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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, First World War to 1960 > General

Stuart Davis - A Catalogue Raisonne (Hardcover, New): Ani Boyajian, Mark Rutkoski Stuart Davis - A Catalogue Raisonne (Hardcover, New)
Ani Boyajian, Mark Rutkoski; Contributions by William C Agee, Karen Wilkin; Karen Wilkin
R6,126 Discovery Miles 61 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The highly anticipated, definitive reference on Stuart Davis's paintings, watercolors, drawings, and published illustrations Stuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism, which firmly established American modernism as a force that could rival its European counterpart. Over the course of six decades, Davis produced artworks that drew inspiration from the European modernists but were deeply rooted in the popular culture of the United States. Jazz music and hipster talk, vaudeville stages, city streetscapes, New England fishing villages, gasoline stations, store fronts, and commercial packaging and advertising images were among the sources that infused his art with energy, bringing crisp edges, radiant color, and syncopated rhythms to a vast body of paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Documenting the life's work of this prolific and highly influential artist-who affected almost every development in American art from second-generation Ashcan realism around 1912 to color field and geometric painting in the 1960s-is a monumental achievement. In these three volumes, the editors have catalogued 1,749 artworks by the artist-including more than 600 works never previously illustrated-providing extensive documentation and information about each one. A detailed chronology of Davis's life, as well as an enlightening discussion of the compositional relationship between certain works spanning his oeuvre, rounds out this study. Exquisitely designed and produced, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne will be the definitive reference on the artist's work for many years to come. Published in association with the Yale University Art Gallery

Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930 - Contested Memory (Hardcover): Myroslav Shkandrij Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930 - Contested Memory (Hardcover)
Myroslav Shkandrij
R3,249 Discovery Miles 32 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersburg or Kyiv, they made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. Because their connection to Ukraine has seldom been explored, English-language readers are often unaware that figures such as Archipenko, Burliuk, Malevich, and Exter were inspired both by their country of origin and their links to compatriots. This book traces the avant-garde development from its pre-war years in Paris to the end of the 1920s in Kyiv. It includes chapters on the political dilemmas faced by this generation, the contribution of Jewish artists, and the work of several emblematic figures: Mykhailo Boichuk, David Burliuk, Kazimir Malevich, Vadym Meller, Ivan Kavaleridze, and Dziga Vertov.

Salt Seller - The Writings of Marcel Duchamp (Hardcover): Marcel Duchamp, Michel Sanouillet, Elmer Peterson Salt Seller - The Writings of Marcel Duchamp (Hardcover)
Marcel Duchamp, Michel Sanouillet, Elmer Peterson
R1,572 Discovery Miles 15 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nude Descending a Staircase is one of the best known works of art in tihs century. It caused a sensation at the historic Armory Show of 1913, being damned by one critic as "an explosion in a shingle factory." Yet the criticism in no way perturbed it imperturable creator, Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp's "readymades" (the urinal singed by R. Mutt and entitled Fountain, the snow shovel entitled In Advance of the Broken Arm, and other objects bought and exhibits as works of art) are by now familiar objecs of critical derision and delight. And Duchamp's influence has been pervasive throughout modern art, fosterin Neo-Dada, Op Art, Pop Art, and Conceptual Art. Marcel Duchamp's major work, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass) was left in a state of "definitive incompletion" in 1923. The notes for this extradordinarywork form the largest part of SALT SELLER. Duchamp collected many of them for his Green Box in 1934, when their publication was immediately hailed by Andre Breton as a major intellectual event. The notes themselves will help the curious but mystified spectator of The Large Glass in no simple or straighforward way. They do, however, demonstrate wht an extraordinarily original process the making of The Bride Stripped Barde by Her Bachelors, Even was. Duchamp's wit is nowhere in greater evidence than in the section "Rrose Selavy & Co." Duchamp was photographed in women's apparel by Man Ray and created a "readymade" female alter-ego Rrose Selavy ("Eros c'est la vie" or "arroser la vie" - drink it up; celebrate life). Rrose printed a calling card and her company advertised - "For practical wear, a Rrose Selavy creation: The oblong cress, designed exclusively for ladies afflicted with hiccups." The company also had a service department which made "...home deliveries: domestic mosquitoes (half stock.)" The surrealists had proclaimed in the twenties that words were no longer playing around but had started making clove. This description seems to fit the sayings of Rrose Selavy who fashioned some of the most joyour and ingenious couplings and uncouplings in modern literautre.' In the section "Marcel Duchamp, Criticavit", the more serious side of Duchamp is represented by two informative interviews and two important statements on art, "The Creative Act" and "Apropos of Readymades." His more experimental writings are grouped under the title "Texticles." Taken together these varied writings constitute a major document of modern art. Whether the reader sits back and enjoys the charms of Duchamp or studies and attempts to decipher his inner-most secrets, the reader will find SALT SELLAR a compendium of delight.

