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This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his
understanding of the role of the artist as a political being. It
takes the reader through the different milieus of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries - including the World Wars and the
Holocaust - to present a unique understanding of Chagall's artistic
vision of peace in an age of extremes. At a time when all
identities are being subsumed into a "national" identity, this book
makes the case for a larger understanding of art as a way of
transcending materiality. The volume explores how Platonic notions
of truth, goodness, and beauty are linked and mutually illuminating
in Chagall's work. A "spiritual-humanist" interpretation of his
life and work renders Chagall's opus more transparent and
accessible to the general reader. It will be essential reading for
students of art and art history, political philosophy, political
science, and peace studies.
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.
Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of
the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family and hounded
by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through
his art a deep and bewildering loneliness and an obsession with
sexuality, death and decay. Schiele died at the age of
twenty-eight, yet he left behind him a body of work that sustains a
huge public reputation - and myth. This profusely illustrated book
delves into both the controversial sexual themes and neglected
aspects of Schiele's art, notably his formal experiments and his
later expressionist portraits and allegorical paintings - works
that reveal much about the importance of his short career.
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Marilyn Minter: All Wet
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Marilyn Minter; Text written by Jennifer Higgie; Interview by Anya Harrison
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Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new
ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract
expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly
original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered
Whitehead and his work as a philosophy graduate student at Harvard
University, and he continued to espouse Whitehead's processist
theories as germane to his art throughout his life. This book
examines how Whitehead's process philosophy-inspired by quantum
theory and focusing on the ongoing ingenuity of dynamic forces of
energy rather than traditional views of inert substances-set the
stage for Motherwell's future art. This book will be of interest to
scholars in twentieth-century modern art, philosophy of art and
aesthetics, and art history.
American art megastar Julian Schnabel (born 1951) has made a metier
of both painting and film, and while he is equally acclaimed for
his achievements in each of these disciplines, the works have often
been kept separate in the public eye. Yet Schnabel's painting has
drawn on cinematic imagery for years, often connecting otherwise
disparate work via this theme, and his award-winning films have
drawn on art both formally and as subject matter-most famously in
the 1996 hit "Basquiat." Schnabel himself resists categorization:
"I make art," he says,"whether it is painting, writing, photography
or making a movie." This survey of Schnabel's career to date
presents the artist's painterly production, from the 1970s through
to the present, juxtaposing his large-scale paintings with his
numerous critically acclaimed movies-"Basquiat" (1996), "Before
Night Falls" (2000), "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (2007) and
his newest film "Miral," which addresses the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict. The complete scripts of each of these movies are
featured, punctuated with stills chosen by Schnabel. Published for
the Art Gallery of Ontario's 2010 survey, "Julian Schnabel: Art and
Film" is the first appraisal of how Schnabel works across media,
bridging painting, writing and cinema.
Julian Schnabel was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His
first solo show was at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston in
1976, but it was with his 1979 exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery
in New York that Schnabel first asserted his presence as a
figurehead for new possibilities in painting. Retrospectives of his
work have been mounted by Tate Gallery, London (1983), the Whitney
Museum of American Art (1987) and Museo Nacionale Centro de Arte
Reina Sophia, Madrid (2004), among many others. He made his
cinematic debut in 1996 with his account of the life of Jean-Michel
Basquiat, which starred Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Gary Oldman
and Dennis Hopper. "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" earned him
Best Director both at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden
Globes, and an Academy Award nomination in this same category.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), best known and admired for his
striking and seductive portraits of women, was one of the founding
members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists whose
work is inspired by the art of the early Italian Renaissance.
Rossetti's powerful and unconventional portraits, with their
sumptuous, jewel-like colours, are explored in this beautiful gift
book. Examples have been drawn from the full range of Rossetti's
work - including paintings, drawings, print illustrations,
decorative designs and staged photographs - and chart the artist's
lively engagement with mythology, history, literature, biblical
subjects and modern life. Rossetti defined his experiences through
his passion for his subjects and this book traces his deliberate
intertwining of art and life. His models such as Jane Morris,
Elizabeth Siddal and his sister Christina, were his inspiration
and, in his rejection of conventional beauty, he redefined
difference as desirable. Through his view of women - in which
admiration veered towards fixation, praise towards possession -
Rossetti confronted the staid 19th-century public with a new and
powerful image of women, and the allure of that power is still felt
today. With 126 illustrations in colour
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Ramesh
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Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
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Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work engages social,
political, and cultural issues. His work has been widely exhibited
in the UK, Europe, Asia and the Americas. It has been included in
the Panama, Sydney, Venice, and Whitney Biennials and can be found
in many public collections including MOMA, New York, Project Row
Houses, Houston and Tate Modern, London. Based in Los Angeles,
Durant teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. Durant's
'The Meeting House' (2016) was a public art project at The Old
Manse, a National Historic Landmark built in 1770 and former home
and gathering place for politicians, thinkers, and
transcendentalists including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel
Hawthorne. The sister exhibition at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles in
2017, 'Build Therefore Your Own World', introduced new works that
expanded upon Durant's premise of the interdependence between
transcendentalists, abolitionists, and African American writers of
pre- and post-revolutionary America in the creation of American
culture and identity.Featured in The Meeting House / Build
Therefore Your Own World is a full-colour photo documentation of
the project in Concord, MA and Los Angeles, CA as well as new
essays by Pedro Alonzo, independent curator, and Tim Phillips,
pioneer in the field of conflict resolution and reconciliation; and
a new collection of poems by Tisa Bryant, Robin Coste Lewis,
Danielle Legros Georges, and Kevin Young, who recently became
Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in
New York.
