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The Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Complete Works

The Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Complete Works (Hardback)

Andy Goldsworthy: Touching Nature: Special Edition

Andy Goldsworthy: Touching Nature: Special Edition

Andy Goldsworthy: Pocket Guide

The Art of Richard Long: Complete Works

Richard Long: The Art of Walking

Land Art: A Complete Guide

Land Art In the U.K.

Installation Art in Close-Up

Land Art in Close-Up

Richard Long in Close-Up

Andy Goldsworthy in Close-Up: Special Edition

Andy Goldsworthy in Close-Up

Mark Rothko  in Close-Up

The Erotic Object  in Close-Up

Maurice Sendak in Close-Up

Frank Stella in Close-Up

The Erotic Object: Sexuality in Sculpture

Delizioso Fotografico Fervore

Sacro Cuore

Senza Parole

Viaggi

Maurice Sendak and the Art of Children's Book Illustration

The Art of Kurt Jackson

Sex in Art: Pornography and Pleasure in Painting and Sculpture

Colourfield Painting

Minimal Art and Artists in the 1960s and After

Postwar Art

Wild Zones: Pornography, Art and Feminism

Sacred Gardens: The Garden in Myth, Religion & Art

Princess Diana in Culture, Media, Society, Feminism and the Arts

Early Netherlandish Painting

Glorification: Religious Abstraction in Renaissance and 20th Century Painting

The Art of Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko: The Art of Transcendence

Constantin Brancusi: Sculpting the Essence of Things

Alison Wilding: The Embrace of Sculpture

Eric Gill: Nuptials of God

The Art of Frank Stella

Frank Stella: From Minimalism to Maxmimalism

Brice Marden

Jasper Johns

Vincent van Gogh: Visionary Landscapes

Egon Schiele Sex and Death in Purple Stockings

Max Beckmann

The Light Eternal: A Study of J.M.W. Turner

Giovanni Bellini

Leonardo da Vinci

Piero della Francesca

Fra Angelico

The Madonna Glorified: Karen Arthurs

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A new TV documentary on Andy Goldsworthy is available from Crescent Moon and Ocean Magic Entertainment. More info

by William Malpas

A new, special edition of the study of the contemporary British sculptor, Andy Goldsworthy, including a new introduction, new bibliography and many new illustrations.

This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, well-researched and in-depth account of Goldsworthy's art available anywhere.

A new and up-to-date appraisal of the contemporary British sculptor, Andy Goldsworthy, who makes 'land' or 'earth' art. His sculpture is a sensitive, intuitive response to nature, light, time, growth, the seasons and the earth. Goldsworthy's environmental art is becoming ever more popular: 1993's art book Stone was a bestseller; the press raved about Goldsworthy taking over a number of London West End art galleries in 1994; during 1995 Goldsworthy designed a set of Royal Mail stamps and had a show at the British Museum. Malpas surveys all of Goldsworthy's art, and analyzes his relation with other earth/ land artists such as Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Richard Long and David Nash, and his place in the contemporary British art scene.
Andy Goldsworthy is a particularly gentle and sensitive artist: he stitches together leaves to forms lines, often placed in water, or makes circular slabs of snow, or entwines twigs in an arc. He creates a delicate spiral of chestnut leaves, called Autumn Horn; he pins bright yellow dandelions on willowherb stalks in a circle, on bluebells; he makes lines and cairns, like Richard Long, of pebbles; he makes hollow, circular structures, like igloos, from slate, leaves, driftwood and bracken; he makes long wavy ridges in Arizonan desert sand; he makes arches, globes, hollow spheres, slabs, spires, spirals and star-shapes out of snow and ice. Very impressive it all is. The sculptures made of sticks, for instance, stuck together in an arch, or a line, reflected in the mirror-like water of Derwent Water in Cumbria, are indeed wonderful. The sculptures exude tranquillity, an early morning calm. Or the globe made from oak leaves in various states of autumnal decay, superb stuff. Or the globe made out of snow, and perched amidst some young trees, or the slabs of snow, set up in a line with slits cut in them.

Malpas surveys all of Goldsworthy's art, and analyzes his relation with other land artists such as Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Richard Long and David Nash, and his place in the contemporary British art scene.

The Art of Andy Goldsworthy discusses all of Goldsworthy's important and recent exhibitions and books, including the Sheepfolds project; the Channel Four documentaries; Passage (2004); the Holocaust memorial in New York (2003); and Goldsworthy's collaboration on a dance performance.
 
 

Sculptors Series.    70 b/w, 1 colour illustrations.   375 pages.

New, special, 2nd edition.    ISBN 1-86171-059-3     £25.00 / $50.00
 

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by William Malpas

A new, special edition of the study of the contemporary British sculptor, Andy Goldsworthy, including a new introduction, new bibliography and many new illustrations.

The hardback edition updates the paperback, and includes the latest information on Goldsworthy. It has been rewritten throughout.

This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, well-researched and in-depth account of Goldsworthy's art available anywhere.

Andy Goldsworthy makes land art. His sculpture is a sensitive, intuitive response to nature, light, time, growth, the seasons and the earth. Goldsworthy's environmental art is becoming ever more popular: 1993's art book Stone was a bestseller; the press raved about Goldsworthy taking over a number of London West End art galleries in 1994; during 1995 Goldsworthy designed a set of Royal Mail stamps and had a show at the British Museum.

The Art of Andy Goldsworthy discusses all of Goldsworthy's important and recent exhibitions and books, including the Sheepfolds project; the Channel Four documentaries; Time and Passage; the New York Holocaust memorial (2003); and Goldsworthy's collaboration on a dance performance.
 
