanity of the nineteenth-century "flA[neur" has mutated into a city dweller well-acquainted with the often unpleasant requirements of city life.

A panorama of an important aspect of postwar French culture, "The Art of the Everyday "brings to light the work of a new generation of contemporary French artists viewed through the lens of daily experience.

Guide to the Archive of Art and Design - Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Hardcover): Elizabeth Lomas Guide to the Archive of Art and Design - Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Lomas
R2,506 Discovery Miles 25 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Archive of Art and Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum contains Britain's foremost collection of primary source material relating to art and design, particularly of the 20th century. Established in 1978, the Archive holds over 200 archives created by individual artists, craftspeople and designers and businesses and societies involved in the manufacture and promotion of art and design products. Each archive is described in detail in this guide, with information about its creator, its contents, and related sources held both inside and outside the V&A Museum. The Archive's holdings range from fashion retailers (Biba), to interior designers (Eileen Gray), to graphic artists (Eric Fraser), to furniture manufacturers (Heal & Son Holdings Ltd), to stained glass manufacturers (James Powell & Sos [Whitefriars] Ltd). The Archive also includes Sir Edwardo Paolozzi's Krazy at Arkive of Twentieth Century Popular Culture.

Responding to Chaos - Tradition, Technology, Society and Order in Japanese Design (Paperback): David N. Buck Responding to Chaos - Tradition, Technology, Society and Order in Japanese Design (Paperback)
David N. Buck
R3,081 Discovery Miles 30 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, Responding to Chaos offers a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a new century. The country's economic boom of the 1980s produced a surge of interest in land and building, and consequently in design in all its forms. From restaurant interiors to products, from private housing to recreational spaces, design received an unprecedented degree of attention. However the bursting in the early 1990s of this so-called 'bubble' economy has prompted a re-examination of design and its role in urban society.

After Dada - Marta Hegemann and the Cologne Avant-Garde (Hardcover): Dorothy P. Rice After Dada - Marta Hegemann and the Cologne Avant-Garde (Hardcover)
Dorothy P. Rice
R2,359 R1,465 Discovery Miles 14 650 Save R894 (38%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

What happened in 1920s Cologne 'after Dada'? Whilst most standard accounts of Cologne Dada simply stop with Max Ernst's departure from the city for a new life as a surrealist in Paris, this book reveals the untold stories of the Cologne avant-garde that prospered after Dada but whose legacies have been largely forgotten or neglected. It focuses on the little-known Magical Realist painter Marta Hegemann (1894-1970). By re-inserting her into the histories of avant-garde modernism, a fuller picture of the gendered networks of artistic and cultural exchange within Weimar Germany can be revealed. This book embeds her activities as an artist within a gendered network of artistic exchange and influence in which Ernst continues to play a vital role amongst many others including his first wife, art critic Lou Straus-Ernst; photographers August Sander and Hannes Flach; artists Angelika Fick, Heinrich Hoerle, Willy Fick and the Cologne Progressives and visitors such as Kurt Schwitters and Katherine Dreier. The book offers a significant addition to research on Weimar visual culture and will be invaluable to students and specialists in the field. -- .

Bauhaus News (English, German, Paperback): Bauhaus News (English, German, Paperback)
R637 R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Anni Albers (Hardcover): Anni Albers, Brenda Danilowitz, T’ai Smith Anni Albers (Hardcover)
Anni Albers, Brenda Danilowitz, T’ai Smith
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first in-depth study of a monumental wall hanging—rediscovered after many years—by renowned Bauhaus artist Anni Albers. Albers was influential in elevating textiles from craft to fine art. Her exquisite wall hanging Camino Real—seen for the first time outside of Mexico City at David Zwirner, New York, in 2019, and the subject of this book—is a superb example of this modern master’s work. In 1967, noted architects Ricardo Legorreta and Luis Barragán commissioned Albers to create a work for the newly built Hotel Camino Real in Mexico City. Completed in 1968, her striking wall hanging Camino Real is heavily influenced by Latin American art and culture. Showcasing Albers’s approach to working with textiles as a “many-sided practice,†it is accompanied in this book by works Albers made following her move to the United States in 1933, including innovative wall hangings, weavings, and a range of works on paper. Together, these works reflect Albers’s brilliant embrace of different materials and techniques and her ability to work at varied scales. The works in this publication offer additional context and motifs, demonstrating the artist’s pioneering investment in textiles as an art form and her parallel interest in mass-produced designs. Published on the occasion of the Anni Albers exhibition presented at David Zwirner, New York, in 2019, this catalogue features new scholarship from the show’s curator, Brenda Danilowitz, art historian and chief curator of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and T’ai Smith, an expert on Bauhaus craft and weaving.

