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Yoshida : three generations of Japanese printmaking
Monika Hinkel
- Paul Holberton
- 16 Août 2024
- 9781913645694
This catalogue, the fi rst of its kind in the UK, accompanying the 2024 exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, explores the important contribution to Japanese woodblock printing of the Yoshida family, from patriarch Hiroshi down to the current generation, led by Yoshida Ayomi. The story of the Yoshida family has been woven into the story of Japanese printmaking across two centuries, with each generation infusing this traditional art form with their sensitivity and imagination. Trained as a painter and watercolourist, Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) was a pioneer of the shin hanga artistic movement, which revived the traditional ukiyo-e prints ('pictures of the floating world') focusing on beautiful landscapes and landmarks and combined them with Western influences. His incredible corpus of woodblock prints, inspired by his travels across Japan but also in Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and North America, greatly contributed to the popularity of Japanese prints in the West. A rare instance in the early twentieth-century Japanese art world, the Yoshida legacy relies also on the important contribution of its women: first Fujio (1887-1987), Hiroshi's wife, a watercolourist, painter and printmaker, who was the first Japanese woman artist to gain international acclaim. Her style developed over time from naturalism towards greater stylization and organic abstraction, with her late still lifes strikingly balancing boldness and sensuality. Toshi (1911-1995) and Hodaka (1926-1995), Hiroshi and Fujio's sons, represent the second generation of this artistic dynasty; Toshi introduced post-war abstraction to the Japanese printmaking process, while Hodaka pushed these modernist instances further, achieving a unique personal style inspired by the sosaku hanga movement of artistic self-expression. His wife Chizuko (1924-2017) co-founded the first group of female printmakers in Japan, the Women's Print Association. Her works sapiently connect popular art movements like Abstract Expressionism with Japanese printmaking. The youngest member of the Yoshida family is Ayomi (b. 1958), daughter of Hodaka and Chizuko, whose practice bridges the gap between ukyio-e and contemporary art thanks also to the exploration of organic materials. She has been exhibited at major international institutions and will contribute an original installation to the Dulwich show.
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La collection courtauld ; le parti de l'impressionnisme
Karen Serres
- Paul Holberton
- 18 Février 2019
- 9781911300595
La Collection Courtauld. Le parti de l'impressionnisme accompagne l'exposition majeure du printemps 2019 à la Fondation Louis Vuitton à Paris qui mettra en lumière l'industriel et mécène anglais Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947), l'un des plus importants collectionneurs du XXe siècle. Le catalogue et l'exposition présenteront son extraordinaire collection d'art impressionniste, qui n'a pas été vue à Paris depuis plus de soixante ans.
Courtauld constitua l'une des plus importantes collections d'art impressionniste au monde. Au cours des années 1920, il rassembla un ensemble exceptionnel de tableaux de tous les plus importants peintres impressionnistes, du chef d'oeuvre de jeunesse de Renoir, La Loge, à la dernière grande toile de Manet, l'emblématique Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère. Sa collection comprenait également Nevermore, le grand nu tahitien de Gauguin, et l'un des plus célèbres tableaux de Van Gogh, Autoportrait à l'oreille bandée, dont ce sera la première présentation à Paris depuis l'exposition organisée en 1955 au musée de l'Orangerie.
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This beautiful catalogue reassesses the work of acclaimed British photographer Roger Mayne (1929-2014), famous for his arresting street scenes capturing Britain's post-war youth. It accompanies an exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, the first of its kind since 2017. Self-taught and influential in the advocacy of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about representing human life as he found it - most famously, in his street images of low-income communities in West London. Capturing children at play and the emerging phenomenon of the 'swaggering teenager', Mayne discovered in the young a defining energy that perfectly embodied both the scars and the vitality of post-war Britain. The exhibition of more than sixty photographs brings together a selection of Mayne's iconic London scenes with later, almost entirely unknown intimate portraits of his own family in rural Dorset. While these two strands have a different tenor, they share Mayne's radical empathy and his evident desire to create images with lasting impact, sensitivity and artistic integrity. With those pictured from the 1950s now in their senior years and a new generation of young people faced with myriad crises, Mayne's images of childhood, adolescence and family feel especially poignant and timely. The catalogue is richly illustrated and includes an original essay by Jane Alison and an interview with Mayne's daughter, Katkin Tremayne.
