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Volker Hermes: Hidden Portraits
Old Masters Reimagined
Volker Hermes
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9781788842815
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World excluding Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Italy
316 mm x 230 mm
128 Pages
50 color
£35.00
The essential book of Hidden Portraits by thought-provoking artist Volker Hermes
Beautiful collection of contemporary art gone global through social media
Featuring commentary by leading academics Till-Holger Borchert and Professor Francesca Raimondi
A must-have reinterpretation of historical privilege through a very modern lens
Volker Hermes was featured by the Metropolitan Museum and Christie s in New York, and has shown his work at the National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland; the James Freeman Gallery in London; Museum Palazzo Merulana in Rome; and the Galerie Bräuning Contemporary in Hamburg
Volker Hermes: Hidden Portraits gathers the essential works by one of the most beguiling artists of the present era, in a very modern reinterpretation of historical privilege.
Using only elements of the original paintings, Volker Hermes masterfully alters photos of historical portraits to mask the faces of their subjects. With each figure concealed under their own ceremonial attire, these one-time elites quickly lose their individuality in a plume of decorations and accessories.
In this official collection, Hermes delivers his wry commentary on wealth, fame and social status with taut imagery, intense focus and a suitably shrewd sense of humour. His immaculately reproduced artworks are accompanied by the thoughts of German art historian Till-Holger Borchert and Professor Francesca Raimondi of Berlin s Institute for Philosophy, as well as the artist himself.
A must-have revision of classical portraiture from a celebrated digital creator.
Hermes s meticulously described collages pay homage to their sources while gently ribbing the social pretensions and ambitions of the courtly classes. Christopher Alessandrini, metmuseum.org
Volker Hermes, born in 1972, draws and paints powerfully and directly, with perseverance and a lot of humour. His pictures and drawings are always integrated into comprehensive projects, within which Hermes gets to the core of his subject in an almost scientific way. These projects include a multi-year preoccupation with the subject of portraiture and, more recently, with the subject of historical battle painting and seascapes. His works are always an expression of an intensive engagement with art. Thus his portraits do not serve the honour of their protagonists and the sea battles do not serve the glory of old seafaring. Hermes paintings bring fame and glory to art itself. His figures exercise the possibilities of painterly representation with impressive virtuosity. And there are no limits to these. Hermes combines linear conception with painterly gestures and watercolour-like painting with hard Edding drawing and shows himself to be a master in both fields. For him, painterly solutions must be derived from a fundamental (artistic) principle with an inner logic: If the viewer feels this even subconsciously, that's enough for me. You don't have to know everything, but you can feel a lot. Despite all the analysis, Hermes paintings should above all be enjoyed.
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Surrealism
First and Always
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9781788842822
ACC Art Books
Hardback World
320 mm x 220 mm
344 Pages
£50.00
The official catalogue of the Centre Pompidou s Surrealism Exhibition which begins in Paris, 4 September 2024 to 13 January 2025, and moves on to Spain, Germany and the USA
Featuring pages from André Breton s Surrealist Manifesto
Illustrated with 250 Surrealist masterpieces, including works by some of the world s most famous artists
Reversible layout
Organisers say it is an unprecedented way to organise an exhibition: while some works and themes remain constant in each city, others change and each museum tells its own story. Perfect, then, for a movement that always aimed to subvert traditional artistic norms. The Guardian
This blend of scholarly insight and artistic exploration makes the catalogue not only visually stunning but intellectually enriching. Artlyst The defining book for the centenary of Surrealism.
From September 2024 to January 2025, the Centre Pompidou will celebrate the 100th anniversary of André Breton s Surrealist Manifesto. For the next two years, their unprecedented Surrealist exhibition will tour the art galleries of the world, accompanied by this special catalogue.
Perhaps more than any other artistic movement, Surrealism had a cataclysmic effect on the modern mind, changing forever the way we think about experiencing the world. By rejecting the gross linearity that typified several centuries of preceding artworks, the legendary Surrealists Magritte, Ernst, Carrington, Dalí, Tanning and so many others reached beyond the façade of that which is patently visible and found something more.
Like the great works that fill its pages, Surrealism offers a departure from singletrack thinking, with a multi-directional layout and an uninhibited design. Featuring original essays from leading academics and excerpts from the Surrealist Manifesto itself, this stands among the most essential Surrealist catalogues ever published.
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Fragments: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Edited by Pia Maria Simig
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9781788842938
ACC Art Books Hardback
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290 mm x 250 mm
248 Pages
100 color, 1 b&w
£50.00
Includes introductory essays by Emeritus Professor of History of Art Stephen Bann and art critic Tom Lubbock
Two hundred colour illustrations of Finlay s most noteworthy artistic creations
Each artwork is accompanied by a short text, either by the artist or by a noted writer on Finlay s work
Words and ideas are as one and at war in Finlay s witty, elegant work The Guardian
In celebration of the centenary of artist, poet and landscape designer Ian Hamilton Finlay s birth,Fragments draws together 100 of his artworks. With each piece accompanied by a short text, either by the artist or by a noted writer on Finlay s work, this book accompanies a series of eight exhibitions taking place in Basel, Brescia, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Palma de Mallorca, London, New York and Vienna in May 2025.
Best known for his Little Sparta a seven-acre site at Stonypath farm in Scotland that has attained almost-mythical status and for his installed guillotines, A View to the Temple, at Documenta Kassel 1987, Finlay s large body of work can be found in museums, parks and gardens worldwide. His artistic creations also incorporate short stories, poems and concrete poetry, many of which have been published by his own publishing house Wild Hawthorn Press, and which, with a mixture of wit and beauty, engage with the relationship between violence and civilisation.
Pia Maria Simig worked closely with Finlay, supervising installations and exhibitions of his work throughout the world.
