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The Co(s)mic Picture of Reality in the Art of Julia Curylo is both
a collection of essays about the work of Julia Curylo and an album
of works by the artist representing a generation of Central and
Eastern European artists born in the 1980s. The central part of the
book is an essay by Joanna Paneth, an art historian and graduate of
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Paneth provides an
in-depth analysis of Curylo's selected paintings from a series
focusing on space and existential themes. The author discusses the
artist's work in a broader cultural context, referring to the
history of art, religion and philosophy and introduces the
relatively new current reflected in the artist's work: space art.
The author Joanna Paneth write: 'The entire book is a journey.
Curylo takes us on an unforgettable adventure. We begin on Earth
amid the surrounding reality, moving slowly towards the solar
system, where planets and space probes and galaxies await us. We go
deeper into space to end our adventure even further: among biblical
figures and to learn the genesis of the Universe's creation. At
each stage of our journey all the elements, people and space are
interconnected and together form an uninterrupted narrative
continued in the subsequent works of the artist.'
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from
India's Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the
thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced
thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection
was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence.
During festivals, these bronze sculptures-including Shiva, referred
to in a saintly vision as "the thief who stole my heart"-were
adorned with jewels and flowers and paraded through towns as active
participants in Chola worship. In this richly illustrated book,
leading art historian Vidya Dehejia introduces the bronzes within
the full context of Chola history, culture, and religion. In doing
so, she brings the bronzes and Chola society to life before our
very eyes. Dehejia presents the bronzes as material objects that
interacted in meaningful ways with the people and practices of
their era. Describing the role of the statues in everyday
activities, she reveals not only the importance of the bronzes for
the empire, but also little-known facets of Chola life. She
considers the source of the copper and jewels used for the deities,
proposing that the need for such resources may have influenced the
Chola empire's political engagement with Sri Lanka. She also
investigates the role of women patrons in bronze commissions and
discusses the vast public records, many appearing here in
translation for the first time, inscribed on temple walls. From the
Cholas' religious customs to their agriculture, politics, and even
food, The Thief Who Stole My Heart offers an expansive and complete
immersion in a community still accessible to us through its
exquisite sacred art. Published in association with the Center for
Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
This illuminating and original book opens up a neglected corner of
eighteenth-century art - the funeral monument. In the last forty
years, studies of the satires of early and mid-eighteenth-century
England have multiplied, whereas its funerary monuments have been
neglected by all but a small group of enthusiasts. This book
redresses the balance and demonstrates that tombs and inscriptions
are of manifest worth to the student of eighteenth-century English
value systems, providing as they do an archaeology of ideal types.
Across the genres of art, there is, perhaps, no better register of
shifting notions of correct behaviour, in life and in death.
Matthew Craske looks closely for the first time at tomb sculptures
in their social context. He discusses a large number of monuments
by many different sculptors, all with a knowledge of the person
commemorated and the circumstances behind the commission, resulting
in a work of great scholarly density and originality that probes
the motives behind the imagery and the epitaph. He begins by
analysing the relationship of tomb designs to the changing and
diverse culture of death in the eighteenth century, and then
explains conditions of production and the shifting dynamics of the
market, concluding with a masterly analysis of the motivations of
those who commissioned monuments, including women and ranging from
aristocrats to merchants and professional people. This handsomely
illustrated book presents a unique history of death, fame, example
and attitudes to loss, as well as a remarkable art history.
