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An authoritative guide to one of the world's most important collections of African-American art, with works by artists from Romare Bearden to Kehinde Wiley.

The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, and Lorna Simpson, are drawn from the renowned collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Through exhibitions, public programs, artist residencies, and bold acquisitions, this pioneering institution has served as a nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally since its founding in 1968. Rather than aim to construct a single history of "black art," Black Refractions emphasizes a plurality of narratives and approaches, traced through 125 works in all media from the 1930s to the present.

An essay by Connie Choi and entries by Eliza A. Butler, Akili Tommasino, Taylor Aldridge, Larry Ossei Mensah, Daniela Fifi, and other luminaries contextualize the works and provide detailed commentary. A dialogue between Thelma Golden, Connie Choi, and Kellie Jones draws out themes and challenges in collecting and exhibiting modern and contemporary art by artists of African descent. More than a document of a particular institution's trailblazing path, or catalytic role in the development of American appreciation for art of the African diaspora, this volume is a compendium of a vital art tradition.

About the Authors:

Connie H. Choi is the Associate Curator of the Permanent Collection at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Previously, she was Assistant Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Thelma Golden has become a driving force in the art world. Since disrupting the status quo with her 1994 exhibition, Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Golden has continued to create challenging dialogues around art and artists, making her one of the most respected curators in America. Golden took up a new challenge in 2000, joining the Studio Museum in Harlem and becoming executive director and chief curator in 2005. Kellie Jones Dr. Kellie Jones is Associate Professor in Art History and Archaeology and the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University. Dr. Jones has received numerous awards for her work and in 2016 she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She is the author of two books published by Duke University Press, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art and South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017).

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The definitive survey of contemporary photography of the human body

The body remains a battleground. Politicized, conceptualized and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with the human form is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digitised, virtualised era of the ‘post-industrial’ body. No longer a tool but a work-in-progress, our bodily expectations bound from fantasy to reality, beauty to tyranny, art to commerce and curiosity to obsession, leaving us dreaming of other bodies and alternate lives.

Surveying a range of over 360 photographic re-presentations from the worlds of art, fashion, scientific and vernacular photography – including the work of Nobuyoshi Araki, Bettina Rheims, Lauren Greenfield, Viviane Sassen, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Daido Moriyama, Sally Mann, Pieter Hugo, Juergen Teller, Sølve Sundsbø and Daniel Sannwald – Body explores what our imaging of the human form, and the ways in which those images have been used and shared, might reflect of our relationship to the body. Supporting the broad range of photography is an essay by the psychologist Professor David Sander, Ph.D., discussing the neurological representation of our own bodies

About the Author:

Nathalie Herschdorfer is an author and curator specialised in photography. She is the director of the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Switzerland, and a curator with FEP (Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography). She has written a number of books amongst which are Afterwards, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography, Coming into Fashion and reGeneration, all published by Thames & Hudson.

Contents List:

Introduction • 1. Physique • 2. Alter Ego • 3. Essay • 4. Constructions • 5. Mutations • 6. Celebration • 7. Essay • 8. Flesh • 9. Love

Against the Grain

Since its beginnings in Paris in the mid-19th century, the idea of bohemia, an urban community of artists and intellectuals living outside bourgeois norms, has been a potent trope of artistic identity. It was here that the notion of an unconventional, free-spirited life, precarious yet filled with idealism, was codified and romanticized. Bohemia: History of an Idea, 1950 – 2000 shows the continuities and differences between the scenes and subcultures of the second half of the twentieth century, when the mainstream began to appropriate and thereby erode a way of life predicated on its rejection. Nonetheless, as an alternative to conformity the bohemian idea has exerted an enduring fascination. Through works by 39 artists, including Alice Neel, PeterHujar, John Deakin, David Wojnarowicz, Ed van der Elsken, Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, William Gedney, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Nan Goldin, Zhang Huan and Wolfgang Tillmans, the publication explores the diversity of expressions in various cities in Europe, North America and Asia and shows that the bohemian idea continues to galvanize and inspire.

About the Author:

Russell Ferguson is a research professor at the University of California’s Art Department. During his tenure at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, he curated numerous exhibitions on culture and representation in contemporary art and photography.

