Painted Alive
Painted Alive

Author: Craig Tracy

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764341526

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Painted Alive is the first collection of bodypainted images by New Orleans artist Craig Tracy. With his masterful approach to this ancient and ephemeral art, Tracy has found the perfect way to passionately express his creativity. More than sixty transformative and intimately provocative works reveal Tracy's vision, which ranges from realistic to conceptual and surreal. In addition to the vibrant finished works captured here, Tracy shares some behind-the-scenes images of his process, which can often be as alluring as the final images. His skillful use of multiple techniques is as varied as the individuals, both male and female, that he paints upon. This monograph challenges the perception of conventional contemporary art and is ideal for anyone who collects, appreciates, and/or studies contemporary art.

Living Pictures
Living Pictures

Author: Noa Turel

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0300247575

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A significant new interpretation of the emergence of Western pictorial realism When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390–1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Western art, they also ushered in new ways of seeing the world. This highly original book explores Van Eyck’s pivotal work, as well as panels by Rogier van der Weyden and their followers, to understand how viewers came to appreciate a world depicted in two dimensions. Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel reveals that paintings were consistently described as au vif: made not “from life” but “into life.” Animation, not representation, drove Van Eyck and his contemporaries. Turel’s interpretation reverses the commonly held belief that these artists were inspired by the era’s burgeoning empiricism, proposing instead that their “living pictures” helped create the conditions for empiricism. Illustrated with exquisite fifteenth-century paintings, this volume asserts these works’ key role in shaping, rather than simply mirroring, the early modern world.

The Art of the Bird
The Art of the Bird

Author: Roger J. Lederer

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 022667519X

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The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists’ profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style—from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould’s nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson’s ethereal watercolors—this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world.

Dead People
Dead People

Author: Stefany Anne Golberg

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2016-06-24

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1785353373

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Dead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of famous and interesting people who died in recent years. The essays were written by Stefany Anne Golberg and 2013 Whiting Award winner Morgan Meis. The book covers twenty-eight dead people in all, including intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens and Eric Hobsbawn; musicians like Sun Ra, MCA (Beastie Boys) and Kurt Cobain; writers like David Foster Wallace, John Updike and Tom Clancy; artists like Thomas Kinkade and Robert Rauschenberg; and controversial political figures like Osama bin Laden and Mikhail Kalashnikov.

A Brush with Evil
A Brush with Evil

Author: Jody Summers

Publisher: JS Books Publishiing

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1733177558

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Third in the Art of the Dead Series Evil Comes Alive When She Paints With Ashes of the Dead. A madman who moves particles with his mind laughs when he twists the small bones of a victim’s foot for kicks. Soon, he is closing throats and pinching blood vessels to extort money. It’s only a matter of time before he grows even bolder. Artist Kira McGovern--who can channel the emotional lives of the dead when she paints with their ashes--discovers the madman’s secret while working on a tribute portrait of a famous Hollywood star. Everyone thought she died of natural causes until Kira relives the uniquely hideous way the madman murdered her. Why did he kill her? What does he want? And why is he threatening a scientist on the verge of a cancer breakthrough? Together, Kira and her empath-partner Sean hunt the killer and are forced into a deadly negotiation with him. Will the madman double-cross them and kill them silently with his incredible ability? Or will they be able to manipulate him to help with a medical crisis of their own? Check out the first two books in The Art of the Dead series--A Brush with Death and A Brush with Fire, for a look at how Kira and Sean grow into their mysterious abilities and tangle with supernatural evil.