Klimt (French, Hardcover): Gilles Neret Klimt (French, Hardcover)
Gilles Neret
R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

La popularite toujours vivace de Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) s'explique non seulement par l'attrait particulier qu'exercent ses toiles luxuriantes mais aussi par les themes universaux sur lesquels il travailla: l'amour, la beaute feminine, le vieillissement et la mort. Fils d'un orfevre, Klimt composait des surfaces delicatement decoratives d'une luminosite precieuse, qui montrent la double influence des arts egyptien et japonais. Toiles, fresques ou frises, ses oeuvres se distinguent par des couleurs radieuses, des lignes fluides, des elements floraux et des motifs rappelant la mosaique. Parce qu'il traite souvent de sujets en rapport avec la sensualite et le desir, ou l'anxiete et le desespoir, tout ce chatoiement est aussi charge de sentiment. Les nombreuses figures feminines peintes par Klimt, reconnaissables entre mille par leurs formes voluptueuses, leur chair tendre, leurs levres rouges et leurs joues rosies, etaient particulierement chargees de passion, a une epoque ou un erotisme d'une telle franchise etait encore tabou dans la bonne societe viennoise. Ce livre presente une selection d'oeuvres de Klimt, son univers pictural ou le decoratif sert le desir, ainsi que son influence sur les generations suivantes d'artistes. A propos de la collection Chaque volume de la Basic Art Series de TASCHEN contient: une chronologique detaillee de la vie et de l'oeuvre de l'artiste qui rend compte de son importance culturelle et artistique une biographie concise une centaine d'illustrations couleur accompagnees de legendes explicatives

Grandma Moses - American Modern (Hardcover): Thomas Denenberg, Jamie Franklin, Diana Korzenik, Alexander Nemerov Grandma Moses - American Modern (Hardcover)
Thomas Denenberg, Jamie Franklin, Diana Korzenik, Alexander Nemerov; Foreword by Robert Wolterstorff
R950 R775 Discovery Miles 7 750 Save R175 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the best-known artists of her time, and a true American legend, Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses (1860-1961) was often marginalized as a latter-day folk painter or a phenomenon of popular media. Accompanying a traveling exhibition, this new book looks closely at the paintings themselves and the artist's compelling biography to reassert her role in the development of a culture of modernist art at mid-century. Presenting fresh research, several scholars examine Moses's name, public persona, painted world, and wildly popular place in American pop culture; address the myth of the self-taught artist; and contextualize her work alongside such contemporaries as Horace Pippin, Elie Nadelman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Morris Hirshfield.

From a High Place - A Life of Arshile Gorky (Paperback): Matthew Spender From a High Place - A Life of Arshile Gorky (Paperback)
Matthew Spender
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An immigrant from a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky (c. 1900-1948) made his way to the U.S. to become a painter in 1920. Having grown up haunted by memories of his alternately idyllic and terrifying childhood - his family fled the Turks' genocide of Armenians in 1915 - he changed his name and created a new identity for himself in America. As an artist, Gorky bridged the generation of the surrealists and that of the abstract expressionists and was a very influential figure among the latter. His work was an inspiration to Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, among others. Matthew Spender illuminates this world as he tells the story of Gorky's life and career.

