Мистецтво

An inspirational and practical art manual, packed with step-by-step projects.

Artist Ann Blockley is renowned for her innovative approach to watercolour painting. Her highly anticipated new book provides a series of workshops demonstrating how to push the boundaries of watercolour, using key techniques to develop your own work and take your paintings to the next level.

Ann's easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects demonstrate how some of her most dramatic paintings are created. She describes in detail some of the key techniques used and how you can experiment with alternative methods to create your own interpretations. Finally, her beautiful and inspirational artworks demonstrate how different interpretations of a subject might take an unexpected or unusual direction, and how to make the most of these opportunities.

The book moves, with progressively challenging projects, from loose wildflower meadows, textured woodland and rustic rambling walls to atmospheric or semi-abstract landscape corners, all rendered in Ann’s adventurous signature style. Loose, expressive mark-making and unusual techniques include combining water-based paint and ink with granulation medium for dramatic texture, drawing with twigs, using gesso and collage to create unique effects; manipulating paint with materials such as plastic wrap (clingfilm); developing printed marks made using found materials.

Following the huge demand for more practical guidance in experimental painting, the book provides plenty of techniques and instruction. Ann’s personal commentary also gives a unique insight into the mind of the artist – ways of looking at your subject, how to explore and experiment – to unlock the potential of your watercolour painting.

About the Author:

Ann Blockley is a well-known watercolourist with an international reputation. She is a member of the RI (Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour) and the author of seven bestselling practical art books, including Experimental Flowers in Watercolour and Experimental Landscapes in Watercolour, both published by Batsford. Ann runs her own very popular watercolour courses, teaches at international workshops, has made three DVDs of her painting techniques and regularly writes for The Artist magazine. She lives in Devon.

In remembrance of revered American artist Wayne Thiebaud who passed away in 2021 at the age of 101, the definitive monograph of Wayne Thiebaud’s work is now available in a reformatted, accessibly priced edition, including his last paintings.

This is the most comprehensive monograph to date on Wayne Thiebaud, with new works added, in a reformatted size. Spanning the length of his career from the 1950s to the present, the book has been made in close collaboration with the artist. Thiebaud selected the works himself, making the book an act of autobiography in a sense. At age 100, he looks back over his life and his work, rich with breakthroughs in painting and masterful individuality.

“Required reading for those who have a healthy appetite for provocative art.” — Bloomberg Business

“This comprehensive monograph of more than 200 illustrations can literally be considered eye candy. American artist Wayne Thiebaud is famed for his brightly colored canvases of cakes, diner pies, pastries, ice cream cones, candy and brightly colored gumball machines. . . . Whether still lifes or landscapes, Thiebaud’s paintings are akin to visual Prozac; you simply cannot be in a bad mood looking at them.” — Kansas City Magazine

“While Thiebaud is best known for his heavily pigmented still lifes of cakes, pies, and candies, [this] book shows his broader range, from vibrant landscapes depicting highways and farmland to portraits of solitary figures. . . The texts examine Thiebaud’s influences as well as his impact on the art world and the individual viewers of his work.” — Architectural Digest

About the Author:

Kenneth Baker has been the resident art critic at the San Francisco Chronicle since 1983. Nicholas Fox Weber is a cultural historian and executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and art critic based in New York. John Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York.

Заснований на телевізійному серіалі BBC, Джон Бергер Ways of Seeing – це унікальний погляд на те, як ми сприймаємо мистецтво, опублікований як частина серії Penguin on Design у Penguin Modern Classics.

«Побачити перед словами. Дитина дивиться і впізнає, перш ніж заговорити».

«Але є й інший сенс, у якому бачення стоїть перед словами. Саме бачення визначає наше місце в навколишньому світі; ми пояснюємо цей світ словами, але слово ніколи не може скасувати той факт, що ми ним оточені. Відношення між тим, що ми бачимо, і тим, що ми знаємо, ніколи не є встановленим».

Ways of Seeing Джона Бергера — одна з найбільш стимулюючих і впливових книг про мистецтво будь-якою мовою. Вперше опублікований у 1972 році, він був заснований на телевізійному серіалі BBC, про який критик Sunday Times прокоментував: «Це відкриває очі в кількох аспектах: концентрація на тому, як ми дивимося на картини. . . він майже напевно змінить ваш погляд на фотографії». Зараз він має.

