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Lucian Freud
A review of Lucian Freud Portraits exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery London from February to May 2012.It considers some fifty portraits covering the span of the artist's working life, their qualities of personal perception and as works of art within the canons of Western classical tradition.
Being Tracey
Cv/VAR 147' publishes an essay by Marina Vaizey which explores the work of artist Tracey Emin, exhibited at the Turner Contemporary Gallery Margate, from May to September 2012. She considers her drawings, embroidery, prints and neons, manifesting the intricate correspondence of her art and life.
Through the Lens
This book contains a collection of essays, articles and reviews of photography by Marina Vaizey published in the past decade. `So the histories are various. What is clear however is that both historic and contemporary photography, however the ramifications of the digital age we now inhabit, is of inescapable importance in how we view and understand the world around us. And that this significance is now universally recognised.` MV.
On Or about December 1910
Peter Stansky paints a picture of the changing world in which the Bloomsbury set moved as the watershed to a new and more open society where for example E.M. Forster could write about love between men, and new artforms were in full bloom.
Great Women Collectors
Catherine the Great of Russia acquired art voraciously. Cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein collected African and Victorian glass. Couturier Coco Chanel amassed an enormous hoard of French eighteenth-century furniture. This fascinating book offers the first-ever look at these enterprising women -- along with Madame de Pompadour, Empress Josephine, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Gertrude Stein, Mary Cassatt and Peggy Guggenheim, among others -- and tells how they assembled significant and valuable collections of art, silver, jewelry, textiles, ceramics, photography, fossils and much more.
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Painted Lives
Study of David Hockney and Vanessa Bell
Smile
Smile is a delightful gift book sure to bring a smile to every readers face! With 48 beautiful colour images drawn from the wide range of collections in The British Museum, it illustrates how the smile has been used in art the world over to great effect for many centuries. Each spread shows a detail of the smile and the full image to place its context. The captions are enlivened by revealing and amusing quotations on the subject of smiles and happiness. Marina Vaizey's introduction examines the concept of the smile in art history and looks at some of art's most famous smiles, from the Mona Lisa to the grinning Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland. Elegantly designed and stunningly illustrated, Smile will make the perfect gift book for all ages.
Illustrating Alice
Publisher's catalog for book on illustrated editions of Carroll's works.
