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Lieven De Boeck
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A great way to learn about a truly unique artist, Jackson Pollock.
The Jackson Pollock Artist Box is designed to introduce you to
Pollock the person and Pollock the artist, and to provide projects
that will put you in touch with his creative process. Using his
techniques, you can invent your own images and arrive at your own
statement.
Most unusually among major painters, Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was
also an accomplished writer. His letters provide both a unique
self-portrait and a vivid picture of the contemporary cultural
scene. Van Gogh emerges as a complex but captivating personality,
struggling with utter integrity to fulfil his artistic destiny.
This major new edition, which is based on an entirely new
translation, reinstating a large number of passages omitted from
earlier editions, is expressly designed to reveal his inner journey
as much as the outward facts of his life. It includes complete
letters wherever possible, linked with brief passages of connecting
narrative and showing all the pen-and-ink sketches that originally
went with them. Despite the familiar image of Van Gogh as an
antisocial madman who died a martyr to his art, his troubled life
was rich in friendships and generous passions. In his letters we
discover the humanitarian and religious causes he embraced, his
fascination with the French Revolution, his striving for God and
for ethical ideals, his desperate courtship of his cousin, Kee Vos,
and his largely unsuccessful search for love. All of this, suggests
De Leeuw, demolishes some of the myths surrounding Van Gogh and his
career but brings hint before us as a flesh-and-blood human being,
an individual of immense pathos and spiritual depth. Perhaps even
more moving, these letters illuminate his constant conflicts as a
painter, torn between realism, symbolism and abstraction; between
landscape and portraiture; between his desire to depict peasant
life and the exciting diversions of the city; between his uncanny
versatility as a sketcher and his ideal of the full-scale finished
tableau. SinceVan Gogh received little feedback from the public, he
wrote at length to friends, fellow artists and his family, above
all to his brother Theo, the Parisian art dealer, who was his
confidant and mainstay. Along with his intense powers of visual
imagination, Vincent brought to the
This is a concise and engaging, yet detailed and informative
monograph that explores Gauguin's most Important works. Paul
Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most important artists of the
late 19th century, and one whose work was to have a profound
influence on the development of art in the 20th century. He began
as an Impressionist, but went on to develop a richly-coloured style
in his constant search for pristine originality and unadulterated
nature. This concise monograph collects the most important works by
Gauguin, not only of his best known paintings of Tahiti in which
the artist attempted to reconstruct the perfect life which he had
failed to find in reality, but also of many powerful works that
reflect the artist's contact with other seminal early modern
masters like Van Gogh or Cezanne.
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(Paperback)
Lisa Walker
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R893
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Brett Charles Seiler lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa,
where he also graduated from the Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2015.
Seiler's work has elements of painting, installation, and object
art, with a strong emphasis on the use of text and language.
Sometimes poetic, nostalgic, or romantic, it is an integral part of
his art or stands on its own as a piece as well. In his paintings,
the space is indeterminate, the figures are not located and
sketchily fleeting, the writing elements seem spontaneous like
statements from street art. The colour scheme moves in a narrow
spectrum between black, grey, white and brown tones, often using
wood. His themes are sexual interaction, oppression, homosexuality,
gender, men. Originally from Zimbabwe, a state where human rights
violations are commonplace, his work also makes a mark in the
struggle for equal sexual orientation in education, media, and
institutions. "[My work] is a deep longing for understanding. It is
from the point of view of something that I've missed, something
that I cannot go back to. It's a process of research." Text in
English and German.
One of the world's greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts
his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has
built--from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in
Singapore--and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should
play in societyOver more than five decades, legendary architect
Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and
memorable structures--from the 1967 modular housing scheme in
Montreal known as "Habitat" and the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel,
to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas and the Marina Bay Sands
development and extraordinary Jewel Changi airport interior garden
and waterfall in Singapore. For Safdie, the way a space functions
is fundamental; he is deeply committed to architecture as a social
force for good, believing that any challenge, including extreme
population density and environmental distress, can be addressed
with solutions that enhance community and uplift the human spirit.
