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The debut book from renowned pixel artist Waneella, showcasing a decade of her distinctive pixelated landscape compositions. This stunning volume documents Waneella's unique journey from novice pixel pusher to world-renowned artist, indisputably the leading name in this reinvention of the once retro pixel-art aesthetic. The book will take us from her early experiments with the pixel-art form creating pseudovideogame visuals, through to the years where her unique style crystallized, fusing sci-fi–tinged architecture, cinematic hints of narrative, and masterful deployment of light sources and shadow. Alongside this complete catalog of her works are several process sections, walking the reader through Waneella's working style, which often initially draws influence from Japanese streets found via Google Street View. Her creative process is explored step by step, detailing the underlying structure, rigorous perspective work, and experimentation that goes into every piece. Each step is accompanied by open and humorous commentary from the artist herself?some of these how-tos will span over twenty steps?making Waneella: Pixelscapes a must-have for her legions of budding pixel-artist followers. Opening with a foreword by Japanese videogame designer Ikumi Nakamura, the book features an in-depth profile, charting Waneella's creative journey in her own words, and artworks often with detailed discursive captions, imparting anecdotal?and invariably funny?information on how each piece came together. 250 illustrations, 200 in color

Veľkolepá zbierka najkrajších a najväčších umeleckých prác Gustava Dorého v exkluzívnom vydaní Od Biblie po Shakespeara, od Balzaca po Miltona, od Cervantesa po Poea – Dorého prepracované, romantické a expresívne kresby a rytiny oživovali veľké diela a boli rovnako cenné ako príbehy a poézia, ktoré sprevádzali. Okrem toho bol aj zručným sochárom, maliarom a karikaturistom. Táto zbierka zahŕňa celú Dorého kariéru, pričom kapitoly sú venované konkrétnym dielam, medzi inými Božskej komédii, Donovi Quijoteovi či Goetheho Faustovi – každá kapitola obsahuje nádherné celostránkové reprodukcie, ktoré umožňujú vyniknúť umelcovej genialite a vnímaniu línie, tieňovania a textúry. Autori tejto monografie tiež predstavujú techniky, ktoré Doré používal na dosiahnutie tých najmenších detailov na svojich dielach. Nadšenci Dorého tvorby, ale aj umenia samotného, ocenia veľkolepé spracovanie tejto publikácie, ktorá sa vyznačuje zlatou fóliovou razbou, reliéfom na obálke a chrbte, páskou a neprehliadnuteľnou oriezkou. Táto kniha plná prenikavých analýz a odborných historických pohľadov je dokonalým zberateľským predmetom či darčekom – zväzkom takým rozsiahlym a originálnym, ako sám umelec. Z francúzskeho originálu preložil Štefan Žáry.

Martin Gerboc (maliar, spisovateľ, filmár, kurátor, filozof, niekoľkoročný pedagóg na pražskej Akadémii výtvarných umení) je jednou z najvýraznejších osobností súčasnej maľby v širšom stredoeurópskom kontexte. Jeho meno sa v tejto súvislosti na výstavách objavuje s najdôležitejšími menami nielen európskeho, ale aj svetového umenia. Práce Martina Gerboca demonštrujú jeho anti-estetické presvedčenie. Sú akousi extatickou cestou rozkošami a tortúrami tela i ducha, cestou svetom, ktorý môžu preskúmať len tí, ktorí sú ochotní riskovať. Úlohou Martina Gerboca je donútiť diváka, aby videl svet úplne jeho spôsobom. Preto k svojej tvorbe pristupuje z pozície „režiséra“, ktorý vyznáva spriaznenosť s interdisciplinárnym presahom z hudby, filmu, divadla, filozofie atď., a využíva vo svoj prospech ich vplyv a možné účinky ich manipulatívnosti. Uprednostňuje priame vyjadrenie zložitých myšlienok s často tragickou a nadčasovou témou. Autor vyhľadáva vyhrotené emocionálne stavy, ktoré zobrazuje až kabaretným spôsobom. Celostné vnímanie ho vedie k presvedčeniu, že umelec by mal byť režisérom emočne silného zážitku a obraz je len jedným z prostriedkov vyjadrenia osobnej angažovanosti. Okrem textov kurátoriek a teoretičiek umenia Jane Neal, Zory Rusinovej a filozofa Miroslava Marcelliho prináša publikácia aj rozsiahly rozhovor s českým kurátorom a teoretikom umenia Ottom M. Urbanom. Táto vizuálne výnimočne spracovaná a reprezentatívna monografia na 312 stranách a viac než 300 reprodukciách a fotografiách prináša okrem pohľadu na jeho výtvarnú prácu aj ukážky z jeho filmových prác a pod. Kniha je v tvrdej väzbe s prebalom. (A.H.)