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Monet and London : Views of the thames
Karen Serres, Frances Fowle, Jennifer Thompson
- Paul Holberton
- 18 Octobre 2024
- 9781913645731
Ce magnifique volume accompagne une exposition à la Courtauld Gallery
qui réunira pour la première fois en 120 ans un extraordinaire ensemble
de tableaux impressionnistes de Londres par Claude Monet. L'exposition
concrétisera l'ambition inassouvie de l'artiste de montrer les oeuvres sur les
rives de la Tamise, à seulement deux pas de l'endroit où un grand nombre
d'entre elles ont été créées.
Claude Monet (1840-1926) est mondialement connu comme étant la figure
marquante de l'Impressionnisme français, le mouvement qui a changé le
cours de l'art moderne. Ce qui est moins connu en revanche est le fait que
les tableaux impressionnistes les plus remarquables de Monet n'ont pas été
réalisés en France mais à Londres. Ils représentent des vues exceptionnelles
de la Tamise, comme jamais observées auparavant, pleines d'atmosphères
évocatrices, de lumières mystérieuses et de couleurs radieuses.
Commencée au cours de trois séjours dans la capitale entre 1899 et 1901,
la série, qui dépeint Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge et les Chambres
du Parlement, fut dévoilée lors d'une importante exposition à Paris en 1904.
Monet tenait profondément à les présenter à Londres l'année suivante, en 1905,
mais le projet tomba à l'eau. Encore aujourd'hui, ils n'ont jamais été le sujet
d'une exposition au Royaume-Uni.
Monet and London: Views of the Thames concrétisera l'ambition inassouvie
de Monet de montrer cet extraordinaire ensemble de tableaux à Londres, sur
les rives de la Tamise, à seulement 300 mètres du Savoy Hotel où la plupart
furent réalisés. En présentant les tableaux que Monet a lui-même choisis pour
son public à Paris et Londres, les visiteurs auront la chance unique de voir le
spectacle que Monet a lui-même organisé et les oeuvres qu'il pensait les plus
représentatives de son ambitieuse entreprise, rassemblées pour la première fois
plus d'un siècle après leur exposition inaugurale.
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Accompanying a major exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig at The Courtauld, London, this publication will present an exciting new chapter in the career of one of the most celebrated and important painters working today and will include paintings and works on paper created since the artist's move from Trinidad to London in 2021. Doig (born Edinburgh, 1959) is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading artists. He secured his early reputation in the 1990s as a highly original figurative painter, producing large-scale, immersive landscape paintings that exist somewhere between actual places and the realms of the imagination. Layered into his paintings is a rich array of inspirations, such as scenes from films, album covers, and the art of the past. His works are often related to the places where he has lived and worked, including the UK, Canada and Trinidad. In 2021, Doig moved back to London where he has set up a new studio. This new studio has become the crucible for developing paintings started in Trinidad and New York and elsewhere, which are being worked up alongside completely fresh paintings, including a new London subject. The works produced for the exhibition at The Courtauld convey this particularly creative experience of transition, as Doig explores a rich variety of places, people, memories and ways of painting that have accompanied him to his new London studio. For Doig, printmaking is an integral part of his artistic life: his prints and his paintings often work in dialogue with one another. The catalogue will also showcase the artist's work as a draughtsman and printmaker by exploring a series of his new and recent drawing and prints, allowing readers to consider the full span of Doig's creative process. Doig has long admired the collection of The Courtauld Gallery.
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Paris 1924 : sport, art and the body
Caroline Vout, Christopher Young
- Paul Holberton
- 14 Juin 2024
- 9781913645601
Ce catalogue apporte un nouveau regard sur les jeux Olympiques de Paris 1924, souvent
considérés comme les premiers Jeux internationaux. De leurs origines dans la Grèce
antique à leur transformation moderne en événement visuellement puissant à l'échelle
mondiale, les jeux Olympiques ont conservé leur place unique dans le monde du sport
et de la culture. Le livre, qui a été publié pour coïncider avec les jeux Olympiques de
Paris 2024, accompagne une grande exposition au Fitzwilliam Museum.
