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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists
In 1953 Marlon Brando donned a black leather Perfecto motorcycle
jacket, military cap, denim jeans, and engineer boots to portray
Johnny, sneering leader of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, in The
Wild One. In 1954 Tom of Finland abandoned brown leather in his
artwork to create his own wild ones: muscular, hyper-masculine,
black leather-clad rebels with powerful engines between their legs.
The look was adopted by the Satyrs Motorcycle Club, the first gay
outlaw club, that same year, making Tom's fantasy world reality. Of
course, being Tom, he soon customized his new gay icons, adding
leather jodhpurs, knee high boots and leather caps, and every
motorcycle bore the brand name "Tom" on the gas tank. Tom's bikers
first appeared as two "Motorcycle Boys" in Physique Pictorial,
Winter 1958. Another made the cover of the April 1960 issue. Bikers
dominated his PP content from then on, as a nod to its American
readership as much as his growing obsession. When he sought an
ongoing character, a personal avatar, in 1968, he created Kake as
the ultimate biker leatherman, and elaborated on his riding
adventures - of every kind - through 26-panel stories. Tom adopted
Kake's gear as his own, presenting in black leather jacket, white
t-shirt, jeans, and high boots to the end of his life. The Little
Book of Tom: Bikers includes Tom's earliest images for Physique
Pictorial, Kake in motorcycle gear, biker panel stories, and
sizzling single drawings, all packed into 192 pages of sexy,
masculine men enjoying other masculine men in black leather, blue
jeans, and high black boots. On bikes.
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Lives of Leonardo
(Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Matteo Bandello, Paolo Giovio, Sabba Castiglione; Edited by Charles Robertson
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For many people the greatest artist, and the quintessential
Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter,
architect, theatre designer, engineer, sculptor, anatomist,
geometer, naturalist, poet and musician. His Last Supper in Milan
has been called the greatest painting in Western art. Illegitimate,
left-handed and homosexual, Leonardo never made a straightforward
career. But from his earliest apprenticeship with the Florentine
painter and sculptor Andrea Verrochio, his astonishing gifts were
recognised. His life led him from Florence to militaristic Milan
and back, to Rome and eventually to France, where he died in the
arms of the King, Francis I. As one of the greatest exponents of
painting of his time, Leonardo was celebrated by his fellow
Florentine Vasari (who was nevertheless responsible for covering
over the great fresco of the Battle of Anghiari with his own
painting). Vasari's carefully researched life of Leonardo remains
one of the main sources of our knowledge, and is printed here
together with the three other early biographies, and the major
account by his French editor Du Fresne. Personal reminiscences by
the novelist Bandello, and humanist Saba di Castiglione, round out
the picture, and for the first time the extremely revealing
imagined dialogue between Leonardo and the Greek sculptor Phidias,
by the painter and theorist Lomazzo, is published in English. An
introduction by the scholar Charles Robertson places these writings
and the career of Leonardo in context. Approximately 50 pages of
colour illustrations, including the major paintings and many of the
astonishing drawings, give a rich overview of Leonardo's work and
mind.
One of the most visible, popular, and significant artists of his
generation, William Hogarth (1697-1764) is best known for his
acerbic, strongly moralising works, which were mass-produced and
widely disseminated as prints during his lifetime. This volume is a
fascinating look into the notorious English satirical artist's
life, presenting Anecdotes of William Hogarth, Written by Himself-a
collection of autobiographical vignettes supplemented with short
texts and essays written by his contemporaries, first published in
1785.
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Picasso and Paper
(Paperback)
Ann Dumas, Emmanuelle Hincelin, Christopher Lloyd, Emilia Philippot, Bill Robinson, …
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Pablo Picasso's artistic output is astonishing in its ambition and
variety. This handsome publication examines a particular aspect of
his legendary capacity for invention: his imaginative and original
use of paper. He used it as a support for autonomous works,
including etchings, prints and drawings, as well as for his
papier-colle experiments of the 1910s and his revolutionary
three-dimensional 'constructions', made of cardboard, paper and
string. Sometimes, his use of paper was simply determined by
circumstance: in occupied Paris, where art supplies were hard to
come by, he ripped up paper tablecloths to make works of art. And,
of course, his works on paper comprise the preparatory stages of
some of his very greatest paintings, among them Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937). With reproductions of more
than 300 works of art and additional texts by Violette Andres,
Stephen Coppel, Emmanuelle Hincelin, Christopher Lloyd, Johan
Popelard and Claustre Rafart Planas, this sumptuous study reveals
the myriad ways in which Picasso's genius seized the potential of
paper at different stages throughout his career.
This monograph brings together the work of artist David Medalla.
