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"I went to Noma and interviewed Rene (Redzepi). We were talking
about art and food but the restaurant was closed. Everybody asked
me how was the food, what did you eat - and he basically gave me
some marmite. The best marmite I've ever had." - David Shrigley
"This is not a coffee table book....notions of 'taste' get a
grilling, while there are some fruity artist interviews....that
make for entertaining accompaniments." - Melanie Gerlis, The
Financial Times "This comprehensive and expansive explorations of
art restaurants marries the nourishment of senses, both visual and
taste, along with the meeting of minds." - Chris Corbin, Corbin and
King group "A new and unique book." - Layla Maghribi, The National
News This is the definitive guide to Art Restaurants - a new way to
appreciate food. Christina Makris, collector of art and a Patron of
The Tate and RA, takes the reader on a tour of 25 of the world's
greatest art restaurants, from New York to Hong Kong and Cairo to
London. Makris traces their stories, details the art highlights,
and meets artists, restaurateurs and chefs including Vik Muniz,
Julian Schnabel and Tracy Emin. A captivating guide to where great
art and memorable food meet. Restaurants featured include: Abou el
Sid, Cairo; Bibo, Hong Kong; Casa Lever, New York; Chateau la
Coste, Aix en Provence; Colombe d'Or, St Paul de Vence; Currency
Exchange Cafe, Chicago; del Cambio, Turin; Dooky Chase, New
Orleans; Gunton Arms, Norwich; Hix Soh, London; Kronenhalle,
Zurich; Langan's, London; Lucio's, Sydney; Michael's, Santa Monica;
Mr Chow, London; Osteria Francescana, Modena; Paris Bar, Berlin;
Red Rooster, New York; Scott's, London; Sketch , London; The Ivy,
London. Including interviews with: Ai Weiwei; Antony Gormley;
Beatriz Milhazes; Bill Jacklin; Conrad Shawcross; Damien Hirst;
David Bailey; David Hockney; David Shrigley; Gary Hume; John Beard;
John Olsen; Julian Schnabel; Maggi Hambling; Michael Craig-Martin;
Michael Landy; Peter Blake; Polly Morgan; Sanford Biggers; Tracey
Emin; Vik Muniz.
Claude Monet spent most of his life painting his own spontaneous
impressions of nature and the world that was closest to him. His
works provoked the description 'Impressionist', the name given to
the style of art that he created together with Camille Pissarro and
Alfred Sisley.
A revised edition of this classic survey that presents a thorough
overview of Georgia O'Keeffe's life and work. Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887-1986) was a major figure in American art for seven decades.
Throughout that long and prolific career she remained true to her
unique artistic vision, creating a highly individual style that
synthesized the formal language of modern European abstraction and
the themes of traditional American pictorialism. The main subjects
to which she returned again and again were the flowers, animal
bones and the landscapes around her studios in Lake George, New
York, and finally New Mexico, with which she has been ultimately
identified. This comprehensive and illuminating book by a noted
scholar on O'Keeffe and her work, surveys the complete oeuvre -
drawings, watercolours and paintings from all periods - and
explains her life in the context of her artistic output. Now
revised with updated bibliography, this edition features colour
reproductions of artworks throughout.
This is the most comprehensive monograph to date on the Frank
Auerbach (b. 1931), one of the preeminent artists of our age,
widely admired for his vivid, impulsive depictions of the world
around him. Often compared to Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in
terms of the revolutionary and powerful nature of his work,
Auerbach s depictions of people and the urban landscapes near his
London studio make him one of the greatest painters alive today.
