Author: Jeff AndrewsPublisher: Arena books
ISBN: 1911593366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A critique of abstract modern art from a constructive common sense perspective.
Author: Jeff AndrewsArcimboldo
Author: Thomas DaCosta KaufmannPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226426882
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
In Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. A pear stands in for a man’s chin. Citrus fruits sprout from a tree trunk that doubles as a neck. All sorts of natural phenomena come together on canvas and panel to assemble the strange heads and faces that constitute one of Renaissance art’s most striking oeuvres. The first major study in a generation of the artist behind these remarkable paintings, Arcimboldo tells the singular story of their creation. Drawing on his thirty-five-year engagement with the artist, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann begins with an overview of Arcimboldo’s life and work, exploring the artist’s early years in sixteenth-century Lombardy, his grounding in Leonardesque traditions, and his tenure as a Habsburg court portraitist in Vienna and Prague. Arcimboldo then trains its focus on the celebrated composite heads, approaching them as visual jokes with serious underpinnings—images that poetically display pictorial wit while conveying an allegorical message. In addition to probing the humanistic, literary, and philosophical dimensions of these pieces, Kaufmann explains that they embody their creator’s continuous engagement with nature painting and natural history. He reveals, in fact, that Arcimboldo painted many more nature studies than scholars have realized—a finding that significantly deepens current interpretations of the composite heads. Demonstrating the previously overlooked importance of these works to natural history and still-life painting, Arcimboldo finally restores the artist’s fantastic visual jokes to their rightful place in the history of both science and art.
Author: Bo BartlettThe Annotated Mona Lisa
Author: Carol StricklandPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836280050
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Cutting through the fog of jargon and theories that can make art seem hopelessly remote, The Annotated Mona Lisa demystifies art history. It's a brisk, clearly stated survey, from cave painting to conceptual art, that doesn't talk down to its reader and doesn't assume a prior art education. Dynamic design, page-length essays, frequent sidebars, and abundant illustrations make this compendium a browser's delight. 300 illustrations, one third in color.
Bruno Bobak
Author: Bernard RiordonPublisher: Frederick, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions
ISBN: 9780864924810
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Bruno Bobak became a professional artist before he was 20 years old, and more than 60 years later, his work remains vibrant and in demand by public galleries and collectors in North America and Europe. Bruno Bobak: The Full Palette celebrates his life and work. Five authors present Bobak's life and artistic development, stage by stage. Herb Curtis, a novelist and essayist, outlines the artist's early years in Hamilton, Ontario. Laura Brandon, curator of War Art at the Canadian War Museum , describes Bobak's development as a War Artist, and internationally renowned painter, print-maker, and educator Gordon Smith recalls Bobak's formative decade in Vancouver. Marjory Rogers Donaldson, a painter and portraitist, portrays the richness of Bobak's mature years in Fredericton, and independent curator Roslyn Rosenfeld examines the remarkable depth and range of Bobak's drawings and prints. Introduced by Herménégilde Chiasson, the author and artist who is Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.
The Essential Paul Laffoley
Author: Douglas WallaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022631541X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Paul Laffoley is a Visionary artist who lives and works in a tiny space in Boston he calls "the Boston Visionary Cell." A trained architect, Laffoley produces brilliantly colored mandala paintings filled with symbols and texts. Each painting is accompanied by a tex called a "thought-form," which serves as commentary on the painting's content. The paintings--many of them large (73 x 73 inches)--have titles that range from the paranormal and arcane ("The Ectoplasmic Man," "The Sexuality of Robots") to the erudite: "De Rerum Natura," referring to the poet Lucretius. Laffoley is interested in "the mechanics of mysticism," time and space, dreams, magic, and consciousness. In addition to painting, he has also designed a time machine and a prayer gun. This book collects what Laffoley and his gallerist, Douglas Walla, see as "the essential works"--94 color plates w/91 attendant thought-forms. It also includes an introduction by Walla, a biography of Laffoley by artist Steven Moskowitz, and essays by two scholars. Linda Dalrymple Henderson (University of Texas at Austin, Art History) is a renowned expert on Henri Bergson, Duchamp, the art/science juncture, and "the fourth dimension." Arielle Saiber (associate professor of Italian, Bowdoin College) analyzes one Laffoley's major works: Dante's 'Divine Comedy' Triptych.
Bo Bartlett
Author: Carter RatcliffPublisher: Nouvelles éditions Scala
ISBN: 9781857599435
Category : Painting, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
***Delayed Publication, now printing*** Bo Bartlett is an American realist known for his complex multi-layered narrative paintings. Working in the tradition of realism that stretches from Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, Bartlett's bold narrative approach has made him one of the leading painters of a generation of American artists that redefined realist painting for our time. Bartlett's accessible style and subject matter examine his personal, often epic explorations of family, his roots in the American South, home, water and the sea, beauty, life and death. This long-awaited mid-career retrospective is published to help celebrate the opening of the new Bo Bartlett Center in his hometown of Columbus, Georgia. The exquisitely designed volume is the first full publication to document Bartlett's evolution as an artist, his personal creative process and to place his work in the context of the long-standing tradition of American realism. AUTHOR: David Houston is the Executive Director of the Bo Bartlett Center, College of the Arts, Columbus State University. SELLING POINTS: * First mid-career retrospective of Bo Bartlett's work * Published to commemorate the opening of the new Bo Bartlett Center as part of Columbus State University College of the Arts in the artist's hometown of Columbus, GA in the fall of 2015 * Bartlett's work hangs in well-known public spaces including the McCormic Place in Chicago, the US Mint in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Convention Center, as well as museum collections including the Seattle Art Museum, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, among many others 200 colour
Black Velvet Masterpieces
Author: Carl BaldwinPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811862073
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book contains 275 reproductions of black velvet paintings. It traces the roots of the art form from ancient China and Japan through to Victorian England, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the Americas.
Off the Walls
Author: Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066846
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
When life (in a global pandemic) imitates art . . . Van Gogh’s Starry Night made out of spaghetti? Cat with a Pearl Earring? Frida Kahlo self-portraits with pets and toilet paper? While the world reeled from the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), thousands of people around the globe, inspired by challenges from Getty and other museums, raided toy chests, repurposed pantry items, and enlisted family, roommates, and animals to re-create famous works of art at home. Astonishing in their creativity, wit, and ingenuity, these creations remind us of the power of art to unite us and bring joy during troubled times. Off the Walls: Inspired Re-Creations of Iconic Artworks celebrates these imaginative re-creations, bringing highlights from this challenge together in one whimsical, irresistible volume. Getty Publications will donate all profits from the sales of this book to a charity supporting art and artists.