A new edition of one of the first books to focus on the world of women artists and their practice. Women have always practiced as artists, but for centuries the art world considered them mere dilettantes. Their work was derided as second-rate, and they were considered intruders in a male profession. This study examines how, against the odds, they overcame these difficulties and shifts the focus away from women artists as "victims" to give an account of how they actually practiced their art. This stirring account documents the centuries- long struggle of gifted women who confronted the exclusionary tactics of a male-dominated art establishment but pressed ahead undaunted to gain acceptance as sought-after professionals. Art historian Frances Borzello takes readers deep into the restricted world of women artists of the past, showing how diligently they trained themselves, set up studios, and pursued sympathetic patrons. Starting with Renaissance painters Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana, the book reconstructs the changing world of women artists as social attitudes evolved. Seventeenth-century painters Artemisia Gentileschi and Judith Leyster enjoyed success by depicting subjects relevant to women, as did eighteenth- century greats Angelica Kauffman and Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun with lucrative commissions. Further breakthroughs came in the nineteenth century as young hopefuls Mary Cassatt and Marie Bashkirtseff strove to be admitted to exhibiting societies and opened art schools. Finally, as equality for women advanced through the twentieth century, Augusta Savage, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Cindy Sherman, Mona Hatoum, and others led the way for today's talented women to secure their rightful place in the annals of art. Now fully revised and updated, Frances Borzello's engaging narrative continues to inspire. 215 color illustrations

Explore the vibrant history and profound cultural resonance of feminist art from Korea and the diaspora Renowned curator and scholar Dr. Kim Hong-hee’s book is the first to delve into Korean feminist artists’ impact on the East Asian cultural landscape. This unprecedented visual survey celebrates the work of 42 contemporary artists, from rising stars to globally recognized names, including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Kyungah Ham, Kimsooja, Lee Bul, Mire Lee, Minouk Lim, Haegue Yang, and Yun Suknam. Organized by themes including queer politics, ecofeminism, the diaspora, and abstraction, Korean Feminist Artists features artworks across painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, installation, handicrafts, and performance. Through rich imagery and insightful writing, the book explores the quest of these pioneering artists for social, cultural, and sexual equality, from their confrontations with the mainstream art establishment to the significance of their aesthetic and political interventions. Richly illustrated with nearly 260 beautifully reproduced images and closing with a personal and thought-provoking essay from influential South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, this vital and timely survey reveals the impact of women artists on Korean culture at large.

A journey through Matisse’s epoch-making practice, from his early Fauvist works to his brilliant cutouts The volume is anchored by and named after Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 poem “Invitation to the Voyage,” to which Matisse repeatedly referred in his lifetime. Following Baudelaire’s poem, the book is thus conceived as a journey through the work and life of Matisse, in which travel played an important role. Published alongside the Matisse retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, this monograph sails across the many waves of the artist’s practice. Beginning with his early paintings from around 1900, Invitation to the Voyage then carries the reader from his revolutionary Fauvist works of the 1910s to the sensual paintings of his Nice period in the 1930s and his legendary silhouettes of the late 1940s and 1950s. The wealth of important paintings, sculptures and silhouettes gathered here reveals the development and richness of Matisse’s masterful oeuvre. Henri Matisse (1869–1954) is one of Modernism’s leading exponents. By liberating color from its conventional associations and simplifying forms, he redefined painting and brought a hitherto unknown lightness to art. Matisse was also an innovator in sculpture, and in his late silhouettes he developed an unmistakable interplay between painting, drawing and sculpture.

