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Matisse: Life & spirit - Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris (Hardcover): Aurelie Verdier Matisse: Life & spirit - Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris (Hardcover)
Aurelie Verdier; Text written by Roger Benjamin, Patrice Deparpe, Justin Paton, Alastair Wright
R1,579 R1,331 Discovery Miles 13 310 Save R248 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stanhope Forbes - Father of the Newlyn School (Paperback): Elizabeth. Knowles Stanhope Forbes - Father of the Newlyn School (Paperback)
Elizabeth. Knowles
R626 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R83 (13%) Out of stock
Bjoerk (Paperback): Bjork Bjoerk (Paperback)
Bjork; Text written by Klaus Biesenbach, Alex Ross, Nicola Dibben, Timothy Morton, …
R1,777 R1,502 Discovery Miles 15 020 Save R275 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Birds of America - The Bien Chromolithographic Edition (Hardcover): John james Audubon, Joel Oppenheimer The Birds of America - The Bien Chromolithographic Edition (Hardcover)
John james Audubon, Joel Oppenheimer
R7,774 Discovery Miles 77 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

John James Audubon is arguably America's most widely recognized and collected artist. His Birds of America has been reproduced often, beginning with the double elephant folio printed by Havill in England, followed by a much smaller "Octavo" edition printed in Philadelphia and sold by subscription. After Audubon's death, his family arranged with the New York printer Julius Bien to produce another elephant folio edition, this time by the new chromolithographic process. It too would be sold by subscription, but the venture, begun in 1858, was brought to an abrupt end by the Civil War. Only 150 plates were produced, and the number remaining today is slight; they are among the rarest and most sought after Audubon prints. Bound in cloth with a full cloth slipcase, this beautifully produced book is the first complete reproduction of Bien chromolithographs and will become the centerpiece of any bird lover's library.

Jennifer West: Media Archaeology (Hardcover): Jennifer West Jennifer West: Media Archaeology (Hardcover)
Jennifer West; Text written by Norman Klein, Andy Campbell, Chelsea Weathers; Interview by Stuart Comer
R1,427 Discovery Miles 14 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mie Olise Kjaergaard and Bernd Behr (Paperback): Mike Sperlinger, Brian Dillon Mie Olise Kjaergaard and Bernd Behr (Paperback)
Mike Sperlinger, Brian Dillon
R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca (Paperback): Hubert Damisch A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca (Paperback)
Hubert Damisch; Translated by John Goodman
R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Taking Freud's seminal essay A Childhood Memory of Leonardo da Vinci as his starting point and opposite, Hubert Damisch uses the preposition 'by' instead of 'of' in the title of his book to indicate that he is searching for a way of doing psychoanalysis with art that does not amount to psychobiography. The book is in some respects a parody of Freud's work on art. The return to Freud was necessary because work in psychoanalysis and art has not solved the problem of what is being analyzed. Damisch studies Piero della Francesca's painting Madonna del Parto as a construction by the artist of what viewers throughout history may have pursued on the basis of their unconscious fantasies involving what Freud considered the most characteristic question of human beings: where do children come from, and how did they get there?

Raphael (Paperback): Paul Joannides Raphael (Paperback)
Paul Joannides
R565 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R65 (12%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

An authoritative introduction to one of the most influential painters in the history of art, written by the pre-eminent authority on the subject and informed by the latest research. More versatile and less idiosyncratic than Michelangelo, more prolific and accessible than his mentor Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, though he died at only thirty-seven, is considered the single most influential artist of the Renaissance. Here, art historian Paul Joannides explores the different social and regional contexts of Raphael's work and discusses all aspects of his artistic output. He traces Raphael's career from his origins in Urbino, through his altarpieces made in Umbria in the shadow of Perugino, to the first flowering of his genius in Florence where he painted a series of iconic Madonnas that are among the most beloved images in Western art. Raphael's employment by the dynamic and demanding Pope Julius II gave him opportunities without parallel and encouraged the full expansion of his genius. As a sophisticate entrepreneur, he dominated Rome's artistic life and extended the range of his activities to that of architect, designer, pioneer archaeologist and theoretician. The foundation of Raphael's versatility and range was his supreme clarity of mind as a draughtsman. Knowledge of his drawings, on which Joannides is a leading expert, is central to understanding of his achievement, and they are thoroughly explored here.

