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There is surprisingly little, and certainly nothing comprehensive,
written about the contemporary Russian scene now. What appear in
the West are mostly reports about so-called 'dissidents', not about
what is happening in this vast culture, taken as a whole. Too
often, these reports seem to be primarily inspired by a desire to
demonstrate Western cultural and political superiority. The aim of
Russian Art in the New Millennium is not to support any one cause,
but to look at the situation as it now exists objectively and to
give as wide and truthful a view as possible. Russian art during
the period under review - the last two decades - has been evolving
rapidly and in many directions. Hence there are sections on digital
art, landscape paintings, graffiti, religious art and others.
Furthermore, in addition to the continuing influence of the
traditional centres for art - Moscow and St Petersburg - a number
of provincial Russian cities have developed distinctive art worlds
of their own. Russian Art in the New Millennium attempts to
discover this terra incognita and to encompass this extremely
various, but also intensely national art scene in Russia in one
volume.
Moral thinking today finds itself stranded between the particular
and the universal. Alasdair MacIntyre's work on narrative,
discussed here along with that of Stanley Hauerwas and H. T.
Engelhardt, aims to undo the perceived damage done by the
Enlightenment by returning to narrative and abandoning the illusion
of a disembodied reason that claims to be able to give a coherent
explanation for everything. It is precisely this - a theory that
holds good for all cases - that John Rawls proposed, drawing on the
heritage of Emmanuel Kant. Who is right? Must universality be
abandoned? Must we only think about morality in terms that are
relative, bound by space and time? Alexander Lucie-Smith attempts
to answer these questions by examining the nature of narrative
itself as well as the particular narratives of Rawls and St
Augustine. Bound and rooted as they are in history and personal
experience, narratives nevertheless strain at the limits imposed on
them. It is Lucie-Smith's contention that each narrative that
points to a lived morality exists against the background of an
infinite horizon, and thus it is that the particular and the rooted
can also make us aware of the universal and unchanging.
In 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko
Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen,
better known as Tom of Finland, enjoyed an intense cult following
in the international gay community but was largely unknown to a
broader audience. In 2009, TASCHEN followed up with the ultimate
Tom overview: Tom of Finland XXL, a beautiful big collector's
edition with over 1,000 images, covering six decades of the
artist's career. The work was gathered from collections across the
United States and Europe with the help of the Tom of Finland
Foundation, featuring many drawings, paintings, and sketches never
previously reproduced. Other images had only been seen out of
context and were finally presented in the sequential order Tom
intended for full artistic appreciation and erotic impact. The
elegant oversized volume showed the full range of Tom's talent,
from sensitive portraits to frank sexual pleasure to tender
expressions of love and haunting tributes to young men struck down
by AIDS, and was completed by eight commissioned essays on Tom's
social and personal impact by Camille Paglia, John Waters,
Armistead Maupin, Todd Oldham, and others, plus a scholarly
analysis of individual drawings by art historian Edward
Lucie-Smith. The only thing missing from Tom of Finland XXL was a
widely affordable price tag-until now. The new Tom of Finland XXL
is still big enough to work your biceps, and includes all of the
original content, but costs a fraction of the original price.
You're welcome.
In this classic survey, now updated and with full-colour images
throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces the art of Latin America
from 1900 to the present day. He discusses in detail major figures
such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as dozens of less
well-known artists. Those who spent their lives in exile, and
artists from Europe and the US who lived in South America, such as
Leonora Carrington, are all included in this broad, comprehensive
view. The artists featured here have sought for indigenous roots
and a local tradition; explored abstraction, expressionism and new
media (video, installation, performance); entered dialogue with
European and North American movements, while insisting on reaching
a wide popular audience for their work; and created an energetic,
innovative and very varied art scene across the continent today. A
new chapter extends the discussion into the twenty-first century,
summarizing key trends and most notable figures of the last two
decades. A constant theme is the embrace of the experimental and
the new by artists across Latin America.
