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Holbein
(Hardcover)
Norbert Wolf
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R477
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Religion, Renaissance, and Reformation-these three ideologies
shaped the world of 16th-century portraitist Hans Holbein the
Younger (1497/98-1543), a pivotal figure of the Northern
Renaissance, whose skills took him to Switzerland, Belgium, Italy,
and England, and garnered patrons and subjects as prestigious as
Henry VIII, Thomas More, Anne of Cleves, and Reformation advocate
Thomas Cromwell. This book brings together key Holbein paintings to
explore his illustrious and international career as well as the
courtly drama and radical religious change that informed his work.
With rich illustration, we survey the masterful draftsmanship and
almost supernatural ability to control details, from the textures
of luxurious clothing to the ornament of a room, that secured
Holbein's place as one of the greatest portraitists in Western art
history. His probing eye was matched with a draftsman. Along the
way, we see how he combined meticulous mimesis with an inspired
amalgam of regional painterly traits, from Flemish-style realism to
late medieval German composition and Italian formal grandeur.
During his time in England, Holbein became official court painter
to Henry VIII, producing both reformist propaganda and royalist
paintings to bolster Henry's status as monarch and as the new
Supreme Head of the Church following the English Reformation. His
portrait of Henry from 1537 is regarded not only as a portraiture
pinnacle but also as an iconic record of this transformative
monarch and the Tudor dynasty. Through this turbulent period,
Holbein also produced anticlerical woodcuts, and sketched and
painted Lutheran merchants, visiting ambassadors, and Henry's
notorious succession of wives. 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
Richard Demarco co-founded the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in
1963 and ran the vibrant Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh for
almost 30 years. He promotes crosscultural dialogues and was the
first person to introduce Joseph Beuys in the UK. Joseph Beuys was
a German sculptor and creator of action performances, political
activist and teacher. This book explores the works, lectures and
'Actions' which resulted from the mutual hopes, inspirations and
shared values of Richard Demarco and Joseph Beuys, the innovative
and inspirational German postwar artist, from 1970 until Beuys'
death in 1986. Demarco, an avant-garde gallerist in Edinburgh, was
an early proponent of Scotland taking its place within the European
art world; Demarco recognised the visionary quality of Beuys' work
and visited him in Oberkassel in January 1970. In the hope of
focusing Beuys' attention on Scotland, he presented him with a set
of postcards depicting typical Scottish scenes. Beuys responded
with, 'I see the land of Macbeth, so when shall we two meet again,
in thunder, lightning or in rain?' They reunited in thundery
Edinburgh later that year and Demarco led him northwards along the
ancient track he calls 'The Road to Meikle Seggie'. This initial
experience of the Scottish landscape inspired Beuys, who felt a
strong connection with Celtic culture, and laid the foundation for
a remarkable artistic friendship which enriched the work of both
men. With photos from Demarco's personal collection and essays
spanning from 1970 to the present, this is an intimate and
intellectually rigorous look at a friendship seminal to the
development of art in Scotland over the last 40 years.
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Mondrian Evolution
(Paperback)
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Kathrin Bessen, Sam Keller, Ulf Kuster, Susanne Gaensheimer, …
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Piet Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of
painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his
150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution is dedicated to his multifaceted
work and artistic development. Initially working in the tradition
of Dutch landscape painting of the late 19th century, Symbolism and
Cubism subsequently took on great significance for him. It was not
until the early 1920s that the artist focused on a wholly
non-representational pictorial vocabulary, limited to the
rectangular arrangement of black lines with surfaces in white and
the primary colors blue, red and yellow. In separate chapters, this
path is traced through motifs such as windmills, dunes, and the
sea, farms reflected in the water, and plants in various forms of
abstraction.
Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and
lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and
use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was
almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of "carving into
color," creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by
some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these
gouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a
revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the
age-old conflict between color and line. This edition of the first
volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough
historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to
his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years
in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare
images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau,
with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Teriade, the poets Louis
Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law
Georges Duthuit. In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs
achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist
abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of
artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale,
these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and
innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.
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.