 

Sculptors Series.   70 b/w, 1 colour illustrations.   415 pages.

New, special, 3rd edition.   Hardback.   ISBN 1-86171-080-1.  £50.00 / $100.00

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by William Malpas

A new and revised edition of our best-selling book on Andy Goldsworthy. A completely rewritten exploration of the sculptor, updated to include recent works such as Night Path (2002) and Chalk Stones (2003) in Sussex, Three Cairns (2002) on the East and West coasts, Stone Houses (2004) and Garden of Stones (2003) in Gotham, Passage (2005) in London, and Slate Domes (2005) in Washington, DC.
 
 

Sculptors Series   65 b/w, 2 colour illustrations. Bibliography, notes.   350pp.

New, revised edition   ISBN 1-86171-056-9   £25.00 / $50.00
 

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by William Malpas

A hardback edition of our best-selling book.
 

Sculptors Series   65 b/w, 2 colour illustrations. Bibliography, notes.   295pp.

New, revised edition   ISBN 1-86171-087-9   £50.00 / $100.00
 

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by William Malpas

A new, pocket-size book on Andy Goldsworthy providing an excellent introduction to his art.

Andy Goldsworthy makes land art. His sculpture is a sensitive, intuitive response to nature, light, time, growth, the seasons and the earth.
 
 

Sculptors Series.   40 b/w, 1 colour illustrations.   278 pages.   (Pocket size: 160 x 115mm).

First edition.   Paperback.   ISBN 9781861711847    £15.00 / $30.00

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by William Malpas

A new study of the British artist Richard Long, an important contemporary international artist.
Richard Long walks. This is the central fact of his art. His work is founded on the art of walking, and on walking as art. His walks become 'artwalks', artwalks which become artworks. For Richard Long, (art)walking is (art)working. As he walks he works. He makes art-walk-works. Art-walking and artworking become interchangeable. Born in 1945, the same year as David Nash, Richard Long studied at the West of England College of Art (Bristol) and St Martin's (1966-68). In 1967 Long made his first important walk-work, A Line Made By Walking. Like most land artists, Long makes indoor (gallery) works and outdoor works (not intended for public consumption). He also produces art books, which are not typical exhibition catalogues, but artworks in their own right, usually with text works, photo works, and sometimes map works. Long's has had one-man shows at most of the major Western galleries, including the Whitechapel (1971), MOMA, New York (1972), Venice Biennale (1976), Arnolfini (1983), Fogg Art Museum (1980), Stedelijk, Amsterdam (1973), Guggenheim, New York (1986), Hayward Gallery, London (1991), and many one-man shows at Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London, which have produced art books (Mountains and Waters, 1992, Sixteen Works, 1984, Five, Six, Pick Up Sticks, 1980, Old World New World, 1988, Kicking Stones, 1990, River Avon Book, 1979).
Richard Long is perhaps Britain's most successful 'nature' or 'land' artist and sculptor, with an international reputation. In 1987 he won the Turner Prize. Critics either love him or (like Peter Fuller) hate him. There is a sea of articles and magazines pieces on Richard Long, but this is one of the few full-length studies of his art.

William Malpas has taught art at Goldsmiths' College and the University of Toronto. His books with Crescent Moon include Andy Goldsworthy (1995), Richard Long (1995) and Land Art (1997). He lives in Gloucester.
 
 
 

Sculptors Series.   48 b/w, 2 colour illustrations.   439 pages.  First edition.
 

Hardback.    ISBN 1-86171-079-8   £60.00 / $120.00
 

Paperback.    ISBN 1-86171-081-X   £25.00 / $50.00
 

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Sculptors Series  Illustrations, bibliography, notes New, revised edition  165pp  ISBN 1-86171-048-8  £15.99 / $25.00
 
 

A new TV documentary on land art is available on DVD and video from Crescent Moon and Ocean Magic Entertainment. More info

by William Malpas

A new book on land art.

Chapters on land artists such as Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Christo, Michael Heizer, Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy. All of the major practitioners of land and environmental art are discussed, as well as the key concepts and themes.
 
 

Sculptors Series.    84 b/w, 25 colour illustrations.   314 pages.   First edition.
 

PAPERBACK   ISBN 1-86171-062-3   £25.00 / $50.00
 

HARDBACK   ISBN 1-86171-111-5   £50.00 / $100.00
 

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by William Malpas

A new book on land art in Great Britain

Chapters on land artists such as Chris Drury, Hamish Fulton, David Nash, Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy. All of the major practitioners of land and environmental art in the U.K. are discussed.
 
 

Sculptors Series.    95 b/w, 21 colour illustrations.   386 pages.    First edition.
 

PAPERBACK   ISBN 1-86171-090-9   £25.00 / $50.00

HARDBACK   ISBN 1-86171-095-X   £50.00 / $100.00
 

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 ART IN CLOSE-UP SERIES

A huge array of contemporary artists are studied and illustrated in this new book on installation and environmental art, including: Andy Goldsworthy, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, David Nash, Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, Hans Haacke, Wolfgang Laib, Joseph Beuys, Ad Reinhardt, Louise Nevelson, Tony Cragg, Cornelia Parker, Rebecca Horn, Constantin Brancusi, James Turrell, Donald Judd, Christo, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner, Robert Irwin, Jannis Kounellis, Donna Dennis, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alan Sonfist, Alice Aycock, Mary Miss, Nancy Holt, Walter de Maria, Dennis Oppenheim, Jackie Winsor, Richard Serra, Carl Andre, Frank Stella, Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and Barbara Kruger.
A book of rows of steel cubes, lightning fields, galleries of soil and horses, leaf sculptures, entropy, earthworks, floor-to-ceiling slogans, snow circles, floor spreads, mapworks, walks, reshaped volcanoes, birds in space, fluorescent lamps, TV monitors, mirrors, interior lakes, wrapped buildings, spiral jetties, underground labyrinths, stellar observatories, steam pieces, gardens, embankments, holes, concrete poetry, slate stacks, artificial rivers, and stoves.
 
