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Expressionists: Kandinsky, Munter and The Blue Rider
The story of the friendships that made modern art. Brought together in the UK for the first time in 80 years, this exhibition book offers unprecedented access to the landmark exhibition's collection of masterpieces.
Expressionists is a story of friendships told through art – the groundbreaking work of a circle of friends and close collaborators known as The Blue Rider. In the early twentieth century they came together to form, in their own words, ‘a union of various countries to serve one purpose’ – to transform modern art.
Rallying around Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter these highly individual artists experimented with colour, sound and light, creating astonishingly bold and vibrant art – from Alexander Sacharoff’s freestyle performance to Gabriele Münter’s experimental photography, from Franz Marc’s innovative use of colour to the dramatic paintings of Marianne Werefkin.
In-depth investigations of major themes and a wide variety of spotlight essays provide an intimate and illuminating window into a remarkable artistic group: their travels and techniques, their interests and sources of inspiration, and the relationships that bound them together.
Caspar David Friedrich: A-Z
ON THE CONTEMPLATION OF NATURE
One of his generation's most popular artists, German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich is known for his allegorical landscapes that convey a deep sense of contemplation and melancholy. 2024 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of this outstanding artist, whose paintings continue to gain in topicality - hardly a discussion on climate change without one of his iconic paintings, such as The Sea of Ice, being invoked as a silent witness. Barbara Hess examines the painter's work and his life, from its lasting poignancy to the great themes of Romanticism and drawing. In the playful format of an A-Z book, the author takes us on a timely journey, showing how new views and perspectives can be gained from what has long been thought familiar.
Hidden Faces
Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown aspect of Italian and Northern European Renaissance art
Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter and invited the viewer to decipher their meaning. Hidden Faces includes seventy objects, ranging in format from covered paintings to miniature boxes, that illuminate the symbiotic relationship between the portrait and its pair. Texts by thirteen distinguished scholars vividly illustrate that the other “faces” of these portraits represent some of the most innovative images of the Renaissance, created by masters such as Hans Memling and Titian. Uniting works that have in some cases been separated for centuries, this fascinating volume shows how the multifaceted format unveiled the sitter’s identity, both by physically revealing the portrait and reading the significance behind its cover.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Roy Lichtenstein
This kaleidoscopic exhibition catalog celebrates Lichtenstein’s multifaceted career—from his iconic achievements in the Pop Art movement and beyond.
Published to mark the centennial of Lichtenstein’s birth, this retrospective volume is brimming with brilliant reproductions that highlight the entirety of the artist’s oeuvre. It features the acclaimed works that helped establish 1960s pop art—panels inspired by comic strips and advertising, which send up societal stereotypes. It looks at his pioneering use of painted benday dots and carefully drawn and in-filled brushstrokes, his interiors and landscapes, re-stagings of still lifes, his expansion into sculpture and ceramics, and works that pay homage to famous artists such as Picasso, Monet, and Van Gogh.
Throughout this magnificent catalog readers will come to appreciate not only Lichtenstein’s vibrant and dynamic use of color, line, and texture, but also how his continuing confrontation with the visual language of popular culture and consumerism continues to resonate today.
Podivuhodný svět Zdeňka Buriana, 2. vydání
Monografie geniálního českého malíře přináší poprvé pohromadě a ve výjimečné reprodukční kvalitě veškeré dostupné ilustrace, jimiž Zdeněk Burian doprovázel česká a slovenská vydání románů Julese Verna. Ilustrace z valné většiny vznikaly v mistrově nejlepším tvůrčím období od poloviny třicátých do konce čtyřicátých let 20. století a skládají se v triumfální soubor, který překvapí sběratele a nadchne čtenáře Julese Verna i dobrodružné literatury vůbec.
Zapomenutý svět Zdeňka Buriana, 2. vydání
Co všechno zůstalo z bohaté tvorby Zdeňka Buriana neprávem zapomenuto? Vydejte se prozkoumat méně známou část mistrova díla, které nepřestává fascinovat celé generace čtenářů. Čekají na vás dosud nepublikované soubory ilustrací, westernové obálky nebo návrhy kostýmů, které vznikly pro první československý barevný film. Strhující epilog za tvorbou umělce, který dokázal příběhům vtisknout jedinečnou podobu, vychází ve výjimečné reprodukční kvalitě.
Kathe Kollwitz
An extraordinary gathering of rare drawings, prints and sculptures focusing on themes of motherhood, grief and resistance
In the early 20th century, when many artists were experimenting with abstraction by way of colorful painting, Käthe Kollwitz remained committed to an art of social purpose through figurative, black-and-white printmaking and drawing. Through her work, she brought visibility to the hardships of the working class and asserted the female point of view as a necessary and powerful agent for change.
