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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists
The first substantial overview of Newling's mysterious, intriguing,
and often beautiful works.
Life of Newlyn/St Ives artist famed for his paintings of animals
and birds.
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Banksy
(Hardcover)
Stefano Antonelli, Gianluca Marziani
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R1,037
R817
Discovery Miles 8 170
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The largest presentation of works by Banksy, the world’s most enigmatic
yet highly sought-after artist, including iconic works, installation
objects, ephemera, and memorabilia all in one volume.
Banksy is the world’s most discussed artist of recent decades, and this
seminal collection features hundreds of works including Girl with
Balloon, Pulp Fiction, Love Is in the Air, Barcode, and Monkey Queen.
It also includes scores of paintings, serigraphs, stencils, and
installation objects as well as a selection of memorabilia―many of
which have never been published previously. Created with the
cooperation of Pest Control, the group that manages all things Banksy,
this is as official and authorized as any Banksy publication could be.
Banksy is the world’s greatest practitioner of street art. His work has
always been political, involving pointed critiques of inequality,
injustice, consumerism, and the establishment, yet no one knows his
identity. He is an exemplary case of fame and notoriety built upon
absence and anonymity. His relationship with the art market is also
complex: marked by mocking hostility while being one of the most
marketable and most collected contemporary artists.
Until well into the twentieth century, the claims to citizenship of
women in the US and in Europe have come through men (father,
husband); women had no citizenship of their own. The case studies
of three expatriate women (Renee Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and
Natalie Barney) illustrate some of the consequences for women who
lived independent lives. To begin with, the books traces the way
that ideas about national belonging shaped gay male identity in the
nineteenth century, before showing that such a discourse was not
available to women and lesbians, including the three women who form
the core of the book. In addition to questions of sexually
non-conforming identity, women's mediated claim to citizenship
limited their autonomy in practical ways (for example, they could
be unilaterally expatriated). Consequently, the situation of the
denizen may have been preferable to that of the citizen for women
who lived between the lines. Drawing on the discourse of
jurisprudence, the history of the passport, and original archival
research on all three women, the books tells the story of women's
evolving claims to citizenship in their own right.
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Art and Artist
(Hardcover)
Rico Lebrun; Edited by Alfred Frankenstein, Ernest Mundt, Michel Loeve, August Fruge, …
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R2,495
Discovery Miles 24 950
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1956.
'Mr Roscoe's Garden is a key outcome of The Fragrant Liverpool
project. Conceived by Jyll Bradley, this is a unique international
art project exploring the stories, rites and exchanges that occur
when a flower is cut and placed in the human hand. The project
centres on the fascinating story of the Liverpool's Botanic
Collection and the people involved in its intriguing history.
Established by William Roscoe in 1802, and moved to more extensive
sites in both 1846 when it became a public facility and in 1964,
the complete Botanic Collection has not been on display since 1984
when it closed to the public in a political storm that mirrored the
cataclysmic 1980s decline of Liverpool itself. The collection thus
has both a glorious and tragic past. Jyll Bradley draws together
the compelling tales of the Botanic Collection's history in this
creatively ambitious and beautifully illustrated book, evoking the
people that made the collection and the distant lands that supplied
the plants. By the early nineteenth century the Liverpool Botanic
Collection was one of the greatest botanic gardens of its day,
filled with strange and rare plants arriving on ships through the
City's port from an ever-widening imperial world. By the
mid-twentieth the Collection included the greatest orchid
collection ever amassed in municipal Britain, as it still does
today. While the indignity of the closure lives on, so do, by
miracle, the living plants and the dried plants (in Liverpool's
magnificent Herbarium); the books; the paintings and all the other
riches that have, at one time, or another, co-existed in the
Liverpool Botanic Gardens. The glory days are still in the past,
but the plant collections have continued to be nurtured and grown
and Liverpool's current revival has signalled a new future for the
Collection. Painstakingly designed by Jyll Bradley, Mr Roscoe's
Garden is a work of art in itself. Its publication also coincides
with the re-emergence of the collection as goes to the Chelsea
Flower Show for the first time in 30 years and the Gardens open
once again to the public.
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Water & Color
(Hardcover)
Leticia Maher; Contributions by James Francis Maher, Leticia San Miguel
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R1,626
Discovery Miles 16 260
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From Zappa hurting someone to Kurt Cobain hurting himself. From
trees of peace (except one) to bicycles of terrorism and crappy
nappies, this book contains everything you ever need to know - and
some things you wish you didn't This is to be Sexton Ming's first
ever mass market paperback, and the first book ever to be devoted
to his strange and wonderful drawings. Ming is a
writer/musician/painter extraordinaire and his meandering mind can
take you on an otherworldly journey steeped in so much black
humour, tangential weirdness and biting observation of the human
race it makes this world a much better place. He is little known in
mainstream culture but is in fact world famous. He was a founding
member of the Medway Poets, has appeared on over 20 albums, painted
some of the strangest paintings in the world, supported Sonic Youth
live, was called a failed intellectual by Ralph Steadman, once
saved Billy Childish's life
These sketchbooks, the work of the acclaimed Scottish artist
Barbara Rae CBE RA during her three journeys towards the Northwest
Passage in the depths of the Arctic Circle in 2015, 2016 and 2017,
record in colourful and assured brush strokes the icebergs, frozen
bays and snowdrifts of this often hostile landscape. Polar bears
roam and the Northern Lights dance across its pages, accompanied by
Rae's handwritten notes in which she records her experiences and
her immediate reactions to this harsh, unforgiving environment.
Each page of the sketchbooks is meticulously reproduced, and the
handsomely bound volume sits comfortably in the hand, making it the
perfect gift for anyone interested in painting or exploration. Each
page of the sketchbooks is meticulously reproduced, and the
handsomely bound volume sits comfortably in the hand, making it the
perfect gift for anyone interested in painting or exploration.
At the start of the March 2020 lockdown, Ian Beck would walk his
greyhound Gracie through the early morning streets of Isleworth in
west London, revelling in the light and the silence that the
restrictions had brought. The familiar became charged with new
meaning, inspiring Ian to paint the scenes around him for their own
sake, something that he hadn't done since his student days in the
sixties. Suburban streets, trees, fences, shrubs and overgrown
alleyways - all are transformed in the quiet intensity of Ian's
lockdown paintings. He painted interiors too: the moon shining
through a bedroom window, objects on mantelpieces, the eeriness of
back gardens at dusk. As the year progressed, the crisp light of
spring gave way to the haze of summer and the gloom of autumn fogs.
The Light in Suburbia collects sixty of Ian's paintings from this
period: a remarkable record of his year spent trying to capture the
beauty of the unprepossessing everyday.
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