From the human truths, brutalist architecture and packed tube trains of 1970s London to the vineyards, Renaissance chateaux and riotous festivals of Gascon France, Michael Fell (1939 - 2023) chronicled the world he saw. His exuberant paintings and prints explore the sadnesses, humour and joys of ordinary people in work combining technical freedom ......
As part of the series showcasing prominent figures of Hungarian art Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest is organizing a large-scale retrospective exhibition of one of the most important Hungarian painters of the twentieth century, Margit ANNA (1913 1991), a distinguished member of the art group Europai Iskola (European School).
Sculptor and printmaker Kim Lim (1936-1997) had a lifelong fascination with space and its relationship with two- and three-dimensions. This important new publication explores her outstanding body of work. In a series of fascinating chapters, leading art-world specialists survey the artist's rich career and legacy within the context of modern ......
This monograph follows the life and work of Ronald Rae, born 1946 in Ayr, an artist who is totally absorbed in creativity, and is acutely aware of suffering and cruelty, but above all of the transcendent power of the human spirit.
Jean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) was one of the most accomplished, idiosyncratic and witty artists of 18th-century Europe. Born in Geneva, he pursued a remarkable career, travelling across the continent and the Near East, portraying a riveting cross-section of society. Liotard worked in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Venice, Constantinople and Vienna ......
Of all the ceramic processes, Maiolica truly requires a painters touch. Combining a confident sensitivity of brushwork and a vision of what might be once the subtle blends of oxides fuse with the tin glaze in the firing, it is both a rewarding and unforgiving art form. A Journey Painted in Clay celebrates the ceramic work of Agalis Manessi ......
A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune
Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune is the first book in English dedicated to the entire artistic output of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706). It examines the artist's paintings and career trajectory against the background of his ceaseless pursuit of ......
In this first major study of the work of the painter John Wonnacott (b.1940), Charles Saumarez Smith has surveyed a body of work produced at a tangent to the orthodoxies of modernism. Exploring the artist's formative experiences at the Slade, which connected him with artists such as Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews and the School of London more ......