Published 8th May 2025
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Wu Changshuo A Polymathic Maestro of Chinese Arts
Shanghai Wu Changshuo Art Museum
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9781788842860
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285 mm x 200 mm
228 Pages
130 color
China Culture Perspectives
£45.00
With over 130 colour images of paintings, calligraphy and seal engraving Fascinating exploration into the life and works of a highly celebrated artist A celebration of the 180th anniversary of Wu Changshuo s birth
Wu Changshuo is one of China s most celebrated calligraphers and painters. On the 180th anniversary of his birth, the Shanghai Wu Changshuo Art Museum has put together this anthology of selected writings alongside over 130 works from the museum s collection to accompany a year-long series of exhibitions of this celebrated artist. With each piece written from a different perspective, this fascinating book is an appreciation of the resolute character and accomplishments of this great Chinese calligrapher, painter, seal engraver and poet.
Born in 1844 in the late Qing period, Wu Changshuo went from impoverished farm worker to celebrated artist. Leading the Xiling Seal Art Society, Wu would go on to become part of the avant-garde Shanghai School with its unique East meets West culture. A great believer and practitioner in studying the ancient masters and their techniques in order to create a solid foundation and expert knowledge of the arts, Wu went on to create his own school of thought which combined this ancient wisdom with his own innovative interpretations.
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Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome Drawing Course
Gerald M. Ackerman
Graydon Parrish
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9781788840446
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275 mm x 250 mm
336 Pages
136 color, 212 b&w
£65.00
Two hundred lithographs that comprised a famous late nineteenth-century drawing course
Introduces the work of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue
Of interest to artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of art
The Bargue-Gérôme Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous, late nineteenth-century drawing course. It contains a set of almost two hundred masterful lithographs of subjects for copying by drawing students before they attempt drawing from life or nature. Consequently it is a book that will interest artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of drawings. It also introduces us to the work and life of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue. The Drawing Course consists of three sections. The first consists of plates drawn after casts, usually of antique examples. Different parts of the body are studied in order of difficulty, until full figures are presented. The second section pays homage to the western school of painting, with lithographs after exemplary drawings by Renaissance and modern masters. The third part contains almost 60 académies, or drawings after nude male models, all original inventions by Bargue, the lithographer. With great care, the student is introduced to continually more difficult problems in the close observing and recording of nature. Charles Bargue started his career as a lithographer of drawings by hack artists for a popular market in comic, sentimental and soft-porn subjects. By working with Gérôme, and in preparing the plates for the course, Bargue was transformed into a spectacular painter of single figures and intimate scenes; a master of precious details that always remain observation and never became self-conscious virtuosity, and colour schemes that unified his composition in exquisite tonal harmonies. The last part of the book is a biography of Bargue, along with a preliminary catalogue of his paintings, accompanied by reproductions of all that have been found and of many of those lost.
A renowned specialist in nineteenth-century academic art, Gerald Ackerman (1928-2016) was the author of several books including The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Orientalists of the British School and The Orientalists of the American School Graydon Parrish is a renowned figurative painter, famous in the United States for his allegory Remorse, Despondence, and Acceptance of An Early Death, at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts.
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This Is What You Get Stanley Donwood | Radiohead |Thom Yorke
Edited by Lena Fritsch
Contributions by Benjamin Myers
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9781910807668
Ashmolean Museum
Paperback / softback
World excluding Australasia
300 mm x 300 mm
256 Pages
170 color, 20 b&w
£30.00
Complete survey of the collaboration between Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke for the band, Radiohead
Many previously unpublished works and notebooks included
Exclusive interview with Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
Includes essay by the novelist Ben Myers
A major retrospective will be held at the Ashmolean Museum from August 2025 to January 2026
This major retrospective catalogue is the first institutional show focusing on the visual works of art by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke. The majority of the paintings, drawings and digital works were specifically made for Yorke s internationally celebrated band Radiohead, formed in Oxford in 1985. This features iconic artworks from the 1980s until today, relating to Radiohead albums, their covers and promotional band images, as well as sketchbooks and rare materials from their archives that have never before been published. It offers fresh views on the art of album covers, exploring the complex relationship between visual art and music.
Radiohead was formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The collaboration with the artist Stanley Donwood began in 1994 when the band was developing their second album, The Bends, which was released on 13th March, 1995. 2025 is therefore the 40-year anniversary of the band and the 30-year anniversary of the release of The Bends. The catalogue s focus is upon the art produced by both Stanley Donwood and the band s lead vocalist, Thom Yorke presented chronologically. Radiohead s popularity has never waned and they have a strong core following and new fans (many of who are the children of original fans).
The high-quality reproductions are complemented by exclusive interviews with the artists, and essays by Alex Farquharson, Nico Kos Earle, Benjamin Myers, James Putnam and Jennifer Ramkalawon.
A major retrospective will be held at the Ashmolean Museum from August 2025 to January 2026.
Lena Fritsch is the Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean, responsible for exhibitions, displays and acquisitions of international art. She teaches at the University of Oxford, V&A and SOAS. Previously, she was a curator at Tate Modern, London and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Recent publications include Anselm Kiefer: Early Works (2024), Ashmolean NOW: Pio Abad (2023), Ashmolean NOW: Flora Yukhnovich x Daniel Crews-Chubb (2022), Tokyo: Art & Photography (with Clare Pollard, 2021). She holds a PhD from Bonn University and also studied at Keio University, Tokyo. Benjamin Myers is an awardwinning author and journalist, whose work includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and journalism. His novels have been translated into13 languages. He is the author of Rare Singles, Cuddy, The Gallows Pole, The Offing and many more.
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Rothko
Suzanne Pagé
Christopher Rothko
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9782850889509
Citadelles & Mazenod
Hardback World
313 mm x 290 mm
316 Pages
220 color
£39.95
A catalogue of the major exhibition of remarkable paintings by Mark Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, from October 18, 2023 to April 2, 2024
This publication has been produced in close collaboration with the artist s family
Two page fold-outs plunge the reader deep into Rothko s oeuvre
Contains previously unpublished works and archive material
Represents a major cultural event for Paris and the world
An expansive retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, in Paris, shows why the visionary artist continues to turn heads. W Magazine This illustrated catalogue is published to accompany the retrospective exhibition devoted to American artist Mark Rothko, curated by Suzanne Pagé and the artist s son, Christopher Rothko. The show will feature over one hundred works. Born Markus Rothkowitz in Latvia in the early 20th century, the man who would soon become known as Mark Rothko began painting in the 1930s. While his early works were influenced by mythology and Surrealism, his first abstract paintings emerged in the 1940s with theMultiform series, followed by his Classic Years and the Black and Gray paintings. A key figure on the New York art scene, Rothko was an uncategorisable artist who deployed an extensive palette of colour and light with a talent that consistently triggers emotion. His great sensitivity shaped a poetic, enigmatic universe that leaves no one untouched.
