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Warhol After Warhol
‘A pacy legal thriller, packed with a colourful cast of characters’ – Telegraph Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process. One winter afternoon in 2003, art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from Joe Simon, an American film producer and art collector, ringing at the suggestion of his neighbour, David Hockney. The Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board had declared the two Warhols in Simon’s collection to be fake, and he thought Dorment could help. So began a ten-year saga to prove the authenticity of a series of paintings by one of the most famous American artists of all time. Film star...
Warhol After Warhol
Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process. Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003, art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe Simon, an American film producer and art collector. He was ringing at the suggestion of David Hockney, his neighbour in Malibu. A committee of experts called the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board had declared the two Warhols in his collection to be fake. He wanted to know why and thought Dorment could help. This call would mark the beginning of an extraordinary story that would play out over the next ten years and would involve a cas...
Exhibitionist
100 sumptuously produced essays by Britain’s leading art critic, US born, Richard Dorment. They cover exhibitions of historic and contemporary art world-wide, interpreting and critiquing many of the most important shows of the last 30 years. They offer, in a highly accessible form, the fundamental elements of a history of art, and a beguiling review of recent cultural trends.
Picasso
A biography of the twentieth-century painter discussing his many relationships with women, his children, his philosophies and his work.
Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters
An opulent record of one man's passion for Victorian art, published to accompany an exhibition at the London Royal Academy of Arts, September 20th - December 12th, 2003.
Oscar Wilde in Context
Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.
Drawing the Games
One year on, new exhibition and book bring back memories of Olympic and Paralympic summerWith exciting sporting and cultural events planned to mark the first anniversary of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, members of the public are being offered the opportunity to own a unique memento of last year's incredible summer. Renowned artist and illustrator Nicholas Garland OBE has captured the colour and spirit of the Games in a series of evocative pictures being exhibited at City Hall and due to be published in a new book.
Passage
Creations on the beaches and in rivers explore the passage of time, while a white chalk path investigates the passing from day into night. "Passage" focuses exclusively on such sculpture made by artist Goldsworthy since the turn of the millennium. These evocative images are illuminated by diary entries that chart his experiences working in Scotland and abroad. 0-8109-5586-5$60.00 / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
The Art of Exclusion
"Boime presents a major critique and revisionist interpretation of the portrayal of black people in the nineteenth century ... examines the fundamental historical, social, and cultural assumptions of those times. Reading the images as texts, Boime ... demonstrates how the art reveals ... deep-seated attitudes of that time toward blacks ... Though the art revealed the controlling social hierarchy ... it also presented the perspective of blacks themselves, 'insiders' experiencing the oppressiveness of the images that stereotyped and confined them ... Boime shows that art, by shaping and reinforcing social standards, contributed directly to the debasement and subjugation of African peoples and their descendants of the diaspora"--Dustjacket.
Manet and the American Civil War
"On June 19, 1864, the United States warship Kearsarge sank the Confederate raider Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg, France, in one of the most celebrated naval engagements of the American Civil War. When Kearsarge later anchored off the French resort town of Boulogne-sur-Mer it was thronged by curious visitors, one of whom was the artist Edouard Manet. Although he did not witness the historic battle, Manet made a painting of it partly as an attempt to regain the respect of his colleagues after having been ridiculed for his works in the 1864 Salon. Manet's picture of the naval engagement and his portrait of the victorious Kearsarge belong to a group of his seascapes of Boulogne whose unort...
