BLACK LOVE NOTES to Self
As the Threequel to Views from my Kaleidoscope and Pages from my Notebook, Melissa A. Mitchell provides more intimate mantras and declarations in Black Love Notes To Self. This book is filled with real emotions, raw understandings, and honest takes on life. Melissa prides herself on being an open book when it comes to what keeps her motivated and fueled to chase her wildest dreams. With this amazing compilation, she shares what it takes to stay focused truly and how to use the power of words to usher in your next level. This book serves as a transfer of knowledge and energy. She wants readers to understand that the pen to rewrite one's story is always in their hands.In Black Love Notes to Self, Melissa gives a peek into the mind of a dreamer while motivating others to encourage themselves. She reminds you of your power and gives you tools to stay empowered along your journey.
Bottle Battleships
This novel belongs to the A Capella Sea Trilogy. It is a sci-fi story about a post-nuclear rise of the human world.
Carmezia Emiliano: The Tree of Life
The first monograph for an influential indigenous Brazilian painterCarm矇zia Emiliano (born 1960) is a Macuxi painter and pioneering Indigenous figure on the contemporary Brazilian art scene. This volume accompanies her first solo exhibition, featuring recent canvases depicting landscapes, objects of material culture and the daily life of her community.
Van Gogh’s Cypresses
The first book to study Vincent van Gogh's fascination with cypresses, the "tall and dark trees" that feature in some of his most iconic pictures Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) immortalized the cypress tree in signature images that have become synonymous with his fiercely original power of expression. This richly illustrated publication illuminates the backstory of his invention for the first time, from his initial investigations of the motif in benchmark drawings from Arles to his realization of their full evocative potential in such iconic canvases as The Starry Night and Wheat Field with Cypresses, painted at the asylum in Saint-R矇my. Susan Alyson Stein retraces the Dutch artist's inspired response to the flamelike evergreens as they gained ground in his works and artistic thinking over the course of his sojourn in the South of France. The volume provides further insight into Van Gogh's creative process through a technical study focused on two celebrated works from the artist's epic painting campaign of June 1889. The visual and literary heritage of the cypresses is featured in a compilation of images and excerpts from nineteenth-century poetry, novels, and travel writing--many translated into English for the first time. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 22-August 27, 2023)
Contemporary Photography in France
This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography's development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a comparative perspective. These include photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion. Author Olga Smith sets these practices in dialogue with French philosophy - the writings of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Ranci癡re - to produce an innovative study of the intersections between the photographic image, text, practice, and theory. This analysis is guided by an understanding of photography as deeply engaged with historical, cultural, and intellectual events that defined French national experience in the contemporary period. Landscape provides a particular focus to study issues of key significance, including national identification, colonial past, legacies of modernization and environmental breakdown.
Thomas Kinkade Studios 2024 Day-To-Day Calendar
Add a touch of grace and beauty to your day with the Thomas Kinkade Studios 2024 Day-to-Day Calendar which includes over 300 color image details from the remarkable collection of paintings of cottages, churches, landscapes, and cities of the world. Printed on coated paper and fitted with an easel stand for desk or tabletop display, this boxed calendar makes a lovely gift or addition to your own home or workplace. Each daily page of this calendar shows a color detail from one of Thomas Kinkade Studios' collection of classic and new paintings such as The Lights of Home, Beside Still Waters, Italian Caf矇, Fall Outing, and Sunday Evening Sleigh Ride. Features include: Page size 5.25" x 4.375"Printed on coated paper stock for high quality reproductionFull color tear-off pagesDay/date reference on each pageMonth-at-a-glance view on each pageCombined weekend pagesOfficial major world holidays and observancesMoon phases, based on Universal TimeEasel backer for desk or tabletop displayDetails of Thomas Kinkade Studios paintings of landscapes, seascapes, cottages, churches, and cities of the world
TRACe
Drawing on Tearne's background, and experience of loss - she left Sri Lanka for the UK with her family, at the start of the civil unrest during the 1960s - the book imagines an archive and museum collection cultivated from a trunk of photographs and artefacts from an unknown donor. With no known provenance and in poor condition, the collection stands in as a substitute for the lost possessions of every dislocated individual - whether a displaced person or refugee, or simply someone who has been forced by circumstance to leave the familiar behind, losing special objects in the process. People often cannot help looking for artefacts which belong to their past, and are unable to rest if they can't find them. TRACe provides that rest - it is the story of a collection, and the house which becomes a museum to hold those possessions."On entering you will notice that the collection within these rooms appears to belong to one person alone. However, I hope that on closer inspection it will become clear that the exhibits belong to everyone who has ever lived."
