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National Portrait Gallery: The Collection is published to celebrate
the reopening of the Gallery after a three-year redevelopment
project. Designed by Daniela Rocha, this engaging and inviting book
takes the reader on a chronological journey through Britain’s
history in portraiture, from the Tudors to Now, featuring the
country’s most impactful and famous individuals, from Queen
Elizabeth I to Mary Seacole, and Virginia Woolf to David Bowie. The
book is richly illustrated with beautiful paintings, photographs,
sculptures, drawings and digital works. Readers will enjoy a
selection of the most popular and recognisable portraits from the
Collection, accompanied by short chapter introductions that
introduce key historical periods, their most exciting figures, and
their most important historical, political, social and cultural
moments. This accessible structure allows the reader to dip into
any of the beautiful portraits and their stories, and understand
their place in British history. An Introduction by Director Dr.
Nicholas Cullinan will highlight why portraiture has been
fundamental to people and society historically, but also to
contemporary audiences, by exploring themes of culture, identity
and the representation of diversity. This will also introduce
readers to the nation’s newly-reopened National Portrait Gallery,
explaining how it came to be the nation’s home of portraits and
the world’s most significant Collection of people.
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Adrian Ghenie: The Fear of Now
Adrian Ghenie; Edited by Oona Doyle, Kitty Gurnos-Davies; Interview by Nicholas Cullinan
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Djordje Ozbolt (Hardcover)
Nicholas Cullinan, Gregor Muir; Edited by Lionel Bovier
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R921
Discovery Miles 9 210
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The paintings of Belgrade-born artist Djordje Ozbolt (born 1967)
vary greatly in subject, spanning religion, human relationships,
colonial exoticism (especially in Africa), to travel experiences
and cultural stereotypes. This publication is the first monograph
to celebrate Ozbolt's collagelike paintings.
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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (Hardcover)
Henri Matisse; Edited by Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, Jodi Hauptman; Text written by Samantha Friedman
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Discovery Miles 14 940
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Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition
ever devoted to Henri Matisse's paper cut-outs, made from the early
1940s until the artist's death in 1954, this publication presents
approximately 150 works in a groundbreaking reassessment of
Matisse's colorful and innovative final chapter. The result of
research conducted on two fronts--conservation and curatorial--the
catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut-outs by exploring a
host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist's methods and
materials and the role and function of the works in his practice;
their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies;
their environmental aspects; and their double lives, first as
contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately made permanent,
a transformation accomplished via mounting and framing. Richly
illustrated to present the cut-outs in all of their vibrancy and
luminosity, the book includes an introduction and a conservation
essay that consider the cut-outs from new theoretical and technical
perspectives, and five thematic essays, each focusing on a
different moment in the development of the cut-out practice, that
provide a chronicle of this radical medium's unfolding, and period
photographs that show the works in process in Matisse's
studio.
One of modern art's towering figures, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was
a painter, draftsman, sculptor and printmaker before turning to
paper cut-outs in the 1940s. From the clashing hues of his Fauvist
works made in the South of France in 1904-05, to the harmonies of
his Nice interiors from the 1920s, to this brilliant final chapter,
Matisse followed a career-long path that he described as
"construction by means of color."
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