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Rothko Suzanne Pagé Christopher Rothko ISBN
9782850889509
Publisher
Citadelles & Mazenod
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
313 mm x 290 mm
Pages
316 Pages
Illustrations
220 color
Price
£39.95
A catalogue of the major exhibition of remarkable paintings by Mark Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, from October 18, 2023 to April 2, 2024 This publication has been produced in close collaboration with the artist’s family Two page fold-outs plunge the reader deep into Rothko’s oeuvre Contains previously unpublished works and archive material Represents a major cultural event for Paris and the world This illustrated catalogue is published to accompany the retrospective exhibition devoted to American artist Mark Rothko, curated by Suzanne Pagé and the artist’s son, Christopher Rothko. The show will feature over one hundred works. Born Markus Rothkowitz in Latvia in the early 20th century, the man who would soon become known as Mark Rothko began painting in the 1930s. While his early works were influenced by mythology and Surrealism, his first abstract paintings emerged in the 1940s with the Multiform series, followed by his Classic Years and the Black and Gray paintings. A key figure on the New York art scene, Rothko was an uncategorisable artist who deployed an extensive palette of colour and light with a talent that consistently triggers emotion. His great sensitivity shaped a poetic, enigmatic universe that leaves no one untouched. Text in English and French. An internationally renowned art historian, Suzanne Pagé is currently artistic director of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Formerly the director of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, she curated the previous French retrospective of Rothko’s work, back in 1999.
Publish date 25th Oct 2023
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Marina Abramović Karen Archey Adrian Heathfield Svetlana Racanović Andrea Tarsia Devin Zuber ISBN
9781912520411
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
290 mm x 220 mm
Pages
262 Pages
Illustrations
200 color
Price
£30.00
Records the first UK exhibition to include works from Abramović’s entire career Accompanying catalogue for the Marina Abramović exhibition at the Royal Academy from 23 September – 4 January 2024 Accompanying catalogue for the Marina Abramovi? exhibition at the Royal Academy from 23 September – 4 January 2024. Over the past half century, Marina Abramović has earned worldwide acclaim as a pioneer of performance art. This handsome new book records the first UK exhibition to include works from her entire career. Re-performances of some of her best-known and most radical pieces appear alongside new and recent work. An augmented-reality app for iOS and Android enables readers to watch films of Abramović’s original performances while reading the book. An essential purchase for all followers of Abramović’s extraordinary 55-year career, this important publication brings expert voices into the debate that her groundbreaking art engenders. How far should an artist push herself in pursuit of her work? What role does the audience play in creating a performance? How can performance art outlive the moment in which it takes place? Karen Archey is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Adrian Heathfield is Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at the University of Roehampton, London. Svetlana Racanovi? is Professor of Theory of Contemporary Art in the Faculty of Fine Arts Cetinje at the University of Montenegro. Andrea Tarsia is Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Devin Zuber is Associate Professor of American Studies, Religion and Literature at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and George F. Dole Professor of Swedenborgian Studies at the Center for Swedenborgian Studies, Berkeley.