Conversations with Diego Rivera - The Monster in His Labyrinth (Hardcover): Alfredo Cardona Pena Conversations with Diego Rivera - The Monster in His Labyrinth (Hardcover)
Alfredo Cardona Pena; Translated by Alvaro Cardona-Hine
R2,238 R2,062 Discovery Miles 20 620 Save R176 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Pena disclose Rivera's iconoclastic views of life and the art world of that time. These intimate Sunday dialogues with what is surely the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century show us the free-flowing mind of a man who was a legend in his own time; an artist who escaped being lynched on more than one occasion, a painter so controversial that his public murals inspired movements, or, like the work commissioned by John D. Rockefeller, were ordered torn down. Here in his San Angelin studio, we hear Rivera's feelings about the elitist aspect of paintings in museums, his motivations to create public art for the people, and his memorable, unedited expositions on the art, culture, and politics of Mexico. The book has seven chapters that loosely follow the range of the author's questions and Rivera's answers. They begin with childlike, yet vast questions on the nature of art, run through Rivera's early memories and aesthetics, his views on popular art, his profound understanding of Mexican art and artists, the economics of art, random expositions on history or dreaming, and elegant analysis of art criticisms and critics. The work is all the more remarkable to have been captured between Rivera's inhumanly long working stints of six hours or even days without stop. In his rich introduction, author Cardona-Pena describes the difficulty of gaining entrance to Rivera's inner sanctum, how government funtionaries and academics often waited hours to be seen, and his delicious victory. At eight p. m. the night of August 12, a slow, heavy-set, parsimonious Diego came in to where I was, speaking his Guanajuato version of English and kissing women's hands. I was able to explain my idea to him and he was immediately interested. He invited me into his studio, and while taking off his jacket, said, "Ask me..." And I asked one, two, twenty... I don't know how many questions 'til the small hours of the night, with him answering from memory, with an incredible accuracy, without pausing, without worrying much about what he might be saying, all of it spilling out in an unconscious and magical manner. A series of Alfredo Cardona-Pena's weekly interviews with Rivera were published in 1949 and 1950 in the Mexican newspaper, El Nacional, for which Alfredo was a journalist. His book of compiled interviews with introduction and preface, El Monstruo en su Laberinto, was published in Spanish in 1965. Finally, this extraordinary and rare exchange has been translated for the first time into English by Alfredo's half-brother Alvaro Cardona Hine, also a poet. According to the translator's wife, Barbara Cardona-Hine, bringing the work into English was a labor of love for Alvaro, the fulfillment of a promise made to his brother in 1971 that he did not get to until the year before his own death in 2016.

Breathless Days, 1959-1960 (Hardcover): Serge Guilbaut, John O'Brian Breathless Days, 1959-1960 (Hardcover)
Serge Guilbaut, John O'Brian
R2,634 R2,429 Discovery Miles 24 290 Save R205 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taking 1959-1960 as a pivotal cultural and political moment, the contributors to Breathless Days reframe postwar Western art history, examining the aesthetic and ideological alliances and tensions in art throughout Western Europe and the Americas. The collection provides a heterogeneous account of the intersections of the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba. This reveals the knotty and multilayered connections among these divergent artistic milieus. Whether discussing Duchamp's With My Tongue in My Cheek, Brazilian abstraction, postrevolutionary Cuban art, Jean Tinguely's self-destroying machines, or Burroughs's Naked Lunch, the contributors show this brief period to be a key to the cultural and political development of Western Europe and the Americas during the Cold War. Contributors. Carla Benzan, Clint Burnham, Jill Carrick, Eric de Chassey, Mari Dumett, Serge Guilbaut, Luc Lang, Hadrien Laroche, Aleca Le Blanc, Richard Leeman, Tom McDonough, Regis Michel, John O'Brian, Kjetil Rodje, Ludovic Tournes, Antonio Eligio (Tonel)

