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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General

Stanley Donwood: There Will Be No Quiet (Hardcover): Stanley Donwood Stanley Donwood: There Will Be No Quiet (Hardcover)
Stanley Donwood; Foreword by Thom Yorke 1
R1,035 R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Save R263 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The talent behind Radiohead's iconic artwork reveals in his own words and for the first time the creative process that has driven his career and earned him a cult reputation. A restless and prolific figure, Stanley Donwood is widely regarded as one of the most important visual artists of his generation. His influential work for Radiohead spans many practices and ever-evolving aesthetics over a 23-year period, from music packaging to installations to print-making. Here, for the very first time, he reveals his personal notebooks, photographs, sketches and abandoned routes to iconic Radiohead artworks. Arranged chronologically, chapters are each dedicated to a major work - be it an album cover, promotional piece or a personal project - presented as a step-by-step working case study, from speculative ideas and sketches right through to Photoshop experiments and the finished piece. Accompanying narratives by Donwood explain the inspirations and stories behind his creative process and what it is like to work with the band, told with his typical razor-sharp humour and generosity of spirit. Featuring a treasury of archive material, this is the first deep dive into Donwood's creative practice and the artistic freedom afforded to him by working for a major music act. There Will Be No Quiet is essential reading, and viewing, for fans of the band and anyone interested in the explosive mix of artistic accident, musical ingenuity and creative originality.

The Art of John Harris: Beyond the Horizon (Hardcover): John Harris The Art of John Harris: Beyond the Horizon (Hardcover)
John Harris 1
R813 R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Save R124 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

World-renowned visionary artist John Harris' unique concept paintings capture the Universe on a massive scale, featuring everything from epic landscapes and towering cities to out-of-this-world science fiction vistas.
This collection focuses on his wide variety of futuristic art, as well as his striking covers for a variety of esteemed SF authors, including Arthur C Clarke, John Scalzi, Ben Bova, Hal Clement, Jack McDevitt, Frederik Pohl, Orson Scott Card's Enders books and many more.

August House Is Dead, Long Live August House - The Story Of A Johannesburg Atelier (Paperback): Kim Gurney August House Is Dead, Long Live August House - The Story Of A Johannesburg Atelier (Paperback)
Kim Gurney
R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In the east end of the inner city of Johannesburg, a former textiles factory undergoes a dramatic transformation to become, over the next several years, one of the city’s foremost artists’ studios. When the sale of the building seems imminent, not only must the artists face the daunting prospect of relocation, but a remarkable chapter in the complex narrative of contemporary South African art seems about to close. Sensing the importance of this moment, Kim Gurney, herself a former tenant of the atelier, follows the stories of several of the August House denizens through some of the artworks that came to life in their studios. The result is a fascinating study of the role of the atelier and its artists in South Africa’s fractious art world, and a consideration of the relationship between art and the ever-changing city of Johannesburg.

With the eye of an urbanist, artist and resident, Kim Gurney [constructs] a compelling assemblage of individual, visual and urban narratives brilliantly illuminates the complex life of a building, August House, located in inner city Johannesburg. Her cast of characters—artists, workers, neighbours, August House and the city—lend poignant contours to the ebbs and flows of daily life,the pressures of gentrification, the ruthlessness of poverty, the radicality of the imagination and the ghosts of history.

A Humument - A Treated Victorian Novel (Paperback, Final edition): Tom Phillips A Humument - A Treated Victorian Novel (Paperback, Final edition)
Tom Phillips
R476 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R55 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The final edition of the late Tom Phillips's 'defining masterpiece of postmodernism'. In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips discovered A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W.H. Mallock, and set himself the task of altering every page, by painting, collage or cut-up techniques, to create an entirely new version. Some of Mallock's original text remains intact and through the illustrated pages the character of Bill Toge, Phillips's anti-hero, and his romantic plight emerges. First published in 1973, A Humument - as Phillips titled his altered book - quickly established itself as a cult classic. From that point, the artist worked towards a complete revision of his original, adding new pages in successive editions. That process is now finished. This final edition presents an entirely new and complete version of A Humument. It includes a revised Introduction by the late artist, in which he reflects on the 50-year project, and 92 new illustrated pages.

