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George Barbier (1882–1932) is one of the great French illustrators of the early twentieth century. He is famous for his elegant art deco works that were heavily influenced by orientalism and Parisian couture. Born in Nantes, France in 1882, he skyrocketed to fame and notoriety after his first exhibition in 1911. Known as one of “the knights of the bracelet” for his luxurious and glamorous lifestyle and work, George Barbier also received renown for costumes and set designs he did for theater, film, and ballet. Even today, his modern and stylish illustrations are popular all over the world.

With critical essays on such topics as coloration and composition, this volume is a complete compendium of Barbier’s work. This valuable reference book is categorized by Barbier’s major projects in fashion, book illustration, theater art, and editorial design and is perfect for illustrators and graphic designers as well as a beautiful gift for someone very special.

About the Author:

Hiroshi Unno was born in 1939 in Tokyo. Unno writes on art, cinema, music, urbanism, novels, flower arranging and more. Unno recent titles released by PIE International - Avant-Garde Graphics in Russia, The Art of Fantasy, Sci-fi and Steampunk, Harry Clarke, William Morris: Master of Modern Design, The World of Mucha, A Thousand and One Nights - have gained recognition worldwide.

Turning what architect Rem Koolhaas famously referred to as “junkspace”, the spatial flotsam of the Anthropocene, into candy-coloured dreamscapes, George Byrne depicts the gritty urbanism of Los Angeles in sublime otherworldliness. Arriving a decade ago, the Australian artist was immediately enthralled by the sprawling cityscape, mesmerized by the way the sunlight transformed it into two-dimensional, almost painterly abstractions, underpinned by a distinctive pastel color palette. Extending his practice beyond the confines of the lens by extracting elements from various images, his series Post Truth dwells in the liminal space between real and imagined.

Reassembling the urban landscape into striking, ascetic collages of color and geometric fragments, Byrne creates postmodernist oases in the metropolis that masterfully harness the malleability of the photographic medium. Byrne’s compositions evoke associations with Miami Beach’s Art Deco, the Memphis Group’s designs, as well as the work of David Hockney or Ed Ruscha, and at the same time tap into the specific aesthetics of today’s visual culture played out on Instagram. They are filled with a sense of suspended reality ― and never fail to convey a feeling of joy.

About the Artist:

Born in Sydney in 1976, George Byrne graduated from Sydney College of the Arts in 2001, and traveled extensively before settling in Los Angeles in 2010. Today, he is internationally recognized for his large-scale photographs shot with medium-format film. Byrne has exhibited internationally, and was named the Minimalist Photographer of the Year in 2020.

George Condo’s unconventional paintings are illuminated in context with his vast range of artistic influences — from Tiepolo to Picasso to Basquiat, and from psychedelic to new wave.

George Condo is renowned for his eclectic mix of artistic influences — from the Old Masters to cubism to pop art. The artist who coined the term “artificial realism” blends imagery and styles from various movements in works that critique contemporary Western culture and its excesses. His paintings and sculptures feature Humanoids — figures that are metaphors of our humanity, magnifying our emotions and revealing our high and low points. For the first time in his own words, Condo reveals the genesis and significance of his distorted creations and unveils previously unseen paintings created during the pandemic and the political turmoil in the United States.

Didier Ottinger examines the career, influences, and works of this unconventional artist who is at once rewriting the history of art and caricaturing the immoderation of the modern world. An exhibition of Condo’s Humanoids at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco opens nearly a quarter century after he created set and costume designs for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo.

About the Authors:

Didier Ottinger, general curator of heritage and specialist in modern and contemporary painting, is assistant director of cultural programming at the Centre Pompidou where he curated exhibitions on Edward Hopper (2013), David Hockney (2017), and Georgia O’Keeffe (2022). American artist George Condo’s work is in the permanent collections of the Met, MoMA, Broad Foundation in Los Angeles, Tate, and Centre Pompidou. Exhibitions of his work have been shown in New York, London, Rotterdam, Berlin, Venice, Shanghai, and more. H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover is a philanthropist.