Джон Бергер (нар. 1926) — мистецтвознавець, художник і прозаїк. Народився в Хакні, Лондон.
Його роман G. (1972) отримав премію пам’яті Джеймса Тейта Блека та Букерівську премію.

Якщо вам сподобалися Ways of Seeing, вам може сподобатися книга Сьюзен Зонтаг Про фотографію, яка також доступна в Penguin Modern Classics.

«Берґер має здатність пройти крізь містифікацію професійних мистецтвознавців... він визволитель образів: і як тільки ми дозволили картинам працювати на нас безпосередньо, ми знаходимося в набагато кращому становищі, щоб зробити значущу оцінку»
Пітер Фуллер, Arts Review

«Вплив серіалу та книги... був величезним... Це відкрило для загальної уваги сфери культурологічних досліджень, які зараз є звичним явищем»
Джефф Дайер у Ways of Telling

«Один із найвпливовіших інтелектуалів сучасності»
Спостерігач

Про автора:

Джон Бергер народився в Лондоні в 1926 році. Його відомі твори як художньої, так і наукової літератури включають основоположні Ways of Seeing і роман G., який отримав Букерівську премію в 1972 році. У 1962 році він покинув Британію назавжди, щоб жити в маленькому селі у французьких Альпах. Помер у 2017 році.

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FriendsWithYou is a contemporary fine art collective that has been spreading their unifying message of Magic, Luck, and Friendship worldwide since their founding in 2002. Expanding their mission of connectivity and reawakening via their interactive artworks, the artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III call on the viewer to reinvent and reinterpret the lost meaning of spirituality. Using ideas like animism, healing arts, the modern ritual and celebrated symbols, FriendsWithYou addresses the human need to relate to one another. Together, the artists have constructed their own brand of post pop visual language a la Murakami, Arturo Herrera and Yayoi Kusama and have instilled in their work the powerful ability to trigger thoughts of happiness, curiosity, and meaningful interaction.

We Are FriendsWithYou is a brightly colored and comprehensive monograph that explores the journey of Sam & Tury, from their early handcrafted art objects to their recent works experimenting with animation, paintings, sculpture, public playgrounds, and published works. Originating at the crossroads of art, design, and popular culture, FriendsWithYou's output is quite unique. By presenting a “superflat” standpoint on their creations and allowing all types of influences­­­ –– film directors, writers, anime artists, as well as contemporary artists –– they are revolutionizing the art world and widening the straightforward definitions of these disciplines. With contributions by Pharrell Williams, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Peter Doroshenko, this book reveals never-before-seen insight into the complete body of work from the art duo responsible for spreading the self-proclaimed “happy-virus.”

About the Author:

FriendsWithYou is a globally renowned fine art collective that originated in Miami and is currently based in Los Angeles. Pharrell Williams is a designer, recording artist, and producer based in Miami. Alejandro Jodorowsky is a playwright, filmmaker, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, psychotherapist, and author. Peter Doroshenko is the Director of the Dallas Contemporary Museum and has contributed writing to several contemporary artist books.

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A Clarion Call for Cultural Resistance in a Digital Age 

Welcome to an extraordinary journey into underground culture from visionary publisher Jefferson Hack. Featuring contributions from cultural provocateurs Tilda Swinton, Rankin, Douglas Coupland, Björk, Aimee Mullins, and many more, We Can’t Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century — drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing. In the spirit of progressive individualism at its core every single copy is unique, emblazoned with an individuated, numbered cover displaying a one-off fresco of the provocative material between its pages. If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.

100% INDIVIDUAL 
This book is completely unique, containing a cover made just for you.
Made with Kodak

About the Authors:

Jefferson Hack is the editorial director and cofounder of Dazed Media. Hans Ulrich Obrist is codirector of exhibitions and programs and director of international projects at Serpentine Galleries. Björk is an Icelandic composer, musician, and singer. Tilda Swinton is a British actress and fashion icon known for both arthouse and mainstream films.

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A definitive and long-overdue monograph revealing the extraordinarily prolific career of the American artist Wes Lang, whose frenetic and manic paintings bring together ideas and icons mined from a post-pop American landscape. 

