Author: Simon Bull Publisher: ISBN: 9781953308238 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 766
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This book brings together every one of the 359 ink drawings created by Simon Bull during the first COVID 19 lockdown in 2020. There are herons, quail, owls, eagles, hummingbirds, flycatchers, sparrows, and a host of others produced by the artist's imagination. Painted to order and given away as part of the project, each one is unique. Depending on the artist's mood on any given day, the birds are depicted in groups, pairs, or in splendid isolation. When the clouds of the COVID-19 Pandemic finally broke into the storm that would put the world into lockdown, Simon Bull responded by making art. Art that reflected the moment. When everyone was sheltering in place, he offered to paint a unique ink and brush rendering of a bird for all who asked - at no charge. Each unique rendering would be free, free as a bird. It was the artist's way of sharing love and hope with the world as uncertainty and fear held us all in its grip. The idea was simple. A video promoting the offer was made and those responding were directed to a website where they could order up to nine studies per household. There was a modest handling charge and options to upgrade their gift with certificates of authenticity, frames etc, but at all times, the art itself remained free. When the offer went live, the studio was inundated with orders which took several months to complete. The whole collection has now been gathered together in this volume which serves as a catalog and record of an extraordinary event.
Author: Simon Morley Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1789142687 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 394
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The monochrome—a single-color work of art—is highly ambiguous. For some it epitomizes purity and is art reduced to its essence. For others it is just a stunt, the proverbial emperor’s new clothes. Why are monochrome works both so admired and such an easy target of scorn? Why does a monochrome look so simple and yet is so challenging to comprehend? And what is it that drives artists to create such works? In this illuminating book, Simon Morley unpacks the meanings of the monochrome as it has developed internationally over the twentieth century to today. In doing so, he also explores how artists have understood what they make, how critics variously interpret it, and how art is encountered by viewers.
Author: Simon Bull Publisher: ISBN: 9780578671888 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 170
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Whether novice or art connoisseur, Artist: Drawn from Life will appeal to your visual and literary senses, as well as your love of adventure.The author takes us behind the very eyes of an artist, through which we are shown the world anew. Full of lyrical descriptive writing and reflective moments, this is a story that will stay with you long after the final page
Author: Joe Simon Publisher: Vanguard ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 202
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Chronicles the creation and evolution of the comic book industry, covering the working conditions, partnerships, and behind-the-scenes battles that shaped the formative decades of the genre.
Author: Simon Morley Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0500021627 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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A liberating approach to interpreting modern and contemporary art, focusing on twenty major artworks from around the world and representing a diversity of styles, mediums, and artists. With modern art’s proclivity for self-expression, originality, and the abstract, great works can often seem indecipherable. This book provides the tools to help interpret the seemingly bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by exploring twenty works in terms of seven key perspectives: history, biography, aesthetics, experience, theory, criticism, and the market. Author, artist, and art historian Simon Morley shows how twenty well-known but little-understood works of art can serve as useful gateways not only for understanding each other, but also for appreciating works by the same artists and the wider world of art in general. Morley points to visual and theoretical dimensions of art that are not immediately obvious, reconstructing the perspectives of artists and the context within which works were made. Seven Keys to Modern Art is a liberating approach, offering a highly practical and universally applicable method of art interpretation and appreciation.
Author: Riva Castleman Publisher: ABRAMS ISBN: 9780810961814 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art Publisher: Lucia Marquand ISBN: 9781555953614 Category : Painting Languages : en Pages : 0
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This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Author: Iain M. Banks Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0748110070 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 201
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The works of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson The State of the Art is the only collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction and includes the acclaimed Culture novella of the same name. From science fiction to horror, dark fantasy to twisted comedy, all eight stories bear the indefinable stamp of Banks's staggering talent. Praise for the novels of Iain M. Banks: 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman 'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The novels of Iain M. Banks: The Culture series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata The State of the Art Other books by Iain M. Banks Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist Also now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.
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