Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Author
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Despite being at the forefront of high-tech innovation in architecture, Chris Wilkinson OBE RA is an architect who believes passionately in the importance of drawing by hand. Where many practices are now dominated by computer-aided design, Wilkinson still uses drawing as a way to think through ideas, to grapple with design problems and as a tool of communication. This volume brings together images selected from 20 years of Wilkinson's sketchbooks,...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Hokusai, one of Japan's most famous artists, has left a body of work comprising almost 30,000 items. This volume, designed as a catalog to accompany an exhibition in London, gives us an overview of 13 drawings and 151 woodblock prints representing landscapes, amorous couplings, kabuki actors, and scenes of daily life in 18th-century Japan.
10) Chiaroscuro: Renaissance woodcuts from the collections of Georg Baselitz and the Albertina, Vienna
Author
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Traces the genesis and dissemination of chiaroscuro woodcuts in 16th-century Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, with more than 130 examples including masterpieces by Cranach, Beccafumi, and Goltzius.
11) Australia
Author
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Marking the first major survey of Australian art in the UK for 50 years, this exhibition spans more than 200 years from 1800 to the present day and seeks to uncover the fascinating social and cultural evolution of a nation through its art.
"This landmark book charts the development of Australian art, from early Aboriginal paintings and those of the early colonial settlers to the work of later immigrants and today's artists that reflects their culturally...
Author
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy and Munkácsi revolutionised photojournalism and art photography in the first hald of the twentieth century. This handsome book examines how these five men, all of whom left their native country to work in Europe and America, established Hungary - that cultural and geographical intersection between east and west - as a crucibleof photography, and explores the influence of their vision and orginality on suceeding...
14) Ai Weiwei
Author
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Artist, designer, architect, author, publisher, and curator: Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is a truly 21st-century creative, influential across a variety of media. During his childhood, criticism of his father's poetry--he was labeled as a dissident--meant that Ai and his family were exiled to a remote region of China for 16 years. Following the death of Chairman Mao, Ai left to train as an artist in Beijing and New York. Ai is today an artist of global stature,...
Publisher
The Art Institute of Chicago
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Through 50 masterpieces of American painting, this catalogue chronicles the turbulent economic, political, and aesthetic climate of the 1930s. This decade was a supremely creative period in the United States, as the nation's artists, novelists, and critics struggled through the Great Depression in search of "Americanness." Seeking to define modern American art, many painters challenged and reworked the meanings and forms of modernism, reaching no...
Publisher
MFA publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This book is the first in English to explore the essential role that Henri Matisse's personal collection of objects played in his studio practice. The artist traveled with his collection even to temporary residences, and letters to family members often included requests for objects to be moved to where he was working, revealing them to be critical creative stimulants. Featured frequently in the modern master's bold paintings, drawings and cutouts,...
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jean-Etienne Liotard was renowned during the eighteenth century for his exquisite portraits and works in pastel, not to mention his outlandish Oriental garb. He painted some of the most significant rulers and aristocrats of Europe, including several members of the British royal family. A peripatetic artist who worked in the Levant as well as major European capitals, Liotard was born in Geneva and studied in Paris before travelling to Italy and then...
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