Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy by Martin Gayford, David Hockney
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Category: Art Theory
The Sunday Times bestseller: David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at ba ...Show more
Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World by Richard Dorment
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Category: Art Theory
By the long-time art critic of The Daily Telegraph, Warhol After Warhol tells the David-and-Goliath story of collector Joe Simon and his struggles with the [Andy] Warhol Authentication Board, a tale of power, corruption and lies, a Bad Blood for the art world.
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece by Thomas H. Carpenter
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Category: Art Theory | Series: World of Art Ser.
The ancient Greeks recorded their mythology on vase paintings, engraved gems, and bronze and stone sculptures, offering depictions that often predate any references to the myths in literature or recount alternative, unfamiliar versions of these tales. In some cases, visual art provides our only evidence ...Show more
The Mirror and the Palette - Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
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Category: Art Theory
Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws ...Show more
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
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Category: Art Theory | Series: Biography and Autobiography Ser.
The second half of William Feaver's Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted work of biography- the definitive story of the epic life of one of the twentieth century's most important artists William Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most. Ove ...Show more
100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
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Category: Art Theory | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architect ...Show more
Young Rembrandt by Onno Blom
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Category: Art Theory
An immersive exploration of the little-known story of Rembrandt's formative years. Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist in the world? With his formative years shrouded in mystery, the only remaining evidence of Rembra ...Show more
The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner by Franny Moyle
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Category: Art Theory
The extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mothe ...Show more
Memories of Degas by GEORGE MOORE
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Category: Art Theory | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Degas was a celebrity in Britain in his lifetime, thanks originally to George Moore's pioneering essay, The Painter of Modern Life. When Degas died Moore reprised the essay with some further recollections, in part as a riposte to the memoir published by Degas's great admirer and follower, Walter Sickert ...Show more
The Colour Bible: The definitive guide to colour in art and design by Laura Perryman
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Category: Art Theory
An essential source for graphic designers, artists, interior designers, fashion designers, illustrators and creatives of any kind who work with colour.Colour is intrinsic to the human experience; it guides us with subconscious visual cues throughout our lives. Get it right in your design or art and you ...Show more
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life (new Edition) by Roxana Robinson
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Category: Art Theory
This is without question the best book ever written on O'Keeffe' New Yorker Born on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O'Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the beauty of nature from the very beginning, and by her twenties had become a formidable artist, and a striking ...Show more