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Nonni's Moon (Hardcover)
Julia Inserro; Illustrated by Lucy Smith
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Perfect for ages 4, 5, 6, and 7. Missing someone far away is
hard.It's hard if you're a grown-up. It's even harder if you're a
child. No one knows more than Beanie how hard it is to live far
away from loved ones. But then she figures out a way she and Nonni
can send messages back and forth.... through the moon! You will
love Nonni's Moon because you are a parent who knows how important
it is to keep family and friends close to our hearts, even at great
distances and circumstances. It can help explain bereavement or
absence of a loved one to children learning how to make sense of an
adult world. Nonni's Moon will instantly become a bedtime favorite
for all. As a parent, you will love this sweet bedtime story
because it can help kids feel empowered to stay connected to loved
ones far away.
As London evolves into a Babylonian-style city of lofty towers, the
artist Anna Keen has been inspired to paint this London
Metamorphosis. While each new edifice heads to the heavens, the
exposed entrails of these vast construction sites strangely
resemble ruins. Her large canvases are enriched with details
stemming from patient observation and on-the-spot sketches, and
from voyages around the city made by helicopter, boat, road and on
foot. Like the eighteenth-century artist J.M Gandy, who
simultaneously painted London in ruins and in construction, Anna
Keen takes us just beneath the surface of the metropolis, to where
the emotional landscape lurks and to where the soul of London is
heading. London-based art historian Edward Lucie-Smith has followed
Anna Keen's painting since 1995 in Rome.
This standard introduction to visual art since 1945 has been
revised, updated and redesigned for the first time since 2001.
Movements, trends and individual artists from abstract
expressionism to the present day are summarized, with detailed
coverage of major developments such as pop art, conceptual and
performance work, minimal art, neo-expressionist and figurative
painting, the YBAs and the globalized art scene of the twenty-first
century. A new chapter on art since 2000 includes discussion of
work by Banksy and Ai Weiwei, as well as recent trends in art from
Russia and Eastern Europe. Writing with exceptional clarity and a
strong sense of narrative, Edward Lucie-Smith demystifies the work
of dozens of artists, revealing how the art world has interacted
with social, political and environmental concerns. Nearly 300
images of key artworks range from the paintings of Jackson Pollock
via graffiti from 1980s New York and land art of the 1970s to
contemporary painting from China and video from Japan. The book is
as global in its reach as art has become in the 21st century.
Explores the development of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the mid
19th century; and works which figure amongst the most lasting and
generally propular in British art. Renowned writer and art critic
Edward Lucie-Smith contributes a study of the individual artists,
their interconnection and previously unpublished material of their
intricate links with the social establishment of the time. James
Cahill has a special interest in the movement, having studied Dante
Gabriel Rosetti and Holman Hunt. He reviews the major exhibition of
150 works at Tate Britain launched in September 2012. 'I think what
I want to do is to follow a trail that leads, through many twists
and turns, from the religious revival of the early 19th century to
Blue Period Picasso, then to Surrealism. It may take in the
Children of the Raj and the discovery of Japan along the way. It
leads from rather rigid moralism, to conscious immoralism, and then
at last to Freud/Dali.' Edward Lucie-Smith 05/2012
The mention of 'Faith in The City of London' conjures up images of
ceremonial events in St. Paul's Cathedral, but there are over 40
other Anglican churches, as well as Jewish, Dutch, Catholic and
Welsh places of worship squeezed in between The Square Mile's
towers of commerce. Intrigued by this incongruity, highly acclaimed
London photographer Niki Gorick has gained unique access to capture
the day-to-day workings of these ancient buildings and discovered a
vibrant, diverse spiritual life stretching out into many faiths.
This is a book about London and Londoners from a completely new
angle, revealing a rich mix of characters, traditions and human
interest stories. From weddings, communions, evangelical bible
studies and Livery company carol services, to Knights Templar
investitures, huge wet fish displays, Afghan music and vicars
wielding knives, the photographs show an extraordinary range of
spiritual goings-on and charismatic personalities. For the first
time, it's possible to get a real insight into a side of London's
Square Mile not dominated by money-making, where City workers are
trying to connect to life's deeper meanings and where religious
traditions and questions of faith are still very much alive.