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The definitive monograph on the iconoclastic painter George Condo

With his arresting, unsettling style, George Condo emerged out of the dynamism of the New York art scene in the early 1980s, and he has been restlessly painting, drawing and sculpting – bringing forms into the world in one way or another – ever since. Condo’s originality lies in his transformation of references and inspirations, in both style and content, which include the canon of Western art history; from his journey through Greek classical sculpture to an unlimited and free exchange of painterly languages ranging from Rembrandt and Velasquez to Picasso and Warhol, and a unique vision of literary and popular culture.

With his ‘fake’ Old Masters, reconfigured Manets, impossibly intricate paintings that seem abstract only from a distance, fractured and multifaceted ‘psychologically Cubist’ portraits, and the orgiastic misdemeanours of a host of butlers, bankers and priests, Condo has invented, mastered and expanded not just one painterly language but an entire lexicon.

Working closely with Condo, Simon Baker has combined biographical, chronological and thematic approaches to survey the artist’s work and career to date. An introductory essay on Condo’s contradictory nature and a chapter exploring his phenomenal early career are followed by three thematic chapters that look at the years from 1984 to the present, tracing Condo’s systematic reconstruction of the techniques of painting, exploring his relationship to the concept of abstraction, and probing the darker side of his psychological iconography in drawing, painting, sculpture and writing.

George Condo is the definitive monograph on this unique artist. It will appeal to artists, art students and those with a general interest in art.

About the Author:

Simon Baker is Director of Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (MEP). He was formerly Senior Curator, Photography and International Art, Tate. Prior to becoming Tate’s first curator of photography, he was Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham. He has written widely on surrealism, photography and contemporary art.

This book explores how Georgia O’Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle.

Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O’Keeffe’s clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O’Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today’s fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O’Keeffe “never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another.” This fresh and carefully researched study brings O’Keeffe’s style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber.

This beautiful book accompanies the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O’Keeffe’s unified modernist aesthetic.

About the Author:

Wanda M. Corn is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Her publications include Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories.

Georgian Jewellery is a celebration of the style and excellence of the eighteenth century, and of the ingenuity that produced such a wealth of fabulous jewellery. Heavy academic tomes have already been written about the period, but this book examines it in a more colourful and accessible way. The book aims to show that Georgian jewellery is not only the stuff of museums and safe boxes, but that it can be worn as elegantly and fashionably today as it was 200 years ago. Much disparate information about the jewellery has been gathered together and the period is brought alive by portraits and character sketches of famous Georgians in their finery, fashion tips, gossip, and some rather outrageous cartoons of the time, as well as fascinating recently discovered facts. With information on how to identify, buy and repair pieces, this sumptuously illustrated volume contains the largest single catalogue of 18th Century jewellery.

About the Authors:

Ginny Redington Dawes, a life-long collector of antique jewelry, has written two previous books on the subject - The Bakelite Jewellery Book and Victorian Jewellery. Staff writer for MGM Screengems Music, she is also a successful composer; she wrote the book, music and lyrics for the off-Broadway show The Talk of the Town and has won a CLEO award for music for advertising.

Olivia Collings became fascinated by the seventeenth century alchemist and jeweler Christopher Pinchbeck at an early age and bought her first piece of antique jewelry aged seven. She trained in an exclusive Bond Street antique jewelry shop before starting her own business in 1975 and has continued learning about and dealing in Georgian jewellery ever since. She is now an independent jewelry consultant.

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A major reassessment of Germaine Richier's work and impact on 20th-century sculpture

Germaine Richier (1902–59) occupies a central position in the history of modern sculpture. Predominantly working in bronze, her art revitalized the form of the figure, forging radical new images of men and women in the post-war period which blended the human body and natural forms in a hybrid of abstraction and figuration.