John Singer Sargent - Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925: The Complete Paintings, Volume IX (Hardcover): Richard Ormond, Elaine... John Singer Sargent - Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925: The Complete Paintings, Volume IX (Hardcover)
Richard Ormond, Elaine Kilmurray
R1,888 Discovery Miles 18 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The final volume in a full survey of the work of John Singer Sargent, covering his late watercolors, designs for the Boston murals, and work as an official War Artist The last in a series of books devoted to the work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), this volume covers the figure and landscape works that Sargent produced between 1914 and 1925. The story begins with the artist painting with friends on vacation in Austria in the summer of 1914, unaware that war was about to be declared. The following year, he began working in London on his ideas for the murals at the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, before spending two years in Boston and exploring other parts of America. While in Florida to paint a portrait of John D. Rockefeller, he produced a group of uniquely Floridian watercolors that are breathtaking arrangements of color, form, and light. In July 1918 he accepted an invitation from the British government to travel to the Somme battlefields as an official war artist. This experience led him to produce a remarkable group of works depicting troop movements, off-duty soldiers relaxing, and the studies for his epic canvas, Gassed. Sargent returned to Boston in 1921 and 1922 to complete his mural projects, and visits to Maine and New Hampshire yielded numerous watercolors. Chapters on Sargent's materials and the framing of his pictures complete this remarkable project. Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Emerging from the Shadows 1860-1960: Vol. II (Hardcover): Maurine St. Gaudens Emerging from the Shadows 1860-1960: Vol. II (Hardcover)
Maurine St. Gaudens; As told to Joseph Morsman; Photographs by Martin A. Folb
R1,854 R1,399 Discovery Miles 13 990 Save R455 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is volume 2: E-K, of a four-volume set. The complete four-volume set presents the careers of 320 women artists working in California, with more than 2,000 images, over the course of a century. Their work encompasses a broad range of styles-from the realism of the nineteenth century to the modernism of the twentieth-and of media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, illustration and print-making. While some of the profiled artists are already well known, others have been previously ignored or largely forgotten. Yet all had serious careers as artists: they studied, exhibited, and won awards. These women were trailblazers, each one essential to the momentum of a movement that opened the door for heartfelt expression and equality. Much of the information and many of the images in the book have never before been published. Artists are presented alphabetically; also included are additional primary sources that put the artists' work in context.

Four Metaphors of Modernism - From Der Sturm to the Societe Anonyme (Paperback): Jenny Anger Four Metaphors of Modernism - From Der Sturm to the Societe Anonyme (Paperback)
Jenny Anger
R801 R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Save R45 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art "Where do the roots of art lie?" asked Der Sturm founder Herwarth Walden. "In the people? Behind the mountains? Behind the planets. He who has eyes to hear, feels." Walden's Der Sturm-the journal, gallery, performance venue, press, theater, bookstore, and art school in Berlin (1910-1932)-has never before been the subject of a book-length study in English. Four Metaphors of Modernism positions Der Sturm at the center of the avant-garde and as an integral part of Euro-American modern art, theory, and practice. Jenny Anger traces Walden's aesthetic and intellectual roots to Franz Liszt and Friedrich Nietzsche-forebears who led him to embrace a literal and figurative mixing of the arts. She then places Der Sturm in conversation with New York's Societe Anonyme (1920-1950), an American avant-garde group modeled on Der Sturm and founded by Katherine Sophie Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray. Working against the tendency to examine artworks and artist groups in isolation, Anger underscores the significance of both organizations to the development and circulation of international modernism. Focusing on the recurring metaphors of piano, glass, water, and home, Four Metaphors of Modernism interweaves a historical analysis of these two prominent organizations with an aesthetic analysis of the metaphors that shaped their practices, reconceiving modernism itself. Presented here is a modernism that is embodied, gendered, multisensory, and deeply committed to metaphor and a restoration of abstraction's connection with the real.

Louis Icart: The Complete Etchings (Hardcover, Revised And Expanded): Clifford P. Catania, William R. Holland, Nathan D. Isen Louis Icart: The Complete Etchings (Hardcover, Revised And Expanded)
Clifford P. Catania, William R. Holland, Nathan D. Isen
R2,369 R1,745 Discovery Miles 17 450 Save R624 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This newly expanded book on Louis Icart - one of France's most well known art deco artists - now includes a section on his oil paintings, as well as over 512 different etchings, painstakingly acquired and photographed. Particular attention has been given to the early years (1911-1924), when Icart was a relatively unknown artist and his edition sizes were small. With few exceptions, the book contains large, full color illustrations that give the reader a true representation of the full-size etchings. The authors clarify some of the existing confusion surrounding Icart's work, explaining the variations in his signature, the use of the "Windmill" seal and other seals, and the myriad copyright notations found on his artwork. The illustrations have been carefully measured and dated. This is a great addition to the Icart legacy.

