The behemothic global art market is one which few aspiring artists manage to penetrate. How then would a creative person with virtually no arts engagement, maybe with mental or other significant health issues, disability, or difficult social circumstances, find a way in? Providing a means of gaining an understanding and appreciation of largely ......
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 ......
Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound.
This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural history of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: the role played by its inns and taverns, specifically the doolhoven. Doolhoven were a type of labyrinth unique to early modern Amsterdam. Offering guest lodgings, these licensed public ......
Rudolph Ihlee (1883-1968) was a prize-winning student at the Slade where his contemporaries included Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot, C.R.W. Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth. Turning his back on a flourishing career in London, he relocated to the southern French town of Collioure, where the Mediterranean light had mesmerised ......
Sculptors Against the State considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of three iconic artists whose work transformed European modernism: Umberto Boccioni, Jacob Epstein, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Addressing such complex subjects as sexual liberation, homosexuality, the history of emotions, the ......
Looks at figures and events that changed New York, the United States and the world. This handbook provides a compact method for studying sculpture, inspired by Ayn Rand's writings on art. It is useful for residents and tourists, and historians and students, who want to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history.
Looks at figures and events that changed New York, the United States and the world. This handbook provides a compact method for studying sculpture, inspired by Ayn Rand's writings on art. It is useful for residents and tourists, and historians and students, who want to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history.