As the first woman artist to have a solo exhibition in her own lifetime at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, she held a unique position in the 1940s and 50s as a successful female career artist, exhibiting internationally and developing a style that has been largely overshadowed by the predominant male canon.

This major reassessment of Richier’s complete oeuvre establishes her key position within the artistic context of her time and, more broadly, her influential impact on 20th-century sculpture. Writers including Mika Biermann, Marie Darrieussecq, Maryline Desbiolles and Philippe Lançon, the philosopher Geneviève Fraisse, the anthropologist Charles Stépanoff and the artist ORLAN, evaluate the contemporary resonance of Richier’s creations, where her themes of identity, existence and our relationship with nature are increasingly relevant today. An anthology of the artist’s own writings, plus extracts from previously unpublished letters, complete this definitive volume, marking a long overdue appreciation of Germaine Richier’s distinct artistic originality.

Contents List:

Introduction
Six Essays
Catalogue of Works
The Artist in Her Own Words

About the Author:

Ariane Coulondre is a curator at the Pompidou Centre, Paris. She has contributed to several books, including The Cubist Cosmos.

Tattoo is a human activity that lasted for thousands of years. The earliest recorded tattoo comes from the ice man that lived 3000 thousand years ago. With its long history, tattoo is always endowed with mysterious sense. With the development of tattoo machines, tattoo has made its way to the popular culture. It is said that about three in ten Americans have at least one tattoo.

This book starts with the history and culture of Polynesian tattoo, the most ancient and profound style of tattoo and the one that is most well-recorded among tribal tattoos. Following the chronological order, Japanese tattoo and American traditional tattoo will be introduced consecutively in the following chapters. Going down the timeline, the book will elaborate how tattoo is influenced by the greater culture and the individuals involved. Besides, this book includes a large number of tattoo works of various styles and inspiring interviews with renowned tattoo artists from all over the world.

1. Tribal tattoo, Japanese tattoo, American traditional tattoo are elaborated with abundant historical photos and drawings.
2. Interviews with well-known tattoo artists, Taku Oshima, Horichiro, Luca Ortis, and Pablo De and more, sharing their inspiring thoughts on tattoo.
3. Display of tattoo works of various styles.

Інтимна та повна подорож у світ Джанлуки Паккіоні, скульптора, дизайнера та майстра мистецтва й ремесел.

Ця книга – дослідження художнього світу Джанлуки Паккіоні, від лаштунків його майстерні в Мілані до його неймовірного будинку-студії, а також завершених проектів та інсталяцій просто неба. Вона також торкається його натхнення, яке черпається з поєднання італійського класицизму та японського мінімалізму з відтінком французького декоративного стилю сімнадцятого століття.

Спочатку живучи в Парижі, де Паккіоні став скульптором у 1990-х роках, а потім у Мілані, своєму рідному місті, його ательє постійно створює скульптури та меблі лімітованих серій для міжнародних клієнтів. Як піонер у світі мистецтва та дизайну, його підхід до мистецтва є експериментальним та інноваційним, і протягом багатьох років він перейшов від заліза до нержавіючої сталі, а його найновіші роботи були виконані з литої бронзи, напівкоштовного каміння та мармуру.

Про автора:

Федеріка Сала – незалежний куратор та консультант з дизайну. Олів’є Габе — мистецтвознавець і директор Музею декоративного мистецтва в Парижі. Альберто Каваллі — генеральний директор Фонду Колоньї для Métiers d’Art. Кліо Лаво — куратор FILAF, Міжнародного фестивалю художньої книги та кіно в Перпіньяні.

Accompanied by a traveling exhibition, this book on the Bahamian artist’s textile portraits serves as a love letter to Black women: their style, strength, vulnerabilities, and beauty.

This debut of the 29-year-old Bahamian-born artist aims to redefine the often-politicized Black body, with portraits made in a range of textile-based techniques, such as embroidery and appliqué, celebrating Black women.