Safdie always refers to the "silent client" an architect must
ultimately serve: the people who live in, work in, or experience a
building.If Walls Could Speak takes readers behind the veil of an
essential yet mysterious profession to explain through Safdie's own
experiences how an architect thinks and works--"from the spark of
imagination through the design process, the model-making, the
politics, the engineering, the materials." Relating memorable
stories about what has inspired him--from childhoods in Israel and
Montreal to the projects and personalities worldwide that have
captured his imagination--Safdie reveals the complex interplay that
underpins every project and his vision for the role architecture
can and should play in society at large. Illustrated throughout
with drawings, sketches, photographs, and documents from his firm's
voluminous archives that illuminate his stories, If Walls Could
Speak ends with a chapter outlining seven projects Safdie would
pursue around the world if resources and will were no issue and the
choices were his to make.A book like no other, If Walls Could Speak
will forever change the way you look at and appreciate any built
structure.
With Barry Flanagan is a vivid account of a friendship that evolved
into a working relationship when Richard McNeff became 'spontaneous
fixer' (Flanagan's description) of the sculptor's show held in June
1992 at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Ibiza, where they were
both living. McNeff was to gain a privileged insight into the
sculptor's singular personality and eccentric working methods,
learning to decipher his memorably surreal turns of phrase and to
parry his fascinating, if at times unsettling, pranksteresque
quirks . In September 1992 Flanagan and McNeff took the show to
Majorca, resulting a lively visit to the celebrated Spanish artist
Miquel Barcelo. The following year McNeff was involved in
Flanagan's print- making venture in Barcelona and in his Madrid
retrospective. Flanagan rescued him from a rough landing in England
in 1994 by commissioning a tour of stone quarries there.
Subsequently McNeff ran into a fourteen- year-old profoundly deaf
girl who turned out to be his unknown daughter. She had a talent
for art and the superbly generous sculptor was instrumental in
helping with her studies. Late in 2008 Barry was diagnosed with
motor neurone disease. By June 2009 he was wheelchair- bound. Two
months later he died, and McNeff read the lesson at his funeral.
Fleshed out with biographical detail, much of it supplied by the
sculptor himself, supplemented by photographs and details of the
work, this touching memoir is the first retrospective of a major
Welsh-born artist. With Barry Flanagan captures the spirit of this
remarkable Merlinesque figure in a moving portrait that reveals a
true original.
Enter the fantastic fantasy world of epic doodler Kerby Rosanes in
his creepiest collection yet. From skulls that morph into
butterflies to clockwork dragons and vine-entangled pumpkins -
there's plenty of gothic-inspired scenes and creatures to bring to
life in colour. As an extra challenge, seek out the search items at
the back of the book - there's more to discover within these pages
than you ever dreamed possible. On top of the success of
Animorphia, Imagimorphia and Mythomorphia, Kerby's detailed doodle
skills have already earned him a solid fan base. His Sketchy
Stories Facebook page has more than 1,000,000 likes, he has had
275,000 project views on Behance and his incredible website
(www.kerbyrosanes.com) is getting more hits by the day. Other books
in the colouring series include: 9781910552070 Animorphia
9781910552148 Imagimorphia 9781910552261 Mythomorphia 9781910552926
Geomorphia
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Cezanne
(Hardcover)
Ulrike Becks-Malorny
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R476
R394
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In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside
near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), busily plied his
brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of
modern art. With compact, intense dabs of paint and bold new
approaches to light and space, he mediated the way from
Impressionism to the defining movements of the early 20th century
and became, in the words of both Matisse and Picasso, "father of us
all." This fresh artist introduction selects key works from
Cezanne's oeuvre to understand his development, innovation, and
crucial influence on modern art. From compositions of fruits and
pears to scenes of outdoor bathers, we trace his experimentation
with color, perspective, and texture to evoke "a harmony parallel
to Nature," as well as the very process of seeing and recording.
