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Between Dream and Nightmare - Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter: A View of Modern German Art (Paperback): Marina... Between Dream and Nightmare - Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter: A View of Modern German Art (Paperback)
Marina Vaizey
R790 R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Save R111 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

London has been having symbolically enough in 2014 a sustained examination of not only art historically northern Europe in general with the National Gallery having looked at the northern renaissance but perhaps far more pertinently contemporary German art of the post war period, enhanced by an original examination of German history at the British Museum. The medium of painting is the prism, with significant showings of Anselm Kiefer, a West German b 1945, and Gerhard Richter b 1932, and Sigmar Polke, 1941-2010, both originally East Germans, who once showed together, and with others invented in the 1960s a brief anarchic movement called capitalist realism. They both studied too at the legendary Dusseldorf Kunstakademie. All of these three titans, their work now in the commercial stratosphere, have engaged profoundly with Germany's past, but Janus like in order to look forward also to a future. Marina Vaizey

The Arthur Rackham Art Book - Volume I (Hardcover): Arthur Rackham The Arthur Rackham Art Book - Volume I (Hardcover)
Arthur Rackham; Edited by Samuel Bigland
R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Shambhala (Hardcover): Nicholas Roerich Shambhala (Hardcover)
Nicholas Roerich
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Australia in the Wild - Watercolour art of Australia's unique animals and birds (Hardcover): Linda Ruth Brooks Australia in the Wild - Watercolour art of Australia's unique animals and birds (Hardcover)
Linda Ruth Brooks; Illustrated by Linda Ruth Brooks
R717 R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Combat Artist, A Journal of Love and War (Hardcover): Alexander Russo Combat Artist, A Journal of Love and War (Hardcover)
Alexander Russo
R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book is a straight forward account of Alexander Russo's adventurous journey in the Naval Reserve, serving with Naval Intelligence and as combat artist during WWII. He was the fi rst and youngest of Naval personnel to volunteer and engage in the landings in Sicily and Normandy, the graphic results of which form part of the Navy's Historical Records of World War II. The book also continues with the development and challenges of the artist in post-war years, which provides valuable insights for anyone pursuing a career in the fi ne arts. The book also continues with the development and challenges of the artist in post-war years, which provides valuable insights for anyone pursuing a career in the fine arts.

J. Walitalo Woodburnings - Highlights from the First Five Years (Hardcover): Joanna Walitalo J. Walitalo Woodburnings - Highlights from the First Five Years (Hardcover)
Joanna Walitalo
R1,799 R1,551 Discovery Miles 15 510 Save R248 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Hardcover, Revised Reprint ed.): Wassily Kandinsky Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Hardcover, Revised Reprint ed.)
Wassily Kandinsky; Translated by M. T. H. Sadler
R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Matthew Antezzo: Doppelpunkt (Paperback): Matthew Antezzo, Erlend Hammer Matthew Antezzo: Doppelpunkt (Paperback)
Matthew Antezzo, Erlend Hammer
R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian (Hardcover): Nancy J. Troy The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian (Hardcover)
Nancy J. Troy
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian died in New York City in 1944, but his work and legacy have been far from static since then. From market pressures to personal relationships and scholarly agendas, posthumous factors have repeatedly transformed our understanding of his oeuvre. In "The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian", Nancy J. Troy explores the controversial circumstances under which our conception of the artist's work has been shaped since his death, an account that describes money-driven interventions and personal and professional rivalries in forthright detail. Troy reveals how collectors, curators, scholars, dealers and the painter's heirs all played roles in fashioning Mondrian's legacy, each with a different reason for seeing the artist through a particular lens. She shows that our appreciation of his work is influenced by how it has been conserved, copied, displayed, and publicized, and she looks at the popular appeal of Mondrian's instantly recognizable style in fashion, graphic design, and a vast array of consumer commodities. Ultimately, Troy argues that we miss the evolving significance of Mondrian's work if we examine it without regard for the interplay of canonical art and popular culture. A fascinating investigation into Mondrian's afterlife, this book casts new light on how every artist's legacy is constructed as it circulates through the art world and becomes assimilated into the larger realm of visual experience.

