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Christopher White explains why he chose this title for his new
book: 'The often intimate, reflective and personal side to
Rembrandt's work in treating subjects from history or the Bible
reveals an increasingly more introspective interpretation than his
contemporaries.' Rembrandt's sharp eye draws inspiration from the
domestic scene, the local street and wherever he went. His subjects
include: children, beggars, musicians, dogs, pigs, horses; even
elephants and lions. White studies Rembrandt's technique from an
aesthetic rather than a scientific point of view; his willingness
to experiment whether drawing, painting or etching is a notable
feature of his work, and by discussing examples of the three
different media side by side, the author demonstrates their
interdependence.
This beautiful book explores the world of colour in the plant
kingdom and introduces the artist to effective practical methods of
using colour in botanical painting. It focusses on the relevance of
making accurate observations of colour in botanical specimens and
recognizing the value and importance of using colour theory to
achieve successful results. With over 500 images, this
elaborately-illustrated guide uses the author's finished artwork,
diagrams, and step-by-step tutorials to explain the important role
of colour in this compelling genre. This book is a must for all
aspiring botanical artists, illustrators and students.
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The Lost Words: Spell Songs
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Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, …
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Spell Songs is a musical companion piece to The Lost Words: A Spell
Book by author Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris. This
mixed media CD is accompanied by sumptuous illustrations from
Jackie Morris, new 'spells' by Robert Macfarlane, enlightening
thoughts by Robert, Jackie and Spell Singer Karine Polwart and
stunning photography by Elly Lucas. In 2018 Folk by the Oak
Festival commissioned Spell Songs because of their love of The Lost
Words book. Spell Songs comprises eight remarkable musicians whose
music engages deeply with landscape and nature; musicians who are
perfectly placed to respond to the creatures, art and language of
The Lost Words. They spent a week in Herefordshire bringing this
music together in the company of Jackie Morris. Art inspired music
and music inspired art. Jackie Morris immersed herself in the
musical residency where she generously created new iconesque
artwork of each musician and their instruments portrayed in an
unexpected and enchanting way. These stunning new artworks
accompany the CD. Spell Songs allowed these acclaimed and diverse
musicians to weave together elements of British folk music,
Senegalese folk traditions, and experimental and classical music to
create an inspiring new body of work. Here are 14 songs which
capture the essence of The Lost Words book. Spoken voice, whispers,
accents, dialects, native languages, proverbs, sayings, birdsong,
river chatter and insect hum all increase the intimacy of the
musical world conjured by the songs. Inspired by the words, art and
ethos of The Lost Words book, each musician brings new imaginings,
embellishments and diversions which are rooted in personal
experience, a deep respect for the natural world, protest at the
loss of nature and its language and an appreciation for wildness
and beauty. In February 2019 Spell Songs enjoyed standing ovations
at sell-out performances in major venues across the UK culminating
at The Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre, London. Spell
Songs was a highlight of The Hay International Literary Festival
2019 and in August 2019 they were invited to perform at the BBC's
Lost Words Prom in the Royal Albert Hall. They will continue to
tour each year. "There are songs here that would live with me for
the rest of my years, even if I'd had no part in their making".
Robert Macfarlane
Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and
meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines.
David Morgan has led the way in radically broadening that framework
to encompass the understanding that religions are fundamentally
embodied, material forms of practice. This concise primer shows
readers how to study what has come to be termed material
religion-the ways religious meaning is enacted in the material
world. Material religion includes the things people wear, eat,
sing, touch, look at, create, and avoid. It also encompasses the
places where religion and the social realities of everyday life,
including gender, class, and race, intersect in physical ways. This
interdisciplinary approach brings religious studies into
conversation with art history, anthropology, and other fields. In
the book, Morgan lays out a range of theories, terms, and concepts
and shows how they work together to center materiality in the study
of religion. Integrating carefully curated visual evidence, Morgan
then applies these ideas and methods to case studies across a
variety of religious traditions, modeling step-by-step analysis and
emphasizing the importance of historical context. The Thing about
Religion will be an essential tool for experts and students alike.
What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a
woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to
be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With
this question, Griselda Pollock begins a transdisciplinary journey
across the gendered aesthetics and the politics of difference in
New York abstract, gestural painting. Revisiting recent exhibitions
of Abstract Expressionism that either marginalised the artist-women
in the movement or focused solely on the excluded women, as well as
exhibitions of women in abstraction, Pollock reveals how theories
of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen
our understanding of this moment in the history of painting
co-created by women and men. Providing close readings of key
paintings by Lee Krasner and re-thinking her own historic
examination of images of Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler at
work, Pollock builds a cultural bridge between the New York
artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe, a creative actor
whose physically anguished but sexually appropriated star body is
presented as pathos formula of life energy. Monroe emerges as a
haunting presence within this moment of New York modernism, eroding
the policed boundaries between high and popular culture and
explaining what we gain by re-thinking art with the richness of
feminist thought. -- .
Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit
of Fame and Fortune is the first book in English dedicated to the
entire artistic output of seventeenth-century Dutch artist
Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706). It examines the artist's
paintings and career trajectory against the background of his
ceaseless pursuit of fame and fortune. Combining a comprehensive
analysis of Schalcken's artistic development and style with our
increasing biographical knowledge, it provides an authoritative
overview of Schalcken's ample production as an artist. It also
integrates his art into the circumstances of his life in relation
to his ambitious career aspirations, exploring how economic
conditions, a concomitantly oversaturated art market, talent and
ambition, demographics, and even sheer luck all played a role in
Schalcken's great professional success. Since Schalcken's art, like
that of all Dutch painters, provides a plethora of information
about seventeenth-century culture-its predilections, its
prejudices, indeed, its very mind-set-the book inevitably links his
work to the broader socio-cultural contexts in which it was
created.
The rural idyll is a powerful force in the British national
imagination. This highly original and vibrant study will examine
how key moments in art history have shaped the concept of the idyll
and how contemporary artists continue to access and often challenge
this concept. From High Art to propaganda, garden centres to air
fresheners, contemporary art to computer games - a constellation of
powerful images and ideas contribute to our understandings of the
rural. This publication offers new ways of thinking about the rural
idyll and the countryside more broadly, through the innovative
integration of a wide range of art and visual cultures. These
include classic landscapes by artists such as Blake, Claude,
Constable and Turner, works of modern British art, and contemporary
works by artists who present new perspectives on the rural idyll.
Crucially, this volume will enter these familiar and unfamiliar art
works into a productive dialogue with an extensive range of visual
cultures which populate everyday life now and in the past, for
instance Frank Newbould's iconic wartime recruitment posters of
1942-44 and rural-themed video games. In the contemporary art world
the rural is seriously under-represented as an arena of critical
inquiry and artistic production. This publication will make a
significant contribution towards redressing this situation. In
addition to the new scholarship on the rural idyll - by academic
experts from a wide range of disciplines, encompassing the spheres
of art history, contemporary art, poetry, literature, rural
history, agriculture, and everyday life - it will include
interviews with ten key contemporary artists who are working with
the rural in innovative ways. It will also contain newly
commissioned material from leading artists and writers which
articulate the themes of the publication in ways that differ from
the traditional catalogue essay. It will include a specially
commissioned visual essay by Jeremy Deller. Deller will select a
series of images from the exhibition and elsewhere and combine them
with short pieces of text that develop the questions and themes
discussed throughout the book in creative and open-ended visual
dialogue. There will also be a new commission from the Scottish
poet and writer Kathleen Jamie, whose moving observations on the
relationships between nature and everyday life, articulate the
embeddedness of the rural idyll into the mundane and the quotidian.
Why does the Mona Lisa have an uneven smile? Was Picasso's
Demoiselles d'Avignon an exploration of Satanism? Why did
Michelangelo depict so many left-handed archers? Why did the
British Queen look so different when Annie Liebowitz lit her from
her left side in a recent official portrait? The answer to all
these questions lies in a hidden symbolic language in the visual
arts: that of the perceived differences between the left and right
sides of the body. It is a symbolism that has been interpreted by
artists through the centuries, and that can be uncovered in many of
our greatest masterpieces, but that has been long forgotten about
or misunderstood by those concerned with the history of art and the
human body. The Sinister Side reveals the key, and sheds new light
on some of the greatest art from before the Renaissance to the
present day. Traditionally, in almost every culture and religion,
the left side has been regarded as inferior - evil, weak, worldly,
feminine - while the right is good, strong, spiritual and male. But
starting in the Renaissance, this hierarchy was questioned and
visualised as never before. The left side, in part because of the
presence of the heart, became the side that represented authentic
human feelings, especially love. By the late nineteenth century,
with the rise of interest in the occult and in spiritualism, the
left side had become associated with the taboo and with the
unconscious. Exploring how works of art reflect our changing
cultural ideas about the natural world, human nature, and the mind,
James Halls'Sinister Side is the first book to detail the richness
and subtlety of left-right symbolism in art, and to show how it was
a catalyst for some of the greatest works of visual art from
Botticelli and Van Eyck to Vermeer and Dali.