In the Wes Lang universe, recurring figures and symbols — horses, reapers, skulls, Native American chiefs, even nods to his favorite painters, country and jazz musicians — serve as emblems in one way or another for freedom and inspiration. References to the Tao Te Ching and the lectures of Ram Dass are scattered throughout the work, revealing a central ethos that underlies the artist’s complex iconography. The repetition of these sometimes paradoxical images and phrases, motifs and mantras, gives Lang’s work a ritualistic aspect seemingly at odds with his eclectic and spontaneous style.

Introduced with an exploratory essay by the critic Arty Nelson, the book draws on more than 25 years’ worth of material, from stark paintings on wood that formed the artist's first exhibition to richly layered oil paintings exhibited in Paris in 2020, and from unpublished pencil drawings to imagery made iconic by his enigmatic commercial collaborations. Oversized and with pull-out gatefold pages, the book is testament to the scope and richness of Lang's work: expansive in its iconography, deceptively intimate in its detail, and juxtaposing a textured, painterly style with a playful acceptance of the diversity of his own influences.

About the Authors:

Wes Lang is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. Arty Nelson is a novelist and essayist who has published writing on contemporary artists from Chris Johanson to Ed Templeton.

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Western Illuminated Manuscripts: Manuscripts in the National Art Library, from the Eleventh to the Early Twentieth Century

This catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the V&A's National Art Library provides a history of an art form over eight centuries as an integral part of the decorative arts. It documents not only the practice of medieval and Renaissance illumination, but also the survival of medieval book-making crafts alongside printing in the post-Renaissance period and their revival in the nineteenth century. Its three volumes bring together for the first time works such as the St Denis Missal of 1350 and the Chambord Missal of 1844, the Sanvito Petrarch and William Morriss Book of Verse of 1870. Catalogue descriptions discuss in detail each work and pay particular attention to the changing ways in which they have been evaluated and used through the centuries.

Rowan Watson is a Senior Curator in the National Art Library, part of the Word & Image Department at the V&A. He is the author of Illuminated Manuscripts and their Makers (V&A 2003) and co-author of Blood on Paper (V&A 2008).

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This lush, three-volume slipcased set catalogues the V&A’s superb collection of Western illuminated manuscripts. Providing a history of an art form spanning eight centuries as an integral part of the decorative arts, it documents not only the practice of medieval and Renaissance illumination, but also the survival of medieval bookmaking crafts alongside printing in the post-Renaissance period―and their revival in the 19th century. The three volumes bring together for the first time works such as the St. Denis Missal of 1350 and the Chambord Missal of 1844, the Sanvito Petrarch of 1463–64 and William Morris’s Book of Verse of 1870. Catalogue descriptions discuss each work in detail and pay particular attention to the changing ways in which they have been evaluated and used through the centuries.

У жорсткому світі кіноіндустрії вам потрібна кожна перевага, щоб випередити конкурентів і зробити собі ім'я. Цей важливий посібник поєднує практичний, беззастережний підхід із знаннями, набутими протягом усього життя, що дає вам конкурентну перевагу для швидкого старту кар'єри.

Сповнена корисних порад і рекомендацій, ця книга покаже вам, як отримати максимальну користь від навчання в кіношколі, як пережити деякі з найскладніших моментів у житті митця та як зберегти натхнення, прокладаючи собі шлях у світі кіновиробництва.

Про автора:

Мігель Парга працює в галузі вже 25 років. Як продюсер новин для ABC, він отримав премії «Еммі», «DuPont Award» та «Peabody Award». Він створював рекламу для Pepsi, Canon, Fisher Price, Bud Light та Verizon. Як сценарист у Лос-Анджелесі, він працював над понад 20 сценаріями повнометражних фільмів. А з 2007 року він викладає акторську майстерність, режисуру, сценарій та монтаж у Нью-Йоркській кіноакадемії.

The most comprehensive survey to date of the contemporary artist Whitfield Lovell, whose poetic and intricately crafted tableaux and installations document and pay tribute to the history and cultural memory of the African American experience.