Sol Lewitts Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre
An intimate look at American artist Sol LeWitt's masterpiece of conceptual art, drawn on the walls of a medieval tower in Italy. In 1976, Sol LeWitt made a large group of pencil drawings on the internal walls of the Vecchia Torre, a medieval tower in the Umbrian town of Spoleto, Italy. These fragile drawings, made on walls that are susceptible to degradation, have rarely been seen and never been documented, yet they represent one of LeWitt's major works and a milestone in American conceptual art. This groundbreaking volume brings together an extended essay on LeWitt's work by art historian Rye Dag Holmboe and a series of 60 photographic plates of the drawings by artist Joschi Herczeg, giving readers an intimate experience of this singular, site-specific work. A visual archive, this book situates LeWitt's provisional, material, bodily, and highly personal drawings in their historical, biographical, and theoretical contexts. The result is nothing less than a reconsideration of LeWitt's lifework. At once a work of conservation and a reflection on the relationship between drawing and architecture, Sol LeWitt's Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre sheds new and welcome light on an unseen masterpiece.
The Last Best Trails
Trails are the passageways that connect us to outdoor adventures. The Last Best TRAILS is about year-round real-life human-powered trail sports in the greater Bozeman and Big Sky area. The book has been "drawn" from the past six years of exploring "The Last Best Place" on foot, bike, and ski. Exploration and adventures shouldn't be limited to the ultra-elite athletes but our public lands. We have all ages and experience levels to celebrate and experience getting out year-round in SW Montana. This book's mission is to start the stoke about our true treasures in this region of the treasure state and give a starting point of how to get the most enjoyment out of each activity safely. So lace, buckle on your footwear, and let's get out and explore The 100 Last Best Trails!
Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence
How artists from Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi to Whistler and Arthur Wesley Dow embraced and transformed Hokusai's dynamic style and innovationsThe great painter, book illustrator and print designer Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) has become the best known of all Japanese artists and one of the most famous and influential artists in the world. He was a key figure for the Japonisme movement in late 19th-century Europe, and his iconic images--especially the color woodblock print nicknamed "The Great Wave"--are frequently referred to in present-day art in both serious and frivolous forms, from sculpture, printmaking and painting to anime and emojis.This book looks at Hokusai from the viewpoint of fellow artists who incorporated lessons learned from him into their own work, including Hokusai's own students, his contemporary rivals and his many posthumous admirers working in a wide range of mediums, in Japan and around the world, from the late 19th century to the present. Lavishly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating and engaging texts, this publication invites readers to encounter the origins and enduring appeal of Hokusai's delightful art.Artists include: F矇lix Bracquemond, John Cederquist, Arthur Wesley Dow, Hiroshige, Sori Hishikawa, Hokkei, Hokusai, Winslow Homer, Lo簿s Mailou Jones, Henri Gustave Jossot, Shun'ei Katsukawa, Shunsho Katsukawa, Oi Katsushika, Eisen Keisai, Korin, Kuniyoshi, Paul Legrand, Manjiro Hokuga, Ogata Korin, Odilon Redon, Henri Rivi癡re, Hoitsu Sakai, Hokuju Shotei, Hokushu Shunkosai, Kogan Tobari, Hokkei Totoya, Toyoharu Utagawa, Utamasa, ?douard Vuillard, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Samuel Wilson and Shigenobu Yanagawa.
Jan Fabre: Allegory of Caritas (an Act of Love)
Material experiments in blood and coralFlemish artist Jan Fabre (born 1958) presents over 30 red coral sculptures alongside a series of unpublished drawings made using his own blood. The vivid colors and visceral materiality of these recent works evoke a deep reflection on the vulnerability of the human condition.
Artists’ Lives
Praised by The Art Newspaper as "the best art writer of his generation," Michael Peppiatt has encountered many European modern artists over more than fifty years. This selection of some of his best biographical writing covers a wide spectrum of modern art, from Van Gogh and Pierre Bonnard, to conversations with painter Sonia Delaunay, artist and photographer Dora Maar, who was Picasso's lover in the 1930s and 1940s, and Francis Bacon, perhaps the most famous of the many artists with whom Peppiatt has formed personal friendships.Michael Peppiatt's lively, engaging writing introduces us to many notable art-world personalities, such as the Catalan painter Antoni T?pies, whom he visits in his studio, and moments of disillusion, such as his meeting with the self-mythologizing artist Balthus. Art criticism blends with anecdote: Peppiatt recalls riding with Lucian Freud in his Bentley, drinking with Bacon in Soho, and many more revealing moments.This collection of Peppiatt's most perceptive texts includes encounters with underrecognized artists, such as Dachau survivor Zoran Music, or Montenegrin artist Dado, whose retrospective Peppiatt curated at the 2009 Venice Biennale.Remarkably varied in their scope and lucidly written for a general reader, these selected essays not only provide us with perceptive commentary and acute critical judgment, they also give a unique personal insight into some of the greatest creative minds of the modern era. This book is a must-read for all lovers of modernism and post-war paintingin particular.