Rarely seen and important paintings by this much-loved French postimpressionist, emphasizing his radical use of color and unconventional compositions. 

A new monograph brings together 30 important paintings by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) on loan from museums and private collections, including still lifes, nudes, interior scenes, and landscapes, many never seen together before and published here for the first time. The book reveals how Bonnard’s modern compositions transformed paintings in the first half of the twentieth century, while celebrating his unpar-alleled ability to capture fleeting moments, memories, and emotions on canvas. Rather than focus on a particular time period or subject, Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing aims to present Bonnard’s modernity and concentrate on his influence on contemporary painters working today. The book draws attention to how Bonnard translated the experience of perception—with his shifting spaces, camouflaged and dissolving figures going in and out of focus, and forms hidden at the periphery — and how we as viewers experience his paintings, with his works slowly revealing themselves to us over time. 

About the Author:

Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation and coeditor of international reviews for Artforum. Sarah Whitfield is an art historian, writer, and curator. She is coauthor of the René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné. 

Take your listening sessions to the next level with the game edition of the essential cocktail guide Booze & Vinyl, pairing groundbreaking albums with mood-setting mixed drinks in an entertaining new way.

• CARD PAIRING GAME: Includes 100 full-color printed cards to match 50 sets of great music + boozy beverage pairings
• RECIPE BOOK: 88-page book provides information on the music and full instruction for 50 amazing cocktails
• DISCOVER YOUR OWN PAIRINGS: Book includes space to create your own unique music and drink combinations
• ENTERTAIN LIKE A PRO: This game works for solo play as well as groups of 2, 3, or more
• INSPIRED BY BEST-SELLING BOOK: Game based on Booze & Vinyl, the original guide to pairing cocktails with excellent music 

About the Author:

André Darlington and Tenaya Darlington are the co-authors of Booze & Vinyl, The New Cocktail Hour, and Turner Classic Movies: Movie Night Menus. André is a drinks, food, and lifestyle writer based in Philadelphia. He is a former restaurant critic and award-winning wine and spirits columnist. He recently completed a circumnavigation of the globe to survey the world's cocktail landscape, a journey he details in his forthcoming book, Booze Cruise (Running Press, 2021).Tenaya is a food writer and educator in Philadelphia. By day, she teaches writing at Saint Joseph's University; by night she pens the cheese blog Madame Fromage. She is the author of The Di Bruno Bros. House of Cheese and the forthcoming Milky Way (Workman, 2022).
 

Вшановує одного з найбільших і найулюбленіших художників Раннього Відродження розкішними великоформатними зображеннями

Сандро Боттічеллі, один із найвидатніших художників італійського Високого Відродження, користувався заступництвом найбільших флорентійських родин. Більшу частину своєї кар’єри він провів у гуманістичному колі Медічі, для яких написав такі шедеври, як «Прімавера», «Венера і Марс», твори, що поєднують декоративне використання лінії з класичними елементами в гармонійних і гнучких композиціях.

Цей розкішно виготовлений том містить оновлену повнокольорову добірку робіт художника, зроблену для оригінального видання 1937 року Людвігом Гольдшайдером, співзасновником Phaidon Press. Оригінальний нарис Ліонелло Вентурі супроводжується новим вступом від фахівця з епохи Відродження Алессандро Чеккі, який поміщає Боттічеллі та його школу в сучасний контекст. Елегантний дизайн, тонкий папір і пластини з зображеннями роблять це видання справжнім колекційним.

Про автора:

Ліонелло Вентурі (1885-1961) був відомим італійським істориком мистецтва, критиком і професором історії мистецтв Туринського, а згодом Римського університетів.

An in-depth exploration into the immense popularity of William-Adolphe Bouguereau's work in America throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries Seeking to bring Gallic sophistication and worldly elegance into their galleries and drawing rooms, wealthy Americans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collected the work of William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) in record numbers.

This fascinating volume offers an in-depth exploration of Bouguereau's overwhelming popularity in turn-of-the-century America and the ways that his work-widely known from reviews, exhibitions, and inexpensive reproductions-resonated with the American public. While also lauded by the French artistic establishment and a dominant presence at the Parisian Salons, Bouguereau achieved his greatest success selling his idealized and polished paintings to a voracious American market.