Joy Cometh in the Morning - The Joy Postle Blackstone Story (Hardcover): Judy Madsen Johnson Joy Cometh in the Morning - The Joy Postle Blackstone Story (Hardcover)
Judy Madsen Johnson
R837 R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Save R95 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Joy Postle Blackstone was best known for her vivid murals, often depicting the jubilant wading birds of Florida. When she died in 1989, the world lost a wonderful artist but Joy was much more than a painter. Joy s father died when she was only three; her childhood was spent nurtured by her mother and brother, until she began her career at the Chicago Art Institute.

After graduation, her life changed, as she and her family moved to rural Idaho to live on the family homestead. There, she met her husband, Bob, and so began their three-year honeymoon, in the midst of the Great Depression. Joy painted and Bob promoted. They lived a vagabond life. They eventually settled in Florida, where Joy made friends with the birds who would make her murals legend.

"Joy Cometh in the Morning" traces an artist s life from 1896 through to her death in 1989. Joy Postle Blackstone harbored the psychological scars of abortion, infidelity, childlessness, death, and the eventual limitations of advanced age; yet, as the Bible says, Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Through feast or famine, hope or despair, Joy persevered, and she did it with a smile.

Brushstrokes to Sponges (Hardcover): Richard Jeremy Warburg Brushstrokes to Sponges (Hardcover)
Richard Jeremy Warburg
R1,150 Discovery Miles 11 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This first collection of bright and colourful images introduces a unique and notable talent. Though trained as both scientist and lawyer it is fascinating to see the other side of the artist's brain expressed on canvas. The progression from initially tentative brushstrokes to the sophisticated and extraordinary use of unusual techniques results in exceptional images.

Altai-Himalaya - A Travel Diary (Hardcover): Nicholas Roerich Altai-Himalaya - A Travel Diary (Hardcover)
Nicholas Roerich
R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Quality Time? - Celebrating 50 Years of Sailing & the Life of 'the World's Greatest Yachting Cartoonist'... Quality Time? - Celebrating 50 Years of Sailing & the Life of 'the World's Greatest Yachting Cartoonist' (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Mike Peyton
R451 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R43 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Published to celebrate the life of Mike Peyton, 'the world's greatest yachting cartoonist', this second edition features personal tributes from some 12 other successful and well-known sailors (including Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Sir Ben Ainslie and Tom Cunliffe). They all recognise Mike's observational talent and comment on how sailors see themselves (or their friends) in his cartoons. Along with 80 of his incomparable cartoons, Mike Peyton recounts how he became a yachting cartoonist and his fifty years of sailing. So as well as chuckling at the cartoons themselves there is the opportunity to learn from Peyton's 50 years of experience of sailing different boats, meeting a variety of sailors, and getting into - and out of - some truly hilarious situations.

Vietnam on Canvas - Ken McFadyen: An Artist at War (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Sandra Finger Lee Vietnam on Canvas - Ken McFadyen: An Artist at War (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Sandra Finger Lee; Contributions by Catherine Gordon
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Marcel Duchamp's Fountain - One Hundred Years Later (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Robert Kilroy Marcel Duchamp's Fountain - One Hundred Years Later (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Robert Kilroy
R1,890 Discovery Miles 18 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain by critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work. It introduces a new methodological approach to art-historical practice rooted in a revised understanding of Lacan, Freud and Slavoj Zizek. In weaving an alternative narrative, Kilroy shows us that not only has Fountain been fundamentally misunderstood but that this very misunderstanding is central to the work's significance. The author brings together Duchamp's own statements to argue Fountain's verdict was strategically stage-managed by the artist in order to expose the underlying logic of its reception, what he terms 'The Creative Act.' This book will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including art historians, psychoanalysts, scholars and art enthusiasts interested in visual culture and ideological critique.