Published 8th Sep 2023
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Grayson Perry Smash Hits
Grayson Perry Victoria Coren Mitchell Patrick Elliott Tor Scott ISBN
9781911054627
Publisher
National Galleries of Scotland
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
World
Size
265 mm x 245 mm
Pages
136 Pages
Illustrations
103 color, 1 b&w
Price
£24.99
Published to accompany Grayson Perry: Smash Hits exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland, July to November 2023 “The Turner Prize winner leads a visual tour through his life in six artworks – from college days to knighthood.” — Telegraph Grayson Perry is one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists and cultural figures. This book, which includes first sight of new and previously unpublished works, is published to accompany the largest-ever retrospective of Perry’s art. It offers a vibrant insight into his life and work, from his youth in rural Essex to sell-out stage shows at the Royal Albert Hall. Grayson Perry vividly reflects on his art, life and career, remembering the sources of inspiration and influences along the way. Victoria Coren Mitchell’s thought-provoking contribution considers the role of humour in Perry’s art, highlighting the often-underestimated effort involved in being at once a serious artist and a lovable character. Patrick Elliott provides an illuminating biographical essay of the artist. The reader is also given a fascinating glimpse into the technique and process behind Perry’s prints, pots and tapestries. Showcasing 75 exhibited works, the book covers the full range and breadth of his astonishing career. Grayson Perry lives and works in London, UK. He has presented important solo exhibitions at the British Museum, London, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, La Monnaie de Paris and The National Museum, Oslo, among others. As well as contributing to numerous exhibition catalogues, he is the author of The Descent of Man, Playing to the Gallery and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl (with Wendy Jones). Victoria Coren Mitchell is a writer, broadcaster, newspaper columnist and international poker player. She has published three books, including the memoir For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player, and is the host of Only Connect on BBC Two. Patrick Elliott is Chief Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the National Galleries of Scotland. He is the author of True to Life: British Realist Painting in the 1920s & 1930s, Joan Eardley: Land & Sea – A Life in Catterline and Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage. Tor Scott is a Collection & Research Assistant at the National Galleries of Scotland. She is undertaking an AHRC-funded doctorate at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on the Surrealist artist Edith Rimmington. She has published and lectured on British Surrealism.
Published 28th Jul 2023
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Colour Revolution
Victorian Art, Fashion & Design Edited by Charlotte Ribeyrol Edited by Matthew Winterbottom ISBN
9781910807576
Publisher
Ashmolean Museum
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
World excluding Australasia
Size
280 mm x 220 mm
Pages
256 Pages
Illustrations
253 color, 20 b&w
Price
£25.00
Britain’s industrial age is often perceived through a black-and-white filter as the ‘funereal’ age of coal pollution and bleak working class slums. This catalogue will dispel that perception, demonstrating how the industrial revolution transformed colour, and focus on the central role it played in art, culture and technology As opposed to approaches favouring a long history of colour, the catalogue focuses on the second half of the 19th century and argues that this was a crucial chromatic turn, which has been significantly ignored by prominent historians of colour and previous publications Several essays in the catalogue offer new research into key chromatic events of the period including the 1862 International Exhibition Accompanies an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum from 21 September 2023 to 18 February 2024 Contrary to the monochrome vision of Queen Victoria’s mourning dresses and the coal-polluted streets of Charles Dickens’ London, Victorian Britain was, in fact, a period of new and vivid colours. The Industrial Revolution had transformed the Victorians’ perception of colour and, over the course of the second half of the 19th century, it became the key signifier of modern life. Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design charts the Victorians’ new attitudes to colour through a multi-disciplinary exploration of culture, technology, art and literature. The catalogue explores key ‘chromatic’ moments that inspired Victorian artists and writers to think anew about the materiality of colour. Rebelling against the bleakness of the industrial present, these figures learned from the sacred colours of the past, the sumptuous colours of the Middle East and Japan and looked forward towards the decadent colours that defined the end of the century. Charlotte Ribeyrol is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project, Chromotope: the 19th century chromatic turn and an Associate Professor in 19th century British Literature at Sorbonne Université in Paris. She is also the co-curator of the exhibition Colour Revolution: Victorian Fashion, Art & Design. Matthew Winterbottom is Curator of Western Art Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He is the co-curator of Colour Revolution: Victorian Fashion, Art & Design.
Published 31st Aug 2023
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Impressionists on Paper Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec Ann Dumas Leïla Jarbouai Christopher Lloyd Harriet Stratis ISBN
9781912520978
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding USA & Canada
Size
260 mm x 240 mm
Pages
152 Pages
Illustrations
105 color
Price
£25.00
Some 70 masterworks on paper by leading Impressionists and Post-Impressionists Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy from 25 November 2023 to 10 March 2024 Best known for their superlative oils on canvas, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and numerous other Impressionists and Post-Impressionists also regularly used paper as a support for works in watercolour, gouache, pencil, tempera and that most elusive of media, pastel. Their practice transformed the status of these works from preparatory studies, to be left in the studio and not shown in public, to works of art in their own right. With insightful texts by acknowledged experts in the field, this sumptuous book brings together some 70 masterworks on paper by leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. Their bold innovations challenged traditional attitudes, radically transformed the future direction of art and ultimately paved the way for later movements such as Abstract Expressionism.
