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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General
Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) is renowned for an oeuvre ranging from
views of Melbourne's seaside suburb St. Kilda to an iconic series
on outlaw hero Ned Kelly. Working in factories from age fourteen,
Nolan began his training spray painting signs on glass, which was
followed by a job cutting and painting displays for Fayrefield
Hats. Such employment offered him firsthand experience with
commercial synthetic paints developed during the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1939, having given up his job at Fayrefield in pursuit of an
artistic career, Nolan became obsessed with European abstract
paintings he saw reproduced in books and magazines. With little
regard for the longevity of his work, he began to exploit materials
such as boot polish, dyes, secondhand canvas, tissue paper, and old
photographs, in addition to commercial and household paints. He
continued to embrace new materials after moving to London in 1953.
Oil-based Ripolin enamel is known to have been Nolan's preferred
paint, but this fascinating study-certain to appeal to
conservators, conservation scientists, art historians, and general
readers with an interest in modern art-reveals his equally
innovative use of nitrocellulose, alkyds, and other diverse
materials.
Fans of adult coloring books will love the intricate, imaginative
illustrations of mythological creatures including dragons,
unicorns, griffins, and more in this extreme coloring and search
challenge book-the perfect gift for coloring addicts. The awesomely
detailed style fans have come to know and love through Kerby
Rosanes' New York Times bestselling coloring books-Animorphia,
Imagimorphia, Fantomorphia, and Geomorphia-comes to vivid life in
this coloring book featuring mythical creatures that morph and
explode into astounding detail. Bring each imagination-bending
image alive with color and find the objects hidden throughout the
pages of this fantastical coloring book.
CAUTION: To all the world's thinkers, artists, poets, and misfits:
SoulPancake is a movement to chew on Life's Big Questions. Side
effects may include change in the way you think about what it means
to be human. Don't say we didn't warn you. Somewhere over the
course of history, chewing on Life's Big Questions lost its cool
factor. Fortunately for mankind, Rainn Wilson (best known for
playing Dwight Schrute on NBC's "The Office") and a bunch of his
friends are on a mission to change that. CAN MEN AND WOMEN REALLY
BE "JUST FRIENDS? IF YOU ONLY HAD ONE HOUR LEFT TO LIVE, HOW WOULD
YOU SPEND IT? WHAT PARALYZES YOUR CREATIVITY? WHAT FUELS IT? Based
on the wildly successful website SoulPancake.com, this book urges
you to explore philosophy, creativity, spirituality, love, truth,
science, and so much more. With bold questions, intriguing
challenges, and mind-bending art, "SoulPancake" creates a space for
you to stimulate your brain stem, spark your soul, and figure out
what it means to be human. CRAMMED INSIDE: A revealing Introduction
by Rainn Wilson180 Life's Big Questions (the ones that gnaw at your
innards)Visual masterpieces from 90+ artistsUnusual activities that
launch you into the worldExclusive commentary from the fascinating
minds of: Amy Sedaris, David Lynch, Heather Armstrong (Dooce.com),
Dr. Drew, Jesse Dylan, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Harold Ramis, Josh
Ritter, and Saul Williams.
Discover the unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect
ever to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the
Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. This
collection spans the breadth of Ando's entire career, including
such stunning new projects as the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater and
the Roberto Garza Sada Center in Monterrey, Mexico. Each project is
profiled through photographs and architectural drawings that
explore Ando's unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light,
space, and natural forms. Featuring designs from award-winning
private homes, churches, museums, and apartment complexes to
cultural spaces throughout Japan, South Korea, France, Italy,
Germany, Mexico, and the USA, this compact edition brings you up
close and personal with a Modernist master. About the series
TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists
in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing,
helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art,
anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we
celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our
company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the
stars of our program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still
realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
Explore the graphic work of Hundertwasser with this lavishly
produced introduction to the artist. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
was a painter. He created original graphic works--lithographs,
silkscreens, mixed media, etchings, and aquatint as well as
Japanese woodcuts. This bibliophilic gem is a Hundertwasser
original, the first book designed and laid out by the artist
himself. Bound in black linen, foil-embossed, and printed in six
colors, this book features illustrations of all 71 of
Hundertwasser's graphic works created between 1951 and 1976. Each
work is given a full-page and is accompanied by a Hundertwasser
poem or quote printed in silver on a black page. The book also
contains an introduction and critical texts that make it
indispensable for fans of Hundertwasser and lovers of beauty.