Malíř, grafik a ilustrátor Miloslav Havlíček možná není čtenářské příliš známý, přesto jeho práce znají celé generace čtenářů mnoha časopisů i dalších tiskovin. Po celou dobu jeho existence ilustroval časopis Zápisník (1957-93), kde zároveň výrazně formoval jeho podobu. Dále to byly například AZ magazín, Ohníček, Pionýr, Pionýrské stezka, Letectví + kosmonautika a mnoho dalších. Jeho ilustrace doprovází desítky, možná stovky knižních titulů, je autorem několika kreslených seriálů, rád vytvářel koláže, zajímavá je jeho volná tvorba… Připomeňme si jeho skutečně pestrou tvorbu.

The paint-loaded palettes of fifty world-renowned artists are displayed alongside the paintings the artists created using those hues, and the colours and brushstrokes employed are analysed to uncover surprising new stories about each artist and their work. Presented broadly chronologically, the artists featured in this revelatory book range from those working in the 17th century to the present day, including Artemisia Gentileschi, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O’Keeffe and Bridget Riley. Each artist’s palette – whether photographed or visible in self-portraits – is paired with one or more works by the artist that reflect the colours of the paint remaining on the palette. Colour expert and art historian Alexandra Loske skilfully analyses each artist’s colour palette and brushstrokes to reveal not only exactly how they used colour in their work but also to tell the story of their journey with colour and the influence of their approach on the wider culture to which they belonged. For example, Georges Seurat meticulously arranged the paints on his palette in prismatic order, isolating the colours and pairing each with a blot of white paint. His pointillist technique was equally apparent on his palette and his canvas. Kerry James Marshall uses blots of zinc white and smears of pale pink on the surfaces of symbolically oversized white palettes held by black artists in his portraits, raising provocative questions about the role of colour in the story of black history and white western art. The Artist’s Palette will appeal to an art history audience, a wider audience eager to learn more about the use of colour by the great artists and amateur painters looking for inspiration in the creation of their own work.

Emil Filla, čínské umění a totalitní přízraky/Emil Filla, Chinese Art and Totalitarian Phantoms Kniha se věnuje poválečné tvorbě českého malíře, sochaře a teoretika Emila Filly (1882–1953) a jeho vztahu k čínskému umění a komunistické ideologii. Popisuje Fillovu jedinečnou sbírku čínského umění a přibližuje její vznik. Přináší také zamyšlení nad Fillovým chápáním dálněvýchodní malby, které se odrazilo v jeho textech o čínské krajinomalbě i jeho pozdních obrazech. Právě jim je věnována zvýšená pozornost, a to zejména z hlediska postoje, který k nim zaujímali představitelé komunistického režimu, jejichž často vulgarizující názory hluboce a neblaze zasahovaly do umělcova života i díla. Filla čelil různým formám perzekucí, přesto se mu podařilo zůstat až do konce života ve funkci profesora Vysoké školy uměleckoprůmyslové v Praze. Kniha vychází při příležitosti otevření nové expozice v Pamětní síni Emila Filly na zámku Peruc, který umělci poskytl letní útočiště a sehrál v jeho pozdních aktivitách podstatnou roli.

Frank Frazetta finally gets the beautiful book he deserves Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the years since his death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he’s long overdue for this ultimate monograph. Born to a Sicilian immigrant family in Brooklyn, 1928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal and serial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. He claimed to only make art when there was nothing better to do – he preferred playing baseball - yet began his professional career in comics at age 16. Strip work led him to the infamous EC Comics, then to oils for Tarzan and Conan pulp covers. Both characters were interpreted by many before him, but as he explained in the 1970s, “I’m very physical minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys just like him,” and he used this first-hand knowledge of muscle and macho to redefine fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing, more testosterone-fueled than anything seen before. As counterbalance he created a new breed of women, nude as censorship allowed, with pixie faces and multiparous bodies: thick thighed, heavy buttocked, breasts cantilevered out to there, yet still, with their soft bellies and hints of cellulite, believably real. Add in the action, the creatures, the twilit worlds of haunting shadow and Frazetta’s art is addictive as potato chips.