 

Art in Close-Up Series   Bibliography, notes, illustrations     320pp      Large format
 

PBK  ISBN 1-86171-053-4    £25.00 / $50.00

HDBK  ISBN 1-86171-1077    £50.00 / $100.00
 
 

For the land artist, the whole planet is an artist's studio. The land artist ranges over the whole globe. A desert, a beach, a field, a forest becomes a studio, a place of creative activity. This means the very texture and colour and shape and dampness and springiness and strength and size of moss, for instance. Or a stone. Or a crevice in a rock formation. The way the light falls on a patch of grass, the little bits of dead, yellowish grass on top of the newer, green grass. Pine cones, closed-up. Flowers turning sunward in the late afternoon. These are the things land artists deal with in making art. These are the actualities that artists employ when they create artworks.
This new book contains all of the major land, environmental and earthwork artists of the past 40 years, including James Turrell and his vast volcano site, Hans Haacke's Conceptual art, Michael Heizer's Mid-West earthworks, Robert Smithson and his giant spiral, entropic earthworks, Christo's wrapped buildings and islands, Robert Morris's environments, Walter de Maria's Romantic Lightning Field, David Nash's stoves, stones, trees and North Wales environments, Hamish Fulton's walks and words, Dennis Oppenheim's concentric snow circles, Richard Long and his art of walking, Andy Goldsworthy's natural, spontaneous, eco-friendly sculptures, Alice Aycock's mysterious underground mazes, Mary Miss's sunken pools and pavilions, Wolfgang Laib's delicate, luminous pollen spreads, Nancy Holt and her observation sculptures and the enigmatic floor sculptures of Carl Andre. Here are towers, stars, stones, pools, tunnels, pipes,maps, chasms, ladders, mounds, scars, mirrors, cones, furrows, mazes, circles, hills and gardens.
 
 

Art in Close-Up Series   Bibliography, notes, illustrations (colour & 161 b/w)     268pp    Large format

New, special, 2nd edition.
 

Paperback   ISBN 1-86171-092-5    £25.00 / $50.00
 

Hardback   ISBN 1-86171-093-3    £50.00 / $100.00
 
 

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Richard Long walks. This is the central fact of his art. His work is founded on the art of walking, and on walking as art. His walks become 'artwalks', artwalks which become artworks. For Richard Long, (art)walking is (art)working. As he walks he works. He makes art-walk-works. Art-walking and artworking become interchangeable. Born in 1945, the same year as David Nash, Richard Long studied at the West of England College of Art (Bristol) and St Martin's (1966-68). In 1967 Long made his first important walk-work, A Line Made By Walking. Like most land artists, Long makes indoor (gallery) works and outdoor works (not intended for public consumption). He also produces art books, which are not typical exhibition catalogues, but artworks in their own right, usually with text works, photo works, and sometimes map works. Long's has had one-man shows at most of the major Western galleries, including the Whitechapel (1971), MOMA, New York (1972), Venice Biennale (1976), Arnolfini (1983), Fogg Art Museum (1980), Stedelijk, Amsterdam (1973), Guggenheim, New York (1986), Hayward Gallery, London (1991), and many one-man shows at Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London, which have produced art books (Mountains and Waters, 1992, Sixteen Works, 1984, Five, Six, Pick Up Sticks, 1980, Old World New World, 1988, Kicking Stones, 1990, and River Avon Book, 1979).
Richard Long is perhaps Britain's most successful 'nature' or 'land' artist and sculptor, with an international reputation. In 1987 he won the Turner Prize. Critics either love him or (like Peter Fuller) hate him. There is a sea of articles and magazines pieces on Richard Long, but this is one of the few full-length studies of his art.
 
 

Sculptors Series   Bibliography, notes, illustrations     145pp   ISBN 1-86171-051-8   £19.99 / $32.50    Large format
 

In the 1990s, Goldsworthy's art began to rise in popularity: the glossy coffee table book Stone became a bestseller. In 1994 Goldsworthy took over some West End galleries with a large one-man show. In 1995 he took part in an intriguing group show at the British Museum, creating sculptures, along with Richard Deacon, Peter Randall-Page and others, in amongst the monumental statuary of the famous Egyptian Hall. Also in 1995, Goldsworthy designed a set of Royal Mail stamps. Goldsworthy continues to work in countries such as Japan, Australia, Canada and North America, France, but his home ground of Dumfriesshire in Scotland remains (at) the heart of his work.
 
 

Art in Close-Up Series   Bibliography, notes, illustrations (colour & b/w)     246pp    Large format

New, special, 3rd edition.   Hardback   ISBN 1-86171-094-1    £50.00 / $100.00
 

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A paperback edition, updated from the hardback.
 
