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"[...] this is a book to pick up and dream about having a dragon
curled up on your lap by the fire in these winter nights." -
SFcrowsnest Anne Stokes is a phenomenally popular artist in the
field of gothic and magical fantasy, with fans all over the world.
Her roots in design and illustration have led to supremely
well-crafted paintings that have been licensed for use on all
manner of merchandise and her followers eagerly await each new
piece. This long-overdue book showcases Anne's oeuvre in all its
glory, accompanied by illuminating text about Anne and her
inspirations, techniques and processes. The book is divided into
thematic sections covering the full range of subjects that she has
portrayed: her early work (like that for Dungeons & Dragons),
the dark and the gothic, dragons, unicorns, fairies, mermaids and
all that is mystical and magical. From the dark allure of Summon
the Reaper to the opalescent beauty of Stargazer, this is a real
treat for all fans and anyone who loves fantasy and stunning art in
general.
Leonardo Da Vinci is considered to be one of the greatest painters
of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to
have lived, responsible for the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The
Madonna of the Carnation and Vitruvian Man. Leonardo was an Italian
Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician,
scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist,
cartographer, botanist, and writer, and this captivating book
provides the reader with a unique insight into the life and work of
one of history's most intriguing figures. All of Leonardo Da
Vinci's work is presented in this compact volume - from his
paintings and frescos, to detailed reproductions of his remarkable
encrypted notebooks. As well as featuring each individual artwork,
sections of each are shown in isolation to reveal incredible
details - for example, the different levels of perspective between
the background sections of the Mona Lisa, and the disembodied hand
in The Last Supper. 640 pages of colour artworks and photographs of
Da Vinci's original notebooks, accompanied by fascinating
biographical and historical details are here.
Vanguard follows last year's hit Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta
book by J. David Spurlock with definitive reference on Frazetta
Book Cover Art. Frazetta is the revolutionary fantasy artist of
Conan, King Kong, Death Dealer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lord of The
Rings and more, whose original art sells for millions. This new
2022 Frazetta book follows last year's hit, Fantastic Paintings of
Frazetta and is similar to Vanguard's earlier Frazetta Definitive
Reference book. But, it is superior in at least one regard. Instead
of cataloging Frazetta items with mostly smaller illustrations,
this new book is devoted solely to the artist's single, most
beloved venue, Book Cover Art. By focusing on this specific area,
the book boasts room enough to feature every single one of
Frazetta's famous and highly collectable illustrated book covers,
beautifully and authentically reproduced at a larger size on a page
to itself. All are presented in chronological order which, gives
readers a unique ability to follow Frazetta's evolution as an
artist. Accompanying text includes commentary, original publication
titles, publishers, dates, and rare quotes from the artist himself.
For this Definitive Reference to feature the Complete Collection of
Frazetta's decades of book cover illustrations, in a single
beautifully produced volume, is a dream come true for Frazetta
fans, art and book collectors and historians alike.
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A captivating and definitive account of the final days of Van
Gogh's life and the incredible story of what followed. Divided into
three parts, the book first examines the eventful days from the
artists' departure from the asylum in Saint-Remy and arrival in
Auvers until the shooting which brought his life to an end. During
this time Van Gogh completed 70 paintings in 70 days. The second
part delves deeper into the story of the artist's death, which has
intrigued both experts and the public for years, revealing
little-known stories and uncovering overlooked accounts. We then
follow the story of how Van Gogh subsequently rose from relative
obscurity to international renown and ultimately fame as one of the
most recognisable and popular artists in the world. Leading Van
Gogh specialist Martin Bailey writes with insight and intelligence,
bringing these fateful days to life with colour and character as
well as historical expertise, capturing the real sense of a tragic
but meaningful life truly lived.
As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei
remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and
social media activity almost as much as for his social
interventions, contemporary approach to the readymade, and
knowledge of Chinese traditional crafts, Ai's fame extends
throughout and beyond the art world. Drawn from TASCHEN's limited
Collector's Edition, this monograph explores each of Ai's career
phases up until his release from Chinese custody. It features
extensive visual material to trace Ai's development from his early
New York days right through to his recent practice. Focus moments
include his international breakthrough in the early 2000s, his
porcelain Sunflower Seeds at the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern,
his response to the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, and his police
detention in 2011. With behind-the-scenes studio pictures,
production shots, and numerous statements derived from exclusive
interviews with Ai, we gain privileged access to the artist's
process, influences, and importance. The book includes texts from
Uli Sigg, Ai's longtime friend and former Swiss ambassador to China
and Roger M. Buergel, who curated the 2007 documenta and hosted the
artist's Fairytale piece. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we
started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has
become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms
around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and
aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of
incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40
series presents new editions of some of the stars of our
program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized
with the same commitment to impeccable production.
ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening
and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times 'A biography
as rich with colourful characters as any novel' Telegraph John
Constable, the revolutionary nineteenth-century painter of the
landscapes and skies of southern England, is Britain's best-loved
but perhaps least understood artist. His paintings reflect visions
of landscape that shocked and perplexed his contemporaries:
attentive to detail, spontaneous in gesture, brave in their use of
colour. What we learn from his landscapes is that Constable had
sharp local knowledge of Suffolk, a clarity of expression of the
skyscapes above Hampstead, an understanding of the human tides in
London and Brighton, and a rare ability in his late paintings of
Salisbury Cathedral to transform silent suppressed passion into
paint. Yet Constable was also an active and energetic
correspondent. His letters and diaries - there are over one
thousand letters from and to him - reveal a man of passion, opinion
and discord, while his character and personality is concealed
behind the high shimmering colour of his paintings. They reveal too
the lives and circumstances of his brothers and his sisters, his
cousins and his aunts, who serve to define the social and economic
landscape against which he can be most clearly seen. These
multifaceted reflections draw a sharp picture of the person, as
well as the painter. James Hamilton's biography reveals a complex,
troubled man, and explodes previous mythologies about this timeless
artist, and establishes him in his proper context as a giant of
European art.
The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer,
as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved
mother Barbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After
graduating from Yale's School of Design and Architecture, she moved
to Europe and spent decades traveling the world and living at the
center of artistic, literary, and political circles. She became a
renowned artist whose work is now in museum collections around the
world. Later, she also became an award-winning poet and bestselling
novelist. And along the way, she met many luminaries-from Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Salvador Dali, Alexander Calder, James Baldwin,
and Mao Zedong to Toni Morrison, Pierre Cardin, Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, and Josephine Baker. I Always Knew is an intimate and
vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud's life as told through the letters
she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991. In
candid detail, Chase-Riboud tells her mother about her life in
Europe, her work as an artist, her romances, and her journeys
around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle
East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia. By turns
brilliant and naive, passionate and tender, poignant and funny,
these letters show Chase-Riboud in the process of becoming who she
is and who she might become. But what emerges most of all is the
powerful story of a unique and remarkable relationship between a
talented, ambitious, and courageous daughter and her adored mother.
One of the best-loved painters in English history, Thomas
Gainsborough (1727-1788) was also one of the most personally
engaging. Bon vivant, wit, amateur and enthusiastic musician, he
charmed sitters and friends alike. His ebullient, if not always
reliable, personality comes to life in these two memoirs, written
by two very different friends.
'I was raised with an artist's mentality; my first 25 years were
spent as somebody who wanted to live among graphics and artwork and
illustration, and then for the next 30 years it was all music.
Recently, I've reverted into the arts, combining all these elements
in my work, still trying to change the world. This is truly what I
want to do. My deepest thanks to Genesis for giving me a place to
be able to display all of this through my artwork.' - Chuck D In
his first fine art book, Livin' Loud, Public Enemy founder, hip-hop
pioneer and revolutionary activist, Chuck D, presents a body of
artworks which continue to address the social and politically
conscious issues of his lyrics. In Livin' Loud, Chuck D's artworks
reveal his visual dexterity as he explores a diverse range of
subjects paying homage to his musical influences and peers from
James Brown and Woody Guthrie to Def Jam labelmates Run-DMC and
Beastie Boys; a host of the most influential hip-hop artists from
Ice Cube to Run the Jewels; his twin passions of baseball and
basketball; creating a collection of landscapes on tour with
Prophets of Rage, and a range of sociopolitical pieces that explore
the issues continuing to shape our culture. Chuck D has been
creating musical and cultural observations that challenge public
opinion since 1985 and his visual compositions continue to
interpret and question the world around us. Chuck D's written
commentary traces his musical and artistic trajectory from his
early roots and the central figures that critically shaped him and
his voice, the formation of Public Enemy through to their Rock 'n'
Roll Hall of Fame induction, his time with Prophets of Rage through
to current day world affairs. With a foreword by Rage Against the
Machine's Tom Morello, Chuck D's art debut Livin' Loud is a visual
experience of over 250 artworks, each piece reflective of the man
behind the music.
