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Out of stockWhat did Spain look like when Picasso was born? What kind of community did he grow up in? What was his studio like? Who were the people who had the most influence on his art? The answers to these and other questions help bring into focus the Spanish artist’s brilliant career and his influence on twentieth-century art.
This book enables any amateur artist to explore confidently the most popular painting medium the world has ever known: watercolour.
World Dutch conceptual artist Hans Eijkelboom’s work is very much in line with the deadpan, seemingly mechanistic note-taking of Ed Ruscha and Hans-Peter Feldman. In Paris*New York*Shanghai, Eijkelboom creates a clever and witty comparative study of three major contemporary metropolises, each selected for having been (or promising to be) the cultural capital of its time-Paris during the nineteenth century; New York, the twentieth; and Shanghai, the twenty-first.
Rock legend Patti Smith is famed for her powerful onstage presence, depicted by many of photography’s own legends. Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits of the young poet/singer were instrumental in defining her groundbreaking persona in 1970s.
An exceptional monograph-catalogue revealing the innovative drive in Gauguin’s work. This catalogue offers a unique opportunity to view Gauguin’s entire artistic development from his early impressionist works to his final masterpieces painted on the Marquesas Islands where the artist went in search of an Arcadian kingdom “of ecstasy, peace and art, far from the typical European struggle for money”.
As an avant-garde artist of the twentieth century, painter Paul Klee’s work defies classification. What is indisputable, however, is its originality and brilliance. Taken from the artist’s most prolific years, 1917-1933, this book presents works that Klee never intended to sell. More than 100 colour plates reveal Klee’s chromatic genius and wide stylistic range. Along…
As a painter, illustrator and critic, Paul Nash (1889-1946) was at the forefront of British art in the first half of the twentieth century.
A beautifully designed introduction to the life and work of Paul Nash, one of the leading artists of the 20th century. By exploring the full course of Nash’s eventful career, David Boyd Haycock takes you through how he produced some of the greatest paintings of the First and Second World Wars, and helped to establish the Surrealist movement in Britain.
There are two central pillars to an understanding of Paula Rego the artist. Firstly that she is pre eminently a draughts-woman of extraordinary range, both stylistically and emotionally, and secondly that she is the quintessential storyteller. Together, these two attributes make printmaking a highly appropriate medium within which to explore her fertile and often dark…
‘I am a tree, so to speak. The trunk is fairly straight and traditional. Where my art has left to go on different excursions there are branches like Pop Art, wood engraving and Ruralism… What I am working on now is in direct line with what preoccupied me years ago; the same fantasies.’-Peter Blake
Peter Blake is one of the most influential and original artists
Peter Fischli and David Weiss are Swiss artists who first began working together in the late 1970s. Their sculpture, video and photographic works all generate a unique atmosphere of concentration and relaxed pleasure. The mood of their work ranges from the humorous – a pair of clay figures, for example, titled Mick Jagger and Brian Jones go home satisfied after composig ‘I Can’t Get No Satisfaction’ – to the banal – a photographic series devoted to Airports – and even the apparently invisible – their Untitled installation simulating, through minutely detailed polyurethane sculptures, an unfinished exhibition site.
Peter Fraser has been at the forefront of contemporary photography since the early 1980s. Much of his work involves an almost obsessive focus on the stuff of the world, the matter and materials that he finds in the everyday.
Since Tate Modern opened in London in 2000, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art, reaching an audience of millions. The way artists have interpreted this vast industrial space has revolutionized public perceptions of contemporary art in the 21st century. Philippe Parreno (b. 1964) is…
‘Lively, intelligent, free of cant and well written: a good introduction to a difficult subject’ The Burlington Magazine
This new biography paints a riveting portrait of Pablo Picasso, examining both his strengths and shortcomings as husband, lover and father.
Olivier Widmaier Picasso’s unique insight into the life of one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists, details not only Picasso’s hopes, fears and regrets, but also his certainties and commitments, his unique audacity, his happiness and his conflicts.
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