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This is the definitive account of the life and work of Edward Seago
(1910-1974), the highly popular, versatile and talented British
painter whose work was inspired by John Sell Cotman, John Constable
and Alfred Munnings. Over 200 colour reproductions are complemented
by an engaging text which highlights important periods, episodes
and acquaintances from Seago's life and career. Full of anecdotes,
sketches and quotations from the artist's books and correspondence,
the author provides a vivid impression of Seago's character which
helps inform discussion of the outstanding imagery which he
created. Including important examples of works from all stages of
Seago's career, this book reproduces beautiful landscapes, vibrant
circus images, dramatic seascapes and paintings inspired by the
artist's travels aboard. A true celebration of a powerful body of
20th-century British painting, Edward Seago will be an invaluable
addition to the libraries of collectors, dealers and enthusiasts
alike.
Bettina is the first monograph to showcase the work of the
previously unsung artist Bettina Grossman, whose wildly
interdisciplinary practice spanned photography, sculpture, textile,
cinema, drawing, and more. An eccentric personality fully dedicated
to her art, Bettina lived in the famous Chelsea Hotel from 1968
until her death in late 2021. In her tiny studio, she produced and
accumulated a considerable body of work, much of which has remained
unseen and unpublished until now. Her interests ranged from
geometric and abstract studies, drawn from observations of people
on the street, to pieces that transformed language into graphic,
abstract "verbal forms." Incorporating strategies of chance and the
abstraction of everyday form through repetition and seriality,
Bettina pushed the photographic medium to and beyond its limits. As
Robert Blackburn, artist and founder of the Printmaking Workshop,
astutely observed of Bettina's work: "The photography, film,
sculpture are as one, for the photographic medium is employed not
only for documentation but as an endless source of inspiration from
which other disciplines emerge-and merge." Bettina was the winner
of the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2020 and is
copublished by Aperture and Editions Xavier Barral.
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.
When we think Tom of Finland we first picture muscular, macho young
men in military gear. Tom's vision of masculine perfection was
formed during his service as an officer during World War II. Though
he served in the Finnish air force, it was the German troops,
stationed in Finland to help the country repel invading Russian
forces, which served as inspiration. After all, only the Germans
had uniforms created by Hugo Boss, tightly tailored, replete with
designer touches, and complimented by high, shiny black leather
boots. Tom, at 19, was smitten, an obsession that deepened
following his first sexual experiences with German officers in the
blackout streets of Helsinki. Tom began putting his military
fantasies on paper in 1945 to memorialize his thrilling nighttime
encounters when the war ended. At first the Hugo Boss uniforms
dominated, but as the years and then decades passed he included
American naval uniforms as well, and then his own hybridized
designs of black leather, jodhpurs, boots, and peaked caps, with
military insignia replaced by Tom's Men patches. As Tom attracted
an army of loyal fans, he created, with pencil, pen and gouache, an
army of free, proud, masculine fantasy men committed to pleasure
and male camaraderie. The Little Book of Tom: Military Men explores
Tom's fascination with militaria through a mixture of multi-panel
comics and single-panel drawings and paintings, all in a compact
and affordable 192 pages. Historic film stills and posters,
personal photos of Tom, sketches, and Tom's own reference images
explore the cultural context and private inspirations behind the
ultimate Tom of Finland hero.
The final edition of the late Tom Phillips's 'defining masterpiece
of postmodernism'. In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips discovered A
Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W.H.
Mallock, and set himself the task of altering every page, by
painting, collage or cut-up techniques, to create an entirely new
version. Some of Mallock's original text remains intact and through
the illustrated pages the character of Bill Toge, Phillips's
anti-hero, and his romantic plight emerges. First published in
1973, A Humument - as Phillips titled his altered book - quickly
established itself as a cult classic. From that point, the artist
worked towards a complete revision of his original, adding new
pages in successive editions. That process is now finished. This
final edition presents an entirely new and complete version of A
Humument. It includes a revised Introduction by the late artist, in
which he reflects on the 50-year project, and 92 new illustrated
pages.
One of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth
century, Georgia O'Keeffe led a life rich in intense
relationships-with family, friends, and especially with fellow
artist Alfred Stieglitz. Her extraordinary accomplishments, such as
the often eroticized flowers, bones, stones, skulls, and pelvises
she painted with such command, are all the more remarkable when
seen in the context of the struggle she waged between the rigorous
demands of love and work. When Roxana Robinson's definitive
biography of O'Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave
reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
This new edition features a new foreword by the author setting
O'Keefe in an artistic context over the last thirty years since the
book was first published, as well as previously unpublished letters
of the young O'Keeffe to her lover, Arthur MacMahon. It also
relates the story of Robinson's own encounter with the artist. As
interest in O'Keeffe continues to grow among museum-goers and
scholars alike, this book remains indispensable for understanding
her life and art.
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