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Written by an international team of artists, art historians and
curators, this absorbing and beautiful book gives readers
unparalleled insights into the world's most iconic artworks. Art:
The Whole Story traces the development of art period by period,
with the illustrated text covering every genre, from painting and
sculpture to conceptual art and performance art. Cultural timelines
are there too, to help to the reader with historical context.
Masterpieces that epitomize each period or movement are highlighted
and analysed in detail. Everything from use of colour and visual
metaphors to technical innovations is explained, enabling you to
interpret the meanings of world-famous masterpieces - Mughal
miniatures; Japanese prints in the 19th century; the colour
theories behind Seurat's remarkable La Grande Jatte; and why
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was so shocking in its day.
Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his
personal encounters with some of the world’s most influential
modern and contemporary artists. Richard Cork draws on his
impeccable skills as a critic and writer to tell the story of his
encounters with some of the world’s most influential artists.
Through a series of frank interviews, some scheduled, others
serendipitous, he uncovers artists’ inner thoughts, anxieties and
creative ambitions, to reveal the personalities behind the art.
From individuals who are able to look back over a lifetime’s
work, such as Louise Bourgeois, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns,
to young artists encountered at the beginning of their careers,
including Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, from a drive through the
Yorkshire countryside with David Hockney to a tour of Soho drinking
establishments with Francis Bacon, alongside remarkably insightful
encounters with artists as varied as Gerhard Richter, Doris
Salcedo, Sonia Boyce, Luc Tuymans and Steve McQueen, Richard Cork
has found that ‘talking to artists can in my experience be
surprising, revealing, salutary, testing, provocative, stimulating
and at times capable of overturning all my preconceptions about the
individuals I encounter.’ Cork has played a significant role in
popularizing late modern and contemporary art. In the words of art
critic Louisa Buck, his ‘lucid, even-handed and at times
trenchantly critical judgement has been invaluable in helping to
create the multiplicity of approach and vigorous debates of
today’s artistic climate’.
A unique exploration of the close relationship between art and
design, explored through the historic and contemporary fabric
designs of Liberty, where avant-garde art has influenced the
colourful, geometric collections for more than half a century.
Liberty is renowned internationally for its fabrics, especially its
floral patterns, but it also has a long history of developing bold,
geometric designs. Many of these have been inspired by early
20th-century avant-garde art, notably by the Italian Futurists –
by artists such as Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni – and their
English contemporaries the Vorticists, including Christopher
Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth. In anticipation of
Liberty’s 150th anniversary, esteemed couturier and interior
designer Federico Forquet has curated a striking new range of
fabrics – the FuturLiberty Collection – that
carries Liberty’s creative heritage into our own age. The
Futurist and Vorticist art that lies behind the new designs is
explored by specialists Ester Coen and Richard Cork, while
archivist Anna Buruma examines Liberty’s rich history of
avant-garde designs. By illuminating the process by which the
FuturLiberty Collection came into being, this highly visual study
also reveals how art can inform design, making it contemporary,
relevant and engaging.
Revealing the processes and production of nine artists during the
ground breaking Sculpture Shock award (2013-2015) for temporary
site-specific interventions. It took sculpture out of the often
clinical confines of the gallery space and into non-traditional
environments, with a view to reintegrating art into everyday
life.The site-specific interventions took the form of installation,
performance, socially engaged and object-based work in media as
diverse as light, sound and text into unusual sites: subterranean
(the unseen world beneath our city), ambulatory (without physical
confines in movement through space and time) and historic (an
illustrious building in London). This richly illustrated
publication is contextualised throughout by: Dave Beech, writer,
curator and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art;
Richard Cork, British art historian, editor, critic and
broadcaster; and Sarah Kent, former visual arts editor of Time Out
and the ICA's Director of Exhibitions.