Baroque between the Wars - Alternative Style in the Arts, 1918-1939 (Hardcover): Jane Stevenson Baroque between the Wars - Alternative Style in the Arts, 1918-1939 (Hardcover)
Jane Stevenson
R1,912 Discovery Miles 19 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Baroque between the Wars is a fascinating and new account of the arts in the twenties and thirties. We often think of this time as being dominated by modernism, yet the period saw a dialogue between modern baroque - eclectic, playful, camp, open to influence from popular culture yet in dialogue with the past, and unafraid of the grotesque or surreal - and modernism, which was theory-driven, didactic, exclusive, and essentially neo-classical. Jane Stevenson argues that both baroque and classical forms were equally valid responses to the challenge of modernity, by setting painting and literature in the context of 'minor arts' such as interior design, photography, fashion, ballet, and flower arranging, and by highlighting the social context and sexual politics of creative production. Accessibly written and generously illustrated, the volume focuses on artists, artefacts, clients, places, and publicists to demonstrate how baroque offered a whole way of being modern which was actively subversive of the tenets of modernism and practised by the people modernism habitually defined as not worth listening to, particularly women and homosexuals.

Brushes with War: Paintings and Drawings by the Tr of World War I: The WWHAM Collection of Original Art (Hardcover): Joel R... Brushes with War: Paintings and Drawings by the Tr of World War I: The WWHAM Collection of Original Art (Hardcover)
Joel R Parkinson
R2,098 R1,572 Discovery Miles 15 720 Save R526 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brushes With War is a unique history of World War I in broad brush strokes. Over 230 original paintings, drawings, sculpture, and trench art by the combatants of World War I cover all aspects of the war and most major battles from Mons (1914) to the Meuse-Argonne (1918). The artists were American, Austrian, Australian, Belgian, British, Canadian, French, German, and Russian soldiers. These were not professional artists, but amateurs depicting their own daily struggles as they saw them. Just as snapshot photos are often more realistic than posed professional portraits, these works of art are more genuine impressions of the war than the official art and illustrations of the time.

Abstract Art Against Autonomy - Infection, Resistance, and Cure since the 60s (Paperback): Mark A. Cheetham Abstract Art Against Autonomy - Infection, Resistance, and Cure since the 60s (Paperback)
Mark A. Cheetham
R929 R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Save R101 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Abstract Art Against Autonomy, Mark Cheetham provides a revolutionary account of abstraction in the visual arts since the decline of the formalist paradigms in the 1960s. He claims that abstract work remains a vital contributor to contemporary visual culture, but that it performs in a way that is different from its predecessors of the early and mid-twentieth century and cannot adequately be assessed without new models of understanding. Cheetham posits that abstraction has reacted to paradigms of purity with practices of impurity. By examining abstract art since the 1960s within a narrative of infection, resistance and cure, Cheetham provides an opportunity to rethink paradigmatic genres - the monochrome and the mirror - and to link in new ways the work of artists whose work extends and complicates the tradition of abstract art, including Yves Klein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Turrell, Gerhard Richter, Peter Halley, General Idea and Taras Polataiko.

Tarzan - In The City of Gold (Vol. 1) - The Complete Burne Hogarth Sundays and Dailies Library (Hardcover): Burne Hogarth Tarzan - In The City of Gold (Vol. 1) - The Complete Burne Hogarth Sundays and Dailies Library (Hardcover)
Burne Hogarth
R957 R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Save R177 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Burne Hogarth is one of the most famous artists in the history of comic strips - at the peak with Alex Raymond ("Flash Gordon") and Hal Foster ("Prince Valiant"). In 1936 he followed Foster on the massively popular Tarzan comic strip, and set a new standard for dynamics and excitement. This is the first of four exclusive volumes that will collect Hogarth's entire run, beginning with" Tarzan "and the "Golden City."
Restored and reproduced in an oversized format, these editions will finally do justice to one of the most lauded illustrators of all time, whose work has been out of print for more than a decade.
Details of illustrations:
Full-color restorations of the newspaper strips, reproduced in the oversized full-page format made popular by current collections of "Prince Valiant" and "Popeye the Sailor."
Details of extras:
Historical articles from Scott Tracy Griffin, author of "Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration"