Maintenant 15 - A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (Paperback): Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges Maintenant 15 - A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (Paperback)
Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"A smorgasbord for those who are sick and tired of it." —Seattle Book Review The 2021 edition of the premiere journal of contemporary dada writing and art considers humankind past and present with a collection of contemporary dada art and writing driven by the theme “HUMANITY: THE REBOOT.†More than 242 creators from 31 countries establish that social protest can be creatively achieved via risk-taking art. The premier journal gathering the work of internationally-renowned contemporary Dada artists and writers, MAINTENANT 15 offers compelling proof that Dada continue to serve as a catalyst to creators more than a century later. The annual MAINTENANT series, established in 2008, gathers work of contemporary Dada artists and writers from around the world. The new issue features cover art by renowned Cuban American artist Edel Rodriguez, whose provocative work has been featured on the covers of TIME, The New Yorker, Der Spiegel, and more. Past issues of MAINTENANT include work by artists Mark Kostabi, Walter Robinson, Raymond Pettibon, Nicole Eisenmann, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Kazunori Murakami;  writers include Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Andrei Codrescu, and more, with a strong contingent of artist-writers from the world of punk rock.  MAINTENANT 15 contributors include: Derek Adams • Alexey Adonin • Jamika Ajalon • Youssef Alaoui • Linda J. Albertano • Austin Alexis • Joel Allegretti • Santiago Amaya • Elizabeth Ashe • Gaëlle Audic • Liz Axelrod • Mahnaz Badihian • Amy Barone • Vittore Baroni • Amy Bassin • Regina Lafay Bellamy • John M. Bennett • C. Mehrl Bennett • Volodymyr Bilyk • József Bíró • Mark Blickley • Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier • Clemente Botelho • John Bowman • Jeff Boynton • Gedley Belchior Braga • Bob Branaman • philipkevinbrehse • Kathy Bruce • Imanol Buisan • Fork Burke • Irene Caesar • Billy Cancel • Peter Carlaftes • Virginia Carroll • Mona Jean Cedar • Robert Cenedella • Mutes César • Leanne Chabalko • Sarah M. Chen • Ross Cisneros • Lynette Clennell • Andrei Codrescu • Chuck Connelly • Roger Conover • Anthony Cox • Lars Crosby • Tchello d’Barros • Steve Dalachinsky • Zoë Darling • Allison Davis • Holly Day • Avelino de Araujo • Quỳnh Iris de Prelle • Laylah DeLautréamont • Bart Dewolf • Peter Dizozza • Sam Dodson • Bruce Louis Dodson • Carol Dorf • Robert Duncan • Jeff Farr • Amoye Favour • Rich Ferguson • Kathleen Florence • Gioivanni Fontana • Texas Fontanella • Robert C. Ford • Kofi Fosu Forson • Abigail A. Frankfurt • Barbara Friedman • Thomas Fucaloro • Joanna Fuhrman • Ignacio Galilea • Sandra Gea • Kat Georges • Christian Georgescu • Robert Gibbons • Gordon Gilbert • Mark Glista • Benjamin Goluboff • S. A. Griffin • Fausto Grossi • Meghan Grupposo • Egon Guenther • Genco Gulan • Elancharan Gunasekaran • John S. Hall • Janet Hamill • Bibbe Hansen • David Hargreaves • Nour Hassan • Heide Hatry • Aimee Herman • Karen Hildebrand • Jack Hirschman • Mark Hoefer • Lawrence Holzworth • Mane Hovhannisyan • Joël Hubaut • Heikki Huotari • Matthew Hupert • Ayushi Jain • Annaliese Jakimides • Marta Janik • Ruud Janssen • Mathias Jansson • Debra Jenks • Jerry Johnson • Boni Joi • Milana Juventa • Jerry Kamstra • Allan Kausch • Marina Kazakova • Donna Joy Kerness • Rose Knapp • Doug Knott • Ron Kolm • Mark Kostabi • Eleni Kourti • Paweł Kuczyński • Anatoly Kudryavitsky • Béné Kusendila • David Lawton • Serge Lecomte • Jane LeCroy • Patricia Leonard • Linda Lerner • Adam Li • Alexander Limarev • Laurinda Lind • Goran Lišnjić • Yvonne Litschel • Richard Loranger • Sarah Maino • Jaan Malin • Sophie Malleret • Bibiana Padilla Maltos • Giovanni Mangiante • Mary Manspeaker • Phil Marcade • Fred Marchant • Eliette Markhbein • Sara Cahill Marron • Malak Mattar • Bronwyn Mauldin • Ellyn Maybe • John Mazzei • Jesse McCloskey • Philip Meersman • R. S. Mengert • Lawrence Miles • Lois Kagan Mingus • Charles Mingus III • Richard Modiano • Mike M. Mollett • Thurston Moore • Tim Murphy • Alexander Nderitu • Gerald Nicosia • Anna O’Meara • Valery Oisteanu • Ruth Oisteanu • Marc Olmsted • Suzi Kaplan Olmsted • Jane Ormerod • Yuko Otomo • Csaba Pál • Lisa Panepinto • Gay Pasley • John S. Paul • Paulo • Giorgia Pavlidou • Ernst Perdriel • Puma Perl • Raymond Pettibon • Alex Andy Phuong • Charles Plymell • Leslie Prosterman • Lauren Purje • Renaat Ramon • Nicca Ray • C. R. Resetarits • Mado Reznik • Wes Rickert • Benjamin Robinson • Bruce Robinson • Aliah Rosenthal • Alison Ross • Bradley Rubenstein • Mashaal Sajid • Ralph Salisbury • Martina Salisbury • Aram Saroyan • Phil Scalia • Jack Seiei • Silvio Severino • Craig Shannon • Susan Shup • Bertholdus Sibum • Denise Silk-Martelli • Angela Sloan • Valerie Sofranko • Orchid Spangiafora • Dd. Spungin • Laurie Steelink • Samantha Steiner • J. J. Steinfeld • Christine Sloan Stoddard • Rich Stone • W. K. Stratton • Lucien Suel • Neal Skooter Taylor • Michael Thompson • Fred Tomaselli • Zev Torres • John J. Trause • Ann Firestone Ungar • Yrik-Max Valentonis • Luca Vallino • Anoek van Praag • Lynnea Villanova • Barbara Vos • Silvia Wagensberg • Tom Walker • George Wallace • Scott Wannberg • Mike Watt • Jennifer Weigel • Poul R. Weile • Ingrid Wendt • Syporca Whandal • A Whittenberg • Maw Shein Win • Yaryan • Gerald Yelle • Logan K. Young • Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis • Larry Zdeb • Leonard Zinovyev • Nina Zivancevic • Joanie HF Zosike

