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Heidi Shank-Bridges, Kimberly Causby
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Most girls grow up fantasizing about the type of man they are
going to marry and how their wedding will be, and they imagine
things like the house with the white picket fence, two kids, and
maybe a dog.
No girl grows up dreaming about a man who will want to marry
her, control her, and nearly kill her. However, the truth is that
many girls end up doing just that.
This substantial monograph on the respected German Concrete artist
features a selection of floor and skirting-board paintings from the
late 60s and 70s, large-scale and multi-media architectural
paintings, furniture, abstract geometric oils and acrylics and
sculptural wall-works. A serious study of post-Constructivist color
and space.
B is for Mutant? Z is for Secret? Bill Woodrow's unique alphabet
offers a glimpse into a playful and endlessly inventive artistic
mind. Part sketchbook, part riddle, this small clothbound book
presents Woodrow's weird and whimsical look at letters that turns
the ordinary on its head. One of Britain's foremost sculptors,
Woodrow (b. 1948) is best known for his transformations of everyday
objects into new forms; like those works, the deceptively simple
illustrations in this alphabet unravel the common-place to suggest
surprising new meanings.
Reviews 'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture', exhibited at The
Royal Academy. The project of creating monumental landscape
paintings was based on a small area near the artist's home at
Bridlington in East Yorkshire. Works developed with time-framed
films, photographs, i-pad studies, drawings, sketchbooks, oils and
watercolours. recording particular motifs and places in the
changing seasons. Studies were enlarged on joined canvases in
compositions up to 32' wide, designed to immerse the viewer in an
intense experience of the landscape. The monograph includes
exhibition reviews by James Cahill and Michael Lovell Pank +
reviews of recent catalogues and books on the artist by Marco
Livingstone, Martin Gayford and Christopher Simon Sykes, by Marina
Vaizey.
In this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and
journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture
of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic
and controversial artist of modern times. For someone who shuns the
limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his
face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably
famous. This fully updated and illustrated story of Banksy's life
and career builds an intriguing picture of his world and unpicks
its contradictions. Whether art or vandalism, anti-establishment or
sell-out, Banksy and his work have become a cultural phenomenon and
the question 'Who is Banksy?' is as much about his career as it is
'the man behind the wall'. From his beginnings as a Bristol
graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for
seven-figure sums and hangs on celebrities' walls. The appearance
of a new Banksy is national news, his documentary Exit Through the
Gift Shop was Oscar-nominated and people queue for hours to see his
latest exhibition. Now moreNational Treasure than edgy outsider,
who is Banksy and how did he become what he is today? This book
charts Banksy's journey from the graffiti-scrawled streets of
Barton Hill, the working class neighbourhood of Bristol where he
and others covered the walls with vibrant pieces while trying to
avoid the police, through to some of the most prestigious galleries
of the world, where his daring acts of guerilla art have forced us
to reconsider how we define as art. From the artist's own words to
recollections of friends and colleagues, this book also examines
the contradictions of Banksy's life: charting how a privately
educated boy from a middle class area of Bristol reinvented himself
as a rogue and an outlaw who would take the art world by storm.
With beautiful reproductions of some of his most controversial and
recognisable works, this detailed study is a truly indispensible
guide to understanding the ultimate art rebel whose work is no less
relevant today than it was when he first started out some thirty
years ago.
This first comprehensive research guide and annotated bibliography
of Paul Gauguin includes information on more than 1500 books and
articles on the artist as well as a comprehensive chronology and
list of exhibitions. The secondary bibliography is arranged by
topics and includes citations on the artist's life and career, his
relationships with contemporary artists in France, including
Vincent van Gogh, his life and work in Panama, Martinique, Tahiti,
and the Marquesas Islands, his oeuvre in general and in various
media, self-portraits, iconography, and more. The French artist
Paul Gauguin continues to be a larger-than-life figure whose
mystique exerts its spell on popular, critical, and scholarly
minds. Consequently, the available literature on the artist is
copious and marked by diversity of opinion on every aspect of his
life and work. From the first book-length biography of Gauguin
written by Louis Brouillon in 1906, interest in Gauguin has
continued unabated and, since 1959, critical interest in the
artist's drawings, prints, sculptures, and art works in other media
has dramatically increased. Russell T. Clement has compiled the
first comprehensive research guide and annotated bibliography on
Gauguin. This volume encompasses primary materials by Gauguin
including those published during the artist's lifetime and those
published posthumously; contemporary accounts and criticism of
Gauguin's life and work published through 1906; descriptions of the
artist's oeuvre; a lengthy secondary bibliography; and a section
that catalogs exhibitions of Gauguin's work between 1884 and 1989.
While concentrating on printed materials, this guide also includes
selected manuscripts--in all, more than 1500 books and articles are
cited. For entries where titles give incomplete or unclear
information about works and their content, the author provides
brief annotations. Following a biographical sketch and chronology,
the primary bibliography lists articles, essays, letters,
manuscripts, and sketch books of Gauguin and then accounts and
critiques of Gauguin's life and work published through 1906. The
main part of the bibliography and research guide, the secondary
bibliography, lists monographs, catalogues, dissertations, theses,
periodical literature, films, sound recordings and musical scores,
and selected newspaper articles. Substantial book reviews and
exhibition reviews are also included. Arranged by topic, the
secondary bibliography also includes citations on Gauguin's
relationships with contemporary artists in France, his work in
Panama and Martinique, his work and life in Tahiti and the
Marquesas Islands, and his oeuvre in general. Not just a list of
sources but a complete research guide, this volume deserves a place
in every research library collection.
