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New Wave Clay unpicks the zeitgeist and aesthetic of an exciting discipline with intelligence, insight and indulgence.

Against the backdrop of the digital age and shiny screens, a whole new generation of craftspeople, designers and artists are realizing the pleasure of working with clay and bringing a fresh perspective to the material. Today, there is a lively crossover between craft, design, sculpture and technology that is rethinking ceramics: what you can make with it, what it looks like and who makes it.

New Wave Clay is a global survey of 55 imaginative ceramicists that are leading this craft revival. They include classically trained potters who create design-led pieces, product designers who use clay as a means of creative expression, as well as fine artists, architects, decorators, illustrators, sculptors and graphic designers. Their collective output goes far beyond pots into ceramic furniture, sculpture, murals, wall reliefs, small-scale architecture and 3D printing.

The book is divided into four thematic sections and features special contributions from Edmund de Waal, Hella Jongerius, Grayson Perry, Martin Brudnizki and Sarah Griffin discussing craft, industry, ornament, decorating and collecting.

New Wave Clay is an image-led, dynamic study of the exciting new generation jumpstarting this age-old art.

Features:

• A 296-page survey of 55 international ceramicists who bridge the worlds of product design, interiors, fine art and luxury craftsmanship.
• Four thematic chapters are accompanied by interviews and written contributions on the subject from designers, decorators and collectors.
• Richly illustrated, New Wave Clay is an image-led, dynamic book that aims to demonstrate the contemporary condition of this age-old art.
• Instead of focusing on traditional craft ware and functional pieces, this title focuses on the community of ceramicists who create design-led works.

Celebrating the art forms of ballet and fashion, this beautiful book explores the creative collaborations between New York City Ballet and the top fashion designers of our age, including Virgil Abloh, Christopher John Rogers, Anna Sui, and Valentino, among others.

Featuring more than thirty contemporary fashion designers, New York City Ballet Choreography & Couture highlights their distinctive work for ballet. From the shorts suits of Thom Browne accommodating the movement of dancers, and the leather harness detailing of Prabal Gurung to the baroque flounces of Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen or the jewel-encrusted slip dresses of Carolina Herrera, this enchanting volume highlights how fashion design is adapted for dance to amplify movement and music.

The stunning photography by Pari Dukovic features breathtaking images of the dancers in motion, along with detail shots highlighting the couture elements of the costumes. Author Marc Happel, NYCB’s Director of Costumes, has collected the designers’ original sketches along with quotes discussing their process and inspiration for each ballet. A foreword by Sarah Jessica Parker, and essays by Tonne Goodman of Vogue and Patricia Mears of FIT further illuminate the creative collaborations between design and dance.

New York City Ballet, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, has been collaborating with prominent fashion designers since its inception. From the first Fall Fashion Gala in 2012 when renowned choreographers Peter Martins and Christopher Wheeldon collaborated with Valentino, through the present, these ballets are celebrated as collaborations between choreographers and some of the biggest names in fashion. Now New York City Ballet Choreography & Couture brings ten years of artistic vision to life.

About the Author:

Marc Happel has served as Director of Costumes at New York City Ballet since 2006. Pari Dukovic is an award-winning portrait and fashion photographer whose work has been exhibited worldwide and published in The New Yorker, Time, GQ, and Harper’s Bazaar. Sarah Jessica Parker is an actor, style icon, and vice chair of the NYCB Board of Directors, who conceived the Fall Fashion Gala in 2012.

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An expansive and timely survey on contemporary British photographer and artist Nick Waplington, with work spanning his entire 40-year career – his first comprehensive retrospective volume

London- and New York-based artist Nick Waplington uses photography to capture the complex and far-reaching aspects of our lived experience. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s with Living Room and has since become known for his unfiltered depictions of people and places, and the sociopolitical backgrounds that define them.

