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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General

Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies - Confrontations and Contradictions (Paperback): Albert Alhadeff Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies - Confrontations and Contradictions (Paperback)
Albert Alhadeff
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines Theodore Gericault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Gericault's depiction of black people, his approach towards slavery, and the voices that advanced or denigrated them. By turning to documents, essays and critiques, both before and after Waterloo (1815), and, most importantly, Gericault's own oeuvre, this study explores the fetters of slavery that Gericault challenged-alongside a growing number of abolitionists-overtly or covertly. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, race and ethnic studies and students of modernism.

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/1 - The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and... Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/1 - The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now (Paperback)
Douglas Field, Luke Walker
R1,089 R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Save R182 (17%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blake's work from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on the counterculture. Opening with two articles by the late Michael Horovitz, an important figure in the 'Blake Renaissance' of the 1960s, the issue goes on to investigate the ideological struggle over Blake in the early part of the twentieth century, with particular reference to W. B. Yeats. This is followed by articles on the artistic avant-garde and underground of the 1960s and on Blake's significance for science fiction authors of the 1970s. The issue closes with an article on the contemporary Belgian art collective maelstrOEm reEvolution. -- .

Wayne Thiebaud 100 - Paintings, Prints, and Drawings (Hardcover): Scott Shields Wayne Thiebaud 100 - Paintings, Prints, and Drawings (Hardcover)
Scott Shields
R1,303 R1,068 Discovery Miles 10 680 Save R235 (18%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Eclipse (Paperback): Jacqueline Doyen, Justin Hoffman, Meike Behm Eclipse (Paperback)
Jacqueline Doyen, Justin Hoffman, Meike Behm
R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Nurturing Darkness - Meditations on the Root Cellars of Newfoundland: The Artwork of Carol Baen-Gahm (Hardcover): Emily... The Nurturing Darkness - Meditations on the Root Cellars of Newfoundland: The Artwork of Carol Baen-Gahm (Hardcover)
Emily Deming-Martin; Contributions by Carol Bajen-Gahm
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Simon Starling - Metamorphology (Hardcover): Simon Starling Simon Starling - Metamorphology (Hardcover)
Simon Starling; Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn; Text written by Dieter Roelstraete, Mark Godfrey, Janine Mileaf
R847 R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Save R89 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

British conceptual artist Simon Starling (born 1967) interrogates the histories of art and science, as well as other subjects such as economic and environmental issues, through a wide variety of media including film, installation and photography. Published for his first survey exhibition at a major American museum, "Simon Starling: Metamorphology" highlights a fundamental principle of Starling's practice: an almost alchemistic conception of the transformative potential of art, or of transformation as art. The Turner Prize-winning artist's working method constitutes recycling, both literally and figuratively: repurposing existing materials for new, artistic aims; retelling existing stories to produce new historical insights; linking, looping and remaking. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in tandem with the Arts Club of Chicago, and features essays by MCA Chicago senior curator Dieter Roelstraete, Arts Club of Chicago executive director Janine Mileaf in collaboration with Simon Starling, and Tate Modern curator Mark Godfrey.

Behind the Black - A Fearless Venture Into the Darkest Corners of the Creative Mind In Search of Light (Hardcover): Colleen... Behind the Black - A Fearless Venture Into the Darkest Corners of the Creative Mind In Search of Light (Hardcover)
Colleen Black; Foreword by Ana Weber
R944 Discovery Miles 9 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

C. Behind the Black is the story of an artist's struggle with addiction and the beautiful journey to understand a world lost inside the throes of creative passion. The author wrote it to gain a better understanding of just what magic lies behind the creation of a work of art, what struggles it takes to live the life of a professional artist, and a few surprises along the way that are destined to lift and inspire the hearts of a wide array of readers. This is a journey through the darkness in a struggle to find balance in the beautiful lights and shadows of truth.

David Hockney: Drawing From Life (Hardcover): Sarah Howgate, Isabel Seligman David Hockney: Drawing From Life (Hardcover)
Sarah Howgate, Isabel Seligman 1
R852 Discovery Miles 8 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book, which accompanies the first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney's drawings inover 20 years,will explore Hockney as a draughtsman from the 1950s to now, with a focus on himself, his family and friends. From Ingres to the iPad -this book demonstrates the artist's ingenuity in portrait drawing with reference to both tradition and technology. David Hockney is recognised as one of the master draughtsmen of our times and a champion of the medium. This book will feature Hockney's work from the 1950s to now and focus on his depictions of himself and a smaller group of sitters close to him: his muse, Celia Birtwell; his mother, Laura Hockney; and his friends, the curator, Gregory Evans, and master printer, Maurice Payne. This book will examine not only how drawing is fundamental to Hockney's distinctive way of observing the world around him, but also how it has been a testing ground for ideas and modes of expression later played out in his paintings. From Old Masters to modern masters, from Holbein to Picasso, Hockney's portrait drawings reveal his admiration for his artistic predecessors and his continuous stylistic experimentation throughout his career. Alongside an in-depth essay from the curator, this book will feature an exclusive interview between author and curator, Sarah Howgate, and artist, David Hockney. In addition, an 'In Focus' essay by British Museum curator Isabel Seligman, will explore the relationship between Hockney, Ingres and Picasso drawings.

