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The Art of Winold Reiss brings to light the creative and
forward-thinking work of this German-born artist. Winold Reiss
(1886-1953) arrived in New York in 1913, the year of the
ground-breaking Armory Show. The exhibition shook the American art
scene to its core and ushered in a radically new artistic
sensibility, whilst Reiss's exuberant, dynamic designs anticipated
the American passion for the new European avant-garde art. Steeped
in a German aesthetic, Reiss brought his unique brand of modernism
to the United States, and established a reputation and material
presence in New York's cultural and commercial landscape. This
vibrantly illustrated volume showcases over 140 examples of Reiss's
work, ranging from his early graphic creations for advertisements,
menus, packaging, calendars, and books, to his architectural and
interior designs. Reiss's portraits of African Americans include
leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance as well as members of the
professional and working classes. Essays by leading specialists
provide an overview of Reiss's life and artistic achievements,
examining his interior designs of iconic New York restaurants and
bars, his portraits and his decorative arts, including his work in
new 20th-century materials.
Originally published in Dutch to accompany a 2014 exhibition at the
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (now Kunstmuseum Den Haag), this important
survey of a pivotal period in the life of Piet Mondrian is now
available in English. Drawn to the Cubist work of Georges Braque
and Pablo Picasso, Mondrian spent two years in Paris, from 1912 to
1914, that led him to begin experimenting with an entirely original
abstract style. Using a cubist palette of grey and ochre, the
artist transformed the landscapes and architectural facades of his
earlier figurative works into compositional structures of
increasing complexity and abstraction. Upon his return to the
Netherlands in 1914, the artist exhibited the 17 works he had
painted during those two significant years in France. This volume
maps Cubism's influence on artists working in the Netherlands at
that time, and demonstrates Mondrian's central role in bridging the
gap between the French Cubists and their Dutch contemporaries.
Accompanying over 300 illustrations - including close details of
key works - is a chronology by Mondrian expert Hans Janssen
tracking the artist's development within the context of its time.
A new retrospective of the work of trailblazing artist Barbara
Chase-Riboud Barbara Chase-Riboud is a bestselling novelist, an
award-winning poet, and a renowned visual artist whose sculpture
and drawings are in museum collections around the world. Among her
best-known sculptural work is the Malcolm X series of flowing cast
bronze forms combined with braided fiber elements. Barbara
Chase-Riboud Monumentale traces this pioneering artist's remarkable
career from the 1950s to the present, providing the most
comprehensive account of her important body of work to date. The
book features both celebrated and never-before-seen artworks that
highlight Chase-Riboud's groundbreaking contributions to
contemporary sculpture. In addition to some forty sculptures, the
book presents nearly twenty works on paper, a selection of
Chase-Riboud's poetry, and excerpts from an interview with the
artist. Exploring the many different aspects of Chase-Riboud's
artistic practice, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale provides
unprecedented insights into her meditations on form, memory, and
monument, while revealing the rich array of inspiration she has
drawn from global art history and literature. Published in
association with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation Exhibition Schedule
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis September 16, 2022-February 5,
2023
Are you ready to go deeper on your spiritual journey and breathe
new life into your faith? Love, joy, wisdom, and hope--these are
just a few of the things we all want more of in our lives. Anne
Neilson's Angels Guided Journal will give you a chance to engage in
these topics while experiencing inspiration from Anne's incredible
angel art. Embrace your devotional time with God as you pour out
your fears, challenges, hopes, and dreams in this gorgeous journal.
Anne Neilson's Angels Guided Journal offers: * 40 days of
thought-provoking, inspirational stories accompanied by new
original angel art throughout * Guided writing prompts * Journaling
space to write your thoughts and deepen your reading experience * A
heartfelt foreword by friend and longtime fan, Kathie Lee Gifford
"My prayer," says Anne, "is that the art and stories throughout
this book will be a beautiful reminder for you that God is both our
Creator and the fulfiller of His promises to us." This heartwarming
journal will be a favorite for moments of drawing closer to God and
also makes a thoughtful gift for: * Christmas, birthdays, and
Mother's Day * Teachers, friends, and loved ones for special
occasions * Any occasion to brighten someone's day * A friend
suffering through loss and grief * Fans of Anne Neilson's books and
art Deepen your faith and expand your sense of wonder with this
40-day guided journey paired with Anne Neilson's ethereal angels
and accompanied by Anne's effervescent voice and thought-provoking
journal prompts. Look for additional inspirational, art-filled
books from Anne, such as: * Anne Neilson's Angels * Entertaining
Angels: True Stories and Art Inspired by Divine Encounters.