L'été 2024 verra le retour des jeux O lympiques à Paris un siècle après avoir été ville
organisatrice. Les Jeux de 1924 furent sans doute les premiers vrais Jeux internationaux,
les premiers à diffuser des émissions de radio en direct et les premiers à accueillir
un village olympique. Ils associèrent compétition d'art et événements sportifs, et
cédèrent trente-cinq médailles à la Grande Bretagne, notamment au sprinter de
Cambridge, Harold Abrahams, du renommé Chariots of Fire. Ce catalogue explore les
jeux Olympiques d'une perspective visuelle en enquêtant sur les tensions entre le urs
débuts classiques et leur représentation en 1924 et à travers l'ère moderne. Comment
les jeux Olympiques de 1924 ont ils été influencés par la culture visuelle de l'époque
Et comment, à leur tour, ont-ils influencé les arts? De moulage s en plâtre des statues
d'athlètes du Vème siècle avant J.C au cinéma holl ywoodien, et des portraits classiques
des protagonistes à l'art plus abstrait, ce catalogue rassemble peintures, sculptures, films,
photographies, posters, lettres, médailles et autre s souvenirs pour raconter l'histoire
d'une entreprise sportive qui a tout autant reflété qu influencé son temps. Questions de
genre, race et classe, ainsi qu'une exploration de la célébrité et de la place du spectateur,
montrent que le débat autour du sport était aussi complexe et capital dans le passé qu'il
ne l'est aujourd'hui.
Le catalogue d'exposition offre aux lecteurs l'opportunité d'explorer en détails
quelques uns des thèmes fondamentaux du spectacle. Il comprend des essais rédigés par
des spécialistes dans les domaines des lettres classiques, de l'histoire de l'art, de l'histoire
de France, de l'histoire du sport et de la médecine, chacun d'entre eux se concentrant
sur des thèmes essentiels de l'exposition et des protagonistes clés de l'histoire des Jeux.
Le large éventail d'art attirera les fans de classicisme, modernisme, cubisme, surréalisme
et futurisme, ainsi que d'Art déco, tandis que le sujet fera également écho aux amateurs
de sport et puisera dans l'enthousiasme de tout ce qui touche aux jeux Olympiques en
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Italian Renaissance Drawings from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Maud Guichane
- Paul Holberton
- 5 Novembre 2024
- 9781913645779
This stunning catalogue of 15th- and 16th-century Italian drawings from Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen will showcase highlights from this outstanding but still
relatively little-known part of the collection. It includes internationally significant
sheets by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Pontormo, Pisanello, Giorgione
and Tintoretto, as well as an important group of early Venetian drawings and a large
number of workshop studies by Fra Bartolommeo.
Published to accompany exhibitions at the Fondation Custodia, Paris, and The Morgan
Library & Museum, New York, this volume will mark the conclusion of a five-year
cataloguing project at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, funded by the
Getty Foundation. During the project all the Italian drawings were fully researched and
catalogued, many for the first time. Several of these drawings have not been published
in the last 70 years, if at all.
The catalogue is a scholarly touchstone for this part of the collection. It includes two
essays and 111 catalogue entries based on the online catalogue texts prepared by several
Italian drawings specialists. They include the most well-known drawings in Rotterdam
as well as drawings that have never been published or exhibited before, such as newly
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Henry Moore : Shadows on the wall
Penelope Curtis, Alexandra Gerstein, Ketty Gottardo, Charlotte de Mille, Laura Bruni
- Paul Holberton
- 16 Août 2024
- 9781913645663
Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986) was one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. This catalogue considers Moore's celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist's fascination with images of walls, during and immediately after World War II. It accompanies a focused exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery. After the destruction of his London studio early in World War II, Henry Moore began drawing figures sheltering from bomb raids in the London Underground. This catalogue and exhibition consider Moore's celebrated series as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist's fascination with images of walls, during and immediately after World War II. In the London Underground, where Moore drew these figures, the walls of these sheltered spaces came to absorb his attention in an altogether new way, becoming scene-setters, and key components of his drawings. This fascination with the bricks and the presence of walls, their texture, mass and volume, became especially important after his project to illustrate the wartime radio play The Rescue, based on Homer's Odyssey. Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall, a collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation, suggests for the first time that the walls in his drawings offer a new way to understand some of his most individual and monumental Post-War sculpture projects.
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The flowering desert: textiles from sindh
Nasreen Askari, Hasan Askari
- Paul Holberton
- 5 Avril 2024
- 9781913645571
This is a revised second edition of the best-selling book which incorporates new and additional material on the majority of the objects as well as an expanded glossary which will be of interest to both collector and scholar. The first edition was long-listed for the R.L. Shep Award by the Textile Society of America and chosen as one of the twelve best books of the year by the Crafts Council of the UK, both in 2020.