Born in Manila, in the Philippines in 1942, and based since 1960
mainly in London, Medalla has distinguished himself internationally
as an innovator of the avant-garde. His work has embraced a
multitude of enquiries and enthusiasms, forms and formats, to
express a singular yet deeply coherent vision of the world.
Take a fresh look at the world through the lens of a self-confessed
nature-obsessed artist. Asuka Hishiki possesses not only a sense of
profound awe and wonder at the intricacies of the natural world,
but also the talent to communicate it through her paintings.
Recalling the Wunderkammer (literally, 'wonder rooms') of 16th and
17th century European collectors, Asuka Hishiki's Botaniphoria: A
Cabinet of Botanical Curiosities encompasses subjects as diverse as
rotting vegetables, endangered species, mundane weeds and backyard
insects - all treasures to her and transformed into objects of
intense and fragile beauty through her skill with watercolour. Her
work is held in prestigious collections such as The Huntington
Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, California, the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Hunt Institute for Botanical
Documentation, Pennsylvania. One of the first people to appreciate
her work said about it, 'your work is not to hang upon a wall in a
bright living room, but to put in a drawer in the study. Then,
alone in the middle of the night, to take out and ponder upon.' In
the best traditions of Wunderkammer, this book is an artfully
arranged collection intended to be pondered upon. From the
interactions of the objects within the paintings, to the quirky
choice of subjects and the realism with which they are portrayed,
they will bear revisiting again and again. As Asuka admits,
painting is her language. She is an extremely adept communicator in
it.
Although Pablo Picasso spotted Dora Maar at a cafe in January 1936
it is highly likely that she had come to his attention prior. As
Brassai, a Hungarian-French photographer, recalled, It was at Les
Deux-Magots that, one day in autumn 1935, [he] met Dora On an
earlier day, he had already noticed the grave, drawn face of the
young woman at a nearby table, the attentive look in her
light-colored eyes, sometimes disturbing in its fixity. When
Picasso saw her in the same cafe in the company of the surrealist
poet Paul Eluard, who knew her, the poet introduced her to Picasso
(Brassai, a.k.a. Gyula Halasz, Conversations with Picasso
[University of Chicago Press, 1999]). Tinged with a seductive mix
of violence and dark eroticism, this first meeting has attained
mythical status in the story of the artists life. It reads like an
unreal fantasy. A mysterious and feline beauty, which Man Ray had
captured in the pictures he took of her, a companion of Georges
Bataille, Dora was an accomplished photographer, close to the
Surrealists revolutionary aesthetics. Picasso addressed her in
French, which he assumed to be her language; she replied in
Spanish, which she knew to be his. For the next decade, the painter
would translate not just his fascination with the woman who had
seduced him on the spot, but also his desire to escape the grip of
someone who, for the first time, could intellectually aspire to be
his equal. Dora would appear in his works as a female Minotaur, a
Sphinx, a lunar goddess and a muse. Because of her intense artistic
sensibility, her poetic gifts and her ability to participate in
suffering, she was especially qualified to resonate Picassos own
inner torments during these troubled years.
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Picasso
(Hardcover)
Jose Maria Faerna
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This publication places the emphasis on the artist's work, rather
on stylistic accordances or biographical details, giving a concise
yet comprehensive overview of Picasso's work and style.
The first substantial overview of Newling's mysterious, intriguing,
and often beautiful works.
Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few
know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a
ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A
victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history,
this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an indelible
impact on contemporary culture, planting the seed of our obsession
with celebrity.
In "Madame Tussaud," Kate Berridge tells this fascinating
woman's complete story for the first time, drawing upon a wealth of
sources, including Tussaud's memoirs and historical archives. It is
a grand-scale success story, revealing how with sheer graft and
grit a woman born in 1761 to an eighteen-year-old cook overcame
extraordinary reversals of fortune to build the first and most
enduring worldwide brand identified simply by reference to its
founder's name: Madame Tussaud's.
Life of Newlyn/St Ives artist famed for his paintings of animals
and birds.
They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner
and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational
schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and
Post-impressionism. They were often drunk and broke, sometimes
hungry, but they were of a rebellious spirit. Inhabiting the same
England with Philistines and Puritans, this parallel minority of
moral pioneers lived in a world of faulty fireplaces, bounced
checks, blocked drains, whooping cough, and incontinent cats.
They were the bohemians.
Virginia Nicholson -- the granddaughter of painter Vanessa Bell
and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf -- explores the subversive,
eccentric, and flamboyant artistic community of the early twentieth
century in this "wonderfully researched and colorful composite
portrait of an enigmatic world whose members, because they lived by
no rules, are difficult to characterize" (San Francisco
Chronicle).
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