A curated selection of J.M.W. Turner's striking and colourful
seascape paintings is reproduced here for our Venice by Turner
FlipTop Notecard museum quality notecard collection. Our new
FlipTop Notecard box notecards are full colour and large enough to
convey personal greetings, thank-yous and invitations. 20 notecards
4 each of 5 images 20 envelopes Magnetic closure Sturdy, reuseable
box, ideal for keepsakes Box measures 188 x 137 x 38 mm. Look out
for our other museum quality notecards, notebooks and more with
master artwork reproductions by Cezanne, J.M.W. Turner, Frida
Kahlo, Berthe Morisot, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and many
others in our stationery collections.
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Cylinder 4
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Joris Van De Moortel, Paul Schwer
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Joris Van De Moortel
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Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the
most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow
ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light' How does a
painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most influential
artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled
candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as
well as that of his fellow artists and Renaissance heroes, this
selection of his writings, talks and interviews draws together some
of his most incisive reflections on iconography and abstraction,
metaphysics and mysticism, and, above all, the nature of painting
and drawing. 'Among the most important, powerful and influential
American painters of the last 100 years ... he's an art world hero'
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine 'Guston's paintings make us think
hard' Aindrea Emelife, Guardian
The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom,
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings
and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once accidentally
leaving a portfolio of about 2,000 drawings on a subway car) in the
space of just eight years. Through his street roots in graffiti,
Basquiat helped to establish new possibilities for figurative and
expressionistic painting, breaking the white male stranglehold of
Conceptual and Minimal art, and foreshadowing, among other
tendencies, Germany's" Junge Wilde" movement. It was not only
Basquiat's art but also the details of his biography that made his
name legendary--his early years as "Samo" (his graffiti artist
moniker), his friendships with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and
Madonna and his tragically early death from a heroin overdose. This
superbly produced retrospective publication assesses Basquiat's
luminous career with commentary by, among others, Glenn O'Brien,
and 160 color reproductions of the work.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Puerto
Rican mother and a Haitian father--an ethnic mix that meant young
Jean-Michel was fluent in French, Spanish and English by the age of
11. In 1977, at the age of 17, Basquiat took up graffiti,
inscribing the landscape of downtown Manhattan with his signature
"Samo." In 1980 he was included in the landmark group exhibition
"The Times Square Show"; the following year, at the age of 21,
Basquiat became the youngest artist ever to be invited to
Documenta. By 1982, Basquiat had befriended Andy Warhol, later
collaborating with him; Basquiat was much affected by Warhol's
death in 1987. He died of a heroin overdose on August 22, 1988, at
the age of 27.
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Folon
- The Sculptures
(Hardcover)
Jean-Michel Folon, Renzo Piano, Stephanie Angelroth, Marilena Pasquali, Allison Michel, …
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The extraordinary sculptures of Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon
The first half of Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon's (1934-2005)
career was devoted to posters, illustrations, and television
animations that brought him international acclaim for their
diversity and virtuosity; his illustrations appeared in magazines
including The New Yorker, Fortune, and Esquire. In the 1990s, he
pivoted to sculpture, focusing on statuary and working with both
direct carving and modeling, which he then translated to bronze or
stone. This is the first publication to explore the entirety of
Folon's sculptural work. Drawing inspiration from the Cyclades, the
Etruscans, from African masks and Indian totems, Folon's sculptures
are characterized by their frontality and corporality. Distributed
for Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: Villers-la-Ville, Brussels
(October 24, 2020-February 21, 2021)
An intimate look at Ben Nicholson's everyday inspirations
Throughout his career, Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) transformed
everyday homewares into extraordinary experiments in abstract art.
Nicholson's studio was filled with objects that inspired him. From
patterned mocha-ware jugs and cut glass goblets to spanners,
hammers and chisels, these ordinary personal possessions were a
source of almost endless inspiration to the artist. This book
brings together for the first time Nicholson's paintings, reliefs,
prints and drawings alongside his rarely seen personal possessions
and studio tools. It traces how the artist's style developed, from
his early traditional tabletop still lifes to his later abstract
works. Still life was at the heart of Nicholson's artistic
practice. Through these humble items, he began to experiment with
form and color. His early works in particular owed inspiration to
his father, the painter William Nicholson. The book traces the
artistic and personal influences on Nicholson's evolutionary still
life style from the 1920s to the 1970s. It explores his time with
Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, as well as his encounters
with other Modernist greats, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.
Distributed for Pallant House Gallery
In John Mellencamp: American Paintings and Assemblages, a survey of
the artist s large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media pieces
documents America s heart and soul, revealing unsettling but
beautiful truths with a kind of anti-establishment frown and a rich
sense of narrative. A foreword by Dr. Lou Zona, Executive Director
and Chief Curator of The Butler Institute of American Art, and an
essay by New York Times critic and cultural writer David L. Shirey
put Mellencamp s work in context as a true American painter. As his
musical career flourished, Mellencamp began to paint in the 1980s
with an early affinity for portraiture influenced by the works of
Otto Dix and Max Beckmann. His kinship with the German
Expressionism of the early twentieth century, with its existential
focus on the human condition, serves as the foundation for the
development of Mellencamp s oeuvre. An interview by SPIN magazine
founder Bob Guccione Jr. further delineates the connection of
Mellencamp s music and art, both carefully composed through the
structural requirements of harmony, rhythm and order, and imbued
with the small-town, earnest voice of America s Heartland.
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Three Ideophones
Goodiepal, Alejandra Salinas, Aeron Bergman
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