Author: Deborah WyePublisher:
ISBN: 9780870701535
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Her increasing recognition since then culminated with the selection of her work to represent the United States at the 1993 Venice Biennale.
The Prints of Louise Bourgeois
Author: Deborah WyePublisher:
ISBN: 9780870701535
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Her increasing recognition since then culminated with the selection of her work to represent the United States at the 1993 Venice Biennale.
Catalogue of Prints,.
Author: Kiki Smith
Author: Wendy WeitmanPublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870705830
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This work is published to accompany an exhibition at MoMA QNS devoted to an under-acknowledged but crucial area of Kiki Smith's art, December 5th, 2003 - March 8th, 2004.
Rufino Tamayo
Author: My Ideal Bookshelf
Author: Thessaly La ForcePublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316225002
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The books that we choose to keep -- let alone read -- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world. Contributors include Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Keller, Michael Chabon, Alice Waters, James Patterson, Maira Kalman, Judd Apatow, Chuck Klosterman, Miranda July, Alex Ross, Nancy Pearl, David Chang, Patti Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Dave Eggers, among many others. With colorful and endearingly hand-rendered images of book spines by Jane Mount, and first-person commentary from all the contributors, this is a perfect gift for avid readers, writers, and all who have known the influence of a great book.
A Catalogue of Books, Prints, and Books of Prints, for 1792. Consisting of a Great Variety of Curious Articles, Selected from the Valuable Libraries which Have Been Sold During the Last Winter; Consisting of Antient MSS. and Missals, ... The Books are Now Selling, for Ready Money Only, ... by John Simco, ...
Author: John SimcoElisabeth Frink
Author: Caroline WisemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prints
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
WANDA GAG
Author: Audur H. WinnanPublisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"One of the most praised printmakers of the 1920s and 1930s, Wanda Gag (1893-1946) produced an inventive body of work dealing with the forces of nature and infusing everyday objects with special character and energy. Her work reflects her Minnesota childhood, her Bohemian immigrant roots, and her self-image as a New Woman. Continually struggling with the financial and personal demands of her artistic career, Gag was, ironically, most famous for Millions of Cats (1928), one of her illustrated children's books." "Presenting the first catalogue raisonne of Gag's prints, Audur H. Winnan includes 196 lithographs, wood engravings, linoleum cuts, etchings, and study drawings. Among the featured prints are the well-known Lamplight, Elevated Station, Grandma's Kitchen, Grandma's Parlor, and Stone Crusher. Gag's media and methods are described, often in the artist's own words, including her unusual use of sandpaper as a matrix for lithographs and as a support for brush-and-ink drawings and watercolors. Also featuring many of her watercolors and drawings, the book traces each step of Gag's career and her role in the New York art world." "Winnan completes her portrait with selections from Gag's expressive diaries and letters. With extraordinary candor the artist describes her intimate personal thoughts and experiences and her friendships and encounters with many notable artists and other personalities, including Adolf Dehn, Lewis Gannett, Howard Cook, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Diego Rivera, Alfred Stieglitz, John Taylor Arms, and Carl Zigrosser. Throughout her personal writings, Gag reflected on her career, the restrictions placed on women by society, and her sexual desires. Wanda Gag reveals both the internationally recognized artist who drew inspiration from van Gogh and Cezanne, and the vibrant, erotic woman who admitted to being amazed by her own passions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979
Author: David HammonsPublisher: Drawing Center
ISBN: 9780942324419
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
On Hammons' seminal series that ingeniously merged print and performance, celebration and critique The first book dedicated to these pivotal early works on paper, David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979 brings together the monoprints and collages in which the artist used the body as both a drawing tool and printing plate to explore performative, unconventional forms of image making. Hammons created the body prints by greasing his own body--or that of another person--with substances including margarine and baby oil, pressing or rolling body parts against paper, and sprinkling the surface with charcoal and powdered pigment. The resulting impressions are intimately direct indexes of faces, skin, and hair that exist somewhere between spectral portraits and physical traces. Hammons' body prints represent the origin of his artistic language, one that has developed over a long and continuing career and that emphasizes both the artifacts and subjects of contemporary Black life in the United States. More than a half century after they were made, these early works on paper exemplify Hammons' celebration of the sacredness of objects touched or made by the Black body, and his biting critique of racial oppression. The 32 body prints highlighted in this volume introduce the major themes of a 50-year career that has become central to the history of postwar American art. The book features a conversation between curator and activist Linda Goode Bryant and artist Senga Nengudi, as well as a photo essay by photographer Bruce W. Talamon, who documented Hammons at work in his Los Angeles studio in 1974. Born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, David Hammons moved to Los Angeles in 1963 at the age of 20 and began making his body prints several years later. He studied at Otis Art Institute with Charles White and became part of a younger generation of Black avant-garde artists loosely associated with the Black Arts Movement. He moved to New York in 1978.
Craigie Aitchison
Author: Andrew LambirthPublisher: Royal Academy Books
ISBN: 9781907533471
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The painter and printmaker Craigie Aitchison (1926-2009), born in Edinburgh and trained at the Slade School for Art, is best-known for his spare compositions and intense, luminous palette. His subject-matter is equally distinctive - single flower, Bedlington terriers, sheep and crucifixions - rendered, as in the early Italian religious paintings that he so admired, in simple but powerful forms. These hallmarks are also present in Aitchison's prints, most of which are the legacy of his longstanding relationship with the technicians at Advanced Graphics, London. His prints are all brought togethers for the first time in his authoritative publication, an essential purchase for all those interested in Aitchison's work.