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Wyndham Lewis was both a serious proponent and forthright critic of
modernism. His assault upon his contemporaries foreshadowed the
twenty-first century scholarly interest in the networks,
professions, and coteries - rather than the myths and heroics - of
modernism. Lewis, after a long period of neglect, now sits
increasingly at the heart of a revised field of modernist studies.
This book explores Lewis's cultural criticism as a valuable body of
writing which posed questions that have yet to be answered about
subsidy and the function of the artist, about professionalism and
ethics, about who should pay for the arts, and what the artist's
obligations should be in return. It is the first book-length study
of this body of critical writing, through which Lewis articulated
the central and most lasting of his critical preoccupations: the
question of how the work of the artist is to be valued, and the
artist to be paid, in a professionalised society. This book makes
an important contribution to the long overdue reassessment of a
complex, contrarian figure, spanning the disciplines of literature
and the visual arts, who asked pressing questions about the role
and status of the artist, and ultimately about the value (economic,
civic, political) of the work of art.
London-based artist Stephen Willats is a pioneer of conceptual art
and has made work examining the function and meaning of art in
society since the late 1950s. His first South London Gallery
exhibition in 1998, entitled Changing Everything, brought together
a body of work made in partnership with local residents over a
two-year period. Aiming to create a cultural model of how art might
relate to society, the work invited visitors to make their own
contributions to it, shifting the way the art institution relates
to the world around it. For his latest SLG show, Surfing with the
Attractor, Willats re-presents material from Changing Everything
alongside a new installation featuring a huge 'data stream'
spanning 15 metres and made in collaboration with 14 London-based
artists. Comprising hundreds of carefully ordered images in various
media, the data stream documents two contrasting streets of London:
Rye Lane in Peckham and Regent Street in the West End.Extending
beyond the gallery space, the show also includes films from the
data stream shown on monitors in shops on Peckham Road and
Camberwell Church Street, and graphic stickers will be widely
distributed.
Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and
theories, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) not only stands as one of
the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a
mastermind and innovator who anticipated some of the greatest
discoveries of human progress, sometimes centuries before their
material realization. From the smallest arteries in the human heart
to the far-flung constellations of the universe, Leonardo saw
nature and science as being unequivocally connected. His points of
inquiry and invention spanned philosophy, anatomy, geology, and
mathematics, from the laws of optics, gravitation, heat, and light
to the building of a flying machine. In his painting, Leonardo
steered art out of the Middle Ages with works such as The Last
Supper and the world-famous La Gioconda or Mona Lisa depicting not
only physical appearances, but a compelling psychological intrigue
and depth which continues to draw crowds of mesmerized visitors to
masterpieces in Paris, Milan, Washington, London, and Rome. This
book brings together some of Leonardo's most outstanding work to
introduce a figure of infinite curiosity, feverish imagination, and
sublime artistic ability, often described as having "not enough
worlds for to conquer, and not enough lives for to live" (Alan
Woods). About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series
has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever
published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a
detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the
artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a
concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory
captions
Published to accompany Piano Nobile's exhibition of the same title,
Cyril Mann: The Solid Shadow Paintings, is the first book to
describe this vivid and art historically significant group of
still-life paintings. As well as including a fully-illustrated
catalogue of the exhibition, the book describes how Mann's solid
shadow style emerged in the early nineteen-fifties. Though Mann
spent the rest of his career painting natural light, the solid
shadow paintings were made under the glow of an electric lightbulb.
After moving into a lightless flat at Old Street, Mann's pictures
began to course with unnatural, electric colour. For the first
time, he noticed the line that joins together an object with the
shadow it casts. He depicted this line in his paintings as if it
were itself a solid object, laid on the table before him beside
apples and Pelican paperbacks. Undertaken between 1951 and 1957,
Mann's solid shadow paintings were a dazzling interjection in the
subdued art world of fifties Britain. This was his most original
period and it stands as his lasting contribution to the history of
twentieth-century painting. These works have never been displayed
together before and the accompanying exhibition to this catalogue
will provide an insight into the artist's radiant formal language.