 

Art in Close-Up Series   Bibliography, notes, illustrations (colour & b/w)     246pp    Large format

New, special, 2nd edition.   Hardback   ISBN 1-86171-091-7    £25.00 / $50.00
 

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by Julia Davis

This new book surveys all of the work of the celebrated American painter Mark Rothko up close.
Taking in every period of Rothkoís artistic career, from the early post-Surrealist figurative works, the ëmultiformí, cloud-like paintings of the Forties and Fifties, to the mature works: the big commissions and murals series and the ëRothko Chapelsí in Houston, Harvard and the Tate Gallery, London. Finally, to the late grey, brown and black works of the Sixties.
Juila Davis sites Rothko within modern art - Surrealism, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, colourfield, post-painterly abstraction and Minimalism - and beside his contemporary artists: Newman, de Kooning, Gottlieb, Pollock, Still, Avery, Motherwell, Johns and Stella.
 
 

Art in Close-up Series   Bibliography, notes, illustrations   119pp  ISBN 1-86171-074-7  £25.00 / $50.00    forthcoming
 

by Susan Quinnell

Sculptureís sensual impact is explored in this new critical study, which ranges over the history of sculpture from prehistoric times to contemporary art. Space, place, form, colour, light, texture, scale, and the materials of sculpture.
Featuring analyzes of many key artists in the world of sculpture: Michelangelo, Bernini, Arp, Gaudier-Brzeska, Canova, Rodin, Brancusi, Picasso, Duchamp, Cornell, Rauschenberg, Calder, Giacometti, Degas, Newman, Hesse, Judd, Morris, Smithson, Stella, Hepworth, Smith, Elwes, Finley, Schneemann, Aycock, Miss, Horn, Graves, Kollwitz and Chicago.
 
 

Art in Close-up Series   Bibliography, notes, illustrations   132pp  ISBN 1-86171-077-1  £25.00 / $50.00    forthcoming
 

by L.M. Poole

Just about the best childrenís book author and illustrator of recent times, if not the most significant, Maurice Sendak ranks alongside Dr Seuss (Theodore Geisel) as one of Americaís biggest talents in the world of childrenís picture books. Now heís having the Hollywood blockbuster treatment, with the release of Where the Wild Are, itís a good time to reappraise the art of this astonishingly inventive book artist.
And itís not only Maurice Sendak that Hollywood is turning to in its hunt for more childrenís fantasy literature: two huge recent movies, The Grinch and The Cat in the Hat, are based on Dr Seuss ? and thereís Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, of course (with C.S. Lewisís Narnia series on the way).
 
 

Art in Close-up Series   Bibliography, notes, illustrations   132pp  ISBN 1-86171-076-3  £25.00 / $50.00    forthcoming
 

by James Pearson

An in-depth exploration of the American abstract painter. Born in 1936, Stella went on to become among Americaís premier contemporary artists. Unlike many 20th century artists, Stella has always worked in abstraction. His art is irrepressible, daring, hugely enjoyable, and refreshingly angst-free.
This book begins with the celebrated Black Paintings of 1959, moves on through the Minimalist Copper and Aluminium paintings of the early Sixties, to the exuberant Protractor series, the expansion into three dimensions in the 1970s, and closing with the 3-dimensional Polish Village, Exotic Birds and Brazilian ëmaximalistí works of the 1980s and 1990s.
Employing the most up-to-date art criticism of Frank Stella, Pearson also looks at Stellaís contemporaries: Johns, Rauschenberg, Noland, Olitski, Louis, Ryman, Marden, Rothko and Newman among others.
 
 

Art in Close-up Series   Bibliography, notes, illustrations   122pp  ISBN 1-86171-075-5  £19.99 / $32.00   forthcoming
 

The power of sculpture, form, volume and space is sensitively explored in this wide-ranging study. Featuring discussions of many famous sculptors: Michelangelo, Canova, Rodin, Brancusi, Picasso, Hepworth and Bernini. Many contemporary artists are discussed, including installation and performance artists (Catherine Elwes, Karen Finley, Carolee Schneemann), and women sculptors such as Alice Aycock, Mary Miss, Rebecca Horn, Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Kathe Kollwitz and Judy Chicago.
 
 

A new special edition, with many new ilustrations, including colour, a new introduction and bibliography.

260 pages

PBK  ISBN 1-86171-172-7  £20.00 / $50.00

HDBK  ISBN 1-86171-174-3  £50.00 / $100.00
 

THE WORKS IN PROCESS SERIES

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by Nicolo Antonio Maestri

A new book of contemporary photography, poetry and writing from Antonio Maestri.

Antonio (Tony) Maestri was lecturer in photography at Bournemouth and Trent.
 

'This first volume of photographs and poems takes us on an amazing visual journey - intimate and highly personal vision of this unique and highly creative and teacher.
'This first work is teeming with imagery and texture, both visual and poetic. One cannot doubt the technical mastery exhibited here - mastery of colour, texture and composition - whereby 'real' and recognizable elements are transformed into nearly abstract statements. But the real power comes from the fact that those transformations are accomplished without the loss of the real, and in the end, the formal images are transformed into the intimate and emotional expressions of a passionate man.
'Organized in alternating sections of photographs and writings, a second section entitled Poesia gives us another glimpse of the breadth of creativity found here, with poems that are - like the photos - sharp and concise and yet somehow lyrical and passionate.
'This wonderful volume ends with a section of quotations by others, and that, by an Epilogue written by Antonio that is nothing less than a touching prose poem, a self-reflection on capacity, purpose and intent that directs the reader/ viewer to remain simple - to look at the images and to allow them to speak without the interference of analysis.'

James Caola, MyFamily.com
 
 

75 colour illustrations.   204 pages.