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Sur le motif - peindre en plein air en europe 1780-1870 - illustrations, couleur
Luijten/Morton/Munro
- Paul Holberton
- 22 Octobre 2020
- 9781911300830
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The art of the ring: highlights from the Griffin collection
Diana Scarisbrick
- Paul Holberton
- 19 Avril 2024
- 9781915401069
Covering as they do so many facets of civilization, rings tell us more about the hopes, aspirations, taste and sentiments of our ancestors than any other jewels surviving from the past. Moreover, the examples from the Griffin Collection, which have been assembled with taste and discernment over several decades, are not only rare but also of unusually high quality and intrinsic value. As well as being aesthetically attractive, these rings offer us a glimpse into the lives of their owners, as becomes evident in the vivid account offered by Diana Scarisbrick, one of the world's leading jewellery historians.
The collection illustrates the many uses of rings-as seals needed for business, in expressing religious belief, political loyalties and personal interests such as theatre going, hunting, classical art and astrology. Some demonstrate high rank and commemorate great historical occasions; others dating from the Middle Ages to Victorian England mark the major events of human existence - love, marriage and death - with rings bearing symbols and inscriptions. Often connected with historical figures, monarchs, notably Charles II and William IV or Isabella Zápolya, Queen of Hungary, but also with popes or artists, such as the Romantic poet Lord Byron. Each ring reveals personal information about the people who wore them and the societies in which they lived. An unusually high proportion of the rings have distinguished later provenance, coming from celebrated collectors: George Spencer 4th Duke of Marlborough, Constantine Ionides, Ernest Guilhou, Ralph Harari and Maurice de Rothschild. -
Andrea Morales : Roll down like water : Photography and Movement Journalism in the American South
Rosamund Garrett, John Edwin Mason
- Paul Holberton
- 4 Octobre 2024
- 9781913645724
This vibrant catalogue showcases a decade's work by Memphis-based Peruvian- American photographer Andrea Morales (b. 1984), whose camera sympathetically delves into community life and activism in the American South. It accompanies her first major exhibition at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, represents the first scholarly publication on her work, and the first major museum exhibition dedicated to movement journalism. The unofficial capital of the Mississippi Delta, Memphis, Tennessee, has long been a place bubbling with activism and social movements. Roll Down Like Water - a nod to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s iconic last speech in the city in support of the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike - shows Andrea Morales's incredible ability to engage with her subjects, in Memphis and the surrounding region, through the lens. From intimate portraits and records of daily life to the documentation of social and environmental movements with local and national resonance, her photography builds a passionate and tender portrait of this unique part of the American South. The energy vibrating through Morales's stills is the energy of the people themselves: the artist centres her practice on building long-term relationships with the communities she photographs, and views this relationship as one of collaboration rather than detached observation. Her approach is informed by 'movement journalism', which recognizes that journalism, like the camera, is not totally objective: behind laptops and lenses are people, institutions and systems that hold and wield power, for good or ill. By establishing a human connection between chronicler and people and rooting it in an ethical and rigorous framework, Morales's 'community-driven visual storytelling' reaches beyond historical injustice to capture the liveliness and joy of the communities she photographs. For Memphis, and Morales, King's words loom large. Echoing his description of collective liberation as 'an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny', Morales's captivating images of the American South in moments of turbulence, stillness, darkness and beauty chart new, sustainable paths in photojournalism, while reflecting upon identity, community and the power of storytelling.
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This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum of the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). It is the most important study of Piranesi's drawings to appear in more than a generation. In a letter written near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi explained to his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he could find no patrons there willing to support «the sublimity of my ideas.» He resided instead in Rome, where he became internationally famous working as a printmaker, designer, architect, archaeologist, theorist, dealer, and polemicist. While Piranesi's lasting fame is based above all on his etchings, he was also an intense, accomplished, and versatile draftsman, and much of his work was first developed in vigorous drawings. The Morgan Library & Museum holds what is arguably the largest and most important collection of these works, more than 100 drawings that include early architectural caprices, studies for prints, measured design drawings, sketches for a range of decorative objects, a variety of figural drawings, and views of Rome and Pompeii. These works form the core of the book, which will be published on the occasion of the Morgan's Spring 2023 exhibition of Piranesi drawings. More than merely an exhibition catalogue or a study of the Morgan's Piranesi holdings, however, this publication is a monograph that offers a complete survey of Piranesi's work as a draftsman. It includes discussion of Piranesi's drawings in public and private collections worldwide, with particular attention paid to the large surviving groups of drawings in New York, Berlin, Hamburg, and London; it also puts the large newly discovered cache of Piranesi material in Karlsruhe in context. The most comprehensive study of Piranesi's drawings to appear in more than a generation, the book includes more than 200 illustrations, and while focused on the drawings it offers insights on Piranesi's print publications, his church of Santa Maria del Priorato, and his work as a designer and dealer. In sum, the present work offers a new account of Piranesi's life and work, based on the evidence of his drawings.
