New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting
R1090New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art.
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New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art.
The media as the medium. The medium is the message. These two propositions—the second from Marshall McLuhan—define the principal axes on which South African artist Siemon Allen (born 1971, Durban, South Africa) articulates his archivally-driven yet self-reflexive practice.
Foreword by David Bowie. Norman Catherine is considered to be at the forefront of South African contemporary art with his rough-edged comical and nightmarish forms rendered in brash cartoon colours; his idiosyncratic visions and his dark cynicism and exuberant humour.
Part of the British Museum’s Objects in Focus series, this compact book offers a well illustrated guide to the crowned bronze head unearthed at Ife in Nigeria in 1938.
For the past decade, in an ongoing project titled The Lost Men, renowned artist Paul Emmanuel has challenged conventions around war memorials. He has questioned which soldiers are memorialised and which are erased, and the stereotypes around soldiers and masculinity. Featuring artworks from his three iterations of The Lost Men, Paul Emmanuel Men and Monuments highlights vulnerability, an aspect of masculinity so often denied by history and society.
Peter Schuyff is a contemporary Dutch artist who was a prominent member of the Neo-Geo movement. This book acts as an extensive catalogue of all Schuyff’s works on paper from 1984 to 2018.
From cave paintings to contemporary art, Pigments demonstrates how a material understanding of color opens new perspectives on visual culture and the history of art.
This a collection of German expressionist prints that lead from the late 19th century to the early 2000s. The works were comprised from the exhibition held at the Faulconer Gallery in January 23––March 15, 2015.
The Power of Making is a joint publication between the V&A and the Crafts Council, continuing a long standing collaboration on craft and making. This fascinating book features an introduction by curator and educator, Daniel Charny, alongside contributions from international authors that explore contemporary attitudes towards skill, and the potential that skilled making offer the arts and creative industries. Seemingly disparate objects are brought together in a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ to unite and reinforce creative, cultural, social and educational points of view all offering different ways of understanding the potent power that comes with making. The book also poses incisive questions about the increasing distance people have from making, and the impact that deskilling and the deterioration of making knowledge may have on cultural production and society.
A book examining the Pre-Raphaelite Painting techniques and innovations that produced a revolution in Art.
Combining rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-nineteenth-century art world and were effectively Britain’s first modern art movement. Today the works of the Pre-Raphaelites are among the best known of all English paintings, and yet they have sometimes been dismissed as Victoriana or mere escapism. This book corrects that view.
Revealing the techniques and ideas behind inspirational works, the book will set you on the path to making your own great drawings.
This book introduces the work of the greatest artists of the Dutch golden age, an era of unparalleled wealth, power and cultural confidence.
Fusing European influences such as Cubism with a socialist ideology and an exaltation of Mexico’s indigenous and popular heritage, he created a new iconography for art history and for his country. He became one of the most important figures in the Mexican mural movement and won international acclaim for his public wall paintings, in which he presented a utopian yet accessible vision of a post-revolutionary Mexico.
The greatest form of wisdom lives inside us and Journaling is an amazing way to tap into our own brilliance. We colour-in, expressing our unique creativity and allow our minds to reflect & relax. The Sankofa Mode Hidden Gems book is the coming together of 3 beautiful and empowering elements; Colouring-in, Journaling & the wisdom of Proverbs from various tribes across Africa.
Containing colouring artworks designed by the legendary veteran illustrator Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi (born 1954) from South Africa, these detailed line artworks bring together tribal aesthetics from all over our ‘Colourful continent’. By colouring-in the artworks you get to collaborate with an esteemed African Artist and engage with a broad range of African Cultural Aesthetics.
UNISA Series of essays dealing with issues in English Studies in Southern Africa.
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