William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost
artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a
sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world
and its ancient past, actively engaging with the shifting concerns
of British, European and American artists. Presenting
interpretations of Turnbull's work from an impressive roll-call of
over sixty art historians, curators, critics and artists, a picture
emerges of an innovative artist who determinedly followed his own
path, drawing on influences as diverse as ancient cultures and
contemporary music. Expansive in its breadth, William Turnbull:
International Modern Artist will stand as the authoritative book on
this fascinating artist. With contributions by Oliva Bax, Paul
Becker, Andrew Bick, Antonia Bostroem, Mel Brimfield, Bianca Chu,
Matthew Collings, Ann Compton, Sam Cornish, Keith Coventry, Elena
Crippa, Amanda A. Davidson, Michael Dean, John Dee, Richard
Demarco, Edith Devaney, Norman Dilworth, Patrick Elliott, Ann
Elliott, Garth Evans, Pat Fisher, Neil Gall, Margaret Garlake,
Antony Gormley, Kirstie Gregory, Kelly Grovier, Nigel Hall, Bill
Hare, Daniel F. Herrmann, Peter Hide, Ben Highmore, Nick Hornby,
Tess Jaray, Julia Kelly, Phillip King, Liliane Lijn, Clare Lilley,
Jeff Lowe, Tim Martin, Ian McKeever, Henry Meyric Hughes, Catherine
Moriarty, Richard Morphet, Jed Morse, Peter Murray, Matt Price,
Peter Randall-Page, Guggi Rowen, Natalie Rudd, Michael Sandle,
Dawna Schuld, Sean Scully, Jyrki Siukonen, Chris Stephens, Peter
Suchin, Marin R. Sullivan, Mike Tooby, William Tucker, Johnny
Turnbull, Alex Turnbull, Michael Uva, Brian Wall, Nigel Walsh,
Calvin Winner, Jon Wood, Bill Woodrow, Greville Worthington, Emily
Young
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building
and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly
illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history
of the subject class, highlighting differences between sisterships
and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes
paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and
highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling
section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits,
lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships,
and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This
is followed by an extensive photographic survey of selected
high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes
with a section on research references - books, monographs,
large-scale plans and relevant websites. This volume is devoted to
the famous ships of Admiral Hipper's First Scouting Group. Slower
but more robust than their British equivalents, German
battlecruisers enjoyed a reputation for absorbing punishment, and
although Lutzow was sunk at Jutland, Seydlitz and the rest of the
Scouting Group survived heavy damage.This book concentrates on the
seven completed ships but coverage extends to the
'proto-battlecruiser' Blucher and the ships building or designed by
the end of the war.
The female face and the female figure have been drawn, sculpted,
carved and painted by artists and craftsmen from around the world
for centuries. In this book and DVD, author and teacher Ian Norbury
offers his expertise and experience to help carvers take on the
challenge of presenting the female face and figure in wood. Inside,
readers will find tips for creating patterns, in depth anatomical
drawings for better understanding of the body's muscles,
step-by-step projects with detailed photos and instructions and a
photo gallery of finished projects to illuminate and inspire.
Although originally trained as a painter, Shingu became interested
in sculpture when he saw one of his shaped canvases turning softly
in the wind. The work that followed relied on natural forces to
make it move or make sound, and he began using more sophisticated
materials for outdoor works. By the time of Expo '70 in Osaka,
Shingu had been commissioned to create a piece for the plaza. It
contained many of the elements he would use later: parts of it were
moved by both wind and water, in some ways harnessing their power
but also buffeted by it. His work walks the fine line between
complementing nature and being an integral part of it. The pieces,
though large, colorful, and usually made of modern materials, adopt
nature's rhythms in their movement. Shingu's sculpture is found
around the world, from Japan to France, Italy, and the United
States. In addition to creating sculptures, he has written and
illustrated several children's books and designed several theater
pieces that integrate his sculptures and installations with
dramatic stories. All of these endeavors are collected here - along
with the artist's comments on many of the sculptures, essays by
Pierre Restany and Renzo Piano, and an interview with Joseph
Giovannini - in a monograph that provides a complete portrait of
Shingu's diverse career.
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Inge Mahn
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Inge Mahn, Robert Fleck, Noemi Smolik, Stephan Wiese
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This is a beginner's guide from the world's most renowned chip
carver! Wayne Barton - author of "Chip Carving and Art of Chip
Carving" - presents what is unquestionably the finest guidance ever
for the novice. He has been the driving force behind the craft's
resurgence and his technical knowledge, design skills and ability
to instruct remain unequalled. One by one, with the aid of colour
photographs, he covers tools and materials, the best woods, holding
and sharpening chip carving knives and laying out and transferring
patterns. Borders, grids, rosettes, free-form design, positive
image design and lettering all receive separate, in-depth chapters,
as does Barton's special, time-tested hints.
Diamond jewelry has long been symbolic of political power and
authority in Europe. This book focuses on the individuals who
commissioned and wore extraordinarily precious diamond ornaments
from the mid-14th century until the ‘democratization’ of
diamonds that followed the opening of mines in South Africa in
1867. This enthralling story covers seven centuries of history,
showing the way in which rulers such as Charles V of France, Queen
Elizabeth I of Great Britain, Louis XIV of France and Catherine II
of Russia used diamond jewelry to reinforce their power and
authority. As works of art, these precious creations mirror the
successive styles of each period – late Gothic naturalism, the
culture of the Renaissance, Baroque splendour, Rococo elegance and
the Imperial grandeur of the First and Second Napoleonic Empires.