China's Avant-Garde, 1978–2018 (Hardcover): Daria Berg, Giorgio Strafella China's Avant-Garde, 1978–2018 (Hardcover)
Daria Berg, Giorgio Strafella
R4,028 Discovery Miles 40 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines how China’s new generation of avant-garde writers and artists are pushing the boundaries of vernacular culture, creatively appropriating artistic and literary languages from global cultures to reflect on reform-era China’s transformation and the Maoist heritage. It explores the vortex of cultural change from the launch of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978 to Xi Jinping establishing his leadership for life in 2018. The book argues that China’s new avant-garde adopt transcultural forms of expression while challenging the official discourse of Xi Jinping’s regime, which promotes cultural nationalism and demands that cultural production in China embodies the essence of the "Chinese nation". The topics range from body art, women’s poetry and boys’ love literature to Tibetan fiction and ceramic art. The book shows how the avant-garde use the new digital media to bypass government censorship, transcending China’s virtual frontiers while breaking new ground for an emerging public sphere. Overall, the book provides a rich picture of the nature of China’s avant-garde art and literature and the challenges it poses for the Chinese government. The introduction and chapter 10 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Political Protest and Street Art - Popular Tools for Democratization in Hispanic Countries (Hardcover): Lyman Chaffee Political Protest and Street Art - Popular Tools for Democratization in Hispanic Countries (Hardcover)
Lyman Chaffee
R3,977 Discovery Miles 39 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This first cross-national book-length study of street art as political protest and communication focuses on art forms traditionally used by collectives and state interests in the Hispanic world--posters, wallpaintings, graffiti, murals, shirts, buttons, and stickers, for example. Professor Chaffee examines the motives behind the use of street art as propaganda and seeks to explain how it is effective. Using field research and a sociopolitical approach, he assesses contemporary street art in Spain, the Basque country, Argentina, and Brazil. He shows how street art is a barometer of popular conflicts and sentiments across the political spectrum. This comparative analysis is intended for students, teachers, and professionals in the fields of communication, political science, history, and popular culture.

Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Camille Manfredi Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Camille Manfredi
R2,259 Discovery Miles 22 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved Scotland. Camille Manfredi investigates the interaction of landscape aesthetics and strategies of spatial representation in Scotland's twenty-first-century literature and arts, focusing on the apparatuses designed by nature writers, poets, performers, walking artists and visual artists to physically and intellectually engage with the land and re-present it to themselves and to the world. Through a comprehensive analysis of a variety of site-specific artistic practices, artworks and publications, this book investigates the works of Scotland-based artists including Linda Cracknell, Kathleen Jamie, Thomas A. Clark, Gerry Loose, John Burnside, Alec Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Hanna Tuulikki and Roseanne Watt, with a view to exploring the ongoing re-invention of a territory-bound identity that dwells on an inclusive sense of place, as well as on a complex renegotiation with the time and space of Scotland.

Anti-Music - Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars (Paperback): Mark Christian Thompson Anti-Music - Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars (Paperback)
Mark Christian Thompson
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lorien Suarez-Kanerva Coalescing Geometries (Hardcover): Lorien Suarez Kanerva Lorien Suarez-Kanerva Coalescing Geometries (Hardcover)
Lorien Suarez Kanerva
R1,121 R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Save R303 (27%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 'Coalescing Geometries' the painter expresses a creative response to her environment and an inner sense of the essence of nature's growth force. The designs intricacy with its prismatic color sensibility springs from a love of nature and its patterns. The ethereal and kinetic sensations reflected in 'Coalescing Geometries' reflect the growth patterns found in living forms. These geometries we recognize and know from our sensorial experience of nature in our immediate environment. The geometries found in this monograph are associated with those seen in plant growth, flowers, waves, spirals in shells, pine cones and also in mineral structures such as crystals. While working with geometrical arrangements, she finds the "movement, universal beauty and symmetry inherent to structures stemming from laws of growth. A shared numerical pattern in nature that permeates the arrangement of parts amongst the whole can be seen in the leaves and branches of a tree or the petals of a flower.

No Machos or Pop Stars - When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (Hardcover): Gavin Butt No Machos or Pop Stars - When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (Hardcover)
Gavin Butt
R2,419 R1,925 Discovery Miles 19 250 Save R494 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After punk's arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these artists-turned-musicians challenged the limits of what was deemed possible in rock and pop music. Taking avant-garde ideas to the record-buying public, they created Situationist antirock and art punk, penned deconstructed pop ditties about Jacques Derrida, and took the aesthetics of collage and shock to dark, brooding electro-dance music. In No Machos or Pop Stars Gavin Butt tells the fascinating story of the post-punk scene in Leeds, showing how England's state-funded education policy brought together art students from different social classes to create a fertile ground for musical experimentation. Drawing on extensive interviews with band members, their associates, and teachers, Butt details the groups who wanted to dismantle both art world and music industry hierarchies by making it possible to dance to their art. Their stories reveal the subversive influence of art school in a regional music scene of lasting international significance.

