Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe
Jackson Pollock, the son of a farmer of Scots-Irish origin, was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. He first came to public notice at the age of 30 when, under the auspices of Peggy Guggenheim, he exhibited 14 paintings of such power and originality that they created an immediate sensation in art circles worldwide. Within a few years Pollock was recognized as a major artist, whose work seemed to embody the energy and emotional intensity of America itself. In 1956 he died in a car crash. This biograph...
Turner Whistler Monet for Kids: An Interactive Journey Throught the Painter's World!
by Catherine du Duve
Travel between London, Paris and Venice! Meet the famous painters: Turner, Whistler and Monet. Who are they? What do they have in common? Join them and discover the magic of light, the Seine and the Thames, and London's mysterious smog. Take a gondola to a masked ball in Venice. Jump on a train in full steam. And if you happen to go to sea, watch out for shocking storms! You'll come back from your trip to the painters' world full of dreams and beauty. With lots of adventures to tell...A deligh...
More than any other decade, the Sixties captures our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King, Jr. declaring, "I Have A Dream," or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels while staring down the National Guard, the revolutionary Sixties resonate around the world: China's communist government inaugurated a new cultural era, African nations won independence from colonial rule, and students across Europe took to the str...
Cruise down the inner-city streets of Detroit and your eyes take in an array of familiar images of poverty and decay. What renowned photographer David Ciements sees on these gritty Detrolt streets are the ad displays on so many local businesses, including salons, churches, and car washes. In Talking Shops, Clements captures mural facades that transform what might have been a typical urban landscape into a canvas for some of the city's most vibrant folk art. With more than 130 full-color photogra...
The Demarco Collection and Archive: An Introduction
by Aidan Bellenger, Mara Coccia, Iain Crawford, Richard Demarco, Rudi Fuchs, Iain Gale, John Haldane, Mark Herbert, Dieter Honisch, and Howard Hull
Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: Genealogical Patterns (Volume 1, Book, #4)
by Edmund Carpenter and Carl Schuster
This book presents an outstanding overview of the works of Vassily Kandinsky, 'the father of modern abstract art'. Born in Russia in 1866, Vassily Kandinsky was a painter, printmaker, and art theorist. Although he didn't begin to paint seriously until the age of 30, his unique style has made him one of the most recognisable and best-loved artists of the 20th century, he is also credited with painting the first modern abstract works. This lavishly illustrated volume presents readers with a superb...
This is the first independent publication devoted to the work of Edward Francis Burney. It also serves as an introduction to his life and artistic achievement, which are little known to art historians despite his prolific and varied activity during an important period in British art, 1780 to 1840.
Modernidad Tropical
by Maria Ines Rodriguez, Juan Herreros, and Julieta Gonzalez
Die Beiden Wurzeln der Kruzifixdarstellung (Classic Reprint)
by Bela Lazar
The 1st Valencia Biennial: Communication between the Arts
by Luigi Settembrini
The first Valencia Biennial promoted and fostered communication between the arts, and addressed the imperative of innovation as the libido of contemporary culture. Featured artists include Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Greenaway, Mona Hatoum, Clegg & Guttmann, Richard Billingham, Maja Bajevic, Cecily Brown, John Bock, David Byrne and Anish Kapoor.
Catalogue d'Estampes Anciennes Et Modernes, Eaux-Fortes Modernes, Lithographies
by Paul Roblin
Ali Banisadr's first major monograph delves into the Iranian painter's influences and practice. Preeminent Iranian-American artist Ali Banisadr's canvases depict a complex swirl of action and abstracted figuration across a stagelike picture plane. Varied histories inform these paintings, ranging from the artist's synesthesia, to Persian miniatures, to the multi-figure works of Brueghel and Bosch, and the gestural imaginations of Willem de Kooning and Max Ernst. Born in Tehran in 1976, Ali Bani...