Text in English and French.
An internationally renowned art historian, Suzanne Pagé is currently artistic director of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Formerly the director of the Musée d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, she curated the previous French retrospective of Rothko s work, back in 1999.
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Berthe Morisot Shaping Impressionism
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Musee Marmottan Monet
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9781898519485
Dulwich Picture Gallery
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World
280 mm x 240 mm
210 Pages
85 color
£29.00
Accompanies the exhibition Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism at the Dulwich Picture Gallery 31 March - 10 September 2023
Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism is the first major UK exhibition of the renowned Impressionist since 1950. In partnership with the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, it will bring together around 30 of Morisot s most important works from international collections, many never seen before in the UK, to reveal the artist as a trailblazer of the movement as well as uncovering a previously untold connection between her work and 18th century culture, with around 20 works for comparison. A founding member of the Impressionist group, Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was known for her swiftly painted glimpses of contemporary life and intimate domestic scenes. She featured prominently in the Impressionist exhibitions and defied social norms to become one of the movement s most influential figures. Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism will draw on new research and previously unpublished archival material from the Musée Marmottan Monet to trace the roots of her inspiration, revealing the ways in which Morisot engaged with 18th century art and culture, while also highlighting the originality of her artistic vision, which ultimately set her apart from her predecessors.
Highlights will include Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight (1875), painted while Morisot was on honeymoon in England, and her striking Self-Portrait (1885), which will appear alongside Jean-Honoré Fragonard s Young Woman (c.1769) from Dulwich Picture Gallery s collection. Apollo revealing his divinity to the shepherdess Issé, after François Boucher (1892), In the Apple Tree (1890) and Julie Manet with her Greyhound Laerte (1893), are among nine paintings on loan from the Musée Marmottan Monet, many receiving their first ever showing in the UK. Published 29th Mar 2023
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Pop Forever - Tom Wesselmann
Edited by Editions Gallimard
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9782073075987
Editions Gallimard Hardback World
290 mm x 250 mm
348 Pages
£39.95
The most comprehensive exhibition ever dedicated to Tom Wesselmann Published to accompany Fondation Louis Vuitton s exhibition, which will be held from October 2024 to March 2025
At the end of 2024, Fondation Louis Vuitton will be holding for the first time a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann.
It will include around eighty of Tom Wesselmann s absolute masterpieces covering his creative periods from the 1950s to the 2000s. The exhibition will offer the opportunity to experience the beginnings of the Pop Art phenomenon through the presentation of other major works by Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Yayoi Kusama, Evelyne Axell, Frank Bowling, Rosalyn Drexler, Jasper Johns, Kiki Kogelnik, Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, James Rosenquist, Marjorie Strider, and Andy Warhol. The contextualisation of Wesselmann s work within the Pop Art zeitgeist paves the way for immersion into his wide-ranging yet very distinctive oeuvre.
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Offers a fresh perspective on the potential of wood as an artistic medium
Utilises wood from majestic, centuries-old trees, often reclaimed from nature
Emphasises the organic nature of wood, incorporating its natural imperfections
Works featured in prestigious museums worldwide
Ernst Gamperl Urkraft
Ernst Gamperl
Frank Matthias Kammel
Antonia Boström
Michele De Lucchi
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9791254600863
5 Continents Editions
Hardback
World excluding Italy, Germany, and France
320 mm x 260 mm
272 Pages
209 color
£59.00
Exhibitions include: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, May 14 October 5, 2025; Galerie Handwerk, Munich, June 27 August 2, 2025; Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, 10 October - 29 November 2025
The relationship Ernst Gamperl, an artist of international renown, has developed with wood as a living material and the acknowledgment of inescapable serendipity are a source of creative inspiration as well as the driving forces behind his work a work revolving around the artist s deep connection with nature and respect for his raw material. The wood worked by Gamperl sometimes comes from majestic trees tens or even hundreds of years old grown in nature, it is nature that has often sent these unmistakable creatures crashing down. Trees are an integral part of creation, symbols of life and strength that Gamperl has studied and perceived for many years in symbiosis with their essence and nature. His ability to combine an unconventional approach to the material with a revolutionary technique and an original interpretation honed over many years results in works that stand out for their elegance and charisma. Gamperl stretches technique to its limits in creating powerful sculptures that unfailingly stir the viewer, who discovers something never before encountered.
Text in English, Italian and German.
The monograph provides a comprehensive analysis of the life and work of Ernst Gamperl, tracing his extraordinary career spanning almost forty years. Born in Munich and trained as a carpenter, Gamperl taught himself to use his skills for artistic ends, attracting international attention very early on. Living and working in northern Italy was instrumental in his development, not to mention his proximity to Milan. Frequenting artists, musicians, designers, photographers, museum curators and gallery owners, he soon began to build a network of important partners. His works are exhibited in numerous museums and private collections around the world, including the Issey Miyake Collection in Japan, the LOEWE Foundation in Madrid, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Amorepacific Museum of Art in Seoul, the Fond National d Art Contemporain in Paris, and the Neue Sammlung in Munich. Among his numerous awards, Gamperl was the very first winner of the LOEWE Craft Prize in 2017, one of the most important art prizes in the world. Frank Matthias Kammel is a German art historian and General Director of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. He studied art history, classical archaeology and aesthetics at Humboldt University, specialising in medieval art. He worked at the National Museums in Berlin and at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, where he was also deputy director. Kammel appears as an expert on sculpture and religious folk art in the Bavarian television programme Kunst und Krempel. Antonia Boström is an art historian and curator with a long career in major museums in Britain and the US, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the J. Paul Getty Museum and The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. She has specialized in the Baroque sculptor F.X. Messerschmidt, on whom she curated the Messerschmidt and Modernity exhibition at the Getty Museum. She serves on the expert panel of the LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize, and is a trustee of the Henry Moore Foundation. Michele De Lucchi is an architect, designer and artist. He was one of the leading figures in Alchimia and Memphis and head of design at Olivetti from 1988 to 2002. He created Artemide s Tolomeo lamp, which won the Compasso d Oro award in 1987. During his academic career, he taught at the IUAV University of Venice and the Milan Polytechnic. In 2018, he was Guest Editor at Domus magazine. In 2022, he was presented with the Compasso d Oro award for lifetime achievement and in 2024 he was nominated Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. He is the founder and member of AMDL CIRCLE.