Gio Swaby’s intimate portraits are unique, highly personal figurative works made from an array of colorful fabrics and intricate, freehand lines of thread on canvas that explore the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. Illustrated with 80 works in full color that span from 2017 to 2021, this is the first book on this contemporary feminist artist who is a rising star in the world of textiles and portraiture. According to Swaby, “I wanted to create a space where we could see ourselves reflected in a moment of joy, celebrated without expectations, without connected stereotypes.”

Writers and scholars with multiple points of view take on Swaby’s work and delve into her place within contemporary Black art.

About the Author:

Katherine Pill is curator of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida. Melinda Watt is Chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago. Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for the New York Times Magazine.

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The first overview in decades of the eerie allegories of de Chirico, the forefather of surrealism and genius of uncanny connections

An innovative analysis of the artistic poetics of the master of metaphysical painting.

Through a selection of important works made during this master’s career, this volume aims to conduct a critical revision of the artist’s complex practice for the centenary of his so-called volte-face in 1919, the year he was criticised for leaving metaphysical painting (1910-1918) in favour of styles and techniques inspired by Classicism and the grand masters.

Edited by the most important experts of De Chirico, The Face of Metaphysics promotes an innovative interpretation of the artist’s oeuvre (both metaphysical, where the traditional confines of linear time and space are replaced by the doctrine of cyclical coexistence); an arrangement according to themes and not chronology underlines the idea that, despite the many changes in style, technique and subject, composition and colour tone, all of De Chirico’s works may offer tangible visions of the intangible philosophical concept of Metaphysics, advanced by Nietzsche in the late 1800s: constant metaphysics.

Divided into six sections (The Eternal Return; Metaphysical Exteriors; Metaphysical Protagonists; Metaphysical Interiors; Metaphysical nature; Metaphysics Encounters Tradition), this volume gathers around 90 works from some of the most prestigious private museums and collections in Italy and from the Fondazione de Chirico and also offers a rich core of archive documents including letters, period photos and exhibition catalogues.

About the Author:

Victoria Noel-Johnson is an art curator and historian specialised in early 20th-century Italian art. Recognised as one of the greatest experts of Giorgio de Chirico’s painting, from 2008 to 2017 she was the scientific curator at the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, where she managed the art collection and international exhibition programme for the Foundation.

Zorzi da Castelfranco, known as Giorgione: is an artist who has so few confirmed works attributed to him, and about whose life little is known.

Yet, after a career span of just over ten years, Giorgione has achieved a fame that has remained unchanged over the centuries. Starting from Giovanni Bellini’s lessons on spirituality and harmony between man and nature, and from the use of colour by Giovan Battista Cima da Conegliano, the master from Castelfranco offers a very particular synthesis of musical lyricism, connecting bodies and landscape with a soft and dense light.

This tonal painting, set by Cima and Bellini, becomes with Giorgione the language of initiation of the formidable brood protagonist of the great Venetian 16th century, the season of Palma il Vecchio, Sebastiano del Piombo and Tiziano Vecellio.

CHAPTER I
Zorzi’s Hidden Canvases. Visits with an Exceptional Guide

CHAPTER II
Gypsy Women and Philosophers: Giorgione’s Enigmas. Open Work, Context and Readings

CHAPTER III
A Façade and a Frieze. Debut and Early Success amidst Classicism and Astrology

CHAPTER IV
An Altarpiece for Castelfranco. Certain and Uncertain Family Ties: Costanzo and Barbarella

CHAPTER V
“With Time” and in a Hurry. Portraits of the Young and Old

CHAPTER VI
The Competition between the Arts. The Young Man from Castelfranco in the Venetian Melting Pot

CHAPTER VII
Portraits, Self-Portraits, Personalities and Interpreters. Giorgione’s Gallery

CHAPTER VIII
The Legend of the Libidinous Painter. A Myth and its Creators

Bibliographical notes

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Монографія робіт, присвячених Джотто, автора Франческа Флорес д'Арке, що спирається на вражаючий спектр джерел, від документів XIV століття до найновіших досліджень історії мистецтва.

