The Art Pack
The Art Pack

Author: Christopher Frayling

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780679414193

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Consists of Pop-ups, pull-outs, wheels, transparency flaps and press-out sections on folded pages; back cover has pockets containing 1 analog sound cassette, 1 pull-out (40 p. : col. ill. ; 15 x 11 cm.), and 1 booklet titled: Art words : key definitions, key styles (52 p. ; 14 x 8 cm.).

The Imaginary Sea
The Imaginary Sea

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-17

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9782365680462

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A reflection on our changing relationship with the sea, imagined by artists such as Jeff Koons and Alison Katz It goes without saying that our relationship to the natural world, especially the sea and its enigmatic and unfathomable contents, is complex and fraught. Far from a wholesale critical condemnation of anthropocentrism, The Imaginary Sea seeks to present a balanced, multifaceted perspective of our evolving relationship with the natural world. It operates, if not in different temporalities, then in different imaginations, compiling work inspired by the sea from artists such as Jeff Koons, Miquel Barceló and Alison Katz, working across a wide range of mediums. This publication, released alongside the eponymous exhibition at the Fondation Carmignac, considers not only how artists are reevaluating our relationship with nature, but also how nature, particularly the sea, sparks our imagination. Akin to the emotional range of a Shakespearian comedy or tragedy, The Imaginary Sea intends to evoke joy, mystery, wonder and melancholy, as well as loss.

Dutch Paintings
Dutch Paintings

Author: Christopher Brown

Publisher: Collins

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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The 17th century was the golden age of Dutch painting, with artists such as Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer producing a large variety of work, from intimate portraits to dramatic seascapes. This book presents a selection of paintings that evoke the spirit of that age.

The War
The War

Author: Marguerite Duras

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 9781565842212

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The extraordinary pages of The War, written in 1944 but finished in 1985, form a totally new image of the heroine of The Lover and, through her, of Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation. Married and living in Paris, part of a resistance network headed by Francois Mitterand, Duras is swept up in the turmoil of the period. She tells of nursing her starving husband back to life on his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who is attracted to her. The result is a book as moving as it is harrowing--perhaps Duras's finest.

Cubism
Cubism

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire

Publisher: Parkstone International

Published: 2024-07-28

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13:

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907. Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, led by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world that was in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists. Largely diffused in Europe, Cubism developed rapidly in successive phases that brought art history to all the richness of the 20th-century: from the futurism of Boccioni to the abstraction of Kandinsky, from the Suprematism of Malevich to the Constructivism of Tatlin. Linking the core text of Guillaume Apollinaire with the studies of Dr Dorothea Eimert, this work offers a new interpretation of modernity's crucial moment and permits the reader to rediscover, through their biographies, the principal representatives of the movement.