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The Apple is Everything (Hardcover): Barnaby Barford The Apple is Everything (Hardcover)
Barnaby Barford
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies - Confrontations and Contradictions (Paperback): Albert Alhadeff Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies - Confrontations and Contradictions (Paperback)
Albert Alhadeff
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Drawings of Rembrandt (Paperback): Seymour Silve The Drawings of Rembrandt (Paperback)
Seymour Silve
R887 R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Save R156 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/1 - The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and... Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/1 - The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now (Paperback)
Douglas Field, Luke Walker
R1,089 R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Save R182 (17%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

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. -- .

Eclipse (Paperback): Jacqueline Doyen, Justin Hoffman, Meike Behm Eclipse (Paperback)
Jacqueline Doyen, Justin Hoffman, Meike Behm
R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Nurturing Darkness - Meditations on the Root Cellars of Newfoundland: The Artwork of Carol Baen-Gahm (Hardcover): Emily... The Nurturing Darkness - Meditations on the Root Cellars of Newfoundland: The Artwork of Carol Baen-Gahm (Hardcover)
Emily Deming-Martin; Contributions by Carol Bajen-Gahm
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eva Hesse: Diaries (Paperback): Eva Hesse Eva Hesse: Diaries (Paperback)
Eva Hesse; Edited by Tamara Bloomberg, Barry Rosen
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Letters of Paul Cezanne (Paperback): Alex Danchev The Letters of Paul Cezanne (Paperback)
Alex Danchev 1
R586 R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Save R77 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

William Claxton. Jazzlife (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Joachim E. Berendt William Claxton. Jazzlife (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Joachim E. Berendt; Photographs by William Claxton
R2,424 R1,947 Discovery Miles 19 470 Save R477 (20%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain - One Hundred Years Later (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Robert Kilroy Marcel Duchamp's Fountain - One Hundred Years Later (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Robert Kilroy
R1,747 Discovery Miles 17 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

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.

The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover): Giorgio Vasari The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
Giorgio Vasari; Edited by Martin Kemp; Translated by Lucy Russell 1
R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Simon Starling - Metamorphology (Hardcover): Simon Starling Simon Starling - Metamorphology (Hardcover)
Simon Starling; Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn; Text written by Dieter Roelstraete, Mark Godfrey, Janine Mileaf
R847 R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Save R89 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Ozlem Gunyol & Mustafa Kunt (Hardcover): Jorg Heiser, Banu Karaca Ozlem Gunyol & Mustafa Kunt (Hardcover)
Jorg Heiser, Banu Karaca
R1,841 R1,007 Discovery Miles 10 070 Save R834 (45%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Love and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego - Narrating the Family Romance (Hardcover): Ruth Rosengarten Love and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego - Narrating the Family Romance (Hardcover)
Ruth Rosengarten
R2,343 Discovery Miles 23 430 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It (Hardcover): Alison Elizabeth Taylor Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It (Hardcover)
Alison Elizabeth Taylor; Edited by Allison Kemmerer; Text written by Naomi Fry, Lynne Tillman
R1,191 R1,019 Discovery Miles 10 190 Save R172 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter (Paperback): Paul Gauguin Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter (Paperback)
Paul Gauguin; Edited by Donatien Grau
R246 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R35 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Art of Stephen Hickman (Hardcover): Stephen F. Hickman The Art of Stephen Hickman (Hardcover)
Stephen F. Hickman 1
R721 R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Save R192 (27%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A lavish, full-colour hardcover art book taking readers on a visual guide through Stephen Hickman's artwork. The collection focuses on his book covers for famous SFF authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and Larry Niven.

Andy Warhol "Giant" Size - mini format (Hardcover): Phaidon Editors, Dave Hickey Andy Warhol "Giant" Size - mini format (Hardcover)
Phaidon Editors, Dave Hickey 1
R1,040 R841 Discovery Miles 8 410 Save R199 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (Hardcover): Alexis L. Boylan Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (Hardcover)
Alexis L. Boylan
R4,317 Discovery Miles 43 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle-faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ashcan artists countered this narrative, manipulating the bodies of construction workers, tramps, entertainers, and office workers to stand in visual opposition to popular, political, and commercial cultures. They did so by repeatedly positioning white male bodies as having no cleverness, no moral authority, no style, and no particular charisma, crafting with consistency an unspectacular man. This was an attempt, both radical and deeply insidious, to make the white male body stand outside visual systems of knowledge, to resist the disciplining powers of commercial capitalism, and to simply be with no justification or rationale. Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man maps how Ashcan artists reconfigured urban masculinity for national audiences and reimagined the possibility and privilege of the unremarkable white, male body thus shaping dialogues about modernity, gender, and race that shifted visual culture in the United States.