Publish date 13th Nov 2023
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Banksy Museum Complete Catalog Hazis Vardar ISBN
9782226486691
Publisher
Albin Michel
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
297 mm x 210 mm
Pages
160 Pages
Price
£29.95
An immersive dive into the world of Banksy Included : Banksy's last works in Ukraine The royalties from this book will be donated to the association SOS MEDITERRANEE, which helps migrants (one of Banksy's fights) Visit the Banksy Museum in Brussels This book presents the richness, diversity and strength of the work of the most famous street art artist in the world… and yet nobody knows his identity. We are invited to follow the evolution of the artist from England to the United States, France, Israel and the Ukraine, and through more than a hundred emblematic works, all explained. This is the original Catalog Raisonné of the Banksy Museum, in which all these works are reproduced in their urban contexts, allowing the general public to discover them in a realistic way and to grasp their strength, including those that have been stolen or defaced and no longer exist. Hazis Vardar, owner and producer of theatres (notably The Palace Nightclub in Paris) is the founder of the Banksy museums (in Paris, Brussels, Barcelona, Prague, Milan and Dubai). Banksy was born in Bristol, Great Britain, around 1974. He became a key figure in the world of street art in the mid-1990s with his provocative and unique style. Today he is the world’s most fashionable street artist.
Publish date 13th Nov 2023
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Basquiat x Warhol Paintings 4 Hands
Edited by Editions Gallimard ISBN
9782073014979
Publisher
Editions Gallimard
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
315 mm x 295 mm
Pages
364 Pages
Price
£50.00
Published to accompany an exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton from 5 April to 28 August 2023 The collaboration between the two artists, legends of the New York avant-garde, through more than a hundred of their joint works In the spring of 2023, Fondation Louis Vuitton will be holding Basquiat x Warhol… Painting 4 hands, the most important exhibition ever devoted to the collaborative work of these two artists. The exhibition will feature more than 100 jointly signed paintings, in addition to individual works by Basquiat and Warhol, and works by other major artists (Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Kenny Scharf, etc.) in order to recreate the New York downtown art scene of the 1980s. From 1984 to 1985, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) and Andy Warhol (1928–1987) jointly produced about 160 paintings, some of the largest in their respective careers. A genuine artistic dialogue of style and form had developed between them that dealt equally well with crucial issues such as the integration of the African-American community into the narrative of North America, a continent where Warhol was a major manufacturer of icons.
Published 4th May 2023
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Love Life
David Hockney Drawings 1963-1977 David Hockney Other primary creator Chris Stephens ISBN
9781843682370
Publisher
Pallas Athene
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
225 mm x 225 mm
Pages
96 Pages
Illustrations
41 color, 2 b&w
Price
£25.00
Presents 41 of David Hockney's finest early drawings, in ink, pencil and watercolour David Hockney is one of the greatest draughtsmen of all time, and his drawings of the 1960s and 1970s are among his finest works. This selection of 41 drawings, both well-known and unfamiliar, demonstrates how his love of life is expressed through his extraordinary ability to closely observe and translate into art the world around him. Friends, places and inanimate objects are all depicted with insight and energy. David Hockney, born in 1937, is Britain's best known and most loved artist. He divides his time between California and Normandy. Chris Stephens Director of the Holburne Museum, Bath, has curated several exhibitions of Hockney's work.