From the chaos, violence, and euphoria of riots, protests, and free parties to the surreal, hypnotic quiet of his large-format landscapes, Waplington’s work (in all its messy humanness) transcends stereotypes and confounds expectations, and this book is no exception. Including never-before-published images, offering new insight into both well- and lesser-known projects, as well as Waplington’s painting and artistic practice, the book opens with a newly commissioned introduction from Simon Baker, one of the leading curators of contemporary photography in Europe and director of the Maison Européenne de la photographie (MEP), Paris.

This is the most extensive survey of Waplington's work to date, and includes previously unpublished photographs, as well as paintings, sketchbooks, and other artworks that complement his practice.

About the Authors:

Nick Waplington is a British artist living between London and New York. He has published extensively throughout his career, including Safety in Numbers (1995), Truth or Consequences (Phaidon, 2001), Working Process (2013), a collaboration with Alexander McQueen, Hackney Riviera (2019), and Anaglypta (2020). Waplington has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, and in 2015, was the first living British artist to have a solo photographic exhibition in the main galleries of Tate Britain, London.

Simon Baker is a curator, writer, and educator, and is currently director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Formerly, he was senior curator of international art at the Tate Modern, London

Nightclubs and discothèques are hotbeds of contemporary culture.

Throughout the 20th century, they have been centres of the avant-garde that question the established codes of social life and experiment with different realities, merging interior and furniture design, graphics and art with sound, light, fashion and special effects to create a modern Gesamtkunstwerk.

Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the design history of the nightclub, examining its cultural context and international scope. Examples range from the Italian clubs of the 1960s created by the protagonists of Radical Design to the legendary Studio 54 where Andy Warhol was a regular and the Palladium in New York, designed by Arata Isozaki, Philippe Starck’s Les Bains Douches in Paris and the more recent Double Club in London, conceived by German artist Carsten Höller for the Prada Foundation, as well as more recent concepts by architecture studio OMA for the Ministry of Sound II in London.

Featuring films and vintage photographs, posters, flyers, and fashion, Night Fever takes the reader on a fascinating journey through a world of glamour, subculture, and the search for the night that never ends.

Незалежно від того, чи є ви палким шанувальником цієї захопливої ​​художниці, чи просто дізнаєтеся про її життя та творчість, цей жвавий том пропонує глибокий портрет світу Нікі де Сен-Фалль, її бурхливого життя та надзвичайного мистецтва.

Біографія Нікі де Сен-Фалль читається як бестселер: важка освіта, рання слава як фотомоделі та сімейний бунт. Її найперші роботи, відомі як картини зі стріляниною, були виконані з гвинтівки та куль, наповнених фарбою. Вона продовжила досліджувати жіночу ідентичність за допомогою фігур з пап'є-маше. Зі зростанням її репутації зростали й її роботи. До її грандіозних «Нан» можна було увійти та оглянути їх зсередини. Вона створювала парки скульптур в Ізраїлі, Італії та Каліфорнії, серед інших місць. Ця книга знайомить читачів з Нікі де Сен-Фалль у розділах, що містять репродукції її робіт, фотографії з її життя та історичну довідку, що дає уявлення про її життя та творчість. Настільки ж жваве, як і життя, яке вона розкриває, цей том є чудовим поглядом у світ цікавої та сміливої ​​художниці.

Про авторку:

Крістіана Вайдеманн — історик мистецтва та авторка книг з мистецтва для дітей та дорослих. Серед її книг — Salvador Dali, Leonardo da Vinci, та 50 Women Artists You Should Know (усі видавництва Prestel).