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Faig Ahmed Emma Saperstein
Erica Warren
Fahmida Suleman
Leslee Michelsen
Nina Levent
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9783735609786
Kerber
Hardback
World excluding Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the USA & Canada
320 mm x 240 mm
256 Pages
£50.00
First monograph with an overview of his work between 2007 and 2023, with visualisations of future projects that offer an exclusive preview Ahmed's conceptual works unite and address highly controversial topics such as the clash of cultures, tradition and digitalisation, religion and secularisation, high culture and popular culture, often united in a single work of art
Faig Ahmed (b. 1982) represented Azerbaijan at the 2007 Biennale in Venice and is considered to be one of the most important contemporary artists from the Middle East. His conceptual works, which combine traditional carpet weaving with contemporary sculptural techniques, have earned him international acclaim. The confrontation between the millennia-old tradition of craftsmanship and modern-day image production strategies reveals unimagined potential for reflection on the interplay between culture and religion, craftsmanship and art.
Ahmed s first monograph offers deep insights into the creative processes behind his art and for the first time brings together all of the works created between 2007 and 2023, as well as visualisations of future projects. Numerous interviews and art-historical essays complete the volume and allow for a powerful exploration of the work of this exceptional artist.
Faig Ahmed born in 1982 in Sumqayit, graduated Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art in 2004 with a major in Sculpture, lives and works in Baku, Azerbaijan. He represented Azerbaijan at the nation s inaugural pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and participated in Love Me, Love Me Not show in 2013. In the same year, Ahmed was nominated for The Jameel Prize at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Ahmed represents a new wave of contemporary artists exploring crafts in innovative ways to produce conceptual works that break away from conventions associated with the craft, by bringing it into a global contemporary art context. Ahmed explores fresh new visual forms that examine tradition and challenge our perception of traditions through iconic cultural objects. The artist experiments with traditional materials and colours such as the rug weavings in Azerbaijan or Indian embroidery, and a variety of other media. He has exhibited his works worldwide, including exhibitions in New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, Venice, Dubai, Washington D.C., Hong Kong, Mumbai, Moscow, Azerbaijan, Sweden, Norway, Honolulu, Melbourne, and Sydney.
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Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery
Edited by Andrew Nairne
Edited by Eliza Spindel
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9781904561767
Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge Paperback / softback World
290 mm x 225 mm
240 Pages 160 color
£39.95
Published to coincide with the exhibition Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery, showing at Kettle s Yard from March 2023
Comprehensive new title on Lucie Rie; currently only a handful of books in print about her Reflects current trends/interests in studio pottery, mid-century modern style, women artists
Lucie Rie (1902 1995) is one of the finest modern potters of the 20th century. Born and trained in Vienna, her successful early career came to a halt in 1938 when forced to leave Austria to escape the persecution of Jewish people. In exile in London, Rie established a new workshop and over five decades created highly individual bowls, vases and tableware which continue to amaze and inspire today.
With over 150 photographs and five new essays, Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery celebrates an exceptional life of creative invention and experiment.
With texts by Edmund de Waal, Tanya Harrod, Helen Ritchie, Eliza Spindel, Kimberley Chandler and Nigel Wood. Published 3rd Apr 2023
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Can We Stop Killing Each Other?
Tafadzwa Nomphanelo Makwabarara Tania Moore
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9781836360148
Kulturalis
Paperback / softback
World
245 mm x 180 mm
88 Pages
50 colour
£20.00
Accompanies a series of exhibitions at the Sainsbury Centre running from 20th September 2025 to 3rd May 2026
New approaches to the work of renowned artists such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Luca Giordano, Claude Monet, Paul Nash, Bruce Nauman, Wael Shawky, Tesfaye Urgessa and Kara Walker
Can We Stop Killing Each Other? wrestles with the darkest side of humanity. It explores the fundamental question of why humans are led to kill, examining the artworks, films, video games and television programmes that grapple with and manifest themes of death and destruction.
Using material culture linked to moments of extreme violence, such as the Holocaust and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, this publication offers a challenging but eye-opening consideration of some of the most horrifying events in human history as explored through art.
Using historical and contemporary art as a lens to explore these themes, the book will include a new interview with Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgessa (b.1983), who creates emotive paintings reflecting on the refugee crisis. It will also explore the role of art as sanctuary from violence, through new approaches to the work of Claude Monet (1840 1926)
Tafadzwa Nomphanelo Makwabarara is a Zimbabwean-born curator currently based at the Sainsbury Centre. She is the newly appointed Curator of Cultural Empowerment, focusing on encouraging critical thinking, cooperation and collaboration on universal contemporary issues through the inclusion and re-engagement of minority and marginalised groups in society. At the Sainsbury Centre, Tafadzwa has curated Heroin Falls as part of the Why Do We Take Drugs? season and been project curator on The Camera Never Lies: Challenging Images from The Incite Project for What Is Truth?Tafadzwa previously worked for the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe as Curator of Monuments where she oversaw 53 cultural heritage sites across four provinces, with responsibility for the management, conservation, preservation and restoration of monuments throughout Zimbabwe s northern region for nine years. During that time, she also collaborated with several African artists and cultural groups during exhibitions and festivals. One such collaboration was with the Magamba Network to partner in hosting the Shoko Festiva, Zimbabwe s biggest festival of urban culture combining arts, new media and civic activism. Tania Moore is Head of Exhibitions at the Sainsbury Centre where she has implemented a programme that tackles the most urgent questions facing society. She has curated Darwin in Paradise Camp: Yuki Kihara for Can the Seas Survive Us?; Lindsey Mendick: Hot Mess for Why Do We Take Drugs?; and In Event of Moon Disaster,
Liquid Gender, and Jeffrey Gibson: no simple word for time for What is Truth? Publications include Can the Seas Survive Us? (2024), What Is Truth? (2024); Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist Art in Britain Since 1951 (2021); and Henry Moore: Friendships and Legacies (2020). In 2019, she received the New Collecting Award from the Art Fund to acquire sculptors drawings by contemporary women and non-binary artists for the Sainsbury Centre collection.
