Ever since winning a travel grant as a 17-year-old to travel from the Netherlands through Belgium and Paris to Arles in Van Gogh's footsteps, the contemporary master painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer has been inspired by the Dutchman's art. Van Gogh has been a profound influence upon the subjects and techniques of Kiefer's monumental paintings and sculptures, which draw on history, mythology, literature, philosophy and science. Published to coincide with Kiefer's 80th birthday in 2025, this book celebrates the power and luminous intensity of both artists' work.
Novelist, poet and politician, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a towering figure in French 19th-century public life. The author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame became a symbol of the French Republics ideals of equality and freedom during his long exile in the Channel Islands. His ink-and-wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes may be less well known than his writings, but they inspired Romantic and Symbolist poets, and many artists including the Surrealists; Vincent van Gogh compared them to astonishing things.
This handsome book, the catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts in collaboration with Paris Musées, Maison de Victor Hugo and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, includes new texts by leading authorities on Hugo and reproductions of many of his finest works on paper, from early caricatures and travel drawings to dramatic landscapes and experiments in abstraction.
Ce catalogue accompagne la grande rétrospective consacrée à Marina Abramovic par la Royal Academy à Londres, du 23 septembre au 10 décembre 2023. Au cours des cinquante dernières années, Marina Abramovic a acquis une renommée mondiale en tant que pionnière de la performance. Ce nouveau livre documente la première exposition britannique à inclure des oeuvres de toute sa carrière. Certaines de ses performances les plus connues y seront rejouées aux côtés de nouvelles oeuvres créées spécialement pour l'exposition.
De juillet à août 2019, la Royal Academy of Art à Londres dédie une exposition à Hélène Schjerfbeck, artiste méconnue en dehors de la Finlande et iconique dans son pays, malgré ses relations avec l'école de Pont-Aven ou encore les artistes de St Ives en Angleterre. Ce catalogue se présente comme une monographie rétrospective de l'oeuvre de cette artiste de la fin du XIXe siècle, de ses premiers paysages naturalistes à ses autoportraits plus poétiques et épurés.
In his lyrical figurative paintings and murals, the internationally acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall HON RA (b. 1955) places Black faces and bodies front and centre in compositions founded on the principles of Western picture-making. He uses memories, art-historical styles and genres and contemporary culture and science fiction to comment on the past, celebrate everyday life and imagine a more optimistic future.
The Japanese artist Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889), a student of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, has been described as Japan's first political cartoonist; indeed, the sharp satirical edge to his paintings often placed him on the wrong side of the law. The politically turbulent times in which Kyosai lived are reflected in his riotous images, in which skeletons, demons and ghosts rub shoulders with classically rendered ukiyo-e courtesans. Among his most charming and inventive works are his brilliant depictions of animals - crows, frogs and elephants, among many others - which often stand in for political figures of the day. Kyosai's important place in the art of Japan is here explored in depth by Koto Sadamura, a leading authority on the artist, in this catalogue of the exceptionally rich holdings of the Israel Goldman Collection.
Ka the Kollwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Mu nter and Marianne Werefkin are among the exceptional artists associated with the emergence of Expressionism in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. Each challenged prevailing ideals of feminine identity at a time of great societal change. As women, they were expected to marry and raise a family; some chose to, some did not. As ambitious artists, they wanted to work.
As they rose to these challenges, their art further undermined conventions. Their portraits of children symbolise joy, hope and innocence but also melancholy, tension, curiosity, the passing of time and unfulfilled desire. Their radical depictions of the nude wrest the female body away from the male gaze towards a newfound role, expressive of powerful maternity and female subjectivity. These dramatic modernist compositions, with their fluid brushwork and bright hues, push at the boundaries of form, colour and spiritual meaning.
An affordable overview of the built and unbuilt works of Herzog & de Meuron, acclaimed by the New York Times as "one of the most admired architecture firms in the world".
Renowned for such prominent buildings as London's Tate Modern, Beijing's Bird's Nest National Stadium and 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Herzog & de Meuron sits at the cutting edge of contemporary design. Founded in Basel more than 40 years ago, the Swiss architectural practice is now an international partnership with projects across the globe?among them, museums, hospitals, skyscrapers, arenas, and private and civic buildings.
Produced in close collaboration with the architects and published for a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, this volume gives an authoritative account of the inner workings of what the New York Times dubbed "one of the most admired architecture firms in the world." The book appraises a representative selection of its projects, both completed buildings and those still in the works, providing visual materials such as models, material samples and prototypes. Texts by leading writers, practitioners, filmmakers and thinkers also figure, offering expert analysis of the firm's commanding portfolio.
Ce petit ouvrage présente les aquarelles de David Hockney sur le Yorkshire, région anglaise de son enfance dont il est retourné peindre les paysages à partir de 2004.
The Hispanic Society of America in New York is the vision of Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955). From an early age, Huntington developed an abiding love both of Hispanic culture and of museums and libraries. He resolved to devote his considerable fortune to combining these two passions, and carried out his project so resourcefully that the collections he assembled remain exceptional for their depth and richness, displaying the culture of Spain and Latin America in the broadest sense.
Their scope ranges from the prehistoric era to the early 20th century, including antiquities, decorative arts, Islamic works, manuscripts and rare books as well as superb canvases by Old Masters such as El Greco, Velazquez and Goya. This handsome new publication features an introduction to Archer M. Huntington and the Hispanic Society by Patrick Lenaghan, the Society's archivist, and plates and authoritative catalogue entries on some of its greatest treasures by the Society's curators.
