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Hopper
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Rolf G Renner
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Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is something of an American success
story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he
was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. As he
approached 80, Time magazine featured him on its cover. Today, half
a century after his death, Hopper is considered a giant of modern
expression, with an uncanny, unforgettable, and utterly distinct
sense for mood and place. Much of Hopper's work excavates modern
city experience. In canvas after canvas, he depicts diners, cafes,
shopfronts, street lights, gas stations, rail stations, and hotel
rooms. The scenes are marked by vivid color juxtapositions and
stark, theatrical lighting, as well as by harshly contoured
figures, who appear at once part of, and alien to, their
surroundings. The ambiance throughout his repertoire is of an eerie
disquiet, alienation, loneliness and psychological tension,
although his rural or coastal scenes can offer a counterpoint of
tranquility or optimism. This book presents key works from Hopper's
oeuvre to introduce a key player not only in American art history
but also in the American psyche. About the series Born back in
1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art
book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art
series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and
oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical
importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with
explanatory captions
This second volume from Titan Books is a collection of
world-renowned visionary artist John Harris' unique paintings
captures breath-taking, otherworldly vistas on a massive scale. The
Art of John Harris II: Into the Blue is the third collection
(second collection published by Titan) of world-renowned visionary
artist John Harris' unique paintings that capture future worlds on
a massive scale, from vast landscapes and towering cities to
breath-taking vistas. Readers will get a unique insight into the
creative process behind the worlds depicted in the paintings as
Harris takes them on a journey from sketch to finished painting, as
well as his striking covers for a variety of esteemed science
fiction authors, including John Scalzi, Ben Bova, Jack McDevitt,
Orson Scott Card, Ann Leckie and many more.
Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest
standards. Each volume contains full-page reproductions printed in
superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full
bibliography. Now back in print, the series was awarded the first
annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the
International Center of Photography. Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928), an
American by adoption, has a humorous outlook that is reflected in
his always elegant work. His photographs take advantage of the
sudden coincidence, the fortuitous conjunction of objects and
events, to reveal the ridiculous or comical sides of everyday life.
Dogs are a favorite subject for Erwitt, often serving as a witty
metaphor for human foibles.
This is the first edited collection of essays entirely devoted to
the women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Inspired by the
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exhibition and conference of 2019-20, the
individual essays present new research into the wide-ranging
creativity of the Pre-Raphaelite women. Artistic subjects include
Evelyn De Morgan's goldwork paintings and her experiments with
automatic writing. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Mary Seton Watts
and Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale are also examined. Elizabeth
Siddal's relationship with her sister-in-law Christina Rossetti is
explored, as is her appropriation of the Pre-Raphaelite principle
of "truth to nature". Women's writing is addressed, extracting
Georgiana Burne-Jones from the memoir of her husband and
reassessing the book of fairy tales she planned with Siddal.
Fashion history informs an analysis of the sartorial practices of
Jane Morris and Siddal, while the influence exerted by the
Siddal-Rossetti relationship on a prominent Czech artist
demonstrates how women initiated the spread of Pre-Raphaelite
ideals in Europe. More personalised accounts of engaging with and
recovering women in history include the painstaking genealogical
research undertaken by the great-grandson of model Fanny Eaton and
the curation of a Siddal exhibition at Wightwick Manor. This book
is essential reading for anyone interested in the Pre-Raphaelites.
This sweeping overview of Rembrandt's extraordinary achievement as
a draughtsman fills a gap in the otherwise enormous literature on
the artist. Beautifully illustrated, mostly in colour, the more
than 150 drawings - culled from a corpus of some 800 - are
discussed in detail. The drawings span Rembrandt's entire
productive life as an artist, from early self-portraits in the
1620s to late drawings from the 1660s of the victim of an
execution, a state coach, and historical and mythological images.
The scope of the book allows readers to delve into the very broad
range of Rembrandt's oeuvre of drawings.