Christoph Dahlhausen - Lightborn (Hardcover): Carl-Jurgen Schroth Christoph Dahlhausen - Lightborn (Hardcover)
Carl-Jurgen Schroth; Text written by Reinhard Ermen, Melanie Ardjah
R1,070 R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Save R77 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Jim Shooter - Conversations (Paperback): Jason Sacks, Eric Hoffman, Dominick Grace Jim Shooter - Conversations (Paperback)
Jason Sacks, Eric Hoffman, Dominick Grace
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

I think that if you're an editor, and you do what's right, you occasionally have to say 'no' to people. To the good people, the professionals, that's fine. But the people who are 'hacks,' they won't like that."" As an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman, Jim Shooter (b. 1951) remains among the most important figures in the history of the medium. Starting in 1966 at the age of fourteen, Shooter, as the young protege of verbally abusive DC editor Mort Weisinger, helped introduce themes and character development more commonly associated with DC competitor Marvel Comics. Shooter created several characters for the Legion of Super-Heroes, introduced Superman's villain the Parasite, and jointly devised the first race between the Flash and Superman. When he later ascended to editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics, the company, indeed the medium as a whole, was moribund. Yet by the time Shooter left the company a mere decade later, the industry had again achieved considerable commercial viability, with Marvel dominating the market. Shooter enjoyed many successes during his tenure, such as Chris Claremont and John Byrne's run on the Uncanny X-Men, Byrne's work on the Fantastic Four, Frank Miller's Daredevil stories, Walt Simonson's crafting of Norse mythology in Thor, and Roger Stern's runs on Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man, as well as his own successes writing Secret Wars and Secret Wars II. After a rift at Marvel, Shooter then helped lead Valiant Comics into one of the most iconic comic book companies of the 1990s, before moving to start-up companies Defiant and Broadway Comics. Interviews collected in this book span Shooter's career. Included here is a 1969 interview that shows a restless teenager; the 1973 interview that returned Shooter to comics; a discussion from 1980 during his pinnacle at Marvel; and two conversations from his time at Valiant and Defiant Comics. At the close, an extensive, original interview encompasses Shooter's full career.

Hebru Brantley (Hardcover): Hebru Brantley, Pharrell Williams Hebru Brantley (Hardcover)
Hebru Brantley, Pharrell Williams
R1,282 R1,065 Discovery Miles 10 650 Save R217 (17%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Straddling the worlds of fine art, street art and hip-hop, name-dropped on many a rap song, and collected by the likes of Jay-Z and LeBron James, Hebru is a painter, sculptor and designer. He first gained attention as a graffiti artist, tagging walls with colourful depictions of Flyboy a child donning aviator goggles all over the Windy City. Fast-forward to 2021 and his creations, profoundly influenced by Disney and Japanese Super-Flat, are now in museums, as well as in branded goods for A Bathing Ape, Billionaire Boys Club, Adidas Originals, KITH, Neighborhood and a host of other sought-after labels. At the heart of Hebru s work is restoring innocence to the depiction of black youth, often forced into adulthood before their time in the eyes of the law and popular media. Upbeat and life-affirming, Brantley s work not only attempts to normalize images of black children at play, but in his creation of black superheroes, even suggests an entirely new mythology in a cultural landscape often devoid of positive examples. This book will feature the breadth of Hebru s work so far, and is the first monograph on his work. Set out in two parts, this work will examine both the fine art and applied art nature of his work, with both his paintings and his streetwear collaborations receiving pride of place in the design of the book by prominent graphic designer Oliver Munday, currently the art director of The Atlantic Monthly.