Native American Art in the Twentieth Century - Makers, Meanings, Histories (Hardcover): W. Jackson Rushing III Native American Art in the Twentieth Century - Makers, Meanings, Histories (Hardcover)
W. Jackson Rushing III
R4,506 Discovery Miles 45 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


This innovative volume provides an illuminating guide to painting, photography, sculpture, pottery, printmaking and performance art by some of the most celebrated Native American and Canadian First Nation artists of our time. The book brings together distinguished scholars, critics, curators and Native artists, including Lucy R. Lippard, Gerald R. McMaster and Kay Walking Stick to explore the multiple meanings of Native American art.
The contributors argue for Native American art's place in modern art history, but also trace Native artists' continuing resistance to dominant orthodoxies of the art market and art history. The artist contributors, who represent several Native nations, including Cherokee, Lakota and Plains Cree, emphasize the importance of traditional stories, myths and ceremonies in contemporary art, and show how their art is linked to struggles over land, sovereignty and self-determination.

Scottish Painting - 1837 to the Present (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition): William R. Hardie Scottish Painting - 1837 to the Present (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
William R. Hardie
R852 R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Save R207 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The only book available on Scottish painting, this book is now in its third edition with a new introduction and final chapter that brings the book up to date with the latest developments in Scottish painting (Richard Wright's win of the Turner Prize 2009). Illustrated throughout, the work is by acknowledged authority on Scottish painting William Hardie. Scottish society has been reflected through the strong colour and energetic brushwork of its artists. The book traces the beginnings of Scottish painting from the foundation of the Foulis Academy in 1753, with William Dyce and Scott Lauder establishing themselves in the south, followed by W Q Orchardson and John Pettie around 1860. European travel ensured Scottish painters were open to new techniques, and the explosion of the Glasgow Boys and then the Colourists onto the scene meant Scotland was respected for its innovation and imagination. Charles Rennie Mackintosh today is still internationally recognised for his work, and the painting of John Byrne, Curister, and Peter Howson bring the book to the present day.