Max Bill's View of Things (Hardcover): Claude Lichtenstein Max Bill's View of Things (Hardcover)
Claude Lichtenstein
R929 R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Save R236 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The special exhibition Die gute Form, put on by the Swiss Werkbund (SWB) at the Basel trade fair in 1949, was an event that caused a furor far beyond Switzerland's borders. The renowned architect, designer, and graphic artist Max Bill was the mastermind behind the idea and personally selected the exhibits and designed their setting. Eighty exhibition panels showed consumer objects of exemplary design, from a teacup to the jet plane. Bill recognized the emerging, American-style commodity aesthetic that was making inroads into Switzerland and postwar Europe and sought to confront it with a specifically "Swiss" aesthetic shaped by a desire to create long-lasting forms. This publication documents Bill's initiative by presenting the original exhibition panels and Ernst Scheidegger's photographs of the installation, places this famous design show in a theoretical and design-historical context, examines its background, and creates a link to the publishing house's first publication from 1983.

Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images (Paperback, BC): Christopher D. Johnson Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images (Paperback, BC)
Christopher D. Johnson
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866 1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Mnemosyne-Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with black cloth. On these panels Warburg carefully, intuitively arranged some thousand black-and-white photographs of classical and Renaissance art objects, as well as of astrological and astronomical images ranging from ancient Babylon to Weimar Germany. Here and there, he also included maps, manuscript pages, and contemporary images taken from newspapers. Trying through these constellations of images to make visible the many polarities that fueled antiquity's afterlife, Warburg envisioned the Mnemosyne-Atlas as a vital form of metaphoric thought.

While the nondiscursive, frequently digressive character of the Mnemosyne-Atlas complicates any linear narrative of its themes and contents, Christopher D. Johnson traces several thematic sequences in the panels. By drawing on Warburg's published and unpublished writings and by attending to Warburg's cardinal idea that "pathos formulas" structure the West's cultural memory, Johnson maps numerous tensions between word and image in the Mnemosyne-Atlas. In addition to examining the work itself, he considers the literary, philosophical, and intellectual-historical implications of the Mnemosyne-Atlas. As Johnson demonstrates, the Mnemosyne-Atlas is not simply the culmination of Warburg s lifelong study of Renaissance culture but the ultimate expression of his now literal, now metaphoric search for syncretic solutions to the urgent problems posed by the history of art and culture."

Carrington's Letters - Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships (Hardcover): Dora Carrington Carrington's Letters - Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships (Hardcover)
Dora Carrington; Edited by Anne Chisholm 1
R928 R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Save R177 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Your letters are a great pleasure. I lap them down with breakfast and they do me more good than tonics, blood capsules or iron jelloids' Lytton Strachey Dora Carrington was considered an outsider to Bloomsbury, but she lived right at its heart. Known only by her surname, she was the star of her year at the Slade School of Fine Art, but never achieved the fame her early career promised. For over a decade she was the companion of homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, and killed herself, stricken without him, when he died in 1932. She was also a prolific and exuberant correspondent. Carrington was not consciously a pioneer or a feminist, but in her determination to live life according to her own nature - especially in relation to her work, her passionate friendships and her fluid attitude to sex, gender and sexuality - she fought battles that remain familiar and urgent today. She was friends with the greatest minds of the day and her correspondence stars a roster of fascinating characters - Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Rosamund Lehmann, Maynard Keynes to name but a few. Carrington's Letters introduces the maverick artist and compelling personality to a new generation for the first time with fresh correspondence never before published. Unmediated, passionate, startlingly honest and very playful, reading Carrington's letters is like having her whisper in your ear and embrace you gleefully.

Fear And The Muse Kept Watch - The Russian Masters - from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein - Under Stalin... Fear And The Muse Kept Watch - The Russian Masters - from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein - Under Stalin (Hardcover)
Andy McSmith
R768 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R225 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Can great art be produced in a police state? Josef Stalin ran one of the most oppressive regimes in world history. Nevertheless, Stalinist Russia produced an outpouring of artistic works of immense power. More than a dozen great artists were visible enough for Stalin to take an interest in them - which meant he chose whether they were to live in luxury and be publicly honoured or to be sent to the Lubyanka for torture and execution. Journalist and novelist Andy McSmith brings together the stories of these artists, revealing how they pursued their art, often at great risk.