First edition.   Paperback.   ISBN 1-86171-085-2.   £25.00 / $37.50
1-86171-086-0 (signed edition)   £30.00 / $53.00
 

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Sacro Cuore

Works In Process 2

by Nicolo Antonio Maestri

A second book of contemporary photography, poetry and writing, with religious themes.

Antonio (Tony) Maestri was lecturer in photography at Bournemouth and Trent.
 
 

I think it's fantastic that Antonio picked up the camera again. I love the burned-out sun and power-line picture.

Wolfgang Tilmans
 
 

75 colour illustrations.   204 pages.

First edition.   Paperback.   ISBN 1-86171-106-9.   £25.00 / $37.50
 

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by Nicolo Antonio Maestri

A third book of contemporary photography, poetry and writing.
Includes photographers such as Wolfgang Tilmans, Steve Champion, Pete Massingham, and Sonya Cromie.
 
 

I think it's fantastic that Antonio picked up the camera again. I love the burned-out sun and power-line picture.

Wolfgang Tilmans
 
 

80 colour illustrations.   164 pages.    First edition.

Paperback.   ISBN 1-86171-181-6   £25.00 / $50.00

Hardback    ISBN 1-86171-182-4     £50.00 / $100.00
 

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by Nicolo Antonio Maestri

A fourth book of contemporary photography, poetry and writing.
 
 

80 colour illustrations.   124 pages.    First edition.
 

Paperback.   ISBN 1-86171-202-2   £25.00 / $50.00
 
 

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Maurice Sendak is the widely acclaimed American children's book author and illustrator. This critical study focusses on his famous trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, as well as the early works and Sendak's superb depictions of Grimm's fairy tales in The Juniper Tree. Poole begins with a chapter on children's book illustration, in particular the treatment of fairy tales. Sendak's work is situated within the history of children's book illustration, and he is compared with many contemporary authors.

This new, special edition includes a new introduction, a new bibliography and many more illustrations.
 
 

Bibliography, notes, illustrations    260pp
 

PAPERBACK

ISBN 1-86171-061-5    £15.00 / $30.00
 

HARDBACK

ISBN 1-86171-191-3    £50.00 / $100.00
 
 

by Jeremy Mark Robinson

This is the first major critical study of the art of Cornish painter Kurt Jackson. Jackson's landscapes have been exhibited widely, and are becoming more popular. Every aspect of Jackson's art is analyzed, including his paintings of West Cornwall, the Scillies, France, Greece, the Mediterranean, and the themed projects: South Crofty mine, the Tinner's Way, the quarries, travellers, the Long Field, the Glastonbury Festival and others. Jeremy Robinson also considers Jackson's place in the Cornish art scene, and in contemporary art  in the UK and elsewhere. Includes a biography, exhibition list, and bibliography.
 
 

Bibliography, notes, illustrations   165pp   ISBN 1-86171-078-X    £19.99 / $32.50 forthcoming (end of 2007)
 

A comprehensive and detailed survey of erotic art from ancient times to the modern era. All the major erotic artists of the Western tradition are analyzed (Schiele, Bellmer, Rowlandson, Picasso, Titian, Ingres, Rops, Leonardo). Other chapters include erotica in ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, Oriental erotic art (Taoist and Tantric art from China and India), gender and eroticism in Renaissance art, and the sensuality of sculpture. A discussion of the complex relationship between art and pornography provides the central critical axis for this challenging book.

Cassidy Hughes is a writer and photographer. His previous books include Images of India (1982), Petrarch, Dante and the Troubadours (1992) and Sex in Art (1993). His photographs have been exhibited in London, Rome, Hong Kong and New York (among others). He lives near St Just in West Penwith, Cornwall.
 

This new, special edition contains many new illustrations (some of which are rare), a new introduction and bibliography.
 

Bibliography, index, illustrations  New, special edition  480pp  ISBN 1-86171-193X    £30.00 / $60.00
 
 

A new study of Sixties post-painterly abstraction, also known as colourfield, ABC, Process, systematic, minimal or 'hard edge' painting. Featuring Louis, Stella, Newman, Rothko, Noland, Frankenthaler, Kelly, Marden, Ryman, Richter, Martin, Mangold, Reinhardt, Klein, Diebenkorn and many others.
 
 

Painters Series  Notes, illustrations (including colour) & bibliography. 200pp    Large format

Paperback     ISBN 1-86171-026-7  £25.00 / $50.00

Hardback     ISBN 1-86171-129-8  £50.00 / $100.00

All the main practitioners and theoreticians of the still-influential 1960s Minimal art are studied here: Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Carl Andre, Frank Stella, Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson, Brice Marden, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and many land artists

Chapters on Minimal aesthetics; Minimal painting and painters; Minimal sculptors and sculpture; and  Minimal art and land artists.
 
 

Painters Series     colour and b/w illustrations.   262 pages.  Large format

PBK     ISBN 1-86171-025-9   £25.00 / $50.00

HDBK     ISBN 1-86171-112-3   £50.00 / $100.00
 
 

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A comprehensive survey of painting, sculpture, performance art and installations, taking in Abstract Expressionism, land art, Superrealism, Conceptual art, ABC or Process Art, Pop Art, the New Figuration, and artists such as Warhol, Oldenburg, Koons, Johns, Oulton, Hesse, Kahlo, Smith, Hockney, Mapplethorpe, Kitaj, Morris, Kiefer, Schnabel, Judd, Serra and Horn.
 