Published 29th Sep 2023
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David Hockney
The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020 David Hockney Edith Devaney William Boyd ISBN
9781912520640
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding USA & Canada
Size
175 mm x 250 mm
Pages
168 Pages
Illustrations
140 color
Price
£25.00
During the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, David Hockney was in Normandy, and recorded the arrival of spring in exuberant iPad paintings Over a hundred new iPad paintings on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2021 Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, 23 May – 26 August 2021 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. William Boyd is the author of sixteen novels, among them A Good Man in Africa (1981), An Ice Cream War (1982), Any Human Heart (2002), Restless (2006) and Trio (2020) Edith Devaney is Contemporary Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Published 29th Apr 2021
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A Yorkshire Sketchbook David Hockney ISBN
9781907533235
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
147 mm x 208 mm
Pages
92 Pages
Illustrations
43 color
Name of series
The RA Sketchbooks
Price
£14.95
An exploration of the vivid watercolour and ink sketches that Hockney made in his home county, Yorkshire Features a range of stunning images, some with vast, panoramic spans and others depicting rooted, familiar locations A short but enlightening insight into Hockney's creative process In recent years David Hockney has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood. East Yorkshire’s stern hillscapes, craggy drystone walls and endless windswept moors make for a stimulating muse, and Hockney’s work captures the character of this scenery with expert precision. Although his passionate interest in new technologies has led Hockney to develop a virtuoso drawing technique on an iPad, he is still regularly accompanied by a trusty sketchbook. This invaluable tool allows him to work quickly, capturing the changing light and the fleeting effects of the weather. Executed in watercolour and ink, these panoramic scenes have the spatial complexity of finished paintings: the broad sweep of sky or road, the patchwork tapestry of land. Yet unlike a painting completed in the studio, far-removed from the landscape that inspired it, these sketches convey the immediacy of Hockney’s impressions. And as indicated by views down village streets and across kitchen tables, his rooted local knowledge and fondness for the area around the East Yorkshire Wolds always shines through. If you know the region, the location of these sketches is unmistakable. If you don’t, its features will come to life in these pages, animated by Hockney’s incomparable skill. David Hockney CH RA is an internationally acclaimed artist. He studied at Bradford School of Art from 1953 to 1957 and at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1959 to 1962. He has lived in Los Angeles since 1963, and now splits his time between America and East Yorkshire, where he grew up.
Published 22nd Nov 2019
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Jenny Saville Edited by Sergio Risaliti ISBN
9788836650835
Publisher
Silvana
Binding
Hardback
Territory
UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Iceland, Germany, Eastern Europe, & Austria. Arab States non-exclusive
Size
240 mm x 310 mm
Pages
328 Pages
Illustrations
152 color
Price
£42.00
The volume is dedicated to the work of Jenny Saville One of the greatest contemporary painters and a leading voice in the international art scene The volume is dedicated to the work of Jenny Saville (Cambridge, 1970), one of the greatest contemporary painters and a leading voice in the international art scene. Saville transcends the limits between figurative and abstract, between informal and gestural, managing to transfigure the news into a universal image, which puts the human figure at the center of the history of art. Huge, naked bodies, with a carnal physicality and oppressed by a weight that is more existential than material, Saville is linked to the great European pictorial tradition in constant comparison with the modernism of Willem de Kooning and Cy Twombly and the portraiture of Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. Her work also outlines a strong correlation with the masters of the Italian Renaissance, in particular with some of Michelangelo’s great masterpieces. The volume contains a rich catalogue of paintings and drawings from the 1990s to today.
Published 21st Jun 2023
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Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery Edited by Andrew Nairne Edited by Eliza Spindel ISBN
9781904561767
Publisher
Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
World
Size
290 mm x 225 mm
Pages
240 Pages
Illustrations
160 color
Price
£39.95
Published to coincide with the exhibition Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery, showing at Kettle’s Yard from March 2023 Comprehensive new title on Lucie Rie; currently only a handful of books in print about her Reflects current trends/interests in studio pottery, mid-century modern style, women artists Lucie Rie (1902–1995) is one of the finest modern potters of the 20th century. Born and trained in Vienna, her successful early career came to a halt in 1938 when forced to leave Austria to escape the persecution of Jewish people. In exile in London, Rie established a new workshop and over five decades created highly individual bowls, vases and tableware which continue to amaze and inspire today. With over 150 photographs and five new essays, Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery celebrates an exceptional life of creative invention and experiment. With texts by Edmund de Waal, Tanya Harrod, Helen Ritchie, Eliza Spindel, Kimberley Chandler and Nigel Wood.