Juan Davila is a painter who passionately believes in using art to
facilitate social change. Davila was born in Santiago, Chile, and
moved to Australia in the 1970s to escape the violent totalitarian
regime of Pinochet. His work had an immediate impact on the
Australian art scene and he has since become one of Australia's
most respected and creative artists and is represented in all State
and National art museums. His work addresses international issues,
especially with reference to Latin American and Australian themes,
and he draws on his own experiences of repression and loss suffered
during Chile's dark history. Davila's art - beautiful, complex,
confronting and provocative - sets to counter indifference in the
community and spark intellectual discourse on many issues in the
international political landscape - terrorism, refugees, political
and social rights and undemocratic governments.
First published in 1993 Interviews-Artists is a body of thirty
seven recorded conversations made since 1988. In considering their
work, often in the context of a current exhibition, artists discuss
their ideas in formation and the factors which have informed their
development. Read together, another picture emerges of unexpected
links between the makers, in the expression of their concerns, in
the work and with the world beyond, that forms a unique and
coherent overview of the developing art of our time.
In Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema, Joe McElhaney
situates Visconti's films as privileged and deeply expressive
instances of a trope that McElhaney identifies as the ""cinema of
fabric"": a reoccurrence in film in which textiles-clothing,
curtains, tablecloths, bedsheets-determine the filming process. An
Italian neorealist, Visconti emerges out of a movement immediately
following WWII wherein fabric assumes crucial functions, yet
Visconti's use of fabric surpasses his colleagues in many ways,
including its fluid, multifaceted articulations of space and time.
Visconti's homosexuality is central to this theory in that it
assumes metaphoric potential in addressing ""forbidden"" sexual
desires that are made visible in the films. Visconti's cinema of
fabric gives voice to desires not simply for human bodies draped in
fabric but also for entire environments, a world of the senses in
which fabric becomes a crucial method for giving form to such
desires. McElhaney examines Visconti's neorealist origins in
Ossessione, La terra trema, and Rocco and His Brothers,
particularly through fabric's function within literary realism and
naturalism. Neorealist revisionism through the extravagant drapings
of the diva film is examined in Bellissima and Senso whereas White
Nights and The Stranger are examined for the theatricalizing
through fabric of their literary sources. Visconti's interest in
German culture vis-?a-vis The Damned, Death in Venice, and Ludwig,
is articulated through a complex intertwining of fabric,
aesthetics, politics, and transgressive sexual desire. Finally,
Visconti's final two films, Conversation Piece and The Innocent,
assess through fabric both the origins of Italian fascism and the
political tensions contemporaneous with the films' productions.
Fabric in Visconti is often tied to the aesthetic impulse itself in
a world of visionaries attempting to dominate their surrounding
environments and where a single piece of fabric may come to
represent the raw material for creation. This book will tantalize
any reader with a keen eye and strong interest in film and queer
studies.
In The Image Business, Steve Powell's autobiography lifts the lid
on the development of sports photography and photojournalism. With
a no holds barred account of his life as a working photographer and
business innovator, he tells of covering world-beating sporting
successes and occasional failures, and of how he built the Allsport
Photographic agency into an industry leader that made him a
millionaire. "The authors' experiences are so vast and often
outrageous that it's easy to forget that this is a true story." L
Lemay. He has worked with everyone from world beating powerboat
racers to Olympic greats such as Seb Coe and Daley Thompson.
Muhammad Ali, Bjorn Borg, Seve Ballesteros and Diego Maradona have
all been his subjects during a lifetime of capturing iconic images.
"In a book market full of often told stories, this is a unique and
compelling read." MarcoVB. Unique insights into the athletes and
administrators who shaped sport over thirty years could only come
from a true insider. He gives a fascinating and fast-paced
narrative of a career that began on the gritty streets of London
and took him to every global arena where sport is played, working
with every major publication and sponsor as he developed ways to
help them deliver their messages. - "This book is right up there
with Phil Knight's "Shoe Dog"." Anonymous Powell reveals the
struggles of an emerging independent agency as it fought to gain
recognition, how it helped break the union stranglehold on Fleet
Street and established Allsport and its photographers as the go-to
source for all that was best in the emerging sports photography
industry. - "This is a thoroughly entertaining book and, I believe,
an important one." R Bundy. Follow his riveting personal narrative
as he describes how he overcame personality clashes that almost
brought the agency to its knees and how riding the tide of
advancing technologies helped create a unique business model.
Always just one step ahead of the opposition, his career mirrors
how he harnessed fast moving changes in the industry to create his
own unique place in sports media history. "(The author) has you
feeling as if you are right there living it alongside him."
Anonymous. This is the story of the man who built the world's
biggest and most famous sports photography business and under whose
guidance, became the first official photographer to the
International Olympic Committee and worked with every major
sporting organisation, governing body and athlete in Europe, and
North America. "A truly inspiring read, by a truly inspiring guy.
His life, his travels keep you reading until the end. What a life,
great read." J Tilley. Finally, the book traces with engaging
candour his learning curve in preparing the company for sale,
turning the business of capturing images into capitalising images
as a business. The buyer was Mark Getty and guided by Powell,
Allsport became a bedrock in the rapidly emerging Getty Images and
made Powell more successful than he could have imagined.
Laura Knight (1877-1970) was one of the most distinguished women
artist of the early 20th century with an international reputation.
This highly readable and objective biography covers her early years
in Nottingham, her relationship with her husband Harold, life in
the artists colonies of Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, her
immersion in the world of ballet, the circus and theatre and her
travels in Europe and America. It also examines her role as
Official War Artist during World War II and recorder of the
Nuremberg Trials in 1945-46. This revised and updated book offers
so much more than just an account of an artist's work, it allows
the reader to experience the vibrant personality of the artist as
well as the darker shades of her personality. It gives this
portrait of an artist depth and perspective.
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