The first study of Margaret Preston's life in Berowra, north of Sydney, from 1932 to 1942, fully illustrated with her woodcuts, paintings and monotypes showing that area of the Hawkesbury River. Written by the curator of the Macquarie University Art Gallery and long-time Berowra resident, this books shows the development of her artistry in thehis ......
Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna (1638-1665) was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese School. Not only a painter, she was also a printmaker and a teacher. Based on extensive archival documentation and primary sources - including inventories, sale catalogues and her work diary - Elisabetta Sirani provides an overview of the ......
This luscious book marks the first appearance of Marc Tetro's wonderfully expressive canines in art-book form, documenting his incredible style that appeals to so many in a gorgeous oversized format.
The best-selling book on the Australian artist was originally prepared by Penguin to support the 1985 Preston travelling exhibition. Elizabeth Butel lookat the vibrant art and craft of Australia's most popular woman artist through the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection.
Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman's Painter situates Esther Estelle Pressoir's body of work within the effervescent art scene of the early 20th century, both in America and abroad. The first book to present the wide-ranging oeuvre of this American modernist, it covers the span of Pressoir's long life (1902-86) with a particular focus on the interwar ......
Siri Beckman has been creating wood engravings and woodcuts for more than forty years. Featuring more than 100 of her images, this volume is a celebration of her life's work and legacy.
Joe Tilson RA (b.1928) is one of the great figures in post-war British art and a pivotal artist of the British Pop Art movement during the 1960s. Still working, and still evolving, he has continued to explore many new directions and a great variety of mediums since moving away from his Pop origins. Astonishingly, no general monograph documenting ......
This is the Nordic Bakery's first lifestyle book. The 18 chapters will transport the readers into what makes the Nordic Bakery such a strong brand and success story; it will give a voice and profile their customers; it will tell the tale of how products are sourced and ideas conceived; it will describe the design aesthetic and so much more ...
Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe
As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of internet culture, virality provides a critical vocabulary for addressing questions raised by the global mobility and reproduction of early modern artworks. This book uses the concept of virality to study artworks' role in the uneven processes of early modern globalization. Drawing from archival research ......
Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe
Examines internet virality as a critical framework for considering early modern artworks' global mobility and replication. Explores the role of artistic labor, gatekeepers, infrastructures, and social networks to reassess art's role in processes of globalization.
Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions ......
This book highlights the ability to capture nuanced feeling through picture stories, demonstrating that one has the power to create memories and feelings through ambiance and atmosphere. The book portrays humans in their environment, and the play between the two, the fourth wall coming down and inviting the reader in.
A Book You Will Like So Much You Will Want to Get Rid of it
SHARE SCANDINAVIA contains 50 Scandinavian inspired artworks carefully selected amongst the best up-and-coming first time published artist. Following the success of SHARE Vol. 1, this second installment combines the winning concept of high quality prints on perforated pages with the in-demand Scandinavian aesthetic.