Star Trek
After more than 55 years of transmedia storytelling, 'Star Trek' is a global phenomenon that has never been more successful than it is today. 'Star Trek' fandom is worldwide, time tested, and growing, and academic interest in the franchise, both inside and outside of the classroom, is high; at the moment, more 'Star Trek' works are underway or in development simultaneously than at any other moment in history. Unlike works that focus on a limited number of stories/media in this franchise or only offer one expert's or discipline's insights, this accessible and multidisciplinary anthology includes analyses from a wide range of scholars and explores 'Star Trek' from its debut in 1966 to its current incarnations, considers its implications for and collaborations with fandom, and trace its ideas and meanings across series, media, and time. 'Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier' will undoubtedly speak to academics in the field, students in the classroom, and informed lay readers and fans.
Dancer Glory
If you want to give your heart a good exercising, the art of Cara Leslie Berton will help you with that. In our highly accomplishment-focused culture, the surface of life may be all we get to be presented with, while our hearts have to live under the radar. So we don't get to know our hearts in their deeper, more longing capacities, and where that longing might lead us-into the darkness, but also through the darkness into light; into our human loneliness, but also through our loneliness into love and a larger Belonging. The 98 original images in this book open us into that fertile territory of the heart. Her subjects include love and intimacy, suffering and redemption, family, longing and belonging (both human and religious), nostalgia, nature, the angelic world, aging, beauty, and more. And because she communicates all this through the wordless medium of her artwork, we get to encounter certain feeling places in our own hearts that we might not otherwise recognize. When we are conditioned to the glossy surface of ourselves, how much of us beneath the surface goes hungry? Someone has to paint the subtler realities of feeling, in its many dimensions-as Van Gogh did, as Rembrandt did-for us to know the fullness of ourselves and who we might become. Cara Berton's drawings and paintings give us this.As you go through this book, may you find in these graphic expressions what your own heart, soul, and spirit need for your own healing journey.
Miralda: Cowboy’s Dream
Portraits of carnivals, storefronts, subways and other scenes of American life, recently unearthed from the archives of the avant-garde legend Since the 1970s, Catalan artist Antoni Miralda (born 1942) has created avant-garde installations, happenings and performances all over Europe and the US, most famously with his restaurant El Internacional (created with his partner, the chef Montse Guill矇n), which became a celebrated 1980s New York hot spot, and the FoodCulturaMuseum. Miralda has spent a large part of his career in the US, especially in the 1960s and '70s when he traveled widely across the country and amassed a substantial oeuvre of photographs. This volume compiles these black-and-white images, recently discovered by chance in Miralda's archives. Often comical, sometimes somber, the photographs range from shots of Easter celebrations in Brooklyn to portraits of Louisiana carnivals, scenes from Harlem, the Bronx, Kansas City, Miami, Philadelphia and elsewhere in the US, as well as photographs taken in Europe.
Richard Prince: Same Man
An ingenious and collectible book-as-poster documenting Prince's half-century of image appropriationFor aficionados of Richard Prince (born 1949) and of the possibilities of the book form, this unique exhibition catalog is an exclusive three-in-one kind of publication. Designed in the dimensions of a 12-by-12-inch LP record and housed in a plastic sleeve, when unfolded it transforms into a two-sided (one English, one Danish) poster with a richly illustrated collage of works by Prince from across his career (including his famous "rephotographs"), plus two in-depth texts on Prince's oeuvre by the curators Nancy Spector and Anders Kold.A defining figure of the Pictures Generation, Prince is famed for his radical acts of appropriation, which have taken many turns across the course of his five-decade career. His visual world, encapsulated in this innovatively designed volume, offers a remarkably consistent portrait of late 20th-century America.
Leonora Carrington: Revelation
The first overview in a decade of the dazzling Surrealist universe of Leonora Carrington--artist, author, occultist, feministIn recent years, the art and fiction of Surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington have received much mainstream recognition, but--until now--there has been no authoritative overview of her work. Divided into 10 sections, Revelation introduces Carrington's singular artistic universe, displaying an extensive array of her wide-ranging creations (including paintings, drawings and tapestries) and fusing a chronological narrative of her life with a study of the most prominent themes in her work--from her training and early influences in England and Florence to her contact with the Surrealists in Paris, through her time in Saint-Martin-d'Ard癡che, her traumatic experiences in Spain, her immigration to New York and her new homeland in Mexico. Punctuating the reproductions are archival materials, book excerpts and documentary photographs.Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a British-born artist, Surrealist painter and novelist, famed for her narrative scenes inhabited by mystical figures participating in curious rituals. After fleeing Europe during World War II, she lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, where she was a founding member of the women's liberation movement.