In this book, the authors discuss how the artist's sensual classical maidens, Raphaelesque Madonnas, and pristine peasant children embodied the tastes of American Gilded Age patrons, and how Bouguereau's canvases persuasively functioned as freshly painted Old Masters for collectors flush with new money.

Shirley Trevena is a well-known and successful watercolourist, with a huge international fan base. Throughout her career she has pushed the boundaries of watercolour and is regarded as one of Britain’s most innovative artists in that medium.

Shirley’s watercolours are visually inspiring, vibrant in colour and strong in composition This, her third book, shows how she achieves her stunning results by pushing the medium to its limits. Shirley takes the reader through 10 paintings in great detail and shares all her professional tips and painting secrets. In addition, each painting has large close-up details so the reader can really see all the brushstrokes.

Shirley breaks the conventional rules of watercolour in many different ways: through her compositions, strange perspectives, fascinating textures and, above all, the strength and vibrancy of her colour combinations.

In Breaking the Rules of Watercolour, Shirley explains all her painting decisions and demonstrates her techniques at every stage. In this way, she encourages all watercolourists, whatever their level, to experiment with the medium and produce exciting and challenging work of their own.

About the Author:

Shirley Trevena is a well-known watercolourist with an international reputation who is regarded as one of Britain’s most innovative artists in the medium. She is a Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and is author of three best-selling books, Taking Risks with Watercolour, Vibrant Watercolours, Breaking the Rules of Watercolour and DVDs. In 2010 she was the British representative at the International Watercolour Festival in Antwerp.

An engaging overview of the changing styles and uses of brooches and badges from the Middle Ages to today

From medieval pilgrim badges and Renaissance hat decorations to jewelled brooches and twentieth-century political pins, brooches and badges are often more than practical or decorative dress fasteners; they are expressions of identity. Focusing on the V&A’s world-famous collection, Brooches and Badges explores the evolution of these intricate and versatile works of art, and the way in which changes in dress have dictated their use.

Contents List:

Introduction • 1. ‘Send…letters, tokens, brooches, and ranges’ 1000–1500 • 2. ‘Rich Apparell, precious Jewells’ 1500–1800 • 3. ‘Any number of brooches, up and down and everywhere’ 1800–1900 • 4. ‘The new jewel has been born’ 1900–1920 • 5. ‘Clips are going like wildfire’ 1920–1940 • 6. ‘Almost anything goes’ 1940–1960 • 7. ‘Precious stones have won their freedom’ 1960-1990 • 8. ‘The shock of beauty’ 1990–The Present • References; Glossary; Further Reading; Notes; Major Collections Featuring Brooches and Badges Acknowledgments; Author’s Biography; Index

About the Author:

Rachel Church is a Curator in the Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum with a special responsibility for the rings collection. She has published and lectured on jewelry and worked on the re-display of the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery. She has contributed to a number of V&A publications, including writing on gold boxes in The Gilbert Collection at the V&A (2009).

An unprecedented look at a very young Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, from the group’s creation and early New Jersey days to their meteoric rise and seminal Born in the USA tour, in photographs almost all not previously published.

David Gahr (1922–2008) was tapped by Columbia Records designer John Berg to shoot cover art for Bruce Springsteen’s second album, The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. Gahr’s earliest photographs of the musician showcase a youthful Springsteen, not even aged twenty-three, in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on the eve of a career breakthrough. Gahr befriended the rising star, and over a span of approximately ten years he photographed Springsteen, both on- and offstage. Rare captures include Springsteen recording music, performing at the cramped venue Bottom Line weeks before the release of his seminal 1975 album Born to Run, and playing to legions of fans during his Born in the USA tour. Bruce Springsteen 1973–1986 is an unprecedented look back at Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on their path to becoming rock legends.

About the Author:

David Gahr was one of music’s renowned but under-the-radar photographers. Starting in 1958when Moses Asch of Folkways Records brought his work to a larger audience, Gahr captured iconic images of some of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century, including Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, and Miles Davis, to name only a few. Chris Murray is a writer and founder of Govinda Gallery, which represents some of the best rock music–related fine art photography and photographers in the world.

An insightful look at the history of Tibet and Buddhism through historical narratives and striking art from the Alain Bordier collection.

