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At the beginning of 2020, just as global Covid-19 restrictions were
coming into force, the artist David Hockney was at his house,
studio and garden in Normandy. From there, he witnessed the arrival
of spring, and recorded the blossoming of the surrounding landscape
on his iPad, a medium he has been using for over a decade. Working
outdoors was an antidote to the anxiety of the moment for Hockney
– 'We need art, and I do think it can relieve stress,' he says.
This uplifting publication – produced to accompany a major
exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts – includes 116 of his new
iPad paintings and shows to full effect Hockney's singular skill in
capturing the exuberance of nature.
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Milton Avery (Hardcover)
Edith Devaney, Erin Monroe, Marla Price, Waqas Wajahat, March Avery Cavanaugh
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Born in 1885 to a working-class family in Connecticut, Milton Avery
left school at 16 to work in a factory. Intending to study
lettering but soon transferring to painting, he attended evening
school for fifteen years before moving to New York in the 1920s to
pursue a career as a painter. Although he never identified with a
particular movement, Avery was a sociable member of the New York
art scene. He became a figure of considerable influence for a
younger generation of American artists, including Mark Rothko,
Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman. His talent was praised by
Rothko, who said of his work ‘the poetry penetrated every pore of
the canvas to the last touch of the brush’. Edith Devaney
introduces Avery and his work, while Erin Monroe looks at Avery’s
early years in Hartford, and Marla Price examines Matisse’s
influence upon his art. A conversation with the artist’s daughter
March Avery Cavanaugh and an illustrated chronology by Isabella
Boorman complete the book.
This summer 2016 publication brings together the recent body of
work by David Hockney, perhaps the most popular and versatile
British artist of the last century. Following his sweeping
exploration of landscape in the Royal Academy's galleries in 2012,
this focused display will look exclusively at the portraits he has
been painting in the last few years - the subjects of which are
friends, family and art-world luminaries. After the sad events that
touched his life in 2012, Hockney had stopped painting altogether.
His move from Yorkshire to California coincided with his decision
to revisit acrylic paints and bold colours. Vibrant, observant and
full of life, these portraits mark a return to vivid, Technicolor
form. Incisive text from Tim Barringer places these works within
Hockney's development as a portrait painter, while curator Edith
Devaney interviews the artist about the series, which he describes
as 'twenty-hour exposures', in reference to the time each portrait
takes to paint. The book will show the stages of each painting,
from first to last mark, to give the reader a unique insight into
Hockney's working method.
Works by Prosek and others are juxtaposed with natural objects in
an illuminating interrogation of the artificial boundaries we
create between art and nature Award-winning artist, writer, and
naturalist James Prosek (b. 1975) has gained a worldwide following
for his deep connection with the natural world, which serves as the
basis for his art and numerous popular books. In this
cross-disciplinary catalogue, Prosek poses the question, What is
art and what is artifact-and to what extent do these distinctions
matter? Drawing on the collections of the Yale University Art
Gallery and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Prosek
places man- and nature-made objects on equal footing aesthetically,
suggesting that the distinction between them is not as vast as we
may believe. In more than 150 full-color plates, objects such as a
bird's nest, dinosaur head, and cuneiform tablet are juxtaposed
with Asian handscrolls, an African headdress, modern masterpieces,
and more. Artists featured include Albrecht Durer, Helen
Frankenthaler, Vincent van Gogh, Barbara Hepworth, Pablo Picasso,
and Jackson Pollack, as well as Prosek himself, whose works depict
fish, birds, and endangered wildlife. Also included are an incisive
essay by Edith Devaney and texts by Prosek that explore the
magnificent productions of our wondrous interconnected world.
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