In mythology, art history and religious iconography, the apple has
been imbued with every imaginable human desire. It has been a
symbol of love and beauty, of temptation, of immortality, peace,
death and poison, of sin and redemption. From Adam and Eve to the
trials of Heracles, to the art of Cezanne and Magritte, to Newton's
theory of gravity, the death of Alan Turing and the growth of Steve
Jobs, the apple resonates throughout western culture. It is Snow
White, William Tell, it is The Beatles and the Viking gods, it is
even the American frontier. Now, Barnaby Barford offers a
celebration of this fruit, exploring its impact on the history of
humankind. Apples have become a recent feature of Barford's
eye-catching installations, whether ripe and healthy or in a state
of decay. The Apple is Everything guides the reader through
Barford's work and ideology.
This book examines Theodore Gericault's images of black men, women
and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819
painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Gericault's
depiction of black people, his approach towards slavery, and the
voices that advanced or denigrated them. By turning to documents,
essays and critiques, both before and after Waterloo (1815), and,
most importantly, Gericault's own oeuvre, this study explores the
fetters of slavery that Gericault challenged-alongside a growing
number of abolitionists-overtly or covertly. This book will be of
interest to scholars in art history, race and ethnic studies and
students of modernism.
This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is
devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European
reception of Blake's work from the late nineteenth century to the
present day, with a particular focus on the counterculture. Opening
with two articles by the late Michael Horovitz, an important figure
in the 'Blake Renaissance' of the 1960s, the issue goes on to
investigate the ideological struggle over Blake in the early part
of the twentieth century, with particular reference to W. B. Yeats.
This is followed by articles on the artistic avant-garde and
underground of the 1960s and on Blake's significance for science
fiction authors of the 1970s. The issue closes with an article on
the contemporary Belgian art collective maelstrOEm reEvolution. --
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Eclipse
(Paperback)
Jacqueline Doyen, Justin Hoffman, Meike Behm
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A singular thinker and an uncompromising seeker after artistic
truth, Cezanne channelled a large part of his wide-ranging
intellect and ferocious wit into his letters. This translation by
Alex Danchev is based on a thorough re-examination of Cezanne's
correspondence with family, friends and major figures from the
literary and art worlds. Danchev's great achievement is to allow
readers in English to hear Cezanne's voice for the first time in
his own idiomatic, idiosyncratic style. And he sounds rather
different from the Cezanne we thought we knew - richer, wittier,
wiser, more philosophical, more irascible, above all more fully
human. The letters offer fresh perspectives on his artistic vision,
politics, friendships, psychology, philosophy, literary tastes and
classical frame of reference. They provide an intimate insight into
the preoccupations and personality of a legend.
In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted musicologist
Joachim Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of
jazz. Through music halls and marching bands, side streets and
subways, they sought to document this living, breathing, beating
musical phenomenon that enraptured America across social, economic,
and racial lines. The result of Claxton and Berendt's collaboration
was Jazzlife, much sought after by collectors and now revived in
this fresh TASCHEN volume. From coast to coast, from unknown street
performers to legends of the genre, this defining jazz journey
explores just what made up this most original of American art
forms. In New Orleans and New York, in St. Louis, Biloxi, Jackson,
and beyond, Claxton's rapturous yet tender images and accompanying
texts examine jazz's regional diversity as much as its pervasive
vitality and soul. They show the music makers and the many spaces
and people this music touched, from funeral parades to concert
stages, from an elderly trumpet player to kids who hung from
windows to catch a glimpse of a passing band. With images of
Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Gabor
Szabo, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald,
Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and
many more, this is as much a compelling slice of history as it is a
loving personal tribute.
