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Caravaggio was one of the most important Italian painters of the
17th century. He was, in fact, the wellspring of Baroque painting.
In Hibbard's words, Caravaggio's paintings "speak to us more
personally and more poignantly than any others of the time". In
this study, Howard Hibbard evaluates the work of Caravaggio:
notorious as a painter-assassin, hailed by many as an original
interpreter of the scriptures, a man whose exploration of nature
has been likened to that of Galileo.
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War as Ever!
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Tracy Mackenna, Edwin Janssen
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Swan Song
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Sonja Ahlers
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"I painted my world, my life, all the things I loved, all the
things I dreamed of, all the things I could not say in words. I
painted my beloved Russia, my hometown Vitebsk, the Jewish
neighborhood where I grew up, the way I saw everything as a child."
During prayers he would daydream; in school he was distracted;
and at home he worried about what profession he should choose. But
when the young Marc Chagall realized he had artistic talent, he
translated his unusual way of looking at the world into color and
shape.
Chagall grew up, became a painter, and traveled the world, but
he never forgot about his hometown of Vitebsk, Belarus, the place
that shaped his character and inspired his art.
This book, loosely based on Chagall's autobiography, gives
readers a glimpse into the early life of one of the twentieth
century's most significant painters. Landmann's charming
three-dimensional mixed-media illustrations celebrate the colorful,
the whimsical, and the extraordinary aspects of Chagall's life and
work.
Born in Yugan, near Jingdezhen, the birthplace of porcelain, Bai
Ming has contributed to the revival of contemporary Chinese
ceramics and introduced it to a new worldwide audience through
numerous exhibitions. Today he is arguably China's greatest
exponent of this most traditional art form. In this book, Bai Ming
traces his career, revealing a sensitive yet creative and
flamboyant style, built on the most rigorous traditional
techniques. Focussing particularly on his blue and white ceramic
work, this book, through a large selection of glorious images and
the artist's own words, reveals Bai Ming's exquisite style and
superb attention to detail.
Admired for his trompe l'oeil style, American painter William
Harnett (1848-1892) was as intellectually ambitious as he was
technically skilled. The first scholarly monograph on the artist,
William Harnett's Curious Objects details Harnett's career-long
effort to position still life as a serious art. Nika Elder elevates
the significance of Harnett's academic training and questions his
apparent turn away from it. Reading his still lifes in relation to
wartime visual culture, literary realism, museum display, and
industrial design, she shows how Harnett experimented with
inanimate objects and pictorial techniques to represent the human
condition without depicting the human body. His paintings
illustrate late nineteenth-century American material culture, but
they also represent Reconstruction, interiority, death and life,
and the imagination. By engaging such lofty themes, Harnett
reimagined history painting for the modern era. His work thus
locates Gilded Age art and culture in the long shadow of the Civil
War and its politics.
This important publication accompanies a major exhibition at The
Courtauld Gallery, London, of paintings by Edvard Munch, one of the
world's greatest modern artists. The exhibition and catalogue
showcase 18 major works from the collection of KODE Art Museums in
Bergen. The works span the most significant part of Munch's
artistic development and have never before been shown as a group
outside of Scandinavia. KODE houses one of the most important
collections of paintings by Edvard Munch (1863-1944) in the world.
The collection was assembled at the beginning of the 20th century
by the Norwegian industrialist, mill owner and philanthropist
Rasmus Meyer (1858-1916), who was one of the first significant
early collectors of Munch's work. Meyer knew Munch personally and
was astute in acquiring major canvases by the artist that chart his
artistic development. Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen
explores this group of remarkable works in detail and considers the
important role of Rasmus Meyer as a collector. The exhibition and
publication include seminal paintings from Munch's early 'realist'
phase of the 1880s, such as Morning (1884), which was made when the
artist was just twenty years old, and Summer Night (1889), a
pivotal work that shows the artist's move towards the expressive
and psychologically charged work for which he became famous. These
paintings launched Munch's career and set the stage for his
renowned, highly expressive paintings of the 1890s when his
compositions became powerful projections of his emotions and
imaginative states. Such works are a major feature of the
exhibition that includes remarkable canvases from Munch's famous
'Frieze of Life' series, such as Evening on Karl Johan (1892),
Melancholy (1894-96) and At the Death Bed (1895). Through his
'Frieze of Life' works, Munch intended to address profound themes
of human existence, from love to death. The artist used his own
experiences as source material to make visceral depictions of the
human psyche, which he hoped would help others understand their own
life. Munch's powerful use of colour and form to convey his
subjects marked him out as one of the most radical painters at the
turn of the 20th century. This fully illustrated publication
includes a catalogue of the works, with contributions by leading
experts in their fi eld from KODE and The Courtauld.