The artist Mark Hearld finds his inspiration in the flora and fauna
of the British countryside: a blue-eyed jay perched on an oak
branch; two hares enjoying the spoils of an allotment; a mute swan
standing at the frozen water's edge; and a sleek red fox prowling
the fields. Hearld admires such twentieth-century artists as Edward
Bawden, John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Enid Marx, and, like them,
he chooses to work in a range of media - paint, print, collage,
textiles and ceramics. Work Book is the first collection of
Hearld's beguiling art. The works are grouped into nature-related
themes introduced by Hearld, who narrates the story behind some of
his creations and discusses his influences. He explains his
particular love of collage, which he favours for its graphic
quality and potential for strong composition. Art historian Simon
Martin contributes an essay on Hearld's place in the English
popular-art tradition, and also meets Hearld in his museum-like
home to explore the artist's passion for collecting objects, his
working methods and his startling ability to view the wonders of
the natural world as if through a child's eyes.
Over his long and successful career David Remfry MBE RA RWS has
achieved a mastery of watercolour that few have matched. Unusually
for the medium, he works on a large scale and often focuses on
people, exploring the dance hall and the nightclub in breathtaking
images that are at once beautiful and edgy. This book is the first
full-length monograph devoted to the artist's watercolours. Its
author, James Russell, is well known for his writing on
20th-century British artists. Russell brings his scholarship,
humour and fascination for people and their lives to his study of
Remfry's career, tracing the evolution of a remarkable talent,
looking in depth at the most significant works and placing Remfry
in the context of both the British watercolour tradition and
international contemporary painting. This is at once a glorious art
book and an intimate portrait of city life. Having spent 20 years
living and working at the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York,
Remfry has a following on both sides of the Atlantic. New Yorkers -
often in party mode - feature in many of his watercolours, and his
recollections of people and places add colour to the text.
Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none
had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo
(1907-1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty
extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations;
along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as
Edward Weston, Manuel and Lola Alvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, and
Martin Munkacsi, they made Frida Kahlo an iconic image of 20th
century art. After an accident in her early youth, Frida became a
painter of her own free will. Her marriage to Diego Rivera in 1929
placed her at the forefront of an artistic scene not only in the
cultural Renaissance of Mexico, but also in the United States. Her
work garnered praise from the poet Andre Breton, who added the
Mexican painter to the ranks of international surrealism and
exhibited her work in Paris in 1939 to the admiration of Picasso,
Kandinsky, and Duchamp. We access the intimacy of Frida's
affections and passions through a selection of drawings, pages from
her personal diary, letters, and an extensive illustrated biography
featuring photos of Frida, Diego, and the Casa Azul, Frida's home
and the center of her universe. This large-format XXL book allows
readers to admire Frida Kahlo's paintings like never before,
including unprecedented detail shots and famous photographs. It
presents pieces in private collections and reproduces works that
were previously lost or have not been exhibited for more than 80
years, forming the most extensive study of Kahlo's work and life to
date.
Rachel Owen's hauntingly beautiful illustrations for Dante's
Inferno take a radically new approach to representing the world of
Dante's famous poem. The images combine the artist's deep cultural
and historical understanding of 'The Divine Comedy' and its
artistic legacy with her unique talent for collage and printmaking.
These illustrations, casting the viewer as a first-person pilgrim
through the underworld, prompt us to rethink Dante's poem through
their novel perspective and visual language. Owen's work, held in
the Bodleian Library and published here for the first time,
illustrates the complete cycle of thirty-four cantos of the Inferno
with one image per canto. The illustrations are accompanied by
essays contextualising Owen's work and supplemented by six
illustrations intended for the unfinished Purgatorio series. Fiona
Whitehouse provides details of the techniques employed by the
artist, Peter Hainsworth situates Owen's work in the field of
modern Dante illustration and David Bowe offers a commentary on the
illustrations as gateways to Dante's poem. Jamie McKendrick and
Bernard O'Donoghue's translations of episodes from the 'Inferno'
provide complementary artistic interpretations of Dante's poem,
while reflections from colleagues and friends commemorate Owen's
life and work as an artist, scholar and teacher. This stunning
collection is an important contribution to both Dante scholarship
and illustration.
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