O máloktorom stredoeurópskom sochárovi 18. storočia sa nám zachovalo toľko správ ako o F. X. Messerschmidtovi (1736 – 1783). Napriek tomu jeho postava, opradená tajuplnými historkami a často protirečivými súdmi, zostáva stále záhadná. Jeho život je úzko spätý so zvláštnymi hlavami, známymi ako „charakterové hlavy“. Práci na týchto hlavách, ktoré si nikto neobjednal, venoval v posledných rokoch života väčšinu svojho času. Je to jedinečná, v dejinách sochárstva neopakovateľná séria, ktorá založila Messerschmidtovu slávu a zatlačila do úzadia celú jeho ostatnú tvorbu. Provokovala k tým najrozličnejším výkladom. Čo vlastne majú tieto hlavy s grimasami vyjadriť? Sú ozvenou na snahy osvietencov pochopiť ľudskú individualitu? Alebo sú prejavom kritického postoja umelca k spoločnosti, ktorej sa vysmieva? Odzrkadľujú ich skrivené črty hysterické stavy pacientov módneho doktora a hypnotizéra F. A. Mesmera? Alebo boli tieto hlavy nástrojom v rukách psychózou postihnutého umelca pri jeho boji o zachovanie životnej rovnováhy? Ponúkajú sa mnohé vysvetlenia, odborníci sa dodnes snažia o jednoznačnú, všeobecne prijateľnú odpoveď. Posledná kapitola Messerschmidtovho života sa odohrala v Bratislave a tu leží aj pochovaný. Po tom, čo počiatočné úspechy vo Viedni vystriedalo neporozumenie a neúspech, našiel nové útočisko vo vtedy kvitnúcom hlavnom meste Uhorska. Bol opäť uznávaným umelcom a vytvoril tu aj väčšinu svojich „charakterových hláv“. Ešte počas života sa stal legendárnou postavou. Ako čudesný prelud žije v povedomí bratislavčanov dodnes.