Published 3rd Apr 2023
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Audubon’s Birds of America Baby Elephant Folio Roger Tory Peterson Virginia Marie Peterson ISBN
9780789214676
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding France, USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, Australia and New Zealand
Size
381 mm x 304 mm
Pages
696 Pages
Price
£160.00
The finest single-volume edition of Audubon's Birds of America — with a luxurious 381 x 304mm trim size — is back in stock This printing features a new natural-textured paper stock, a strikingly redesigned cover and slipcase, and improved typography throughout Edited by legendary ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson and his wife and collaborator Virginia Maria Peterson Presents all 435 of Audubon's plates in modern taxonomic order, with the Peterson's commentaries on each bird An abundantly illustrated introduction surveys Audubon's life and career and the history of American bird art before and after him Abbeville’s classic edition of The Birds of America is back in stock — in a striking new package. The Baby Elephant Folio presents all 435 of John James Audubon’s brilliant hand-coloured engravings in exquisite reproductions derived from the original plates of the rare Double Elephant Folio. Although many attempts have been made to re-create the splendid illustrations in Audubon’s masterpiece, nothing has ever equalled the level of fidelity achieved in this luxurious edition. Organised and annotated by Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson, this volume is as informative as it is beautiful. Its fascinating introduction places Audubon in the context of the history of American ornithological art and also reproduces a wide sampling of the work of his notable predecessors and disciples, including Roger Tory Peterson’s own rightfully famous paintings. A new systematic arrangement of the prints, following the modern classification of species, and descriptive captions about each bird allow us to appreciate Audubon’s achievement in the light of modern ornithology. Virginia Marie Peterson was a scientist and an expert on the environmental effects of oil spills. Roger Tory Peterson established himself as America’s leading ornithologist with his best-selling Field Guide to the Birds. Like Audubon, Peterson received many honorary degrees and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Honor.
Published 4th Oct 2023
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Drawn From Nature
The Flowering of Irish Botanical Art Patricia Butler ISBN
9781788842365
Publisher
ACC Art Books
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
270 mm x 215 mm
Pages
256 Pages
Illustrations
201 color, 27 b&w
Price
£35.00
Foreword by Dr Shirley Sherwood, OBE Features 220 colour illustrations Unique account of Irish botanical art by author, art historian, and curator, Patricia Butler Demonstrates the significant contributions made by Irish artists in the field of botanical art Glorious botanical artworks from the 17th century to the present For centuries, artists of all disciplines have expressed delight in nature through the highly skilled and captivating medium of botanical art. The distinguished contributions of Irish botanical artists include records of plants from 17th-century Ireland, early illustrated floras and botanical art found in the field of design. Drawn from Nature: The Flowering of Irish Botanical Art also covers the importance of botanical art to the Ordnance Survey of Ireland during the 19th century, as well as the vital plant portraits produced by Irish women. These portraits assisted generations of botanists in understanding and describing the natural world but received scant recognition. Published for the first time, these outstanding examples of Irish botanical art, from both public and private collections, demonstrate a shared desire by botanical artists to observe, illuminate and record Ireland’s unique flora. This book finally affords them the recognition they deserve.