Jennie C. Jones
Jones' multisensory art ingeniously weaves connections between Minimalism, music and the Black avant-gardeThis volume explores the interdisciplinary practice of Hudson-based artist Jennie C. Jones (born 1968), which moves viewers through both visual and auditory engagement. Aurally altering the spaces in which her paintings, sculptures and installations are on view, Jones' work encourages viewers to anticipate sound even in the quietest of environments. As she explains, "I always say [the artworks are] active even when there's no sound in the room; they are affecting the subtlest of sounds in the space--dampening and absorbing even the human voice."Conceptually, Jones' practice reflects on the legacies of modernism and Minimalism while underscoring the connection between Minimalism and music, illuminating the influence of the Black avant-garde. Bringing this multisensory experience to book form, Jones unites documentation of recent exhibitions--including Dynamics, her expansive show at the Guggenheim Museum (2022)--with excerpts of text, poetry and conversations to create a "score" that reveals the layers of Jones' artwork. Part artist's book and part primer, this lyrical volume unfolds in movements, like a printed and bound evening of poetry, prose and music.
Yashua Klos: Our Labour
Klos unravels American histories of Black labor in brilliantly executed print-based collages and sculptures that mark new creative terrain for the artistThis book features a recent body of work by New York-based artist Yashua Klos (born 1977) and builds upon the artist's explorations into the intersections between the human form, the natural world and the built environment.Foregrounding a series of print-based and sculptural works, Yashua Klos: Our Labour considers how familial, geographic and narrative histories inform notions of identity. Klos employs a process of collaging woodblock prints to engage ideas about Blackness and maleness as identities that are both fragmented and constructed. In this volume, Klos introduces works conceived around an examination of creative and industrial labor through both deeply personal and historic lenses.
In Search of a Prophet
"A profound spiritual exploration into the life and work of the beloved poet Kahlil Gibran, a much-needed guide for our times." -Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth In Search of a Prophet is a fascinating journey through the spiritual life of Kahlil Gibran, the great Lebanese-American poet and author of The Prophet, a book originally published in 1923 that has sold over 10 million copies and been translated into dozens of languages. Capturing our imaginations and enriching our spirits, Paul-Gordon Chandler explores this beloved writer and artist, a celebrated mystic who sought to build bridges and tear down walls and who remains a cultural icon among all people of goodwill. This is not a traditional biography but a compelling spiritual journey through Gibran's writings, art, and the places he lived. From Gibran's birthplace village high in the snowy mountains of Lebanon, Chandler leads us through his immigration to Boston, art training in Paris, and career in New York, and to the far-reaching places of influence his writings and art have traveled, alerting readers to Gibran's continuing relevance for today. This paperback edition, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Prophet, includes a foreword by Bishop Michael B. Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, as well as a new preface by the author.
Murillo
MURILLOBy S.L. BensusanThis is a study of the great Spanish painter Bartolom矇 Esteban, known to the world as Murillo, and perhaps the best-loved Spanish artist of the era, along with Velazquez, El Greco, Ribera, Zurburan, and Goya. The book features discussions of Murillo's famous works, as well as a biography of the artist. Fully illustrated, including illustrations of Murillo's contemporaries. 92pp. www.crmoon.com
Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum
A six-decade survey of Dylan's work in painting, drawing and sculptureSpanning six decades, Retrospectrum showcases the development and range of Bob Dylan's (born 1941) visual art in an array of mediums. His diverse creations include works made in oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink, pastel, charcoal and sculpture in iron. Among the artworks presented in Retrospectrum are some of Dylan's earliest ink sketches, first published in 1973's Writings and Drawings, which illustrated and compiled Dylan's lyrics up to that date. These are shown alongside 2021's Mondo Scripto series, in which Dylan revisited some of his most renowned lyrics, hand-lettering and illustrating them. The book also features the iconic Train Tracks series; The New Orleans Series and The Asia Series (from 2012 and 2010 respectively), inspired by Dylan's travels; works from his hugely popular The Beaten Path series (2015-present); and his iron sculptures created from found objects.
Pre-Raphaelitism
PRE-RAPHAELITISMTWO LECTURESBy John RuskinTwo lectures by the important art critic John Ruskin are reproduced here, looking at the Pre-Raphaelite circle in Victorian Britain. Among the artists that Ruskin considers are Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Ford Maddox Ford and John Millais. Ruskin's lectures were delivered in 1851 and 1853. Fully illustrated, with works by all of the Pre-Raphaelite artists, and their successors. With a full colour cover. Painters Series. Bibliography and notes. 164pp. www.crmoon.com
50Tattoo Adult Coloring Book
50 Images A perfect gift book that will appeal to anyone who loves tattoo imagery - or is looking for inspiration for their next piece of body art.Our Tattoo Coloring Book is perfect for adult colorists. From Day of the Dead drawings to pretty mandalas, you'll discover many gorgeous images to color. Unwind with hours of artistic fun, transforming each illustration into your very own masterpiece.-Beautiful Illustrations. We've included 50 unique images for you to express your creativity and make masterpieces. Which colors will you choose for this book?
Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics
This book explores the historical and cultural significance of comics in languages other than English, examining the geographic and linguistic spheres which these comics inhabit and their contributions to comic studies and academia.
Maurice Sendak and the Art of Children's Book Illustration
MAURICE SENDAK AND THE ART OF CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATIONL.M. PooleMaurice Sendak is the widely acclaimed American children's book author and illustrator. This critical study focusses on his famous trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, as well as the early works and Sendak's superb depictions of Grimms' fairy tales in The Juniper Tree.L.M. Poole begins with a chapter on children's book illustration, in particular the treatment of fairy tales. Sendak's work is situated within the history of children's book illustration, and he is compared with many contemporary authors. This latest edition (the fifth, of 2023) includes a new introduction, a new bibliography and many more illustrations. The text has been completely revised and updated. With a full colour cover. Illustrated. With bibliography and notes. 268 pages. www.crmoon.comMAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012) has become America's premier children's book author and illustrator. He's as important - and as adored - as Theodore Geisel (Dr Seuss). Best known for his trilogy of classic picture books - Where the Wild Things Are (1963), In the Night Kitchen (1970) and Outside Over There (1981) - Sendak has also written many other books (though mainly in children's book form). His interpretation of the Grimm Brothers, The Juniper Tree, although it is less well-known, could be said to be his most accomplished work. This book aims to consider some of Maurice Sendak's most significant works, concentrating on the children's books and the picture books. Other chapters explore Sendak's relationship with the movies and art of Walt Disney (which Sendak admires); his interpretation of classic fairy tales; a brief consideration of the fairy tale form; Sendak's links with the tradition of children's book illustration; and finally a comparison of Sendak's art with that of other book illustrators. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature offers a typical assessment of Maurice Sendak as one of the highpoints of modern children's book illustration: Quite apart from his outstanding draughtmanship and mastery of styles, Sendak's exploration of the realms of the unconscious in Where the Wild Things Are and its successors lifts his work beyond the confines of the children's picture book and places it among major art of the 20th century. Joyce Whalley and Tessa Chester write of Sendak: Sendak's superiority amounts to far more than mere technical ability and an instinct for interpreting a text, whether his own or that of someone else. His sympathy and concern with every book he illustrates mounts to an almost religious obsession when it comes to his own picture books... His vision is unique, his draughtsmanship par excellence, and his work as a whole lifts him well into the ranks of the great illustrators of all time.Lee Kingman is equally laudatory, calling Sendak 'a magician who, working on several levels simultaneously, creates a world of carefully wrought surfaces and spaces dense with suggested drama.'
War and Peace in the Global Village
War and Peace in The Global Village is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following its publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be "a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest." Marshall McLuhan illustrates the fact that all social changes are caused by introduction of new technologies. He interprets these new technologies as extensions or "self-amputations of our own being," because technologies extend bodily reach. McLuhan's ideas and observations seem disturbingly accurate and clearly applicable to the world in which we live. War and Peace in the Global Village is a meditation on accelerating innovations leading to identity loss and war. Initially published in 1968, this text is regarded as a revolutionary work for its depiction of a planet made ever smaller by new technologies. A mosaic of pointed insights and probes, this text predicts a world without centres or boundaries. It illustrates how the electronic information travelling around the globe at the speed of light has eroded the rules of the linear, literate world. No longer can there be fixed positions or goals.
The Voyage of Life
In his famous series of four paintings, the great American "father" of the Hudson River School of art, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), depicted the life of a single representative human Soul as a voyage from birth to death-each painting illustrating a further bend in the river of life: Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and finally, Old Age. Cole supplemented his series with a long poem (reproduced at the end of this volume) along the lines of Dante's Divine Comedy or Newman's Dream of Gerontius, elucidating the meaning of his art. Drawing upon these resources together with the religious and philosophical influences of his time, Addison Hodges Hart succeeds in making The Voyage of Life poignantly applicable to us in the here and now. In Hart's masterful hands, Cole's masterpiece comes alive as timeless wisdom, insight, even contemplative counsel. Like all genuine art, Cole's series communicates one human soul's truth to another, regardless of the distance in space, time, or worldview that may separate them.