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Edvard Munch: The Scream
Patricia G. Berman
Joanna Iranowska Øyvind Vågnes
Edited by Heidi Bale Amundsen
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9788284620169
MUNCH
Hardback
World excluding Norway
240 mm x 170 mm
For the first time in book form, experience all Scream works together with numerous versions of the motif, from merchandise, memes, pastiches from film and TV, emojis in addition to three essays
Richly illustrated
Includes the stories behind the scream motif
Ever since Munch first came up with the Scream motif at the end of the 19th century, countless artists, including Andy Warhol and Marina Abramovi , have modified it within their own work. In addition, the open-mouthed figure has cropped up in popular cultural productions such as Wes Craven sScream film franchise, the poster for the kids movie Home Alone, and in scores of satirical cartoons on everything from Brexit to Donald Trump s presidency and tax rises as well as on innumerable political banners and placards, most recently in protests about the climate emergency. In recent years, the Scream image has also taken a prominent place on digital screens in the form of its own emoji and as the basis of countless memes. At the same time, the quantity of souvenirs and other objects decorated with or shaped like Munch s figure of desperation has increased immeasurably. In short: these daysThe Scream haunts pretty much every layer of culture. It is without doubt one of the most frequently reproduced images in the history of art, equalled only perhaps by Leonardo da Vinci sMona Lisa, and is the originator of a constantly expanding network of analogue and digital mutations. Via these three texts, and a rich selection of illustrations including all knownScream images ever made by the artist himself, a selection of hisScream texts and countless so-called Scream mutations this book embraces Munch s best-known image as a cultural phenomenon.
Patricia G. Berman holds the Feldberg Chair of Art at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, specialising in modern and contemporary art, photography and propaganda. She has also taught at the University of Oslo where she facilitated the research network Munch, Modernism and Modernity . Berman s books and catalogues include studies of Edvard Munch, James Ensor, 19th-century Danish painting, gestural drawing and contemporary art. She has also curated numerous exhibitions, most recentlyThe Experimental Self: Edvard Munch s Photography (Scandinavia House, New York, 2017 and 2021 and Munchmuseet 2020). Berman is currently co-curating an exhibition of Nordic art and design for the Frick Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.Joanna Iranowska is a museologist with digital collections and material culture as her main fields of expertise. She holds a PhD from the University of Oslo about art museums as cultures of copies. In her thesis she focused on Munchmuseet and digital reproduction. She is also interested in actor-network theory and museum shops as arenas for reproduction. Iranowska now works as senior curator of photography at the MiA Museums in Greater Oslo, with virtual, interactive exhibitions, and is particularly interested in collections of pictures by female photographers.Øyvind Vågnes is an author and professor of media studies at the University of Bergen. In 2012 he was nominated for the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards), in the media studies category, and received the Peter C. Rollins Book Award both forZaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture(University of Texas Press, 2011).
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Georg Baselitz: Feet First
Jon-Ove Steihaug
Christian Weikop
Sverre Wyller
Georg Baselitz
Edited by Heidi Bale Amundsen
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330 mm x 240 mm
192 Pages
100 color
£35.00
Georg Baselitz is a renowned German Neo-Expressionist artist, still active and influential He is famous for his upside-down paintings and continues to create provocative, autobiographical works
Essays by Jon-Ove Steihaug, Christian Weikop, Sverre Myller and more
Includes exhibited works, bibliography and biography
Published to accompany an exhibition at MUNCH, 12 February- 5 May 2025
Georg Baselitz has been exploring, challenging and redefining contemporary art for over six decades, mainly via the medium of paint. A cornerstone of this task has been his complex exchange with historical and contemporary art.Georg Baselitz: Feet First illuminates the German artist s relationship to the art of Edvard Munch, which he has been in artistic dialogue with since the 1960s.
This richly illustrated book includes writings by exhibition curator Jon-Ove Steihaug, Christian Weikop, Sverre Wyller and Baselitz himself, as well as a longer conversation with the artist.
Published 1st May 2025
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Art & Court of James VI & I
Kate Anderson
Liz Louis
Catriona Murray Jemma Field
Anna Groundwater
Karen Hearn
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Beautiful illustrations of sumptuous jewellery, artworks and clothing from James s pivotal reign
9781911054702
National Galleries of Scotland
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265 mm x 245 mm
160 Pages
105 color
£24.99
The Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England is of particular topical interest in the current political climate
Illustrates, through art, for the first time the sophistication and glamour of James s court
Opens up a key chapter in British history in a brand new and revealing way
Through new scholarship, visually illustrates some of the reasons for the reassessment of James Will publish in March 2025 to mark the 400th anniversary of James s death
The World of King James VI and I exhibition is showing at the Portrait, National Galleries of Scotland from 26th April to 14th September 2025
James VI & I, the only child of Mary, Queen of Scots, has often been overshadowed by the dramatic lives of his mother and son, Charles I. This book seeks to redress the balance by centering the first monarch to reign over both Scotland and England and uncovering the artistic treasures created during his extraordinary reign.
The cultural riches of James s court are showcased, revealing his diverse roles as ruler, scholar, politician, father and patron of the arts. His court s passion for jewellery and fine clothes is illustrated in the vivid portraits and miniatures by John de Critz and Nicholas Hilliard just two of many artists and craftspeople who thrived in its artistic and intellectual climate.