This book, a biography on Francis Bacon, is inspired by the
friendship the author had with Bacon and based on records of the
conversations that took place since 1963. The book forms the first
comprehensive account of the artist's life and his work.
Schiele's oils have often been reproduced and are well recognized.
However, limited access to the fragile works on paper and
dispersion among several collections have made for an unbalanced
representation of his work as a draftsman. This book assembles
drawings and watercolors from public and private collections and
reproduces work from every year of the artist's career, beginning
with the juvenilia and early academic studies. The focus means that
work that is rarely reproduced is represented extensively,
providing a unique opportunity to study the rapid artistic
development of Schiele over the course of his brief twelve-year
career. The book is organized chronologically and divided into
year-by-year sections. Each section includes a text that discusses
the major events in Schiele's life and the interrelation between
the artist's drawing and developments in his oil painting. Features
a previously unpublished Schiele watercolor and several works that
have never been reproduced in color.
The artwork of Spider Webb explodes across these pages with bold
strokes and bright flashes. Here are eighty dragons you have never
seen before. Well known for his tattoo imagery, Spider takes the
dragon myths of many cultures and gives them a modern twist that
resonates with twenty-first century viewers. Believed to symbolize
impending doom to some and great good fortune to others, Spider's
dragons, captured in lead, ink, acrylic, and mixed media, leap
forth, from whimsical and unusual to sexual and frightening. Be
stimulated and inspired by his original interpretations.
Noma Bar's innovative, playful style has made him one of the most
sought-after illustrators working today, with a broad range of
commissions from magazines and newspapers - including Empire, the
New York Times, Wired, the Guardian and Time Out - and numerous
private and advertising clients. His use of negative space and
minimalist forms creates images with multiple readings that can
delight and shock in equal measure. Each of Bar's illustrations
tells a story that is hidden in the details, with the message
revealing itself as you look more closely. Noma Bar has handpicked
his most iconic illustrations and favourite works, each one
displaying the distinctive style that has established his
reputation. The works are organized into thematic chapters such as
`Pretty Ugly' (portraits), `In Out' (sex), `Life Death' (conflict),
and `Less More' (daily life). Alongside the images, Bar reveals his
working methods and the stories behind his often idiosyncratic
inspiration for different illustrations, and reflects on how his
life experiences have shaped him as an artist. As a collection, the
whole is much greater than the sum of these many, many-layered
parts. It is destined to become a must-have reference source for
all professionals in the worlds of graphic design and illustration,
while also being an enthralling treasury for any follower of visual
and popular culture. This limited, slipcased edition includes an
exclusive screen print. One copy in this release of 1000 copies
contains a one-of-a-kind gold-leaf print.
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Lichtenstein
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Janis Hendrickson
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American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) pioneered a new epoch
in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract
Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art
vocabulary for a new era. With his groundbreaking use of industrial
production techniques and trivial, quotidian imagery such as
cartoons, comic strips, and advertising, Lichtenstein joined
contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist to reflect
and satirize American mass media and consumer culture. Works such
as Look, Mickey! (1961), Drowning Girl (1963), and Whaam! (1963)
deployed mass production techniques, particularly Ben-Day dots
printing, to create a blow-up effect and pixelated "dot" style,
with which Lichtenstein has become synonymous. This book provides
an essential overview of Lichtenstein's career, tracing his
earliest Pop statements through to later "brushstroke" retorts to
Abstract Expressionism and reinterpretations of modern
masterpieces. We look at his leading position in midcentury
modernism, and the ways in which his works both critique and
chronicle 20th-century America. About the series Born back in 1985,
the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book
collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series
features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre
of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical
importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with
explanatory captions
Exploring the life and works of the great artist, World's Greatest
Art: Da Vinci considers the achievements of Italy's most well-known
and influential artist. The book follows his artistic development,
from early drawings and paintings while apprentice to artist Andrea
del Verrocchio, to his later works, including the renowned Mona
Lisa as well as his scientific observations and inventions that
still impact the world today.