Published in conjunction with the largest exhibition of her work in the United States in more than 30 years, and the first major retrospective devoted to Kollwitz at a New York museum, this book surveys the artist’s career from the 1890s through the early 1940s. It features approximately 120 drawings, prints and sculptures drawn from public and private collections in Europe and North America. Examples of the artist’s most iconic projects showcase her political engagement, while rarely seen studies and working proofs highlight her intensive, ever-searching creative process. Essays explore crucial aspects of Kollwitz’s art, career and legacy, including her professional life and connections in Berlin, her groundbreaking approach to the subject of women’s grief and her work’s reception among artists in the US.
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was born in the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). One of history’s most outstanding graphic artists, she was widely recognized for her art of social advocacy and compassion and was one of the few women artists of the early 20th century to achieve international renown in her own lifetime.
Escher
The highly original and unique art of Escher, one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century
Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in 1898 in the Netherlands and died there in 1972. In 1922 he first visited Italy (Tuscany, Umbria and Liguria) and in 1923 arrived in Rome, where he lived for twelve years, until 1935. The Roman period had a strong influence on all his later work, which saw him prolific in the production of lithographs and etchings especially of landscapes, views, architecture and views of that ancient and Baroque Rome that he loved to investigate in its most intimate dimension, that of the night, by the dim light of a lantern. Restless, reserved and undoubtedly brilliant, Escher in his famous engravings and lithographs created a unique, imaginative, impossible world where art, mathematics, science, physics and design converge.
Published on the exhibition in Rome, the volume gathers over 300 works, including new acquisitions and many of his most notable pieces that have made him famous all over the world, documenting the story of the Dutch artist's genius with the most iconic works of his production such as Hand with Reflecting Sphere (1935), Bond of Union (1956), Metamorphosis II (1939), Day and Night (1938) and the Emblemata series, which belong to the common imagination referable to the great artist. The book also features the complete series of 12 Roman Nocturnes produced in 1934. An artist discovered relatively recently, Escher is loved by those who know art, but also by those who are passionate about mathematics, geometry, science, design, and graphics. A wide range of themes converge in his works, and for this reason in the panorama of art history he represents a uniqueness.
Jan Smetana
Publikace věnovaná malíři a pedagogovi Janu Smetanovi (1918–1998), známému především v souvislosti se Skupinou 42. Smetanova další, nepoměrně rozsáhlejší tvorba dosud čekala na komplexní zhodnocení. Po „skupinovém“ období, kdy téma obrazů představovaly okrajové atributy technické civilizace a příměstská krajina, se v malbě věnoval zkoumání skrytých sil ovládajících přírodní dění. Od počátku šedesátých let byla jeho hlavní inspirací příroda ve všech tvarových a světelných proměnách, přičemž přírodní motivy rozvíjel a obměňoval podobně jako hudební skladatel. Monografie čerpá z mnohačetného díla uchovávaného v galeriích a rodině autora, z deníků uložených v Archivu Národní galerie v Praze i ze vzpomínek studentů. Důležitou součást publikace tvoří výběrový soupis díla, zahrnující na šest set položek.
The Pre-Raphaelite Language of Flowers
This exquisite collection of paintings illustrates just how marvelously the Pre- Raphaelites’ focus on the natural world intersected with the Victorian passion for all things botanical.
Short-lived but highly influential, the Pre-Raphaelite movement was fueled by a rejection of academic artistic conventions and a longing for the aesthetic simplicity and moral sincerity of medieval and early Renaissance art. But it also coincided with a Victorian obsession with botany, gardening and flower arranging. As a result, painters such as Rosetti, Millais and Hughes populated their works with floral symbols that were steeped in religious and cultural significance. This stunning book examines the greatest of these works, including portraits of Hamlet’s Ophelia, the Virgin Mary, and figures from Greek mythology and medieval lore. Each entry features a full-page reproduction of the painting, accompanied by smaller details and an engaging text that offers fascinating background and contextual clues to deepen readers’ appreciation of the Pre- Raphaelite language.
As lush and colorful as a late summer bouquet, this book is the perfect gift for lovers of flowers as well as for fans of romantic Victorian art.
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The Book of Colour Concepts
Four Centuries of Color
The human history of color, in two sweeping volumes
The earliest forms of human creativity – in carvings, markings, and cave paintings – bear witness to humanity’s engagement with color. Almost as old as these examples is the desire to assign structure, order, and meaning to this universal yet elusive concept, and it is this fascination that unites the works compiled in this expansive edition.