Whitfield Lovell: Passages accompanies a major traveling exhibition of the artist’s powerful Conté crayon drawings combined with objects to create assemblages and multisensory installations that focus on aspects of Black history, raising questions about identity, memory, and America’s collective heritage. Whitfield Lovell (b. 1959, Bronx), a 2007 MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient and conceptual artist, creates exquisite drawings inspired by his own collection of vintage photographs of unidentified African Americans taken between the Emancipation Proclamation and the civil rights movement. He pairs his meticulously rendered drawings done on paper or salvaged wooden boards with found objects, creating enigmatic assemblages and stand-alone tableaux that are rich with symbolism and ambiguity and evoke personal memories, ancestral connections, and the collective American past.

This richly illustrated volume features essays by leading scholars that contextualize Lovell’s work through the exploration of compelling elements such as sound and card playing, contemplating memory as method.

About the Author:

Michèle Wije is curator at the American Federation of Arts. Bridget Cooks is associate professor in the Departments of African American Studies and Art History, University of California, Irvine. Cheryl Finley is inaugural director of the Atlanta University Center Art History and Curatorial Studies Collective; a distinguished visiting professor at Spelman College; and associate professor of art history at Cornell University.

У цій захопливій та спонукаючій до роздумів книзі Сьюзі Ходж ґрунтовно та переконливо пояснює, чому сучасне мистецтво не є і ніколи не було дитячою забавкою.

У книзі розглядається 100 творів сучасного мистецтва, які викликали вороже ставлення критиків – від намальованої «Олімпії» (1957) Сая Твомблі, грубої, але спонтанної «LNAPRK» (1982) Жан-Мішеля Баскія до, здавалося б, недбало вираженої «Моє ліжко» (1998) Трейсі Емін – і пояснюється, як вони, далеко не будучи незначними новинками, є продовженням художніх ідей свого часу.

У минулому оцінка статусу художників значною мірою враховувала їхню здатність створювати подобу реального світу. Очікувалося, що портрет буде точним відображенням, а пейзажі повинні були бути впізнаваними у всіх своїх деталях. Однак, особливо після появи фотографії, багато художників перестали створювати такі «справжні» подоби на користь більш безпосередніх зображень, які прагнули виразити почуття до своїх об'єктів. З самого початку цих кардинальних змін критики помилково вважали очевидну відсутність техніки браком вишуканості, часто висміюючи твори, які вважають не що інше, як невмілі зусилля дітей.

Сьюзі Ходж пояснює, як «сумнозвісні» роботи, такі як «Еквівалент VIII» Карла Андре (1966) – прямокутне розташування вогнетривкої цегли, яке, щоправда, легко копіює дитина – займають унікальні ніші в історії ідей, демонструючи вплив минулих художників і впливаючи на наступних. П’ятирічна дитина може успішно виконати картину-спін, як у Демієна Херста, не розуміючи ідей, що лежать в її основі, або її місця в історії художніх починань, але з цього не випливає, що ця робота матиме значення для художників та істориків.

Завдяки ілюстраціям до робіт від Ганса Арпа до Адольфа Вольфлі, Ходж розміщує кожну роботу в її культурному контексті, щоб представити незабутнє бачення сучасного мистецтва. Ця книга дасть вам розуміння того, як сучасне мистецтво відрізняється від реалістичних творів попередніх століть, трансформуючи та надаючи інформацію вашим відвідуванням галерей протягом багатьох років.

Polish painter and filmmaker Wilhelm Sasnal has emerged over the last two decades as one of Europe's preeminent contemporary artists. This major monograph offers a comprehensive assessment of his practice.

Renowned for his powerful portrayals of our collective culture and history, Wilhelm Sasnal draws on found images from his surroundings, newspapers and magazines, billboards, and the Internet, creating works of art that act as an archive to the mass of sprawling images that flood contemporary life. His work addresses weighty historical themes such as the Holocaust, or familiar pop-cultural icons, as well as the people, places, and quotidian objects he encounters, constituting an artistic document of postcommunist Poland at a time of sociopolitical transformation. With a concise approach to his subject matter, Sasnal captures stolen moments in time. His graphic treatment of light and color suggests a camera's gaze, imbuing the canvases with a filmic quality.

This major volume is completed by a series of essays addressing significant themes in the artist's work: alienation, portraiture, the personal versus the public, and history as a prism of reflection.

About the Authors:

Wilhelm Sasnal (b. 1972) is a Polish painter, illustrator, and filmmaker. Brian Dillon is U.K. editor of Cabinet magazine and teaches at the Royal College of Art, London. Pavel Pys is Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center. Adrian Searle has been Art Critic for the Guardian since 1996. Kasia Redzisz is Senior Curator at Tate Liverpool. Andrzej Przywara is a curator, art critic, and art historian. He is Director of the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw.

