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An exploration of Turner as an artist-traveler, in relation to two
important European harbor scenes This publication marks the return
to the United Kingdom, for the first time in over a century, of two
groundbreaking oil paintings by J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), on
loan from The Frick Collection in New York: Harbour of Dieppe:
Changement de Domicile and Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat:
Evening. They were acquired by wealthy American industrialist Henry
Clay Frick in 1914 and have remained in the USA ever since. Painted
in the mid-1820s, Dieppe and Cologne exemplify Turner's lifelong
fascination with the subject of ports and harbors -past and present
-as dynamic, transitional places. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in
1825 and 1826 respectively, they represent in powerfully visual
terms the outcomes of Turner's regular sketching tours within
Europe that were central to his fame as an artist-traveler, as well
as his radical approach to color, light, and brushwork. This
sumptuously illustrated publication examines Turner's creative
process, and his use of sketchbooks and watercolors to capture his
ideas as he traveled. Published by National Gallery
Global/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule:
The National Gallery, London November 3, 2022-February 19, 2023
This is the first major critical study of the art of Cornish
painter Kurt Jackson. Jackson's landscapes have been exhibited
widely, and are becoming more popular.
Eerily realistic virtual landscapes inspired by Grand Theft Auto V,
exquisitely reproduced in duotone printing All the images in this
work derive from wallpapers and screenshots taken by different
users while playing Grand Theft Auto V -a videogame set in Los
Santos, an "open world" scenario that closely resembles Los Angels
and its surroundings. Thus, the city of the Studios, of Hollywood
and film industry, becomes itself a staged set and a virtual
replica, a duplicate of its original. This work explores whether is
it possible to photograph a virtual place, what it means to do so,
and the question of authorship. It is also intended as a tribute to
a long series of great photographers who worked in Los Angeles
widely throughout the second half of the past century. With their
own perspectives, these artists all contributed to the creation of
an image of a city that is still vivid and lasting - one that is
mimicked, simulated, and photographed in this project. "Leafing
through West of Here, the beautiful photographic book by Leonardo
Magrelli just released for the American Yoffy Press - an elegant
volume right from the color chosen for the cover (a Cool Gray 5 C
Pantone that Martin Margiela would love) - one has like the
impression of knowing what you are seeing and experiencing at that
precise moment, but in reality that landscape with houses, cars,
palm trees, beaches, lights and so on, shows that nothing is as it
seems." - Huffington Post
'Think of this atlas as the beginning of a journey and a kind of
island guidebook, a rough guide to far-flung places, a Baedeker of
make-believe, and a new page waiting to be filled. The cycle of
Crusoes continues' Huw Lewis-Jones A new atlas of imaginary islands
conjured up by an international gathering of illustrators,
including work by Coralie Bickford-Smith, Bill Bragg, Marion
Deuchars, Chris Riddell, Maisie Paradise Shearring, Herve Tullet,
Ausra Kiudulaite and more. Islomania is a recognized affliction.
But what is it about islands that is so alluring, and why do so
many people find these self-contained worlds completely
irresistible? Utopia and Atlantis were islands, and islands have
captured the imaginations of writers and artists for centuries.
Venetian sailors were the first to make collections of them by
drawing maps of those they visited in their isolari - literally the
'island books'. Then in 1719 Daniel Defoe published his tale of a
castaway on a desert island, Robinson Crusoe, one of the first
great novels in the history of literature and an instant
bestseller. Defoe's tale combined the real and the imagined and
transformed them into a compelling creative landscape, establishing
a whole literary genre and unleashing the power of an island for
storytelling. To celebrate the tercentenary of Robinson Crusoe's
publication, a truly international range of leading illustrators
imagine they too have been washed up on their own remote island. In
a specially created map they visualize what it looks like, what
it's called and what can be found on its mythical shores. In a
panoply of astonishingly creative and often surprising responses,
we are invited to explore a curious and fabulous archipelago of
islands of invention that will beguile illustrators, cartographers
and dreamers alike.
Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their
epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied--a German naturalist--and
his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North
America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832-34 voyage was Swiss
artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors--designed to
illustrate Maximilian's journals--now rank among the great
treasures of nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly
illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer's landscape images with
modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see
what has changed, and what seems unchanged, since the time
Maximilian and Bodmer made their storied trip up the Missouri
River.
To discover how the areas Bodmer depicted have changed over
time, photographer Robert M. Lindholm and anthropologist W. Raymond
Wood made several trips over a period of years, from 1985 to 2002,
to locate and record the same sites--all the way from Boston
Harbor, where Maximilian and Bodmer began their journey, to Fort
McKenzie, in modern-day western Montana. Pairing sixty-seven Bodmer
works side by side with Lindholm's photographs of the same sites,
this volume uses the comparison of old and new images to reveal
alterations through time--and the encroachment of a built
environment--across diverse landscapes.
"Karl Bodmer's America""Revisited" is at once a tribute to the
artistic achievements of a premier landscape artist and a
photographer who followed in his footsteps, and a valuable record
of America's ever-changing environment.