Багатогранність Нікі де Сен-Фалль

Нікі де Сен-Фалль любила псевдопорядки, які вона використовувала для довільного поєднання термінів та піктограм на аркуші паперу. Наприклад, під заголовком «Я люблю» поруч із емблемою справедливості можна було знайти знак змії, поруч із двома зірками – помаранчеву пляму відповідного кольору, як символ астрології. Niki de Saint Phalle A–Z дозволяє собі таку ж свободу та розташовує численні грані творчості Нікі де Сен-Фалль в алфавітному порядку. Однак цей логічний порядок оманливий. Від А, як у «СНІДі», до Я, як у «Цюрихському ангелі», від Б, як у «Нареченій», до В, як у «Ванітасі», виникає мозаїка концепцій, яка фільтрує різні рівні значення в її різноманітній творчості та грайливо залучає їх до взаємного коментаря.

Нікі де Сен-Фалль (1930–2002) була однією з найважливіших художниць та скульпторок свого покоління. Зростаючи в Парижі та Нью-Йорку, вона повернулася до Парижа в 1950-х роках, де розпочала свою художню кар'єру з легендарної серії «стрілянина». Її чуттєві жіночі фігури, Нани, здобули їй широку популярність.

Про авторку:

Мистецтвознавця Катаріна Сикора (*1955) була професоркою Бохумського університету та Брауншвейзького університету мистецтв з 1994 по 2018 рік. Її сфери досліджень включають конструювання авторства, гендер та трансмедіальність.

Nineteenth-Century European Painting: From Barbizon to Belle Époque represents a comprehensive guide to the range of stylistically diverse genres of nineteenth-century European painting. Accessible and insightful, this exquisitely illustrated volume presents the historical context behind the century's essential artistic movements including Romantic Painting, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Realist Painting, Academic Painting, and Impressionist Painting.

Influenced by an overwhelming wave of political, military and social change, nineteenth-century Europe represented an era more diverse in painterly subjects and styles than any before it. Indeed, it was a period that saw many European painters moving away from the strictures of the academy system, choosing instead to use their training to develop new techniques and traditions. A collection of independent stories, this book also outlines the unique progression between the different movements, exciting and enlightening the reader about the most magnificent period of art the world has ever known.

Contents: Foreword; Dr. Vern G. Swanson; Introduction; Author's Note; STYLES: The Barbizon School; Romantic Painting; Orientalist Painting; The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Realist Painting; Academic Painting; Impressionist Painting; The Newlyn School; Post-Impressionist Painting; SUBJECTS: Landscape Painting; Venetian View Painting; Maritime Painting; Sporting Painting; Animal Painting; Genre Painting; Cardinal Painting; Costume Painting; British Neoclassical Revival Painting; Belle Époque Painting; Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography.

Featured works from museums and collections including: Louvre, Paris, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Wallace Collection, London, Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, The Tate Gallery, London, The Schaeffer Collection, New South Wales, The Royal Collection, The Royal Academy of Arts, England, The Musée D Orsay Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Collection), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, England, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Stanhope Forbes, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA, Paisnel Gallery, London, National Gallery, London, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museo e Gallerie Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy, Museo de Arte, Ponte, Puerto Rico, Musée Marmottan, Paris, Musée D Orsay, Paris, Auguste Renoir, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, among many others.

About the Author:

Considered one of the world's foremost experts on 18th- and 19th-century European and American antiques, fine art and jewellery, William Rau has worked in his family-owned gallery, M.S Rau Antiques, for over 30 years. An avid collector and authority in his field, William has helped place several items in museums around the world. In addition to being a prominent member of many local business organisations, he was the youngest senior member ever accepted to the American Society of Appraisers. In addition to writing numerous articles published in a wide variety of national magazines and antique journals.

It seems familiar because it was everyone's dream of America; and it was unique because only Rockwell managed to bring it to life with such authority. This was, perhaps, an America that never existed, but it was an America the public wanted to exist. And Rockwell put it together from elements that were there for everyone to see.

Norman Rockwell helped preserve American myths, but, more than that, he recreated them and made them palatable for new generations. His function was to reassure people, to remind them of old values in times of rapid change.