Laverne: Furniture, Textiles, and Wallcoverings (Hardcover): Michael Krzyzanowski Laverne: Furniture, Textiles, and Wallcoverings (Hardcover)
Michael Krzyzanowski
R1,480 R1,166 Discovery Miles 11 660 Save R314 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The modern interior design movement was well underway when artists Erwine and Edwina Laverne started their modest printed textiles and wallpaper business in New York City. By 1944 they had invented Marbelia wallcoverings and went on to develop the award-winning textile designs and the iconic 1960s clear plastic Lily and Lotus chair designs that made them famous. This is the documentary of their success, illustrated with 400 color photos, original catalog pages, and advertising pictures. Careful research and many personal dealings with Erwine Laverne gave the author first-hand knowledge of the company and its development. Graphic designers, vintage collectors, and interiors specialists all will find the story and illustrations fascinating and inspiring.

Ramesh (Hardcover): Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran Ramesh (Hardcover)
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
R1,362 R1,265 Discovery Miles 12 650 Save R97 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
PIDGIN Interupted Transmission/Erika Tan (Paperback): Steven Bode, Simon Willmoth, Nikos Papastergiadis PIDGIN Interupted Transmission/Erika Tan (Paperback)
Steven Bode, Simon Willmoth, Nikos Papastergiadis; Volume editing by Simon Willmoth; Erica Tan
R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature and Moral Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History (Paperback): Johann Georg Sulzer Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature and Moral Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History (Paperback)
Johann Georg Sulzer; Translated by Eric Miller
R1,221 Discovery Miles 12 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Swiss critic Johann Georg Sulzer's Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature (1750) and Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History (1745) are exemplary specimens of eighteenth-century European theology, philosophy, natural history, and aesthetics. Sulzer's contemporaries-notably Goethe-read him with attention. Eric Miller's elegant translation comes with a vivid, informative, and strongly contextualizing introduction. Sulzer's early works are a curio cabinet of the philosophical and theological arguments that exercised and enticed the intelligentsia of his period. These topics and arguments have by no means forfeited pertinence today.

William Daley: Ceramic Artist (Hardcover): Ruth Fine William Daley: Ceramic Artist (Hardcover)
Ruth Fine
R2,216 R1,706 Discovery Miles 17 060 Save R510 (23%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

William Daley's geometric ceramic vessels explore the synthesis between interior and exterior, volume and surface, form and symbol. Their unglazed surfaces echo architectural spaces and rhythms. Daley is an innovative artist-educator who helped revolutionize arts education post World War II. Success in his explorations led to many commissions for large-scale public and private screens and sculptures, executed in both bronze and ceramics. This retrospective of the ceramic art of William Daley spans two centuries, from the 1950s through the early 2000s. The text includes an essay by Ruth Fine, Curator of Special Projects for Washington's National Gallery of Art and a foreword by Daley's gallery representative Helen Drutt English. Over 300 brilliant images reveal the ceramic vessels Daley has created, including commissioned work. Also included in the text are William Daley's essays and articles on transforming mud to fired stoneware, his use of "sacred geometry," descriptions of his process in building pots and sculptural commissions, as well as his thoughts on teaching.

Navajo Silversmith Fred Peshlakai: His Life and Art (Hardcover): Steven Curtis Navajo Silversmith Fred Peshlakai: His Life and Art (Hardcover)
Steven Curtis
R1,493 R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Save R314 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Explore the life and art of legendary Navajo silversmith Fred Peshlakai, and see how his masterful art began and evolved. Beginning with the history of the Navajo people, it follows world events impacting the American Southwest and the Navajo culture precipitating in the development of their unique expressions of art rendered with silver and stone. Nineteenth-century evolution of the art form is reviewed, shining a particular light on certain ambiguities regarding important interrelationships between its most famous figures. Fred Peshlakai hailed from one of the most recognized artistic bloodlines of his noble people. This book is the beginning catalogue of his beautiful silver artwork with hundreds of images and their individual technical and artistic expressions discussed. No longer mythical, Fred Peshlakai is shown to be one of the most, if not the most, influential Navajo artisan to impact the creation of Navajo Silver Art and his art the world-class art treasures that they truly are.