Spanning the length of his career from the 1950s to the present,
this expanded edition includes 250 additional works bringing it up
to date. In the back of the book there are small-scale
chronological sequencing of full-colour reproductions, which depict
nearly every painting made by the artist, from his student years up
until this publication. At age 90, he looks back over his life and
his work, rich with breakthroughs in painting and masterful
individuality. The constant painter: a rare interview with Frank
Auerbach A weighty monograph filled with photographs of his life s
work, written by William Feaver, is published [and] underscore his
position as a Grand Old Man of British Painting. --London Evening
Standard This definitive account of Auerbach s work and life
includes excellent large-scale reproductions of 200 paintings and
an illustrated catalogue of some 1,000 more, lively, pertinent
interpretations from Feaver, the artist s long-term friend,
critical supporter and model, and engaging interviews and
photographs. Financial Times As a painter s resource this book is
invaluable. Notes from the Underground
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From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of
conflict and suffering, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
(1746-1828) made a mark as one of Spain's most revered and
controversial artists. A master of form and light, his influence
reverberates down the centuries, inspiring and fascinating artists
from the Romantic Eugene Delacroix to Britart enfants terribles,
the Chapman brothers. Born in Fuendetodos, Spain, in 1746, Goya was
apprenticed to the Spanish royal family in 1774, where he produced
etchings and tapestry cartoons for grand palaces and royal
residences across the country. He was also patronized by the
aristocracy, painting commissioned portraits of the rich and
powerful with his increasingly fluid and expressive style. Later,
after a bout of illness, the artist moved towards darker etchings
and drawings, introducing a nightmarish realm of witches, ghosts,
and fantastical creatures. It was, however, with his horrific
depictions of conflict that Goya achieved enduring impact. Executed
between 1810 and 1820, The Disasters of War was inspired by
atrocities committed during the Spanish struggle for independence
from the French and penetrated the very heart of human cruelty and
sadism. The bleak tones, agitated brushstrokes, and aggressive use
of Baroque-like light and dark contrasts recalled Velazquez and
Rembrandt, but Goya's subject matter was unprecedented in its
brutality and honesty. In this introductory book from TASCHEN Basic
Art 2.0 we set out to explore the full arc of Goya's remarkable
career, from elegant court painter to deathly seer of suffering and
grotesquerie. Along the way, we encounter such famed portraits as
Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga, the dazzling Naked Maja, and
The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, one of the most heart-stopping
images of war in the history of art. 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
Bonjour Mr Inshaw is a homage by the award-winning poet Peter
Robinson to David Inshaw, the celebrated painter, whom he first met
during the artist's years as Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity
College, Cambridge, in the mid-1970s. Largely produced in an
unexpected burst of inspiration after a visit to the painter's
studio early in 2019, these poems combine memories of Inshaw's
paintings, or characteristic landscapes, with experiences of his
company and conversation. Showing a formal flexibility and deftness
characteristic of this poet's work, they reflect on the role of art
in a time of political and cultural division. Presented in an en
face format, Bonjour Mr Inshaw beautifully illustrates its
ekphrastic encounters and allows us to reflect in turn on this
contemporary example of the centuries-old dialogue between the arts
of poetry and painting. `Following the visionary traditions of such
quintessentially English predecessors as Samuel Palmer ... or
Stanley Spencer ... Inshaw's paintings discover the mystical in
what could just as easily be overlooked as the mundane.' - Rachel
Campbell-Johnston, art critic for The Times `Robinson is the finest
poet alive when it comes to the probing of shifts in atmosphere,
momentary changes in the weather of the mind, each poem an
astonishingly fine-tuned gauge for recording the pressures and
processes that generate lived occasions' - Adam Piette in The
Reader
Though very much an individual and spiritual artist, Alphonse Mucha
was a defining figure of the Art Nouveau era and is loved for his
distinctive lush style and images of beautiful women in arabesque
poses among the plethora of paintings, posters, advertisements and
designs he produced. Admire a whole range of his work here in its
full glory with succinct accompanying text.
Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an
appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she
fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about
taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental oeuvre remains one
of the most vivid visual documents of 1920s Art Deco. De Lempicka's
style deployed cool colors and tight post-cubist forms into an at
once neoclassical and voluptuous figuration. Her subjects are often
nude and always sensual, aloof, and powerful. Bedecked in seductive
light and textures, they command our attention but typically avert
their gaze with an aspect of haughty grandeur. They include both
high-society patrons and progressive portraits of emancipated and
lesbian women, such as Women Bathing and Portrait of Suzy Solidor.
De Lempicka's notorious Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti,
meanwhile, was commissioned for the cover of German magazine Die
Dame and became an icon of speed, sophistication, and female
independence. Through some of de Lempicka's finest, most compelling
portraits, this introduction explores the artist's unique visual
language and its privileged place not only in the annals of
interwar art but also in the history of female artists and our
collective consciousness of the Roaring Twenties. 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
The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great
modern realist painters, combines the Flemish detail of Andrew
Wyeth, the eerie foreboding of George Tooker and the anguished
confrontations of Lucian Freud. Behind the North Americans stands
their common master, Edward Hopper. Colville's works are in many
museums in Canada and Germany. He has affinities with Max Beckmann
and appeals to the German "secondary virtues": cleanliness,
punctuality, love of order. In a long life he resolutely opposed
the fashionable currents of abstract and expressionistic art. In
contrast to Jackson Pollock's wild action painting, Colville
created paintings of contemplation and reflection. As Jeffrey
Meyers writes: I spent several days with Colville on each of three
visits from California to Wolfville. I received seventy letters
from him between August 1998 and April 2010, and kept thirty-six of
my letters to him. He sent me photographs and slides of his work
and, in his eighties, discussed the progress and meaning of the
paintings he completed during the last decade of his life. His
handwritten letters, precisely explaining his thoughts and
feelings, provide a rare and enlightening opportunity to compare my
insights and interpretations with his own intentions and ideas. He
also discussed his family, health, sexuality, politics, reading,
travels, literary interests, our mutual friend Iris Murdoch,
response to my writing, his work, exhibitions, sales of his
pictures and of course the meaning of his art. His letters reveal
the challenges he faced during aging and illness, and his
determination to keep painting as health difficulties mounted. He
stopped writing to me when he became seriously ill two years before
his death. In this context the late paintings, presented in colour
in this book, take on a new poignancy.
