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beyond the Great Wave

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Outstanding' - The Guardian 'Superb' - The Telegraph 'A must read' - Anne Sebba 'Lively' - The Times They seemed to be polar opposites . . . Augustus: vivid, volatile and promiscuous. He was a hero among romantics and bohemians, celebrated as one of the great British talents of his generation. Gwen's art was magnificent, but she was also more reserved, and as a woman she struggled for the recognition which has only come to her now, years after her death. Artists, Siblings, Visionaries is a riveting story of love, infidelity, betrayal, and of two extraordinary siblings whose art and lives subverted society's expectations.

The lives and loves of Gwen and Augustus John

Artists, Siblings, Visionaries

The first major biography on artist Louise Bourgeois brings the life and work of an iconic twentieth-century artist into sharp focus"The mischievous French artist comes alive in this deeply personal biography."-Chloë Ashby, Times (UK) &nbsp; Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. She is known for a body of work that spans sculpture, painting, and printmaking but eludes any aesthetic classification. Her life and art were so intertwined that it is often difficult to tell them apart. In her own words: "Sculpture is the body. My body is the sculpture." &nbsp; Marie-Laure Bernadac's biography of Bourgeois traces the career of a great artist, her training, and her influences, as it tells the story of an exceptional woman's life. Featuring personal photographs as well as reproductions of her work, this landmark publication is the first major biography to draw on the artist's unpublished personal archives, including diaries, correspondence, and psychoanalytic writings, as well as the many interviews she gave and the reminiscences of those who knew her. Bernadac elucidates Bourgeois's friendships and rivalries with other major figures, including sculptor Louise Nevelson and Museum of Modern Art director Alfred H. Barr Jr. She also draws on Bourgeois's well-known fascination with psychoanalysis to explore the deeply autobiographical nature of her artwork. This erudite and keenly insightful biography pays tribute to the talent of the artist and the complexity of the person.

The Life of Louise Bourgeois

Knife-Woman

Antonio Canova invented a new genre with his Ideal Heads. They were intended as gifts for close friends and persons he admired as an expression of his affection and gratitude. Starting from the famous bust La Riconoscenza, this magnificent large-format volume offers an impressive survey of these unique expressions of friendship. Canova's masterpiece La Riconocenza (Gratitude) was long thought to have been lost. It is a tribute to his most important critic, the cultural theorist Quatremère de Quincy. The sculpture was commissioned by the artist Marquise de Grollier as a gift for their mutual friend. These three distinguished individuals left their mark on the cultural life of their time. The author traces the history of the genesis of La Riconocenza through their remarkable correspondence and integrates it into the context of Canova's Teste ideale.

Antonio Canova erfand mit den Idealköpfen ein neues Genre. Ausdruck seiner Verbundenheit und Dankbarkeit, waren sie als Geschenke für enge Freunde und geschätzte Persönlichkeiten gedacht. Ausgehend von der berühmten Büste "La Riconoscenza" führt der prachtvolle Band im Überformat diese einzigartigen Freundschaftszeugnisse eindrucksvoll vor Augen.Canovas lange als verschollen geglaubtes Meisterwerk "La Riconocenza" (Die Dankbarkeit) ist eine Hommage an seinen wichtigsten Kritiker, den Kulturtheoretiker Quatremère de Quincy. In Auftrag gegeben wurde sie von der Künstlerin Marquise de Grollier, als Geschenk an den gemeinsamen Freund Quatremère. Anhand eines außergewöhnlichen Briefwechsels zwischen diesen drei illustren Persönlichkeiten, die das kulturelle Leben ihrer Zeit prägten, spürt der Autor der Entstehungsgeschichte der "Riconocenza" nach und ordnet sie in den Kontext von Canovas Teste "ideali" ein.

Ein wiedergefundenes Meisterwerk des bedeutenden Bildhauers des Klassizismus

Canova - La Riconoscenza

Nan Goldin's deeply personal exploration of female trauma and resistance. Sisters, Saints and Sibyls is a tribute 'to all rebellious women struggling to survive in society.' Focusing on the tragic life of her sister, Barbara, Nan Goldin weaves together a tapestry out of medical records, family photographs and mythical allusions to Saint Barbara to compose a haunting meditation on the mistreatment of female mental health in the twentieth century. Barbara's story is intertwined with Goldin's own descent into, and emergence from, addiction, shining a brutal light on the realities of trauma, abuse and mental illness. One of Nan Goldin's most important series, this timely publication is set to align with a major career retrospective opening at the Grand Palais, Paris, in March 2026.

Sisters, Saints and Sibyls

Marking the centenary of one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous paintings, The Three Dancers, this exciting publication brings to life the artist’s performative persona and his interest in dance, music, and theater, alongside stunning reproductions of Picasso works Filmmaker and artist Wu Tsang, whose practice is concerned with the act of performing, hidden histories, and marginalized figures, collaborates here with the author and researcher Enrique Fuenteblanca to tell the story of Pablo Picasso the “performer.” Along with other contributors, they cast light on his interest in dance, music, and theater, but also his highly performative persona as an artist, cultivating his own image and his contribution to the modernist cult of the individual artistic genius. They also explore his constant gaze toward popular, or “folk” performance, such as the circus, the corrida, flamenco dancers, the “othered” in society, and groups who use performance as an emancipatory tool. This beautifully designed book addresses head-on some of the complexities of Picasso’s life and work from a highly unusual and compelling perspective.