A celebration of more than 300 groundbreaking women sculptors that surveys 500 years of creative ingenuity from around the world Presenting a more expansive and inclusive history of sculpture, Great Women Sculptors surveys the work of more than 300 trailblazing artists from over 60 countries, spanning 500 years from the Renaissance to the present day. Organized alphabetically, each artist is represented by an image and newly commissioned text. This wide-ranging survey champions the best-known women sculptors from art history alongside today’s rising stars. From more recognizable names such as Camille Claudel, Gego, Barbara Hepworth, and Yayoi Kusama to some of today’s most significant contemporary artists including Huma Bhaba, Mona Hatoum, and Simone Leigh, this book showcases 500 years of sculptural creativity in one accessible, visually stunning volume. Artists featured, in A–Z order by surname: Magdalena Abakanowicz; Alice Adams; Kelly Akashi; Jane Alexander; Shaikha Al Mazrou; Olga de Amaral; Janine Antoni; Ruth Asawa; Tauba Auerbach; Ghazaleh Avarzamani; Alice Aycock; Margarita Azurdia; Leilah Babirye; Nairy Baghramian; Natalie Ball; Rina Banerjee; Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press; Rosa Barba; Phyllida Barlow; Yto Barrada; Mária Bartuszová; Rana Begum; Nina Beier; Patricia Belli; Lynda Benglis; Lauren Berkowitz; Sarah Bernhardt; Huma Bhabha; Alexandra Bircken; Cosima von Bonin; Monica Bonvicini; Chakaia Booker; Louise Bourgeois; Carol Bove; Beverly Buchanan; Heidi Bucher; Dora Budor; Angela Bulloch; Teresa Burga; Seyni Awa Camara; Elaine Cameron-Weir ; Nina Canell; Jodie Carey; Claudia Casarino; Rosemarie Castoro; Elizabeth Catlett; Helen Chadwick; Judy Chicago; Saloua Raouda Choucair; Chryssa; Lygia Clark; Camille Claudel; Marie-Anne Collot; Gisela Colon; Marta Colvin; Fiona Connor; Nicola Costantino; Petah Coyne; Anne Seymour Damer; Vanessa da Silva; Paula Dawson; Berlinde De Bruyckere; Agnes Denes; Abigail DeVille; Karla Dickens; Tara Donovan; Sokari Douglas Camp; Mikala Dwyer; Abastenia St. Leger Eberle; Nicole Eisenman; Vaska Emanuilova; Tracey Emin; Ayse Erkmen; Helen Escobedo; Tamar Ettun; Claire Falkenstein; Alia Farid; Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian; Simone Fattal; Félicie de Fauveau; Lara Favaretto; Maria Faydherbe; Rachel Feinstein; Sonja Ferlov Mancoba; Teresita Fernández; Sylvie Fleury; Ceal Floyer; Laura Ford; María Freire; Nancy Fried; Elisabeth Frink; Katharina Fritsch; Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller; Sue Fuller; Anya Gallaccio; Lily Garafulic; Adebunmi Gbadebo; Gego; Isa Genzken; vanessa german; Sonia Gomes; Dora Gordine; Sheela Gowda; Laura Grisi; Nancy Grossman; Gu Erniang; Guan Xiao; Shilpa Gupta; Fiona Hall; Lauren Halsey; Anthea Hamilton; Han Sai Por; Siobhán Hapaska; Rachel Harrison; Emma Hart; Auriea Harvey; Maren Hassinger; Mona Hatoum; Holly Hendry; Camille Henrot; Barbara Hepworth; Gertrude Hermes; Eva Hesse; Sheila Hicks; Nancy Holt; Jenny Holzer; Rebecca Horn; Roni Horn; Harriet Hosmer; Klára Hosnedlová; Marguerite Humeau; Anna Hyatt Huntington; Cristina Iglesias; Iman Issa; Ann Veronica Janssens; Madeleine Jouvray; Katarzyna Józefowicz; Caterina de Julianis; Nadia Kaabi-Linke; Reena Saini Kallat; Edith Karlson; Bronwyn Katz; Clementine Keith-Roach; Zsófia Keresztes; Rachel Khedoori; Bharti Kher; Kimsooja; Katarzyna Kobro; Käthe Kollwitz; Elza Kövesházi-Kalmár; Brigitte Kowanz; Kitty Kraus; Shigeko Kubota; Shio Kusaka; Yayoi Kusama; Alicja Kwade; Nicola L.; Marcelle Renée Lancelot-Croce; Artis Lane; Greer Lankton; Liz Larner; Lee Bul; Marie-Louise Lefevre-Deumier; Simone Leigh; Jac Leirner; Sherrie Levine; Hannah Levy; Edmonia Lewis; Tau Lewis; Liao Wen; Liliane Lijn; Kim Lim; Won Ju Lim; Laura Lima; Maya Lin; Lin Tianmiao; Tayeba Begum Lipi; Rita Longa; Liza Lou; Sarah Lucas; Savia Mahajan; Anna Maria Maiolino; Anina Major; Tosia Malamud; Rebecca Manson; Teresa Margolles; Marisol; Maria Martins; Rebeca Matte; Rita McBride; Andrea de Mena; Lindsey Mendick; Marisa Merz; Annette Messager; Marta Minujín; Mary Miss; Kazuko Miyamoto; Nandipha Mntambo; Anna Morandi Manzolini; Delcy Morelos; Mariko Mori; Blanche-Adele Moria; Annie Morris; Meera Mukherjee; Mrinalini Mukherjee; Vera Mukhina; Portia Munson; Wangechi Mutu; Ethel Myers; Rei Naito; Ana Navas; Senga Nengudi; Rivane Neuenschwander; Louise Nevelson; Otobong Nkanga; Tomie Ohtake; Precious Okoyomon; Füsun Onur; Meret Oppenheim; Chana Orloff; Virginia Overton; Katrina Palmer; Lygia Pape; Cornelia Parker; Helen Pashgian; Jennifer Pastor; Katie Paterson; Beverly Pepper; Judy Pfaff; Julia Phillips; Patricia Piccinini; Cathie Pilkington; Paola Pivi; Liliana Porter; Marjetica Potrc; Jane Poupelet; Germaine Richier; Clara Rilke-Westhoff; Luisa Roldán; Annabeth Rosen; Properzia de' Rossi; Eva Rothschild; Michal Rovner; Nancy Rubins; Kathleen Ryan; Veronica Ryan; Alison Saar; Betye Saar; Niki de Saint Phalle; Takako Saito; Doris Salcedo; Augusta Savage; Mira Schendel; Lara Schnitger; Claudette Schreuders; Dana Schutz; Irena Sedlecká; Usha Seejarim; Tschabalala Self: Beverly Semmes: Arlene Shechet: Shen Yuan; Alyson Shotz; Mary Sibande; Ayesha Singh; Lucy Skaer; Kiki Smith; Renee So; Valeska Soares; Monika Sosnowska; Diamond Stingily; Jessica Stockholder; Michelle Stuart; Alina Szapocznikow; Sarah Sze; Sophie Taeuber-Arp; Dorothea Tanning; Lenore Tawney; Alina Tenser; Tatiana Trouvé; Anne Truitt; Shirley Tse; Sara VanDerBeek; Paloma Varga Weisz; Joana Vasconcelos; Cecilia Vicuna; Claude Vignon; Ursula von Rydingsvard; Kara Walker; Meg Webster; Nicole Wermers; Pae White; Rachel Whiteread; Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; Alison Wilding; Hannah Wilke; Jackie Winsor; Betty Woodman; Yamazaki Tsuruko; Haegue Yang; Kennedy Yanko; Lena Yarinkura; Anicka Yi; Yin Xiuzhen; Daisy Youngblood; Andrea Zittel.

