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Although under-recognized in his lifetime, Wyndham Lewis was one of the most important figures in 20th century British art. He was best known for being a modernist activist, an avant-garde artist, an essayist and novelist. But he was also a remarkable portrait painter whose works bristle with the combined energy and charisma of maker and subject.

This catalogue to the British National Portrait Gallery exhibition of Lewis’s portraits presents a collection of work that has never before been exhibited (or published) together.

Whilst Lewis completed a number of commissioned portraits, his best works are those he created of his artistic peers: James Joyce, Edith Sitwell, Ezra Pound, Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot and Naomi Michison to name a few. The majority of these works are presented here and all demonstrate Lewis’s resolutely non-naturalistic, visually complex style.

The first monograph on Germany’s most popular street artist.

XOOOOX was the first German street artist to come to prominence on the international art market. His prints have been shown in numerous international exhibitions and sold at auction.

This book is XOOOOX’s first monograph. It focuses mainly on his portraits of female models that he prefers to stencil or wheat-paste onto surfaces of older buildings scarred by the passage of time. The contrast between the strikingly beautiful women and the crumbling walls is a fundamental aspect of his creative vision.

Other work featured in XOOOOX is a clever critique of consumer culture. For example, the artist reinterprets logos of brands such as Hermés or Chanel to make people aware of how easily dazzled they can be by the superficial promise of luxury. Or he morphs an H&M logo into the letters HIV as a statement against the leveling effect of global clothing brands that are spreading around the world like a virus.

The documentation of XOOOOX’s work on the street is complemented by photographs of select exhibitions and of the artist at work.

The book is edited by Benjamin Wolbergs, an author and photographer who specializes in subjects related to urban art.

Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love documents the artist's most recent exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, which marked the US debut of The Obliteration Room, an all-white, domestic interior that viewers are invited to cover with dot stickers of various sizes and colors.

Widely recognized as one of the most popular artists in the world, Yayoi Kusama has shaped her own narrative of postwar and contemporary art. Minimalism and Pop art, abstraction and conceptualism coincide in her practice, which spans painting, sculpture, performance, room-sized and outdoor installation, the written word, films, fashion, design, and architectural interventions. Born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, Yayoi Kusama briefly studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York City in the late 1950s. In the mid-1960s, she established herself in New York as an important avant-garde artist by staging groundbreaking happenings, events, and exhibitions. Now in her late 80s, Kusama is entering one of the richest creative periods of her life. Immersed in her studio six days a week, Kusama has spoken of her renewed dedication to creating art over the past years: “[N]ew ideas come welling up every day….Now I am more keenly aware of the time that remains and more in awe of the vast scope of art.”

Taking The Obliteration Room as its centerpiece, this catalogue reveals, in vivid large-scale plates, the transformation of the space from a clean white interior to a stunningly saturated room, with ceilings, walls, and furniture covered in myriad multicolored stickers put there by viewers over the course of the exhibition. The catalogue also includes beautiful reproductions of Kusama's new large-format paintings from My Eternal Soul series. Ranging from bright and densely pixelated forms, to umber figures with darker blues and muted oranges, these paintings demonstrate the artist's striking command of color, and her exceptional control over balance and contrast. Bold brushstrokes hover between figuration and abstraction; vibrant, animated, and intense, these paintings introduce their own powerful pictorial logic, at once contemporary and universal. The catalogue continues with a selection of new, large Pumpkin sculptures, a form that Kusama has been exploring since her studies in Japan in the 1950s, and which gained prominence in the 1980s, continuing to remain an essential part of her practice. Made of shiny stainless steel and featuring painted dots or dot-shaped perforations that recall The Obliteration Room, these immersive works seem created on human scale, with the tallest measuring 70 inches (178 cm). Vibrant plates capture how color, shape, size, and surface merge in these sculptures and mesmerize the viewer. Texts include a "Hymn to Yayoi Kusama" by art critic and poet Akira Tatehata and a poem by the artist herself.