Ce catalogue qui accolmpagne une exposition à la Royal Academy retrace la vie et l'oeuvre de la peintre Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) depuis ses débuts en tant qu'enfant prodige à Londres jusqu'à sa carrière à travers l'Europe et notamment à Rome. Le volume présente certaines de ses oeuvres les plus extraordinaires, notamment ses autoportraits, des peintures historiques représentant des sujets féminins tels que Circé et Cléopâtre, et ses peintures au plafond réalisées pour l'emplacement d'origine de la Royal Academy à la Somerset House.
Une nouvelle exposition à la Royal Academy explore le rôle des animaux dans le travail de Francis Bacon, notamment celui de l'animal humain. Dans cette publication d'accompagnement qui ajoute des analyses significatives à la bibliographie déjà existante sur l'artiste - des auteurs experts, parmi lesquels Michael Peppiatt, Stephen F.Eisenman et Catherine Howe, discutent de la relation entre Bacon et les animaux et identifient ses diverses sources d'inspiration, qui comprenaient la littérature surréaliste et les photographies d'Eadweard Muybridge.
At the turn of the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance briefly crossed paths, competing for the attention of the most powerful patrons in Republican Florence. In January 1504 the city's most prominent artists came together to advise on an appropriate location for Michelangelo's nearly finished sculpture of David. Among them was Leonardo da Vinci, who - like Michelangelo - had only recently returned to his native Florence. In this beautifully designed book, Scott Nethersole and Per Rumberg take Michelangelo's celebrated Taddei Tondo as their starting point, and examine the rivalry between Michelangelo and Leonardo, and the influence of both on the young Raphael. Some of the finest examples of Italian Renaissance drawing are reproduced, including Leonardo's Burlington House Cartoon and studies by Leonardo and Michelangelo for their murals commissioned by the Florentine government for the newly constructed council hall in the Palazzo della Signoria.
Ce volume accompagne la grande exposition consacrée au travail sur papier de Picasso par la Royal Academy of Arts au printemps 2020. Réalisée en partenariat avec le musée de Cleveland et le musée Picasso à Paris, cette exposition majeure sintéresse à l'usage du papier pour des esquisses, notamment celle des Demoiselles d'Avignon, mais aussi pour des oeuvres autonomes : des gravures et des dessins, mais également des collages des années 1910, ou encore ses constructions en trois dimensions faites de carton, papier et ficelle mais aussi certains dessins réalisés sur des nappes de restaurant à Paris sous l'occupation.
Tout au long de sa carrière, David Hockney s'est intéressé aux nouvelles technologies et il a exploré différentes façons de faire de l'art, en commençant par son iPhone en 2007 avant d'adopter l'iPad et le stylet en 2010. En pleine pandémie mondiale, il a documenté l'arrivée du printemps, créant 116 nouvelles oeuvres qui font l'éloge du monde naturel. La Royal Academy expose ce nouveau corpus «peint» sur l'iPad puis imprimé sur papier, avec Hockney supervisant tous les aspects de la production.
Tout au long de sa carrière, David Hockney s'est intéressé aux nouvelles technologies et il a exploré différentes façons de faire de l'art, en commençant par son iPhone en 2007 avant d'adopter l'iPad et le stylet en 2010. En pleine pandémie mondiale, il a documenté l'arrivée du printemps, créant 116 nouvelles oeuvres qui font l'éloge du monde naturel. La Royal Academy expose ce nouveau corpus «peint» sur l'iPad puis imprimé sur papier, avec Hockney supervisant tous les aspects de la production.
The South African artist William Kentridge Hon RA was born in Johannesburg in 1955 and lives and works there to this day. He is internationally renowned for the expressionism of his work in numerous media, among them charcoal, printmaking, sculpture and film, as well as his acclaimed theatrical and operatic productions. As elusive as it is allusive, Kentridge's art is shaped by apartheid and grounded in the politics of the post-apartheid era, and in science, literature and history, while always maintaining space for contradiction and uncertainty.
In a brilliant exposition of Kentridge's output, Stephen Clingman, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, undertakes a series of enquiries, of walks around the artist and his practice, through the various layers and linkages, crossings and connections of his art. As he proceeds, he considers Kentridge's themes, explores them and proceeds by association to others. Along the way, overlaps, thought-collages, allusions and assemblages come together to create a connective, dimensional way of thinking inspired by Kentridge's own habits of creation.
Qu'ont en commun le maître de la peinture surréaliste, showman incomparable et celui a rejeté la peinture au profit de l'art conceptuel ? Cet ouvrage explore la relation entre Dali et Duchamp, peu étudiée alors qu'une amitié de longue date les unit. Tous deux partageaient un sens de l'humour et un scepticisme certains qui les ont fait remettre en question les conventions de l'art, chacun à sa manière.
The internationally renowned British artist Grayson Perry, winner of the Turner Prize in 2003, is a vivid chronicler of contemporary life. His work abounds with autobiographical references, which can be read in tandem with issues relating to class, taste and the status of artists and artisans. Packed with vivid images, and a number of gatefold pages, this book provides an overview of Perry's fascinating career focusing on his work in a variety of media ranging from ceramic and tapestry to embroidery and print.
À Londres, la Royal Academy présente une exposition sur le développement du clair-obscur dans la gravure de la Renaissance. Mis au point au début du 16e siècle par les allemands, ce procédé révolutionnaire permettant de réaliser des gravures teintées, est ensuite largement développé par les Italiens. Plus d'une centaine d'estampes rares appartenant au musée de l'Albertina à Vienne et à la collection personnelle de Georg Baselitz sont à découvrir dans ce catalogue.