Paul Feeley (19101966) is a towering figure in postwar American
modernism. His legendary tenure as head of the art department at
Bennington College and resulting associations with the likes of
Lawrence Alloway, Helen Frankenthaler, Clement Greenberg, Jackson
Pollock, and David Smith informed his unique approach to painting
as an open-ended proposition. Represented during his lifetime by
the Betty Parsons Gallery and honored posthumously by a
retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, he is the
subject of this timely new publication, which accompanies a major
exhibition organized by the Albright- Knox Art Gallery and the
Columbus Museum of Art.In addition to color plates of all works in
the exhibitionnearly one hundred paintings, works on paper, and
sculpturesthis volume features essays by exhibition curators
Douglas Dreishpoon and Tyler Cann, as well as poet and critic
Raphael Rubinstein, and an illustrated chronology by academic and
granddaughter of the artist Cary Cordova. From his early Abstract
Expressionistinspired paintings to his organic, anthropomorphic
figureground compositions and later diagrammatical, hard-edged
works, "Imperfections by Chance" charts the full range of Feeley s
influential life and career.The accompanying exhibition opens at
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, October 22, 2015January
10, 2016"
Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of
language and fine art in printmaking, sculpture, installation and
performance, exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the
psyche. Dill transforms the emotions of the writings of Emily
Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Tom Sleigh, Franz Kafka, and Rainer
Maria Rilke, among others, into works of paper, wire, horsehair,
foil, bronze and music — works that awaken the viewer to the
physical intimacy and power of language itself. Lesley Dill –
Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me features a uniquely inspired
group of sculptures and two-dimensional works more than a decade in
the making. It is testimony of Dill’s ongoing investigation into
the significant voices and personas of America’s past. For the
artist, the American voice grew from early America’s obsessions
with divinity and deviltry, on fears of the wilderness out there
and wilderness inside us. The plates, in colour throughout, are
supplemented with essays by Lesley Dill, Brooklyn-based writer
Nancy Princenthal, Figge Art Museum’s curator Andrew Wallace, and
researcher and tribal historian Juaquin Hamilton-Youngbird. The
book also features a literary text by writer by Tom Sleigh and a
poem by author and poet Ray Young Bear.
In the forty years since the first iteration of Venice Architecture
Biennale, the field of architecture has seen a remarkable change in
the role played by exhibition-making. While architecture and
display have long been intertwined practices, a rapid proliferation
of large-scale perennial exhibitions-particularly in the
twenty-first century-has resulted in the biennial / triennial
becoming an integral part of our discipline, a new geography of
itinerant display that has profoundly altered the contours of
architectural thought. Between format, space, and content, what are
the various agencies and effects of these events? Biennials /
Triennials asks these questions and others of a range of curatorial
agents-including After Belonging Agency, Beatriz Colomina and Mark
Wigley, Sarah Herda, Adrian Lahoud, Ippolito Pestellini, and Andre
Tavares-and visits crucial sites of recent exhibitions that reveal
what is at stake in the newfound ubiquity of the architectural
-ennial.
Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) was one of the leading British sculptors
of his generation. This essential illustrated catalogue raisonne of
his sculpture is published in a new, fourth edition to coincide
with Chadwick's centenary in 2014 and incorporates a new
illustrated listing of his lithographs and jewellery, new
reproductions of many of his sculptures (including some in colour),
a completely new page design, and the most up-to-date catalogue
information on his work. Chadwick began his career as an
architectural draughtsman, but after the Second World War he took
up sculpture without any formal training. He initially concentrated
on mobiles, and these were followed by welded constructions and
bronzes. He established his international reputation in 1956, when
he won the International Prize for Sculpture at the Venice
Biennale. He consistently worked in welded iron and was constantly
intrigued by human and animal forms: no matter how abstract the
sculpture became at times, it was always firmly rooted in a deep
understanding of the natural world. This indispensable reference
book includes comprehensive, updated lists of Chadwick's
exhibitions, the public collections he is represented in, and a
full biography, alongside the fully illustrated complete catalogue
of his sculpture. The introductory essay by the late Dennis Farr,
which draws on interviews with the artist, examines Chadwick's
development as a sculptor and his sculptural techniques, and the
catalogue notes now incorporate a useful new explanation of
Chadwick's bronze casts and foundries.
