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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists

Walter Langley - From Birmingham to Newlyn (Paperback): Roger Langley Walter Langley - From Birmingham to Newlyn (Paperback)
Roger Langley
R768 R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Save R160 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Your Loving Friend - The Great War Correspondence Between Stanley Spencer and Desmond Chute (Paperback): Paul Gough Your Loving Friend - The Great War Correspondence Between Stanley Spencer and Desmond Chute (Paperback)
Paul Gough
R403 R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Save R83 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Little Book of Tom. Bikers (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Dian Hanson The Little Book of Tom. Bikers (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Dian Hanson; Artworks by Tom Of Finland
R463 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Lives of Leonardo (Paperback): Giorgio Vasari, Matteo Bandello, Paolo Giovio, Sabba Castiglione Lives of Leonardo (Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Matteo Bandello, Paolo Giovio, Sabba Castiglione; Edited by Charles Robertson
R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

John Constable - A Portrait (Hardcover): James Hamilton John Constable - A Portrait (Hardcover)
James Hamilton
R876 R730 Discovery Miles 7 300 Save R146 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anna Sew Hoy - Suppose and a Pair of Jeans (Paperback): Anna Sew Hoy Anna Sew Hoy - Suppose and a Pair of Jeans (Paperback)
Anna Sew Hoy
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Anecdotes of Hogarth (Paperback): William Hogarth, Martin Myrone Anecdotes of Hogarth (Paperback)
William Hogarth, Martin Myrone
R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet (Paperback): Eline McGeorge As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet (Paperback)
Eline McGeorge
R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Adrian Ryan - Rather a Rum Life (Hardcover): Julian Machin Adrian Ryan - Rather a Rum Life (Hardcover)
Julian Machin
R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Picasso and Paper (Paperback): Ann Dumas, Emmanuelle Hincelin, Christopher Lloyd, Emilia Philippot, Bill Robinson, Stephen... Picasso and Paper (Paperback)
Ann Dumas, Emmanuelle Hincelin, Christopher Lloyd, Emilia Philippot, Bill Robinson, …
R462 Discovery Miles 4 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Nick Waplington - the Patriarch's Wardrobe (Hardcover): Nick Waplington - the Patriarch's Wardrobe (Hardcover)
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Exploding Galaxies - Art of David Medalla (Paperback): Guy Brett Exploding Galaxies - Art of David Medalla (Paperback)
Guy Brett
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Painting for My Life: The Holocaust artworks of Marianne Grant - The Holocaust artworks of Marianne Grant (Paperback): Joanna... Painting for My Life: The Holocaust artworks of Marianne Grant - The Holocaust artworks of Marianne Grant (Paperback)
Joanna Meacock, Peter Tuka, Deborah Haase, Paula Cowan, Geraldine Shenkin
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
All Thoughts Fly - Monster, Taxonomy, Film (Paperback): All Thoughts Fly - Monster, Taxonomy, Film (Paperback)
R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Botaniphoria: A Cabinet of Botanical Curiosities (Paperback): Asuka Hishiki Botaniphoria: A Cabinet of Botanical Curiosities (Paperback)
Asuka Hishiki
R543 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R103 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar - A Period of Conflict (1936-1946) (Hardcover): Enrique Mallen Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar - A Period of Conflict (1936-1946) (Hardcover)
Enrique Mallen
R3,466 Discovery Miles 34 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Sickert Drawings: The Painter's Eye (Hardcover): Lou Klepac Sickert Drawings: The Painter's Eye (Hardcover)
Lou Klepac
R1,720 Discovery Miles 17 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Chiharu Shiota - Beyond Time (Paperback): Clare Lilley Chiharu Shiota - Beyond Time (Paperback)
Clare Lilley
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Listening to Stone - The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi (Paperback): Hayden Herrera Listening to Stone - The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi (Paperback)
Hayden Herrera
R692 R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Save R115 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Picasso (Hardcover): Jose Maria Faerna Picasso (Hardcover)
Jose Maria Faerna
R225 R179 Discovery Miles 1 790 Save R46 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Spinning: Nature, Culture and the Spiritual in the Work of John Newling (Paperback): Richard Davey Spinning: Nature, Culture and the Spiritual in the Work of John Newling (Paperback)
Richard Davey
R1,144 Discovery Miles 11 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first substantial overview of Newling's mysterious, intriguing, and often beautiful works.

History and Interregnum - Three Works by Stan Douglas (Paperback): History and Interregnum - Three Works by Stan Douglas (Paperback)
R599 Discovery Miles 5 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Madame Tussaud - A Life in Wax (Paperback): Kate Berridge Madame Tussaud - A Life in Wax (Paperback)
Kate Berridge
R419 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R60 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Charles Simpson - Painter of Animals and Birds, Coastline and Moorland (Paperback): John Branfield Charles Simpson - Painter of Animals and Birds, Coastline and Moorland (Paperback)
John Branfield
R377 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R96 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Life of Newlyn/St Ives artist famed for his paintings of animals and birds.

Among the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939 (Paperback): Virginia Nicholson Among the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939 (Paperback)
Virginia Nicholson
R441 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R69 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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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