As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s
and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known.
She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary
anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for Northern
indie legends the Charlatans, among others. More recently, her work
was recognised the day after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory,
when the front page of the Daily Mirror ran her 1989 painting Oh
America, which shows the Statue of Liberty, head in hands. This is
the first book to critically assess an extensive range of Vaucher's
work. It examines her unique position connecting avant-garde art
movements, counterculture, punk and even contemporary street art.
While Vaucher rejects all 'isms', her work offers a unique take on
the history of feminist art. -- .
The first book to chart Scott Burton's performance art and
sculpture of the 1970s. Scott Burton (1939-89) created performance
art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual
cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J.
Getsy argues that Burton looked to body language and queer behavior
in public space-most importantly, street cruising-as foundations
for rethinking the audiences and possibilities of art. This first
book on the artist examines Burton's underacknowledged
contributions to performance art and how he made queer life central
in them. Extending his performances about cruising, sexual
signaling, and power dynamics throughout the decade, Burton also
came to create functional sculptures that covertly signaled
queerness by hiding in plain sight as furniture waiting to be used.
With research drawing from multiple archives and numerous
interviews, Getsy charts Burton's deep engagements with
postminimalism, performance, feminism, behavioral psychology,
design history, and queer culture. A restless and expansive artist,
Burton transformed his commitment to gay liberation into a unique
practice of performance, sculpture, and public art that aspired to
be antielitist, embracing of differences, and open to all. Filled
with stories of Burton's life in New York's art communities, Queer
Behavior makes a case for Burton as one of the most significant out
queer artists to emerge in the wake of the Stonewall uprising and
offers rich accounts of queer art and performance art in the 1970s.
A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps
the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time
as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and
an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of
both the Italian Renaissance and Western civilisation. His
celebrated notebooks display the astonishing range of his genius.
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and recent in-depth biographies have
stimulated renewed interest in Leonardo and his complex and
enquiring intelligence. This brand-new selection of sketches,
diagrams and writings from the notebooks is a beautiful and varied
record of Leonardo's theories and observations, embracing not only
art but also architecture, town planning, engineering, naval
warfare, music, medicine, mathematics, science and philosophy.
Complete with a short biographical essay describing Leonardo's life
and achievements, this is the perfect introduction to a mysterious
and endlessly fascinating genius.
Michelangelo was recognised as a great artist early in his long
life. Along with a small number of contemporaries he was
responsible for Renaissance Florence becoming the artistic
fountainhead of western culture. This comprehensive new book offers
a wide range of his art, with details and panoramas, some well
known, others less so, but each one illuminating the grand
eloquence of one of the worlds greatest artists.
Flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself
exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in
watercolor paintings which were then published as copper
engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of
wealthy Parisian patrons including Napoleon's wife Josephine, he
was dubbed "the Raphael of flowers," and is regarded to this day as
a master of botanical illustration. This collection brings our
best-selling XL-sized edition to a smaller, more convenient format,
still gathering some of the finest color engravings from Redoute's
illustrations of Roses, Lilies, and Choix des plus belles fleurs et
quelques branches des plus beaux fruits (Selection of the Most
Beautiful Blooms and Branches with the Finest Fruits). Offering a
vibrant overview of Redoute's admixture of accuracy and beauty, it
is also a privileged glimpse into the magnificent gardens and
greenhouses of a bygone Paris. 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.
Ed Hardy s (b. 1945) unique vision spans decades, creating an
indelible mark on popular culture. Accompanying a major exhibition,
this profusely illustrated survey of his life in art traces his
inspirations, rooted both in traditional American tattooing of the
first half of the twentieth century and in the imagery of Japan s
ukiyo-e era. Hardy, raised in Southern California, became intrigued
with tattoo art at the age of ten, setting up shop in his parents
den. After attending the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1960s,
he rejected a graduate fellowship from Yale to apprentice at
studios up and down the West Coast. It was his intention to rescue
tattooing from its subculture, outsider status and elevate it to at
least the level of folk art. Hardy s success at breathing new life
into the art form is chronicled in a plethora of tattoo designs,
paintings, drawings, prints, and three-dimensional work spanning
fifty years. While the world that inspires him may be lost, Hardy s
distinct visual language is vibrantly alive within American visual
vernacular, synonymous to some with the spirit of the West Coast
itself.
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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