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Two Lives in Colour F Dubery and J Brogden
The painted world of Fred Duberywas all about warmth and colour - a bright pattern of life reflecting a privateplace of beauty, pleasure and merriment. Known from numerous solo exhibitions,and from regular showings at the Royal Academy and New English Art Club, thepictures are a record of joyful travels in France and Italy and, best of all,of domestic contentment via a long and happy marriage amid a visual feast, anda procession of amazing meals, in a lovely Suffolk setting. Fred Dubery was teaching atWalthamstow Art School when he had a fateful meeting with fashion tutor JoanneBrogden. She had trained under Christian Dior and would become a pioneeringProfessor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art while Fred was appointedProfessor of Perspective at the Royal Academy Schools. Adding a large adoptedfamily of former students, their life together was the heart of everything. Fred and Joanne left a legacy forart and fashion education and the paintings richly illustrated in this volume -images technically so clever and so subtle - offer a lasting lesson in how tolive.
Art and Representation
In Art and Representation, John Willats presents a radically new theory of pictures. To do this, he has developed a precise vocabulary for describing the representational systems in pictures: the ways in which artists, engineers, photographers, mapmakers, and children represent objects. His approach is derived from recent research in visual perception and artificial intelligence, and Willats begins by clarifying the key distinction between the marks in a picture and the features of the scene that these marks represent. The methods he uses are thus closer to those of a modern structural linguist or psycholinguist than to those of an art historian. Using over 150 illustrations, Willats analyze...
Perspective and Other Optical Illusions
Beginning with the evolution of visual perspective, McNaughton reveals how and why illusions work. She offers optical illusions to suggest to readers that the world they perceive is in fact a complex product of their brains, constructed from the sensory data. Illustrations.
A Figure in the Landscape
Fred Cuming, whose work and painting methods have recently been the subject of a highly successful video in a series featuring distinguished Royal Academicians, has now put some of his thoughts and images into a book.
Wayne's World
"From A (Top Ten Albums) to Z (Zeek Zanzibar--Up Close and Personal), Wayne's World : Extreme Close-Up is full of excellent features and enriching essays just like real books, including a crossword puzzle, recipes, stupid questions (In England, do they call ZZ Top Zed Zed Top?), a flip book, a glossary, detailed instructions on how to Schwing, a photographic interpretation of monkeys actually flying out of Wayne's butt, and even a foreword. And every page is numbered...consecutively. There's also Wayne's conversation with Madonna (see page 53) and the complete lyrics to the Wayne's World theme song. Excellent!"--Cover.
Systems We Have Loved
By the early 1960s, theorists like Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its related forms to devise a new, conceptual approach to art making. Examining the ways in which artists shared the structuralist devotion to systems of many sorts, Systems We Have Loved shows that even as structuralism encouraged the advent of conceptual art, it also raised intractable problems that artists were forced to confront. Considering such notable art figures as Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, and Rosalind Krauss, Eve Meltzer ...
Aesthetic Life
This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With origins in the formative period of modern Japanese art and aesthetics, the figure of the bijin appeared across a broad range of visual and textual media: photographs, illustrations, prints, and literary works, as well as fictional, critical, and journalistic writing. It eventually constituted a genre of painting called bijinga (paintings of beauties). Aesthetic Life examines the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians t...