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Gila
(Paperback, New)
Michael Berman; Edited by Mary Anne Redding
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The forests comprising the Gila National Forest and Wilderness in
southwest New Mexico is the largest in the contiguous U.S., the
least visited or photographed, the one most wild in nature. It is
nestled at the nexus of four great ecosystems. It lies at the end
of the Rocky Mountains after they slide down the North American
continent like a glacier before breaking up into an archipelago of
small ranges floating in a sea of grasslands. A couple hundred
miles to the south, the Sierra Madre Mountains rise up, serrating
Mexico for another two thousand miles. To the west lies the Sonoran
Desert with its giant saguaros, and to the east spreads the
Chihuahuan Desert, a minimalist dream of small ranges and desert
grasslands. In its present state, the Gila is a functioning,
high-quality ecosystem of remote forests and canyons. The Gila
River courses through this land, the last undammed river in New
Mexico. The heart of the Gila is its unspoiled wilderness. Noted
environmentalist Aldo Leopold conceived the modern concept of
"wilderness" here. It was designated the world's first wilderness
area in 1924, and became the cornerstone of the National Wilderness
Preservation System when the Wilderness Act was signed into law in
1961. For more than thirty years, celebrated photographer Michael
P. Berman has explored the vast Gila, fascinated by the land and
how people use and value it. He has wandered deep into the forest
with his large-format camera, searching for the untrammeled,
scraggly, and complex ecosystems, allowing the Gila to reveal
itself. In this two-volume slip-cased edition, the untouched
specialness of the Gila is captured in Berman's photographs and
explored in fifteen essays by noted writers, natural historians,
and environmentalists.
A perfect marriage of wildlife photography and inspirational quotes
In Animal Emotions, photographer Judith Hamilton is again capturing
the soul of wildlife and delicately displaying it for readers to
see. Her exceptional photography coupled with insightful quotes,
emphasizing the emotions on display, will engage the hearts of
animal lovers of all age groups. With quotes from an array of
sources, ranging from Albert Einstein to Mae West, Animal Emotions
is not only smart and compassionate, but also witty and uplifting.
Inspired by Charles Darwin's The Expression of Emotions in Man and
Animals, this book also includes fun facts to provide readers
deeper insights into the lives of the animals. Animal Emotions is a
beautiful reminder of the glory of the animal kingdom at a time
when it has never been more threatened
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Up Close
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Geoff Francis; Photographs by Paul Windridge; Designed by Paul Windridge
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Perfect for display or close observation, the posters in this
elegantly produced collection of Ernst Haeckel's exquisite
illustrations of natural forms demonstrate his exceptional
artistry. Biologist, physician, philosopher, and artist, Ernst
Haeckel was also a prescient observer of the natural world. His
highly detailed and expertly rendered illustrations, first
published at the turn of the 20th century, are not only beautiful
works of art, but also have scientific underpinnings. Now available
as a series of large format posters sumptuously printed and
suitable for framing, Haeckel's most elaborate and captivating
works illustrate his fundamental notion of the unity of all living
things. From otherworldly radiolaria to psychedelic sea anemones,
Haeckel's science and artistry continue to provide inspiration for
21st-century illustrators, architects, graphic designers, and
anyone interested in exploring nature's perfect geometry.
This is a complete and innovative practical guide that offers
artists simple solutions to common drawing problems in a unique
question and answer format. Answers are presented through clearly
annotated pictures and easy-to-follow technique demonstrations. It
provides detailed solutions for all the most common drawing
problems including rendering trees accurately, drawing figures from
life and how to recreate animal fur and feathers. It focuses solely
on graphite to provide clear and comprehensive answers for all the
key drawing questions.
A beautifully illustrated look at the vogue for night landscapes
amid the social, political, and technological changes of modern
America The turn of the 20th century witnessed a surge in the
creation and popularity of nocturnes and night landscapes in
American art. In this original and thought-provoking book, Helene
Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so
captivated by the night. Nocturne examines works by artists such as
James McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Frederic
Remington, Edward Steichen, and Henry Ossawa Tanner through the
lens of the scientific developments and social issues that
dominated the period. Valance argues that the success of the genre
is connected to the resonance between the night and the many forces
that affected the era, including technological advances that
expanded the realm of the visible, such as electric lighting and
photography; Jim Crow-era race relations; America's closing
frontier and imperialism abroad; and growing anxiety about identity
and social values amid rapid urbanization. This absorbing study
features 150 illustrations encompassing paintings, photographs,
prints, scientific illustration, advertising, and popular media to
explore the predilection for night imagery as a sign of the times.
The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the
dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century
United States. Maggie M. Cao explores the pictorial practices that
challenged, mourned, or revised the conventions of landscape
painting, a major cultural project for nineteenth-century
Americans. Through rich analysis of artworks at the genre's
unsettling limits-landscapes that self-destruct, masquerade as
currency, or even take flight-Cao shows that experiments in
landscape played a crucial role in the American encounter with
modernity. Landscape is the genre through which American art most
urgently sought to come to terms with the modern world.
Jarred by the 9/11 attacks, photographer Jack Spencer set out in
2003 "in hopes of making a few 'sketches' of America in order to
gain some clarity on what it meant to be living in this nation at
this moment in time." Across thirteen years, forty-eight states,
and eighty thousand miles of driving, Spencer created a vast,
encompassing portrait of the American landscape that is both
contemporary and timeless. This Land presents some one hundred and
forty photographs that span the nation, from Key West to Death
Valley and Texas to Montana. From the monochromatic and distressed
black-and-white images that began the series to the oversaturated
color of more recent years, these photographs present a startlingly
fresh perspective on America. The breadth of imagery in This Land
brings to mind the works of such American masters as Edward Hopper,
Grant Wood, Mark Rothko, and Albert Bierstadt, while also evoking
the sense of the open roads traveled by Woody Guthrie and Jack
Kerouac. Spencer's pictorialist vision embraces the sweeping
variety of American landscapes-coasts, deltas, forests, deserts,
mountain ranges, and prairies-and iconic places such as Mount
Rushmore and Wounded Knee. Jon Meacham writes in the foreword that
Spencer's "most surprising images are of a country that I suspect
many of us believed had disappeared. The fading churches, the
roaming bison, the running horses: Spencer has found a mythical
world, except it is real, and it is now, and it is ours."
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