 

Bibliography, illustrations, notes  124pp  ISBN 1-898283-07-9  £11.99 / $18.50
 

A perceptive and ironic exploration of the controversial debate surrounding pornography and feminism, and how it relates to art and literature. Ives discusses the key points of the many-sided discourses of censorship, the politics of representation, violence, sexuality, æsthetics and law. She discusses pornography in film, TV, painting, theatre and literature as well as in magazines. Other topics include the new 'women's pornography'; lesbian porn; and S/M, gay and queer practices. An important contribution to feminist criticism.

Kelly Ives teaches women's studies and feminist theory at the University of California. Her books include Reading the Silences (1988), on writers such as Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Virginia Woolf, Lesbian Tracks (1991), on lesbianism in pop music, and Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: The Jouissance of French Feminism (Crescent Moon 1996).
 
 

Bibliography, notes, illustrations 142pp  ISBN 1-871846-42-0  £14.99 / $23.50
 
 

The garden, even the smallest and most modest of front lawns, is a miniature version of Paradise. This book relates gardens to sacred places, such as churches, temples, stone circles, mosques and mythic gardens. The nostalgic myth of a 'Golden Age', Arcadia or Paradise lies at the heart of this study of the history of gardens.
'Land art' is a term that includes a wide variety of artistic forms, like the term 'garden'. Gardens are not a single form with a single set of characteristics. Gardens can be so various that some critics have suggested that the word 'garden' is as broad and vague as words such as 'art'. Gardens can be very small or very large; they can be flat or terraced; they can be organized around a 'natural' plan or a strict geometric plan; they can be 'wild' or 'tamed'; they can be enclosed or open; they can contain lakes, ponds, streams, fountains, statues, trees, lawns, shrubs, rocks, walls, fences, benches, flowers, stones, follies, ruins, grottoes, temples, paths and many kinds of environmental art. A Japanese garden, with its stones and sand raked into patterns, is quite different from an English kitchen garden. Gardens can be vast displays of state and regal power, such as the garden as Versailles, or modest attempts at cultivating food in a backyard. Gardens have been made for many reasons: in the pursuit of decoration, finance, medicine, religion, contemplation, play, sport, and food. Isamu Noguchi thinks of gardens as 'sculpturing of space: a beginning, and a groping to another level of sculptural experience and use: a total sculpture space experience beyond individual sculptures. A man may enter such a space: it is in scale with him; it is real'.
 
 
 

With notes and photographs  35pp  ISBN 1-871846-86-2  £7.99 / $12.50
 
 

This book offers an unflinching critical analysis of 'the most famous woman in the world'. Though featuring prominently in the popular press, TV, radio, magazines and so on, 'the Diana phenomenon' has been largely neglected by serious academic criticism. Topics studied include: the Princess of Wales as a Goddess-type and icon; Diana and the tabloids; Diana in women's magazines; Diana in the media; Diana, the monarchy, politics and the constitution; Diana and charity; gender, sexuality, romance and fantasy in the world of the Princess; Diana, image-making and her public persona; the Princess in the arts (in fiction, painting, pop music, etc); the media's portrayal of her personal life; the Princess in TV news and documentaries; Diana as media star and the cult of celebrity; the 'national mourning' of Diana; and how feminism has treated the Princess.
 
 

Bibliography, notes, illustrations  180pp   ISBN 1-86171-044-5 £14.99 / $23.50  forthcoming
 

This illustrated survey of Early Flemish or Netherlandish painters discusses the major works of Rogier van der Weyden, van Eyck, Christus, Massys, Memling, van der Goes, Bouts, Campin, David, van Cleeve and many anonymous artists. Mutter contrasts the wealth of Northern European art with the Italian Renaissance painters, and finds the Flemish artists every bit as rich and profound as Botticelli, Mantegna, Piero, Masaccio or Bellini.
 
 

Painters Series  Bibliography, notes, illustrations  126pp  ISBN 1-871846-83-8  £14.99 / $23.50
 

A study of the iconography, symbolism, abstraction and mythopoeia in Renaissance and modern art. Nine painters are explored in detail: Renaissance masters Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Hans Memling, Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto, and 20th century American abstract artists Brice Marden and Ad Reinhardt, whose Black Paintings mark the end of one path of religious art. Chapters include discussions of abstraction and figuration in sacred art; the hermeneutics of space, light, colour and abstraction; the iconology of the Virgin Mary, Christ and angels; the symbolism of geometry, numerology and colour.

Jeremy Robinson's books include Rimbaud (1992), Lawrence Durrell (1995) and Detonation Britain: Nuclear War in the UK (1997). He edits two magazines, Passion and Pagan America (a journal of American poetry).
 
 

Painters Series  With full index, bibliography and lists of over 650 artworks cited. Illustrated.  220pp  New, second edition   ISBN 1-871846-27-7  £15.99 / $25.00
 

Surveying all of the work of the celebrated American painter, from the early post-Surrealist figurative works, the 'multiform', cloud-like paintings of the Forties and Fifties, to the murals series and 'Rothko Chapels' in Houston, Harvard and the Tate Gallery; and finally, the late grey, brown and black works of the Sixties. Davis places Rothko within modern art - Surrealism, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, colourfield, 'cool art' and Minimalism - and with his contemporary artists: Newman, de Kooning, Gottlieb, Pollock,  Still, Avery, Motherwell, Johns, Stella.
 
 

Painters Series  Notes, illustrations (b/w & colour) & bibliography. 145pp  ISBN 1-86171-040-2  £14.99 / $23.50forthcoming
 

Mark Rothko, the American Abstract Expressionist painter, is one of the most widely celebrated of all 20th century artists. His paintings are huge and haunting, marked by themes of tragedy and transcendence. Davis covers Rothko's development from the post-Surrealist semi-figurative works through the radiant canvases of the 1950s, with their floating 'clouds' or 'forms', to the intensity and religiosity of the late mural sequences, the so-called 'Rothko chapels' of Houston, Harvard and the Tate Gallery.