Published 15th Sep 2023
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Lucy Kemp-Welch 1869-1958
The Life and Work of Lucy Kemp-Welch, Painter of Horses David Boyd Haycock ISBN
9781788842242
Publisher
ACC Art Books
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
290 mm x 245 mm
Pages
224 Pages
Price
£45.00
The definitive biography of one of Britain’s finest equestrian painters Redefining the legacy of a woman painter at work in a male-dominated environment Features previously unpublished photographs of the artist at work Set to publish alongside an exhibition of Lucy Kemp-Welch’s work Over the course of a long and very successful career spanning the first half of the 20th century, Lucy Kemp-Welch established herself as one of the leading equestrian painters at work in the UK and one of the country’s best-known women artists. David Boyd Haycock’s new, extensively illustrated biography of Kemp-Welch brings this remarkable artist and her work back into sharp focus. Born in 1869, Kemp-Welch first came to the art establishment’s attention in 1897 when her immense painting, Colt Hunting in the New Forest, caused a sensation at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition; the work was bought for the Nation by the Chantry Bequest in the year of exhibition. In 1915, she illustrated Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, and was commissioned to paint images for the Government during the First World War. Later, the mural Women’s Work in the Great War, was placed in the Royal Exchange in London, where it remains to this day. Respected art writer and curator Boyd-Haycock shines new light on Kemp-Welch’s life, writing from a 21st-century perspective and reflecting on her as a female painter in a male-dominated environment. Alongside Kemp-Welch’s paintings, the book will feature exclusive period photographs of the artist herself, shown at work and in her studio. Dr David Boyd Haycock is a freelance author and curator, specialising in 20th-century British art. He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including Paul Nash (Tate Publishing, 2001/2016) and A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (Old Street Publishing, 2009), short-listed by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain in 2010 as Best Work of Non-Fiction. As well as having curated exhibitions at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Poole Museum and Salisbury Museum, he has also recently completed a new biography of the Welsh artist, Augustus John.
Published 16th Mar 2023
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John Singer Sargent Masterpiece Edition Carter Ratcliff ISBN
9780789214409
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, Australia and New Zealand
Size
381 mm x 305 mm
Pages
288 Pages
Illustrations
336 color
Price
£90.00
The finest monograph on John Singer Sargent — back in print by popular demand The new jumbo format allows artists and art lovers to appreciate Sargent’s every brushstroke This edition also includes a new preface from the author and an updated bibliography Sargent’s popularity and reputation grow greater every year Author Carter Ratcliff is one of America’s most perceptive and eloquent art critics “Fascinating and lucid . . . a stunningly illustrated and illuminating life of a singular painter.” — Sue Roe, Wall Street Journal “Not just another art history book, no title in recent memory recalls with such exactitude the style of an era that, in retrospect, has become increasingly golden. . . . The book and its prose shimmer.” — New York Times “Never before have Sargent’s talents been so gloriously displayed as they are here. Quite simply, this Abbeville edition is a stunner, a book as satisfyingly extravagant as a Sargent portrait.” — Christian Science Monitor “The spontaneity, elegance, and grace that characterize Sargent’s work are everywhere evident on these large, luminous pages. . . . A visual delight, well written.” — Art and Antiques The classic monograph on a much-loved artist—reissued in a spectacular oversize format In the early work of John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Henry James saw “the slightly ‘uncanny’ spectacle of a talent which on the threshold of its career has nothing more to learn.” Sargent’s talent, nay, genius was indeed uncanny, sustained with equal intensity through his famed society portraits, like the scandalous Madame X; his full-size showpieces, like The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit; his thousands of watercolours executed en plein air from Venice to Corfu to Maine to Montana; and his ambitious mural decorations for the public monuments of Boston. In Carter Ratcliff, Sargent has found a biographer and critic nearly his match in style and subtlety. Ratcliff expertly evokes the expatriate American milieu into which the artist was born, and offers penetrating insights into every phase of his career, every aspect of his work. Now, for the first time, this landmark monograph is offered in a special oversize format, with all of its 310 illustrations reproduced in stunning full colour, many at full-page size, allowing the reader to appreciate the master’s every brushstroke. This new edition of John Singer Sargent will be a treasured reference for artists and an unalloyed delight for art lovers. Carter Ratcliff is a poet, art critic, and contributing editor of Art in America. His books on art include The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art; Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art; and monographs on Andy Warhol, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gilbert & George, and others. He has also published numerous volumes of poetry and a novel, Tequila Mockingbird. Published 8th Dec 2022
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Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome Drawing Course
Gerald M. Ackerman Graydon Parrish ISBN
9781788840446
Publisher
ACC Art Books
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World
Size
275 mm x 250 mm
Pages
336 Pages
Illustrations
136 color, 212 b&w
