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One Hundred Seventy One Entertainment Celebrities (Paperback): Juliao Sarmento One Hundred Seventy One Entertainment Celebrities (Paperback)
Juliao Sarmento
R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this volume, Portuguese multimedia artist Juliao Sarmento (born 1948) showcases the archive of the film critic Rui Pedro Tendinha, which features indefinably odd photos of Tendinha posing awkwardly (and often with the same hand gestures) with celebrities such as Christian Bale, Joan Cusack, Mike Myers, Will Smith, Kevin Spacey, Jon Voigt and Emily Watson.

Georges Braque - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover): Russell T. Clement Georges Braque - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover)
Russell T. Clement
R2,080 R1,894 Discovery Miles 18 940 Save R186 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first comprehensive research guide and bibliography to the large literature surrounding the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest artists, this volume includes information on more than 1,100 books and articles as well as a chronology, biographical sketch, and list of exhibitions. The secondary bibliography is arranged by topic and includes citations on the artist's life and career, his relationships with contemporary artists (notably Picasso), his influence on subsequent artists, his work in diverse artistic media as well as his oeuvre in general, iconography, and more. While concentrating on printed materials, this guide also includes selected manuscripts and audio-visual materials. Following a biographical sketch and chronology, the primary bibliography lists articles, essays, letters, interviews, manuscripts, and sketchbooks of Braque. The main part of the secondary bibliography lists monographs, catalogues, dissertations, theses, periodical articles, films, and selected newspaper articles. Substantial book reviews and exhibition reviews are also cited. Arranged by topic, this bibliography includes citations on Braque's career and development as an artist, his relationships with contemporary artists, a section on Braque/Picasso, his influence on other artists, his work in various media including paintings, drawings, prints, illustrated books, papiers decoupes, sculpture, jewelry, theatre designs, and other commissions. Georges Braque first came to world attention as Picasso's friend during the formative years of Cubism. Long overshadowed by his more famous contemporary, in the quarter-century after his death Braque is beginning to be evaluated accurately. Major retrospective exhibitions over the past decade, accompanied by a considerable body of new criticism and scholarship, have brought Braque into the spotlight.

Raphael (Paperback): Paul Joannides Raphael (Paperback)
Paul Joannides
R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An authoritative introduction to one of the most influential painters in the history of art, written by the pre-eminent authority on the subject and informed by the latest research. More versatile and less idiosyncratic than Michelangelo, more prolific and accessible than his mentor Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, though he died at only thirty-seven, is considered the single most influential artist of the Renaissance. Here, art historian Paul Joannides explores the different social and regional contexts of Raphael's work and discusses all aspects of his artistic output. He traces Raphael's career from his origins in Urbino, through his altarpieces made in Umbria in the shadow of Perugino, to the first flowering of his genius in Florence where he painted a series of iconic Madonnas that are among the most beloved images in Western art. Raphael's employment by the dynamic and demanding Pope Julius II gave him opportunities without parallel and encouraged the full expansion of his genius. As a sophisticate entrepreneur, he dominated Rome's artistic life and extended the range of his activities to that of architect, designer, pioneer archaeologist and theoretician. The foundation of Raphael's versatility and range was his supreme clarity of mind as a draughtsman. Knowledge of his drawings, on which Joannides is a leading expert, is central to understanding of his achievement, and they are thoroughly explored here.

Lives of Tintoretto (Paperback): Giorgio Vasari, Pietro Aretino, Carlo Ridolfi, Andrea Calmo, Veronica Franco, El Greco Lives of Tintoretto (Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Pietro Aretino, Carlo Ridolfi, Andrea Calmo, Veronica Franco, …
R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The most exhilarating painter of the Renaissance and arguably of the whole of western art, Tintoretto was known as Il Furioso because of the attack and energy of his style. His vaunting ambition is recorded in the inscription he placed in his studio: l disegno di Michelangelo ed il colorito di Tiziano ("Michelangelo's drawing and Titian's colour"). The Florentines Vasari and Borghini, and the Venetians Ridolfi and Boschini wrote the earliest biographies of the artist. The four accounts are related to each other and form the backbone of the critical success of Tintoretto. Borghini is the first one to give some information about Marietta Tintoretto, also an artist, and Ridolfi is the richest in anecdotes about the artist's life and personality - including the one about the inscription which he may, however, have invented. Boschini, a witty Venetian nationalist, wrote his account in dialect verse. El Greco, whose marginal notes to Vasari are included for the first time in English, Calmo and Franco knew Tintoretto personally and their writings give a real flavour of this complicated man. Unavailable in any form for many years, these biographies have been newly edited for this edition. They are introduced by the scholar Carlo Corsato, who places each in its artistic and literary context. Approximately 50 pages of colour illustrations cover the full range of Tintoretto's astonishing output.