All the Beautiful Sh!t - Word Art in Romance Fiction (Hardcover): J. a. Huss All the Beautiful Sh!t - Word Art in Romance Fiction (Hardcover)
J. a. Huss
R1,372 Discovery Miles 13 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Etruschi Polaroid 1984 (Paperback): Paolo Gioli Etruschi Polaroid 1984 (Paperback)
Paolo Gioli
R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Caravaggio - Painter of Miracles (Paperback): Francine Prose Caravaggio - Painter of Miracles (Paperback)
Francine Prose
R378 R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed-street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged-was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or secular, makes him an artist who speaks across the centuries to our own time. In "Caravaggio", Francine Prose presents the brief but tumultuous life of one of the greatest of all painters with passion and acute sensitivity.

Bernard Frize: Togetherless (Hardcover): Jurriaan Benschop Bernard Frize: Togetherless (Hardcover)
Jurriaan Benschop
R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Alphonse Mucha - Masterworks (Hardcover, New edition): Rosalind Ormiston Alphonse Mucha - Masterworks (Hardcover, New edition)
Rosalind Ormiston
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Though very much an individual and spiritual artist, Alphonse Mucha was a defining figure of the Art Nouveau era and is loved for his distinctive lush style and images of beautiful women in arabesque poses among the plethora of paintings, posters, advertisements and designs he produced. Admire a whole range of his work here in its full glory with succinct accompanying text.

How Good Should I Dream (Hardcover): Bright Quang How Good Should I Dream (Hardcover)
Bright Quang
R964 Discovery Miles 9 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
History Has Left the Building (Paperback): Francis Hunger, Inke Arns, Fabian Saavedra-Lara History Has Left the Building (Paperback)
Francis Hunger, Inke Arns, Fabian Saavedra-Lara
R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Georgia O'Keeffe, a Private Friendship, Part I (Hardcover) (Hardcover, New): Nancy Hopkins Reily Georgia O'Keeffe, a Private Friendship, Part I (Hardcover) (Hardcover, New)
Nancy Hopkins Reily
R1,248 R1,055 Discovery Miles 10 550 Save R193 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The time is 1887. From any window in Georgia O'Keeffe's Sun Prairie, Wisconsin birthplace home she only saw the Wisconsin prairie with its traces of roads veering around the flat marshlands and a vast sky that lifted her soul. At twelve years of age Georgia had a defining moment when she declared, "I want to be an artist." Years later from her east-facing window in Canyon, Texas she observed the Texas Panhandle sky with its focus points on the plains and a great canyon of earth history colors streaking across the flat land. Georgia's love of the vast, colorful prairie, plains and sky again gave definition to her life when she discovered Ghost Ranch north of Abiquiu, New Mexico. She fell prey to its charms which were not long removed from the echoes of the "Wild West." These views of prairie, plains and sky became Georgia's muses as she embarked on her step-by-step path with her role models--Alon Bement, Arthur Jerome Dow and Wassily Kandinsky. In this two-part biography of which this is Part I covering the period 1887-1945, Nancy Hopkins Reily "walks the Sun Prairie Land," as if in Georgia's day as a prologue to her family's friendship with Georgia in the 1940s and 1950s. Reily chronicles Georgia's defining days within the arenas of landscape, culture, people and the history surrounding each, a discourse level that Georgia would easily recognize. The book includes bibliographical references and indes. NANCY HOPKINS REILY was a classic outdoor color portraitist for more than twenty years and has taught portrait workshops at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas where she had a one-woman show of her portraits. Her advance studies included an invitational workshop with Ansel Adams. Reily graduated from Southern Methodist University and lives in Lufkin, Texas. She is also the author of "Classic Outdoor Color Portraits" and "Joseph Imhof, Artist of the Pueblos," both from Sunstone Press.

Sean Aaberg's Halloween Book (Hardcover): Sean Aaberg Sean Aaberg's Halloween Book (Hardcover)
Sean Aaberg
R773 R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Deep in the Heart of Your Brain - notes from an exhibition (Paperback): Jacqueline Donachie, Moira Jeffrey, Nicola White, Katie... Deep in the Heart of Your Brain - notes from an exhibition (Paperback)
Jacqueline Donachie, Moira Jeffrey, Nicola White, Katie Bruce; Foreword by Libby Wood, …
R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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