The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Interior Design - Bundle Book + Studio Access Card (Other printed item, 4th edition): Mark... The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Interior Design - Bundle Book + Studio Access Card (Other printed item, 4th edition)
Mark Hinchman
R2,232 Discovery Miles 22 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This seminal text demystifies the terminology around being an interior designer today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, and even some historical terms that a designer must know. The dictionary now includes coverage of sustainability, smart materials, new technologies, and processes. Coverage of non-Western cultures is expanded and provides insights into their influence in a global marketplace. This comprehensive reference covers multiple aspects of interior design and architecture, addressing structural and decorative features of interiors and their furnishings, business practices, green design, universal design, commercial and residential interiors, new workplace design, and institutional and hospitality facilities. The fourth edition also includes vocabulary and image flashcards via STUDIO for on-the-go studying.

Power of the Avant-Garde: Now and Then (English, French, Hardcover): Ulrich Bischoff, Jurgen Muller Power of the Avant-Garde: Now and Then (English, French, Hardcover)
Ulrich Bischoff, Jurgen Muller
R1,212 R977 Discovery Miles 9 770 Save R235 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In The Power of the Avant-Garde, contemporary artists from different art disciplines enter into dialogue with their colleagues from the historical avant-garde movement. Luc Tuymans talks about 'Le Grand Cheval' of Raymond Duchamp-Villon; Marlene Dumas describes her passion for Edvard Munch; John Baldessari discusses the genius Marcel Broodthaers,...This book makes surprising links, shedding new light on the power and influence of art before, during and after World War I.

Data Design - Visualising Quantities, Locations, Connections (Paperback): Per Mollerup Data Design - Visualising Quantities, Locations, Connections (Paperback)
Per Mollerup
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Data Design: Visualising Quantities, Locations, Connections" is a beautifully designed, highly practical guide to the graphic representation of quantities, locations, connections and other forms of data, founded on solid design principles. Easy to understand, the book has been created to assist designers, researchers, and writers in expressing visually through points, lines, and areas that which by words, letters, and numbers alone often have difficulty communicating. It describes problems, principles, and solutions for the visual display of information, and presents real-world didactic examples, taken from, for example, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. The book's theoretical basis is strong, but not at the expense of clarity; readers will understand both what to do and why. After a number of introductory chapters that describe what is common to all types of visual displays, the book continues with three main parts that deal with displays showing quantities, locations, and connections. "Data Design" is an essential guide to how data can, and should be, presented in order to effortlessly communicate information with clarity, elegance and style. Highly illustrated and with beautiful simplicity, "Data Design" is an indispensable guide to the clear and effective presentation of information. ""

A New Era (Paperback): Alice Strang A New Era (Paperback)
Alice Strang 1
R590 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R77 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Revealing an alternative story of modern Scottish art, A New Era examines the most experimental work of Scottish artists during the first half of the 20th century. It challenges the accepted view of the dominance of the Scottish Colourists and uncovers the hitherto little-known progressive Scottish art world. Through these works, we can see the commitment of Scottish artists to the progress of art through their engagement and interpretation of the great movements of European modern art, from Fauvism and Expressionism, to Cubism, Art Deco, abstraction and Surrealism, among others. Looking at the most advanced work of high-profile artists such as William Gillies and Stanley Cursiter, and lesser-known talents, like Tom Pow and Edwin G. Lucas, A New Era takes its name from the group established in Edinburgh in 1939 to show surreal and abstract work by its members.

Pow! Right in the Eye! - Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting (Hardcover): Berthe Weill Pow! Right in the Eye! - Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting (Hardcover)
Berthe Weill; Edited by Lynn Gumpert; Translated by William Rodarmor
R543 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R33 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the first time. Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish family of very modest means. One of the first female gallerists in the business, she first opened the Galerie B. Weill in the heart of Paris's art gallery district in 1901, holding innumerable exhibitions over nearly forty years. Written out of art history for decades, Weill has only recently regained the recognition she deserves. Under five feet tall and bespectacled, Weill was beloved by the artists she supported, and she rejected the exploitative business practices common among art dealers. Despite being a self-proclaimed "terrible businesswoman," Weill kept her gallery open for four decades, defying the rising tide of antisemitism before Germany's occupation of France. By the time of her death in 1951, Weill had promoted more than three hundred artists-including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, and Suzanne Valadon-many of whom were women and nearly all young and unknown when she first exhibited them. Pow! Right in the Eye! makes Weill's provocative 1933 memoir finally available to English readers, offering rare insights into the Parisian avant-garde and a lively inside account of the development of the modern art market.

