Focusing on the artist's complex relationship with his wife, the book delves into Bonnard's most significant works, revealing how they often arose from challenging situations. It highlights poignant self-portraits created in his seventies, showcasing the depth of his emotional struggles. Featuring 169 illustrations, including 50 in color, the collection provides a visual exploration of Bonnard's artistic journey and the profound themes reflected in his art.
An overview of the golden age of Sienese painting from 1278 to 1477. This study looks at the defining characteristics - rich colour and spatial inventiveness - in panel painting, frescoes and manuscript illumination, and provides visual analysis combined with discussion of social contexts. schovat popis
Figurative painting is due a reappraisal. In this volume, the author explores the work of more than fifty individual painters, presenting a collective 'Resistance' who together offer a human-centred alternative to the dominance of the Abstract or the Conceptual in conventional narratives of modern art.
A celebration of the richness of figurative painting over the last 100 years and a passionate critique of the accepted history of art in the 20th century. Figurative painting is due a reappraisal. In this passionately argued volume the distinguished writer and artist Timothy Hyman cuts a new path through the tangle of twentieth-century art. The World New Made explores the work of more than fifty individual painters, presenting a collective 'Resistance' who together offer a human-centred alternative to the dominance of the Abstract or the Conceptual in conventional narratives of modern art. Structured not as a survey but as in-depth studies of more than 130 specific artworks, this lavishly illustrated book brings these often marginalized artists centre-stage: not just Alice Neel and Balthus, Max Beckmann and Frida Kahlo, but also Marsden Hartley and Charlotte Salomon, Bhupen Khakhar and Jacob Lawrence. A rich cast is brought to life, partly through their own writings. As the author argues, 'All across the world, isolated artists found new idioms for human-centred painting in the midst of modern life.'
Inspired by a passionate belief in the healing and uplifting powers of architecture, Maggie s Cancer Caring Centres are quietly extraordinary spaces in the landscape of modern medicine. It was while suffering from advanced cancer that Maggie Keswick Jencks conceived the idea of a beautifully designed space offering free practical, emotional and social support to those affected by cancer, and, following her death in 1995, the first Maggie s Centre opened in Edinburgh in 1996. There are now 17 centres across the UK, designed by leading architects including Frank Gehry, Zahah Hadid and Richard Rogers. In September 2011 Timothy Hyman was asked to be artist in residence at the London Maggie s Centre at the Charing Cross Hospital, and this book records his reflections on the people he met and the drawings and paintings he made there. Having himself been touched by cancer through the death of his twin brother twelve years earlier, Hyman sensitively captures the experiences of the centre s users and the rhythms of life in this small haven away from the world. While not always an easy journey, The Maggie s Year is an intimate meditation on the determination to not lose the joy of living in the fear of dying .