Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Individual Artists - General

Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a distinctive feature of his work. Reading Cy Twombly poses both literary and art historical questions. How does poetic reference in largely abstract works affect their interpretation?

Reading Cy Twombly is the first book to focus specifically on the artist's use of poetry. Twombly's library formed an extension of his studio and he...

Yoshitaka Amano: Illustrations offers a concise survey of this remarkable artist's career to date. It includes selected...

As children, our passions came easy. We would doodle for hours and hours and we didn't know what the word 'editing' meant. As we got older, our passions were pushed aside for the busyness of life, for the fear of failure, for poor excuses. Unfinished, is a book for hopeful creative's to reclaim their passions; to Dream, Complete and Repeat Their Life's Work even when life gets busy and the excuses to NOT complete projects are endless.

A mobile artist who lives and works in Boston, Mark Davis was drawn to the act of creating as a young boy. The discovery of Alexander Calder's work at the age of fourteen had a deep influence on Davis's early work, which consisted of stylized jewelry pieces, and has had a consistent presence throughout his career. In this lavishly illustrated volume, plants, animals, humans, and landscapes develop within the brightly colored and abstracted shapes that make up Davis's body of work today. Vibrant palettes and abstracted sheets of metal are composed to create self-contained, kinetic...

A celebration of evolving taste, told through the stories behind 250 objects sold by the world's leading auction house

Founded in London in 1766, Christie's is one of the most important auction houses in the world. During its history, Christie's has sold masterpieces by artists such as Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Vincent van Gogh, often at record-breaking prices; and, away from the world of art, the personal possessions of such well-known figures as Napoleon Bonaparte, Marilyn Monroe, Yves Saint Laurent, and Princess Diana.

From furniture to...

A comprehensive study of one of the most versatile artists and acute observers of our time, who fuses art and fashion

American artist Sterling Ruby works in a large variety of media, including sculpture, ceramics, painting, and video art. Ruby is influenced by a wide range of sources, including marginalized societies, maximum-security prisons, modernist architecture, artefacts and antiquities, graffiti, waste and consumption, and urban gangs. Through these, he examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint.

An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting

Nigel Cooke is known for his complex paintings, which thematically explore the meeting point between creative labour, consciousness, art history, consumer culture, and nature. Primarily centred on meticulously painted, large-scale urban landscapes, which he calls 'hybrid theatrical spaces', Cooke's work employs disparate styles, often integrating trompe l'oeil miniature rocks and trees with backdrops of graffiti-marked buildings, to create...

Erster umfassender Uberblick uber das Schaffen des osterreichischen Bildhauers Roland Reiter. Reiters Kunst kalkuliert nicht kuhl, das emotionale, das "ausdrucksvolle" Moment ist eines ihrer Kennzeichen. Sie kombiniert Materialien, die klassischerweise nicht zusammenpassen, sich gegenwartskunsttechnisch aber doch wieder erganzen. Dadurch entsteht eine Art von Spannung, die durchaus einen eigenen Voyeurismus zu bedienen weiss.