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Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water
gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny.
Adorned with poppies, blue sage, dahlias and irises, the waters
were disturbed only by bamboos and water lilies. His water garden
was originally created to satisfy a need to be near water, and to
provide a visual feast that could be enjoyed from his house. The
pond was fed by the river Ru, and weeping willow and silver birch
hung over its edges, caressing the fronds of the greenery and
blossoms below. Its famous green wooden footbridge was built across
the water and it became the central focus of many of his works. He
said, 'It took me some time to understand my water lilies. I
planted them for pleasure.' and so he began to work on what is
probably the most famous series of paintings the world has ever
seen.
Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the
fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this
book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco --
seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art
history. The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern
Art analyses how changes in artistic taste in the second half of
the nineteenth century caused a profound revision of the place of
El Greco in the artistic canon. As a result, El Greco was
transformed from an extravagant outsider and a secondary painter
into the founder of the Spanish School and one of the principle
predecessors of modern art, increasingly related to that of the
Impressionists -- due primarily to the German critic Julius
Meier-Graefe's influential History of Modern Art (1914). This shift
in artistic preference has been attributed to the rise of modern
art but Eric Storm, a cultural historian, shows that in the case of
El Greco nationalist motives were even more important. This study
examines the work of painters, art critics, writers, scholars and
philosophers from France, Germany and Spain, and the role of
exhibitions, auctions, monuments and commemorations. Paintings and
associated anecdotes are discussed, and historical debates such as
El Greco's supposed astigmatism are addressed in a highly readable
and engaging style. This book will be of interest to both
specialists and the interested art public.
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The Surveyor
(Paperback)
Fabian Reimann, Anthony Blunt, Stephanie Tasch; Edited by Jan Wenzel
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One of the European artists who has best combined text, image, and
movement, Juliao Sarmento's multidisciplinary oeuvre evinces the
tension that exists between image and word, between what is
explicitly biographical and the impossibility of all forms of
narration. Over the past 26 years, Sarmento's work has revealed an
intimate and passionate pre-occupation with desire, explored both
in the realm of the speculative and the gestural. Within his work
there is no chronology, no unfolding narrative, no apparent
logic--simply glimpses of experience that give visual form to
primordial desires, ones felt but not defined. Working with various
media, including paint, print, photography, sculpture, and video,
he determines to define the intangible gap between experience and
memory, now and then.
Here is what happens when Jeff Koons, one of the most important and
controversial artists of the twenty-first century, sits down with
distinguished art curator Sir Norman Rosenthal. Published to
coincide with his 2014 2015 retrospective, this new book provides
the most revealing portrait that exists of Jeff Koons singular
personality and artistic vision as he discusses works across his
thirty-five -year career with his long-time friend and collaborator
Rosenthal. Rosenthal s masterful interviews, conducted over three
years, give unparalleled access to the thoughts of one of the most
influential minds in contemporary culture, disclosing the artist
undistorted and in his own words. As well as examining all his
major series in depth, from his first inflatables to his latest
series on antiquities, the interviews shed new light on the artist
s interest in other artists works, reveal the significance of his
youth and family life on his art, and explain the key concepts of
his practice, such as his ideas on self-acceptance, ecstasy and
sex. A book of historic importance, extensively and comprehensively
illustrated throughout, it will become the reference point for all
who want to understand Koons and creativity in the twenty-first
century."
Best-known for his corporate brand logos and art direction, Paul
Rand (1914-1986) transformed commercial art from craft to
profession, introduced European design standards to American
commercial art, influenced the look of advertising and book design,
and altered the ways in which major corporations including IBM,
UPS, and Westinghouse did business. His adherence to a strict
design form in his work for corporate clients was balanced by a
playful side , captured in this spirited collection of literal (and
figural) back-of-the-envelope sketches, doodles, notes, and
imaginative sparks that later found their full form in his
children's books, logos, and personal work.