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Lichtenstein
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American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) pioneered a new epoch
in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract
Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art
vocabulary for a new era. With his groundbreaking use of industrial
production techniques and trivial, quotidian imagery such as
cartoons, comic strips, and advertising, Lichtenstein joined
contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist to reflect
and satirize American mass media and consumer culture. Works such
as Look, Mickey! (1961), Drowning Girl (1963), and Whaam! (1963)
deployed mass production techniques, particularly Ben-Day dots
printing, to create a blow-up effect and pixelated "dot" style,
with which Lichtenstein has become synonymous. This book provides
an essential overview of Lichtenstein's career, tracing his
earliest Pop statements through to later "brushstroke" retorts to
Abstract Expressionism and reinterpretations of modern
masterpieces. We look at his leading position in midcentury
modernism, and the ways in which his works both critique and
chronicle 20th-century America. About the series Born back in 1985,
the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book
collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series
features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre
of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical
importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with
explanatory captions
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in
the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating
world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished
between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the
Western world's visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of
hedonism, ukiyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and
attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo): beautiful women, actors and
wrestlers, city life, and spectacular landscapes. Though he
captured a variety of subjects, Hiroshige was most famous for
landscapes, with a final masterpiece series known as "One Hundred
Famous Views of Edo" (1856-1858), which depicted various scenes of
the city through the seasons, from bustling shopping streets to
splendid cherry orchards. This reprint is made from one of the
finest complete original sets of woodblock prints belonging to the
Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo. It pairs each of the 120
illustrations with a description, allowing readers to immerse
themselves in these beautiful, vibrant vistas that became paradigms
of Japonisme and inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art
Nouveau artists alike, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill
Whistler. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact
cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
Based at Bardon Hall, Leeds, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art was
established in 1993 and opened their London gallery in St James's
in 2013. Dino and Raffaello are recognised internationally for
specialising in important European sculpture from the early
Renaissance to the Neo-Classical periods, with a particular
knowledge of European Renaissance bronzes. They have interests in
several other fields including Old Master paintings, antiquities,
fine furniture and objects. Tomasso Brothers also advises the Arts
Council of England's Reviewing Committee on the export of works of
art and objects of cultural interest. Dino and Raffaello have
promoted and supported, through loans and exhibitions, major
international institutions and in addition to advising private
collectors of European sculpture and Old Master paintings
internationally, the brothers have made significant sales to some
of the world's most prestigious museums. Tomasso XXV: A Celebration
of Notable Sales showcases a selection of some of the Tomasso
brother's favourites among the works of art they have handled over
the past quarter of a century.
The Art of Eliza Ivanova is an evocative, edgy, and beautiful book
filled with the work of this exciting artist. A graduate of the
California Institute of Arts, Bulgarian-born Eliza now lives in San
Francisco where she created much of the art on these pages. She
produces effortless movement with her sketched lines and
animation-influenced dynamic touches. Well known for her portraits
and figures of women and children, Eliza's style is distinctive and
rich in detail. In addition to a gallery filled with a mix of old
favorites, new creations and bespoke commissions for this book, you
will be invited into Eliza's world. Enter her studio to discover
her workspace and favorite tools. Eliza also shares techniques with
us in step-by-step workshops to help us capture some of that
dynamic movement that infuses her work. Both aspiring and
established artists will benefit from Eliza's technical tips and
words of wisdom about life, work, and more.
This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of
the most creative figures in Western culture, weaving together the
multiple threads of Michelangelo's life and times with a brilliant
analysis of his greatest works. The author retraces Michelangelo's
journey from Rome to Florence, explores his changing religious
views and examines the complicated politics of patronage in
Renaissance Italy. The psychological portrait of Michelangelo is
constantly foregrounded, depicting with great conviction a
tormented man, solitary and avaricious, burdened with repressed
homosexuality and a surplus of creative enthusiasm. Michelangelo's
acts of self-representation and his pivotal role in constructing
his own myth are compellingly unveiled.
Antonio Forcellino is one of the world's leading authorities on
Michelangelo and an expert art historian and restorer. He has been
involved in the restoration of numerous masterpieces, including
Michelangelo's Moses. He combines his firsthand knowledge of
Michelangelo's work with a lively literary style to draw the reader
into the very heart of Michelangelo's genius.
Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history.
Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important
painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted
museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dollars at
auction. Yet as he was painting the canvases that would
subsequently become these sell-out modern masterpieces, van Gogh
was battling not only the disinterest of his contemporary audiences
but also devastating bouts of mental illness, with episodes of
depression and paralyzing anxiety which would eventually claim his
life in 1890, when he committed suicide shortly after his 37th
birthday. This comprehensive study of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
pairs a detailed monograph on his life and art with a complete
catalogue of his 871 paintings. About the series Bibliotheca
Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic
TASCHEN universe!