Narcotics - Nicotine, Alcohol, Cocaine, Peyote, Morphine, Ether + Appendices (Hardcover): Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz Narcotics - Nicotine, Alcohol, Cocaine, Peyote, Morphine, Ether + Appendices (Hardcover)
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz; Illustrated by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz; Translated by Soren Gauger
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Art into Life - Essays on Tracey Emin (Hardcover): Alexandra Kokoli, Deborah Cherry Art into Life - Essays on Tracey Emin (Hardcover)
Alexandra Kokoli, Deborah Cherry
R3,657 Discovery Miles 36 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tracey Emin has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis from a young, unknown artist into the 'bad girl' of the Young British Art (yBA) movement, challenging the complacency of the art establishment in both her work and her life. Today she is arguably the doyenne of the British art scene and attracts more acclaim than controversy. Her work is known by a wide audience, yet rarely receives the critical attention it deserves. In Art Into Life: Essays on Tracey Emin writers from a range of art historical, artistic and curatorial perspectives examine how Emin's art, life and celebrity status have become inextricably intertwined. This innovative collection explores Emin's intersectional identity, including her Turkish-Cypriot heritage, ageing and sexuality, reflects on her early years as an artist, and debates issues of autobiography, self-presentation and performativity alongside the multi-media exchanges of her work and the tensions between art and craft. With its discussions of the central themes of Emin's art, attention to key works such as My Bed, and accessible theorization of her creative practice, Art into Life will interest a broad readership.

Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting (Paperback): Herbert R Hartel Jr Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting (Paperback)
Herbert R Hartel Jr
R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the fundamental goals of early abstract painting in the years before and during World War I. Artists turned to alternative spirituality, the occult, and mysticism, believing that the pure use of line, shape, color, light and texture could convey spiritual insight. Jonson was steadfastly dedicated to this goal for most of his career and he always believed that modernist and abstract styles were the most effective and compelling means of achieving it.

Van Gogh's Second Gift - A Spiritual Path to Deeper Creativity (Paperback): Cliff Edwards Van Gogh's Second Gift - A Spiritual Path to Deeper Creativity (Paperback)
Cliff Edwards
R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cliff Edwards, a well-known Vincent van Gogh author and scholar, explores Van Gogh's second gift--the surprising written works of Van Gogh in letters to his brother, fellow artists, and friends. Edwards illuminates Van Gogh's vision and creative process for readers as a way of living and creating more deeply. Van Gogh's Second Gift gives us another side of Van Gogh, whose poetic, creative, and original mind opened up startling insights on the creative process. A perfect book for creatives and those who want to understand more about one of the world's most beloved artists, the genius creator of works like Starry Night. Focusing on more than 40 letter excerpts, Edwards offers clear background and insights into Van Gogh's life and creative ideas, as well as suggestions for reflection and personal engagement. Van Gogh sketches are scattered throughout the book.

The Art of Eric Guillon - From the Making of Despicable Me to Minions, the Secret Life of Pets, and More (Hardcover): Ben Croll The Art of Eric Guillon - From the Making of Despicable Me to Minions, the Secret Life of Pets, and More (Hardcover)
Ben Croll 1
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Delve behind the scenes of artist Eric Guillon's artwork for Illumination and Entertainment's popular films, including Despicable Me, Sing, and upcoming The Secret Life of Pets 2. Illumination Entertainment has produced some of this century's most popular and successful animated films all over the world. Artist Eric Guillon helped design many of the most beloved and iconic characters for these films, such as Gru and the Mininons from Despicable Me, the adorable animals in The Secret Life of Pets, and more. Explore behind the scenes of Eric Guillon's artwork with this comprehensive coffee table book, which delves into Guillon's creative process and Illumination Entertainment's hit films. The Illumination Art of Eric Guillon features never-before-seen concept art, sketches, film stills, and other unique graphics, tracing the animation process from start to finish, and examines Guillon's many different roles, ranging from art director, character designer, and production designer to co-director.

Behind the Black - A Fearless Venture Into the Darkest Corners of the Creative Mind In Search of Light (Hardcover): Colleen... Behind the Black - A Fearless Venture Into the Darkest Corners of the Creative Mind In Search of Light (Hardcover)
Colleen Black; Foreword by Ana Weber
R944 Discovery Miles 9 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

C. Behind the Black is the story of an artist's struggle with addiction and the beautiful journey to understand a world lost inside the throes of creative passion. The author wrote it to gain a better understanding of just what magic lies behind the creation of a work of art, what struggles it takes to live the life of a professional artist, and a few surprises along the way that are destined to lift and inspire the hearts of a wide array of readers. This is a journey through the darkness in a struggle to find balance in the beautiful lights and shadows of truth.

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