Created in partnership with Asia Society Museum in conjunction with a major retrospective, this is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of art superstar Yoshitomo Nara. It assembles 20 years worth of paintings, sculptures, and drawings that map the evolution of one of the most influential and internationally renowned artists working today. The book and exhibition will draw connections between Nara’s work and the sensibilities of youth subcultures worldwide, focusing on themes of alienation and rebellion, particularly in relation to rock and punk music, the inspiration and subject of many of Nara’s works. Featuring artworks that have never before been exhibited, this is the book Nara’s legion of devoted followers have been waiting for.

About the Author:

Yoshitomo Nara is one of the most popular and influential artists of his generation. His work has been featured in more than forty exhibitions around the world. He lives in Tochigi, Japan.

Chet Baker was twenty-one when Charlie Parker discovered him and introduced him to such stars as Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan. It was the beginning of a meteoric rise to fame. Within a year, his melancholy, seductively elegant trumpet solos and his silken voice had made him the epitome of "West Coast cool jazz," which expressed a whole generation’s attitude to life. Marked by drug addiction, several arrests and unsuccessful comeback attempts Chet Baker died at age fifty-nine in Amsterdam. In images and reminiscences by jazz photographer William Claxton, this book provides a record of Chet Baker’s glorious early years, from 1952 to 1957, when he was still being called the "James Dean of jazz." Claxton accompanied the wonder boy of Californian jazz to concerts, performances, and studio sessions. His photographs show a dreamy, introverted Chet Baker whose charisma and appearance match the suggestiveness of his art.

This is the long-awaited colouring book from illustrator Yuko Higuchi. Follow a brother and sister on their magical, and at times surreal, trip through Yuko Higuchi’s museum, where they are transformed into the creatures they encounter - plants, mushrooms, mammals, reptiles, molluscs, birds and ancient creatures. Let your imagination run riot by adding colour to the illustrations. Created by cult Japanese illustrator Yuko Higuchi, this is a must for lovers of all things fantastical and bizarre.

About the Author:

Yuko Higuchi is a Japanese artist based in Tokyo. She has collaborated with various companies including Ladurée and UNIQLO, and has established a cult following. 

Illustration where traditional Japanese prints meet surreal comic art.

Yuko Shimizu’s work deftly melds traditional Japanese graphics with surrealism and comic culture.

The New York-based artist and illustrator initiates each project with classic illustration methods. She draws her basic forms and figures with Japanese calligraphy brushes and later digitally supplements them with additional colours and backgrounds. This technique gives her elegant and harmoniously composed images the look of graphic prints.

Her science-fiction fantasies and personal creative visions, which are often erotically charged, combine the best of American pop and Japanese comic culture.

Zaha Hadid (*1950 in Baghdad), recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, designed and curated a groundbreaking exhibition at Zurich’s Galerie Gmurzynska, comparing works of the Russian avant-garde with those of Zaha Hadid Architects. A fierce explosion of Russian works tore through the contemporary works by the architect in a dynamic black and white design. Created specifically for the venue, the projection of a two-dimensional drawing onto a three-dimensional space transformed the gallery into a spatial painting in which the threshold of the picture plane expanded and could be entered. Zaha Hadid translated the warped and weightless space of Russian avant-garde painting and sculpture by Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko into her very own architectural language.

This wide-ranging volume brings together for the first time "official" and "nonconformist" Russian art from the post-Stalin era. Fans of Russian art will celebrate the publication of this vast catalog, which includes hundreds of art works, biographies of the artists, and scholarly assessments of careers that both defied and adhered to the Soviet Union's strict policies regarding style and content. Drawn from the internationally renowned Ludwig Collection, the pieces are presented without political prejudice so that they can be appreciated for their artistic value. Essays discuss the artists' significant contributions to European art. In addition, cultural critics respond to questions regarding the socio-political climate of the three decades preceding and immediately following Glasnost, rounding out this book, which examines the Russian and Soviet artistic output that appeared from 1962 to 1995.