The recurring themes – religion, sentiment, heraldry, military
glory, miniatures and cameo portraiture – are reinterpreted by
each generation of jewelers. Like royal dress, diamond jewelry was
worn to dazzle and impress – at weddings, coronations,
christenings and state visits – and was presented as gifts
reflecting princely generosity. Over the centuries, these displays
proved remarkably successful as instruments of government,
symbolizing the pride and glory of a nation. Arranged
chronologically, Diamond Jewelry includes some legendary
masterpieces of diamond jewelry. Written by an acknowledged expert,
it offers an intriguing overview of one of the world’s most
precious gems.
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Bernar Venet
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Clare Lilley, Barry Schwabsky, Florence Derieux
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The first true monograph on the work of celebrated French
conceptual artist and sculptor Bernar Venet Bernar Venet is one of
France's most celebrated living artists. Having emerged from the
late 1960s avant-garde scene in New York, Venet developed a
personal aesthetic based on an innovative use of mathematics and
science, where control, chance, and chaos converge to form a fine
equilibrium while investigating their relationship with the
environment. Conversant in many media, Venet is mostly known for
his monumental outdoor sculptures in major cities worldwide and, in
fall 19, his Arc Majeur is due for completion at a site in Belgium
- at almost 200 feet in height (60 metres), Venet's sculpture will
be taller than New York's Statue of Liberty.
'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.
<div>One of the most important sculptors of this century,
Richard Serra has been a spokesman on the nature and status of art
in our day. Best known for site-specific works in steel, Serra has
much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether
urban, natural, or architectural, and about the nature of art
itself, whether political, decorative, or personal. In interviews
with writers including Douglas and Davis Sylvester, he discusses
specific installations and offers insights into his approach to the
problem each presents. Interviews by Peter Eisenman and Alan
Colquhoun elicit Serra's thoughts on the relation of architecture
to contemporary sculpture, a primary component in his own work.
From essays like "Extended Notes from Sight Point Road" to Serra's
extended commentary on the <i>Tilted Arc</i> fiasco,
the pieces in this volume comprise a document of one artist's
engagement with the practical, philosophical, and political
problems of art.</div>
00s is the first exhibition that explores the 2000s, taking as its
starting point one of the most important European collections of
contemporary art - the Cranford Collection. This accompanying
catalogue selects 100 works from the collection, and includes
pieces by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Damien
Hirst, Gerhard Richter, Raymond Pettibon, and Josh Smith. With an
introduction by Nicolas Bourriaud, the CEO of MO.CO, and interviews
with Muriel and Freddy Salem, the Patrons of the Cranford
Collection. Text in English and French.
In this lavishly illustrated volume, Laura Lee introduces the art
of Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab, which has soared to
global fame with its electrifying immersive and interactive
installations. The first of its kind, Worlds Unbound: The Art of
teamLab provides a comprehensive overview of teamLab's artistic
vision and achievements from its beginnings to its twentieth
anniversary in 2021, and illuminates the remarkable scope of
teamLab's groundbreaking art and its fundamental contribution to
the pivotal field of new media art. This original new book, the
first scholarly monograph on this popular group, unpacks the
popularity and success of the digital immersive environments
created worldwide by the Tokyo-based collective, teamLab, from
multiple perspectives and addresses the lack of critical
appreciation of their work. The book includes an extensive
interview with teamLab. teamLab launched in January 2001 with five
members and now comprises more than 600 individuals in a
multidisciplinary collaboration of engineers, computer graphics
animators, mathematicians, graphic designers, architects, artists
and computer programmers. The digital art collective has attained
international celebrity for its electrifying installations that
transcend boundaries between gallery, public space and popular
entertainment and, judging from press coverage, ticket sales and
prolific production, it seems clear teamLab's success is only on
the rise. In 2018, the collective opened the MORI Building DIGITAL
ART MUSEUM: teamLab Borderless, a massive technological environment
in Tokyo that recorded 2.3 million visitors in its first year of
operation - the world's largest annual number of visitors of any
single-artist museum. The same year saw numerous other high-profile
immersive exhibitions, including teamLab: Massless in Helsinki,
Au-dela des limites in Paris, and teamLab Planets TOKYO, a second
exhibition in Tokyo. These were quickly followed by two new
museums, teamLab Borderless Shanghai in 2019 and, in 2020, teamLab
SuperNature in Macao. The vast sea of selfies that have emerged
from these venues index the collective's soaring global popularity.
