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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General

Claude Monet (Hardcover): Natalia Brodskaia Claude Monet (Hardcover)
Natalia Brodskaia
R1,742 Discovery Miles 17 420 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Heroica (Hardcover): Nicholas Roerich Heroica (Hardcover)
Nicholas Roerich
R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Climbed the Hill (Hardcover): Christian Title Climbed the Hill (Hardcover)
Christian Title; Contributions by Dennis Lowery
R1,155 Discovery Miles 11 550 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Frank Auerbach - Speaking and Painting (Paperback): Catherine Lampert Frank Auerbach - Speaking and Painting (Paperback)
Catherine Lampert 1
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born in Berlin in 1931 to Jewish parents, the eight-year-old Auerbach was sent to England in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime. His parents stayed behind and died in a concentration camp in 1943. Now in his eighties, Auerbach is still producing his distinctly sculptural paintings of friends, family and surroundings in north London, where he has made his home since the war. The art historian and curator Catherine Lampert has had unique access to the artist since 1978 when she first became one of his sitters. With an emphasis on Auerbach's own words, culled from her conversations with him and archival interviews, she provides a rare insight into his professional life, working methods and philosophy. Auerbach also reflects on the places, people and inspirations that have shaped his life. These include his experiences as a refugee child, finding his way in the London art world of the 1950s and 1960s, his friendships with Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Leon Kossoff, among many others, and his approaches to looking and painting throughout his career. For anyone interested in how an artist approaches his craft or his method of capturing reality this is essential reading.

The Pocketknife Bible - The Poems and Art of Anis Mojgani (Hardcover): Anis Mojgani The Pocketknife Bible - The Poems and Art of Anis Mojgani (Hardcover)
Anis Mojgani
R1,114 R992 Discovery Miles 9 920 Save R122 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Like much of Anis Mojgani's work, The Pocketknife Bible asks the reader to align one-self with rediscovering wonder. For the first time, Mojgani has given us a collection which combines his poems with his illustrations, at times using them to infuse and inform one another. The poems and pictures of The Pocketknife Bible climb through the child-like heart of its author to bring stories from the well that are enhanced by the imagery. This book is a celebration of childhood and family, or rather the mythology of what that entails, exploring the intersection of how we may have once seen the world and how we remember how we saw it. This is an almost-children's book for those who might no longer be young, but could use a map to find their way back to that world.

The Many Faces of Deb (Hardcover): Deb Weiers The Many Faces of Deb (Hardcover)
Deb Weiers
R978 Discovery Miles 9 780 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Egon Schiele - New Edition (Hardcover): Alessandra Comini Egon Schiele - New Edition (Hardcover)
Alessandra Comini
R1,038 R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Save R147 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of the Four (Hardcover): Roger Billcliffe Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of the Four (Hardcover)
Roger Billcliffe
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Delve into the world of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his Glasgow School of Art-trained contemporaries who forged a unique and distinct vision in both art and architecture at the end of the Victorian era. The Glasgow Style is the name given to the work of a group of young designers and architects working in Glasgow from 1890-1914. At its centre were four young friends who had trained at Glasgow School of Art; two architects and two artists - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair, Margaret Macdonald and Frances Macdonald - who were simply known by their friends and contemporaries as 'The Four'. Their work was a personal vision in the new international style of the 1890s, Art Nouveau, and is perhaps best known for Mackintosh's architecture and furniture. But at the root of this new style was a graphic language which all four shared. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of The Four presents the most coherent story to date of this important group, concentrating on the entirety of their artistic imagery and output, far beyond the best known work of the 1890s, and charting the constantly changing relationships between the artists and their work.

Lives of Giovanni Bellini (Paperback): Giorgio Vasari, Carlo Ridolfi, Marco Boschini, Isabella D'Este, Davide Gasparotto Lives of Giovanni Bellini (Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Carlo Ridolfi, Marco Boschini, Isabella D'Este, Davide Gasparotto
R283 R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Save R38 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Scion of an artistic dynasty, Giovanni Bellini is arguably the greatest Venetian painter of the early Renaissance. His astonishing naturalism revolutionised altarpiece painting and is still a source of wonder, as any visit to Frari in Venice will confirm. Most of what we know about this great artist comes from the earliest biographies by Vasari and Ridolfi printed here - the Ridolfi never before translated into English. A different and very personal insight is given by extensive correspondence with Bellini's great but neglected patron Isabella d'Este.