About the Author:

Christopher Finch was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands, in 1939 and came to the United States in 1968 to join the curatorial staff of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. His books include the best sellers Norman Rockwell’s America, The Art of Walt Disney, and Rainbow, a biography of Judy Garland, which was turned into a motion picture for NBC television.

It is our most passionate music, rooted in ancient Africa but brought to blossom in America at the doorstep of the twentieth century. It is a living heritage of song born in poverty, persecution, and hard labor, born of love and love betrayed, of holiness and sin, the pleasures and the pains of the flesh, the experience of tragedy, comedy, drunkenness, despair, desolation, and pure joy. It is the blues.

At root, the blues is rich in its simplicity, but it has flowered across the years in a variety of rare complexity. Perhaps no form of popular art is more immediately appealing than the blues, yet so rewards a thorough knowledge of its finer points. In eleven authoritative essays commissioned especially for the book, Nothing But the Blues traces the African-American origins of the music, its early development as popular entertainment, its early recorded manifestations, its regional differentiation (Mid-South, Tidewater-Piedmont, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles), its many stylistic dimensions, and its contemporary manifestations. Country blues, urban blues, the evolution of rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and the blues revival are all fully covered.

But the written history is only part of the story. Blues fans have always treasured rare photographs of their heroes, and Nothing But the Blues is gloriously illustrated with posed and candid shots of the musicians as well as photographs of such one-of-a-kind artifacts and documents as Leadbelly's NYPD rap sheet and classic recording contracts. Nothing But the Blues features an introduction by one of the genre's living legends, B. B. King, and a comprehensive "best of the best" discography, including current and rereleased recordings as well as the collectors' treasures to go after.

Blues is more popular than ever before. Not only are reissues of historical blues classics selling in unprecedented numbers, but a whole new crop of vital young blues artists is active in clubs and on record today. Nothing But the Blues is a lavishly illustrated comprehensive history of the music and the musicians, as well as the promoters, producers, and others who have shaped--and continue to shape--this powerful and enduringly popular American musical art form.

About the Author:

Lawrence Cohn is best known as one of the creators of Legacy Recordings, a branch of Sony Music Entertainment and as the originator and producer of the Roots 'N' Blues series.

Cohn was educated as a lawyer and became Vice-President of CBS/Epic Records and later head of Playboy Records and Music. One of his responsibilities at CBS was to co-supervise the Country Music Division. He was also COO & minor partner in the short-lived CBS Records-Bob Dylan generated label, "Accomplice Records." [1980-82] He has continued his career as a producer, writer and critic. He wrote Movietone Presents the Twentieth Century (New York : Saint Martin's Press, 1976) and edited Nothing But The Blues : The Music and the Musicians (New York : Abbeville Press, 1993).

He has eight Grammy Award nominations and won Grammy Award for Best Historical Album in 1991 for the "Robert Johnson : The Complete Recordings" project. In the same year he also received the W. C. Handy Award for his work on Robert Johnson and was honored with a Special Distinction Award by the Blues Foundation for his "Contribution to the Blues." Moreover, Sony Music provided him with their first President's Award, for his work on Robert Johnson. He was also selected as one of the "100 Most Important People In The Music Business."

Innovating to overcome obstacles is the leading theme of post-pandemic development. When innovation is combined with the ability to be a visionary, excellence is achieved.

The world is full of people who can inspire us, but their legacies are really defined by whether they are true visionaries. Beyond their ideas or words, this is determined by their projects and the tangible consequences of their actions on our way of living and thinking in the contemporary world.

After the previous project on Silicon Valley, this book presents a selection of new talents who have distinguished themselves in different fields (design, research, eco-sustainability, architecture, thinkers, food, NFTs, and more) and who promise to carry on the legacies of past visionaries, entering our imagination as visionaries of the future.

About the Author:

No_Code is an intersectional project conceived by the Italian luxury group Tod’s. Born in November 2018, No_Code interprets social changes in contemporary society, thoughts, and ideas on topics, which are translated into timely and suitable products of the moment. Jeffrey Schnapp is a professor at Harvard and a pioneer in various fields of transdisciplinary research, including digital humanities. He edited the books FuturPiaggio and Moto Guzzi: 100 Years for Rizzoli.