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain - One Hundred Years Later (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Robert Kilroy Marcel Duchamp's Fountain - One Hundred Years Later (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Robert Kilroy
R1,747 Discovery Miles 17 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain by critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work. It introduces a new methodological approach to art-historical practice rooted in a revised understanding of Lacan, Freud and Slavoj Zizek. In weaving an alternative narrative, Kilroy shows us that not only has Fountain been fundamentally misunderstood but that this very misunderstanding is central to the work's significance. The author brings together Duchamp's own statements to argue Fountain's verdict was strategically stage-managed by the artist in order to expose the underlying logic of its reception, what he terms 'The Creative Act.' This book will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including art historians, psychoanalysts, scholars and art enthusiasts interested in visual culture and ideological critique.

Sean Aaberg's Halloween Book (Hardcover): Sean Aaberg Sean Aaberg's Halloween Book (Hardcover)
Sean Aaberg
R712 R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Love and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego - Narrating the Family Romance (Hardcover): Ruth Rosengarten Love and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego - Narrating the Family Romance (Hardcover)
Ruth Rosengarten
R2,343 Discovery Miles 23 430 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Rosengarten explores the narrative operations of Rego's work by mobilizing both psychoanalytic theory and social history. She confronts, as case studies, three complex figure paintings from different moments in Rego's oeuvre: "The Policeman's Daughter" (1987), "The Interrogator's Garden" (2000), and "The First Mass in Brazil" (1993). The content of the three specimen paintings links them to the political context of the Estado Novo, the fascist-inspired regime that dominated Rego's childhood. Plotting links between the spheres of the political and the personal, Rosengarten throws light on the complex intertwining of state power and parental authority in Rego's work, focusing on the "labour of socialisation and resistance" that Rego's work evinces in relation to the Freudian model of the family romance. Rosengarten unveils the political context of Portugal under Salazar, and the workings of colonial fantasy, Catholic ideology and gender construction. In prodding the inalienable link between love and authority, this study offers a reading of Rego's work that interrogates, rather than subverts, the Oedipal model structuring the patriarchal family.

Vanessa Bell - Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist (Paperback): Frances Spalding Vanessa Bell - Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist (Paperback)
Frances Spalding
R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Vanessa Bell is central to the history of the Bloomsbury Group, yet until this authorised biography was written, she largely remained a silent and inscrutable figure. Tantalising glimpses of her life appeared mainly in her sister, Virginia Woolf's, letters, diaries and biography. Frances Spalding here draws upon a mass of unpublished documents to reveal Bell's extraordinary achievements in both her art and her life. She recounts in vivid detail how Bell's move into the Bloomsbury Group and her exposure to Paris and the radical art of the Post-Impressionists ran parrallel with an increasingly unorthodox personal life that spun in convoluted threads between her marriage to Clive Bell, her affair with Roger Fry, her friendship with Duncan Grant and relationship with her sister.

Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art (Hardcover, New): Kerryn Greenberg Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art (Hardcover, New)
Kerryn Greenberg
R880 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R146 (17%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Born in Cotonou, Benin in 1961, Meschac Gaba moved to the Netherlands in 1996 to take up a residency at the Rijksakademie. It was there that he conceived The Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997-2002, an ambitious work, which took him five years to complete and which cemented his reputation as one of the most important African artists working today. Consisting of twelve sections - Draft Room, Architecture, Museum Shop, Summer Collection, Games Room, Art and Religion, Museum Restaurant, Music Room, Marriage Room, Library, Salon and Humanist Space - this work challenges preconceived notions of what African art is and provides a new discursive space for social and cultural interaction, critiquing the museum's value both as an institution, and as a symbol of cultural capital. The importance of this work, in the history of African art and in the lineage of critical reflections on the museum by artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Marcel Broodthaers, has been widely acknowledged in important exhibitions ranging from Documenta XI, Kassel in 2002 to Intense Proximity: La Triennale, Paris in 2012. Tate has now acquired this work. This book will be published on the occasion of the first presentation of Gaba's Museum of Contemporary African Art in its entirety in the UK. Contributions by leading scholars will place this important work in the context of the artist's oeuvre, art history and museology.