Schiele in Prison - New Edition (Hardcover): Alessandra Comini Schiele in Prison - New Edition (Hardcover)
Alessandra Comini
R986 R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Save R137 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Shotgun, the Invisible Rail, and the Spectacled Tyrant (Paperback): Ludovica Carbotta The Shotgun, the Invisible Rail, and the Spectacled Tyrant (Paperback)
Ludovica Carbotta
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kitawa - The Thinking Hand and the Making Mind (Hardcover): Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti Kitawa - The Thinking Hand and the Making Mind (Hardcover)
Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti
R2,961 Discovery Miles 29 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Sketching and carving both visualize and memorize a given image, but within Nowau culture the manner in which this is achieved in a canoe prowboard is entirely different than in a conventional drawing. When studying the impressive ceremonial canoes of Kitawa, in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, G.M.G. Scoditti became struck by the absolute predominance of the artist's mind in the process of creating images: all its stages, its uncertainties and experimentation, must unfold within its silent, rarefied space. Only once fully formed can the image be revealed to the village in material form. Reflecting on the absence of orthographic writing within Nowau culture, and finding parallels with poetic and musical composition, Scoditti gained further insight into the Nowau processes of creation through the critiques the Kitawan carvers made of his own fieldwork sketchbooks. Spurred on by their curiosity, the anthropologist handed over his art materials to the master carvers to make their own drawings on paper or cardboard. Traditional pigments used on the polychrome canoe prowboards were added to the unfamiliar media of watercolour, acrylic, coloured pencils and ballpoint pen. Three-dimensional ornamentation became two-dimensional as images of self-decoration and huts were added to those of prowboards. This exercise was all the more fascinating given the prohibition of drawing on the surface of the wood before carving. On return to Italy, further graphic dialogues unfolded when an architect and an artist from the tradition of Italian Abstraction responded with their own intriguingly different interpretations of the canoe prowboard and its relationship to the Nautilus shell. All these drawings are brought together in this book, along with Scoditti's own sketches from fieldwork and ethnographic collections in Newcastle upon Tyne and Rome. 'The fieldworker's or museum ethnographer's sketches are never going to be quite the same. Through the double filter of Kitawan philosophy and Scoditti's ruminations, the apparently simple triad of sketch - drawing - carving opens out into a discourse on the creative mind. The Kitawan creator - here primarily the male carver - does not have to demonstrate how he creates, and what springs from these pages have a fascination of their own. Several distinctive hands, Kitawan and Italian, reflect from different interpretive and professional vantage points on the very process of drawing through doing exactly that, drawing. The result are images that delight and challenge, sensitively assembled, beautifully reproduced. An extraordinary record of creativity, and a rare corpus of visual memorials.' - Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge

Origen - A True Story Of Evil (Hardcover): Peter J. Perry, Kathleen Elizabeth Sumpton Origen - A True Story Of Evil (Hardcover)
Peter J. Perry, Kathleen Elizabeth Sumpton
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Maximalism and Visual Delight - Jeanne Leighton-Lundberg Clarke and Contemporary Genre Painting (Hardcover): Courtney R Davis,... Maximalism and Visual Delight - Jeanne Leighton-Lundberg Clarke and Contemporary Genre Painting (Hardcover)
Courtney R Davis, Melissa Hempel, Rebekah Monahan
R1,372 R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Save R247 (18%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Kahlil Gibran - Portraits (Hardcover): Salim Mujais Kahlil Gibran - Portraits (Hardcover)
Salim Mujais
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Modern Realism According to Fritz - The Oil Paintings of Fritz Vonderheiden (Hardcover): Lawrence Von Knorr Modern Realism According to Fritz - The Oil Paintings of Fritz Vonderheiden (Hardcover)
Lawrence Von Knorr
R886 R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Save R121 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
El Greco (Paperback): Xavier Bray El Greco (Paperback)
Xavier Bray
R169 Discovery Miles 1 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This new introduction to El Greco (1541-1614) follows the artist from his native island to Venice, Rome, Madrid, and then Toledo, the ecclesiastical capital of Spain. El Greco's ability to assimilate different artistic techniques and approaches to religion and philosophy enabled him to develop one of the most original styles of painting in the history of Europe. Despite his highly successful career he was unappreciated for centuries after his death, and this book examines how his genius was rediscovered in the nineteenth century.

Van Gogh 100 (Hardcover, New): Joseph Masheck Van Gogh 100 (Hardcover, New)
Joseph Masheck; Preface by Sjraar Van Heugten
R2,557 Discovery Miles 25 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume commemorates the 100th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh's death. Major van Gogh scholars present essays that reexamine the painter's place in the art world of his time, the phenomenal growth in his reputation, and his influence on later art movements and individual artists. At the time of his death and for some years after, there was a question as to whether van Gogh's approach would gain recognition. Today, he is seen as one of the most popular and recognized of the world's artists, and his impact on 20th-century art is unquestioned. How and why this occurred is a major theme throughout this essay collection.