A new, special edition, with a new introduction and bibliography, and many more illustrations.
 
 

Painters Series   New, special 3rd edition  Illustrations, bibliography, notes  168pp
 

ISBN 1-86171-072-0    £15.00 / $30.00   PBK
 

ISBN 1-86171-192-1    £45.00 / $90.00   HBK
 

Constantin Brancusi is one of the greatest of all sculptors, and a key sculptor of the modern era, with Rodin and Picasso. His influence can be seen in a wide range of Western sculptors, including Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Minimalists and 'land' artists. This new book studies the religious and mythical dimensions of Brancusi's distinctive 'eggs', 'fishes', 'heads' and 'columns'. His central quest was for the 'essence of things', which resulted in purifying a form until the essence was left.
 
 

Sculptors Series  Illustrations, bibliography, notes, new, revised edition  75pp  ISBN 1-86171-023-2  £7.99 / $12.50
 

Alison Wilding (born 1948) is one the most powerful and erotic of contemporary British sculptors. Her sculptures are mysterious and sensual, made from materials that are traditional (wood, beeswax, copper, stone), modern (steel, plastic, rubber) and dangerous (hemlock, lead) or unusual (silk, even meteorites). Wilding's art deals lyrically with notions of volume, form, space, nurturing, the 'feminine', and symbiotic relationships. This is the only full-length study of Wilding's art available.
 
 

Sculptors Series  110pp, illustrations  ISBN 1-871846-53-6  £7.99 / $12.50
 

A new study of the provocative British artist. Gill fused eroticism and mysticism in clear, direct and fluid graphic lines, which upset parts of the establishment (a couple are shown in one print making love while being blessed by the hand of God; in another, a nude Mary Magdalene embraces Christ on the Cross). Hoyland explores the relationship between the spiritual and the sensual in Gill's many prints and drawings, including the Song of Songs woodcuts.
 
 

Illustrations, bibliography, notes   67pp, new, revised edition  ISBN 1-86171-019-4 £7.99 / $12.50

A new study of the American abstract painter born in 1936, from the celebrated Black Paintings of 1959, through the Minimalist Copper and Aluminium paintings of the early Sixties, the exuberant Protractor series, the 3-dimensional Polish Village, Exotic Birds and Brazilian 'maximalist' works of the 1980s and 1990s. Employing the most up-to-date art criticism of Stella. Pearson also looks at Stella's contemporaries: Johns, Rauschenberg, Noland, Olitski, Louis, Ryman, Marden, Rothko and Newman among others.
 
 

Painters Series  Notes, illustrations (b/w & colour) & bibliography. 153pp  ISBN 1-86171-038-9  £14.99 / $23.50   forthcoming
 

A new critical survey of the celebrated New York abstract painter. Stella achieved success early on in his career with his Black Paintings of the late 1950s. In the 60s his colourful 'Protractor' series and geometric shaped canvases became some of the most distinctive manifestations of postwar and Minimalist art. In the 1970s Stella went 'maximalist', producing multi-media works, often using lumps of aluminium and steel, which were vivaciously and complexly three dimensional.

A new, special edition, completely rewritten, and many more illustrations.
 
 

Painters Series   New, special 3rd edition  Illustrations, bibliography, notes  120pp  ISBN 1-86171-073-9    £10.00 / $20.00   PBK
 
 

Brice Marden's first works were the Minimalist monochrome panels of the 1960s, large, austere, 'implacable' oil and wax paintings characterized by a precise coolness. In 1975 he had a one-man show at the Guggenheim. Garrard looks at the early works, the multi-panel works of the 1970s, the Sea Paintings, Grove Group, Greek and landscape works, the 'Annunciation Series' and Thira. In the 1980s Marden developed a 'calligraphic' or 'Oriental' art, which appeared in many prints as well as large canvases. This is the only full-length appraisal available.
 
 

Painters Series  Illustrations, bibliography, notes  158pp  ISBN 9781861711205 £15.00 / $30.00
 

Jasper Johns is one of the most poignant and sensual of postwar artists, whose works command some of the highest prices for a living artist. Johns is the creator of the famous flags, targets, ale cans, numbers and letters series. Poole traces Johns' development from the Rauschenberg era to the multi-part Season paintings of the 1980s.
 
 

Painters Series  Bibliography, illustrations, notes, new, revised edition   115pp  ISBN 9781861711564    £10.00 / $20.00

Few artists command such fervent devotion amongst art lovers and such high prices in the salerooms of the art world. Love him or hate him, van Gogh is one of a handful of artists who is now a cultural event. Morris's study concentrates on the paintings first, and employs van Gogh's eloquent letters as an æsthetic reference point. Much of the book is concerned with metacriticism - the way van Gogh has been critically received over the years.
 
 

Painters Series  Bibliography, illustrations, notes   115pp  ISBN 1-871846-38-2 £10.99 / $17.00
 

For stylish Viennese artist Egon Schiele, sex and death were clad in purple stockings. Schiele's spindly, neurotic figures explore a world of narcissistic, Freudian sexuality. With his brilliant graphic skills Schiele fastidiously controlled discourses of desire, vanity and repression. This study relates Schiele to other Expressionist artists, such as Klimt, Kirchner, Beckmann, Nolde, Ensor, Mueller, Kokoschka and Rouault.
 