Абстрактное искусство всегда уходит корнями в опыт реального мира. Так начинается смелое новое исследование искусствоведа Пепе Кармела о происхождении и эволюции абстрактного искусства. Выходя далеко за рамки устоявшихся фигур и движений, обычно ассоциируемых с абстракцией, Кармел вместо этого показывает нам, как художники - мужчины и женщины со всех уголков мира - используют абстрактные образы, чтобы реагировать на социальные, политические и культурные изменения.

Начиная с обсуждения пионеров абстракции, книга хронологически исследует вопрос через предметные категории: тела, ландшафты, космологии, архитектура, знаки и узоры. Каждая категория далее делится на ряд тем: тотемы, органы, украшения, каллиграфия и другие. Тема состоит из вступления, за которым следуют описания отдельных работ, имеющих как неожиданно общие черты, таки заметные различия. В основе книги лежит желание продемонстрировать новые подходы к абстрактному искусству, исследуя широкую и многогранную вселенную таких художников как Василий Кандинский, Ибрагим эль-Салахи, Карлос Крус-Диас, Бриджет Райли, Анни Альберс, Шон Скалли, Джули Мерету и У Гуаньчжун.

Эта удивительная книга приглашает читателей в путешествие по самому неизведанному направлению в живописи. Здесь представлены краткие творческие и жизненные биографии целой плеяды американских художников, которые и стали родоначальниками нового художественного языка, названного впоследствии абстрактным экспрессионизмом. Как и другие современные направления живописи, абстрактный экспрессионизм охватывает не один однородный стиль, а, скорее, выражает определенное отношение, характеризуемое мятежным духом и верой в свободу экспрессии. «В определенный момент американские художники один за другим начали рассматривать холст словно арену, на которой предстоит выступать… каждая картина была не просто живописью, а целым событием».

Страна, созданная каторжниками и иммигрантами, более века была олицетворением поиска удачи, землей тысячи возможностей, где легко разбогатеть, где всякому найдется место.

Этот трактат об акварельной живописи широко и глубоко охватывает весь пройденный ею путь развития от самых древних времен и до наших дней. Автор дает понять и почувствовать, что развитие акварельной живописи еще не остановилось, а наоборот, все будет расти и значение ее ширится.

В главе по исследованию материалов акварельной живописи - красок, бумаги и связующих веществ, автор дает строго научно-проверенные данные, знать которые так необходимо каждому пытливому художнику, желающему постигнуть и изучить технику акварельной живописи.

Особенно это исследование будет полезно искусствоведам. Они в нем яснее увидят, что акварельная живопись по своей внутренней сущности имеет те же законы. Как и масляная живопись. Разница в условиях техники: в одной - краски разводятся на масле, в другой - на воде, связующие их вещества разные.

В этом уникальном руководстве для художника-акварелиста предлагаются простые советы, как написать деревья 24 самых популярных пород -от клена до яблони. В книге бы найдете:

* Все характерные элементы облика каждого дерева, покрытого листвой, вид дерева зимой, строение его ветвей и побегов и потрясающие изображения листьев и цветов.
* Специальные цвета и технические приемы, необходимые для создания изображений, максимально приближенных к натуре.
* Детальные, иллюстрированные пошаговые упражнения, показывающие, как писать листву.
Цветные воспроизведения картин, выполненных акварелью, демонстрирующие глубину и бесконечное разнообразие изображений деревьев, которые вы можете создать.

Подробный справочник для начинающих художников, специализирующихся в акварели и желающих освоить приемы изображения цветов. Информация дана о 50 самых популярных Bвидах цветов - от африканской лилии дo каллы.

* В книге npeдcтaвлeны пошаговые инструкции, которые научат Вас передавать характерные особенности того или иного цветка. Они сопровождаются разъяснительной информацией о красках, их смесях и приемах рисования.
* Великолепные цветные репродукции акварельных работ позволяют yвидеть значительность и разнообразие "портретов" растений - от роскошной магнолии до выразительного подсолнуха.
* В книге рассказывается об основных приемах реалистической передачи структуры и формы растений, базирующихся на светотеневых эффектах.