Five richly illustrated chapters demonstrate James s impact on early modern Britain, while reconsidering the reputation of a king traditionally presented as preferring hunting and drinking to the duties of daily governance. Packed with exquisite art works and sumptuous objects, this book brings James s court vividly to life.
Kate Anderson is Senior Curator of Portraiture at the National Galleries of Scotland. Liz Louis is Curator of Portraiture at the National Galleries of Scotland. Catriona Murray is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. Jemma Field is Associate Director of Research at the Yale Center for British Art. Anna Groundwater is a cultural historian and Principal Curator of Renaissance and Early Modern History at the National Museum of Scotland. Karen Hearn was previously the Curator of 16th & 17th Century British Art at Tate Britain and is now an Honorary Professor at University College London.
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Andy Goldsworthy Fifty Years
Andy Goldsworthy
Contributions by Patrick Elliott Contributions by Tor Scott Contributions by David Kirkpatrick
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300 mm x 250 mm
128 Pages
100 color
£24.99
Published to accompany the major, large-scale exhibition by Andy Goldsworthy (organised by the National Galleries of Scotland) at the Royal Scottish Academy from 26 July 2025 to 2 November 2025
A wide-ranging interview between Andy Goldsworthy and curational team Patrick Elliott and Tor Scott gives readers personal insight from the artist into the highlights, challenges and processes behind his work, in his own words
The book is illustrated with works from the breadth of Goldsworthy's career - from his student days to beautiful proposal drawings for the retrospective exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2025
Andy Goldsworthy tells the story of his career in his own words from school art classrooms to the ambitious retrospective exhibition this book accompanies. In a wide-ranging and personal conversation, Goldsworthy recalls the triumphs and tribulations that have shaped his journey to become an artist of global renown. Illustrated by many of his iconic installations and ephemeral works, this book also includes previously unseen drawings for new creations. This is an unmissable account of the life and work of an artist pushing the boundaries of the art world.
Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire, England and lives in Scotland. He has undertaken commissions in the Australian rainforest and on the New Zealand coast; in Rio de Janeiro and New York City; in the New Mexico desert, the mountains of central Spain and on the fells of Dumfriesshire. He has exhibited in the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Palacio di Cristal. Among his recent publications are Ephemeral works 2004-2014 (Abrams, 2016) and Projects (Abrams, 2017). Patrick Elliott is Chief Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the National Galleries of Scotland. His previous publications for the National Galleries of Scotland include Grayson Perry: Smash Hits, Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage and Joan Eardley: Land & Sea - A Life in Catterline Tor Scott is Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art art at the National Galleries of Scotland. Her previous publications for the National Galleries of Scotland include Grayson Perry: Smash Hits, and she has also published and lectured on British Surrealism. David Kirkpatrick returned to the family farm in Dumfries and Galloway after university. Forty-five years later, he is still farming and has been involved in the establishment and running of several agricultural supply and marketing co-operatives.
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Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and his Contemporaries
Ian Warrell
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9781843682646
Pallas Athene
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240 mm x 295 mm
176 Pages 90 color
£35.00
Great but little seen watercolours. Stunning reproductions and a beautiful book Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Holburne Museum from May 23, to September 14, 2025
Curated and introduced by Ian Warrell, the leading expert on Turner, this selection from the fabled Hickman Bacon collection is one of the finest groups of British watercolours in existence, and hardly ever seen or reproduced. Centered around 32 watercolours by Turner, including some of his breathtaking views of the Alps, early views, and late cloud and sea studies, the collection also encompasses some of the greatest works by Turner s contemporaries: John Sell Cotman, Alexander Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Peter de Wint, John Crome, David Cox and others. Beautifully printed on heavy uncoated paper, with some reproductions life size, this book conveys the intensity and freshness and stupendous virtuosity of these artists whose work in watercolour has never been rivalled. An extended essay by the leading expert and former Tate curator Ian Warrell examines the paintings and gives a vivid picture of the artists who made them.
Ian Warrell is an independent curator specialising in British art of the 19th century. He was a curator at Tate Britain for more than 25 years and is a leading authority on the life and work of Turner.
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Édouard Vuillard
The Poetry of the Everyday
Belinda Thompson
Chris Stephens
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9781843682493
Pallas Athene
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138 mm x 138 mm
80 Pages
44 color
£14.95
Explores Édouard Vuillard s early career combining intimate subject matter with abstraction by simplifying pictorial elements and observing decorative fabrics and wallpapers
During the 1890s and early 1900s Édouard Vuillard (1868 1940) produced a body of work that combines intimate subject matter with abstract form through the simplification of pictorial elements and observation of decorative fabrics and wallpapers. Through these devices he developed an art that is unashamedly decorative and yet always replete with subtle suggestions of deeper meanings. In balancing form and content, psychological drama and abstraction, his pictures are about as close to poetry as any artist s, and all the more brilliant for their understatement and the near imperceptibility of their craft.
Illustrating many rarely seen paintings from private collections, this book offers a fresh look at the early career of this much-loved artist. Introduced by Chris Stephens, director of the Holburne Museum, and with an original essay by Belinda Thompson.
Belinda Thomson is a freelance art historian and Honorary Professor in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in late 19th-century French painting, particularly Gauguin and the Nabis, she published a monograph on Vuillard in 1988 (Phaidon). In 1991-2 she curated the Vuillard exhibition for the South Bank Centre which was seen in Glasgow, Sheffield and Amsterdam and in 1994 co-curated Bonnard at le Bosquet, London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 2010-11 she was lead curator of Gauguin: Maker of Myth at the Tate Modern, London, and at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.Dr Chris Stephens has been Director of the Holburne Museum since 2017. Prior to that he worked at Tate for over 20 years, as Head of Displays, Tate Britain, for much of that time, and also as Head of Modern British Art. Exhibitions in London and St Ives includedBarbara Hepworth: Centenary (2003), Francis Bacon (2008), Henry Moore (2010), Picasso and Modern British Art (2012), Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World (2015) and David Hockney (2017). His book St Ives: The Art and the Artists was published by Pavilion in 2018.