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This publication is a highly visual celebration of the massively popular, but now largely forgotten, Britain Can Make It exhibition. Organized by the Council of Industrial Design, it was held in empty ground-floor galleries of the Victoria & Albert Museum, from September to December 1946.
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This important publication accompanies a major exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, London, of paintings by Edvard Munch, one of the world's greatest modern artists. The exhibition and catalogue showcase 18 major works from the collection of KODE Art Museums in Bergen. The works span the most significant part of Munch's artistic development and have never before been shown as a group outside of Scandinavia
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Presenting for the first time the Alexis Gregory Gift to The Frick Collection, this exquisite publication provides illuminating insights into Gregory's magnificently eclectic collection, cataloging his fine and decorative works of art in detail. Twenty-eight works of art bequeathed to the Frick by Alexis Gregory range from Limoges enamels to Saint-Porchaire ware to pastels by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera. This remarkable gift has introduced new types of objects to the Frick: works in ivory and rhinoceros horn are the first of their kind to be held in the collection. Gregory's gift includes fifteen Limoges enamels, one of them produced in the workshop of Suzanne de Court, the only woman known to have led an enamel workshop in Limoges. Also part of the gift are a gilt-bronze sculpture, an ivory hilt, a pomander, ewers, saltcellars, and two clocks. Many of Gregory's objects came from such prestigious owners as the French royal collections and the Rothschilds. Included in the publication are commentaries on each gift. This lavishly illustrated publication accompanies an exhibition that will be on view at The Frick Collection February 16 through May 14, 2023.
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Brittle beauty : reflections on 18th-century european porcelain
Andreina D'Agliano, Claudia Lerner Jobst, Errol Manners, Ros Savil, Selma Schwartz, Jeff Munger
- Paul Holberton
- 8 Septembre 2023
- 9781912168293
Brittle Beauty presents a superlative private collection of European porcelain, comprising radical, rare and in many cases unique pieces assembled over thirty years. Lavishly illustrated and insightfully researched, the book showcases eighty vessels and sculptures, and includes accounts of their patrons and former owners, many as eccentric as the works themselves. One striking attribute of porcelain is its reflective glaze. Mirror-like in a wider sense, Brittle Beauty: Reflections on 18th Century European Porcelain examines the context in which this porcelain was created - including cultural, political, topographical and ceremonial aspects. It also looks at related materials such as silver, textiles and glass. The 18th century was the golden age of porcelain in Europe, which had previously been dependent on precious imports from the Far East. The discovery of the formula for hard-paste porcelain in Dresden in 1709 inspired the establishment of manufactories throughout the Continent. However, its popularity was not purely commercial: porcelain - with its meld of art and science, beauty and intellect, East and West - became a symbol of Enlightenment culture for every princely court. Chinese and Japanese motifs and European forms were synthesised with deceptive subtlety; later, creations of pure fantasy emerged, often based on travellers' accounts of exotic lands. Familiar Occidental themes such as nature, hunting or archaeology were paralleled by ironic narratives of love, display and vanity. Porcelain, with its fragile allure, is uniquely expressive of the human comedy, yet its destiny has often been brutally tragic. This book features essays from eminent scholars. It also showcases a wealth of stunning imagery from Sylvain Deleu, who expertly photographed the pieces, many for the first time.
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Sovereign artist : Charles le Brun and the image of Louis XIV
Burchard Wolf
- Paul Holberton
- 9 Janvier 2017
- 9781911300052
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Whistler and nature
Patricia De Montfort, Clare Willsdon
- Paul Holberton
- 11 Janvier 2019
- 9781911300496
The Anglo-American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903) is a household name - a man who inspired and astonished the Victorian world. Less well known, though, is the influence of nature on Whistler's work. This innovative and compelling study reconsiders Whistler's work from the context of his military service and his relationship with 'nature at the margins', showing how Whistler's observation of nature and its moods underpinned his haunting visions of nineteenth-century life.
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The splendor of Germany ; eighteenth-century drawings from the Crocker Art Museum
William Breazeale, Anke Frohlich-Schauseil
- Paul Holberton
- 7 Février 2020
- 9781911300779
Le Crocker Art Museum possède les toutes premières et meilleures collections de dessins des Etats-Unis. Présentant des artistes tels que Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Anton Raphael Mengs ou encore Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, The Splendor of Germany examine les principales évolutions des techniques de dessinateurs allemands au cours du XVIIIème siècle.
