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Minimal Art and Artists in the 1960s and After

The Art of Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko: The Art of Transcendence

Mark Rothko  in Close-Up

The Art of Frank Stella

Frank Stella: From Minimalism to Maxmimalism

Frank Stella in Close-Up

Brice Marden

Jasper Johns

Maurice Sendak in Close-Up

The Art of Kurt Jackson

Vincent van Gogh: Visionary Landscapes

Eric Gill: Nuptials of God

Egon Schiele Sex and Death in Purple Stockings

Max Beckmann

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

Early Netherlandish Painting

Glorification: Religious Abstraction in Renaissance and 20th Century Painting

Postwar Art

Sex In Art

Wild Zones: Pornography, Art and Feminism

Giovanni Bellini

Leonardo da Vinci

Piero della Francesca

Fra Angelico

The Madonna Glorified: Karen Arthurs

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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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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
 

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  £19.99 / $32.00   forthcoming
 

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 / $23.50forthcoming
 

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  92pp  ISBN 1-86171-073-9    £10.00 / $20.00   PBK
 

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
 

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 80s 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
 
 

by L.M. Poole

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
 

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  £19.99 / $32.00   forthcoming
 

Kurt Jackson

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by Jeremy Mark Robinson

This is the first major critical study of the art of Cornish painter Kurt Jackson (b. 1961). 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, Porth, the Scottish paintings, 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,  and bibliography.
 
 

Bibliography, notes, illustrations   165pp   ISBN 1-86171-078-X    £20.00 / $40.00 forthcoming in early 2008
 
 

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 / $16.50
 

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

 

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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 Eternal 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

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
 

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 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 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, Wild Zones: Pornography, Art and Feminism (Crescent Moon, 1994) 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 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 an 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
 

Giovanni [Bellini] wanted to surpass his father, within the very space of the lost-unrepresentable-forbidden jouissance of a hidden mother, seducing the child through a lack of being... He aspired to become the very space where father and mother meet... Bellini penetrates through the being and language of the father to position himself in the place where the mother could have been reached. He thus makes evident this always-already past conditional of the maternal function, which stands instead of the jouissance of both sexes. A kind of incest is then committed, a kind of possession of the mother, which provides motherhood, that mute border, with a language; although in doing so, he deprives it of any right to a real existence (there is nothing ìfeministî in Belliniís action), he does accord it a symbolic status.

(Julia Kristeva, from "Motherhood According to Bellini")
 

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
 

Colourfield Painting

Minimal Art and Artists in the 1960s and After

The Art of Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko: The Art of Transcendence

The Art of Frank Stella

Frank Stella: From Minimalism to Maxmimalism

Brice Marden

Jasper Johns

Maurice Sendak in Close-Up

The Art of Kurt Jackson

Vincent van Gogh: Visionary Landscapes

Eric Gill: Nuptials of God

Egon Schiele Sex and Death in Purple Stockings

Max Beckmann

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

Early Netherlandish Painting

Glorification: Religious Abstraction in Renaissance and 20th Century Painting

Postwar Art

Wild Zones: Pornography, Art and Feminism

Giovanni Bellini

Leonardo da Vinci

Piero della Francesca

Fra Angelico

The Madonna Glorified: Karen Arthurs

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