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Custodians (Hardcover)
Joanna Vestey, Russell Roberts, Alexander Sturgis
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Custodians brings together for the first time, in this beautifully
compiled collection, images of many of Oxford's most prestigious
buildings along with some rarely seen, but wonderful venues and
their 'Custodians'. Photographer Joanna Vestey set out to explore
the extraordinary colleges and buildings of Oxford, behind the
closed doors, often beyond the reach of the 9.5 million visitors a
year who come here, and to meet the 'Custodians' playing a pivotal
role in perpetuating these world-renowned institutions. Rarely do
we get to catch a glimpse behind the closed facades of these iconic
structures and to see the spaces that lie within. All the images
have been captured in the University City of Oxford, known as the
"City of Dreaming Spires" and show its extraordinary breadth of
architecture since the arrival of the Saxons. It includes venues
such as the 17th Century Divinity School, the mid-18th century
Radcliffe Camera continuing through to the most recent award
winning RIBA-nominated chapel at Ripon College completed last year.
Venues such as the Sheldonian Theatre and Christchurch College sit
alongside perhaps lesser known venues such as The Real Tennis
Courts or the John Martyr Pawsons cricket pavilion portraying the
breadth and diversity constituting the city. The 'Custodians' and
their surroundings enjoy equal status in Joanna's formal
compositions; they seem to belong together, yet do not fuse into
one, thereby asking us to question how we are all largely shaped
and influenced by the structures around us - how defined we are by
them and how much they form us. Full of unexpected venues
beautifully photographed, this book will appeal to the historian,
city visitor, people interested in architecture and interiors as
well as to the extensive alumni network of the colleges themselves.
It will also appeal to an audience interested in contemporary
photography.
"I couldn't think of a better place to have a dialogue about art
today and what it can be" - Jeff Koons Curated by Koons himself,
together with guest curator Norman Rosenthal, this show features
seventeen important works, fourteen of which have never been
exhibited in the UK before. They span the artist's entire career
and his most well-known series, including Equilibrium, Statuary,
Banality, Antiquity and his recent Gazing Ball sculptures and
paintings. This exhibition will provoke a conversation between his
creations and the history of art and ideas with which his work
engages. Jeff Koons burst onto the contemporary art scene in the
1980s. He has been described as the most famous, important,
subversive, controversial and expensive artist in the world. From
his earliest works Koons has explored the 'ready-made' and
'appropriated image', using unadulterated found objects and
creating painstaking replicas of ancient sculptures and Old Master
paintings which almost defy belief in their craftsmanship and
precision. Throughout his career Koons has pushed at the boundaries
of contemporary art practice, stretching the limits of what is
possible. This publication accompanies an exhibiton, running from
February to June, 2019 at the Ashmolean. Koons will be in
conversation with Martin Kemp at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, in
May 2019. Contents: Director's Foreword; interview with Jeff Koons
(by Xa Sturgis); Jeff Koons and the Sheen and Shine of Time (Sir
Norman Rosenthal); catalogue entries; Jeff Koon biography.
Faces are everywhere in the National Gallery's collection: in
portraits and narrative scenes, in allegories and paintings of
everyday life. It is often the faces shown that communicate most
directly in a picture; their expressions may reveal the drama of a
story, or the character of a sitter in a portrait. A Closer Look:
Faces examines a wide array of fascinating faces found in paintings
at the National Gallery. It explains why artists in the past
created faces to look as they do, what painters through the ages
have considered the "ideal" face, how faces are painted, and the
reasons for the development of portrait painting. Illustrated with
seventy pictures and beautiful details, this book provides an
insider's view of the many faces in Western European art. Published
by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
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