T.J. Clark offers profound insights on Bruegel’s art, where we encounter a reality formed from wholly worldly materials, yet suspended between belief and disbelief.

Featuring works from the 1950s onwards, this book explores Francis Bacon’s deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon’s life story. As well as the artist’s self-portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer. The first publication in over 20 years dedicated to the portraits of Francis Bacon, this book accompanies the exhibition of the same name opening at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in October 2024. From his renowned triptychs and paintings of ghostly figures, to tender and psychologically revealing individual portraits, the figurative works displayed in this publication chart the development of a groundbreaking artist, highlighting the influence of his peers and other artists. Edited and with introductory texts by National Portrait Gallery curator, Rosie Broadley, Francis Bacon: Portraits also features biographies and photographs of Bacon and his circle, bringing lesser-told stories to the fore. A series of short essays from a range of contemporary thinkers and experts on Bacon explore the individuality of the artist through different lenses, providing fresh perspectives on the artist, his portraits and his world.

Je symbolem dobrodružství, romantiky a exotiky. Mistr Zdeněk Burian byl, je a vždy bude nezaměnitelnou ikonou; malířem našeho dětství… Vstupte do světa jeho příběhů a fascinujících ilustrací – vůbec poprvé máte nyní možnost prohlédnout si je v jedinečné nejvyšší technické kvalitě. Poznejte ranou tvorbu geniálního malíře, který dokázal dát příběhům duši.

Explore the dynamic world of 1960s Pop Art through Lucy Lippard's insightful analysis in this new addition to the Pocket Perspectives series. Pop Art epitomized the free spirit of the 1960s, blending carnival-like qualities with bold colours and monumental scale, but based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement standard appropriate to its time. Renowned art critic and curator Lucy Lippard's classic, contemporaneous study enriches our understanding of this groundbreaking art movement. Across three chapters, the author first outlines the phenomenon of Pop Art, its antecedents and related styles ranging from folk art, Surrealism and Dada as well as the work of key artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. She then focuses on Pop Art in New York, discussing key iconic figures including Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann, who appropriated advertising, comics, and the conventions of commercial art and its specific techniques. Finally, Lippard provides an extensive overview of Pop Art's impact and evolution across Europe, particularly in France, Germany and Italy; and Canada, and so touches upon the work of Christo, Mimmo Rotella and many others, including Niki de Saint Phalle and Joyce Weiland, whose work are now experiencing a resurgence of interest.