Вазарі відомий своїм писанням, що Джотто «відновив справжній метод живопису, який був втрачений багато років до нього», і справді, його традиційно вважають засновником італійського Відродження.

Створивши серію робіт на замовлення для церкви та вищих класів у своїй рідній Тоскані та навколишніх регіонах, Джотто змінив хід європейського мистецтва, відійшовши від жорстких, стереотипних фігур візантійської та середньовічної традицій. Його новаторство полягало в тому, щоб надати своїм персонажам природний рух та вираз. Його великі фрескові цикли, такі як життя Діви Марії та Христа в каплиці Скровеньї (або Арені) в Падуї, наповнені реалістичними зображеннями тривимірних фігур; другорядні персонажі, як комічні, так і трагічні, демонструють діапазон дотепності та винахідливості художника.

І трактування перспективи Джотто було таким же революційним, як і його підхід до людської форми: драматична сила його сцен посилюється переконливими ілюзіоністичними просторами, в яких він їх розміщує. У цьому авторитетному огляді життя та творчості Джотто Франческа Флорес д'Арке спирається на вражаючий спектр джерел, від документів XIV століття до найновіших мистецтвознавчих досліджень. Її дослідження приводять її до важливих переатрибуцій картин у стилі Джотто та до нових висновків щодо виконання та датування як відомих, так і менш відомих творів. У цьому другому виданні свого дослідження д'Арке також обговорює землетрус 26 вересня 1997 року, який пошкодив фрески Верхньої базиліки Сан-Франциско в Ассізі, деякі з яких приписуються молодому Джотто; вона пояснює не лише масштаби пошкоджень, але й мистецтвознавчі висновки, що виникли в результаті подальших реставраційних робіт.

Понад триста ілюстрацій, більшість із яких повнокольорові, а деякі на подвійних розворотних сторінках, відтворюють усі значні фрески Джотто у вишуканих деталях, а також його рухомі розп'яття та поліптихи, схожі на коштовності. Ці чудові зображення та проникливий текст д'Арсе, вперше представлений у доступному виданні в м'якій обкладинці, роблять цю книгу вичерпною монографією про найвидатніших майстрів треченто.

Про автора:

Франческа Флорес д'Арсе — професор історії мистецтв в Університеті Верони, Італія. Експерт у галузі північноіталійського живопису, вона зробила численні внески у вивчення середньовічного та ренесансного мистецтва протягом своєї видатної викладацької кар'єри.

Після більш ніж десяти років інтенсивних досліджень доступна перша енциклопедія GLASS MARKS з 16 по 20 століття; досі не було аналогічної публікації! Відправною точкою є позначка, яку ви шукаєте. Енциклопедія зрозуміла і зручна в користуванні. Відразу біля позначки ви знайдете всю необхідну інформацію. «Таємниця» марок розкрита, і ви знайдете надійну інформацію про художників/виробників/чи скляні фабрики, а також про час виготовлення творів. Крім того, ви знайдете тисячі біографій художників зі скла та фірм з Європи та Північної Америки.

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"I like my paintings to have one foot in the grave, to be not quite of this world. For me they exist in a dream world, a world that is made up of all the accumulated images stored in our subconscious that coagulate and mutate when we sleep." — Glenn Brown Mining art history and popular culture, Brown has created an artistic language that transcends time and pictorial conventions. He creates a space where the abstract and the visceral, the rational and irrational, the beautiful and grotesque churn in a dizzying amalgamation of reference and form.

In paintings completed over the last three years, including some of his largest works to date, Brown confronts traditional subjects of still life and portraiture. With characteristically fleshy textures beneath remarkably flat and glossy surfaces, the scenes evoke traditional memento mori.

About the Author:

Rudi Fuchs is a Dutch art historian and curator. He has been director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam from 1993 to 2003. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and has written extensively on art.