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Barbara Rae
Duncan Macmillan
Robin McKie
Imogen Stevens
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9781915815156
Royal Academy of Arts
Hardback
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290 mm x 235 mm
240 Pages
198 color
£40.00
Rae s painterly abstraction brings together her fascinations with landscape and travel
Featuring many previously unseen paintings
With authoritative texts and a wide array of illustrations, this handsome monograph charts Barbara Rae s long and successful career as a redoubtable travelling artist. From her native Scotland, particularly the Lammermuirs, to Spain, Ireland, and the polar regions, Rae s painterly abstraction brings together her fascinations with landscape and travel. Her sketchbooks feature here, too, revealing her process as she uses them to conceive the larger works she makes in her studio.
Duncan Macmillan is Emeritus Professor of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Edinburgh.Robin McKie was science editor of the Observer for over 40 years. Imogen Stevens administers and oversees operations for The Provost James Rae Trust.
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Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice / Rising Tides
Sara Cooper
Richard Fisher
Foreword by Caroline Lucas MP
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9781915815057
Royal Academy of Arts
Hardback
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220 mm x 240 mm
78 Pages
52 color
£25.00
Published to accompany an exhibition at Towner Eastbourne (9 May 15 September 2024), which looks at the warming environment of the polar regions and the impact this is ultimately having on the changing UK coastline, focusing on the Sussex shoreline near Towner
The latest exhibition is at Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford, Devon, running from 10th May - 5th July 2025
Working principally in drawing and print media on paper, Emma Stibbon RA depicts landscapes and environments that are undergoing dynamic transformation, among them the polar regions, volcanic areas, deserts and coastal and urban locations. Her approach is driven by her desire to understand how human activity and the forces of nature are shaping our surroundings: As an artist, I feel committed to representing the impact of these changes, be they natural or human. My impulse is to draw, to act as a witness.
A regular traveller, Stibbon undertakes field research alongside geologists and scientists; on her return to her Bristol studio, she works from her sketches and photographic records to create large-scale drawn and printed artworks that testify to the fragility of our existence.
Full of Stibbon s new work, this beautifully designed book contains a foreword by Caroline Lucas MP, an engaging interview with the artist by Sara Cooper, a text on the sublime in nature and art by Richard Fisher and a colour poster of the show s striking new installation Cliff Fall (2023).
Image credits: Emma Stibbon, Sea Groyne, 2023. Ink and sea salt, 102.5 x 250 cm.; Stuart Bunce photography, © Emma Stibbon; Emma Stibbon, Hope Gap, 2022. Ink and sea salt, 225 x 141 cm.; Stuart Bunce photography, © Emma Stibbon; Emma Stibbon, Tabular Berg, 2022. Intaglio print, 48 x 75 cm.; Stuart Bunce photography, © Emma Stibbon.
Published 15th May 2024
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Norman Ackroyd: An Irish Notebook
Norman Ackroyd
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9781912520619
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145 mm x 290 mm
96 Pages
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The RA Sketchbooks
£18.95
A collection of 40 sketches by Norman Ackroyd, presenting the Irish coast in all its rugged beauty
Norman Ackroyd CBE RA has been a familiar face to the boatmen of the British Isles for the past 50 years, often requiring their services to take him out on the water, where he paints the coastal landscape in vivid watercolours.
An Irish Notebook is a collection of 40 such sketches created by Ackroyd on the west coast of Ireland. From Malin to Mizen, via the rocky outcrops of Puffin Island and the emerald depths of Roaringwater Bay, Ackroyd records the Irish coast in all its rugged beauty.
Norman Ackroyd (b. 1938) studied at the Royal College of Art, London. He turned to landscape painting in the 1980s, and since then his prints of the ruggedly beautiful British coastline have been widely admired around the world.
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David Hockney
The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020
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Hockney
William Boyd
Edith Devaney
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9781912520640
Royal Academy of Arts
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175 mm x 250 mm
168 Pages
140 color
£25.00
During the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, David Hockney was in Normandy, and recorded the arrival of spring in exuberant iPad paintings
Over a hundred new iPad paintings on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2021
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, 23 May 26 August 2021
At the beginning of 2020, just as global Covid-19 restrictions were coming into force, the artist David Hockney was at his house, studio and garden in Normandy. From there, he witnessed the arrival of spring, and recorded the blossoming of the surrounding landscape on his iPad, a medium he has been using for over a decade. Working outdoors was an antidote to the anxiety of the moment for Hockney
We need art, and I do think it can relieve stress, he says.
This uplifting publication produced to accompany a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts includes 116 of his new iPad paintings and shows to full effect Hockney s singular skill in capturing the exuberance of nature.
William Boyd is the author of sixteen novels, among them A Good Man in Africa (1981), An Ice Cream War (1982), Any Human Heart (2002), Restless (2006) and Trio (2020)
Edith Devaney is Contemporary Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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A Yorkshire Sketchbook
David Hockney
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9781907533235
Royal Academy of Arts
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147 mm x 208 mm
92 Pages
43 color
The RA Sketchbooks
£18.95
An exploration of the vivid watercolour and ink sketches that Hockney made in his home county, Yorkshire Features a range of stunning images, some with vast, panoramic spans and others depicting rooted, familiar locations
A short but enlightening insight into Hockney's creative process
In recent years David Hockney has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood. East Yorkshire s stern hillscapes, craggy drystone walls and endless windswept moors make for a stimulating muse, and Hockney s work captures the character of this scenery with expert precision.
Although his passionate interest in new technologies has led Hockney to develop a virtuoso drawing technique on an iPad, he is still regularly accompanied by a trusty sketchbook. This invaluable tool allows him to work quickly, capturing the changing light and the fleeting effects of the weather. Executed in watercolour and ink, these panoramic scenes have the spatial complexity of finished paintings: the broad sweep of sky or road, the patchwork tapestry of land. Yet unlike a painting completed in the studio, far-removed from the landscape that inspired it, these sketches convey the immediacy of Hockney s impressions. And as indicated by views down village streets and across kitchen tables, his rooted local knowledge and fondness for the area around the East Yorkshire Wolds always shines through.
