This selection of masterworks by the three artists reveals the stylistic links that give evidence of their shared aesthetic lineage. Essays by Tate curator David Fraser Jenkins and art historian Avis Berman provide insight into their lives and works within the cultural milieu of fin-de-siecle London, including the experiences of the young and somewhat eccentric aesthete W. Graham Robertson. ...

"Eyes of Love argues against a widely held theory about 'the gaze' � 6 that women are merely passive erotic objects, while men are active erotic subjects. "Stephen Kern focuses our attention on eyes and the meaning they convey. This simple idea, here brilliantly developed, uncovers patterns of composition which unite the French Impressionists with late Victorian artists."--"The Independent ...

This beautiful, large-format volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of popular abstract artist Sylvia Edwards. Featuring more than a hundred color images, it also includes four lithographs printed on fine paper, one of which is signed by the artist in a limited edition of 500 prints. ...

George and Belmore Browne are together a strong and sometimes overlooked example of the integrity, passion, strength and grit of early landscape artists on this continent. Their backdrop -- the rugged, forbidding landscape of the Pacific Northwest -- and their passion for both hunting and documenting the nature around them, make them both an important piece of North American cultural history. And George's story in particular, including his ...

Now in Paperback, This lavishly illustrated book explores a century of Modern art through the exceptional holdings of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Engaging, accessible essays introduce a range of art-historical issues, from the depiction of women in Impressionist works to the Guggenheim's influential role in presenting new artistic currents, such as Minimalist, Conceptual and ...

The 32 satirical poems and 25 cartoons in this collection tackle the world of poets and poetry, both mocking and celebrating writers as diverse as William Blake, J. M. Coetzee, Michael Ondatje, and Breyten Breytenbach. While the playful veneer of the verse and Thurberesque cartoons draws on the South African tradition of light satire, the erudite references undergird metaphysical questions about the poetry publishing community. Previously ...

This novel is set in a south Wales that is undergoing economic regeneration, where old certainties are dissolved beneath the drive to move forward to a better future. As the new millennium arrives, Rob and Kath's relationship is in need of some resolutions to carry it forward. But Kath decides instead to free herself from a partnership that's going nowhere, with dramatic results. Rob, an artist and dreamer, finds his world falling apart while ...

Angels and archangels, cherubim and seraphim, and all the glorious hosts of heaven were a fruitful source of inspiration to the oldest painters and sculptors whose works are known to us, while the artists of our more practical, less dreamful age are, from time to time, inspired to reproduce their conceptions of the guardian angels of our race. Contents: archangels, Michael; archangel Gabriel; archangel Raphael; guardian angels, angel choristers ...

Contains 41 visual puns, illustrating classic and contemporary artists.
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This is a book of combat, in which little quarter will be given to certain tendencies in the art world and the pessimistic cynicism and childish hypocrisy by which they are pushed forward. Ruckstull makes his point with 175 illustrations from the art world. Contents: what is art? what is beauty; style and manner in art; abstraction vs. representation; conception in art; composition in art; expressions in art; drawing in art; color in art; ...