Pablo Picasso - The Interaction Between Collectors and Exhibitions, 1899-1939 (Hardcover): Enrique Mallen Pablo Picasso - The Interaction Between Collectors and Exhibitions, 1899-1939 (Hardcover)
Enrique Mallen
R3,729 Discovery Miles 37 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the interaction between collectors, dealers and exhibitions in Pablo Picassos entire career. The former two often played a determining role in which artworks were included in expositions as well as their availability and value in the art market. The term collector/dealer must often be used in combination since the distinction between both is often unclear; Heinz Berggruen, for instance, identified himself primarily as a collector, although he also sold quite a few Picassos through his Paris gallery. On the whole, however, dealers bought more often than collectors; and they bought works by artists they were already involved with. While some dealers were above all professional gallery owners; most were mainly collectors who sporadically sold items from their collection. Picassos first known dealer was Pere Manyach, whom he met as he travelled to Paris in 1900 when he was only 19 years old. As his representative, Manyach went about setting up exhibitions of his works at galleries in the French capital, such as Bethe Weills and Ambroise Vollards. Picassos first major exhibition took place in 1901 at Vollards. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Leonce Rosenberg came in after Vollard lost interest during the Cubist period, as they had a manifest preference for the new style. Like Vollard, later dealers often preferred the more conventional Neoclassical phase in Picasso. This was the case with Leonces brother, Paul Rosenberg. The book is organized chronologically and discusses the interaction between Picassos collectors, dealers and exhibitions as they take place. Once collectors acquired an artwork, their willingness to lend them to exhibitions or their necessity to submit them to auction had a direct impact on Picassos prominence in the art world.

How to Be a Moonflower (Hardcover): Katie Daisy How to Be a Moonflower (Hardcover)
Katie Daisy
R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How to Be a Moonflower, the new book from bestselling author Katie Daisy, celebrates the magic and mystery of the world at night. Discover the world that awakens after everyone else has gone to sleep. In this lavishly illustrated book, New York Times-bestselling artist Katie Daisy explores the mystery and magic of the nighttime. Join her on a journey from dusk to dawn, complete with quotes, poems, meditations, field guides to different nocturnal flora and fauna, and charts that map out the cosmos. From night-blooming flowers to cozy campfires, from moon baths to meteor showers, Katie Daisy's lush illustrations capture the beauty that comes to life in the darkness. BELOVED AUTHOR: Known for her lush, painterly artwork and love of the natural world, NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling author Katie Daisy has 112K followers on Instagram, where you will find frequent posts featuring her vibrant illustrations. A CELEBRATION OF NATURE: Nature-lovers and plant-appreciators will find much to admire in this book. Illustrating everything from the phases of the moon to fluttering moths, Katie Daisy has a knack for capturing the very best this magical world has to offer. EXPLORE THE WONDERS OF NIGHT TIME: The nighttime offers time for reflection, exploration, and adventure. This book will help you make the most of those mystical, after-dark hours and observe the hidden wonders that come to life at night DELUXE PACKAGE: Featuring a tactile two-piece case with silver metallic ink on the spine and back cover, How to Be a Moonflower makes a beautiful gift for the people in your life who look to art and illustration for creative encouragement, self-exploration, and mindfulness. Perfect for: * Fans of Katie Daisy's artwork and previous book HOW TO BE A WILDFLOWER * free spirits * art and nature lovers * tarot readers and moon worshippers

Ben Katchor - Conversations (Hardcover): Ian Gordon Ben Katchor - Conversations (Hardcover)
Ian Gordon
R2,571 Discovery Miles 25 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951) as "the creator of the last great American comic strip." Katchor's comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories, which began in 1988, brought him to the attention of the readers of alternative weekly newspapers along with a coterie of artists who have gone on to public acclaim. In the mid-1990s, NPR ran audio versions of several Julius Knipl stories, narrated by Katchor and starring Jerry Stiller in the title role. An early contributor to RAW, Katchor has contributed to Forward, New Yorker, Slate, and weekly newspapers. He edited and published two issues of Picture Story, which featured his own work, with articles and stories by Peter Blegvad, Jerry Moriarty, and Mark Beyer. In addition to being a dramatist, Katchor has been the subject of profiles in the New Yorker, a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant" and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellow at both the American Academy in Berlin and the New York Public Library. Katchor's work is often described as zany or bizarre, and author Douglas Wolk has characterized his work as "one or two notches too far" beyond an absurdist reality. And yet the work resonates with its audience because, as was the case with Knipl's journey through the wilderness of a decaying city, absurdity was only what was usefully available; absurdity was the reality. Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories presaged the themes of Katchor's work: a concern with the past, an interest in the intersection of Jewish identity and a secular commercial culture, and the limits and possibilities of urban life.