At the same time, teamLab's works have found art market success and
have been exhibited in major museums worldwide, including the
National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA), and they are part of the permanent
collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Asian Art
Museum of San Francisco, and Amos Rex in Helsinki, among numerous
others. This canonization of teamLab's art belies the fact that the
group did not have a traditional gallery start, and in fact teamLab
has always engaged in software development and corporate work, in
addition to creating artworks. The collective thus boasts an
enigmatic status, spanning conventional categories and defying
traditional art world pedigree. In so doing it has produced a
tremendously rich body of work that speaks to several overlapping
issues pertinent to contemporary art while advancing a unique
artistic vision. Primary readership will include artists, art
historians and visual studies scholars who are particularly
interested in the most recent media art and Japanese contemporary
art. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars
working in Japanese art, global contemporary art, digital art,
augmented reality, expanded cinema and installation art and related
fields. It will also be of more general interest to those who have
visited, or hope to visit, teamLab environments worldwide.
Although perspective has long been considered one of the essential
developments of Renaissance painting, this provocative new book
shifts the usual narrative back centuries, showing that medieval
sculptors were already employing knowledge of optical science,
geometry, and theories of vision in shaping the beholder's
experience of their work. Meticulous visual analysis is paired with
close readings of medieval texts in examining a series of important
relief sculptures from northern and central Italy dating from the
twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, including the impressive
sculptural programs at the cathedrals of Modena and Ferrara, and
the pulpits by Giovanni and Nicola Pisano at Pisa and Pistoia.
Demonstrating that medieval sculptors orchestrated the reception of
their intended religious and political messages through the careful
manipulation of points of view and architectural space, Christopher
R. Lakey argues that medieval practice was well informed by visual
theory and that the concepts that led to the codification of linear
perspective by Renaissance painters had in fact been in use by
sculptors for hundreds of years.
Aimed at both the beginner and more experienced modeller, this is a
guide to the design, planning and creation of realistic models in
1:285 and 1:32 scales. Covering British, French and German trenches
of the Western Front, this book includes the different
construction, materials and repair methods used during the
conflict. Each chapter includes the historical background, together
with step-by-step instructions. With over 300 photographs, this
book includes: why trenches were a necessity to save lives and how
they adapted through the war; how to build models of British
'ideal' and typical trenches, a wet soil trench, improved shell
hole, front line dugout, tunnels and mines, and a hospital tent.
Construction advice is given for typical French and German
trenches, together with a reversed German trench (modelled under
British control) and a German concrete bunker. The creation of
artillery models, realistic groundwork and plants is covered along
with perfecting fine details such as tools, clothes, mess tins,
shaving equipment, cigarette packets and letters from home.
Finally, there is a guide to visiting the trenches today, a trench
glossary and useful measurements at 1:32 scale.
The book contains a review of Patrick Hamilton's artistic career,
from his beginnings with the series Project, - covering works of
architecture, which began in 1996, two years before graduating from
art school - to his most recent works. Driven by a desire to move
painting onto another plane, Hamilton has created a body of work
along object- and concept-based lines with a foundation in his
interest towards cultural, historical and literary research. Using
the starting point of Santiago, the city where he has lived and
worked until recently, Hamilton has woven together countless works
over a time period equivalent to a career that has now lasted
nearly twenty years. The visual metaphors, popular myths and
historical events in them are given form in an impeccable
conceptual and visual presentation, which he uses to look for
answers to all of the questions which arise on a daily basis in the
society of which he forms a part as a citizen and artist. His work
takes place mainly in the field of photography, collage, objects
and installations and includes a reflection on the concepts of
work, inequality, architecture and history - particularly of Chile
post-dictatorship. In this sense it is an aesthetic reflection on
the consequences of the 'neoliberal revolution' implanted in Chile
during the '80s and its projection in the social and cultural field
from then until now. Patrick Hamilton (Leuven, Belgium, 1974) has a
degree in Art from the University of Chile. He received a
Guggenheim fellowship in 2007. He has had exhibitions at numerous
international institutions and has taken part in the Venice
Biennale with Chile. He lives and works in Madrid.
This book provides a wealth of practical guidance on building and
painting realistic model naval ships aimed at those who are new to
this hobby through to the experienced modeller. An in-depth look at
the creation of four models is included: the Type 45 destroyer HMS
Daring (Dragon), the pre-war aircraft carrier USS Wasp (Aoshima),
the River-class frigate HMS Nadder (Starling Models) and the
'pocket battleship' Admiral Graf Spee (Academy). With a focus on
the popular kit scales of 1/700 and 1/350 in the waterline style,
this book demonstrates the techniques used in building model ships,
from the basic to the more complex, larger-scale models requiring
many differing skills. There are chapters on the fundamentals such
as building resin kits, painting and weathering, rigging and
creating a water effect. It provides guidance on more advanced
techniques such as the use of photo-etched parts and creating
rough-water effects. Finally, it is packed with helpful tips and
finishing touches, such as making flags and how to take
professional-standard photographs of your completed model.
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