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Recording Britain
Recording Britain was an artistic documentary project compiled as Britain was facing the potentially devastating impact of the Second World War. This book brings together highlights from the collection by artists such as John Piper, Michael Rothenstein, Barbara Jones and Stanley Badmin.
The Nude
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The Nude
Offers a contemporary perspective of the image of the nude in art and illustrates how the attitudes of artists and the public have changed from classical Greece to the present
Recording Britain
In 1940, when the British landscape was under attack from the threat of German bombers, the Ministry of Labour, in association with the Pilgrim Trust commissioned many of Britain's artists to go out and paint a record of the changing face of the country before it was too late. The resulting pictures of market towns, agricultural landscapes, rural industries, architectural follies and wild places were given to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Originally issued as a four volume set edited by Arnold Palmer and published by Oxford University Press in assocation with the Pilgrim Trust, 1946-1949. This book presents a selection of the collection published to coincide with the exhibition held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 1 August to 18 November 1990.
Picturing Plants
Drawing on the rarely seen archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Picturing Plants begins with some pressing questions: who drew plants, and why? And what do these images say about our relationship with the natural world? To answer, art historian Gill Saunders shares the story behind 100 gorgeous works, from exquisitely detailed scientific illustrations to the boldly colored seed packets of today. Starting with a printed book from the fifteenth century, Saunders explores a remarkable selection of botanic art, including masterworks by Ehret and Redouté as well as superb illustrations by anonymous artists in China, India, and Japan. Along the way, she makes insightful connections between...
Wallpaper in Interior Decoration
This work charts the rich and varied history of wallpaper, from its modest beginnings in the 16th century, through the lavish designs of the 18th century to the computer generated patterns of the late 20th century.
Walls are Talking
Featuring works by more than 30 international artists, including Sonia Boyce, Thomas Demand, Robert Gober, Damien Hirst, Abigail Lane, Francesco Simeti, and Niki de Saint Phalle, this collection puts wallpaper in context by showing how historic wallpaper motifs, styles, and methods are used in contemporary art and how existing patterns have been adapted and subverted to telling effect. Inherently ephemeral and often overlooked, wallpaper has hardly been the most obvious medium for a contemporary avant-garde artist; however, during the past two decades, artists exploring themes of home, memory, and identity have created installations with backdrops of specially designed wallpaper which has played a crucial part in the mise en scene. Some of the wallpapers are pictorial polemics that illustrate warfare or racism, and others show obvious conflicts in contemporary Western culture, in particular those associated with gender and sexuality.
Edward Bawden?s England
A lovely and accessible gift book on the art of Edward Bawden, containing examples of works from his long and celebrated career. The work of Edward Bawden (1903–1989), a painter, printmaker, illustrator, and designer, brims with lively, affectionate, and entertaining accounts of English life. Bawden’s subjects include classic London scenes, such as St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London, Liverpool Street station, the Queen’s Guards at Buckingham Palace, as well as charming rural scenes with churches, country houses, cottages, gardens, markets, parks, piers, pubs, and steam trains. He created murals, designed tiles and wallpapers, and was regularly commissioned to deploy his vivacious humor in advertisements, posters, book jackets, and brochures. It was England, with its quiet landscapes, its pleasures and pastimes, and its time-honored trades and traditions, that was the source of some of Bawden’s finest work. This beautifully designed book begins with a brief introduction before exploring examples of Bawden’s work, with each illustration accompanied by an extended caption revealing the artistic vision of this quintessentially English artist.
The Nude
The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. But it wasn’t until 1989, when Gill Saunders’sThe Nudewas first published, that the nude’s evolution in modern art was considered in all its facets. Written in response to Kenneth Clark’s 1956 study of the same name,The Nudeoffered a new, crucial feminist perspective on nudity in art—and has been cited in nearly every art history book since its publication. This second edition brings Saunders’s analysis up to the present day. She examines artists’ depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism, as well as the effects of technological developments in painting and photography. Replete with many lush, full-color illustrations, this second edition will become a staple for students and readers of art history, as well as professional artists.