The Great Chinese Art Transfer - How So Much of China's Art Came to America (Hardcover): Michael St.Clair The Great Chinese Art Transfer - How So Much of China's Art Came to America (Hardcover)
Michael St.Clair
R2,698 Discovery Miles 26 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China's last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China's internal chaos allowed imperial and private Chinese collections to be scattered, looted and sold. A remarkable and varied group of Westerners entered the country, had their eyes opened to centuries of Chinese creativity and gathered up paintings, bronzes and ceramics, as well as sculptures, jades and bronzes. The migration to America and Europe of China's art is one of the greatest outflows of a culture's artistic heritage in human history. A good deal of the art procured by collectors and dealers, some famous and others little known but all remarkable in individual ways, eventually wound up in American and European museums. Today some of the art still in private hands is returning to China via international auctions and aggressive purchases by Chinese millionaires.

Art as Enterprise - Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art (Hardcover): Grace McQuilten, Anthony White Art as Enterprise - Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
Grace McQuilten, Anthony White
R4,307 Discovery Miles 43 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Art is produced, circulated, consumed and disseminated within an economic system - it depends on money for its creation, for the livelihood of its makers, and for its distribution. In this sense, art can be understood as an enterprising activity. However, profit-making is rarely the primary goal of artists, and indeed the entanglement of art with enterprise generates significant aesthetic, conceptual, philosophical and ethical challenges for contemporary art practice. Social enterprise has emerged from this complex terrain with the promise of an alternative model of economic organisation in the arts. Grace McQuilten and Anthony White argue that artists can, and have, engaged critically in the commercial market, by way of this model. Art as Enterprise brings a fresh perspective to the debate about the roles of contemporary art in consumer capitalist society.

Magic Realism - Social Context and Discourse (Hardcover): Maria-Elena Angulo Magic Realism - Social Context and Discourse (Hardcover)
Maria-Elena Angulo
R2,851 Discovery Miles 28 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since the 1930s, Latin American writers have used magic realism to transcend the limits of the fantastic and illuminate social problems within the culture. The author considers five modern Latin American novels. Starting with two canonical texts of magic realism, Alejo Carpentier's "El reino de este mundo "(1949) and Garcia Marquez's "Cien a-os de soledad "(1967), the author argues that "Los Sangurimas" (1934), by the Ecuadorian Jos de la Cuadra, is a seminal work due to de la Cuadra's new approach to reality and his use of marvelous and hyperbolic elements. The author shows the continuation of this example in Ecuador in Demetrio Aguilera-Malta's "Siete lunas y siete serpientes "(1970) and Alicia Y nez Coss'o's "Bruna, soroche y los tios "(1972), which elucidate social problems of race, class, and gender through use of magic realism.
In selecting for her study well-known writers such as Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, and others, less well-known such as de la Cuadra, Aguilera-Malta and Y nez Coss'o, the author demonstrates that both canonical and noncanonical writers for many years have been working on this new way of writing to interpret in fiction the highly complex Latin American reality.

Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860-1910 - Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival (Hardcover, New Ed): Dennis... Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860-1910 - Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival (Hardcover, New Ed)
Dennis Denisoff
R2,638 R2,229 Discovery Miles 22 290 Save R409 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the environment, queer and feminist politics, national identities, and changing social hierarchies. Combining scholarship in the environmental humanities with aesthetic and literary theory, this interdisciplinary study digs into works by Simeon Solomon, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Arthur Machen and others to address trans-temporal, trans-species intimacy; the vagabondage of place; the erotics of decomposition; occult ecology; decadent feminism; and neo-paganism. Decadent Ecology reveals the mutually influential relationship of art and science during the formulation of modern ecological, environmental, evolutionary and trans-national discourses, while also highlighting the dissident dynamism of new and recuperative pagan spiritualities - primarily Celtic, Nordic-Germanic, Greco-Roman and Egyptian - in the framing of personal, social and national identities.

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