Moral thinking today finds itself stranded between the particular
and the universal. Alasdair MacIntyre's work on narrative,
discussed here along with that of Stanley Hauerwas and H. T.
Engelhardt, aims to undo the perceived damage done by the
Enlightenment by returning to narrative and abandoning the illusion
of a disembodied reason that claims to be able to give a coherent
explanation for everything. It is precisely this - a theory that
holds good for all cases - that John Rawls proposed, drawing on the
heritage of Emmanuel Kant. Who is right? Must universality be
abandoned? Must we only think about morality in terms that are
relative, bound by space and time? Alexander Lucie-Smith attempts
to answer these questions by examining the nature of narrative
itself as well as the particular narratives of Rawls and St
Augustine. Bound and rooted as they are in history and personal
experience, narratives nevertheless strain at the limits imposed on
them. It is Lucie-Smith's contention that each narrative that
points to a lived morality exists against the background of an
infinite horizon, and thus it is that the particular and the rooted
can also make us aware of the universal and unchanging.
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Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz (Hardcover)
James Sutton; Edited by Mark Sanders; Edward Lucie-Smith, Richard Dyer; Contributions by Peter B. Willberg
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R1,499
R1,162
Discovery Miles 11 620
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This is the first major monograph on the work of one of Britain's
most dynamic artists, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. His striking paintings
and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular
culture in search of visual languages, imagery, themes and motifs
that he can appropriate, adapt, use and abuse, bringing together
different movements, genres, periods and styles in dialogues that
are surprising, innovative and sometimes provocative. Lenkiewicz's
imagination and energy seem to be inexhaustible, concocting endless
amazing hybrids such as iconic Renaissance paintings invaded by
characters from nineteenth-century Japanese woodblocks, French
Revolutionary masterpieces spliced with German Romanticism, or
Cubism infiltrated by Victorian children's illustration. The result
is a peculiar and fantastical cast of characters and scenarios,
whether Nazi soldiers trampling through the snow towards a crashed
UFO in the middle of a village scene by Pieter Bruegel the Elder,
Snow White making an uncomfortable guest appearance in an already
troubling Balthus interior, or a guillotined head assuming a cameo
role in an otherwise serene still life. These painterly chimera are
cultural mash-ups. Sometimes irreverent, sometimes witty, other
times simply beautiful, odd and arresting amalgams, they are always
poignant, pertinent and decidedly thought-provoking, inviting the
viewer to think across time, cultures, countries and ideologies
about the many languages of art. In the process, Lenkiewicz has
established his own distinctive oeuvre, one that perhaps perfectly
illustrates the notion of post-modernity within painting - an
oeuvre of juxtapositions and non-sequiturs, binary oppositions and
the uncanny, ruptures and elisions, the real and the irrational. As
well as often encouraging us to look at the history of art with
fresh eyes, Lenkiewicz's practice asks about visual culture today,
about how our understanding of the past rests on shifting sands.
With an introduction by distinguished art critic Edward Lucie-Smith
and a major new essay by writer and editor Richard Dyer, this
beautifully designed and produced hardback book presents an
impressive selection of works produced by the artist between 2009
and 2015. Born in 1966 and based in London, Lenkiewicz is of German
and Polish descent; he studied philosophy at York University,
graduating in 1990. He is the son of the late painter Robert
Lenkiewicz and great grandson of Baron von Schlossberg, court
painter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the Swan King.
In the era of celebrity culture, we are now more fascinated than
ever with the lives of our leading artists. Creative personalities
are always intriguing, and to learn something new about the
greatest artists of the 20th and 21st centuries - be they eccentric
or sober, outspoken or reclusive - is compelling. Presented here
are some of the most engaging life stories of our time, eventful,
intimate and poignant. Lively short biographies, clearly grouped
according to style and era, are illustrated with important works,
self-portraits and photographs. Lucie-Smith vividly evokes the
lives of these great personalities, from Picasso and Duchamp to
Joseph Beuys and Louise Bourgeois, guiding the reader through the
maze of different styles and movements with authority and verve.
New entries on rising stars such as Marlene Dumas, Shirin Neshat
and Zhang Xiaogang extend the book's scope to reach from 1900 to
today.
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