Fascinated by Buddhist art and Asian spirituality, Alain Bordier has spent more than forty years building a unique collection of religious objects from the Himalayas (Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan). On display today at the Tibet Museum in the heart of the medieval city of Gruyères, Switzerland, some six hundred works offer visitors the rare opportunity to discover an endangered world heritage.

This volume presents a general historic and artistic framework of Tibetan art through narratives, anecdotes, and commentary from Bordier on the different subjects and the collection itself. Beyond the artistic aspect, this work demonstrates the symbolism and spirituality that emerge from each object and offers an interpretation of the themes from a Buddhist viewpoint. The highlight of the book is the presentation of an unpublished manuscript retracing the life of Milarepa, the great eleventh-century Tibetan yogi, whose analysis provides an excellent introduction to the great Buddhist principles.

About the Author:

Etienne Bock is a specialist in Himalayan art and literature. Jean-Marc Falcombello is a cultural journalist and a disciple of Lama Teunsang, one of the oldest living Tibetan masters for four decades. Magali Jenny is an ethnologis

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Погляд зсередини на художні музеї та те, як вони формують наш погляд на мистецтво, очима архітекторів, які їх проектують.

Архітектори та любителі мистецтва в усьому світі зможуть насолоджуватися цією чудовою колекцією інтерв’ю з шістнадцятьма найвідомішими, глибокодумними та інноваційними архітекторами світу, які спроектували багато найкращих музеїв світу. Охоплюючи покоління, географію та методи архітектурної практики, ці архітектори поділяють складний і захоплюючий процес створення простору для мистецтва. Building Culture містить інтерв’ю з:

_Френк Гері, який розповідає, як півстоліття діалогу з образотворчим мистецтвом вплинуло на його революційного Гуггенгайма в Більбао.
_Кулапат Янтрасаст, який описує своє переосмислення виставкового дизайну та те, як воно розширює представлення робіт у таких поважних установах, як Метрополітен-музей, де він зараз переробляє галереї для мистецтва Африки, Океанії та Америки.
_Волтер Гуд, чий тривалий інтерес до техніки імпровізації в музиці вплинув на його дизайн простору для виступів на відкритому повітрі в Оклендському музеї.
_Елізабет Діллер, на чию концепцію Сараю в Хадсон-Ярдс у Нью-Йорку вплинули десятиліття роботи в концептуальному мистецтві та перформансі.
_Видатні архітектори, які спроектували, відремонтували або створили галереї для MoMA, Нового музею та Американського музею природної історії в Нью-Йорку; Національна галерея та Тейт Модерн у Лондоні; Художній музей Переса в Маямі; Центр Помпіду в Парижі, Музей сучасного мистецтва XXI століття в Канадзаві в Японії; Музей західноафриканського мистецтва (зараз будується) у Нігерії; та багато інших.

Цей жвавий збірник розкриває надзвичайно різноманітні архітектурні філософії від різноманітної групи визнаних і перспективних професіоналів. Захоплюючі особисті спогади про стосунки з художниками та кураторами разом із 80 захоплюючими зображеннями забезпечують подальше розуміння процесу проектування та позачасове натхнення для студентів-архітекторів, художників, музейних професіоналів та всіх, хто захоплюється архітектурним дизайном, громадським простором і музейною культурою.

Передмова Ів-Алена Буа

Про авторів:

Джуліан Роуз регулярно пише статті для таких видань, як Aperture, Architectural Review, Artforum, Perspecta та October.Він був старшим редактором Artforum з 2012 по 2018 роки та є співзасновником студії дизайну Formlessfinder, чиї роботи були відібрані для включення в програму молодих архітекторів MoMA 2011 року, виграли нагороду AIA NY New Practices Award 2012 і отримали нагороду Архітектурної ліги 2020 року.Його дизайнерські роботи виставлялися на міжнародних виставках, зокрема на Чиказькому архітектурному бієнале та Венеціанському бієнале архітектури. Роуз викладала архітектурний дизайн та історію в Колумбійському та Прінстонському університетах. Він отримав ступінь бакалавра в Гарвардському університеті та ступінь магістра технічних наук. з Школи архітектури Прінстонського університету та зараз закінчує докторську дисертацію з мистецтва та археології в Прінстонському університеті. Він живе в Нью-Йорку.