If you know the region, the location of these sketches is unmistakable. If you don t, its features will come to life in these pages, animated by Hockney s incomparable skill.
David Hockney CH RA is an internationally acclaimed artist. He studied at Bradford School of Art from 1953 to 1957 and at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1959 to 1962. He has lived in Los Angeles since 1963, and now splits his time between America and East Yorkshire, where he grew up.
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Kiefer Van Gogh
Anselm Kiefer
Simon Schama
Tamara Klopper
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9781915815170
Royal Academy of Arts
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265 mm x 240 mm
120 Pages
100 color
£35.00
Van Gogh has been a profound influence upon Kiefer s monumental paintings and sculptures Featuring many previously unseen works by Kiefer Accompanies an exhibition at the Royal Academy from June to October 2025
Ever since winning a travel grant as a 17-year-old to travel from the Netherlands through Belgium and Paris to Arles in Van Gogh s footsteps, the contemporary master painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer has been inspired by the Dutchman s art. Van Gogh has been a profound influence upon the subjects and techniques of Kiefer s monumental paintings and sculptures, which draw on history, mythology, literature, philosophy and science. Published to coincide with Kiefer s 80th birthday in 2025, this book celebrates the power and luminous intensity of both artists work.
Published 12th Jun 2025
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HR Giger
The Oeuvre Before Alien 1961 1976
Edited by Beat Stutzer
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9783039421367
Scheidegger & Spiess
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265 mm x 200 mm
168 Pages
106 color, 28 b&w
£42.00
New edition of the only book to date to comprehensively document the early work of celebrated Swiss artist HR Giger Features paintings and drawings by HR Giger that are rarely published or shown in public displays Academy Award-winner HR Giger is the creator of the legendary movie monster Alien and arguably the most distinguished representative of Fantastic Realism
Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger (1940 2014) achieved international fame in 1979 for designing the fantastic creatures and eerie environments that terrified moviegoers in Ridley Scott s science fiction film Alien. Yet before these iconic creations made him a celebrity and won him an Oscar for visual effects, Giger was already highly regarded in the international art world for his unique freehand painting style and biomechanical dreamscapes.
HR Giger: The Oeuvre Before Alien 1961 1976, first published in 2007 and now becoming available again in a new edition, is the only book to date to document the artist s lesser known, but no less impressive, early work. This lavishly illustrated volume traces Giger s career from his education as an architect and industrial designer at the Zurich College of Art to the development of his ink drawing and oil painting technique and his eventual breakthrough as one of the foremost artists of the fantastic realism school. Featuring many unpublished or rarely available early paintings and drawings, and accompanied by an essay by noted art historian Beat Stutzer, this volume juxtaposes Giger s paintings with works by his predecessors, including Ensor, Fuseli, Goya, and Piranesi.
HR Giger: The Oeuvre Before Alien illuminates the mind of a visual genius whose first artistic experiments were decades ahead of their time.
Beat Stutzer is a Lucerne-based art historian, writer, and curator. He served as director of the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur from 1982 2011 and as curator of the Segantini Museum in St. Moritz from 1998 2016.
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Brancusi
Edited by Ariane Coulondre
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9783039422036
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270 mm x 190 mm
320 Pages
343 color, 1 b&w
£52.00
Constantin Brancusi (1876 1957) is one of the most significant and influential 20th-century artists and a pioneer of modernism
Conceived as a Brancusi dictionary, this attractive book offers a comprehensive panorama of his life and work
One hundred and ten thematic entries by leading international scholars bring together the current knowledge about Brancusi, also highlighting his importance for and resonance with contemporary artists
Richly illustrated with some 340 images of Brancusi s works as well as historical photographs and documents, many of them previously unpublished
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 27th March - 1st July 2024
Constantin Brancusi (1876 1957), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, is also referred to as the patriarch of modern sculpture. From A as in Africa to S as in Studio, D as in Dance, F as in Furniture or R for Reflections, this lavishly illustrated volume takes the open form of a dictionary to present Brancusi s celebrated art in its full richness. More than 110 entries contributed by leading Brancusi specialists form a complete panorama of his career, from his native Romania to Paris, where he established himself in 1903, and to the United States, where his work was on display for the first time at New York s legendary 1913 Armory Show.
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the book sheds new light on Brancusi s creative process, his relationship with materials, his use of film, photography, and drawing, and his taste for music. It also addresses the global reception of his work and analyses the views on it taken by the writers and critics of his time. Moreover, it explores as well the significance of Brancusi s art today, highlighting its resonance with contemporary artists.
Ariane Coulondre is a curator in the Modern Collections Department at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She is also curator of Centre Pompidou s 2024 Brancusi exhibition that will travel to the US in 2026 2028.
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Art Kulturalis 9781836360148 Can we stop killing eachother £20.00 Paperback
Art MUNCH 9788284620169 Edvard Munch: The Scream £24.95 Hardback
Art MUNCH 9788284620442 George Baselitz: Feet First £35.00 Hardback
Art National Galleries of Scotland 9781911054702 Art & Court of James VI & I £24.99 Paperback
Art National Galleries of Scotland 9781911054719 Andy Goldsworthy £24.99 Paperback
Art Pallas Athene 9781843682646 Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and his Contemporaries £35.00 Paperback
Art Pallas Athene 9781843682493 Édouard Vuillard £14.95 Paperback
Art Royal Academy of Arts 9781915815156 Barbara Rae £40.00 Hardback
Art Royal Academy of Arts 9781915815057 Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice / Rising Tides £25.00 Hardback
Art Royal Academy of Arts 9781912520619 Norman Ackroyd: An Irish Notebook £18.95 Hardback
Art Royal Academy of Arts 9781912520640 David Hockney £25.00 Hardback
Art Royal Academy of Arts 9781907533235 A Yorkshire Sketchbook £18.95 Hardback
Art Royal Academy of Arts 9781915815170 Kiefer–Van Gogh £35.00 Hardback
Art Scheidegger & Spiess 9783039421367 HR Giger: The Oeuvre Before Alien 1961–1976 £42.00 Paperback
Art Scheidegger & Spiess 9783039422036 Brancusi £52.00 Hardback