Along the way, we discover Cezanne's celebrated Card Players, his
layering of warm and cool hues to build up form and surface, and
the geometric rigor of his landscapes from the vicinity of
Aix-en-Provence, as bright with the light of southern France as
they are bold with a radical new rendering of dimensions and depth.
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
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Ecology Works - John Newling
(Hardcover)
Richard Davey, Ann Douglas, Mark Hope, Jonathan Casciani; Text written by John Newling; Foreword by …
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R1,364
Discovery Miles 13 640
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As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei
remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and
social media activity almost as much as for his social
interventions, contemporary approach to the readymade, and
knowledge of Chinese traditional crafts, Ai's fame extends
throughout and beyond the art world. Drawn from TASCHEN's limited
Collector's Edition, this monograph explores each of Ai's career
phases up until his release from Chinese custody. It features
extensive visual material to trace Ai's development from his early
New York days right through to his recent practice. Focus moments
include his international breakthrough in the early 2000s, his
porcelain Sunflower Seeds at the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern,
his response to the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, and his police
detention in 2011. With behind-the-scenes studio pictures,
production shots, and numerous statements derived from exclusive
interviews with Ai, we gain privileged access to the artist's
process, influences, and importance. The book includes texts from
Uli Sigg, Ai's longtime friend and former Swiss ambassador to China
and Roger M. Buergel, who curated the 2007 documenta and hosted the
artist's Fairytale piece. 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.
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Lives of Rubens
(Paperback)
Giovanni Baglione, Joachim Sandrart, Roger Piles; Edited by Jeremy Wood
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R230
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The brilliance of Peter Paul Rubens' career changed forever the
perceptions of painting and painters. Here was a man whose
astonishing gifts were allied to a personality so cosmopolitan,
engaging, and virtuous that he could mingle as easily with kings as
with fellow painters. Rubens' character and achievements fascinated
his contemporaries, and these three biographies of the artist show
the impact of his life and art on three very different observers.
Baglione, an Italian painter and art historian, records the
remarkable success of Rubens visits to Rome; Sandrart, a German
painter, writes on the later years of his career; and de Piles, one
of the greatest early art critics, offers an evaluation of Rubens
style that remains one of the most influential ever written.
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Niki de Saint Phalle
(Paperback)
Caroline Ugelstad; Text written by Kimberly Lamm, Bjarne Melgaard, Camille Morineau, Martine Hoff Jensen; Designed by …
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R763
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In 1752 Charles-Joseph Natoire, then a highly successful painter,
assumed the directorship of the prestigious Academie de France in
Rome. Twenty-three years later he was removed from office,
criticised as being singularly inept. What was the basis for this
condemnation that has been perpetuated by historians ever since?
Reed Benhamou's re-evaluation of Natoire's life and work at the
Academie is the first to weigh the prevailing opinion against the
historical record. The accusations made against Charles-Joseph
Natoire were many and varied: that his artistic work was
increasingly unworthy of serious study; that he demeaned his
students; that he was a religious bigot; that he was a fraudulent
book-keeper. Benhamou evaluates these and other charges in the
light of contemporary correspondences, critics' assessment of his
work, legal briefs, royal accounts and the parallel experiences of
his precursors and successors at the Academie. The director's role
is shown to be multifaceted and no director succeeded in every
area. What is arresting is why Natoire was singled out as being
uniquely weak, uniquely bigoted, uniquely incompetent. The
Charles-Joseph Natoire who emerges from this book differs in nearly
every respect from the unflattering portrait promulgated by
historians and popular media. His increasingly iconoclastic
students rebelled against the traditional qualities valued by the
French artistic elite; the Academie went underfunded because of the
effects of war and a profligate king, and he was caught between two
competing institutional regimes. In this book Reed Benhamou not
only unravels the myth and reality surrounding Natoire, but also
also sheds light on the workings of the institution he served for
nearly a quarter of a century.
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.
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