A radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning 30 years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history-with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille's reflections...
Van Gogh's Irises 2019 Planner Weekly Monthly Calendar Organizer and Engagement Book
by It's about Time
One day, Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman, came across a stone at Hauterives near Lyon, and was fascinated by its strange, evocative shape. He spent the next three decades collecting stones, shells, and fossils, and used them to build the Palais ideal. Cheval's palace is one of many works of architectural fantasy in this book, the result of over 20 years' research by celebrated architectural photographer Deidi von Schaewen. Like Cheval, the creators of these extraordinary worlds simply started...
Stained Glass at the Church of St Peter, Lampeter
by Martin Crampin and John Hammond
This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of the visual to the verbal, to examine those aspects of the movement that account for its enduring legacy. Beginning with the profound and somewhat neglected influence of Ruskin's work upon the poets and painters, Smith focuses in particular upon the Pre-Raphaelite rehabilitation of the sister arts analogy, and an aesthetic of ekphrasis as played out in the short-lived periodical The...
Russian painters and poets ? Kandinsky in 1912 and Malevich in 1915, Klebnikov, then kruchenykh and others from 1912 ? recognised that the artistic language of colour, form and movement, and the poetic sound of letter and word, had an inner content whose meaning could be expressed in those elements alone. The development of abstraction in Russian art and language was a direct result of this new consciousness. In this publication we see how the teachings of Heinrich Wolfflin influenced the though...
Twentieth-Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Stella Paul
When renown Yorkshire artist Ronald Pawson died in 1977 he left behind a creative legacy that has only grown stronger in the passing years. Ronald Pawson's paintings feature in collections throughout the world and in June 2013, his work will be the subject of a major exhibition at Leeds City Museum. A large section of this exhibition, curated by his widow Jean Booth, will feature the drawings from this book that has been specially published to coincide with the event. This beautifully produced b...
Van Gogh spent the last two years of his life in Provence, where he painted his greatest pictures, and this book tells the artist's own story of his most creative period. It reproduces extensive extracts from his correspondence and is illustrated with his paintings, drawings and facsimile letters. Van Gogh's letters are a testimony to his struggle to survive and work. Here, the combination of letters and illustrations, concentrating on the period when he painted his greatest works, aims to provi...
Summary: Käthe Kollwitz, eine der berühmtesten deutschen Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts, wird weithin unter dem Blickwinkel des sozialen Engagements in ihren Arbeiten betrachtet. Nun wird ihre Auseinandersetzung mit der Kunst ihrer Pariser Zeitgenossen in einer spannenden Gegenüberstellung erstmals umfassend aufgezeigt. Zum 25-jährigen Jubiläum des Käthe Kollwitz Museums, Köln, das den weltweit grössten Bestand an Arbeiten von Kollwitz umfasst, wird dieses bisher unbehandelte Kapitel der Rez...