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Anish Kapoor: Painting
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James Attlee, Clare Chapman, Emma Ridgway; Text written by Homi K. Bhabha, Julia Kristeva, …
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Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has entered mainstream culture as one of
the founding fathers of modern art. Despite his popularity, books
on Duchamp often shroud his work in theoretical and critical
writing. Here, instead, is a book exploring the artist's life and
work in a thoroughly new and engaging manner, with short,
alphabetical dictionary entries written in lively, jargon- free
prose that at last allow Duchamp's work and influence to be
accessible and enjoyable for a wide audience. The book features
more than 200 entries on the most interesting and important
artworks, relationships, people and ideas in Duchamp's life, from
chess, puns, the fourth dimension, love and genius, to the Bicycle
Wheel and Fountain, Walter and Louise Arensberg, Peggy Guggenheim,
Katherine S. Dreier and Arturo Schwarz. A contextual introduction
shows how the dictionary form has been an inspiration to artists
and writers from Flaubert to the Surrealists. Underpinned by the
latest scholarship and research, Thomas Girst's texts show how, in
the words of contemporary artist Thomas Hirschhorn, Duchamp was
'the most intelligent mind of his time'.
This title was first published in 2000: In their stunning
simplicity, George Romney's portraits of eighteenth-century gentry
and their children are among the most widely recognised creations
of his age. A rival to Reynolds and Gainsborough, Romney was born
in 1734 on the edge of the Lake District, the landscape of which
never ceased to influence his eye for composition and colour. He
moved in 1762 to London where there was an insatiable market for
portraits of the landed gentry to fill the elegant picture
galleries of their country houses. Romney's sitters included
William Beckford and Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton. An influential
figure, one of the founding fathers of neo-classicism and a
harbinger of romanticism, Romney yearned to develop his talents as
a history painter. Countless drawings bear witness to ambitious
projects on elemental themes which were rarely executed on canvas.
Richly illustrated, this is the first biography of Romney to
explore the full diversity of his oeuvre.
The reception of Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy from its origins to
its appearances in contemporary visual culture reveals how its
popularity was achieved and maintained by diverse audiences and in
varied venues. Performative manifestations resulted in
contradictory characterizations of the painted youth as an
aristocrat or a "regular fellow," as masculine or feminine, or as
heterosexual or gay. In private and public spaces where viewers saw
the actual painting and where living and rendered replicas
circulated, Gainsborough's painting was often the centerpiece where
dominant and subordinate classes met, gender identities were
enacted, and sexuality was implicitly or overtly expressed.
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Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve,
horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their
monumental crowds, depictions of the life of Jesus and visions of
the new Jerusalem. Each of the 241 plates is accompanied by the
appropriate verses from the King James version of the Bible.
His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film
starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers
at art institutions from Amsterdam to Washington, DC; and special
crowd-control measures at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, where
thousands flock to catch a glimpse of the enigmatic and enchanting
Girl with a Pearl Earring, also known as the "Dutch Mona Lisa". In
his lifetime, however, the fame of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
barely extended beyond his native Delft and a small circle of
patrons. After his death, his name was largely forgotten, except by
a few Dutch art collectors and dealers. Outside of Holland, his
works were even misattributed to other artists. It was not until
the mid-19th century that Vermeer came to the attention of the
international art world, which suddenly looked upon his narrative
minutiae, meticulous textural details, and majestic planes of
light, spotted a genius, and never looked back. This edition
features the complete catalog of Vermeer's work, presenting the
calm yet compelling scenes so treasured in galleries across Europe
and the United States in one monograph of utmost reproduction
quality. Crisp details and essays tracing Vermeer's career
illuminate his remarkable ability not only to bear witness to the
trends and trimmings of the Dutch Golden Age but also to
encapsulate an entire story in just one transient gesture,
expression, or look.
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An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened
horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From
early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to
late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter's work always offers
us the unexpected and unseen. Where he once set out to liberate the
medium from ideological ballast, today, faced with the overwhelming
presence of digital images, he shows us the unsurpassed impact and
intensity of painting. A definitive introduction to one of the
greatest artists of our time spanning not only his entire career,
but also 50 years of cultural, economic, and political events.
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