Sleep No More (Paperback): Danilo Correale Sleep No More (Paperback)
Danilo Correale
R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Viewing Velocities - Time in Contemporary Art (Paperback): Marcus Verhagen Viewing Velocities - Time in Contemporary Art (Paperback)
Marcus Verhagen
R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How have artists responded to our market-driven, tech-enabled culture of speed? Viewing Velocities explores a contemporary art scene caught in the gears of 24/7 capitalism. It looks at artists who embrace the high-octane experience economy and others who are closer to the slow movement. Some of the most compelling artworks addressing the cadences of contemporary work and leisure play on distinct, even contradictory conceptions of time. From Danh Vo's relics to Moyra Davey's photographs of dust-covered belongings, from Roman Ondak's queuing performers and Susan Hiller's outdoor sleepers to Maria Eichhorn's art strike and Ruth Ewan's giant reconstruction of the French revolutionary calendar, artists have drawn out aspects of the present temporal order that are familiar to the point of near-invisibility, while outlining other, more liberating ways of conceiving, organising and experiencing time. Marcus Verhagen builds on the work of theorists Jonathan Crary, Hartmut Rosa and Jacques Rancière to trace lines of insurgent art that recast struggles over time and history in novel and revealing terms.

Ai Weiwei. 40th Ed. (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Hans Werner Holzwarth Ai Weiwei. 40th Ed. (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Hans Werner Holzwarth; Artworks by Ai Weiwei
R815 R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Save R161 (20%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media activity almost as much as for his social interventions, contemporary approach to the readymade, and knowledge of Chinese traditional crafts, Ai's fame extends throughout and beyond the art world. Drawn from TASCHEN's limited Collector's Edition, this monograph explores each of Ai's career phases up until his release from Chinese custody. It features extensive visual material to trace Ai's development from his early New York days right through to his recent practice. Focus moments include his international breakthrough in the early 2000s, his porcelain Sunflower Seeds at the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, his response to the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, and his police detention in 2011. With behind-the-scenes studio pictures, production shots, and numerous statements derived from exclusive interviews with Ai, we gain privileged access to the artist's process, influences, and importance. The book includes texts from Uli Sigg, Ai's longtime friend and former Swiss ambassador to China and Roger M. Buergel, who curated the 2007 documenta and hosted the artist's Fairytale piece. 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.

thingworld - International Triennial of New Media Art (Paperback): Fan Di'an, Zhang Ga thingworld - International Triennial of New Media Art (Paperback)
Fan Di'an, Zhang Ga
R1,691 Discovery Miles 16 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Richly illustrated and boasting an array of distinguished artists, scholars and curators, thingworld is the catalogue of the International Triennial of New Media Art held at the National Art Museum of China. From metal balls ascending in an uncanny anti- gravitational movement to a Victorian sofa standing precariously a l'attitude; from miniature instruments which require a magnifying glass to peek at their elegance to monumental inflatables that entwine and elongate to permeate 5,000 square feet of gallery space; from murmuring tweets from the virtual void to billions of algorithmically generated configurations of a mere 24 cards depicting an 18th-century genre painting; the exhibition unfolds its three themes: Monologue: Ding An Sich; Dialogue: Ding to Thing; and Ensemble: Parliament of Things in a reciprocal interrelation. In celebration of thingworld, there emerges an opportunity to reinvigorate the impasse of cultural production that is contingent solely on the premise of a human subject through a much- expanded field of operation; there will be a newfound world of discussions, concerns giving rise to new forms of artistic experimentation and new vocabularies of aesthetic manifestation that resonate with a vision of equity molded by a renewed political ecology, that is the "Equality of All Things".

High Tech Architecture - A Style Reconsidered (Hardcover): Angus J. Macdonald High Tech Architecture - A Style Reconsidered (Hardcover)
Angus J. Macdonald
R757 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R96 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

High Tech - sometimes known as Structural Expressionism - is a style of Modern architecture that produced some of the most prominent and visually exciting buildings of the twentieth century: the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters in Hong Kong, the Lloyd's of London headquarters in London, UK, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Extensively illustrated with photographs and diagrams, and accessibly written, High Tech Architecture - A style reconsidered discusses the intended meanings of the visual vocabulary involved in High Tech, and places the style in the broad context of other Modern architecture of the twentieth century. The book offers a balanced re-appraisal of the extravagant claims that have been made for High Tech, by its progenitors and by architectural critics, as an architecture appropriate for the built environment of the future.