Inside Francis Bacon (Paperback): Martin Harrison, Christopher Bucklow, Francesca Pipe, Sophie Pretorius, Joyce H. Townsend,... Inside Francis Bacon (Paperback)
Martin Harrison, Christopher Bucklow, Francesca Pipe, Sophie Pretorius, Joyce H. Townsend, …
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The third and final instalment in the Bacon Estate's groundbreaking series discloses and analyses the most exciting new research and information to emerge in many years on this elusive artist. Three of the essays, by Francesca Pipe, Sophie Pretorius and Martin Harrison, are based on archives recently added to the collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon. Very little is known about Bacon's early career, and the diaries of his two first patrons provide a far deeper understanding of his formative years than has been accessible hitherto. Especially revelatory are the extensive records kept over a long period by Bacon's doctor, Paul Brass: what they reveal will revolutionise thinking on Bacon. Sarah Whitfield sheds new light on both Bonnard and Bacon; she has identified concerns the two artists shared that will surprise as well as enlighten. Joyce Townsend draws on her scientific and technical investigations into Tate's most important Bacon paintings to advance significant new information about Bacon's methods. Christopher Bucklow is an expert on Japanese art, which forms an important, if unexpected, aspect of his rethinking of the metaphor system in Bacon's paintings.

Rethinking Malevich - Proceedings of a Conference in Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of Kazimir Malevich's Birth... Rethinking Malevich - Proceedings of a Conference in Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of Kazimir Malevich's Birth (Hardcover)
Alistair Douglas; Christina Lodder
R2,321 Discovery Miles 23 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"Rethinking Malevich" is an English-language collection of sixteen innovative essays by leading international scholars that document new and intriguing aspects of Kazimir Malevich's art and biography. This latest research on the Russian modern artist appears after more than seventy years of political and cultural difficulties - including the East-West bifurcation of his artistic and written legacy - that impeded the study and understanding of his work. For the first time, the greater portion of Malevich's work and writings was available for the scholarly research and study undertaken here. The result is a wealth of new details about this pioneer of abstraction, including: explorations of his early art education; the differences in the reception of his abstract art by Western and Russian audiences; the appearance of his work in 1936 at the Museum of Modern Art; the artist's special relationship with Ukraine. The development of his art is considered alongside that of Vasily Kandinsky and Giorgio De Chirico, and his philosophy is examined in comparison with the ideas of Nikolai Fedorov and Ortega-y-Gasset. The history of Russian and Soviet art in the 1920s and 1930s is intricately interwoven with the revolutionary social changes taking place throughout the country. Here are details of the political maneuverings Malevich went through in Russia to protect his art and his friends, and his reaction to Lenin's death in 1924 and the subsequent growth of the "Lenin myth." Rethinking Malevich reveals the complex early interweaving of Suprematism and Constructivism, considers little-researched aspects of the artist's Post-Suprematist period, and the history of Malevich's literary legacy. Not least, it demonstrates the various ways in which Malevich's art continues to stimulate the highly unusual work of contemporary Russian artists.

Fascist Modernism in Italy - Arts and Regimes (Paperback, Nippod): Francesca Billiani Fascist Modernism in Italy - Arts and Regimes (Paperback, Nippod)
Francesca Billiani
R1,257 Discovery Miles 12 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Between 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of a 'new man/woman' as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. As they did so these regimes uniformly adopted what we would call a modernist aesthetic - huge-scale experiments in modernism were funded and supported by fascist and totalitarian dictators. Famous examples include Mussolini's New Rome at EUR, or the Stalinist apartment blocks built in urban Russia. Focusing largely on Mussolini's Italy, Francesca Billiani argues that modernity was intertwined irrecoverably with fascism - that too often modernist buildings, art and writings are seen as a purely cultural output, when in fact the principles of modernist aesthetics constitute and are constituted by the principles of fascism. The obsession with the creation of the 'new man' in art and in reality shows this synergy at work. This book is a key contribution to the field of twentieth century history - particularly in the study of fascism, while also appealing to students of art history and philosophy.

Demonstration Rooms (German, Paperback): Albertinum Dresden Demonstration Rooms (German, Paperback)
Albertinum Dresden; Text written by Isabelle Busch, Kathleen Reinhardt, Hilke Wagner; Designed by Lamm Kirch
R859 Discovery Miles 8 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Maurice Marinot: The Glass 1911-1934 (Hardcover): Maurice Marinot: The Glass 1911-1934 (Hardcover)
R1,268 R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Save R294 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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