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Sanctuary
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Hossein Amirsadeghi, Maryam Eisler
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From Botticelli to Bacon, da Vinci to Damien Hirst, artists have
invested their personalities in the environments in which they have
worked. Although today numerous artists have abandoned the studio
model in favor of new modes of working enabled by new technologies,
the studio space, often containing the visible remains of artistic
ingenuity, toil, and torment, continues to present a window into
the creative soul and a summary of widely varying methods and
approaches.
Sanctuary: Britain s Artists and their Studios is the first
publication in half a century to look behind the scenes at both
artists working lives and their workplaces, encouraging them to
speak, delving into their minds and exploring their methodologies
and personalities. Surveying 120 renowned artists living and
working in Britain today, from the most noteworthy to new, upcoming
talent, Sanctuary offers a visual feast of specially commissioned
photography while following each artist through their working
routines. Tony Cragg, Anthony Gormley, Jenny Saville, Anish Kapoor,
Mark Wallinger, Phyllida Barlow, Jane and Louise Wilson, Thomas
Houseago, Tracey Emin, the Chapman Brothers the list goes on. In
addition to highly individualized interviews with all of the
artists featured in the book, the stage is set by three highly
engaging essays exploring the meanings, configurations, and
personalities of a huge range of studio settings and environments
in the context of the contemporary British art scene."
Award-winning artist and illustrator Sara Fanelli is one of the
world's foremost illustrators, renowned for her experimental
techniques that have spawned many imitators. Her unique
contribution to book illustration is evident in such memorable
books as "Dear Diary" ('one of the most extraordinary picture books
ever devised' - "The independent"; 'an eccentric masterpiece' -
"The Guardian"), "Mythological Monsters" ('a model of artistic
engagement' - "Kirkus Reviews") and "My Map Book" ('an exhilarating
and liberating book for all' - "The Guardian"). More recently she
illustrated "The New Faber Book of Children's Verse and Pinocchio"
(for the cover of which she was awarded first prize in the V&A
Illustration Awards). Fanelli's inspiration lies not only in the
visual arts but also in literature and the theatre. "Sometimes I
Think, Sometimes I Am" is a remarkable creation by the artist, in
which Fanelli takes the quotations and aphorisms that inspire her
work, from Dante and Goethe to Calvino and Beckett, and places them
in the context of a completely original artistic creation -
sketchbooks, collages, paintings and drawings - at the heart of
which lies a beautiful miniature book-within-a-book. The book opens
with a newly commissioned text from Steven Heller, while Marina
Warner introduces each of the five 'chapters' - 'Devils and
Angels', 'Love', 'Colour', 'Myth' and 'The Absurd' - that make up
this unique work. This is a book that will be enjoyed by anyone
alert to the possibilities of what a book can be. It will be
treasured, collected and marvelled at for years to come.
Dark Horse Books and Nintendo team up to bring you "The Legend of
Zelda: Hyrule Historia", containing an unparalleled collection of
historical information on "The Legend of Zelda" franchise. This
handsome hardcover contains never-before-seen concept art, the full
history of Hyrule, the official chronology of the games, and much
more! Starting with an insightful introduction by the legendary
producer and video-game designer of Donkey Kong, Mario, and The
Legend of Zelda, Shigeru Miyamoto, this book is crammed full of
information about the storied history of Link's adventures from the
creators themselves! As a bonus, "The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule
Historia" includes an exclusive comic by the foremost creator of
"The Legend of Zelda" manga - Akira Himekawa!
