Creator: Jillian Edelstein
Publication date: 2008-03-03
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £25.00
Price: £12.39
Review Jack Vettriano: Studio Life / Pavilion Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-07-06
Dewey code: 709.4
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.86
Review This Is Modern Art / Phoenix:Matthew Collings has already established a reputation for himself as one of the most irreverent and original commentators on the contemporary art world, with his books Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop and It Hurts: New York Art from Warhol to Now. With the publication of This is Modern Art, Collings has ordered an even bigger canvas to sketch his own uniquely original version of contemporary art today, which he sees as both increasingly popular but also at different points "glamorous, mysterious, sexy, soulful, macabre, gloomy, quirky, kinky and funny". Written to accompany the television series of the same name, This is Modern Art is an in-your-face guide to modern art from Goya's "Disasters of War" to Gillian Wearing's prize-winning video of the police. Along the way, Collings addresses the questions which have both defined and plagued perplexed responses to modern art, including its desire to shock, its questionable aesthetic value, its humour and its blankness. As it moves along in a style which is at times infuriating but always direct and funny, This is Modern Art points out how far we've come since Picasso and Matisse, reverses out of the cul-de-sac of postmodernism, waves the flag for New British Artists like Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas, and ultimately leaves his audience with a streetwise, upbeat book on the abiding value of modern art. -Jerry Brotton.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-01-03
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.80
Review Blake / Vintage:
Publication date: 2008-01-01
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.95
Review The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art / Aurum Press Ltd:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 1988-05-19
Dewey code: 759.5
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.55
Review Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford Paperbacks) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-04-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.49
Review The Line of Beauty / Picador:
Publication date: 2008-07-11
Dewey code: 381.177092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.62
Review Bringing Home the Birkin / William Morrow:
Publication date: 2005-10-03
Dewey code: 746
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.71
Review Vivienne Westwood (VA) / V & A Publications:
Publication date: 2007-07-04
Dewey code: 781
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.16
Review It Just Occurred to Me...: The Reminiscences and Thoughts of Chairman Humph / Robson Books Ltd:
Creator: Barry Schwabsky
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 759.06
RRP: £24.95
Price: £15.58
Review Vitamin P / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Authors
- Loretta Hunt
- Randy Couture
Dewey code: 796.8092
RRP: £13.20
Price: £11.82
Review Becoming the Natural: My Life in and Out of the Cage / Simon Spotlight Entertainment:
Publication date: 2007-07-31
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.49
Review The World of Beryl Cook / Prestel:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-11-27
Dewey code: 821.7
RRP: £29.95
Price: £16.98
Review William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books / Thames & Hudson Ltd:There has never been an edition of Blake's illuminated books so handsome, its pages filled with images to pore over in utter absorption. David Erdmann's The Illuminated Blake is still in print, and very useful, but the reproductions in that edition are all black and white, where this is in glorious Technicolor. One thing this edition allows the reader to do is register the different scales of Blake's various books-to see, for instance, just how tiny are the pages of the Songs of Innocence and Experience, such that you can completely cover them with your hand, compared with the coffee-table-sized later works. This Thames and Hudson edition of The Complete Illuminated Books is large format, A4 size, which makes for a spacious white border around the smaller images, but allows the larger books to be shown off in all their glory. And glorious they are; a unique, extraordinary sequence of interwoven visual and textual compositions; Blake's distinctively muscular figures (looking, it must be said, oddly modern, as if they have all just stepped out of the gym) sprawl and bound between blocks and columns of printed words. One of the most striking things is the disjunction between words and images at the basic level of legibility. The pictures are direct, vibrant and lucid; visually extremely expressive. Of the colour images, all of them are beautiful, psychedelically hued compositions making use of energetic diagonals and spirals in their composition. Blake's words, on the other hand, are often extremely difficult to read; particularly in the later "prophetic" books. Page after page is filled with minute handwriting in sepia-orange or grey. [+]Its not that Blake's handwriting is unclear, but rather that the sheer bulk of text baffles the eye, copied so neatly onto the marginless block of the page with an obsessive, detailed miniaturised aesthetic. The editors, recognising this, reprint the words in type at the back of the book. But above all this edition drives home the point that Blake cannot be regarded separately as poet or visual artist; these two elements are always fused and co-existing. This wonderful, beautiful book makes that point impressively. -Adam Roberts.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-06-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.99
Review A Young Man's Passage / Ebury Press:
Publication date: 2006-04-28
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.30
Review Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Works / David & Charles PLC:
Publication date: 2007-10-01
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.75
Review Somebody Else's Kids: They Were Problem Children No One Wanted! Until One Teacher Took Them to Her Heart / Harper Element:
Authors
- Charles Darwent; Kate MacFarlane; Katharine Stout
Edition: 2 Reprint
Publication date: 2007-06-20
Dewey code: 740
RRP: £24.95
Price: £14.14
Review The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing - The Primary Means of Expression / Black Dog Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-04-03
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.70
Review Michelangelo And The Sistine Chapel / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Authors
- Nicholas Ganz
- Tristan Manco
Dewey code: 760
RRP: £19.95
Price: £7.98
Review Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents (Street Graphics / Street Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Authors
- Jens Rosteck
- Frank Zollner
- Diana Widmaier Picasso
Publication date: 2007-11-29
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £35.00
Price: £22.75
Review Bob Dylan: the Drawn Blank Series: Watercolor and Gouache / Prestel:
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