Antonia Low: Low Deluxe (Paperback): Antonia Low Antonia Low: Low Deluxe (Paperback)
Antonia Low
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Little Book of Tom. Cops & Robbers (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Dian Hanson The Little Book of Tom. Cops & Robbers (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Dian Hanson; Artworks by Tom Of Finland
R463 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R40 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Tom's taste for police officers and felons-and for sexual tension between the two-developed late in his career. "I've never been to prison," he told a class at the California Institute of the Arts in 1985, "but I hear it's a closed world where there are different roles and people behave different from when they walk free. It fascinates me. It is another subject I come back to again and again." By which he meant fantasized about again and again, since only those subjects that aroused him sexually made it into his art. The uniforms of the California Highway Patrol motorcyclists were his favorite: tan and tight, with high boots and soft black leather gauntlet gloves. He created his own uniform variants as well, a cross between military and civilian police gear, and invented suitably butch criminals for his cops to apprehend, though once apprehended the power struggle could go either way. Tom was determined to show top and bottom as equally masculine roles, and his cops were as likely to end up happily speared by criminal cock as delivering corrective coitus. Though criticized by some for what appeared to be a glorification of power, Tom was always quick to remind that the world he created was a fantasy world, where anything was possible, and everything was consensual-even in prison. The Little Book of Tom: Cops & Robbers explores Tom's fascination with criminal justice through a mixture of multi-panel comics and single-panel drawings and paintings, all in a compact and affordable 192 pages. Historic film stills and posters, personal photos of Tom, sketches, and Tom's own reference photos make this far more than another Tom's Comics re-tread.

Frederic Leighton - Death, Mortality, Resurrection (Paperback): Keren Rosa Hammerschlag Frederic Leighton - Death, Mortality, Resurrection (Paperback)
Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
R1,620 Discovery Miles 16 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Keren Rosa Hammerschlag's Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection offers a timely reexamination of the art of the late Victorian period's most institutionally powerful artist, Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896). As President of the Royal Academy from 1878 to 1896, Leighton was committed to the pursuit of beauty in art through the depiction of classical subjects, executed according to an academic working-method. But as this book reveals, Leighton's art and discourse were beset by the realisation that academic art would likely die with him. Rather than achieving classical perfection, Hammerschlag argues, Leighton's figures hover in transitional states between realism and idealism, flesh and marble, life and death, as gothic distortions of the classical ideal. The author undertakes close readings of key paintings, sculptures, frescos and drawings in Leighton's oeuvre, and situates them in the context of contemporaneous debates about death and resurrection in theology, archaeology and medicine. The outcome is a pleasurably macabre counter-biography that reconfigures what it meant to be not just a late-Victorian neoclassicist and royal academician, but President of the Victorian Royal Academy.

Glasgow 1969 (Paperback): Gabriele Basilico Glasgow 1969 (Paperback)
Gabriele Basilico
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Time for Halloween Decorations (Paperback): Claire M Lavin Time for Halloween Decorations (Paperback)
Claire M Lavin
R896 R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Save R153 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These delightful Halloween decorations are eye-popping examples of the best made, including pristine pieces from the Beistle Company archives, shown in over 395 color photographs. The text presents comprehensive information for collectors, including detailed descriptions and little-known-facts, release and production dates, materials, makers' marks, and values. Party games, hats, and masks appear as well as lanterns, shades, and die-cuts. They seem to jump off the pages to excite you. Lots of wonderful suggestions are made throughtout the book for interesting uses for displaying the decorations today. Their artistic beauty will make you smile, remembering youthful Halloween stories, and want to add to your own collection.

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