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Simon Starling - Metamorphology
(Hardcover)
Simon Starling; Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn; Text written by Dieter Roelstraete, Mark Godfrey, Janine Mileaf
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British conceptual artist Simon Starling (born 1967) interrogates
the histories of art and science, as well as other subjects such as
economic and environmental issues, through a wide variety of media
including film, installation and photography. Published for his
first survey exhibition at a major American museum, "Simon
Starling: Metamorphology" highlights a fundamental principle of
Starling's practice: an almost alchemistic conception of the
transformative potential of art, or of transformation as art. The
Turner Prize-winning artist's working method constitutes recycling,
both literally and figuratively: repurposing existing materials for
new, artistic aims; retelling existing stories to produce new
historical insights; linking, looping and remaking. This catalogue
accompanies an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary
Art Chicago in tandem with the Arts Club of Chicago, and features
essays by MCA Chicago senior curator Dieter Roelstraete, Arts Club
of Chicago executive director Janine Mileaf in collaboration with
Simon Starling, and Tate Modern curator Mark Godfrey.
This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain by
critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work.
It introduces a new methodological approach to art-historical
practice rooted in a revised understanding of Lacan, Freud and
Slavoj Zizek. In weaving an alternative narrative, Kilroy shows us
that not only has Fountain been fundamentally misunderstood but
that this very misunderstanding is central to the work's
significance. The author brings together Duchamp's own statements
to argue Fountain's verdict was strategically stage-managed by the
artist in order to expose the underlying logic of its reception,
what he terms 'The Creative Act.' This book will be of interest to
a broad range of readers, including art historians, psychoanalysts,
scholars and art enthusiasts interested in visual culture and
ideological critique.
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and
Architects (1550 and 1569) is a classic of cultural history. A
monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to Michelangelo,
it paints a vivid picture of the progress of art in the hands of
individual masters. No Life is more vivid than that of Leonardo, a
near-contemporary of Vasari - not even Vasari's account of
Michelangelo, whom he knew and idolized. This beautiful edition
offers a literary translation that respects the 16th-century
Italian, transposing Vasari's vocabulary into its modern
equivalent. Martin Kemp is an eminent scholar, who has written on
the vocabulary of Renaissance writings on art, and has
co-translated Leonardo on Painting and Leonardo's Codex Leicester.
Translated in partnership with Lucy Russell, the text will be the
first to cover both the 1550 edition and the expanded version of
1568, and the first to integrate the texts of the two editions on
the page. Discreet endnotes will provide succinct comments in the
light of modern knowledge of Leonardo's career. Illustrated with
all the works of art discussed by Vasari and a selection of
Leonardo's studies of science and technology, this will be the
perfect accompaniment to Leonardo's 500th anniversary celebrations.
Rosengarten explores the narrative operations of Rego's work by
mobilizing both psychoanalytic theory and social history. She
confronts, as case studies, three complex figure paintings from
different moments in Rego's oeuvre: "The Policeman's Daughter"
(1987), "The Interrogator's Garden" (2000), and "The First Mass in
Brazil" (1993). The content of the three specimen paintings links
them to the political context of the Estado Novo, the
fascist-inspired regime that dominated Rego's childhood. Plotting
links between the spheres of the political and the personal,
Rosengarten throws light on the complex intertwining of state power
and parental authority in Rego's work, focusing on the "labour of
socialisation and resistance" that Rego's work evinces in relation
to the Freudian model of the family romance. Rosengarten unveils
the political context of Portugal under Salazar, and the workings
of colonial fantasy, Catholic ideology and gender construction. In
prodding the inalienable link between love and authority, this
study offers a reading of Rego's work that interrogates, rather
than subverts, the Oedipal model structuring the patriarchal
family.
The bestselling visual biography of one of the twentieth century's
most innovative, influential artists Andy Warhol "Giant" Size is
the definitive document of this remarkable creative force, and a
telling look at late twentieth-century pop culture. A must-have for
Warhol fans and pop culture enthusiasts, this in-depth and
comprehensive overview of Warhol's extraordinary career is packed
with more than 2,000 illustrations culled from rarely seen archival
material, documentary photography, and artwork. Dave Hickey's
compelling essay on Warhol's geek-to-guru evolution combines with
chapter openers by Warhol friends and insiders to give special
insight into the way the enigmatic artist led his life and made his
art. It also provides a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the New
York art world of the 1950s to the 1980s. From the publisher of The
Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, Volumes 1 - 5.
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