The Voyage of Life
In his famous series of four paintings, the great American "father" of the Hudson River School of art, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), depicted the life of a single representative human Soul as a voyage from birth to death-each painting illustrating a further bend in the river of life: Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and finally, Old Age. Cole supplemented his series with a long poem (reproduced at the end of this volume) along the lines of Dante's Divine Comedy or Newman's Dream of Gerontius, elucidating the meaning of his art. Drawing upon these resources together with the religious and philosophical influences of his time, Addison Hodges Hart succeeds in making The Voyage of Life poignantly applicable to us in the here and now. In Hart's masterful hands, Cole's masterpiece comes alive as timeless wisdom, insight, even contemplative counsel. Like all genuine art, Cole's series communicates one human soul's truth to another, regardless of the distance in space, time, or worldview that may separate them.
Ivana Stenclov獺
Laser cut paintings and drawings from a Czech master of portraitureCzech painter Ivana Stenclov獺 (born 1980) has been working within the traditional medium of portraiture for the entirety of her career--more than 20 years. By exploring the subtle and universal nuances of human relationships, she constructs captivating visual narratives brimming with intimacy and existential urgency.
The Legend of Korra: The Art of the Animated Series--Book Three: Change (Second Edition) (Deluxe Edition)
Relive your favorite memories from the hit animated series The Legend of Korra Book Three - Spirits--created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko--the groundbreaking sequel to their blockbuster show Avatar: The Last Airbender! This limited edition hardcover, released to celebrate the anniversary of the original show's airing, contains hundreds of art pieces created during the development of the show's third season, alongside creator commentary from DiMartino and Konietzko. The book is packaged in a deluxe slipcase with a commemorative lithograph, celebrating this timeless series and the legacy it continues!
Maurice Sendak and the Art of Children's Book Illustration
MAURICE SENDAK AND THE ART OF CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION: LARGE PRINT EDITIONL.M. PooleMaurice Sendak is the widely acclaimed American children's book author and illustrator. This critical study focusses on his famous trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, as well as the early works and Sendak's superb depictions of Grimms' fairy tales in The Juniper Tree.L.M. Poole begins with a chapter on children's book illustration, in particular the treatment of fairy tales. Sendak's work is situated within the history of children's book illustration, and he is compared with many contemporary authors. This latest edition (the fifth, of 2023) includes a new introduction, a new bibliography and many more illustrations. The text has been completely revised and updated. With a full colour cover. Large Print Edition in 18 point type. Illustrated. With bibliography and notes. 376 pages. www.crmoon.comMAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012) has become America's premier children's book author and illustrator. He's as important - and as adored - as Theodore Geisel (Dr Seuss). Best known for his trilogy of classic picture books - Where the Wild Things Are (1963), In the Night Kitchen (1970) and Outside Over There (1981) - Sendak has also written many other books (though mainly in children's book form). His interpretation of the Grimm Brothers, The Juniper Tree, although it is less well-known, could be said to be his most accomplished work. This book aims to consider some of Maurice Sendak's most significant works, concentrating on the children's books and the picture books. Other chapters explore Sendak's relationship with the movies and art of Walt Disney (which Sendak admires); his interpretation of classic fairy tales; a brief consideration of the fairy tale form; Sendak's links with the tradition of children's book illustration; and finally a comparison of Sendak's art with that of other book illustrators. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature offers a typical assessment of Maurice Sendak as one of the highpoints of modern children's book illustration: Quite apart from his outstanding draughtmanship and mastery of styles, Sendak's exploration of the realms of the unconscious in Where the Wild Things Are and its successors lifts his work beyond the confines of the children's picture book and places it among major art of the 20th century. Joyce Whalley and Tessa Chester write of Sendak: Sendak's superiority amounts to far more than mere technical ability and an instinct for interpreting a text, whether his own or that of someone else. His sympathy and concern with every book he illustrates mounts to an almost religious obsession when it comes to his own picture books... His vision is unique, his draughtsmanship par excellence, and his work as a whole lifts him well into the ranks of the great illustrators of all time.Lee Kingman is equally laudatory, calling Sendak 'a magician who, working on several levels simultaneously, creates a world of carefully wrought surfaces and spaces dense with suggested drama.'
Language of the Soul
WORD and IMAGE, The Language of the Soul As individuals, we are products of the stories we've been exposed to. Collectively, humanity is the sum of its history. More potent than persuasion by far, storytelling changes minds by touching hearts. Contemporary buzzwords like Story and Narrative permeate popular culture, from the literary arena through cinema to social media, branding, advertising, political campaigning and propaganda. But why are we truly driven to tell stories in the first place, and how has story become the means by which we transform? 'LANGUAGE of the SOUL: How Story Became the Means By Which We Transform' explores the mechanics of catharsis, the Creative Process, the Artist's Journey, the transformative power of narrative and what it is to be a born storyteller, with a call to action to embrace the power of STORY in our lives.