First published 1990, this volume consists of an introductory essay
by Ian Lowe and a comprehensive catalogue of all Wilfred
Fairclough's prints, some 140, from 1932 to the present (1990). Al
the prints are illustrated in the body of the catalogue for ease of
identification and 48 are also reproduced as large format duotone
illustrations. From the Royal College of Art, Wilfred Fairclough
won the Rome Scholarship in Engraving in 1934 and was elected an
Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in
the same week. His engravings, inspired by his travels in Italy,
Spain and Germany in the 1930s, were succeeded by etchings of
British subjects and topography, notably of Oxford, until, with a
Leverhulme grant, he returned to Italy in 1961. Increasingly,
thereafter he has found his subjects and his inspiration in Venice,
in concerts, restaurant interiors, and the Carnival, and in
Lucerne, in markets and the human figure. Wilfred Fairclough has
exhibited consistently at the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and
Engravers and at the Royal Academy (where his most recent Venetian
subject, Venice Carnival. Clowns, sold out in three days). Now aged
83 he is still working. There has been no slackening off in his
productivity nor in the quality of his work since he retired from
teaching at the Kingston College of Art in 1972. The Catalogue is
based on his own meticulous records. It will be an essential source
of information for all who are interested in his work as a
printmaker. Elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of
Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1975, Ian Lowe worked in the
Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 1962 until 1987. There he was
responsible for the collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century
British prints. He arranged and catalogued numerous exhibitions
including those devoted to ~F.L. Griggs, R.S. Austin, Robin Tanner,
Alan Gwynne-Jones and Richard Shirley Smith. His association with
Wilfred Fairclough dates from 1974. His introductory essay is both
biographical and an appreciation of Fairclough's achievement as a
printmaker. It is based on their correspondence, lectures, and
meetings as well as on the study of the archives and records of the
last sixty years.
Georg Simmel (1858-1918), was a German sociologist of high regard
who was in league with Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Though his
most famous work is The Philosophy of Money, first published in
1916 in German, Rembrandt is one of Simmel's most important works.
Answering such questions as 'What do we see in a work of art?' and
'What do Rembrandt's portraits tell us about human nature?' this
study offers insights not only into art, but also into larger
questions on culture, symbols and human relations. Previously,
Rembrandt had never been translated into English, and now there are
no other titles on art by Simmel in English available. For fans of
Simmel and Rembrandt alike, this unique book offers a fresh
understanding of their work.
Georg Simmel (1858-1918), was a German sociologist of high regard
who was in league with Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Though his
most famous work is The Philosophy of Money, first published in
1916 in German, Rembrandt is one of Simmel's most important works.
Answering such questions as 'What do we see in a work of art?' and
'What do Rembrandt's portraits tell us about human nature?' this
study offers insights not only into art, but also into larger
questions on culture, symbols and human relations. Previously,
Rembrandt had never been translated into English, and now there are
no other titles on art by Simmel in English available. For fans of
Simmel and Rembrandt alike, this unique book offers a fresh
understanding of their work.
'[Beardsley's] vision is permanently that of a child lying in bed
watching his mother dress for a dinner-party... He is allured, yet
afraid to touch: driven back on a cold minuteness of detailed
attention, and yet passionately curious, with the emotional and
involved curiosity children give to sex.' Brigid Brophy first
published her study of 'the most intensely and electrically erotic
artist in the world' in 1968, at the height of her own powers and
in the moment of a notable revival of interest - both scholarly and
pop-cultural (amid 'the dandified realm of Carnavy Street') - in
Beardsley's work. An infant prodigy, Beardsley retained through the
brief years of his adult life the peculiar genius of a precocious
child, and Brophy, well-versed in Freudian analyses, adroitly
points out the polymorphous perversity of his pictures - that
perversity, coupled with his inimitable graphic/monochromatic
signature, accounting for why Beardsley, however 'high-baroque
rococo' his style, has remained endlessly modern.
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