Basquiat (Paperback): Marc Mayer Basquiat (Paperback)
Marc Mayer
R566 R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Save R39 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Jean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died in 1988, his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just eight years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's powerful A uvre has ensured his continuing reputation as one of modern art's most distinctive voices. Borrowing from graffiti and street imagery, cartoons, mythology and religious symbolism, Basquiat's drawings and paintings explore issues of race and identity, providing social commentary that is shrewdly observed and biting. This bestselling book, now available in a compact edition, celebrates Basquiat's achievements in the contexts of the key influences on his art. It not only re-evaluates the artist's principal works and their meaning, but also explains what keeps his painting relevant today.

Monet (Life & Times) (Paperback): Matthias Arnold Monet (Life & Times) (Paperback)
Matthias Arnold; Translated by Anne Wyburd
R290 R150 Discovery Miles 1 500 Save R140 (48%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Claude Monet spent most of his life painting his own spontaneous impressions of nature and the world that was closest to him. His works provoked the description 'Impressionist', the name given to the style of art that he created together with Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley.

Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It (Hardcover): Alison Elizabeth Taylor Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It (Hardcover)
Alison Elizabeth Taylor; Edited by Allison Kemmerer; Text written by Naomi Fry, Lynne Tillman
R1,191 R1,019 Discovery Miles 10 190 Save R172 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Art into Life - Essays on Tracey Emin (Hardcover): Alexandra Kokoli, Deborah Cherry Art into Life - Essays on Tracey Emin (Hardcover)
Alexandra Kokoli, Deborah Cherry
R3,657 Discovery Miles 36 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tracey Emin has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis from a young, unknown artist into the 'bad girl' of the Young British Art (yBA) movement, challenging the complacency of the art establishment in both her work and her life. Today she is arguably the doyenne of the British art scene and attracts more acclaim than controversy. Her work is known by a wide audience, yet rarely receives the critical attention it deserves. In Art Into Life: Essays on Tracey Emin writers from a range of art historical, artistic and curatorial perspectives examine how Emin's art, life and celebrity status have become inextricably intertwined. This innovative collection explores Emin's intersectional identity, including her Turkish-Cypriot heritage, ageing and sexuality, reflects on her early years as an artist, and debates issues of autobiography, self-presentation and performativity alongside the multi-media exchanges of her work and the tensions between art and craft. With its discussions of the central themes of Emin's art, attention to key works such as My Bed, and accessible theorization of her creative practice, Art into Life will interest a broad readership.

Piranesi. The Complete Etchings (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Luigi Ficacci Piranesi. The Complete Etchings (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Luigi Ficacci
R2,439 R1,962 Discovery Miles 19 620 Save R477 (20%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chiaroscuro images imbued the city's archaeological ruins with drama and romance and became favorite souvenirs for the Grand Tourists who traveled Italy in pursuit of classical culture and education. Today, Piranesi is renowned not just for shaping the European imagination of Rome, but also for his elaborate series of fanciful prisons, Carceri, which have influenced generations of creatives since, from the Surrealists to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka. Loosely based on contemporary stage sets rather than the actual dingy dungeons of Piranesi's day, these intricate images defy architectural reality to play instead with perspective, lighting, and scale. Staircases exist on two planes simultaneously; vast, vaulted ceilings seem to soar up to the heavens; interior and exterior distinctions collapse. With a low viewpoint and small, fragile figures, the prison scenes become monstrous megacities of incarceration, celebrated to this day as masterworks of existentialist drama.

Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle (Paperback): Bruno Munari Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle (Paperback)
Bruno Munari
R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Circle: "God is a circle whose center is everywhere but whose circumference is nowhere." Circle means perfection, cyclicity, superiority of the divinity, but also instability and movement. In nature soap bubbles are spherical and internal trees' rings are circular; the legend tells that Giotto drew a perfect O, while perfection is tangible on Michelangelo's Tondo Doni and Botticelli's Vergine col Bambino. King Arthur's knights were pairs around a round table, and nowadays people sit in circle to make a decision or watch a show. Bruno Munari selects and describes in this little, extraordinary encyclopedia, several uses of this fascinating and mysterious form, unstable and hieratic at the same time. Square: Square has much importance in man's life: a lot of churches, monuments, games (like chess), and fonts are square-based. But man seems not to realise it... one more time Bruno Munari amazes us with an historical, anthropological, scientific square book. Triangle: From the vegetable structure of the coconut to the diagram of human settlements by Le Corbusier, one can frequently find the shape of the equilateral triangle in many different occurrences, both in a natural environment and in artificial works. Along with the circle and the square, the equilateral triangle is one of the three basic forms, and is suitable to be combined in modular frameworks to generate a structured field in which endless other combinatorial forms may be constructed. From classical Arab and Japanese decorations to the contemporary architecture of Buckminster Fuller and Wright, the familiarity with the equilateral triangle, in all its formal and structural resources, generates curious and fascinating experimentations. After the books of the same collection dedicated to the circle and the square, a new reprint by Bruno Munari about the many uses of this evocative shape throughout the centuries. These studies were originally published in 1976 in the series Quaderni di design, curated by Munari himself for Zanichelli.

Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech (Hardcover): Virgil Abloh Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech (Hardcover)
Virgil Abloh; Edited by Michael Darling; Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn; Text written by Samir Bantal, Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, …
R1,897 Discovery Miles 18 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women in Abstraction (Hardcover): Christine Macel, Karolina Lewandowska Women in Abstraction (Hardcover)
Christine Macel, Karolina Lewandowska
R1,304 Discovery Miles 13 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With a few notable exceptions, the fundamental role that women played in the development of abstract art has long been underestimated, and their work has not received the same critical attention as that of their male counterparts. Now, at last, the tide is turning. The latest historiographical advances illustrated by numerous recent publications, monographs and thematic exhibitions make it possible to reassess the importance of the contribution of women artists to the different currents of abstraction, while at the same time questioning the patterns of the past. Edited by Christine Macel, this catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies highlights the contributions of a hundred or so women artists to abstraction up to the 1980s, with a few unprecedented forays into the 19th century. By focusing on the careers of artists so often unjustly eclipsed, the book questions the established canons and offers an alternative history of abstraction, from the symbolist abstraction of Hilma Af Klint, to the sensual abstraction of Huguette Caland, to the purist non-objective approach of Verena Von Loewensberg. Essays by noted scholars explore the techniques, concerns and legacies of these women, shedding light on their unique experiences and offering keen new reflections on their work and the movement as a whole. With 350 illustrations

Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (Hardcover): Alexis L. Boylan Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (Hardcover)
Alexis L. Boylan
R4,317 Discovery Miles 43 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle-faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ashcan artists countered this narrative, manipulating the bodies of construction workers, tramps, entertainers, and office workers to stand in visual opposition to popular, political, and commercial cultures. They did so by repeatedly positioning white male bodies as having no cleverness, no moral authority, no style, and no particular charisma, crafting with consistency an unspectacular man. This was an attempt, both radical and deeply insidious, to make the white male body stand outside visual systems of knowledge, to resist the disciplining powers of commercial capitalism, and to simply be with no justification or rationale. Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man maps how Ashcan artists reconfigured urban masculinity for national audiences and reimagined the possibility and privilege of the unremarkable white, male body thus shaping dialogues about modernity, gender, and race that shifted visual culture in the United States.

The Art of Beatrix Potter - Sketches, Paintings, and Illustrations (Hardcover): Steven Heller, Linda Lear The Art of Beatrix Potter - Sketches, Paintings, and Illustrations (Hardcover)
Steven Heller, Linda Lear; Edited by Emily Zach 1
R1,060 R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Save R192 (18%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, this magnificent collection celebrates the artist behind The Tale of Peter Rabbit and numerous other beloved children's books. Brimming with famous images and rarely seen gems-ranging from character sketches and notebook pages to watercolour landscapes and natural history illustrations-this monograph explores Potter's artistic process and reveals the places that inspired her timeless work. Organised geographically and featuring more than 200 images from the artist's oeuvre, The Art of Beatrix Potter includes illuminating essays by Potter scholar Linda Lear, illustration historian Steven Heller, and children's book illustrator Eleanor Taylor. A definitive volume on one of the world's most influential authors, a woman whose artistry deserves to be fully celebrated.

Anecdotes of Hogarth (Paperback): William Hogarth, Martin Myrone Anecdotes of Hogarth (Paperback)
William Hogarth, Martin Myrone
R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the most visible, popular, and significant artists of his generation, William Hogarth (1697-1764) is best known for his acerbic, strongly moralising works, which were mass-produced and widely disseminated as prints during his lifetime. This volume is a fascinating look into the notorious English satirical artist's life, presenting Anecdotes of William Hogarth, Written by Himself-a collection of autobiographical vignettes supplemented with short texts and essays written by his contemporaries, first published in 1785.

Johannes Kip, The Gloucestershire Engravings (Hardcover): Anthea Jones Johannes Kip, The Gloucestershire Engravings (Hardcover)
Anthea Jones; Illustrated by Johannes Kip
R848 Discovery Miles 8 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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