 

Painters Series  Bibliography, notes, illustrations  65pp, new, revised edition  ISBN 1-86171-020-8 £7.99 / $12.50
 

A monograph on the German Expressionist painter, ranging from the early religious works, through the brutality of his Night and carnival scenes, his many portraits, to the great series of mythic, 'Classical' triptychs of the 1930s and 40s which portrayed with an anguished clarity the pain and injustices of the 20th century. Beckmann ranks alongside Picasso, Grosz and Nolde as a painter of the 'atrocity exhibition' of modern history.
 
 

Painters Series  Illustrations, bibliography, notes  84pp, new, revised edition   ISBN 1-86171-022-4  £7.99 / $12.50
 

A vigorous new appreciation of the passionate, incandescent art of Britain's greatest painter. Discusses all his major pieces, including the late vortex works, the Picturesque Views of England and the wonderful 'Colour Beginnings' watercolours.
 
 

'In my view The Light Eternall is among the very best of all the material I read on Turner.'
(Douglas Graham, director of the Turner Museum, Denver, Colorado)

'The Light Eternal is a model monograph, an exemplary job. The subject matter of the book is beautifully organised and dead on beam.' (Lawrence Durrell)
 
 

Painters Series  Bibliography, notes, illustrations  122pp  ISBN 1-871846-35-8 £14.99 / $23.50

The mythology and veneration of divine motherhood was lyrically refined by the great Venetian Renaissance painter. 'Undoubtedly one of the greatest masters of painting' writes Rona Goffen. Davis employs French philosopher Julia Kristeva's psychoanalytic reading of Bellini as a departure point for a lucid exploration of the themes of motherhood, gender, form, colour, pain, emotion and sacrality.
 
 

Painters Series  Bibliography, notes, illustrations  ISBN 1-898283-26-5  95pp  £7.99 / $12.50
 

Leonardo's art is the apotheosis of Renaissance - and Western - art. He depicted angels, Madonnas and saints in ever-mysterious images. His sfumato paintings remain some of the most hypnotic in art. The sheer intensity of Leonardo's curiosity and his spectacular inventiveness in the fields of science, botany, geology, anatomy, medicine and warfare make him more than worthy of the name 'universal genius'.
 
 

Painters Series  Bibliography, notes, illustrations   ISBN 1-898283-24-9  102pp  £10.99 / $17.00
 

One of the major artists of the Quattrocento, Piero della Francesca, who died in 1492, turned mathematics and perspective into a mysticism of space and light. Piero's graceful planar geometry was a precursor of Cubism and 20th century abstraction. Haskell concentrates on Piero's series of monumental Madonnas, the magnificent Madonna della Misericordia and the mysterious pregnant Goddess, the Madonna del Parto, also his Arezzo fresco cycle, the Resurrection, and the enigmatic Flagellation.
 
 

Painters Series  Bibliography, notes, illustrations  ISBN 1-898283-25-7   85pp  £7.99 / $12.50
 

Beato Angelico is the Quattrocento painter of Florence whose Annunciations, Enthroned Madonnas and San Marco frescoes are amongst the great works of the Renaissance. Mutter founds her reading of Angelico on the San Marco Museum in Florence, with its deeply moving series of monk's cells and frescoes. The author interprets Fra Angelico as one of the greatest religious artists of any era, whose simple, bright and holy images are among the most profound in Western art.
 
 

Painters Series  92pp, illustrations, bibliography, notes  ISBN 1-871846-48-X  £7.99 / $12.50
 

A catalogue of the colourful abstract art of the young painter Karen Arthurs, to coincide with her first one-woman show. Puts her work into the context of Renaissance and 20th Century art (Leonardo, Botticelli, Marden and Newman) and includes discussions on symbolism; depicting the divine; the Madonna; feminist, contemporary, abstract and Goddess art.
 
 

Painters Series  Bibliography, illustrations, notes  72pp  ISBN 1-871846-06-4  £7.99 / $12.50
 

The Art of Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy: Touching Nature

Richard Long: The Art of Walking

Land Art In the UK

Installation Art in Close-Up

Land Art in Close-Up

Richard Long in Close-Up

Andy Goldsworthy in Close-Up

Mark Rothko  in Close-Up

The Erotic Object  in Close-Up

Maurice Sendak in Close-Up

Frank Stella in Close-Up

The Erotic Object: Sexuality in Sculpture From Prehistory to the Present Day

Maurice Sendak and the Art of Children's Book Illustration

The Art of Kurt Jackson

Sex in Art: Pornography and Pleasure in Painting and Sculpture

Colourfield Painting

Minimal Art and Artists in the 1960s and After

Postwar Art

Wild Zones: Pornography, Art and Feminism

Sacred Gardens: The Garden in Myth, Religion & Art

Princess Diana in Culture, Media, Society, Feminism and the Arts

Early Netherlandish Painting

Glorification: Religious Abstraction in Renaissance and 20th Century Painting

The Art of Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko: The Art of Transcendence

Constantin Brancusi: Sculpting the Essence of Things

Alison Wilding: The Embrace of Sculpture

Eric Gill: Nuptials of God

The Art of Frank Stella

Frank Stella: From Minimalism to Maxmimalism

Brice Marden

Jasper Johns

Vincent van Gogh: Visionary Landscapes

Egon Schiele Sex and Death in Purple Stockings

Max Beckmann

The Light Eternal: A Study of J.M.W. Turner

Giovanni Bellini

Leonardo da Vinci

Piero della Francesca

Fra Angelico

The Madonna Glorified: Karen Arthurs

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