Publié à l'occasion du 150ème anniversaire de la collection.
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Ce magnifique catalogue regroupe pour la première fois de remarquables dessins modernes réalisés par des maîtres européens et américains et assemblés par feu Howard Karshan et sa femme, Linda, qui a récemment présenté les oeuvres à l'Institut Courtauld. Le catalogue, qui accompagne leur exposition à la Courtauld Gallery, inclut les dessins d'artistes renommés tels que Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Sam Francis, Cy Twombly, Gerhard Richter et Georg Baselitz.
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Van Gogh, self-portraits
Karen Serres, Louis van Tilborgh, Martin Bailey
- Paul Holberton
- 4 Mars 2022
- 9781913645205
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The world of Tony Meeuwissen : a life in illustration and graphic art
Tony Meeuwissen
- Paul Holberton
- 2 Décembre 2022
- 9781913645199
This stunning book showcases the bold and original work of Royal Designer Tony Meeuwissen. The artist also writes about his life at the drawing board and the inspiration and ideas behind his imagery. From the foreword by Peter Marren: Welcome to this gallery of the work of a most individual and lovable artist. Many will have seen Tony Meeuwissen's work without knowing the artist, for it has appeared in so many decorative forms from books to playing cards, from magazine and sheet music covers to postage stamps. His work was described by the designer Mike Dempsey as 'inventive, intensely detailed and full of wit and beauty'. Penguin Books art director David Pelham praised him as an artist with the eye of an illustrator and the mind of a designer, one able to solve visual problems with 'remarkable originality, skill and panache.' To my eye Tony's work is always affi rmative even in its darker moments. It is playful but not saccharine, clever but not conceited. It always wears a wry smile. Tony learned his craft in the market place of commercial art. He learned how to handle a wide range of media to develop graphic ideas while also discovering the beauty of typefaces. In the process he evolved his very distinctive artistic language, his own way of seeing the world: colourful, eye-catching, beautifully executed, his work is a product of his unique vision. He loves drawing animals, birds, insects and natural phenomena, but usually with a characteristic twist: shape-changing fantastical animals, a nuthatch hatching from a nut, a praying mantis in bishop's vestments saying grace over a butterfl y. On the memorable Christmas stamps he designed for the Royal Mail in 1983, the Three Kings are represented by chimney pots and the continents of the world by melting snow slipping from an umbrella. His is a universe where nothing is quite what it seems, where proverbs morph into pictures and names turn out to have diff erent meanings. Words and rhymes increase this pleasurable sense of an alternate world with its own logic and rules. Tony Meeuwissen eschews computer-aided methods preferring his drawing board, his pencils and his paintbox. He has managed to inhabit the world of commercial art for more than half a century without ever becoming commercial himself. His work is always uncompromisingly his own: the product of a unique imagination coupled with the skills and standards of a perfectionist. Here for the fi rst time the full range of his work is presented. Like the door to the magical garden in Alice, turn the golden key and enter.
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Liber amicorum in honour of Diana Scarisbrick : a life in jewels
Collectif
- Paul Holberton
- 2 Décembre 2022
- 9781915401021
This work, published on the 94th birthday of Diana Scarisbrick, honours her extraordinary career as the 'world's leading jewellery historian'. Twenty scholars, most of whom have known and benefited from Scarisbrick's vast knowledge over many decades, have contributed essays to this book. Liber Amicorum centres around the historian to which it is dedicated, Diana Scarisbrick. The work of the twenty contributors owes much to her own pioneering research in the feeled of jewellery history. The book opens with a brief biographical summary of Scarisbrick's life before exploring her assiduous work in the field of jewellery history. A subsequent bibliography of Scarisbrick's career work is provided which includes articles, interviews, and books published from 1970 to the present day, and serves as evidence of her eminence. The work as a whole functions as a 'small token of appreciation for all that she has contributed to the world of jewellery history'. The essays in this publication cover topics that range from Roman jewellery to the contemporary production of jewellery. Not constrained by a focus on one particular time period, these essays are indicative of the breadth of influence that Diana Scarisbrick's career has had. Contributions cover several different themes: amongst the objects discussed are gems, rings, chalices, bindings and crown jewels. The themes covered include jewel theft, methods of jewellery production, and the collections of individuals. Throughout each essay the insightful historical research of the contributors is beautifully supported by high quality illustrations. These bring the book to life, highlighting the splendour and fragility of some of the objects that are discussed.