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Gehend
(Hardcover)
Peter Eleey, Yukio Lippit, Christina Vegh
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R1,292
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This sweeping overview of Rembrandt's extraordinary achievement as
a draughtsman fills a gap in the otherwise enormous literature on
the artist. Beautifully illustrated, mostly in colour, the more
than 150 drawings - culled from a corpus of some 800 - are
discussed in detail. The drawings span Rembrandt's entire
productive life as an artist, from early self-portraits in the
1620s to late drawings from the 1660s of the victim of an
execution, a state coach, and historical and mythological images.
The scope of the book allows readers to delve into the very broad
range of Rembrandt's oeuvre of drawings.
Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist and
visual artist. This is the first book to present a full account of
Adnan's fascinating life and work, using the drama of her
biography, the complexity of her identity, and the cosmopolitan
nature of her experience to illuminate the many layers and
dimensions of her paintings and their progress over several crucial
decades. Adnan came relatively late to painting - her first images
were created in the late-1950s in response to the Californian
landscape. Her vocabulary of lines, shapes and colours changed
little over time, and yet there are huge variations in mood,
texture, composition and material. Similarly, there is a balance
between understanding her paintings as pure abstractions, emulating
the shape of thought, and seeing them for the actual landscapes of
the many places Adnan loved, embraced and responded to. Tackling
the complexities of her subject with skill and insight, Kaelen
Wilson-Goldie unpacks Adnan's multi-layered career to capture the
full scope of her artistic endeavours and impressive achievements.
This is an examination of the paintings, books, poetry and
theoretical work of Russian avant-garde artist, Olga Rozanova. The
text assesses Rozanova's life and work, aiming to recreate the
spirit of the counterculture milieu that contributed to the
transformation of 20th-century art.
This is an examination of the paintings, books, poetry and
theoretical work of Russian avant-garde artist, Olga Rozanova. The
text assesses Rozanova's life and work, aiming to recreate the
spirit of the counterculture milieu that contributed to the
transformation of 20th-century art.
This first survey of Antonio Bernal's life and work, The Artist as
Eyewitness features essays that assess his murals, situating them
within the historical, political, and cultural frameworks of the
Chicano movement. It also includes an analysis of Bernal's
unpublished novel, Breaking the Silence; a biography of Bernal;
reproductions of his artwork; and a selection of his writings.
Drawing on personal correspondence and writings, photographs, and
audiovisual materials that document Bernal's travels, artwork, and
family history, this book offers an important contribution to
Chicana/o studies and art history.
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Hopper
(Paperback)
Rolf G Renner
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R449
R414
Discovery Miles 4 140
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Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is something of an American success
story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he
was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. As he
approached 80, Time magazine featured him on its cover. Today, half
a century after his death, Hopper is considered a giant of modern
expression, with an uncanny, unforgettable, and utterly distinct
sense for mood and place. Much of Hopper's work excavates modern
city experience. In canvas after canvas, he depicts diners, cafes,
shopfronts, street lights, gas stations, rail stations, and hotel
rooms. The scenes are marked by vivid color juxtapositions and
stark, theatrical lighting, as well as by harshly contoured
figures, who appear at once part of, and alien to, their
surroundings. The ambiance throughout his repertoire is of an eerie
disquiet, alienation, loneliness and psychological tension,
although his rural or coastal scenes can offer a counterpoint of
tranquility or optimism. This book presents key works from Hopper's
oeuvre to introduce a key player not only in American art history
but also in the American psyche. 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
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes
originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include
works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget,
Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan
Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed
mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A
brochure listing each title in the "International Library of
Psychology" series is available upon request.
This title available in eBook format. Click here for more
information.
Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
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Lives of Leonardo
(Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Matteo Bandello, Paolo Giovio, Sabba Castiglione; Edited by Charles Robertson
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R269
Discovery Miles 2 690
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For many people the greatest artist, and the quintessential
Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter,
architect, theatre designer, engineer, sculptor, anatomist,
geometer, naturalist, poet and musician. His Last Supper in Milan
has been called the greatest painting in Western art. Illegitimate,
left-handed and homosexual, Leonardo never made a straightforward
career. But from his earliest apprenticeship with the Florentine
painter and sculptor Andrea Verrochio, his astonishing gifts were
recognised. His life led him from Florence to militaristic Milan
and back, to Rome and eventually to France, where he died in the
arms of the King, Francis I. As one of the greatest exponents of
painting of his time, Leonardo was celebrated by his fellow
Florentine Vasari (who was nevertheless responsible for covering
over the great fresco of the Battle of Anghiari with his own
painting). Vasari's carefully researched life of Leonardo remains
one of the main sources of our knowledge, and is printed here
together with the three other early biographies, and the major
account by his French editor Du Fresne. Personal reminiscences by
the novelist Bandello, and humanist Saba di Castiglione, round out
the picture, and for the first time the extremely revealing
imagined dialogue between Leonardo and the Greek sculptor Phidias,
by the painter and theorist Lomazzo, is published in English. An
introduction by the scholar Charles Robertson places these writings
and the career of Leonardo in context. Approximately 50 pages of
colour illustrations, including the major paintings and many of the
astonishing drawings, give a rich overview of Leonardo's work and
mind.