...Expecting the Lightning uses science, art, astronomy, and
anthropology to discuss what it means to be part of the universe.
It is an invitation, through art, to be part of a discussion
between those who acknowledge the extension of human ignorance and
the desire for answers. This book, full of images, tells the
history of humankind versus the universe, travelling through time
by means of a multitude of artistic artefacts which interact and
offer a sensorial experience. Text in English and Spanish.
For nearly forty years, John Van Alstine has created abstract
sculptures forged from steel and stone. In John Van Alstine:
Sculpture, 1971-2018, three notable essayists explore the
sculptor's abstract landscapes that reveal the complex synergy
between natural forces and man-made elements; by grappling with the
challenges of balancing stone and steel, Van Alstine's indoor,
outdoor, and site-specific sculptures are measured and calculated,
yet simultaneously poetic; their swooping angular lines create
expansive spaces beyond the limits of their steel and stone frames
to unveil our collective history and imagination, illuminating a
deft interplay of natural energies and the human experience. The
artist weaves into his works elements of mythology, celestial
navigation, implements, human figures, movement, urban forms, and
found objects, while using motion, balance, and inertia to
incorporate the eternal forces of gravity, tension, and erosion. In
an essay on his drawings, Van Alstine details the critical role
they play in the initiation and planning of his projects, offering
the reader a firsthand perspective on the artist's creative
process. Van Alstine's works have been featured in numerous solo
and group exhibitions and are found in the permanent collections of
the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art, and the
Phillips Collection, to name but a few. His works are also found in
numerous public and private collections. The Artist Book Foundation
is gratified to announce the publication of this lavishly
illustrated monograph on an esteemed and prolific contemporary
artist.
Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951
celebrates the dynamic abstract and constructed art made and
exhibited in Britain over a seventy-year period. Including
constructed reliefs and sculpture, kinetic and participatory art,
painting and printmaking, the publication explains the dialogue and
collaboration between artists working in radical ways across the
generations to continually reinvent Constructivist art. Rhythm and
Geometry is drawn from the collection at the Sainsbury Centre,
University of East Anglia. Featured artists include Robert Adams,
Rana Begum, Charles Biederman, Lygia Clark, Natalie Dower, Stephen
Gilbert, Adrian Heath, Anthony Hill, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin,
Victor Pasmore, Jean Spencer, Takis, Victor Vasarely, Mary Webb,
Stephen Willats, Gillian Wise and Li Yuan-Chia.
Is art created with computers really art? This book answers 'yes.'
Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects
based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern
naturalization of technology wherein technology becomes something
we live in as well as use. The present study establishes these
claims by looking at digital art's historical emergence from the
1960s to the start of the present century. Paul Crowther, using a
philosophical approach to art history, considers the first steps
towards digital graphics, their development in terms of
three-dimensional abstraction and figuration, and then the
complexities of their interactive formats.
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Richard Hughes
(Hardcover)
Martin Clark, Tom O'Sullivan, Joanne Tatham
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The sculptural installations of British artist Richard Hughes (born
1974) appear to be composed of banal everyday objects--old
mattresses, tennis shoes, planters--but in fact these objects are
carefully fabricated in fiberglass, resin and silicon, setting in
motion a bizarre play between grungy reality and crafted artifice.
This volume considers his work to date.
The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence
sculpture and installation art.
Jessica Stockholder has long broken
down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture
to explore the body in social and cultural space - using found
objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colours. This revised,
updated edition spotlights the extraordinary evolution of her
career, and examines the pivotal role she has played in shaping
some of the most fundamental ideas around which contemporary
sculpture and painting revolve today.
This lavishly illustrated volume showcases lettering and
typographic work from some of the world's most exciting, innovative
and talented designers. As well as featuring full-page examples of
their best work, Lettering: Tips for Creation is divided into two
parts; in the first half each artist has selected examples of their
work and discussed their influences and early career, while in the
second half each of them provides a new piece of work, talking us
through the creative and production process, step by step, from the
initial idea and sketch, explaining how the dimensions were worked
out and the letters combined to ultimately form a harmonious
message.
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