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Introducing the first collection of art books with detachable prints to decorate your walls. Everything you need to create your own private gallery at home!
Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame, and displayed in the home. Step-by-step tips for grouping the works to create a harmonious gallery add an interior designer’s touch to the ensemble. Graphic, colourful, or abstract; paintings, engravings, or drawings―each work of art is explained on the back of the print. Interesting details about the style of painting, the particular work of art, and biographical information about the artist are accompanied by a “frameable fact” that helps you understand the context of that particular work in the history of art. In addition, suggestions for where you can go to see additional examples of the artists’ works allow the reader to expand their experience and learning.
A collection of landscapes and representations of nature from the tropical paradise of Le Douanier Rousseau’s jungle to Monet’s water lilies. Artists include: Hokusai, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gustav Klimt, Rembrandt, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Edward Hopper.
Works by Prosek and others are juxtaposed with natural objects in
an illuminating interrogation of the artificial boundaries we
create between art and nature Award-winning artist, writer, and
naturalist James Prosek (b. 1975) has gained a worldwide following
for his deep connection with the natural world, which serves as the
basis for his art and numerous popular books. In this
cross-disciplinary catalogue, Prosek poses the question, What is
art and what is artifact-and to what extent do these distinctions
matter? Drawing on the collections of the Yale University Art
Gallery and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Prosek
places man- and nature-made objects on equal footing aesthetically,
suggesting that the distinction between them is not as vast as we
may believe. In more than 150 full-color plates, objects such as a
bird's nest, dinosaur head, and cuneiform tablet are juxtaposed
with Asian handscrolls, an African headdress, modern masterpieces,
and more. Artists featured include Albrecht Durer, Helen
Frankenthaler, Vincent van Gogh, Barbara Hepworth, Pablo Picasso,
and Jackson Pollack, as well as Prosek himself, whose works depict
fish, birds, and endangered wildlife. Also included are an incisive
essay by Edith Devaney and texts by Prosek that explore the
magnificent productions of our wondrous interconnected world.
A revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich
engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and
philosophy Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring
contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and morning
mists, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) came of age alongside a
German Romantic philosophical movement that saw nature as an
organic and interconnected whole. The naturalists in his circle
believed that observations about the animal, vegetable, and mineral
kingdoms could lead to conclusions about human life. Many of
Friedrich's often-overlooked later paintings reflect his engagement
with these philosophical ideas through a focus on isolated shrubs,
trees, and rocks. Others revisit earlier compositions or
iconographic motifs but subtly metamorphose the previously distinct
human figures into the natural landscape. In this revelatory book,
Nina Amstutz combines fresh visual analysis with broad
interdisciplinary research to investigate the intersection of
landscape painting, self-exploration, and the life sciences in
Friedrich's mature work. Drawing connections between the artist's
anthropomorphic landscape forms and contemporary discussions of
biology, anatomy, morphology, death, and decomposition, Amstutz
brings Friedrich's work into the larger discourse surrounding art,
nature, and life in the 19th century.
With a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape
photography, this book explores Dawoud Bey's vivid evocations of
race, history, time, and place Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American
photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of
underrepresented subjects and for his commitment to fostering
dialogue about contemporary social and political topics. Bey has
also found inspiration in the past, and in two recent series,
presented together here for the first time, he addresses African
American history explicitly, with renderings both lyrical and
immediate. In 2012 Bey created The Birmingham Project, a series of
paired portraits memorializing the six children who were victims of
the Ku Klux Klan's bombing of Birmingham, Alabama's 16th Street
Baptist Church, a site of mass civil rights meetings, and the
violent aftermath. Night Coming Tenderly, Black is a group of
large-scale black-and-white landscapes made in 2017 in Ohio that
reimagine sites where the Underground Railroad once operated. The
book is introduced by an essay exploring the series' place within
Bey's wider body of work, as well as their relationships to the
past, the present, and each other. Additional essays investigate
the works' evocations of race, history, time, and place, addressing
the particularities of and resonances between two series of
photographs that powerfully reimagine the past into the present.
Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art Exhibition Schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(February 15-October 12, 2020) High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(November 7, 2020-March 14, 2021) Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (April 16-October 3, 2021)
This book of photographs by Swedish photographer Christer Loefgren
explores the diverse and multifaceted world in which we live, from
north to south. In comparing photographs of various cultures,
diversity is more noticeable: the colours, clothes, and food point
to the identity of each place. The further north or south of the
equator you travel, colours are paler, and the food is milder and
less spicy. The more extreme nature is, the more difficult the
lifestyle. These vibrant photographs ask us to broaden our vision
and grasp the complexity and beauty of the world as a global whole.
This deluxe edition consists of three hardcover books in a
slipcase.
Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy centers on the
still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and
Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17th-century painters living and working in
the Italian city of Bergamo. This highly original study explores
how these paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks,
musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute
links to a dazzling range of figures and sources of knowledge.
Putting into circulation a wealth of cultural information and ideas
and mapping a complex web of social and intellectual relations,
these works paint a portrait of both their creators and their
patrons, while enacting a lively debate among humanist thinkers,
aristocrats, politicians, and artists. The unique contribution of
this groundbreaking study is that it identifies for the first time
these intellectually rich concepts that arise from these
fascinating still-life paintings, a genre considered as "low".
Engaging with literary blockbusters and banned books, theatrical
artifice and music, and staging a war among the arts, Baschenis and
Bettera capture the latest social intrigues, political rivalries,
intellectual challenges, and scientific innovations of their time.
In doing so, they structure an unstable economy of social,
aesthetic, and political values that questions the notion of
absolute truth, while probing the distinctions between life and
artifice, meaningless marks and meaningful signs.
In Birds, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer
celebrates the heyday of avian illustration in 40 artists'
profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders
in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists
like Elizabeth Buttersworth, famed for her portraits of macaws.
Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic
style - from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon
John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould's nineteenth-century
renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish
artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson's ethereal watercolours -
this book is a cornucopia of art and artists as diverse and
beautiful as their subjects.
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