SCULPTURE

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

Richard Long: The Art of Walking

The Art of Richard Long: Complete Works

The Art of Richard Long: Complete Works (Paperback)

Land Art: A Complete Guide

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: Special Edition

Andy Goldsworthy in Close-Up

The Erotic Object  in Close-Up

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

Minimal Art and Artists in the 1960s and After

Constantin Brancusi: Sculpting the Essence of Things

Alison Wilding: The Embrace of Sculpture

Jasper Johns

Eric Gill: Nuptials of God

Postwar Art

Wild Zones: Pornography, Art and Feminism

Sex in Art: Pornography and Pleasure in Painting and Sculpture

The Art of Frank Stella

Frank Stella: From Minimalism to Maxmimalism

Frank Stella in Close-Up

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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.

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.
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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.

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.

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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Andy Goldsworthy makes 'land' or 'earth' art out of, among other materials, stacks of rocks, or stalks tied together, or mud thrown into rivers or poppy petals wrapped around boulders. His art is a sensitive, intuitive response to nature, light, time, growth, the seasons and the earth.

Malpas surveys all of Goldsworthy's art, and discusses his relation with other earth/ land artists such as Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Richard Long and David Nash.

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.   295pp.

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

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A hardback edition of our best-selling book.
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.

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.
 

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

First edition.   Hardback.    ISBN 1-86171-079-8   £50.00 / $100.00

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by William Malpas

A new study of the British artist Richard Long, an important contemporary international artist.
 

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

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

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

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 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.    35 b/w, 2 colour illustrations.   314 pages.  First edition.
 

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

HDBK   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

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 ART IN CLOSE-UP

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     320p
 

PBK ISBN 1-86171-053-4    £25.00 / $50.50

HDBK ISBN 1-86171-1077    £60.00 / $120.00
 
 

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

New, special, 2nd edition.
 

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

Hardback   ISBN 1-86171-093-3    £60.00 / $120.00
 
 

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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     110pp   ISBN 1-86171-051-8      £19.99 / $32.50
 

Andy Goldsworthy born in Cheshire in 1956. He studied at Harrogate High School, Bradford College of Art (the archetypal British art school ethics of liberalism, experimentation, art history discussions and the embrace of avant garde art prevailed here) and Preston Polytechnic, where he studied on the BA Fine Art course, graduating in 1978. Goldsworthy has lived mainly in the North of the UK: Bentham and Illkley (Yorkshire), Brough (Cumbria) and Penpont (Dumfriesshire). Many of Goldsworthy's site-specific works and commissions have been in the North: the giant maze and Lambton Earthwork (at County Durham, 1988-9), the Grizedale Forest site works (1984 onwards), residencies at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (1987), the Lake District National Park (1988), and so on. Goldsworthy has worked at the Venice Biennale, Grise Fiord and the North Pole, in Japan, Castres and Sidobre in France, and in Haarlem, Holland. He has had one-man shows in France, Japan, Holland and the UK, and participated in groups shows in Italy, Germany, and the USA. A major retrospective, Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy: Sculpture: 1976-1990, was held at the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds City Art Gallery: the show also travelled to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, Stedelijke Musea, Gouda and Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrenees in Toulouse. Goldsworthy's work has appeared on TV (in, as expected, Channel Four documentaries, The Late Show, an Arts Council film (Two Autumns), and regional news programmes, as well as a couple of Japanese broadcasts), also the ubiquitous appearances on Radio 4's dull arts show Kaleidoscope and Radio 3's arts interview slot, Third Ear. A half-hour BBC TV programme on Goldsworthy's Sheepfolds project was aired in 1997; there was also a Sheepfolds exhibition at Michael Hue-Williams Gallery in London. 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

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

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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  £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 / $50.00

HDBK  ISBN 1-86171-069-0   £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.
 

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

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

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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
 

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
 

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
 

        On Eric Gill, D.H. Lawrence and Lady Chatterley's Lover, click here
 
 

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 / $18.00
 

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
 
 

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 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  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
 

 

The Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Complete Works

The Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Complete Works (Hardback)

The Art of Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy: Touching Nature: Special Edition

Andy Goldsworthy: Touching Nature: Special Edition (Hardback)

Andy Goldsworthy: Touching Nature

Richard Long: The Art of Walking

The Art of Richard Long: Complete Works (Hardback)

Land Art: A Complete Guide

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

The Erotic Object  in Close-Up

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

Minimal Art and Artists in the 1960s and After

Constantin Brancusi: Sculpting the Essence of Things

Alison Wilding: The Embrace of Sculpture

Jasper Johns

Eric Gill: Nuptials of God

Postwar Art

Wild Zones: Pornography, Art and Feminism

Sex in Art: Pornography and Pleasure in Painting and Sculpture

The Art of Frank Stella

Frank Stella: From Minimalism to Maxmimalism

Frank Stella in Close-Up

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