Gathering over 65 rare books and manuscripts from a wealth of institutions, including the most distinguished color collections worldwide, The Book of Colour Concepts takes the reader on a chromatic odyssey across four centuries and over 1,000 images of luscious wheels and globes, painstakingly collated charts, and meticulous diagrams, many of them newly photographed exclusively for this edition. Some of these concepts provide exhaustive taxonomies of color, while others reflect upon the relationship of color and music, or the affinities between color and human emotions.
Seminal works of color theory, such as Isaac Newton’s Opticks and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s hugely significant Zur Farbenlehre, are shown alongside rare and unfamiliar contributions, including the theosophical color systems of Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant, the comprehensive color ‘dictionary’ of Aloys John Maerz and Morris Rea Paul, and the patchwork combinations of the Japanese costume designer and artist Sanz? Wada.
The two volumes also bring many intriguing and often overlooked works by women into the spotlight, including the radically inventive color “blots” of the English flower painter Mary Gartside and a botanical notebook by the pionieering spiritualist Hilma af Klint.
The color systems that make up this edition are contextualized by introductory essays from editor Alexandra Loske and co-author Sarah Lowengard, while authoritative texts from the editor on the works reproduced set out each concept in further detail. Illuminating the history of color in all its shapes and forms, The Book of Colour Concepts offers a chromatic chronology unparalleled in scope.
German Expressionism: Paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum
New insight into German Expressionism through its permanent collection at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
The Saint Louis Art Museum is home to one of North America’s largest and most comprehensive collections of German Expressionist paintings. Rediscover a defining movement of modern art through this original study of works by twenty-five artists who span its famously wide arc.
German Expressionism: Paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum is the first publication on the Saint Louis Art Museum’s internationally renowned collection of German Expressionist art, which includes major works by the movement’s leading artists and lesser-known figures rarely seen outside of Germany. Engaging entries delve into the paintings’ histories, from their production to their arrival in St. Louis. An introduction traces the collection’s origins to the flood of Expressionist art that entered the United States during World War II. What emerges is a new account of a pivotal era in modern art, exploring the stories behind exceptional German Expressionist paintings.
Matthew Wong - Vincent van Gogh
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the artistic and personal connections between Matthew Wong (1984-2019) and Vincent van Gogh.
Shortly before his early death, the Canadian artist Matthew Wong (1984-2019) emerged as a phenomenon. He started drawing and painting in 2011, at the age of 27, and within the space of just a few years had developed a highly personal style, using intense colours to paint imaginative landscapes.
Wong's expressively lyrical works were inspired by both traditional Chinese painting and Western art. He was especially influenced by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), not only in terms of his painting style and choice of motifs, but also in some aspects of his life. Both artists were self-taught, acquiring their drawing and painting skills without tuition, and both faced mental health issues. Wong saw his own life reflected in that of Van Gogh, and once said: 'I see myself in him. The impossibility of belonging in this world.'
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, this book explores the artistic and personal connection between the two artists, bringing around 45 paintings and drawings by Wong into dialogue with a group of Van Gogh masterpieces. Kenny Schachter, who knew Matthew Wong, contributes a personal introduction, which is followed by essays exploring the artists' biographical and artistic kinship.
Klimt - The Essential Paintings
An opulent fusion of sensuality, symbolism, and artistic ingenuity, this magnificent boxed-set features stunning color reproductions of Klimt’s essential works in an accordion-fold format accompanied by a separate booklet with background and descriptions of each painting.
Gustav Klimt’s luminous paintings are particularly suited for an accordion-fold presentation. As each painting unfolds into a lavish reproduction, Klimt’s dazzling colors and intricate patterns spring to life. This volume includes several highlights of Klimt’s works including The Kiss, his portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer, The Tree of Life, Danae, and Death and Life.
The stunning reproductions allow readers to experience close up Klimt’s intricate details and artful use of gold leaf; his art’s symbolism and emotional power; his decorative aesthetic, and beguiling landscapes. A separate booklet with explanatory captions providing additional background and historic context accompanies the main volume. Klimt’s many fans will cherish this fresh, unique, extraordinary celebration of the artist’s timeless brilliance and monumental talent.
Hayek
Umělecká monografie předního českého představitele tzv. konkrétního umění a strukturální malby Pavla Hayeka (nar. 1959). Autor se dlouhodobě inspiruje přírodními tvary, které přenáší do vizuálně a esteticky působivých černobílých struktur grafického charakteru, jež po léta představují jeho osobitý a nezaměnitelný výtvarný jazyk. V novějších dílech pak vychází z optiky a dynamiky textilních struktur, geometrických tvarů a linií či hudebních partitur.
