Grayson's Art Club

Author: Grayson Perry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781399906432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
During the pandemic, Grayson Perry helped the nation find comfort and company through art during the hit TV series Grayson's Art Club by Swan Films for Channel 4. Each week Grayson hosted the show from his studio with his wife, Philippa (and often their cat, Kevin). Using video chat, Grayson spoke to famous artists and creatives about how they were spending their time and invited them to respond creatively to lockdown. Each week had a different theme - family, nature, food, dreams, work, and travel. Members of the public were also invited to share their own artworks and over 17,000 entries were submitted throughout series two in a vast range of mediums - from paintings and photography, to ceramics and textiles. Collectively, the artworks are powerful and very personal responses to the pandemic and form a lasting artistic record of the unprecedented times the nation experienced together. The artworks from season two are collected here to catalogue the exhibition at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Grayson's Art Club

Author: Kermode PERRY
Publisher: Grayson's Art Club
ISBN: 9781907796289
Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
During lockdown, Grayson Perry, one of Britain's foremost artists, brought the nation together through art, helping them to unleash their creativity as part of his Channel 4 TV series.Every week he hosted the show from his own studio taking the country with him as he created his own new artworks.Grayson and his wife Philippa talked to other famous artists about how they were spending their time in isolation and invited them to make their own works in response to this unprecedented crisis.Due to the popularity of the programme, it continued into a third series, in 2022 with a range of new themes for the artists and special guests to explore - Love, Heroes & Heroines, Normal Life, Inside My Head, Holidays, Future, and The Queen.A central element of the programmes has been Grayson's keen interest to encourage members of the public to send him their artworks which they had been making at home, talking to them via video calls and choosing his favourite artworks.Over time there have been thousands of entries, an overwhelming response to his call out. The variety of entries using canvas, paper, photography, sculpture and mixed media demonstrates the enormous imagination, skill and creativity of the nation.These works, alongside those of Grayson Perry, Philippa Perry and the invited artists and celebrities, are collected here to catalogue the exhibition at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham.Published alongside the exhibition 'Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition', 2 Dec 2022 - 16 Apr 2023, MAC Birmingham, UK.

The Negro Motorist Green Book

Author: Victor H. Green
Publisher: Colchis Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

Grayson Perry

Author: Chris Stephens
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500094195
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A new examination of the early ceramic work of the world’s most famous potter, Grayson Perry, this book includes previously lost and unpublished pieces. Grayson Perry was the first ceramicist to win the Turner Prize, the internationally renowned award for the best young British Artist. He rapidly established a unique brand as “the transvestite potter.” This book examines the plates, pots, and statues from the 1980s to the mid-1990s with which he established his career. Perry sold many of his early pieces for modest sums and subsequently lost track of their whereabouts. With the help of an international art treasure hunt this book brings together both his known and previously lost and undocumented pieces. Accompanying Perry’s traveling exhibition, which opens at the Holburne Museum, Bath, in January 2020, this book features full color illustrations of his seminal ceramic works from this period. As well as an essay from the artist and critical essays from experts on Perry’s work.

Grayson Perry

Author: Jacky Klein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
A major new monograph on the work of celebrated and controversial British artist Grayson Perry.

Ben Venom

Author: Camerlengo BISHOP
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907796241
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
All this Mayhem is a major exhibition of newly commissioned and recent work by internationally renowned, San Francisco-based artist Ben Venom that exemplifies his interest in the DIY aspect of heavy metal and punk rock culture combined with the tradition of quilting.Venom creates stunning, expansive patchwork quilts and clothing that often incorporate skulls, tigers and heavy metal lyrics, with his practice framed within wider counterculture contexts, and the legacy of post-war American art and craft.Venom's early influences come from the street - punk rock, heavy metal, and the skateboard community. At the heart of the artist's work is his use of re-purposed materials, such as fan donated band t-shirts, to create pieces contrasting the often menacing and iconic counterculture components of gangs, punk/metal music and the occult with the comforts of domesticity.The works intermingle fine art and craft, dispelling gender stereotypes of contemporary quilting practice and expressing a fresh and irreverent sense of masculinity.Featuring texts by Laura L. Camerlengo (Assistant Curator of Costume and Textiles Arts at de Young Museum, San Francisco), and Lindsay Bishop (photographer/filmmaker, and Social Anthropology researcher at UCL, London).Published on the occasion of the exhibition Ben Venom: All this Mayhem at mac Birmingham (22 June - 8 September 2019). This exhibition takes place during the city-wide Home of Metal festival in Birmingham, UK (summer 2019).

Myths of the Cherokee

Author: James Mooney
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486131327
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 610

Book Description
126 myths: sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, many more. Plus background on Cherokee history, notes on the myths and parallels. Features 20 maps and illustrations.

Big Blues

Author: Paul Carroll
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780517882214
Category : Computer industry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A reporter who spent seven years covering IBM for the Wall Street Journal tells the inside story of the giant corporation's fall from grace. This edition includes an afterword updating IBM's fortunes after Louis Gerstner's first year as the company's CEO.

Trademarks on Base-metal Tableware

Author: Eileen Woodhead
Publisher: National Historic Sites Parks Service Environment Canada
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Over the past decade the Metal Unit of the Material Culture Section, Archaeology Research Division, Canadian Parks Service, has maintained a reference file identifying marks found on metal artifacts. This document is a selection of marks on file that relate primarily to tableware items, from the late 18th century to about 1900.

Michael Craig-Martin

Author: Michael Craig-Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912520152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Born in Ireland, the artist Michael Craig-Martin studied in America. On returning to the UK, he became a key figure in British conceptual art and an influential educator, linked in particular to the YBAs including Damien Hirst and Gary Hume. Craig-Martin's works transform recognisable objects - such as sneakers, headphones, watches and, most recently, Modernist buildings - with bold colour and simplified lines. He cites his 'rationalism' as the root of his practice. Craig-Martin is the latest subject of a three-year curatorial partnership between The Gallery at Windsor, Florida, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, initiated to celebrate the Academy's 250th anniversary. This lively book reproduces a selection of his paintings, prints and sculptures, with an insightful essay by the art critic Ben Luke and an interview between Tim Marlow and the artist. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Gallery at Windsor, Florida, 26 January - 26 April 2019. AUTHORS: Ben Luke is the art critic at the London Evening Standard. Tim Marlow is artistic director at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. SELLING POINTS: * A selection of Michael Craig-Martin's paintings, prints and sculptures, with an interview * This book is the result of a collaboration between The Gallery at Windsor, Florida, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London 45 colour images