One Summer along the Trans Canada Trail
Summer of 2022 was spent plein-air painting along my local segment of the Trans Canada Trail, throughout the Ottawa-Gatineau region. I'm not exactly sure when the idea of painting along the Trans Canada Trail crept into my psyche. As I ventured afield with my back pack, the Trail was always informing my footsteps to a next location. Right at my doorstep, there it was, heading east, west and north: what a fitting theme for a season's painting!"David Kearn is a magician. As these paintings demonstrate, he can make the ordinary radiate light, colour and texture. David finds and nourishes the vision, talent and courage that lie within everyone who picks up a paintbrush. This book is a great way to share the infectious enthusiasm and imagination that is David's approach to art." Ann Chaplin"David takes his readers on a journey and invites them to look over his shoulder as he paints. He has the ability to take a scene and distill it to its essence, all the while retaining a sense of place. David's unique and engaging style, coupled with his entertaining sense of humour, make this book an inspiring and interesting read." Susan Guirey-Pierce "David Kearn never ceases to amaze. He is full of creative energy and passion for his projects. It was evident from the start that this one, about the Trans Canada Trail would be a challenge. But persevere he did, producing canvases and a book as magical and as colourful as Canada itself." Barbara Dundass
Sketches
sketches: a trick of the eyeoutside my windowthere's a tūīslidingwith quick, deft movementsbetween the pink branchesof the spring plumwith a touch of white blossom at its throatThese are lines caught on the fly. Poems which capture and celebrate the momentary nature of existence. Here we find the natural world, and matters of the heart, caught as they happen in language both natural and precise. They are beautifully complemented by the drawing and sketches of Leila Lees.'Sketches, a skein of fleeting moments arrested on the page, manages with its glancing, darting reflections and philosophical perceptions, to find just the right formulation to deliver a descriptive vitalism that is open, alert, tentative, ambulatory, elegant, palpable.'
Artist Report
We are thrilled to share with you this very first Artist Report, which focuses on the work of UK-based multimedia artist Aphra Shemza. A natural extension of the CSPA's exploration of sustainability and the arts in our publication the Quarterly, Artist Reports focus on a single artist and provide an in-depth look at their practice and the way they engage with sustainability.
Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul
A gorgeous book object engaging New Orleans' multilayered histories of race, art and politics, from the acclaimed Turner Prize winnerConvening polyphonous voices from past and present, I Will Keep My Soul is an orchestral layering of photography, historical documents, poetry and interviews, rooted in the history, geography and community of New Orleans. In this tactile artist's book, UK-based artist Helen Cammock (born 1970) traverses the city, rendering her observations and encounters into texts and images that reveal its invisible histories. These sequences are woven with correspondence and photographs from the Amistad Research Center that evince artist Elizabeth Catlett's struggle for agency and support during her 1976 commission to create a bronze monument to Louis Armstrong in Congo Square--a place laden with histories of both oppression and celebration. Cammock interlaces more archival materials--newspaper clippings, instructions for activists, a 19th-century book on Creole slave songs--to articulate the long struggle for civil rights. I Will Keep My Soul is a uniquely American story of art and activism, culture and capital, being and belonging.
Roots, Stones and Baggage
Roots, Stones & Baggage is a collection of paintings and poems from Richard Brown Lethem that span over seventy years of his life. Both the poems and the paintings take many stylistic turns that mirror those of his life. Works written and painted in Missouri, Paris, Brooklyn, Maine & California reflect those surrounding sometimes taking flight into the ether and at other turns digging into the core of all things.
Ramesh
Bursting with energy and life force, this visual cornucopia celebratesthe work of Sri Lankan Australian sculptor and painter, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran. He is one of Australia's most prominent and sought-after contemporary artists, and the youngest artist ever to have a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. His exuberant ceramic idols and installations gleam with vivid, impossible-to-ignore immediacy, provoking and stimulating audiences as he explores the politics of sex, gender, and religion.Continually playing with form, materiality, and scale, Ramesh hasset new benchmarks in the field of ceramics. This highly anticipated monograph catalogues over 500 pieces in his signature neo-Expressionist style, as well as diary excerpts and a piece on his art process and materials. The rough-edged playfulness of his animated beings will appeal to both established collectors and seekers of the unconventional.
