British Artists At Work

Author : Lucinda Hawksley
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art, British
ISBN : 3791345389

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50 British Artists You Should Know by Lucinda Hawksley Pdf

This roll-call of British artists confirms the dominance and excellence of British art across five centuries, from Blake to Banksy , Turner to Tracey Emin. This highly readable and informative collection of the best of British art showcases magnificent portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and Stanley Spencer; landscapes by J. M. W. Turner and David Hockney; satire by William Hogarth and Gilbert & George; sculpture by Henry Moore and Rachel Whiteread; and the latest works by Grayson Perry and Damien Hirst. Each artist is presented in a double-page spread that features a major work, details from the work, a brief biography and fascinating insights into the artist's life and times. Lucinda Hawksley's engaging survey compares the skill of the Elizabethan miniaturists and the magnificence of the High Victorians with the grit of post-war British modernists and the best of the Young British Artists, whose fearless approach to controversial themes make them worthy inheritors of the great traditions of British art. AUTHOR: Lucinda Hawksley is the author of numerous books on art, literature and British history, including 'Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel', 'Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter' and 'The Secret History of Art'. She lectures frequently at the National Portrait Gallery in London, is a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London, and is an award-winning travel writer. 140 illustrations

Author : Rebecca Fortnum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857718235

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Contemporary British Women Artists by Rebecca Fortnum Pdf

In this illuminating collection of new interviews, some of the most important women artists practising in Britain today talk about their work, their influences and their relationships, sometimes ambivalent, with the art historical canon. Enlightening and frequently entertaining, the interviews, with artists spanning different generations and working in media as diverse as performance art, painting, sculpture, video and installation, give fascinating first-hand insights into both the artists' lives and the creative process. Fortnum speaks to: Tacita Dean, Tanya Kovats, Christine Borland, Jane Harris, Vanessa Jackson, Tracey Emin, Maria Lalic, Hayley Newman, Sonia Boyce, Emma Kay, Gillian Ayres, Lucy Gunning, Claire Barclay, Maria Chevska, Anya Gallacio, Jemima Stehli, Runa Islam and Paula Rego.

Author : Alison Baverstock
Publisher : Prestel Junior
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art, British
ISBN : 3791370626

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13 British Artists Children Should Know by Alison Baverstock Pdf

"Colorful, chronologically arranged overview uses games, puzzles, and project ideas to encourage young people to appreciate the diverse ways in which British artists reflect their country's culture. Religious art, modern sculpture, exquisite landscapes and urban art are all presented in full-page spreads that engage children by inviting them into the works themselves, challenging them to answer questions about the artists' perceptions and exposing them to the fascinating historical forces that have shaped the artists' work"--Publishers website.

Author : Eddie Chambers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857736086

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Black Artists in British Art by Eddie Chambers Pdf

Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these artists were regarded and embraced as practitioners of note. At other times they faced challenges of visibility - and in response they collaborated and made their own exhibitions and gallery spaces. In this book, Eddie Chambers tells the story of these artists from the 1950s onwards, including recent developments and successes. Black Artists in British Art makes a major contribution to British art history. Beginning with discussions of the pioneering generation of artists such as Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling, Chambers candidly discusses the problems and progression of several generations, including contemporary artists such as Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare. Meticulously researched, this important book tells the fascinating story of practitioners who have frequently been overlooked in the dominant history of twentieth-century British art.

Author : Amanda Eliasch,Gemma De Cruz
Publisher : Assouline Books & Gifts
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art, British
ISBN : UOM:39015052884676

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British Artists at Work by Amanda Eliasch,Gemma De Cruz Pdf

Offering unique insight into the world of contemporary art, British Artists at Work looks at four generations of artists, from the established to the newly emerging. Photographs of each of the artists, taken by Amanda Eliasch during 2002 in the artists' studios, are set alongside examples of their work. The text by Gemma de Cruz provides a brief overview of who the artists are, what they do and how their work and ideas fit into the art world at this time. This book draws attention to a particular selection of what is happening now in contemporary art in London, featuring artists who are influential alongside those they have influenced. Here is an exciting and revealing behing-the-scenes look at the spaces in which these artists work, with full-page reproductions of their artworks in progress. Illustrated

Author : David Gentleman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141993126

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My Town by David Gentleman Pdf

David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of it on the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spent observing, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing together work from across his whole career, from his earliest sketches to watercolours painted just a few months ago. Here is London as it was, and as it is today: the Thames, Hampstead Heath; the streets, canals, markets and people of his home of Camden Town; and at the heart of it all, his studio and the tools of his work. Accompanied by reflections on the process of drawing and personal thoughts on the ever-changing city, this is a celebration of London, and the joy of noticing, looking and capturing the world. 'David has spent a lifetime depicting with wit and affection a London he has made his own' Alan Bennett 'He delivers a poetry of exultant concentration ... The surface fusion of the sensuous and the sharply modern is echoed by Gentleman's imagery' Guardian 'The artist and illustrator has been responsible for some of the most-seen public artworks in this country' The Times 'Perhaps the last of the great polymath designer-painters' Camden New Journal

Author : Brooks Adams,Norman Rosenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124155479

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Sensation by Brooks Adams,Norman Rosenthal Pdf

'Sensation' features work by over 40 of the most radical artists working in Britain today as well as erudite essays which analyse the phenomenon of the British art scene from the late 1980s to the present day and place it in its historical context.