Discover the ultimate collection of Ron Cobb's artwork from across
his entire career (Alien, Star Wars, Back to the Future) in this
comprehensive coffee table book. During his sixty-year career, Ron
Cobb provided concept art for some of the biggest films in sci-fi
cinema. From designing spaceships for Alien, Dark Star, and Firefly
and Delorean from Back to the Future to character designs for Conan
the Barbarian and creature concepts for Star Wars and The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ron has left a legacy of artwork
behind to inspire future generations of concept artists. This
beautiful coffee table book is full to the brim with Ron Cobb's
artwork from throughout his career and includes exclusive insights
from the talent he worked with along the way, including James
Cameron, Joe Johnston, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, and Nick Castle.
Brought to you by Concept Art Association in collaboration with the
Estate of Ron Cobb.
Raphael (1483-1520) was for centuries considered the greatest
artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from
this biography, written by the Florentine painter Giorgio Vasari
and first published in 1550. Vasari's Lives of the Painters was the
first attempt to write a systematic history of Italian art. The
Life of Raphael is a key text not only for the appreciation of
Raphael's own art - whose development and chronology Vasari
describes in detail, together with the spectacular social career of
the first painter to be mooted, it was claimed, as a Cardinal - but
also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues.
"I always thought I would get into painting, but I got waylaid by rock 'n' roll. Finally, I thought, 'Now's the time.' As soon as I could be alone and paint without any interruptions, I just couldn't stop." – Chrissie Hynde
"These paintings wake me up, show me life, make me want to get up and do something." – Brian Eno
"The fact that Chrissie is a great musician doesn’t undermine her painting; it underpins it…" – Tim Marlow
In 2015, Chrissie Hynde, the singer, songwriter and leader of The Pretenders, produced an oil painting of a ceramic vase. It proved to be the starting point for Chrissie Hynde’s first body of work, nearly 200 canvases in all. These paintings are now shared for the very first time in Adding The Blue.
Beginning with still life studies and culminating in vibrant abstract compositions, Adding The Blue is a beautiful book of paintings that reveals Chrissie Hynde as an artist as passionate about her painting as her music.
With forewords by visionary musician and artist, Brian Eno, and The Royal Academy’s Artistic Director, Tim Marlow, Adding The Blue is captioned throughout with Chrissie Hynde’s thoughts, anecdotes and reflections.
Published in hardback the front cover features the work,'Tuesday Self-Portrait'
Explore the world of Tyler Jacobson and find yourself lost in a
fascinating culmination of cinematic moments frozen in time. The
Art of Tyler Jacobson invites you to explore every aspect of this
quintessential artist's career. This treasure trove covers
everything from works created during Tyler's youth, to thesis work
made during his college years and continues into every aspect of
his professional life. Examples shown include paintings done for
books, advertising and editorial purposes, and most notably for the
gaming industry. Included are finished works done in digital and
traditional methods while also revealing rare sketches and concept
art. In addition, Tyler offers exclusive insight as he shares
background stories to key pieces found in these pages. Immerse
yourself in Tyler's world, where you can find cinematic moments
frozen in time. He builds new worlds with the help of his science
background and interest in how things work combined with his
passion for fantasy. Tyler has a highly sought out ability to
design and create everything from new cultures, environments,
weapons and tapestry to clothes and more. He is also well known for
his mood plates, as he establishes the overall feeling and tone of
the world being built. Tyler loved playing Dungeons & Dragons
when he was younger, which sparked his initial interests and career
toward being an artist. With this book, Tyler hopes to share his
thought processes and his love of storytelling.
Hokusai: the blue, foam-crested wave rearing above Mount Fuji; the celebrated volcano idealized and reinventedby the artist in every nuance of view, season and painting; extraordinary bridges, the waterfalls of Japan, the contortions, costumes, gestures – the very breath of men, women, peasants, townsmen, warriors, artisans, leaping horses, birds, insects, fish, almost live on the ground on which they are painted – the countless imaginative drawings or the lively sketches done on the spot for the Manga, Hokusai’s record of shapes and forms drawn from life or imagined over time. With a body of work comprising more than 30,000 drawings and paintings, Hokusai (1760–1849) was the most prolific, varied and indisputably the most creative artist of old Japan. A universal genius in everything that constituted drawing and painting in his time, he practised all genres of ukiyo-e, those ‘images of the floating world’, as his contemporaries liked to describe their pleasures and their daily life.