Alex Da Corte: Mr. Remember
"A great and unlikely success story, Da Corte creates funny and therapeutic works in the hope of easing the 'exquisite pain' of modern life." -New York TimesThis comprehensive monograph celebrates the acclaimed Philadelphia-based installation artist Alex Da Corte (born 1980), famed for his show-stopping 2021 Roof Garden Commission for the Met, As Long as the Sun Lasts. Da Corte's Day-Glo works are distinctly rooted in traditional American arts and culture--tellingly, as a teenager he planned to become an animator for Disney--and the artist himself often appears in his films, impersonating iconic figures such as Popeye, the Statue of Liberty, Fred Rogers or Eminem. Throughout, the pop flavor of Da Corte's aesthetics is mixed with a satirical existentialism: his works often combine sadness and effortless play, connecting our sense of self with consumer culture--from the films we watch to the objects we buy, give and throw away.Published for a major retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and documenting all of his major works to date, Alex Da Corte: Mr. Remember matches the artist's high-production, ultra-chromatic sensibility in its gorgeous production, with a three-color cloth binding, silver foil on the cover, a paperback volume sewn into the book and an abundance of riotous color throughout, with more than 100 pages of installation views from previous exhibitions.
Edinburgh Plaques
Edinburgh Plaques provides a guide to the majority of the numerous plaques found on walls and elsewhere in Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh. It offers an index to the plaques many named individuals celebrated and to those attached to many of the monuments that are not depictions of people. It gives brief details of the reasons for commemoration and for the location of the plaque . An alphabetical name sequence is followed by a sequence by city area and street to aid discovery. Graveyard epitaphs, public bench plaques, and plaques attached to statues are not covered. 'Edinburgh Plaques' is a companion volume to the author's 'Edinburgh Statues'.
Songs of Starlight
"...never forget that who you are is an act of imagination."kai skye's latest book. stories that dance with an irrepressible joy for living. & like most everything else we do around here, it's a planet-friendly book from the paper through the printing process. so, yes, it's beautiful & a happy thing for this place we all live...
Looking at Picasso
As one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso's (1881-1973) artistic achievements are unparalleled. This important new introductory monograph, released to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the artist's death, presents the beauty, power, and multiplicity of Picasso's work across his paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, and offers fresh analysis of the work of this great master for a twenty-first-century audience.Since the 1980s, most books and exhibitions on Picasso have focused on the artist's personal relationships, specifically on the representation of his wives and mistresses. Art historian and curator Pepe Karmel shifts the debate by considering Picasso's works first and foremost as art, explaining how the artist's style has evolved over the course of seven decades, introducing visual languages and narratives that have transformed modern art.Arranged chronologically by themes and movements, Looking at Picasso is profusely illustrated with renowned paintings, such as the provocative Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and the monumental war piece Guernica, as well as lesser-known works, including Picasso's animal sculptures and his animated reinterpretation of Vel獺zquez's seventeenth-century masterpiece Las Meninas.Numerous exhibitions planned for 2023 will coincide with this important and accessible volume.
Amazing Gel Prints
This book covers gel printing with stencils in depth, focusing on working in layers in order to create gel prints with rich texture, depth, and intensity. Whether you use gel prints for collage, card making, or crafts, this book will elevate your prints and elevate your projects! Elizabeth St. Hilaire is an established author and collage artist who creates impressionistic collage paintings with tiny bits of torn, gel printed papers. St. Hilaire covers materials, storage, techniques, supplies, paint properties, color theory, and more. A complete navigation to using stencils and masks on your gel printing plate, this book is the ultimate guide to taking your gel printing to the next level!
Borderless
POET, ARTIST AND LOVER OF MOTHER EARTH, VIJALI HAMILTON shares heartfeltofferings of poems, drawings and personal essays reflecting peace and health for ourselves andour world. They convey moments of the soul's longing for union with the essence of life. Theyspeak to the joys and sorrows encountered in life's quest for the jewel residing within each ofus-always present-but waiting to be unveiled.
Art Periods Explained
Art Periods Explained is a comprehensive guide to understanding and appreciating the rich history of art. From ancient civilizations to contemporary art, this book provides insight into the context, techniques, and influences behind some of the world's most renowned works of art. Written in clear, easy-to-understand language, this book is perfect for students, art enthusiasts, and anyone interested in learning more about the world of art. With in-depth explanations and a wide range of historical examples, Art Periods Explained is a must-read for anyone looking to deepen their understanding and appreciation of art.
Beeple
Beeple: Everydays, the First 5000 Days is a groundbreaking monograph that chronicles the extraordinary journey of digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known globally as Beeple. This collection spans 13 years of daily digital creations, showcasing Beeple's evolution from twisted pop-culture caricatures to breathtaking sci-fi landscapes. On March 11, 2020, Beeple's work made history when a digital piece sold for over $69 million at Christie's, igniting the NFT (non-fungible token) revolution. This book compiles his first 5,000 images, each created and posted daily since May 2007, offering a unique glimpse into the artist's creative process and the digital art movement. Featuring an exclusive interview with Beeple, this volume delves into his career, artistic inspirations, and the impact of his newfound celebrity. Whether you're an art enthusiast, a digital creator, or simply curious about the NFT phenomenon, Beeple: Everydays, the First 5000 Days is an essential addition to your collection.