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how
the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her
life as an amputee. Frida Kahlo was an amputee in the last part of
her life, but long before that her right leg had been compromised
by a childhood bout with polio. Since adolescence, Emily Rapp,
herself an amputee since the age of four, felt that there were many
things she had in common with Frida Kahlo. From the first sight of
Kahlo's painting of the devastating bus crash that almost killed
her, Rapp felt a sense of kinship with the artist. They both
endured numerous operations; both alternately hid and revealed
their altered bodies; and both found a way to live and create
despite physical and emotional pain. In this riveting read, Rapp
gets to the essence of Kahlo through her art, her letters, and her
diaries. Rapp tells her own story of losing a child to Tay-Sachs;
finding love, and becoming pregnant with her daughter; and of how
Kahlo's life and work helped her to find a way forward when all
seemed lost. Containing several full-color images of Kahlo's art
and clothing, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg offers a unique
perspective on the artist and the challenges she faced. I want to
know and remember what it was like to walk as Frida once walked:
before polio at six years old shrunk her right leg; before the
infamous bus crash on September 17, 1925 when the pole pierced her
pelvis; then the casts, the saws, the stitches woven into the skin
and then carefully twisted out, the scars gone white and silent and
sealed. I am one-legged, like Frida, but I am also unlike her, and
there in our essential difference is where my fascination lies, and
there lies also my devotion, my despair, my revulsion, my
resentment, my desire.
346 in all: Old Testament, St. Jerome, Passion, Life of Virgin, Apocalypse, many others. Introduction by Campbell Dodgson. "...it was in woodcut design that the creative genius of Dürer reached its highest expression...The only available source for many of these works."-Antique Monthly.
One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo
da Vinci (1452-1519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius.
The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this
book is a compact catalogue raisonne of all of the artist's
masterful paintings. Drawn from our best-selling XXL edition, the
book traces the artist's life and work across 10 chapters,
presenting all known paintings and drawing on his letters,
contracts, diary entries, and writings to explore the man behind
such groundbreaking artworks. From Virgin of the Rocks to Virgin
and Child with St. Anne to the ever-beguiling Mona Lisa, you'll
find some of the finest treasures of the Louvre, Prado, and
National Gallery, London here, as well as Leonardo works lost to
time, but no less startling in their precision and poise. About the
series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions
celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin
Spear RA (1911-1990) since a brief monograph in 1985. It uses
Spear's career to unlock the coded standards of the 20th-century
art world and to look at class and culture in Britain and at
notions of 'vulgarity'. The book takes in popular press debates
linked to the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; the changing
preferences of the institutionalized avant-garde from the Second
World War onwards; the battles fought within colleges of art as a
generation of post-war students challenged the skills and
commitment of their tutors; and the changing status of figurative
art in the post-war period. Spear was committed to a form of social
realism but the art he produced for left-wing and pacifist
exhibitions and causes had a sophistication, authenticity and
humour that flowed from his responses to bravura painting across a
broad historical swathe of European art, and from the fact that he
was painting what he knew. Spear's geography revolved around the
working class culture of Hammersmith in West London and the
spectacle of pub and street life. This was a metropolitan life
little known to, and largely unrecorded by, his contemporaries.
Tracking Spear also illuminates the networks of friendship and
power at the Royal College of Art, at the Royal Academy of Arts and
within the post-war peace movement. As the tutor of the generation
of Kitchen Sink and of future Pop artists at the Royal College of
Art, and with friendships with figures as diverse as Sir Alfred
Munnings and Francis Bacon, Spear's interest in non-elite culture
and marginal groups is of particular interest. Spear's biting
satirical pictures took as their subject matter political figures
as diverse as Khrushchev and Enoch Powell, the art of Henry Moore
and Reg Butler and, more generally, the structures of leisure and
pleasure in 20th-century Britain. Humankind: Ruskin Spear has an
obvious interest for art historians, but it also functions as a
social history that brings alive aspects of British popular culture
from tabloid journalism to the social mores of the public house and
the snooker hall as well as the unexpected functions of official
and unofficial portraiture. Written with general reader in mind, it
has a powerful narrative that presents a remarkable rumbustious
character and a diverse series of art and non-art worlds.
This sweeping overview of Rembrandt's extraordinary achievement as
a draughtsman fills a gap in the otherwise enormous literature on
the artist. Beautifully illustrated, mostly in colour, the more
than 150 drawings - culled from a corpus of some 800 - are
discussed in detail. The drawings span Rembrandt's entire
productive life as an artist, from early self-portraits in the
1620s to late drawings from the 1660s of the victim of an
execution, a state coach, and historical and mythological images.
The scope of the book allows readers to delve into the very broad
range of Rembrandt's oeuvre of drawings.
This book investigates Jimmie Durham's community-building process
of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something
... Perhaps a Fugue or an Elegy (2005); two Neapolitan nativities
(2016 and ongoing); The Middle Earth (with Maria Thereza Alves,
2018); and God's Poems, God's Children (2017). Andrea Feeser
explores these artworks in the context of ideas about connection
set forth by writers Ann Lauterbach, Franz Rosenzweig, Pamela Sue
Anderson, Vinciane Despret, and Hirokazu Miyazaki, among others.