This book traces the career of this child from a working-class district of old Tokyo, then known as Edo, evoking the special atmosphere of this great city and of Japanese life, when Japan – closed to foreigners – developed in a vacuum a powerfully original culture. Hokusai became one of the great masters of the woodcut, this ‘brush gone wild’, as he called himself, being rediscovered by the Impressionists and aesthetes at the end of the 19th century. He remains one of the greatest and – thanks to his personality – one of the most attractive figures of world art.
Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and
lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and
use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was
almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of "carving into
color," creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by
some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these
gouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a
revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the
age-old conflict between color and line. This edition of the first
volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough
historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to
his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years
in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare
images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau,
with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Teriade, the poets Louis
Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law
Georges Duthuit. In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs
achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist
abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of
artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale,
these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and
innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.
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.
Nonfiction. In this pioneering work Olu Oguibe charts the life and
career of Uzo Egonu, from his origins in Africa to his expatiation
in Britain. Egonu, a remarkable, compassionate and very private
artist, has been described as "perhaps Africa's greatest modern
painter," one whose work challenges the impoverished Western myth
of the naive African artist. The complexity of Egonu's work is
firmly located within the tradition of modernism. What we see is a
judicious synthesis of visual languages developed from his critical
encounter with Western art and an informed awareness of his African
heritage; a synthesis which reaches beyond mere formalist concerns
to involve both the experience of his life in the West and the
painful turmoils of his country of origin, post-colonial Nigeria.
This monograph is a timely intervention in the prevailing debates
on the role, position and aesthetic concerns of the African artist
in the contemporary world, and offers a unique contribution to the
scarce literature on artists of African, Asian or Latin American
origin living in the West.
Bettina is the first monograph to showcase the work of the
previously unsung artist Bettina Grossman, whose wildly
interdisciplinary practice spanned photography, sculpture, textile,
cinema, drawing, and more. An eccentric personality fully dedicated
to her art, Bettina lived in the famous Chelsea Hotel from 1968
until her death in late 2021. In her tiny studio, she produced and
accumulated a considerable body of work, much of which has remained
unseen and unpublished until now. Her interests ranged from
geometric and abstract studies, drawn from observations of people
on the street, to pieces that transformed language into graphic,
abstract "verbal forms." Incorporating strategies of chance and the
abstraction of everyday form through repetition and seriality,
Bettina pushed the photographic medium to and beyond its limits. As
Robert Blackburn, artist and founder of the Printmaking Workshop,
astutely observed of Bettina's work: "The photography, film,
sculpture are as one, for the photographic medium is employed not
only for documentation but as an endless source of inspiration from
which other disciplines emerge-and merge." Bettina was the winner
of the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2020 and is
copublished by Aperture and Editions Xavier Barral.
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Basquiat-isms
(Hardcover)
Jean-Michel Basquiat; Edited by Larry Warsh
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R270
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A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist
and icon Jean-Michel Basquiat One of the most important artists of
the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the
interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated
painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings,
notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself to be a powerful and
creative writer and speaker as well as image-maker. Basquiat-isms
is a collection of essential quotations from this godfather of
urban culture. In these brief, compelling, and memorable
selections, taken from his interviews as well as his visual and
written works, Basquiat writes and speaks about culture, his
artistic persona, the art world, artistic influence, race, urban
life, and many other subjects. Concise, direct, forceful, poetic,
and enigmatic, Basquiat's words, like his art, continue to
resonate. Select quotations from the book: "I cross out words so
you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you
want to read them." "I think there are a lot of people that are
neglected in art, I don't know if it's because of who made the
paintings or what, but, um . . . black people are never really
portrayed realistically or I mean not even portrayed in modern
art." "Since I was 17, I thought I might be a star." "The more I
paint the more I like everything." "I think I make art for myself,
but ultimately I think I make it for the world."
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