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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was the leading painter and graphic
artist of the 'Golden Age of Dutch Art'. He excelled in imbuing his
art with the 'deepest and most lifelike emotion', with rich detail
and stunning lighting. This richly enjoyable book gives the reader
an illuminating overview of the life, work and influences of the
artist, before going on to showcase the most stunning and varied
examples of his oeuvre, broken down into themes - Portraits,
Landscape & Narrative, Self-portraits, and Etchings &
Drawings. Discover his versatility in the range of works selected,
from the electric The Storm on the Sea of Galilee to the treasured
The Night Watch, with its triumph in chiaroscuro and energy. A
visual feast, it will underline the artist's status as a true
master.
'n Pragboek oor die skrywer se lewe as beeldende kunstenaar en vrou van die akteur Marius Weyers - is 'n ryklik geillustreerde rondleiding in die werkswinkel van 'n beeldhouer en liefhebber van woorde.
A Kenyan upbringing is the ticket to this voyage into a remarkably
real created world entered via carved, integrating frames. Twice
TVs pick of the show at the Royal Academies and with crowds and fan
mail at a third RA Summer Exhibition, James remains a virtual
unknown in his own country. A production rate averaging just one
painting a year may account for this, but in an Art World where
price is all, his output is sufficient to net him a viable living
selling internationally. Also introducing the remarkable paintings
of his artist son Alexander James. Together their art is akin to a
vigorous breath of fresh air in a stuffy room.
'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's]
intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times
'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . .
. Probably we don't deserve Meades, a man who apparently has never
composed a dull paragraph' Steven Poole, Guardian 'There are more
gems in this wonderful book than I could cram into a dozen of these
columns' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'Such a useful and important
critic . . . He is very much on the reader's side, bringing his
full wit to bear on every single thing he writes' Nicholas Lezard,
Spectator This landmark publication collects three decades of
writing from one of the most original, provocative and consistently
entertaining voices of our time. Anyone who cares about language
and culture should have this book in their life. Thirty years ago,
Jonathan Meades published a volume of reportorial journalism,
essays, criticism, squibs and fictions called Peter Knows What Dick
Likes. The critic James Wood was moved to write: 'When journalism
is like this, journalism and literature become one.' Pedro and
Ricky Come Again is every bit as rich and catholic as its
predecessor. It is bigger, darker, funnier and just as impervious
to taste and manners. It bristles with wit and pin-sharp eloquence,
whether Meades is contemplating northernness in a German forest or
hymning the virtues of slang. From the indefensibility of
nationalism and the ubiquitous abuse of the word 'iconic', to John
Lennon's shopping lists and the wine they call Black Tower, the
work assembled here demonstrates Meades's unparalleled range and
erudition, with pieces on cities, artists, sex, England, France,
concrete, faith, politics, food, history and much, much more.
Newly published in paperback to coincide with the Barbara Hepworth
retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain in 2015, this fascinating
book combines a fully illustrated catalogue of the sculptor's
surviving prototypes in plaster (and a number also in aluminium and
wood), generously gifted to The Hepworth Wakefield by the Hepworth
Estate, with a detailed analysis of her working methods and a
comprehensive history of her work in bronze. The Hepworth's
collection of over forty unique, unknown sculptures are the
surviving working models from which editions of bronzes were cast.
They range in size from works that can be held in the hand to
monumental sculptures, including the Winged Figure for John Lewis's
Oxford Street headquarters. The majority are original plasters on
which the artist worked with her own hands and to scale. It was in
plaster that Hepworth experimented most as she made the transition
from stone and wood to bronze, testing the potential of her new
material as she went. Sophie Bowness's illuminating text describes
the different means by which this increasingly important artist
made her plaster works, and why. Drawing extensively on archival
records and photographs, this publication is an important source of
information about a significant collection of work, the gallery
which houses it and Hepworth in general. The catalogue illuminates
the histories of Hepworth's sculptures through fascinating archival
photographs, which demonstrate everything from the varied tools
used by Hepworth to the logistical problems of transporting her
monumental pieces through the narrow streets of St Ives. The book
provides a much-needed account of Hepworth's studio practice, her
relations with foundries, and the evolution of her public
commissions.
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Lives of Giovanni Bellini
(Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Carlo Ridolfi, Marco Boschini, Isabella D'Este, Davide Gasparotto
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R301
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Discovery Miles 2 610
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Scion of an artistic dynasty, Giovanni Bellini is arguably the
greatest Venetian painter of the early Renaissance. His astonishing
naturalism revolutionised altarpiece painting and is still a source
of wonder, as any visit to Frari in Venice will confirm. Most of
what we know about this great artist comes from the earliest
biographies by Vasari and Ridolfi printed here - the Ridolfi never
before translated into English. A different and very personal
insight is given by extensive correspondence with Bellini's great
but neglected patron Isabella d'Este.
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Noms De Guerres
(Paperback)
Olaf Nicolai; Edited by Olaf Nicolai, Markus Dressen
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R862
Discovery Miles 8 620
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Fostoria was a most remarkable glassd company and George
Sakier(1897-1988) was a most remarkable designer of Fostoria glass.
For over fifty years, through the Great Depression, Sakier sent
classic and modern designs to Moundsville, West Virginia, where
millions of delightful glass objects were produced. They appear
here in profusion. The book includes a throughly researched text
about the man and his art(paintings, industrial designs and glass),
as well as hundreds of brilliant color photographs of thousands of
Fostoria glass items of many patterns and Sakier's fascinating oil
painting landscapes. Sakier's Fostoria glass is American Art Deco
design and the book is a fine resource for glass collectors.
The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer,
as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved
mother Barbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After
graduating from Yale's School of Design and Architecture, she moved
to Europe and spent decades traveling the world and living at the
center of artistic, literary, and political circles. She became a
renowned artist whose work is now in museum collections around the
world. Later, she also became an award-winning poet and bestselling
novelist. And along the way, she met many luminaries-from Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Salvador Dali, Alexander Calder, James Baldwin,
and Mao Zedong to Toni Morrison, Pierre Cardin, Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, and Josephine Baker. I Always Knew is an intimate and
vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud's life as told through the letters
she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991. In
candid detail, Chase-Riboud tells her mother about her life in
Europe, her work as an artist, her romances, and her journeys
around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle
East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia. By turns
brilliant and naive, passionate and tender, poignant and funny,
these letters show Chase-Riboud in the process of becoming who she
is and who she might become. But what emerges most of all is the
powerful story of a unique and remarkable relationship between a
talented, ambitious, and courageous daughter and her adored mother.
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