The Artist Himself

The Artist Himself
Author: Patrick Rosenkranz
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010-03-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1606991701

Rand Holmes’ life story is richly illustrated with drawings, comic strips, watercolors, and paintings that span his whole career, from the hot rod cartoons he drew as a teenager, dozens of covers for the Georgia Straight, pornographic cartoons for the sex tabloid Vancouver Star, to complete comic stories from Slow Death Funnies, Dope Comix, All Canadian Beaver, Death Rattle, Grateful Dead Comix, and many more. The full-length Harold Hedd comic novels, Wings Over Tijuana and Hitler’s Cocaine are reprinted in their entirety together for the first time. This unique collection of art documents a lifetime of work by one of the most talented artists of his generation.

The Art of Is

The Art of Is
Author: Stephen Nachmanovitch, PhD
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1608686159

A MASTERFUL BOOK ABOUT BREATHING LIFE INTO ART AND ART INTO LIFE "Stephen Nachmanovitch's The Art of Is is a philosophical meditation on living, living fully, living in the present. To the author, an improvisation is a co-creation that arises out of listening and mutual attentiveness, out of a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity. It is a product of the nervous system, bigger than the brain and bigger than the body; it is a once-in-a-lifetime encounter, unprecedented and unrepeatable. Drawing from the wisdom of the ages, The Art of Is not only gives the reader an inside view of the states of mind that give rise to improvisation, it is also a celebration of the power of the human spirit, which — when exercised with love, immense patience, and discipline — is an antidote to hate." — Yo-Yo Ma, cellist

Stanley Spencer

Stanley Spencer
Author: Andrew Causey
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781848221468

Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence unique among British artists of his generation. His art comments on religion, love, sexuality, fraternity and community. Covering all aspects of Spencer's paintings, this original publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the artist's entire oeuvre.

Monet by Himself

Monet by Himself
Author: Claude Monet
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004
Genre: Art, French
ISBN: 9780316728010

This volume on the life and work of Claude Monet is quite unlike any other book on this popular artist, as for the first time his letters have been brought together with his paintings, pastels and drawings. There are letters to his fellow artists and youthful friends, long affectionate letters to family and loved ones and begging letters in times of hardship. We read of Monet's persistence in money matters, his frustrations and successes while on painting expeditions to Italy, Brittany and Norway, and his experience of solitude, illness and bereavement in later life. Monet emerges from the correspondence as a more troubled and complex individual than his sun-filled canvases might suggest. Alongside the artist's letters are more than 200 superb colour reproductions. These accompany the text and enable the reader to follow the young artist through his first encounters with the Parisian art scene, his days as a commanding presence in the Impressionist movement and the final chapter of his life when he produced some of his most ambitious and colourful work at Giverny.

A Hunger Artist

A Hunger Artist
Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2022-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1222378256

In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth, Franz Kafka illustrates the themes of self-hatred, dedication, and spiritual yearning. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.

Emerson Burkhart

Emerson Burkhart
Author: Michael D. Hall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Painters
ISBN: 9781857595956

Emerson Burkhart came into his artistic maturity during the 1940s as a portrait painter and a chronicler of the fast-changing urban and rural worlds around his studio in Columbus, Ohio, and emerged as a noted American Scene painter. The American Scene and the Abstract Expressionist painters were the two opposed camps of artists that struggled throughout the 1930s and 1940s to define and create a 'truly American art'. Focusing on the life and career of Emerson Burkhart, this is the first monograph on the artist to be published in over 35 years, revisiting that era and its artistic ferment from a unique perspective. In addition to chronicling Burkhart's life, this book presents an important selection of illustrations representing the artist's paintings from the late 1920s to the early l960s, alongside images of works by his mentors, his rivals and his best-known contemporaries. As the only book on this influential artist in print, this volume will be important for all those interested in 20th-century American Art. AUTHOR: Michael D.Hall, formerly head of the sculpture department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, is an artist and independent curator. 105 colour & 19 b/w illustrations

Out in the World with Gaetano Pesce

Out in the World with Gaetano Pesce
Author: Museum
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-04-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736661208

At 81, the Italian designer and architect Gaetano Pesce is one of the world's greatest living innovators. Best known for his radical embrace of ordinary, unconventional materials of his time, he has constructed enormous pink buildings from foam, sofas that resemble jester hats, large-scale portraits from hand-poured resin and vases that bend and wobble. A pioneer in design, he's advocated for decades for the injection of human elements and error into mass produced design.This book is the first of its kind on Pesce, now in the twilight years of his career. It includes an interview with Pesce-come-essay by the critic Sophie Haigney, intimate portraits by Duane Michals, and four newly commissioned photographic series that take his work out into the world, allowing different image-makers to understand and connect with it for themselves.

Dutch Treat

Dutch Treat
Author: Rien Poortvliet
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1981
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Luckily for everyone, the famous artist Rien Poortvliet, who from his pastoral retreat in Holland has charmed millions with his books Gnomes, The Living Forest, and The Farm Book, felt the urge to make another book. Almost before he knew it, he was setting down on paper, with pencil and brush, the myriad thoughts, memories, observations, and comments that flowed into his mind. Here, in his own words and in his inimitable sketches and paintings, is the story of the artist's life, by turns matter-of-fact and sentimental, serious and comic. Here are is family (the grownups and the babies), his friends (human and animal), and the people of the village--as well as persons vividly remembered from the past. Some of Poortvliet's keenest recollections are of World War II: holding on to his mother's hand as they watched the bombing of Rotterdam in the distance; being bored but grateful for endless meals of mashed carrots, onions, and potatoes during the starvation winter; feeling horror at the sight of angry mobs painting red swastikas on the shaved heads of the camp followers of the German troops. Poortvliet's spontaneous evocations of the varied aspects of the Netherlands--through his superb drawings and paintings and his sensitive running comment--give the reader a strong sense of the land and its inhabitants. His depictions of people in their customary daily pursuits and of woodland animals in their natural settings alike arouse profound admiration. Dutch Treat is pervaded by a sense of the beauty of nature and its creatures and leavened by Poortvliet's gentle but irrepressible humor. No one will be able to resist it. -- Inside jacket flap.