The seminal artist’s recent art and poster works, and his triumphant return to his street-art roots with murals, all in work never before published. Shepard Fairey rose out of the skateboarding scene, creating his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign in the late ’80s, and has since achieved a mainstream recognition that most street artists never find. Fairey’s “Hope” poster, created during Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, is arguably the most iconic American image since Uncle Sam. Fairey has become a pop-culture icon himself, though he has remained true to his street-art roots.

OBEY: Covert to Overt showcases his most recent evolution from works on paper to grander art installations, cross-cultural artworks, and music/art collaborations. The book also includes his ubiquitous streetwear and chronicles his return to public artworks. His signature blend of politics, street culture, and art makes Fairey unlike any other subculture/street artist working today. 

This book showcases the significant amount of art he has created the last several years: street murals, mixed-media installations, art/music events, countless silk screens, and work from his extremely successful OBEY brand.

About the Author:

Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He earned a bachelor of fine arts in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. He is best known for his Barack Obama “Hope” poster, which he created in support of the 2008 presidential campaign. His work has been included in the collections of several museums, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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Візуальна та концептуальна подорож 35-річною кар'єрою одного з найвпливовіших та всесвітньо визнаних вуличних художників

З нагоди 35-річчя кар'єри Шепарда Фейрі (Obey) ця монографія представляє добірку робіт, яка є однією з найрепрезентативніших у його художній творчості, а також численні унікальні твори, створені спеціально для цієї нагоди. Розділи книги натхненні найрепрезентативнішими темами мистецтва Шепарда Фейрі: пропаганда; мир і справедливість; довкілля; музика та нові роботи.

Шепард Фейрі (Чарльстон, 1970) — художник, який створив Obey. Відомий своїм плакатом HOPE, портретом Барака Обами для президентської кампанії 2008 року, Obey вирізняється суто сміливим стилем з мінімалістичною палітрою, що керується культурами хіп-хопу та панку, які навчили художника ставити під сумнів соціальні умовності. Це поетика, за допомогою якої Фейрі оживляє всі свої роботи, запрошуючи аудиторію поставити під сумнів актуальні питання.

Про авторів:

Шепард Фейрі — американський сучасний вуличний художник, графічний дизайнер, активіст та ілюстратор, який вийшов зі скейтбордингу. Він отримав ступінь бакалавра образотворчих мистецтв з ілюстрації в Школі дизайну Род-Айленда в 1992 році. Він найбільш відомий своїм плакатом Барака Обами «Надія», який він створив на підтримку президентської кампанії 2008 року. Його роботи були включені до колекцій кількох музеїв, включаючи Смітсонівський інститут у Вашингтоні, округ Колумбія; Музей мистецтв округу Лос-Анджелес; Музей сучасного мистецтва, Нью-Йорк; та Музей Вікторії та Альберта, Лондон.

Джузеппе Піццуто — куратор і директор галереї Wunderkammern.

A personal celebration of the hunt for—and joy of living with— favorite collections and things

What is it in our homes that we truly value and why? What would you take when you leave in fear of fire?  

Our home is an expression of ourselves in many ways, largely through the objects we accumulate. For Maria Hummer-Tuttle, the objects she has collected over the years, from the priceless to the flea-market finds, are precious not only for their beauty, uniqueness, and craftsmanship but also for their connection to the past and the future, for their resonance with one another.

In this exquisitely illustrated book, she serves as our guide through three dwellings, focusing our attention on objects ranging from an ancient Chinese horse sculpture to a Louis XV clock painted with characters from an Aesop fable, from a small snail sculpture found in a venerable hardware store to a monumental safety-pin sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, and from 18th-century to 20th-century furniture.  

