Art Of The Extreme 1905 1914

Author : Philip Hook
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782835158

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Art of the Extreme 1905-1914 by Philip Hook Pdf

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The ten years leading up to the First World War were the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. They were the crucible of Modernism, when Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and Abstract Art all burst forth. Simultaneously the Old Master market boomed, and art itself was politically weaponised in advance of approaching war. What was the conventional art against which Modernism was rebelling? Why did avant-garde artists become so obsessed with themselves? What persuaded a few bold collectors to buy difficult modern art? And why did others pay so much money for Old Masters? Art expert Philip Hook brings to bear a unique perspective on the art of a unique and extreme decade.

Author : PHILIP HOOK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788161866

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ART OF THE EXTREME 1905-1914 by PHILIP HOOK Pdf

Author : Philip Hook
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781615194285

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Rogues' Gallery by Philip Hook Pdf

This “expert and elegantly written” book reveals how dealers have been a major force in art history from the Renaissance to the avant garde (The Guardian, UK). Philip Hook’s riveting narrative takes us from the early days of art dealing in Antwerp, where paintings were sold by weight, to the unassailable hauteur of contemporary galleries in New York, London, Paris, and beyond. Along the way, we meet a surprisingly wide-ranging cast of characters—from tailors, spies, and the occasional anarchist to scholars, aristocrats, and connoisseurs, some compelled by greed, some by their own vision of art—and some by the art of the deal. Among them are Joseph Duveen, who almost single-handedly brought the Old Masters to America; Paul Durand-Ruel, the Impressionists’ champion; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, high priest of Cubism; Leo Castelli, dealer-midwife to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art; and Peter Wilson, the charismatic Sotheby’s chairman who made a theater of the auction room. Full of unforgettable anecdotes and astute insight, Rogue’s Gallery offers “a front-row seat and a backstage pass to this arcane and obsessively secretive profession” (Hannah Rothschild, Mail on Sunday, UK).

Author : Philip Hook
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780718192464

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Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook Pdf

Breakfast at Sotheby's is a wry, intimate, truly insider-y exploration of how art acquires its financial value, from Philip Hook, a senior director at Sotheby's When you stand in front of a work of art in a museum or exhibition, the first two questions you normally ask yourself are 1) Do I like it? And 2) Who's it by? When you stand in front of a work of art in an auction room or dealer's gallery, you ask these two questions followed by others: how much is it worth? how much will it be worth in five or ten years' time? and what will people think of me if they see it hanging on my wall? Breakfast at Sotheby's is a guide to how people reach answers to such questions, and how in the process art is given a financial value. Fascinating and highly subjective, built on thirty-five years' experience of the art market, Philip Hook explores the artist and his hinterland (including -isms, middle-brow artists, Gericault and suicides), subject and style (from abstract art and banality through surrealism and war), "wall-power", provenance and market weather, in which the trade of the art market is examined and at one point compared to the football transfer market. Comic, revealing, piquant, splendid and absurd, Breakfast at Sotheby's is a book of pleasure and intelligent observation, as engaged with art as it is with the world that surrounds it. Philip Hook is a director and senior paintings specialist at Sotheby's. He has worked in the art world for thirty-five years during which time he has also been a director of Christie's and an international art dealer. He is the author of five novels and two works of art history, including The Ultimate Trophy, a history of the Impressionist Painting. Hook has appeared regularly on television, from 1978-2003 on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.

Author : John Elderfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1076099542

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THE 'WILD BEASTS'. by John Elderfield Pdf

Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0810961814

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A Century of Artists Books by Riva Castleman Pdf

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 : Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892363339

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Hendrik Petrus Berlage by Hendrik Petrus Berlage Pdf

Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.

Author : Sarah Whitfield
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500202273

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Fauvism by Sarah Whitfield Pdf

Even though public and critical reaction to the first exhibited fauvist works was one of hostility and astonishment, fauvist paintings are today among the most loved of all twentieth-century art. Here are the artists--their works, relationships, achievements, affinities, and critics. 170 illustrations.

Author : David Cottington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0300075294

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Cubism in the Shadow of War by David Cottington Pdf

Author : James Fox
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141976662

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The World According to Colour by James Fox Pdf

'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings, James Fox reveals how, through colour, we can better understand their cultures, as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch, and together they form a vivid, exhilarating history of the world. 'We have projected our hopes, anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years,' Fox writes. 'The history of colour, therefore, is also a history of humanity.'

Author : Paul Cézanne
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520225171

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Conversations with Cézanne by Paul Cézanne Pdf

This book gathers the commentary of people who knew the painter Paul Cezanne, especially in his later years. Now seen as one of the most influential of modern painters, in his 40s he returned to his village of Aix-en-Provence where, he worked in near obscurity and with great dedication until his death in 1906.

Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780571354177

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Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow Pdf

'Whatever Uglow writes about she makes absolutely fascinating.' DIANA ATHILL The story of Sybil Andews and Cyril Power, two artists who changed each other in an age of experiment and turmoil. 'In all her books, she makes us feel the life behind the facts.' GUARDIAN 'Wonderfully sharp and sympathetic . . . Uglow is a perfect biographer.' CRAIG BROWN, MAIL ON SUNDAY In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts, streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time they looked back, to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight. Cyril & Sybil traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of Futurists, Surrealists and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war.

Author : Howard Saul Becker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520043863

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Art Worlds by Howard Saul Becker Pdf

Author : Otto G. Ocvirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:31951000939629B

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Art Fundamentals; Theory and Practice by Otto G. Ocvirk Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484466

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The Firebird and the Fox by Jeffrey Brooks Pdf

A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.