Price
£65.00
Two hundred lithographs that comprised a famous late nineteenth-century drawing course Introduces the work of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue Of interest to artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of art The Bargue-Gérôme Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous, late nineteenth-century drawing course. It contains a set of almost two hundred masterful lithographs of subjects for copying by drawing students before they attempt drawing from life or nature. Consequently it is a book that will interest artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of drawings. It also introduces us to the work and life of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue. The Drawing Course consists of three sections. The first consists of plates drawn after casts, usually of antique examples. Different parts of the body are studied in order of difficulty, until full figures are presented. The second section pays homage to the western school of painting, with lithographs after exemplary drawings by Renaissance and modern masters. The third part contains almost 60 académies, or drawings after nude male models, all original inventions by Bargue, the lithographer. With great care, the student is introduced to continually more difficult problems in the close observing and recording of nature. Charles Bargue started his career as a lithographer of drawings by hack artists for a popular market in comic, sentimental and soft-porn subjects. By working with Gérôme, and in preparing the plates for the course, Bargue was transformed into a spectacular painter of single figures and intimate scenes; a master of precious details that always remain observation and never became self-conscious virtuosity, and colour schemes that unified his composition in exquisite tonal harmonies. The last part of the book is a biography of Bargue, along with a preliminary catalogue of his paintings, accompanied by reproductions of all that have been found and of many of those lost. A renowned specialist in nineteenth-century academic art, Gerald Ackerman (1928-2016) was the author of several books including The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Orientalists of the British School and The Orientalists of the American School. Graydon Parrish is a renowned figurative painter, famous in the United States for his allegory Remorse, Despondence, and Acceptance of An Early Death, at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts.
Published 15th Aug 2019
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Rubens & Women Ben van Beneden Amy Orrock ISBN
9781898519492
Publisher
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
World
Size
280 mm x 240 mm
Pages
192 Pages
Illustrations
65 color
Price
£28.00
The first book (and exhibition) ever to present a focused study on Rubens’ depictions of women. The exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery will run from October 2023 to January 2024 This will challenge the popular assumption that Rubens only painted one type of woman. Instead it will show the varied and essential role that women played in the artist’s life and work A chance for readers to get to know the real man behind some of his most famous works - we meet not only Rubens the artist, but Rubens the father, husband, lover, diplomat, friend Includes the latest scholarly developments in subjects such as the identities of Rubens’ sitters, 17th century artistic theory and practice, and Rubens’ treatment of the human body Featuring beautiful illustrations of artworks from international and private collections, many of which will be appearing in the UK for the first time in 2023 Provides a complete catalogue for works in this groundbreaking accompanying exhibition, as well as contextual essays that raise current debates around sexuality, power and feminism The art of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is synonymous with the female nude, with the term ‘Rubenesque’ first coined in the 19th century to describe a voluptuous female body. Yet remarkably, there has never been a focused study of Rubens’ depictions of women, making this book, and the exhibition that it will accompany, a first. Bringing together a diverse range of paintings and drawings from throughout the artist’s career and from a range of international lenders, the exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery (October 2023 – January 2024) will challenge the popular assumption that Rubens only painted one type of woman. Instead, it will present a more nuanced view of the varied and essential role that women played in the artist’s life and work, uniting and contributing to recent scholarly developments in subjects such as the identities of Rubens’ sitters, 17th century artistic theory and practice, and Rubens’ treatment of the human body. Rubens evidently enjoyed painting the female figure, especially in its sensual and unclothed form. But his women are never mere bodies trapped by the male gaze, on the contrary; they are proud and complex heroines, full of character and gravitas. No other male artist has created such potent images of female power, assurance, determination, commitment, and beauty. Providing a catalogue for the works in the exhibition and featuring three introductory essays that contextualise Rubens’ work, this publication will both contribute to the existing corpus of scholarly literature on Rubens and introduce his masterpieces to new audiences, discussing them in the context of current debates around sexuality, power and feminism. Ben van Beneden is the former director of the Rubenshuis (Rubens House), the home and studio of Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp, Belgium, and an authority on the art of Rubens. He is co-author of The Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard catalogue. Dr Amy Orrock is an Independent Art Historian, former curator at Compton Verney and a specialist in 16th and 17th century northern European painting. Her previous publications include Bruegel: defining a dynasty (Philip Wilson, 2017).