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Basquiat
(Paperback)
Marc Mayer
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R602
R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
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Jean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died in 1988,
his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just
eight years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's powerful A uvre
has ensured his continuing reputation as one of modern art's most
distinctive voices. Borrowing from graffiti and street imagery,
cartoons, mythology and religious symbolism, Basquiat's drawings
and paintings explore issues of race and identity, providing social
commentary that is shrewdly observed and biting. This bestselling
book, now available in a compact edition, celebrates Basquiat's
achievements in the contexts of the key influences on his art. It
not only re-evaluates the artist's principal works and their
meaning, but also explains what keeps his painting relevant today.
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Sylvia Pankhurst
(Hardcover)
Katy Norris; Edited by Rebeka Cohen; Designed by Nicky Barneby
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R299
Discovery Miles 2 990
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Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water
gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny.
Adorned with poppies, blue sage, dahlias and irises, the waters
were disturbed only by bamboos and water lilies. His water garden
was originally created to satisfy a need to be near water, and to
provide a visual feast that could be enjoyed from his house. The
pond was fed by the river Ru, and weeping willow and silver birch
hung over its edges, caressing the fronds of the greenery and
blossoms below. Its famous green wooden footbridge was built across
the water and it became the central focus of many of his works. He
said, 'It took me some time to understand my water lilies. I
planted them for pleasure.' and so he began to work on what is
probably the most famous series of paintings the world has ever
seen.
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in
the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating
world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished
between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the
Western world's visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of
hedonism, ukiyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and
attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo): beautiful women, actors and
wrestlers, city life, and spectacular landscapes. Though he
captured a variety of subjects, Hiroshige was most famous for
landscapes, with a final masterpiece series known as "One Hundred
Famous Views of Edo" (1856-1858), which depicted various scenes of
the city through the seasons, from bustling shopping streets to
splendid cherry orchards. This reprint is made from one of the
finest complete original sets of woodblock prints belonging to the
Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo. It pairs each of the 120
illustrations with a description, allowing readers to immerse
themselves in these beautiful, vibrant vistas that became paradigms
of Japonisme and inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art
Nouveau artists alike, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill
Whistler. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact
cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the
fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this
book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco --
seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art
history. The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern
Art analyses how changes in artistic taste in the second half of
the nineteenth century caused a profound revision of the place of
El Greco in the artistic canon. As a result, El Greco was
transformed from an extravagant outsider and a secondary painter
into the founder of the Spanish School and one of the principle
predecessors of modern art, increasingly related to that of the
Impressionists -- due primarily to the German critic Julius
Meier-Graefe's influential History of Modern Art (1914). This shift
in artistic preference has been attributed to the rise of modern
art but Eric Storm, a cultural historian, shows that in the case of
El Greco nationalist motives were even more important. This study
examines the work of painters, art critics, writers, scholars and
philosophers from France, Germany and Spain, and the role of
exhibitions, auctions, monuments and commemorations. Paintings and
associated anecdotes are discussed, and historical debates such as
El Greco's supposed astigmatism are addressed in a highly readable
and engaging style. This book will be of interest to both
specialists and the interested art public.
Raphael (1483-1520) was for centuries considered the greatest
artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from
this biography, written by the Florentine painter Giorgio Vasari
and first published in 1550. Vasari's Lives of the Painters was the
first attempt to write a systematic history of Italian art. The
Life of Raphael is a key text not only for the appreciation of
Raphael's own art - whose development and chronology Vasari
describes in detail, together with the spectacular social career of
the first painter to be mooted, it was claimed, as a Cardinal - but
also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues.
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The Surveyor
(Paperback)
Fabian Reimann, Anthony Blunt, Stephanie Tasch; Edited by Jan Wenzel
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R960
Discovery Miles 9 600
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One of the European artists who has best combined text, image, and
movement, Juliao Sarmento's multidisciplinary oeuvre evinces the
tension that exists between image and word, between what is
explicitly biographical and the impossibility of all forms of
narration. Over the past 26 years, Sarmento's work has revealed an
intimate and passionate pre-occupation with desire, explored both
in the realm of the speculative and the gestural. Within his work
there is no chronology, no unfolding narrative, no apparent
logic--simply glimpses of experience that give visual form to
primordial desires, ones felt but not defined. Working with various
media, including paint, print, photography, sculpture, and video,
he determines to define the intangible gap between experience and
memory, now and then.
Explore Kerby Rosanes's intricate and vibrant world in this
striking jigsaw puzzle. Piece together shape-shifting creatures as
they morph into a magnificent tiger in the night, featured in his
bestselling book, Animorphia.
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