Feeser argues that the materials in Durham's artworks; the method
of their construction; how Durham writes about his pieces; how they
exist with respect to one another; and how they address viewers,
demonstrate that we can create alongside others a world that
embraces and sustains what has been diminished. The book will be of
interest to scholars working in contemporary art, animal studies,
new materialism research, and eco-criticism.
The 1000 piece World of Yayoi Kusama jigsaw puzzle by Laurence King
Publishing is an art puzzlers dream. Jigsaw puzzles are back as a
wellness trend and this beautifully illustrated one is sure to help you
relax while immersing yourself in the life of Yayoi Kusama.
From 1960s New York to today's Tokyo, there's a huge cast of extras -
her friends, lovers and collaborators. Discover references to her
artworks and her love of the polka dot. Once complete why not frame the
artwork or keepsake poster to keep forever.
1000-PIECE PUZZLE:
The 1000-piece colourful jigsaw puzzle features the world of Yayoi
Kusama in mind-blowing detail. Piece together the intricate
illustrations by Laura Callaghan
FUN, COLOURFUL ILLUSTRATIONS:
Spot the famous figures, fellow artists and references to her polka dot
artwork as you build this colourful jigsaw puzzle.
POSTER INCLUDED:
Includes a fun facts about Kusama's life and work in a fold out
keepsake poster (A2)
EASY HANDLING:
The 1000 puzzle pieces are thick and sturdy, and the back sides are a
white matte finish. The completed puzzle measures A2 in size and the
jigsaw puzzle box measures 267 x 267 x 48mm. GIFT: The perfect gift for
people who love art and want to spend time away from their screens
while building this jigsaw puzzle
One of Pablo Picasso's most important muses is the subject of this
diverse and beautiful collection of drawings, paintings,
sculptures, photographs, and ceramics. She was known as "the girl
with the ponytail" and her image has become one of the art world's
most iconic. Sylvette David was a shy girl when she met Picasso on
the Cote d'Azur in the spring of 1954. For the artist, Sylvette
represented the ideal beauty of the time and she was his model for
numerous works that covered nearly every aspect of his oeuvre. This
book brings together the series of more than fifty masterpieces
culled from museums and private collections from around the world.
It further provides a unique insight into Picasso's art of the
1950s and the culture of the time."
A new survey of the best works by the elusive and spectacular
Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla. Often compared to his
contemporary, the American artist John Singer Sargent, Joaquin
Sorolla (1863-1923) was a master draftsman and painter of
landscapes, formal portraits, and monumental, historically themed
canvases. Highly influenced by French Impressionism, the Valencian
artist was a master plein-air painter known for his luminous
seaside scenes of frolicking youths and for vivid depictions of
Spanish rural life and its pleasures and customs. This beautifully
designed and produced volume brings together one hundred of
Sorolla's major paintings, selected by his great-granddaughter
Blanca Pons-Sorolla, the foremost authority on the artist.
Benefiting from close proximity to the artist and his personal
archives, she presents an in-depth essay that explores Sorolla's
life, work, and remarkable international legacy. With virtually all
of the artist's previous publications now out of print, this
much-anticipated volume is an important addition to the literature
on this great Spanish master.
"To grasp the quality of the painting . . . is to grasp the quality
of the woman at workan extraordinary vitality; a passionate
explorative nature; an uncompromising devotion to her craft; and a
concept in which intellect and emotion are one of the roles she
plays in shaping and extending the sensual conscious language of
art."Robert Duncan, poet
Thomas W. Leavitt writes, "All of Lilly Fenichel's paintings are
related to nature, even when they are abstract to the point of
being non-objective. And be it cloud forms or structures emerging
from the picture plane, the predominant mood has been serious and
often somber. She appears to have been burdened by her awareness of
nature, exploring its qualities deeply yet warily. Just You Just
Me, Fenichel's newest work, however, is an invitation to celebrate
the most joyous of nature's gifts and of human experience: sensual,
physical love.
"In each canvas she creates an implosion of human anatomical
partsbones, muscles and viscera that cling together through the
irresistible centripetal force of desire creating a compact sphere
of ecstatic writhing. This is not primarily romantic love, filled
with agonizing longing, but erotic sensuality painted with
confidence and enthusiasm."
Born in Vienna, Fenichel fled the Nazi's with her family in
1939, living briefly in England, then moving to Los Angeles where
she studied art at Chouinard Art Institute and City College. At the
California School of Fine Arts (later the San Francisco Art
Institute) as an abstract expressionist, Fenichel later worked with
Elmer Bischoff, Hassel Smith, David Park, and Edward Corbett, who
later became a part of the Taos Moderns group. Fenichel visited
Corbett in Taos, later moved there and became a significant member
of the Taos art community, developing enduring friendships with
artists Bea Mandelman and Louis Ribak.
Marina Abramovic has truly pioneered performance as a visual art
form. Her work - notorious for its feats of endurance, pain and
intense physical encounter - has pushed the boundaries of
contemporary art and cemented her reputation as one of the most
significant artists of the past 50 years. This book brings her
complete practice together into one concise and essential volume.
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