Routledge Revivals Shakespear's Pound: Illuminated Cantos : Illuminated Cantos by LundHumphries Hardcover, Published 2021 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-63402-2, ISBN: 1-138-63402-6
"This title was first published in 2000. In the late 1930s, Ezra Pound planned an edition of the "Cantos" to be illustrated by his wife, artist Dorothy Shakespear. She created the designs, but due to Pound's involvement with Fascist propaganda, the edition was never published. This volume presents them in a limited edition based on a selection of pages from the "CAntos." The selection has been made by Omar Pound, the son of Dorothy Shake ..."
"Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo style was distinguished by a remarkable facility, exuberance and hedonism. The starting-point for this beautifully illustrated book (and the exhibition which it accompanies) was the discovery in 2012 of a drawing by Fragonard depicting his so-called "fantasy figures." Fragonard’s drawing presents thumbnail-sized sketches relating to 14 of his known " ..."
"Art Business Today: 20 Key Topics is an accessible and comprehensive companion to the business of art written by leading experts in the field, many of them based at Sotheby's Institute of Art. It is an essential reference book for students in the areas of art business, arts management, the creative and cultural industries, art history, and general business and management. The key topics covered range from larger-scale questions about t ..."
"This is a complete, illustrated catalogue of the painting and sculpture of Pop Art pioneer Gerald Laing (19362011), who shot to fame in the 1960s with his large-scale, iconic paintings of film-stars such as Brigitte Bardot and Anna Karina, conveyed in styles and colours that aped the crude but powerful printing processes of mass advertising. In 1964 Laing moved to New York and transformed effortlessly from Pop artist to abstract minima ..."
"Under the inspirational teaching of Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews (1898-1992) found her artistic voice in the form of the linocut - a medium demanding directness and dynamism. Tracing her artistic journey through rural Suffolk, inter-war London and finally provincial Canada, this important publication provides a comprehensive overview of the life and work of a key figure in British art history. Andrews' ambition 'to eliminate non-essenti ..."
""Art Nouveau during the Reign of the Last Tsars" accompanies the Hermitage Museum's eighth exhibition in Amsterdam of the vast collection of Art Nouveau objects bestowed on the Russian court as diplomatic gifts. France was particularly generous as part of its strategy to enlist the support of Russia in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. Galle, the Daum brothers, Carl Faberge and Rene Lalique are just a few of the artists acquired by the t ..."
"Peter the Great called his city 'the window on Europe'. In the course of the eighteenth century, many prestigious St Petersburg palaces were filled with extensive collections of Western European art. Private collectors proudly showed off their paintings: students from the Academy of Fine Arts came to copy Old Masters, and other collectors came to admire their rivals' collections. Until the 1917 Revolution, St Petersburg was one of the m ..."
"Filigree is a remarkable method in jewellery-making in which very pure precious metal is drawn into extremely fine threads. These threads are then ingeniously inter-woven to produce almost transparent objects. This book presents for the first time the highlights from the magnificent and unique filigree collection in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. The principal centres of filigree were to be found in China, and Chinese filigr ..."
""Pilgrim Treasures from the Hermitage: Byzantium-Jerusalem" presents the highlights from the splendid collection of pilgrims' souvenirs in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg: oil lamps and bronze crosses from the Early Byzantine period (4th to 7th centuries), icons and reliquaries from the 10th to the 13th centuries, and pilgrims' souvenirs in mother-of-pearl and fish-bone icons from the 18th and 19th centuries. Christianity foun ..."
"Venezia! Art of the 18th Century presents the finest works from the magnificent collections of eighteenth-century Venetian art in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Sixty-five paintings, prints and drawings by artists such as Canaletto, Longhi, Guardi and Tiepolo are complemented by superb examples of famous Venetian glass. In the eighteenth century, Venice experienced one last golden age in its already rich cultural history, ..."
"Nicholas II and Alexandra have gone down in history as the last royal couple of Russia. With them the Romanov dynasty, which had ruled the country for 300 years, came to an end. Rarely has a personal narrative been so interwoven with the dynasty of a nation. The love of Nicholas (1868-1918) for his wife Alexandra (1872-1918) and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and the Tsarevich Alexei distracted his attention from hi ..."
Henry Moore(1st Edition) Complete Drawings 1916-29 (Henry Moore Complete Drawings) (Henry Moore Complete Drawings) by Henry Moore Foundation, Ann Garrould, LundHumphries, Henry Moore Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 1996 by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-85331-599-5, ISBN: 0-85331-599-X
"Volume 1 of this six-volume catalogue raisonne of Henry Moore's drawings follows the publication of Volumes 5 and 6 in 1994. While the later volumes look at the drawings produced between 1977 to 1983, Volume 1 journeys back to the earliest days of Moore's career, reproducing around 1,000 drawings from the period 1916-29. This was an eventful time for Moore, and covers his student days, his first public commission - the North Wind relief ..."
Henry Moore Complete Drawings 1930-39 (Henry Moore Complete Drawings) (Henry Moore Complete Drawings) by Henry Moore Foundation, Ann Garrould, LundHumphries, Henry Moore Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 1997 by LundHumphries Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-85331-600-8, ISBN: 0-85331-600-7
"Language: English - 256 pages - color and b/w illustrations - Volume 2 of the 6-volume catalogue raisonne of Henry Moore's drawings deals with a crucial decade in Moore's career. Working as a sculptor and tutor at the Royal Co llege of Art, he was able to devote more time to his own work."
Tal R (Contemporary Painters Series) by Martin Herbert, Terry R. Myers Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2019 by LundHumphries ISBN-13: 978-1-84822-231-1, ISBN: 1-84822-231-9
"Encountering the work of Alan Davie (1920-2014) at Wakefield Art Gallery in 1958, a young David Hockney (b.1937) was struck by Davie's landmark Abstract Expressionist paintings, which mirrored and stimulated his own fledgling experimentation with colourful abstraction. Juxtaposing the remarkable early work of two greats of post-war painting, this book provides an original perspective on an important aspect of two significant artistic ca ..."
Studio Voices Art and Life in 20th-Century Britain (Hardback) by Michael Bird, LundHumphries Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by LundHumphries ISBN-13: 978-1-84822-230-4, ISBN: 1-84822-230-0
"Studio Voices explores the multi-layered experiences of modern and contemporary British artists in their own words, drawing on the author's original research in the Artists' Lives audio archive at the British Library."
"Throughout his life, Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was a prolific and creative writer. Correspondent to many, his unpublished letters, selected and extracted here for the first time (along with published writings), reveal fascinating insight into significant events and encounters at various stages of the artist's career, while also demonstrating how Nicholson's aesthetic was interwoven into every aspect of his daily life. Including previous ..."
"There is currently an explosion of museum and heritage activity across Asia, especially in China, where audience development and public education have been made a government priority area for museums. In some Asian countries such as Singapore and Korea public participation is already well established. As yet, this is little documented and reviewed for a wider audience in Asia and beyond. This practical handbook examines and critiques th ..."