Mark Hearld's Work Book (Hardcover, New edition): Simon Martin Mark Hearld's Work Book (Hardcover, New edition)
Simon Martin
R781 R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Save R87 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The artist Mark Hearld finds his inspiration in the flora and fauna of the British countryside: a blue-eyed jay perched on an oak branch; two hares enjoying the spoils of an allotment; a mute swan standing at the frozen water's edge; and a sleek red fox prowling the fields. Hearld admires such twentieth-century artists as Edward Bawden, John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Enid Marx, and, like them, he chooses to work in a range of media - paint, print, collage, textiles and ceramics. Work Book is the first collection of Hearld's beguiling art. The works are grouped into nature-related themes introduced by Hearld, who narrates the story behind some of his creations and discusses his influences. He explains his particular love of collage, which he favours for its graphic quality and potential for strong composition. Art historian Simon Martin contributes an essay on Hearld's place in the English popular-art tradition, and also meets Hearld in his museum-like home to explore the artist's passion for collecting objects, his working methods and his startling ability to view the wonders of the natural world as if through a child's eyes.

On Reflection - the Art of Margaret Harrison (Hardcover): Harrison Margaret On Reflection - the Art of Margaret Harrison (Hardcover)
Harrison Margaret; Text written by Munson a Kim
R815 R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Save R80 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Land Art and Land Artists - Pocket Guide (Hardcover, 3rd edition): William Malpas Land Art and Land Artists - Pocket Guide (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
William Malpas
R968 Discovery Miles 9 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

LAND ART AND LAND ARTISTS: POCKET GUIDE

A fully illustrated pocket guide to land and environmental art.

This book explores all of the major land, environmental and earthwork artists of the past 40 years, including James Turrell and his vast volcano site Hans Haacke's Conceptual art Michael Heizer's Mid-West earthworks Robert Smithson and his giant spiral, entropic earthworks Christo's wrapped buildings and islands, Robert Morris's environments Walter de Maria's Romantic Lightning Field David Nash's stoves, stones, trees and North Wales environments Hamish Fulton's walks and words Dennis Oppenheim's concentric snow circles Richard Long and his art of walking Andy Goldsworthy's natural, spontaneous, eco-friendly sculptures Alice Aycock's mysterious underground mazes Mary Miss's sunken pools and pavilions Wolfgang Laib's delicate, luminous pollen spreads Nancy Holt and her observation sculptures and the enigmatic floor sculptures of Carl Andre.

For the land artist, the whole planet is an artist's studio. The land artist ranges over the whole globe. A desert, a beach, a field, a forest becomes a studio, a place of creative activity. This means the very texture and colour and shape and dampness and springiness and strength and size of moss, for instance. Or a stone. Or a crevice in a rock formation. The way the light falls on a patch of grass, the little bits of dead, yellowish grass on top of the newer, green grass. Pine cones, closed-up. Flowers turning sunward in the late afternoon. These are the things land artists deal with in making art. These are the actualities that artists employ when they create artworks.

Fully illustrated, with a newly revised text for this edition. Bibliography and notes. ISBN 971861714046. 280 pages.

www.crmoon.com

William Malpas has written books on Richard Long and land art, as well as three books on Andy Goldsworthy, including the forthcoming Andy Goldsworthy In America. Malpas's books on Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy are the only full-length studies of these artists available.

Contemporary Wildlife Art (Hardcover): Cindy Ann Coldiron Contemporary Wildlife Art (Hardcover)
Cindy Ann Coldiron
R1,227 R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Save R248 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Over 360 spectacular art pieces are accompanied by personal statements from 74 artists in this curated selection of contemporary works. The artists, who come from across the United States, and from places such as New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom, all convey their respect, enthusiasm, and personal connections to wildlife. A wide range of styles and media is covered including photography, glass, relief woodcarving, mosaics, pastels, oil, watercolor and acrylic painting, bronzes, stoneware, terracotta and porcelains, ink, graphite and colored pencil, digital illustration, felted sculpture and fabric collage, and more. Examples of wildlife presented are bears, birds, elephants, monkeys, pandas, tigers, foxes, wolves, owls, seals, and even insects. This book is a great gift for wildlife and nature enthusiasts, interior designers, museums, art collectors, art educators, and artists.