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.

About the Author:

Stephen Clingman is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Explore William Kentridge’s remarkable performance piece, The Head & The Load, and discover how music, dance, writing, and fine art are combined to tell the haunting story of Africans during WWI

For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre, and opera to create dreamlike, political, and humanist works. His installation, films, and drawings often deal with the political situation in South Africa, apartheid, and the consequences of colonialism. This book gives an in-depth examination of his performance piece The Head & The Load, which explores the role of Africa during World War I. Throughout the war, more than one million Africans carried provisions and military equipment in hazardous conditions for British, French, and German troops at minimal or no pay.

William Kentridge tells the story of these African porters who ensured the success of the victors, but remain in the shadows. This history, rarely studied today, unfolds in a staged tableau combining music, dance, acting, screenings, and mechanized sculptures. The book includes photos and text from the performance, essays, and artworks created specifically by Kentridge to complement the play. Accompanied by an international cast of singers, actors, and dancers, and with music composed by Philip Miller, The Head & The Load is a powerful and multifaceted work that reconsiders colonial history and its repercussions in today’s world.

About the Author:

William Kentridge is a South African artist internationally renowned for his prints, drawings, and animated films. His artworks are in many collections, including Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His spectacle-performances, including 'The Head & the Load', have been shown at the Festival d Avignon (2012), the thirteenth documenta in Kassel, and MassMOCA, among other prestigious festivals and venues.

Мріючи та розслабляючись, із привабливим дизайном Вільяма Морріса, ця чудова нова книга подарує вам багато годин задоволення та спокою. Надрукована на високоякісному папері, ця нова книга містить 45 потужних робіт Вільяма Морріса, які ви можете розфарбувати, пропонуючи припущення про те, як виглядав оригінал, а також ключову інформацію, таку як назва та дата. Морріс, мабуть, найвідоміший художник-ремісник у світі, і його сміливі та візуально виразні картини резонують і сьогодні. Ця книга перенесе вас у приємну подорож, де задоволення від створення приголомшливих творів мистецтва поєднується з повторним відкриттям радості розфарбовування. Ви можете використовувати найрізноманітніші ручки: від гелевих і олівців до пігментних і кольорових олівців, від кулькових і роликових до хайлайтерів, хоча краще уникати важких фломастерів. Кожна сторінка перфорована біля корінця книги, тож ви можете вирвати й оформити рамку чи просто розмістити своє чудове творіння на стінах свого дому, можливо, навіть надіслати його як подарунок своїм близьким. Оживіть Ink!

Про автора:

Дейзі Сіл — талановита, вдумлива письменниця книжок для подарунків, свят і загадок. Вона давно спостерігала за тісними зв’язками між навколишнім природним світом і нашими пошуками міцного духу людства. Попередні публікації: «Натхнення», «Роздуми», «Будь спокійний», «Дружба».

This beautifully designed, boxed oracle is ideal for anyone seeking guidance and inspiration from some of history’s most powerful witches and their craft.

Written and illustrated by a practicing witch, this dramatic oracle set features a book and card deck inspired by the magical and mysterious tales of the witches, familiars, deities, and items within the pages of this striking guide.

Witches through History includes archetypes, profiles, and true accounts of women who were thought to have spoken with spirits or made bargains with the Devil — and how they used their midnight powers to help or harm members of their community — the instruments and methods of the craft, the use of familiar spirits, and various methods of witch-finding and hunting. Popular tropes and folklore dealing with witches offer readers a deeper understanding of this mysterious, magical, and sometimes tragic part of history.

The twenty-five oracle cards feature iconic characters, deities, and items from the history of witchcraft, complemented by the five elements of the pentagram (water, earth, fire, air, and spirit). Illustrated with a modern gothic sensibility inspired by historical art and text, the set offers witches and those who admire them a vital daily tool for spiritual, magical, or meditative practice — or simply to use for fun.

About the Author:

Devin Forst has created designs for Wicked Clothes and Creep-o-Rama and exhibited work at Muzeo in Anaheim, California. His artwork and writing have appeared in publications such Mysticum Magicae.

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