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A fascinating view of the career of Bridget Riley, one of the most
significant living artists, through her personal archive of her own
works on paper Devoted exclusively to the artist's works on paper,
Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio explores the
importance of these works not only as a means of visual
experimentation but as works of art in their own right. Throughout
her working life, Riley has preserved works of particular
significance, creating an archive that records her constant
artistic inquiry and development. The studies presented in the book
are drawn entirely from this personal collection, with Riley's own
input. They demonstrate the artist's progression from early
figurative works, through the monochrome geometry of the 1960s, to
the examination of color that has characterized the second half of
her long career. The choice of work explores the themes that have
absorbed Riley in different periods and highlights key influences:
the importance of life drawing to her and the significance of
artists such as Seurat and Mondrian. The book illustrates-literally
and figuratively-the story of a productive and constantly
experimental career, underpinned by drawing. Distributed for Modern
Art Press Exhibition Schedule: The Art Institute of Chicago
(September 17, 2022-January 16, 2023) Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
(January 29-May 7, 2023) The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
(June 16-October 22, 2023)
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Edvard Munch - Trembling Earth (Hardcover)
Ali Smith, Jay A. Clarke, Jill Lloyd-Peppiatt, Trine Otte Bak Nielsen, Arne Johan Vetlesen
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A thought-provoking volume on Edvard Munch’s often neglected
pictures of nature, exploring the Norwegian artist’s landscapes,
seascapes, and existential environments in light of his own time
and ours This richly illustrated catalogue provides a multifaceted
perspective on the pictures of nature and landscape by Norwegian
artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944). This important topic has been
neglected in scholarship on Munch, despite the fact that it is a
major motif in his oeuvre. This volume is the first to explore the
theme in its full breadth throughout Munch’s corpus, including
his paintings, lithographs, watercolors, and woodcuts. His
depictions of forests, farmland, and the seashore, as well as
paintings of sea storms, snow, and other extreme weather, present
us with undulating forms that animate nature. They likewise provide
an example of Munch’s preference for liminal spaces where
transformations take place, often celebrating human interaction
with nature in its many manifestations. The book also considers
Munch’s less conventional landscapes, and particularly those
where his famous Scream motif occurs. These environments depict
nature in an existential way, suggesting that the artist held a
deep concern for nature’s destruction by humans—a concern no
less relevant today. A complementary look at his writings as
primary sources alongside his images shows how Munch mixed a
scientific perspective on nature with metaphysical and spiritual
notions of rebirth that permeate other parts of his corpus. The
book also includes a engaging short story by award-winning author
Ali Smith that was inspired by Munch's work. Distributed for
MUNCHÂ Exhibition Schedule: Clark Art Institute,
Williamstown, MA (June 10–October 15, 2023) Museum Barberini,
Potsdam (November 18, 2023–April 1, 2024) Munch Museum, Oslo
(April 27–August 24, 2024)
A compelling introduction to the life and artistic output of a
trailblazing Norwegian painter, printmaker, and horticulturist
Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) was a highly individual Norwegian
Modernist artist known for intensely colored paintings and woodcuts
of his native landscape. Astrup received a formal art education in
Kristiania (now Oslo), Germany, and Paris, but he later rebelled
against certain aspects of his training, such as the traditional
conventions of optical perspective. He rejected metropolitan
cultural centers in favor of his rural childhood home in western
Norway, where he produced a remarkable body of work. This volume
brings Astrup's life and work to a North American audience,
situating him within the history and culture of Norway and late
19th- and early 20th-century art. Astrup's horticultural
achievements in the service of his art on the farm where he lived
are also explored. The book's beautiful illustrations highlight the
intensity of Astrup's palette, the innovative nature of his prints,
and the magical realism of his landscapes steeped in folklore and
local customs. Distributed for the Clark Art Institute in
cooperation with KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen,
Savings Bank Foundation DNB, and Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde
Exhibition Schedule: Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (June
19-September 19, 2021) KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen
(October 15, 2021-January 23, 2022) Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde,
Stockholm (February 19-May 29, 2022)
Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005)
and his wife Florence, Lady Manton, assembled an outstanding
collection of 18th- and 19th-century British art. A gift to the
Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007, their
collection features more than three hundred oil paintings,
watercolors, drawings, and prints, including works by John
Constable, J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, and William Blake.
In a series of wide-ranging essays, prominent scholars consider the
major works and themes in the collection, relating them to larger
issues within the field of British studies. Individual essays are
devoted to Constable's oil sketches, cloud studies, and magisterial
painting The Wheat Field; the growth of the watercolor tradition;
print portfolios and narrative series; Thomas Rowlandson's satiric
drawings; and Gainsborough's use of experimental materials as
revealed through recent scientific analysis. The volume concludes
with an illustrated checklist of the works in the collection.
Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
This group of 40 prints from the exceptional Daniel Cowin
Collection captures the tumultuous aesthetic and political climate
of the years surrounding World Wars I and II. An essay by Jonathan
Black addresses the impact of World War I on two notable British
printmakers, Edward Wadsworth and C. R. W. Nevinson. A text by Jay
A. Clarke delves into the linocut movement of the 1920s and '30s,
investigating how the role of style and politics impacted this
movement as well as the previously unexplored position of women
printmakers and the interplay between gender, craft, and
decoration. Influences of Futurism, Cubism, and the short-lived but
vibrant abstraction of the Vorticist movement saturate the powerful
color images, which are accompanied by artist biographies. This
publication illuminates the struggle of these radical printmakers
as they navigated a conservative market and the harsh economic and
political realities of their time. Distributed for the Clark Art
Institute Exhibition Schedule: Clark Art Institute
(02/28/15-05/17/15)
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