Detroit from Above
Author: Brian Day
Publisher:
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781737931607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe photographs of Brian Day depicting his hometown of Detroit.
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Thomas Lawrence
Author: Amina Wright
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Published: 2020-12-08
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1781300941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating record of the early years of Thomas Lawrence: the story of an exceptional young portraitist and future president of the Royal Academy. Like his Renaissance predecessors Raphael, Michelangelo and Dürer, the young Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was considered to be a boy genius. This survey of Lawrence's first twenty-five years tells the story of an exceptional artist growing up at the end of the century when Britain created its own unique artistic voice. It accompanies a major exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath and includes previously unpublished works as well as some of Lawrence's most brilliant masterpieces. Lawrence first came to public attention when he was cited in a scientific paper on 'early genius in children'; shortly afterwards his family moved to Bath where the eleven-year-old was kept busy making likenesses of the spa town's fashionable visitors. By 1790, his spectacular portraits were the most applauded works in the Royal Academy's annual exhibition, which opened days before his twenty-first birthday. This book considers the young artist's self-image as a prodigy, the impact of Bath's rich cultural life on his formation, the rapid development of his painting technique following his move to London, and his use of celebrity, print media and the Royal Academy to grow his reputation. Particular attention is given to Lawrence's perceptive depictions of old age and bold celebrations of youthful energy. His portraits from this time present a fascinating glimpse of British high society at the turn of a memorable century: they include celebrities such as the Duchess of Devonshire, Emma Hamilton and actresses Sarah Siddons and Elizabeth Farren, as well as political leaders, members of the Bluestocking circle and the Royal Family.
The Lawrence Gallery. First[-seventh] Exhibition [of the Collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Catalogues. Bound in 1.]
Author: Lawrence Gallery (London)
Publisher:
Published: 1835
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPainting Harlem Modern
Author: Patricia Hills
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-02-16
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0520305507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important African American writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and interviews with artists, Hills interprets Lawrence's art as distilled from a life of struggle and perseverance. She brings insightful analysis to his work, beginning with the 1930s street scenes that provided Harlem with its pictorial image, and follows each decade of Lawrence's work, with accounts that include his impressions of Southern Jim Crow segregation and a groundbreaking discussion of Lawrence's symbolic use of masks and masking during the 1950s Cold War era. Painting Harlem Modern is an absorbing book that highlights Lawrence's heroic efforts to meet his many challenges while remaining true to his humanist values and artistic vision.
Jacob Lawrence
Author: Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780295747040
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts."
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
Author: Christine Macel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0300214820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating the Wagners' promised gift of more than 850 works of art to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Musaee national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, November 20, 2015-March 6, 2016, and at the Centre Pompidou, June 16, 2016-January 2017.
Jacob Lawrence
Author: Jacob Lawrence
Publisher: DC Moore Gallery, New York
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780981525013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForeword by David C. Driskell. Text by Patricia Hills.
D.H. Lawrence's Paintings
Author: David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile his work as a writer has long overshadowed his painting DH Lawrence was accomplished at both, and for the first time, this book brings them together for the world to see.
Jacob Lawrence
Author: Leah Dickerman
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780870709647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration. Within months of its making, Lawrence's Migration series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark in the history of African-American art, a monument in the collections of both institutions, and a crucial example of the way in which history painting was radically reimagined in the modern era. In 2015 and 2016, marking the centenary of the Great Migration's start (1915-16), the panels will be reunited in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art and then The Phillips Collection. Published to accompany the exhibition, this publication both grounds Lawrence's Migration series in the cultural and political debates that shaped the young artist's work and highlights the series' continued resonance for artists and writers working today. An essay by Leah Dickerman situates the series in relation to heady contemporary discussions of the artist's role as a social agent; a growing imperative to write - and give image to - black history in the late 1930s and early 1940s; and an emergent sense of activist politics. Elsa Smithgall traces the exhibition history of the Migration panels from their display at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1941 to their acquisition by MoMA and the Phillips Collection a year later. Short commentaries on each panel explore Lawrence's career and painting technique and aspects of the social history of the Migration portrayed in his images. The catalogue also debuts ten poems newly commissioned from acclaimed poets written in response to the Migration series. Elizabeth Alexander (honoured as the poet at President Obama's first inauguration) introduces the poetry project with a discussion of the poetic quality of Lawrence's work, as well as the impact and legacy of the poets in his orbit including Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.
Drawings from New York Collections. Vol. 1, The Italian Renaissance
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Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published:
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
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