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Cecily Brown
Author: Courtney J. Martin
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781838661045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cecily Brown is a British-born, New York-based artist who rose to prominence in the late 1990s. Originally influenced by Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, Brown has over the years developed her unique voice, which investigates the sensual qualities of oil paint and portraiture through a satirizing and celebratory process inspired both by abstraction and realism. Gentle and yet forceful, Brown's exuberant brushwork, rich palette, intense energy, and black humor have redefined some of painting's historical canons.
Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting
Author: Phaidon Editors
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2019-09-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780714879956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The indispensable guide to the most exciting painters of recent years, chosen by leading arts professionals - now in paperback Despite its long history, painting continues to evolve and excite, with new generations taking it in unexpected directions. A central pillar of artistic practice, painting also has enduring appeal for collectors and still dominates the art market. Vitamin P3 takes the conversation forward, spotlighting more than 100 outstanding artists who are pushing the boundaries of the medium of paint. In its new paperback format, it's sure to inspire a wider-than-ever audience.
The Men's Fashion Book
Author: Jacob Gallagher
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781838662479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first-ever authoritative A-Z celebration of the 500 greatest names in men's fashion - 200 years of men's style through the work of designers, brands, photographers, icons, models, retailers, tailors, and stylists around the globe
The English Garden
Author: Jim Lewis
Publisher: Karma, New York
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781942607038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Like nature, only better. Nature with all the awkward bits smoothed out. And then picturesque, like a landscape painting," states Jim Lewis' protagonist, defining an English garden in Cecily Brown's newest book of paintings. An imaginative pas de deux, The English Garden sees British painter Brown (born 1969) and American writer Lewis (born 1963) contribute acutely detailed and darkly sensuous allusions to the traditional 18th-century English landscape garden. Thirty-nine of Brown's paintings are interspersed throughout this compact hardcover publication as tipped-in images. The largely abstract works, with glimpses of figurative elements, are a dichotomy of warm and subdued strokes of color, each containing an expansive landscape unto itself. Novelist and critic Jim Lewis' story transports the reader to the English countryside and investigates the seductive pull of the natural world in tandem with Brown's paintings. Combining two major voices in contemporary literature and painting, this volume is a truly gorgeous production.
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-08-25
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0141962356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour (1724-6) is an invaluable source of social and economic history. But this book is far more than a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution, for Defoe possessed a wild, inventive streak that endows his work with astonishing energy and tension, and the Tour is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world. By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering 'the present state' of Britain.
YVES KLEIN AT BLENHEIM PALACE.
The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Protest Paintings
Author: Richard Prince
Publisher:
Published: 2014-06-01
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780957529717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Together for the first time in a comprehensive exhibition, Skarstedt is delighted to present Richard Prince: Protest Paintings (1989 - 1994), the artist's sixth solo exhibition at the gallery. Devoted solely to this exceptional body of work and including paintings from across the entire series, the detailed catalogue of the Protest Paintings was published to accompany the exhibition. Featuring paintings from public and private collections, the exhibition demonstrates the breadth of Prince's creativity in this singular body of work. The range of paintings on show includes monochrome canvases with printed and handwritten jokes, patterned canvases with block text and brightly coloured abstract compositions overlaid with graffiti and drip marks. Rising to prominence in the 1980s, Richard Prince is a celebrated pioneer of a critical approach to art making. Appropriating images and text from advertising and popular culture, his photographs, sculptures and paintings explore ideas of American identity and consumerism, whilst simultaneously challenging ideas of authorship and the privileged status of the unique artwork. Prince has been the subject of solo exhibitions at leading institutions worldwide, including Serpentine Gallery, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and IVAM, Valencia amongst others.
JR: Can Art Change the World?
Author: Nato Thompson
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2015-10-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780714869490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first major and in-depth retrospective monograph on JR, the enigmatic and anonymous Parisian photographer/street artist/activist behind some of the world's most provocative large-scale public photography projects. Created in close collaboration with JR, this book includes all bodies of his work, his collaborations with other artists and institutions such as the New York Ballet and previously unpublished behind-the-scenes documentation of his studios in Paris and New York, where he and his creative collaborators live and work. Introducing JR 's story is a specially commissioned graphic novel by comic artist Joseph Remnant, which charts his rise from graffiti roots and his decision to become a full-time artist. Features a survey essay by Nato Thompson, Chief Curator of Creative Time, New York.
