Detroit from Above

Detroit from Above

Author: Brian Day

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781737931607

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The photographs of Brian Day depicting his hometown of Detroit.


Thomas Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence

Author: Amina Wright

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1781300941

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A 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 It accompanies a major exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath and includes previously unpublished works as well as some of Lawrence's most brilliant masterpieces.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.


Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner

Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner

Author: Ines Engelmann

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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For more than a decade, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner devoted their lives to each other, serving in turn as muse, critic, companion, lover, friend and alter ego. Their romance was stormy - their raucous arguments are the stuff of legend - but their talents were prodigious. This book is packed with examples of the contributions both artists made to the world of modern art. Readers will learn how Pollock and Krasners artistry evolved and how they influenced each others success. Recent developments, such as a revealing biopic and the art worlds elevation of Pollock to the status of being the most expensive artist in the world, bring their portrait fully up-to-date. While the author acknowledges historys sensationalisation of their lives, it is the paintings themselves - revolutionary, innovative and daring - that tell the most compelling story.


D.H. Lawrence's Paintings

D.H. Lawrence's Paintings

Author: David Herbert Lawrence

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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While 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

Jacob Lawrence

Author: Leah Dickerman

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870709647

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In 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.


Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence

Author: Jacob Lawrence

Publisher: DC Moore Gallery, New York

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780981525013

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Foreword by David C. Driskell. Text by Patricia Hills.


Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence

Author: Elizabeth Hutton Turner

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780295747040

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"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts."


Displacement

Displacement

Author: Lawrence Weiner

Publisher: Dia Art Foundation

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Artwork by Lawrence Weiner.