Among the topics examined are iconography; van Gogh's poetry as well as the literature that influenced him and that he, in turn, influenced; psychological and religious aspects of van Gogh's painting and self-imaging; and how van Gogh has been interpreted. A section on his legacy in art concludes this major reassessment of van Gogh's place in art history. An important collection for art scholars and researchers as well as public library patrons.

I sweat (Paperback): Lisa Holzer I sweat (Paperback)
Lisa Holzer
R739 Discovery Miles 7 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Art (Hardcover): Horace Panter Art (Hardcover)
Horace Panter; Foreword by Goldie; Designed by Andy Vella
R1,065 Discovery Miles 10 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Wat Die Hart Van Vol Is (Afrikaans, Paperback): Evette Weyers Wat Die Hart Van Vol Is (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Evette Weyers
R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Ships in 6 - 10 working days

'n Pragboek oor die skrywer se lewe as beeldende kunstenaar en vrou van die akteur Marius Weyers - is 'n ryklik geillustreerde rondleiding in die werkswinkel van 'n beeldhouer en liefhebber van woorde.

31 Robots (Hardcover): Gulapocalypse 31 Robots (Hardcover)
Gulapocalypse
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Listening to Stone - The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi (Paperback): Hayden Herrera Listening to Stone - The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi (Paperback)
Hayden Herrera
R646 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R61 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Craftsperson Speaks - Artists in Varied Media Discuss Their Crafts (Hardcover, New): Joan Jeffri The Craftsperson Speaks - Artists in Varied Media Discuss Their Crafts (Hardcover, New)
Joan Jeffri
R2,539 Discovery Miles 25 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although contemporary American crafts are widely exhibited and appreciated, very little information is available about the artists themselves, their training, careers, inspirations, and feelings about their work, and place in society. As part of a large oral history and survey project of the Research Center for Arts and Culture of Columbia University, ten personal narrative interviews with craftspeople were edited and collected for The Craftsperson Speaks. The selected artists represent a variety of disciplines and media, including ceramics, glass, jewelry, metalwork, and fiber, and also exhibit a balance of age, ethnicity, regionalism, and stage of career development. Each interview is prefaced by brief life and career data and followed by information on exhibit sources and professional affiliations and honors and a photographic illustration of a representative piece of work. The volume's introduction, written by the project coordinator, Mary Greeley, offers an overview of the history of the craftsperson in the United States, and a final bibliography provides sources for further reference. This combination of information and insights will be of interest and value to artists, teachers, students, art professionals, and the general public. Greenwood Press is pleased to publish it in time to help inaugurate 1993 and the Year of the American Craft.

Paul Gauguin - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Russell T. Clement Paul Gauguin - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Russell T. Clement
R2,226 Discovery Miles 22 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This first comprehensive research guide and annotated bibliography of Paul Gauguin includes information on more than 1500 books and articles on the artist as well as a comprehensive chronology and list of exhibitions. The secondary bibliography is arranged by topics and includes citations on the artist's life and career, his relationships with contemporary artists in France, including Vincent van Gogh, his life and work in Panama, Martinique, Tahiti, and the Marquesas Islands, his oeuvre in general and in various media, self-portraits, iconography, and more. The French artist Paul Gauguin continues to be a larger-than-life figure whose mystique exerts its spell on popular, critical, and scholarly minds. Consequently, the available literature on the artist is copious and marked by diversity of opinion on every aspect of his life and work. From the first book-length biography of Gauguin written by Louis Brouillon in 1906, interest in Gauguin has continued unabated and, since 1959, critical interest in the artist's drawings, prints, sculptures, and art works in other media has dramatically increased. Russell T. Clement has compiled the first comprehensive research guide and annotated bibliography on Gauguin. This volume encompasses primary materials by Gauguin including those published during the artist's lifetime and those published posthumously; contemporary accounts and criticism of Gauguin's life and work published through 1906; descriptions of the artist's oeuvre; a lengthy secondary bibliography; and a section that catalogs exhibitions of Gauguin's work between 1884 and 1989. While concentrating on printed materials, this guide also includes selected manuscripts--in all, more than 1500 books and articles are cited. For entries where titles give incomplete or unclear information about works and their content, the author provides brief annotations. Following a biographical sketch and chronology, the primary bibliography lists articles, essays, letters, manuscripts, and sketch books of Gauguin and then accounts and critiques of Gauguin's life and work published through 1906. The main part of the bibliography and research guide, the secondary bibliography, lists monographs, catalogues, dissertations, theses, periodical literature, films, sound recordings and musical scores, and selected newspaper articles. Substantial book reviews and exhibition reviews are also included. Arranged by topic, the secondary bibliography also includes citations on Gauguin's relationships with contemporary artists in France, his work in Panama and Martinique, his work and life in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands, and his oeuvre in general. Not just a list of sources but a complete research guide, this volume deserves a place in every research library collection.

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