Ів-Ален Буа — всесвітньо відомий експерт із сучасного та сучасного мистецтва. Він був куратором і співкуратором низки впливових виставок у музеях по всій Європі та Сполучених Штатах, а також опублікував багато публікацій про великих художників, починаючи від Матісса та Пікассо до Мондріана та Елсворта Келлі. Він є почесним професором історії мистецтв у Школі історичних досліджень Інституту перспективних досліджень у Прінстоні, Нью-Джерсі.

A "cool" guide to Rome, with an emotional tour of the city's key historical sites and monuments revisited through the inspiration behind Bvlgari's jewelry.

Since 1884, the majestic beauty of the Eternal City and its rich archaeological, artistic, and cultural heritage have represented an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Bvlgari. Yesterday as today, Rome's monuments and artistic details are gracefully evoked in the brand's jewelry creations. For example, the design of the iconic B-zero1 ring was inspired by the Colosseum, the ultimate symbol of the city, and likewise the recurrent octagonal geometries watch dial refers to the coffered ceiling of the Basilica of Maxentius.

This handy, pocket-sized volume takes us on an unprecedented historical, artistic, and emotional tour of the city. In addition to an actual guide to the monuments, the narration is enriched by short stories by some of the best-known Roman authors from the world of contemporary Italian literature, inspired by the most iconic locations in the city.

The book is further enhanced by contributions from figures linked to the city by birth or by adoption, including renowned names from fashion, cinema, sport, and music.

The Bvlgari jewelry and the places in Rome that inspired it are photographed in stunning images with artistic direction by Jan Králícek.

About the Author:

Jan Králícek studied cultural anthropology and media at Charles University in Prague. He is now creative director of Vogue Czechoslovakia and fashion editor-at-large for VoguePortugal and GQ Portugal. Costantino D'Orazio is an art historian and curator. He was resident curator at MACRO (Contemporary Art Museum of Rome) from 2014-2019, and is curator of public art projects in Villa Borghese Park, Rome. He collaborates with LUISS University and Link Campus and is the author of a number of books dedicated to Rome and italian art.

Надзвичайна колекція Gaston-Louis Vuitton, онука Louis Vuitton, засновника одного з найвідоміших у світі брендів класу люкс

Колекціонер з дитинства, Гастон-Луї Віттон (1883–1970) за своє життя зібрав тисячі предметів. Його широкі інтереси та ненажерлива цікавість були тісно пов’язані з майбутнім сімейного бізнесу та подорожей. На додаток до створення власної колекції скриньок – його основної мотивації та про яку він оголосив публічно – Гастон-Луї приділяв увагу рідкісним антикварним речам для подорожей, замкам, ручним інструментам, флаконам для духів, племінним мистецтвам, палицям, старовинним дитячим іграшкам, книгам, готельним етикеткам, друкованим монограмам та іншим типографським раритетам. Разом вони утворюють насичене особисте спогад про curiosités industrielles, або курйози торгівлі, як він любив їх називати.

Ця колекція захопить уяву будь-кого, кого надихають химерні та еклектичні дивовижі, або тих, хто цікавиться культурними смаками людей, які пережили розпал періоду ар-деко, справді, тих, чиє життя було визначене суворістю та нагородами світових подорожей

A gorgeous celebration of the beauty of Venice as conveyed in the paintings of Canaletto and his followers.

Among the renowned Old Master paintings at the Wallace Collection in London is an important group of 27 eighteenth-century views of Venice, known as vedute, by Canaletto and his followers, including Francesco Guardi. They hang together in a dedicated gallery known as the Canaletto Room, but until recently the majority had not been cleaned since the nineteenth century and their original beauty was obscured by multiple layers of discoloured varnish.

The paintings have now been restored and rephotographed, following a multi-year conservation and research project that has also led to a reappraisal of them. This book presents these pictures in their renewed splendour. It features essays and commentaries by Charles Beddington, the global expert on vedute, and by Wallace Collection curator Lelia Packer. Together they provide fresh insights into the artists’ creative processes, the dating of pictures and their authorship.

About the Authors:

Lelia Packer was previously the Curator of Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German and Pre-1600 Paintings at The Wallace Collection.

Charles Beddington is an independent scholar and art dealer based in London who is a world authority on Venetian vedute.