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Lucian Freud: A Closer Look (Hardcover)
Lucian Freud; Edited by Michael Holm, Anders Kold, Stephen McCoubrey; Preface by Stephen McCoubrey; Foreword by …
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Hugely admired by artists and writers from Henri Cartier Bresson to
the Booker prize winner Howard Jacobson, the extraordinary life and
work of painter Dennis Creffield (1931-2018) are explored in this,
the first major monograph on the artist. The narrative traces the
artist's 'Dickensian' upbringing, his formative experiences as a
teenager under the tutelage of David Bomberg, his conversion to
Catholicism and his award-winning years at the Slade. Focus is
given to Creffield's passions for the stories of England, not only
in the Cathedral drawings, but in his expressive work on
Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, on Blake and in his
paintings and drawings of London, the great Petworth House, Cornish
tin mines and the eerie military buildings on Orford Ness.
Complementing his work on England's sacred and profane identity is
an equally audacious body of work on the human body, from tender
paintings of mother and child to erotic paintings of women to his
late paintings of men near death - Turner, Nelson and Rimbaud. To
quote his fellow artist R.B. Kitaj, Creffield's cover has been
'well and truly blown.'
A fascinating insight into the lives and work of a remarkable range
of contemporary artists Conducted by Richard Cork, one of the UK's
most distinguished art writers, these intimate and revealing
interviews provide a wealth of fascinating insights into the work
of leading British artists. They discuss, often very frankly, their
lives and art, their working methods and aspirations. The
collection features an array of highly engaging and articulate
artists, from Frank Auerbach, Anthony Caro, Richard Hamilton, David
Hockney and Howard Hodgkin to Cornelia Parker, Tacita Dean, Grayson
Perry and Rachel Whiteread. Drawing out Francis Bacon's impassioned
musings on mortality, Tracey Emin's obsessive methods and subjects,
the intensity of Anish Kapoor's internal journey and Richard Long's
epic explorations of landscape, Cork is a penetrating, insightful
and accessible interviewer. These conversations, brought together
for the first time, brilliantly affirm his belief that 'talking to
artists is like embarking on voyages of discovery'.
Reflecting on the vitality of the past, through the works of one of
Britain's most audacious 20th-century painters The British painter
David Bomberg (1890-1957) was among the most precociously talented
artists of his generation, and the influence of his legacy
continues to be felt. This catalogue is the first to explore
Bomberg's early work in relation to the collection of London's
National Gallery, demonstrating the importance of painterly
tradition for this deeply innovative artist. As a teenager Bomberg
intensively copied old master paintings; Botticelli's Portrait of a
Young Man (c. 1480-85) was reportedly one of his favorites. But
after joining the Slade School of Art, he embraced the idea of a
new, increasingly abstract art that would reflect the drama of the
world around him. By placing Bomberg's rebellious, youthful works
alongside those he most admired in the National Gallery, this book
explores the true extent of the young artist's engagement with
history, and how it shaped his contribution to the language of
early 20th-century modernist art. Published by National Gallery
Company/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule:
National Gallery, London (November 27, 2019-March 1, 2020)
Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and
best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes
contain a selection of his articles from the seventies, eighties,
nineties, and the year 2000. The result is a fascinating chronicle
and invaluable record of a turbulent period that gives an overview
and survey of British art and its reception over the past thirty
years which is wholly unprecedented in its scope.
British artist Michael Landy (b. 1963) is known primarily as an
installation artist. His work, along with others associated with
the Young British Artists (YBAs), was first catapulted to the world
spotlight when it was featured in the notorious Sensation
exhibition (1997). His sculptural installations and performances
explore political and social themes, such as the nature of
consumerism and commodity. In 2009, Landy began a three-year artist
residency at the National Gallery, London. He chose to focus his
project on representations of saints and their accompanying
stories, often gruesome, which were once part of common culture but
are now largely unknown. Landy's preoccupation with recycling
narratives and repurposing imagery results in Saints Alive, the
subject of this book, conceived to include drawings, collages, and
a series of kinetic, interactive sculptures with moving parts and
sounds.
Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and
best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes
contain a selection of his articles from the seventies, eighties,
nineties, and the year 2000. The result is a fascinating chronicle
and invaluable record of a turbulent period that gives an overview
and survey of British art and its reception over the past thirty
years which is wholly unprecedented in its scope.
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