With a foreword by master ceramicist and acclaimed author Edmund de Waal and featuring two lavish gatefolds, Objects of Desire is a feast for the eyes and an object to be cherished in its own right. 

About the Author:

Maria Hummer Tuttle practiced law for more than 25 years. She served as chairman of the Getty Board of Trustees and is on the board of numerous museums, arts foundations, and foreign policy, government, and education organizations. She is the co author of Winfield House, written while her husband was American ambassador to the UK. She lives in Los Angeles and New York.

Edmund de Waal is a British ceramist renowned for his large scale installations of porcelain vessels and the author of award winning books, including The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance and The White Road: Journey into an Obsession. He lives in London.

Miguel Flores Vianna is a photographer and writer whose work appears regularly in a variety of leading international publications. His books include Haute Bohemians and A Wandering Eye: Travels with My Phone. He lives in London.

Learn to draw by sketching what surrounds you everyday. In Observational Sketching, author Mariko Higaki — an ISDA Gold Award-winning industrial designer based in Japan — teaches you how to practice and learn to sketch by using well-established observational techniques.

Perspective, proportion, lines, shapes, shading, and many other techniques can be learned through everyday practice and observation of the items you come in contact with everyday, from a backpack to your sunglasses. This book addresses how to approach sketching a range of shapes and materials and how to disassemble each object to accurately capture its unique design elements. Inspiration and examples from the author and other well-known artists accompany a variety of projects that you can try right away and skill-building projects that will strengthen your talent. Find within:

- An introduction to observational sketching
- The basic concepts and tools used in observational sketching
- Observation techniques
- Illustrated step-by-step instructions for creating observational sketches of 20 common objects, from an alarm clock to a wooden stool 

Hone your artistic skills with this daily sketching practice. Whether you are an urban sketcher or an industrial designer, this book should be part of your reference collection.

About the Author:

After graduating from the Faculty of Environmental Information of Keio University in 2007, Mariko Higaki joined Leading Edge Design, founded by design engineer Shunji Yamanaka, where she was involved in projects related to industrial design, exhibitions, and education. She later studied at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, completing their Product Design course in 2015, and has worked as an independent product designer since 2016. Higakil has received many awards and recognitions, including the IDSA Gold Award and the Pentawards Bronze Award, and was a Top 20  International Finalist for the James Dyson Award. She is based in Los Angeles. To see more of her work, visit: https://marikoproduct.com/

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Цей том, що містить рідкісні знімки з особистої колекції П'єра Пассебона, присвячений Марлен Дітріх, культовій фатальній жінці Голлівуду, увічненій майстрами-фотографами, серед яких Едвард Стайхен, Ірвінг Пенн, Річард Аведон, Сесіл Бітон, Мілтон Грін, Джордж Харрелл, Ентоні Армстронг-Джонс та інші. Активно беручи участь у своїх фотосесіях, вона створила свій власний унікальний образ шарму та спокуси.

Життя Дітріх було присвячене гламуру понад сорок років: у сценічних виступах, на екрані та на концертах. Публіка любила її. Сучасна та трансгресивна жінка, вона не вагалася порушувати правила, одягаючись у чоловічий одяг (вона була музою Іва Сен-Лорана для його культових смокінгів) або з'являючись на публіці зі своїм чоловіком та коханцями (як чоловіками, так і жінками). Дітріх також відмовилася підкорятися голлівудським умовностям щодо материнства, виховуючи свою дочку в центрі уваги.

Її краса, стиль та елегантність зробили її архетипною фатальною жінкою, але саме непохитна впевненість Дітріх, її гендерна мінливість та тверда позиція проти нацизму зробили її революціонеркою та іконою. Цей том розкриває, що її чарівність полягає не лише в тому, як вона надихала найвидатніших фотографів та модельєрів свого часу, але й у тому, як вона продовжує втілювати суть гламуру та жіночої незалежності сьогодні.