Maternal bodies in the visual arts brings images of the maternal
and pregnant body into the centre of art-historical enquiry. By
exploring religious, secular and scientific traditions as well as
contemporary art practices, it shows the power of visual imagery in
framing our understanding of maternal bodies and affirming or
contesting prevailing maternal ideals. The book reassesses
historical models and, in drawing on original case studies, shows
how visual practices by artists may offer the means of
reconfiguring the maternal. It will appeal to students, academics
and researchers in art history, gender studies and cultural
studies, as well as to general readers interested in the maternal
and visual culture. -- .
"Things of such magnitude deserve respect and understanding. They deserve to be remembered..."
Artist and illustrator Jo Brown started keeping her nature diary in a bid to document the small wonders of the wood behind her home in Devon. This book is an exact replica of her original black Moleskin journal, a rich illustrated memory of Jo's discoveries in the order in which she found them. In enchanting, minute detail she zooms in on a bog beacon mushroom, a buff-tailed bumble-bee, or a native bluebell. And she notes facts about their physiology and life history.
Secrets Of A Devon Wood is a treat for the senses, a hymn to the intricate beauty of the natural world and a quiet call to arms for all of us to acknowledge and preserve it. It is a book that will stay with you long after you finally put it down.
In 1479, the Venetian painter Gentile Bellini arrived at the
Ottoman court in Istanbul, where he produced his celebrated
portrait of Sultan Mehmed II. An important moment of cultural
diplomacy, this was the first of many intriguing episodes in the
picture's history. Elizabeth Rodini traces Gentile's portrait from
Mehmed's court to the Venetian lagoon, from the railway stations of
war-torn Europe to the walls of London's National Gallery,
exploring its life as a painting and its afterlife as a famous,
often puzzling image. Rediscovered by the archaeologist Austen
Henry Layard at the height of Orientalist outlooks in Britain, the
picture was also the subject of a lawsuit over what defines a
"portrait"; it was claimed by Italians seeking to hold onto
national patrimony around 1900; and it starred in a solo exhibition
in Istanbul in 1999. Rodini's focused inquiry also ranges broadly,
considering the nature of historical evidence, the shifting status
of authenticity and verisimilitude, and the contemporary political
resonance of Old Master paintings. Told as an object biography and
imagined as an exploration of art historical methodologies, this
book situates Gentile's portrait in evolving dialogues between East
and West, uncovering the many and varied ways that objects
construct meaning.
Open this book as an absolute beginner, and come away as a proud
portrait artist
Mark and Mary Willenbrink's"Absolute Beginner" books have helped
thousands of novices tap into their inner artists. In this book,
Mark and Mary help the beginning artist take on portraits, showing
that absolutely anyone can draw faces. Their encouraging,
easy-to-follow instruction style makes learning fun--you'll be
amazed by how quickly you achieve impressive results.
You may be a beginner now, but not for long "Drawing Portraits
for the Absolute Beginner" covers everything from warming up with
sketches, and capturing facial expressions, to framing your
finished work. Page by page, you'll build the skills and confidence
you need to draw lifelike portraits of your friends and family.
What's Inside:
- A simple two-stage approach to drawing portraits: sketch a
likeness, then build up values to bring it to life
- Step-by-step instruction for drawing eyes, noses, mouths,
hairstyles, hands, glasses and other tricky elements
- 13 complete demonstrations featuring a range of ages and
ethnicities
- Tips for evoking more personality in your portraits by using
props, costumes and accessories
These poems reflect a journey from a past delineated by racism,
trauma and violence towards a present life of peace and intense
natural beauty. Permeated with nostalgia and loss; songs of an
immigrant community alienated in their own land, but pierced with
fierce hope, faith in redemption, and a determination that we
should all belong.
This dazzling collection showcases the very best of the British
Wildlife Photography Awards, presenting over 150 of the winning,
commended and shortlisted images from the 2017 competition.
Featuring a range of photography from world-leading professionals
as well as inspired amateurs, it is a book that captures the
magnificent diversity of the British Isles. Now in its eighth year,
the annual competition has a long tradition of supporting
conservation. It provides a platform for the finest examples of
British nature photography, revealing its wonders to a wide
audience and engaging with all ages through its evocative and
powerful imagery. With a 20,000 prize from lead sponsor Canon, it
is one of the most prestigious photography competitions, attracting
major sponsors and culminating in an exhibition at London's Mall
Gallery. British Wildlife Photography Awards 9 is divided into the
competition's fifteen categories, from Animal Portraits through to
the Young People's Awards. Every photograph is beautifully
reproduced in a large format, with detailed technical information
alongside the photographer's personal account, to appeal to both
photographers and natural historians. Featuring a fresh new design,
and supported by a major media campaign, this is a book that will
bring every reader closer to the often unseen and always surprising
world of British nature.
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