Published 28th Sep 2023
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Caravaggio
A Genius Between Shadows and Lights Michela Gianfranceschi ISBN
9788854417908
Publisher
White Star
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding USA & Canada; India non-exclusive; Italy non-exclusive
Size
330 mm x 275 mm
Pages
224 Pages
Price
£30.00
Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio is one of the most revolutionary and celebrated artists of all time. His explosive manner exceeded the academic precepts that idealised nature, describing the world in its varied complexity and therefore also in its most humble and raw aspects. This volume traces the short, and unfortunately tragic existential parable of the great Lombard painter, an exceptional path strongly reflected in his work, still actual even after 410 years after his passing. The characters of his paintings, ordinary men and women capable of narrating the themes of myth and faith, are true universal icons still of great emotional impact today. Michela Gianfranceschi was born in Rome, where she lives and works. After graduation in History of Medieval and Modern Art, she obtained a PhD in History of Modern Art with a study on the cultural heritage of Caravaggio. Since then, she has specialised in Caravaggio's school and artists inspired by this great painter. Over the years she has collaborated with the Historical Archive of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts, the Sapienza University of Rome, the European University of Rome and the Vatican Museums.
Published 8th Sep 2023
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Elizabeth Siddal Her Story Jan Marsh ISBN
9781843682318
Publisher
Pallas Athene
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
World
Size
198 mm x 165 mm
Pages
158 Pages
Price
£17.99
Jan Marsh examines Elizabeth Siddal’s story to coincide with The Rossetti’s exhibition at Tate Britain Elizabeth Siddal is remembered as a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel and the muse and wife of Gabriel Rossetti. She is cast as a tragic heroine much like the Ophelia she modelled in the renowned Millais painting. But Elizabeth Siddal: Her Story overturns this myth. ‘Lizzie’ is presented as an aspirational and independent woman who knew what she wanted and was not afraid to let it be known. With extraordinary stories, including previously undiscovered details of Siddal’s journeys across the UK and to the south of France, Jan Marsh reclaims Siddal’s narrative from the historical record. She brings new perspective to the post-natal, mental trauma Elizabeth suffered after a stillbirth. Furthermore, she casts new light on the renowned story of Siddal’s grave being exhumed for Rossetti’s poems. Jan Marsh explores the finer, little known details of Siddal’s life, including her four months at art school in Sheffield, which Rossetti’s brother always denied. In addition to this, few will know how Siddal was often regarded as difficult and ungrateful. Historical record tends to forget or misremember women, but with Elizabeth Siddal: Her Story, Jan Marsh forces us to take a closer look and see a very different picture. Siddal was not passive and lacking in agency, she was a woman with a strong mind, flourishing career and an admirable talent. Jan Marsh is a biographer and curator who pioneered the feminist understanding of women in the artistic circle around the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood. She followed this with individual life stories and scholarly studies that bring hitherto neglected women into the historical record, together with ground-breaking exhibitions, notably Pre-Raphaelite Sisters at the National Portrait Gallery in 2019-20. In Elizabeth Siddal: Her Story she presents a radical new account of the celebrated Pre-Raphaelite model and artist, who died tragically young.
Published 9th May 2023