A concise compendium of the lives and work of the 101 most significant Surrealists by one of the last surviving members of the movement, bestselling author and artist Desmond Morris, who knew several of the key participants personally. 2024 marks the centenary of Surrealism, one of the most influential artistic movements of the modern era. In 1924, André Breton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto, a call to arms which established Surrealism as a literary and artistic movement. Rather than attempting to analyse the work of the Surrealists, bestselling author and Surrealist artist Desmond Morris focuses on them as remarkable individuals. What were their personalities, their predilections, their character strengths and flaws? Did they enjoy a social life or were they loners? Were they bold eccentrics or timid recluses? Featuring 101 artists, from the famous – Duchamp, Dali, Magritte, Miro, Carrington, Kahlo, Picabia, Ernst and others – to the neglected – Mesens, Rimmington, Sage, Fini, Bellmer, Colquhoun and Gonzalez – this book draws on the author’s personal knowledge of the Surrealists, capturing in concise form their life histories, idiosyncrasies and often-complex love lives. Surrealism was both spectacular and international, shaped by the darkest, most irrational workings of the unconscious. Shocking, witty and always entertaining, Morris's potted summaries and punchy anecdotes illuminate striking variations in artistic approach to the Surrealist philosophy, both in the artists’ works and lives. A complement to Morris's earlier biographical volumes, 101 Surrealists encapsulates each artist in new and abridged texts that convey with immediacy the impact and significance of each of the 101 artists featured.

The first in an exciting and inspirational new V&A sketchbook series that explores the sketching processes and techniques of artists from the 16th century to the present day. Artists have been using sketchbooks for many hundreds of years, particularly as part of the preparatory process that leads to the creation of great works. Selected by curators from the extensive sketchbook collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and organized chronologically by artist, The Artist’s Sketchbook introduces around eighty profiles from different eras and movements, including John Constable, Beatrix Potter, Paul Nash, and Julie Verhoeven. Each profile includes a short text on the artist and their use of the sketchbook. The book brims with exquisite examples of drawings from life and the imagination, material experimentation and the planning of greater works. With rich, detailed photography, the sketchbooks are shown to be very much works of art in themselves, with open-book shots and selected covers reproduced as well as single pages. The book also highlights less well-known names as well as unrecognized artists, mostly women, for whom sketchbooks provided a creative outlet. While working within the limits of the V&A collection, the selection includes sketchbooks from beyond Britain and Europe by drawing on expertise from across the museum. Just as artists do, some inevitably blur the line between art, design, and fashion. With an introduction by Jenny Gaschke, Senior Curator of Paintings and Drawings at the V&A, the book highlights the importance of sketching and the sketchbook throughout the history of art. Although not a practical guide to sketching techniques, it will nevertheless inspire the reader and appeal to anyone interested in the process of making art, and to those for whom sketching is a critical part of their own artistic practice.

The first serious study on the paintings of the female icon and one of the most celebrated British artists, Tracey Emin Dame Tracey Emin DBE is known for her frank, confessional style and for transforming her inner world into intimate works of art. She has become one of the most celebrated artists in the world, a household name, and part of the Art establishment. Her practice includes painting, drawing, film, photography, sewn appliqué, sculpture, and neon, but in recent years she has focused on painting. Inspired by artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch, her paintings are provocative, confrontational, and vulnerable. They are at once deeply personal and universal, and it’s for this reason her work is revered around the world, and she has become an international icon. The book features more than 300 images of Emin’s gestural and expressive figurative paintings, from the 1990s to today, as well as a conversation with close friend David Dawson and an essay by Australian writer Jennifer Higgie. Made in close collaboration with the artist, this special book is the first publication dedicated to Emin’s emotive paintings and showcases her soulful work like never before.