Theatre Picasso

An absorbing study of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp's influential work, looking in depth at the role of the curve in the artist's formal lexicon. Edited and introduced by Briony Fer, Sophie Taeuber-Arp: la règle des courbes / The Rule of Curves examines the work of leading twentieth-century artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, whose pioneering, multifaceted work challenged traditional hierarchies and conventional binary oppositions, and asserted art's urgent relevance to daily life. This bilingual, clothbound volume focuses on the formal logic that drove her bold and wide-ranging creative production while revealing how moving and working between mediums simultaneously expanded and crystallized her aesthetic. Alongside Fer's new critical insights into Taeuber-Arp's work, an essay by Jenny Nachtigall explores the artist's "environments" and how notions of gravity, motion, and the cinematic offer keys to understanding the artist's kinaesthetic sensibility.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: The Rule of Curves / la règle des courbes

The bestselling book of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as they explore the nature of creativity. David Hockney's exuberant work is highly praised and widely loved, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. In this now classic book, filled with anecdote, insight, passion and wit, Hockney reveals the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. Compiled from a decade and a half of conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, it reflects a period in which Hockney relocated from Los Angeles to his native East Yorkshire. Their exchanges communicate the immense delight and inspiration that Hockney finds in the changing seasons and natural splendours of this sparsely inhabited corner of England - a delight that is, in the words of Margaret Drabble, 'an invitation to us all to look better, see better, enjoy more'.

Conversations with David Hockney

A Bigger Message

From the acclaimed author of Michelangelo, God’s Architect, a dual biography of two towering artists of the Renaissance, whose decades-long rivalry spurred both to greater heights In 1529, Michelangelo was in Venice when he first met Titian, Venice’s famed painter of princes, gods, and goddesses. Coming face-to-face with Titian’s drama-infused, richly colored works, the creator of David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling realized he had met a worthy opponent. Twenty-five years later, Titian came to Rome to paint the pope, and the two met again. Painting in the Vatican, Titian experienced the full power of Michelangelo’s work and vowed to surpass the achievements of his older contemporary. Michelangelo and Titian is the untold story of history’s greatest artistic rivalry, a competition between two monumental figures more admiring of one another than either would ever admit. William Wallace brings the world of the sixteenth century to life, and in particular its culture of gossip and intrigue. Wallace challenges the established narrative of this relationship as mostly one-sided, with the younger artist in competition with the reigning master. He shows how the artists moved in overlapping courtly and papal circles, sharing the patronage, power, and sometimes friendship of the most important people of their era, including members of the Medici, Este, and Farnese families. Wallace traces how, over the span of some forty years, this unspoken rivalry was reciprocal and mutually beneficial, with each learning from the other’s brilliance, quietly seeking to best the other’s work and secure his own legacy. An extraordinary achievement, Michelangelo and Titian is a compelling account of two supremely gifted rivals who inspired each other to test the limits of their creative genius, and in doing so created some of the most astonishing works of art the world has ever known.

A Tale of Rivalry and Genius

Michelangelo and Titian

Flame Tree Notebooks

Unser langlebiges Hardcover-Notizbuch mit geradem Buchrücken übertrifft die Grenzen klassischer Notizbücher. Mit 176 Seiten aus hochwertigem cremefarbenem Papier bietet das für den täglichen Schreibgebrauch unentbehrliche Notizbuch viel Platz, um den Überblick über die täglichen Aufgaben stilvoll zu bewahren. Die Seiten sind liniert. Ein Magnetverschluss sowie Lesebändchen und eine kleine Tasche am inneren Einbanddeckel runden das Produkt ab. Das Titelbild ist fünffarbig bedruckt, geprägt, doppelt foliert und auf Silber- oder Goldpapier gedruckt. 

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176 linierte cremefarbene Seiten.

Frida Kahlo: Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (Foiled Journal)

Isms

A dazzling collection of quotations from the modern American artist whose mobiles are beloved worldwide Calder-isms is a collection of fascinating, irreverent, and often profound quotations from the influential modern American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898–1976), who is most famous for his invention of what his friend Marcel Duchamp dubbed the “mobile.” Often suspended from ceilings, these sculptures feature abstract elements, frequently painted in bold colors, that move and balance in changing harmony. Calder’s art was dynamic, unconventional, and filled with vitality—qualities also displayed by his words, which combine the wisdom of a philosopher with the ingenuity of a true original. Taken from interviews, writings, and other sources, the quotations in Calder-isms offer memorable insights into Calder’s life, mind, and, above all, art. <ul><li>“Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an intensely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.”</li><li>“That visit to Mondrian gave me the shock that converted me. It was like the baby being slapped to make his lungs start working.”</li><li>“[A mobile] has no utility and no meaning. It is simply beautiful. It has a great emotional effect if you understand it. Of course if it meant anything it would be easier to understand, but it would not be worthwhile.”</li><li>“A title is just like the license plate on the back of a car. You use it to say which one you’re talking about.”</li><li>“People think monuments should come out of the ground, never out of the ceiling, but mobiles can be monumental too.”</li><li>“Bad taste always boomerangs.”</li></ul>

Calder-isms

The World According To

A compact, illustrated collection of Henri Matisse's insights into art and life. In addition to being a formidable artist, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a prolific letter writer and regular contributor to many publications. Following in the successful format of 'The World According to ...' series, this anthology of quotations unites Matisse's thoughts and artworks to construct a unique view of the world, as seen through the eyes of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Covering topics ranging from fame - 'An artist must never be ... a prisoner of success' - to war and occupation - 'All is well here, but we see things that are hilarious and dreadful all at once' - art - 'All colours sing together; they have the essential force of a choir' - and work - 'When you work to please other people, you achieve nothing' - The World According to Matisse paints a picture of a life as lively as it was rich. Beautifully designed and illustrated with works of art from throughout Matisse's storied career, this is the perfect gift for art lovers everywhere.

The World According to Matisse

An invitation to look closely at artworks and explore the techniques artists use to draw viewers in and keep them interested

Discovering the Unexpected in Art

The Lingering Look

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