Art Up Close
Art Up Close

Author: Claire d'Harcourt

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781616894214

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This sequel to the best-selling Masterpieces Up Close is another fun, interactive book that introduces works of art from museums around the world across different eras and styles, including an ancient Egyptian papyrus, a Byzantine mosaic, Renaissance frescoes, a medieval European tapestry, Arabic and Aztec manuscripts, Japanese woodblock prints, and impressionist, surrealist, and cubist paintings. Full-color reproductions of twenty-three famous works of art provide a colorful hunting ground for over two hundred close-up details. Lift-the-flap keys at the end of the book provide intriguing facts about the works and the artists who created them. Young readers will learn how artistic expression has developed through the centuries and discover how looking at familiar images up close reveals new insights into the world of art.

INSTALLATION ART IN CLOSE-UP
INSTALLATION ART IN CLOSE-UP

Author: William Malpas

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03-16

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781861717689

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A huge array of contemporary artists are studied and illustrated in this book on installation and environmental art.

Gary Hume
Gary Hume

Author: Katharine Stout

Publisher: Tate

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781849761437

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This is a survey of the work of British painter Gary Hume, one of the leading figures of the YBAs or Young British Artists.

The Art of Action
The Art of Action

Author: Stephen Bungay

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey

Published: 2011-02-16

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1473644968

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What do you want me to do? This question is the enduring management issue, a perennial problem that Stephen Bungay shows has an old solution that is counter-intuitive and yet common sense. The Art of Action is a thought-provoking and fresh look at how managers can turn planning into execution, and execution into results. Drawing on his experience as a consultant, senior manager and a highly respected military historian, Stephen Bungay takes a close look at the nineteenth-century Prussian Army, which built its agility on the initiative of its highly empowered junior officers, to show business leaders how they can build more effective, productive organizations. Based on a theoretical framework which has been tested in practice over 150 years, Bungay shows how the approach known as 'mission command' has been applied in businesses as diverse as pharmaceuticals and F1 racing today. The Art of Action is scholarly but engaging, rigorous but pragmatic, and shows how common sense can sometimes be surprising.

Japanese Art Close-up
Japanese Art Close-up

Author: John Reeve

Publisher: British museum Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780714124803

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Beautifully illustrated with an array of Japanese art, this work offers a closer look at the rich variety of styles, decoration, motifs and patterns and the sheer craftsmanship of Japanese culture. Opening with an introduction that asks What is Japanese art?, this book presents a selection of striking and fascinating art from Japan, organised into a series of thematic chapters in which the author provides cultural context while pointing out exceptional features.

Master Drawings Close-up
Master Drawings Close-up

Author: Julian Brooks

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1606060198

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The purpose of this volume is to introduce the reader to the pleasure of looking at master drawings. Through forty-five spectacular works of art, each shown in full and with an enlarged detail, the book simulates the experience of looking at a drawing through a magnifying glass: we can see the techniques and materials used and get close to the artist's creativity. They are roughly ordered by date and were chosen for inclusion because, in addition to yielding beautiful details, they encompass a wide variety of media and techniques. Accompanying short texts highlight particular aspects of each work; italicized technical terms are explained in an accessible and informative glossary at the back. Works by some of the greatest masters of the craft--Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer, Raphael, Rembrandt, Ingres, Goya, Seurat, and Van Gogh--are included. The reader will gain insights into why artists made drawings, how they used the media available to them--including red chalk, watercolor, pen and ink, and pastel--and their techniques, such as hatching, stumping, squaring, and heightening. This beautiful and unpretentious book will have a wide appeal and will be especially invaluable for art students, practicing artists, and those who study art and art history.

ART UpCLOSE
ART UpCLOSE

Author: Liam Davis

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781388622992

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ART UpCLOSE World Edition 2017 presents diverse work of 37 international artists working in various mediums and disciplines.This collection includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, digital and mixed media art. Thus, it is a unique opportunity for the public to experience global art trends in one source. Featured work reveals a unique approach to art by each artist, as well as artists' ambition to frame esthetical, philosophical and social issues which compel them. The result is an immersion in the dynamics of form, color, structure and gesture. Its primary claim to authenticity is the effortless, seemingly casual sense of inevitability that greets the viewer in remarkable images included in ART UpCLOSE World Edition 2017.

Flying Too Close to the Sun
Flying Too Close to the Sun

Author: Diane Fortenberry

Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited

Published: 2018-05-11

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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The first major survey to reveal the ways in which Classical mythology has inspired art throughout the last 2,500 years From the films of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers to Margaret Atwood's books and Arcade Fire's songs, Classical Greek and Roman myths continue to be a source of cultural inspiration. The struggles of heroes, both triumphant and tragic, with gods, monsters, and fate, exert a particular grip on our imagination. Visual artists have long expressed and reworked these foundational stories. This is the first book to unite myth-inspired artworks by ancient, modern, and contemporary artists, from Botticelli and Caravaggio to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.

Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals
Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals

Author: Marlene Dumas

Publisher: David Zwirner Books

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 194170199X

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The latest from the renowned painter—Marlene Dumas’s new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is with bliss and discovery. Myths & Mortals documents a selection of new paintings—debuted in the spring of 2018 at David Zwirner, New York—ranging from monumental nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily parts and facial features. Several nearly ten-foot-tall paintings focus on individual figures, including a number of male and female nudes and a seemingly solemn bride, whose expression is obscured behind a floor-length veil. Like the Greek gods and goddesses, the figures in these paintings are at once larger than life and overwhelmingly human. The smaller-scale paintings—referred to by the artist as “erotic landscapes”—present a variety of fragmentary images: eyes, lips, nipples, or lovers locked in a kiss. Evident across all of these works is the artist’s uniquely sensitive treatment of the human form and her constantly evolving experimentation with color and texture. Alongside these new paintings, Dumas presents an expansive series of thirty-two works on paper originally created for a Dutch translation of William Shakespeare’s narrative poem Venus & Adonis (1593) by Hafid Bouazza (2016). Myths & Mortals is accompanied by new scholarship on the artist by Claire Messud and a text by Dumas herself.