A groundbreaking and essential survey of the art of Lynette
Yiadom-Boakye, offering an in-depth discussion of the development
of the artist and positioning her work within a wider history of
portraiture. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night
celebrates the work of one of the most significant and acclaimed
figurative painters of her generation. Fact and fiction fuse in
Yiadom-Boakye's paintings: they appear to be portraits, yet the
people she depicts are not real but invented. Created from a
composite of found images and her own imagination, her characters
seem to exist outside of a specific time or place: they feel at
once familiar yet mysterious. This ambiguity resonates again in the
enigmatic titles she gives to her artworks. The artist is also a
writer of poetry and prose, and for her, the two forms of
creativity complement each other: 'The things I can't paint, I
write, and the things I can't write, I paint.' This perceptive and
engaging publication provides a comprehensive account of
Yiadom-Boakye's practice over the past two decades. With
contributions by the celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander and
curators Andrea Schlieker and Isabella Maidment, alongside new
writing by Yiadom-Boakye, Fly In League With The Night reflects the
dual aspects of the artist's career as both a painter and a writer
and offers an intimate insight into her creative process.
It is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even
hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of
my life that the battle is won.' JO VAN GOGH-BONGER TO GUSTAVE
COQUIOT, 1922 'It is a sacrifice for the sake of Vincent's glory.'
JO VAN GOGH-BONGER ON THE SALE OF 'THE SUNFLOWERS' TO THE NATIONAL
GALLERY, UK, 1924 Little known but no less influential, Jo van
Gogh-Bonger was sister-in-law of Vincent van Gogh, wife of his
brother, Theo. When the brothers died soon after each other, she
took charge of Van Gogh's artistic legacy and devoted the rest of
her life to disseminating his work. Despite being widowed with a
young son, Jo successfully navigated the male-dominated world of
the art market-publishing Van Gogh's letters, organizing
exhibitions in the Netherlands and throughout the world, and making
strategic sales to private individuals and influential
dealers-ultimately establishing Van Gogh's reputation as one of the
finest artists of his generation. In doing so, she fundamentally
changed how we view the relationship between the artist and his
work. She also lived a rich and fascinating life-not only was she
friends with eminent writers and artists, but she also was active
within the Social Democratic Labour Party and closely involved in
emerging women's movements. Using rich source material, including
unseen diaries, documents and letters, Hans Luijten charts the
multi-faceted life of this visionary woman with the drive to shake
the art world to its core.
Susan Herbert's delightful feline reimaginings of famous scenes
from art, theatre, opera, ballet and film have won her a devoted
following. This unprecedented new compilation of her best paintings
provides an irresistible introduction to her feline world. An array
of cat characters take the starring roles in a variety of instantly
recognizable settings. The masterpieces of Western art retain their
distinctive styles while being cleverly filled with furry faces and
pussycat tails. Cats then take to the stage in Shakespearean dramas
and lavishly staged opera productions. The final stop is Hollywood,
where cats are cast in everything from big-budget epics to cult
classics, emulating the timeless glamour of the golden age of
cinema. From Botticelli's Birth of Venus through Puccini's Tosca to
James Dean and Lawrence of Arabia, Susan Herbert's brilliantly
observed feline dramatis personae are a joy to discover.
First published in 1996. The art of the extraordinary French
artist, Henri Matisse (1869- 1954), has provided visual pleasures
and intellectual challenges to its viewers for the last hundred
years. This is collection of gathered, summarized, and evaluated
major literature on the artist primarily from France, the United
States, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries, where major
Matisse collections bear witness to early and intense interest in
the artist's work.
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Lives of Tintoretto
(Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Pietro Aretino, Carlo Ridolfi, Andrea Calmo, Veronica Franco, …
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R323
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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.
Christopher White explains why he chose this title for his new
book: 'The often intimate, reflective and personal side to
Rembrandt's work in treating subjects from history or the Bible
reveals an increasingly more introspective interpretation than his
contemporaries.' Rembrandt's sharp eye draws inspiration from the
domestic scene, the local street and wherever he went. His subjects
include: children, beggars, musicians, dogs, pigs, horses; even
elephants and lions. White studies Rembrandt's technique from an
aesthetic rather than a scientific point of view; his willingness
to experiment whether drawing, painting or etching is a notable
feature of his work, and by discussing examples of the three
different media side by side, the author demonstrates their
interdependence.
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