Ferrer-Dalmau (Hardcover): Jose Manuel Guerrero Acosta, Agustin Pacheco Fernandez, Luis Miguel Esteban Laguardia Ferrer-Dalmau (Hardcover)
Jose Manuel Guerrero Acosta, Agustin Pacheco Fernandez, Luis Miguel Esteban Laguardia; As told to Miguel Angel Perez Rubio; Translated by Jonee Tiedemann
R1,184 R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Save R247 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A selection of works by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, including some never previously released, together with his latest creations, come to life through the work of a large group of military miniaturists who have found inspiration in his paintings for their models. One of the most famous artists of historical realism at both a national and international level, the artist's work can be seen along with the figures and dioramas based on them. These works have been crafted by some of the most outstanding Spanish miniaturists, which today are among the best in the world in this field and can rightly join the world of the arts.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Tarot Deck and Guidebook (Cards): Tori Schafer The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Tarot Deck and Guidebook (Cards)
Tori Schafer; Illustrated by Erika Hollice
R565 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R65 (12%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Let the rich world of Tamriel guide your tarot practice with this sumptuous, illustrated deck inspired by the massively popular Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Featuring deluxe custom artwork of iconic figures in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, this deck is a great way to enjoy the characters and lore of this popular game. Containing both major and minor arcana, the set also comes with a comprehensive guidebook explaining each card's meaning, as well as simple spreads for easy readings. Packed in a sturdy, decorative gift box, this compelling tarot deck is perfect for Elder Scrolls fans and tarot enthusiasts alike.

Avant-Garde Art and Non-Dominant Thought in Postwar Japan - Image, Matter, Separation (Paperback): K. Yoshida Avant-Garde Art and Non-Dominant Thought in Postwar Japan - Image, Matter, Separation (Paperback)
K. Yoshida
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a reassessment of how "matter" - in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture - pursued a radical definition of "multiplicity", against the dominant and hierarchical tendencies underwriting post-fascist Japan. Through theoretical analysis of works by artists and critics such as Okamoto Taro, Hanada Kiyoteru, Kawara On, Isozaki Arata, Kawaguchi Tatsuo, and Nakahira Takuma, this highly illustrated text identifies formal oppositions frequently evoked in the Japanese avant-garde, between cognition and image, self and other, human and thing, and one and many, in mediums ranging from painting and photography, to sculpture and architecture. In addition to an "aesthetics of separation" which refuses the integrationist implications of the human, the author proposes the "anthropofugal" - meaning fleeing the human - as an original concept through which to understand matter in the epistemic universe of the postwar Japanese avant-garde. Chapters in this publication offer critical insights into how artists and critics grounded their work in active disengagement, to advance an ethics of nondominance. Avant-Garde Art and Nondominant Thought in Postwar Japan will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese studies, art history, and visual cultures more widely.

Still Life (Paperback): Luca Pancrazzi Still Life (Paperback)
Luca Pancrazzi
R958 R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Save R171 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That - Modern Art Explained (Paperback, New ed.): Susie Hodge Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That - Modern Art Explained (Paperback, New ed.)
Susie Hodge 1
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That is Susie Hodge's passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility - from Cy Twombly's scribbled Olympia (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiat's crude but spontaneous 'LNAPRK' (1982), to the apparently careless mess of Tracey Emin's My Bed (1998) - and explains how, far from being negligible novelties, they are inspired and logical extensions of the ideas of their time. She explains how such notorious works as Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII (1966) - the infamous bricks - occupy unique niches in the history of ideas, both showing influences of past artists and themselves influencing subsequent artists. With illustrations of works from Hans Arp to Adolf Woelfli, Hodge places each work in its cultural context to present an unforgettable vision of modern art. This book will give you an understanding of the ways in which modern art differs from the realistic works of earlier centuries, transforming as well as informing your gallery visits for years to come.

The Eye's Mind: Bridget Riley - Collected Writings 1965-2019 (Paperback): Robert Kudielka The Eye's Mind: Bridget Riley - Collected Writings 1965-2019 (Paperback)
Robert Kudielka
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bridget Riley, one of the leading abstract painters of her generation, holds a unique position in contemporary art. She has developed and extended the range of her interests ever since her first success in the 1960s, creating a body of work which is both consistent and highly varied. This volume, now fully revised and updated, reveals the mind behind this remarkable aachievement, drawing together the most important texts and interviews of the last fifty years. Riley's writings show a passionate engagement with her subjects and a great insight paired with a freshness of approach and an exceptional clarity of expression. Quite apart from providing a key to understanding her own work, this book is a fascinating document reflecting the issues and problems facing an artist in the 21st century.

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