Life Force - A Painter's Response to the Nature Poetry of Ted Hughes (Hardcover): Louise Fletcher Life Force - A Painter's Response to the Nature Poetry of Ted Hughes (Hardcover)
Louise Fletcher
R893 R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Save R129 (14%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Road to Home, Art and Essays of James Griffin (Hardcover): James Griffin The Road to Home, Art and Essays of James Griffin (Hardcover)
James Griffin; Contributions by James Griffin
R1,419 Discovery Miles 14 190 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Jonathan Richardson by Himself (Paperback): Susan Owens Jonathan Richardson by Himself (Paperback)
Susan Owens
R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745) was one of 18th-century England's most significant cultural figures. A leading portrait painter and influential art theorist, he also amassed one of the period's greatest collections of drawings. But there was another, highly unusual dimension to his pursuits. In 1728, at the age of 61 and shortly before his retirement from professional life, Richardson began to create a remarkable series of self-portrait drawings. Not intended for public display, these works were unguarded explorations of his own character. In one of the most astonishing projects of self-examination ever undertaken by an artist, for over a decade Richardson repeatedly drew his own face. His self-portrait drawings are usually dated precisely, and they document, from month to month, his changing state of mind as much as his appearance. Many were drawn in chalks on large sheets of blue paper, from his reflection in the mirror. Some of these are bold and psychologically penetrating, while others, in which he regards his ageing features with gentle but unflinching scrutiny, are deeply touching. A further group of self-portraits is drawn with graphite on small sheets of fine vellum, and in these Richardson often presents himself in inventive and humorous ways, such as in profile, all'antica, as though on the face of a coin or medal; or crowned with bays, like a celebrated poet. Sometimes, too, he copies his image from oil paintings made decades earlier, in order to recall his appearance as a younger man. In this extraordinary series of self-portraits, Richardson offers a candid insight into his mind and personality. Together, these drawings create nothing less than a unique and compelling visual autobiography. This publication - which accompanies the first ever exhibition devoted to Richardson's self-portrait drawings, held in the new Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery at the Courtauld - tells the story of these remarkable works Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745) was one of 18th-century England's most significant cultural figures. A leading portrait painter and influential art theorist, he also amassed one of the period's greatest collections of drawings. But there was another, highly unusual dimension to his pursuits. In 1728, at the age of 61 and shortly before his retirement from professional life, Richardson began to create a remarkable series of self-portrait drawings. Not intended for public display, these works were unguarded explorations of his own character. In one of the most astonishing projects of self-examination ever undertaken by an artist, for over a decade Richardson repeatedly drew his own face. His self-portrait drawings are usually dated precisely, and they document, from month to month, his changing state of mind as much as his appearance. Many were drawn in chalks on large sheets of blue paper, from his reflection in the mirror. Some of these are bold and psychologically penetrating, while others, in which he regards his ageing features with gentle but unflinching scrutiny, are deeply touching. A further group of self-portraits is drawn with graphite on small sheets of fine vellum, and in these Richardson often presents himself in inventive and humorous ways, such as in profile, all'antica, as though on the face of a coin or medal; or crowned with bays, like a celebrated poet. Sometimes, too, he copies his image from oil paintings made decades earlier, in order to recall his appearance as a younger man. In this extraordinary series of self-portraits, Richardson offers a candid insight into his mind and personality. Together, these drawings create nothing less than a unique and compelling visual autobiography. This publication - which accompanies the first ever exhibition devoted to Richardson's self-portrait drawings, held in the new Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery at the Courtauld - tells the story of these remarkable works and puts them into the context of his other activities at this period of his life - in particular the self-searching poems he wrote during the same years and often on the same days as he made the drawings. An introductory essay is followed by focused discussions of each work in the exhibition. This part of the book explores the materials and techniques Richardson used, whether working in chalks on a large scale or creating exquisitely refined drawings on vellum. It will also reveal how Richardson modeled some of his portraits on old master prints and drawings, including works in his own collection by Rembrandt and Bernini. The publication brings together the Courtauld Gallery's fine collection of Richardson's drawings with key works in the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Faces from Memory Lane - A Memoir to Feminine Charm Through Portraits (Hardcover): Raman K Attri Faces from Memory Lane - A Memoir to Feminine Charm Through Portraits (Hardcover)
Raman K Attri
R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Make Your Mark in Pastels - Get hooked on painting with pure pigment (Hardcover): Karin Richter Make Your Mark in Pastels - Get hooked on painting with pure pigment (Hardcover)
Karin Richter
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
William Blake and the Body (Hardcover): T. Connolly William Blake and the Body (Hardcover)
T. Connolly
R2,655 Discovery Miles 26 550 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

William Blake and the Body re-evaluates Blake's central image: the human form. In Blake's designs, transparent-skinned bodies passionately contort; in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births. The culmination is an ideal body uniting form and freedom. Connolly explores romantic-era contexts like anatomical art, embryology, miscarriage, and 20th century theorists like those of Kristeva, Douglas, and Girard to provide an innovative new analysis of Blake's transformations of body and identity.

Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters (Hardcover): Amy Steedman Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters (Hardcover)
Amy Steedman
R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Joan Eardley (Paperback): Fiona Pearson, Sara Stevenson Joan Eardley (Paperback)
Fiona Pearson, Sara Stevenson
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Joan Eardley was one of the best-loved Scottish artists of the twentieth century. Her observations of children in the back streets of Glasgow as well as her expressionistic drawings and oils of the elements on the north-east coast of Scotland have caught the imagination of the Scottish public. Eardley is cherished as a painter of the Scottish identity in both town and country, who had a unique ability to sum up a community and the timeless drama of the natural world. This book examines Eardley's ouevre and its place in the international and British context and her reputation. It includes paintings and drawings from private collections, which have not been seen for many years, and works from the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, which also holds the Joan Eardley Archive.

Creativity (Hardcover): Erin Minckley Creativity (Hardcover)
Erin Minckley
R520 Discovery Miles 5 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Projet Pour Un Jardin (Paperback): Roman Signer Projet Pour Un Jardin (Paperback)
Roman Signer
R876 Discovery Miles 8 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ilya Repin (Hardcover): Grigori Sternine, Elena Kirillina Ilya Repin (Hardcover)
Grigori Sternine, Elena Kirillina
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Antonietta Brandeis - Memories from Venice and Beyond (Hardcover): Eelco Kappe Antonietta Brandeis - Memories from Venice and Beyond (Hardcover)
Eelco Kappe
R1,044 Discovery Miles 10 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ruti Sela. For the Record (Paperback): Joshua Simon, Ruti Sela Ruti Sela. For the Record (Paperback)
Joshua Simon, Ruti Sela
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Homo Irrealis - The Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been: Essays (Paperback): Andre Aciman Homo Irrealis - The Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been: Essays (Paperback)
Andre Aciman
R404 R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Gilbert Stuart and the Impact of Manic Depression (Hardcover, New Ed): Dorinda Evans Gilbert Stuart and the Impact of Manic Depression (Hardcover, New Ed)
Dorinda Evans
R4,645 Discovery Miles 46 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Early American painter Gilbert Stuart has long been mistakenly represented as a hard-drinking rogue, habitual liar, and inexplicable financial failure. To explain his stylistic unevenness as an artist, he is assumed to have had an inferior assistant, but the documentary evidence for an assistant who painted on his portraits is non-existent-in fact, there is evidence to the contrary. This ground-breaking study demonstrates that Stuart suffered from a hereditary form of manic depression, leading him to create pictures that contain peculiar lapses characteristic of a manic-depressive, or bipolar, artist. Using documentary and empirical evidence-from diaries and letters to x-radiographs of paintings-this book fills important gaps in our knowledge of Stuart, and connects the strange visual effects in some of Stuart's paintings with cognitive deficits attendant with the disorder. In addition to Stuart, other bipolar artists, including George Romney, Raphaelle Peale, Gilbert Stuart Newton, and William Rimmer, are discussed in relation to these deficits, revealing patterns which carry broader implications for all manic-depressive artists. This volume is a significant contribution not only to studies of Stuart and the four other painters but also to our understanding of the mind of a manic-depressive artist. It bridges the broad disciplines of art history and psychopathology.

The Wild Life - The Life and Work of Charley Harper (Hardcover): Gestalten, Charley Harper Art Studio, Margaret Rhodes The Wild Life - The Life and Work of Charley Harper (Hardcover)
Gestalten, Charley Harper Art Studio, Margaret Rhodes
R1,803 R1,465 Discovery Miles 14 650 Save R338 (19%) Ships in 9 - 17 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
Past Masters of the Nude - An Illustrated Bibliography of Nude Photography Books Published in England from 1896 to 1960... Past Masters of the Nude - An Illustrated Bibliography of Nude Photography Books Published in England from 1896 to 1960 (Hardcover)
Jay W. King
R749 Discovery Miles 7 490 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Trans(per)Forming Nina Arsenault - An unreasonable body of work (Paperback): Judith Rudakoff Trans(per)Forming Nina Arsenault - An unreasonable body of work (Paperback)
Judith Rudakoff
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Transgendered playwright, performer, columnist, and sex worker Nina Arsenault has undergone more than sixty plastic surgeries in pursuit of a feminine beauty ideal. In "TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault," Judith Rudakoff brings together a diverse group of contributors, including artists, scholars, and Arsenault herself to offer an exploration of beauty, image, and the notion of queerness through the lens of Arsenault's highly personal brand of performance art.Illustrated throughout with photographs of the artist's transformation over the years and demonstrating her diversity of personae, this volume contributes to a deepening of our understanding of what it means to be a woman and what it means to be beautiful. Also included in this volume is the full script of Arsenault's critically acclaimed stage play, "The Silicone Diaries."

Faith in Adultery - A Novel with a Key (Hardcover): Kathleen Elizabeth Sumpton Faith in Adultery - A Novel with a Key (Hardcover)
Kathleen Elizabeth Sumpton
R631 Discovery Miles 6 310 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Art of Carol Janeway - A Tile & Ceramics Career with Georg Jensen Inc. and Ossip Zadkine in 1940s Manhattan (Hardcover):... The Art of Carol Janeway - A Tile & Ceramics Career with Georg Jensen Inc. and Ossip Zadkine in 1940s Manhattan (Hardcover)
Victoria Jenssen; Contributions by Pat Kirkham
R1,762 R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 Save R257 (15%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
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