Publikace v působivé knižní a grafické úpravě Pavla Coufalíka přináší průřez jeho tvorbou za poslední tři dekády, kterou provázejí texty teoretiků umění Martina Dostála, Zbyňka Fišera, Edith Jeřábkové, Terezie Petiškové, Jiřího Valocha, Jiřího Zahrádky a rozhovor s Radkou Kaclerovou.
Výtvarná rekonstrukce pravěku a evoluce člověka
Kniha čtenáře uvádí do vývojových proměn výtvarné rekonstrukce prehistorického světa, zejména období mladého paleolitu. Pozornost je věnována výtvarné tvorbě českých a zahraničních umělců od 19. až do počátku 21. století. Výklad sleduje postupný vývoj a základní milníky výtvarné rekonstrukce pravěku a evoluce člověka na území Evropy i ve Spojených státech amerických. Tvůrci umělecké rekonstrukce ztvárňují fyzický vzhled i způsob života našich evolučních předků, přičemž kladou důraz na vizualizaci evolučních proměn morfologie rodu Homo v kontextu prehistorických přírodních ekosystémů, flory a fauny. Tuto uměleckou produkci podporovaly postupně narůstající vědecké poznatky a empirická data z oborů prehistorické archeologie a paleoantropologie. Umělci v mnoha případech pracovali s dobovými domněnkami, archeologickými fragmenty a spekulativními představami otevírajícími prostor pro fantazii, tvůrčí volnost anebo únik z oficiálních uměleckých proudů. Výtvarné rekonstrukci pravěku a evoluce člověka se proto nevěnovali pouze vědecky orientovaní umělci, jako jsou Charles R. Knight, Rudolph Franz Zallinger a Zdeněk Burian, ale i Mikoláš Aleš, Jaroslav Panuška nebo Jan Konůpek. V současnosti svět pravěku zachycují John Sibbick, Julio Lacerda, Cícero Moraes, Élisabeth Dayn?s, bratři Kennisové nebo Pavel Dvorský a Petr Modlitba.
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Josef Werner - Monograph
Josef Werner narozen v Kraslicích (1945) a od roku 1968 žijící v německu je významným výtvarníkem na poli grafiky, malby a sochařství. Vystudoval na Akademii výtvarných umění v Mnichově u prof. K. F. Dahmena. Tato monografie Vám přináší výběr tohoto významného výtvarníka z jeho celoživotní tvorby v oblasti malby, kresby, grafiky a soch. Žije a tvoří v německém Prienu u Chiemského jezera.
Klimt Landscapes
As inviting and sensual as a warm summer day, this opulent exhibition catalog offers a deep appreciation of Klimt’s ornate, exquisitely detailed, and atmospheric landscape paintings.
For the last twenty years of his career, Gustav Klimt devoted considerable energy to painting landscapes during his summer vacations—and these bucolic scenes became some of his most sought-after pictures. Filled with vibrant high-quality reproductions and featuring engaging essays by leading scholars in the field, this exhibition catalog situates Klimt’s landscapes alongside fin-de-siecle fashion, photography, and decorative arts of the Wiener Werkstätte in particular. Klimt’s landscapes are examined within the context of his larger oeuvre and traces the evolution of his style: from one informed by the academic tradition, to his ornate “golden style” decorative approach influenced by the ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk, and then to a more painterly manner of working in pure color. The book also considers Klimt’s relationship with his muse, fashion designer Emilie Flöge; his deep engagement with the Viennese avant-garde; and the specific techniques he employed to achieve mesmerizing, harmonious works that literally shimmer with light and color.
Redouté - Roses
The revered tradition of botanical illustration dates back to the Renaissance. It emerged from the desire to catalog nature in its unpredictable splendor, and the process demanded the most precise and talented of artists.
With a remarkable skill that captured the most intricate subjects in nature, Pierre-Joseph Redouté is widely considered the best painter and engraver of botanical illustration. Working from live plants rather than from the herbarium specimens gave his watercolors unusual subtlety and freshness. He was also an innovator in printing techniques, introducing "stipple-engraving" to France, always striving for greater exactitude in his art. Redouté fortuitously acquired some of the most influential patrons of the time, including Marie Antoinette and Empress Josephine Bonaparte, thus ensuring that his work was well-funded and displayed.His impressive collection comprises over 2,000 paintings of plants rendered with great accuracy and strict adherence to nature. In this exquisite edition of Les Roses, Redouté turns his attention to the most romantic, desirable, and evocative flower. Originally published in three volumes between 1817 and 1824, it remains his most famous and celebrated work.