Author : Nick Aikens,Elizabeth Robles
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783956794667

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The Place Is Here by Nick Aikens,Elizabeth Robles Pdf

: A richly illustrated collection of artworks, essays, and conversations that offer a range of perspectives on black art in Thatcherite Britain. The Place Is Here begins to write a missing chapter in British art history: work by black artists in the Thatcherite 1980s. Richly illustrated, with more than two hundred color images, it brings together artworks, essays, archives, and conversations that map the varying perspectives and approaches of a group of artists who challenged the dominance of white heterosexual men in the canon of contemporary art. The many artists discussed and displayed here do not make up a “movement” or a school or a chronological progression, but represent the diverse interests and activities of artists across a decade and beyond. They grapple with black nationalism, anti-colonialism and postcolonialism, anti-Thatcherism, black feminism, black queer subjectivity, psychoanalysis, forms of narrative and documentary image-making, in different ways and through different modes of representation across a range of media. The book, which grows out of a series of exhibitions that began in 2014, offers essays, close readings of selected works, panel discussions, and archival presentations, bringing together different voices and generational perspectives. Contributions come from the artists themselves, established scholars, and younger practitioners, critics, and art historians. They discuss the exhibitions, call for a reappraisal of dominant art historical approaches, and consider the use and role of the archive in artworks; look at works by Mona Hatoum, Martina Atille, Said Adrus, Chila Kumari Burman, and Pratibha Parmar; and present key documents and other material. Contributors Nick Aikens, Sonia Boyce, Laura Castagnini, Deborah Cherry, Alice Correia, Chandra Frank, June Givanni, Sunil Gupta, Evan Ifekoya, Claudette Johnson, Raisa Kabir, Gail Lewis, Amna Malik, Samia Malik, Priyesh Mistry, Dorothy Price, susan pui san lok, Raju Rage, Elizabeth Robles, Ashwani Sharma, Marlene Smith, Leon Wainwright, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Rehana Zaman

Author : Grant M.. Waters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Art, British
ISBN : OCLC:881833020

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Dictionary of British Artists, Working 1900-1950 by Grant M.. Waters Pdf

Author : British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings,Laurence Binyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Artists
ISBN : UOM:39015017045116

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Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin Working in Great Britain ...: A-C by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings,Laurence Binyon Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Art
ISBN : OXFORD:590118342

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The Gallery of Modern British Artists by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gruetzner,Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0912728302

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Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940 by Gruetzner,Johnson Pdf

Author : Jonathan Jones
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847860166

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Tracey Emin by Jonathan Jones Pdf

A new comprehensive monograph on the work of an enduring icon of contemporary art. Compiled in close collaboration with the artist and unprecedented in its scope, this definitive book collects ten years of Tracey Emin’s drawings, paintings, sculptures, appliqués and embroideries, neons, video stills, and installations. A multimedia artist whose intensely personal work blurs the boundaries between art and life, Emin remains one of the most highly publicized contemporary British artists and continues to stir as much controversy as she has acclaim. Moving chronologically through a prolific decade of work—from major public installations to recent reflective paintings and sculptures—this book shows a coherent vision that defies the idiosyncrasies of Emin’s evolution as an artist. The same mixture of anger, hope, curiosity, and vulnerability that informs her delicate drawings and handwritten neon works can be felt in the darker tones of recent monoprints and the weight of later bronze pieces. Written by Jonathan Jones, whose text places Emin’s work in a broad art-historical context and sees this recent decade of her artwork as an entry point to examining her full career, this is a beautiful monograph on one of the world’s most influential living artists.

Author : Monique Kerman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783319651996

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Contemporary British Artists of African Descent and the Unburdening of a Generation by Monique Kerman Pdf

This book explores the notable roles that contemporary British artists of African descent have played in the multicultural context of postwar Britain. In four key case studies— Magdalene Odundo, Veronica Ryan, Mary Evans, and Maria Amidu—Monique Kerman charts their impact through analysis of works, activities, and exhibitions. The author elucidates each of the artists’ creative response to their unique experience and examines how their work engages with issues of history, identity, diaspora, and the distillation of diverse cultural sources. The study also includes a comparative discussion of art broadly defined as “black British,” in order to question assumptions concerning racial and ethnic identities that the artists often negotiate through their works—particularly the expectation or “burden” of representing minority or marginalized communities. Readers are thus challenged to unburden the artists herein and celebrate their work on its own terms.

Author : Dawn Ades,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher : Te Neues Publishing Company
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050052359

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British Art in the 20th Century by Dawn Ades,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) Pdf

Includes paintings and sculpture which have shaped the course of art in the 20th century.