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Publisher
V&A Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
" Diva celebrates the power and creativity of iconic performers, exploring what it means to be a diva. Ranging from opera and stage goddesses such as Adelina Patti, Sarah Bernhardt and Maria Callas to Hollywood icons Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, from activist power performers such as Josephine Baker, Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin to pop megastars Cher, Grace Jones, Prince, Madonna, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Rihanna, this book...
Publisher
Design Museum
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In recent years, the sari has been reinvented. Urban youth who previously associated the sari with formal attire can now be found wearing saris and sneakers on their commutes to work. Designers are experimenting with hybrid forms such as sari gowns and dresses, pre-draped saris and innovative materials such as steel. Individuals are wearing the sari as an expression of resistance to social norms and activists are embodying it as an object of protest....
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This is the first comprehensive survey of Vallotton's career to be held in the UK. Through more than 80 paintings and prints, we explore an extraordinary body of work: from compelling portraits, magnetic still-lifes, luminescent landscapes and bitingly satirical prints, to interior scenes which reverberate with psychological tension. Often anticipating the emotionally charged paintings of Edward Hopper and the films of Alfred Hitchcock, these works...
Publisher
Harvard Art Museums
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Watercolor holds a special place in the history of American art. For generations of artists, the medium has provided a space for innovation and experimentation, allowing practitioners to let their imagination loose and to reflect on process and perception. Its rise to the status of fine art in the decades following the Civil War is well documented, yet its continued role as a testing ground and means of generating new ideas throughout the twentieth...
7) KAWS: family
Publisher
Art Gallery of Ontario
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
American artist KAWS is one of the most famous living contemporary artists today. Renowned for his iconic visual language and larger-than-life sculptures, the artist draws on beloved pop culture icons to create a new and recognizable cast of characters of his own. The broad appeal of KAWS' style has made his artwork accessible to collectors, museum visitors and the general public alike, and has led to collaborations with coveted global brands and...
8) From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria 1450-1600: 150 years of sculpture in the Republic of Venice
Publisher
Marsilio Arte
Pub. Date
April 2022.
Language
English
Description
This volume intends to analyze some particularly significant moments of a very broad story, such as that of the sculptural production in the Venetian Republic from the early Renaissance to the late Manner (mid-15th-early 17th century), highlighting the complexity and richness of stylistic and iconographic contributions in those years of strong renewal for the local figurative culture. Donatello's language arrived early in the lagoon, already around...
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Internationally renowned, highly educated and very well connected, Angelica Kauffman RA (1741-1807) led a brilliant career as a pioneering history painter, an innovative portraitist and one of only two women among the founding membership of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768. Kauffman was admired by Goethe and Herder, and her clients included queens and emperors from across the continent. Her extraordinary life and work are beautifully presented in...
Publisher
Abbeville Press Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The exhibition Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. uses 600 original objects, 400 images, and 10 stories to provide a comprehensive history of Auschwitz concentration camp and the role it played in the Holocaust. The catalog of Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. is not only a valuable document of this unprecedented exhibition, but one of the best books for the general readers on the history of Auschwitz, where 1.1 million people - mostly Jews,...
Author
Publisher
Scala Arts Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This book marks a decade of Basil Alkazzi's most colourful and intense work. It features brilliantly coloured flowers, dreamy skies, and otherworldly landscape, highlighted by striking details. Raised in England where he attended art school, Alkazzi has exhibited regularly in London and in the United States for over five decades.
Publisher
Whitney Museum of American Art
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this volume features all of his most famous pieces. In an overview essay, Scott Rothkopf carefully examines the evolution of Koons's work and his development over the past thirty-five years, offering a scholarly perspective on the artist's multi-faceted career.
Author
Publisher
Blurb
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Patrick McFarlin has been making art under the moniker of McFarlin Oil for more than fifty years. Picture It Painted presents fifteen handsomely illustrated chapters of McFarlin's explorations in sculpture and painting. Never an artist content to paint the same things over and over, Picture it Painted opens with McFarlin's sculpture done during the Bay-Area Funk movement. We follow McFarlin back to his home state of Arkansas as he works through the...
19) Stuart Davis
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Traces the development of the American painter and discusses his place in art history.
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