Résumé : Drawing is among the most direct ways of engaging with the world; a way not just of seeing, but of understanding what you see. From explorations of artistic development to short, imaginative strategies for the seeing the world afresh, Ways of Drawing is an invaluable companion for anyone interested in drawing - from the aspiring to the professional artist, teachers, writers, architects, filmmakers, designers and anyone in between. Contributor essays by Julian Bell, Mark Cazalet, Daniel Chatto, Ewan Clayton, Liza Dimbleby, Ann Dowker, Clara Drummond, William Feaver, Catherine Goodman, Emily Haworth-Booth, Sophie Herxheimer, Eileen Hogan, Timothy Hymann RA, Dr. Ian Jenkins, John Lessore, Isley Lynn, Ishbel Myerscough, Thomas Newbolt, Sarah Pickstone, Martin Shortis, Dilip Sur.

Résumé : The name Wedgwood has come to stand for something far beyond its illustrious and energetic founder: it has united art and industry; introduced design and artistic collaborations; and pioneered the development ofthe firm’s iconic blue-and-white jasperware. This book tells that story through design, reflecting the continuing role that Wedgwood and its designers, artists, and employees have played in setting trends—including collaborations with many British artists and designers such as Christopher Dresser, Eric Ravilious, and Keith Murray. Wedgwood continuously responds to the market and produces high-quality, desirable ceramicsfor a broad range of consumers, yet remains faithful to the traditions established by Josiah Wedgwood in the eighteenth century. The book presents highlights from the internationally renowned V&A Wedgwood Collection, praised by the Art Fund—one of the UK’s leading art organizations—as “one of the most important industrial archives,” containing around 80,000 objects. This archive reflects the unique proposition of Wedgwood’s business: by operating in both the ‘ornamental’ and ‘useful’ markets, Wedgwood has been able to bring innovative ceramic design to a broad and increasingly international clientele. These ceramics and their stories demonstrate the artistic heritage, craft, and innovation that have become synonymous with the Wedgwood name for more than 250 years.

Résumé : Recent decades have seen significant growth in the interest, acquisition and exhibition of modern Indian and South Asian art and artists by major international museums. This essential textbook, primarily aimed at students, presents an engaging, informative history of modern art from the subcontinent as seen through the eyes of prominent Indian academics. Illustrated throughout with strong narrative content, key experts contribute multiple perspectives on modernism, modernity and plurality, and expansive ideas about contemporary art practices. A range of subjects and topics feature including Group 1890, the Madras Art Movement, Regional Modern and Dalit art, as well as artists such as Amrita Sher-Gil and Raqs Media Collective. This book also has sections devoted to the art of Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and other parts of South Asia. Together with lively academic discussions and a selection of absorbing interviews with artists, this title meets a clear demand for a comprehensive and authoritative sourcebook on modern, postmodern and contemporary Indian art. It is the definitive reference for anyone with an interest in Indian art and non-Western art histories.

Résumé : Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake has become one of the best-known and most popular artists of his generation. Though primarily a painter, he has worked across many media, from drawings, watercolours and collages to sculpture and printmaking, as well as commercial art in the form of graphics and album covers - most notably his design for The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album in 1967. Exploring his remarkable creative output from the 1950s to the present, Peter Blake is the most comprehensive illustrated survey available of the life and work of the artist. Marco Livingstone grounds Blake's art firmly in his working-class origins, identifying a yearning for the innocence of childhood in his bittersweet paintings of the early to mid-1950s that depict children reading comics or going to the Saturday matinee at the cinema. From that moment, while studying at the Royal College of Art in London, Blake concerned himself with popular entertainments as subject matter, and as the source of formal solutions, for his paintings. The directness with which Blake gave expression to his enthusiasms for mass culture during the 1950s brought him to the forefront of the Pop Art movement before it had even been named, and independently of the investigations into similar areas by other British, American and European artists. The radical nature of his collage paintings of 1959-62, in particular, in which he combined existing imagery from popular culture with unapologetically bold and bright colours, made him a singularly influential figure within British Pop. This fully updated edition includes a new chapter on what the artist has jokingly styled his 'Late Period', in which Blake has continued to mine the many strands of his art with undiminished energy and completed some of his most ambitious long-standing projects. As well as the sheer scale of Blake's production, what becomes clear is the kaleidoscopic variety of subject matter, form and medium to be found in his work, its humour and friendly appeal, and, above all, its celebration of life and humanity

Résumé : "This major new study of Black figurative art and self-representation from Africa and the African diaspora features more than 200 paintings by 161 artists. These carefully selected works explore the many ways in which artists have imagined, positioned, remembered and asserted African and diasporic experiences from the early 20th century to now. In particular, they demonstrate how painters have contributed to the ongoing discussions around pan-Africanism, civil rights, African liberation and independence, the Anti-Apartheid and Black Consciousness movements, Black Lives Matter and, more recently, Afropolitanism. A series of thematic sections--on subjects such as sensuality, spirituality and emancipation--is interspersed with specially commissioned stories and poems by leading writers Ken Bugul, Maaza Mengiste, Bill Kouélany and Robin Coste Lewis. These percipient reflections on the Black experience work with the paintings to deepen the debate about Black subjectivity."

Résumé : Sans être un catalogue, publication en lien avec l'exposition éponyme qui a eu lieu en Grande-Bretagne, à Wakefield, Hepworth Wakefield, du 21 mai 2021 au 27 février 2022. Pour célébrer le 10e anniversaire de The Hepworth Wakefield, la galerie a organisé la plus grande exposition d'œuvres de Barbara Hepworth depuis la mort de l'artiste en 1975. L' exposition se déroule dans les dix espaces de la galerie.. Barbara Hepworth est l'une des artistes les plus importantes du XXe siècle, mais elle a fait l'objet de relativement peu de monographies par rapport à ses homologues masculins. Cette biographie va au-delà des récits traditionnels sur le modernisme, la valeur des œuvres et le portrait pour donner un aperçu pénétrant de la vie, de l'œuvre et de l'héritage remarquables de Barbara Hepworth. De son vivant, Barbara Hepworth s'est vu reprocher sa monotonie, les critiques et les commentateurs qualifiant l'artiste et son œuvre de "froide et retenue". L'accent mis sur sa sculpture abstraite moderniste des années 1930 et sa relation avec ses contemporains masculins a laissé de côté une grande partie de son œuvre et de ses passions. Cette biographie entièrement illustrée reflète pour la première fois l'approche plurielle, interdisciplinaire et relationnelle de Hepworth, éclairant comme jamais auparavant ses intérêts pour la musique, la danse, la poésie, la politique contemporaine, la science et la technologie ; son engagement dans ces domaines par le biais d'amis et de relations ainsi que dans sa pratique artistique ; et la manière dont elle a synthétisé des disciplines et des idées parfois apparemment contradictoires en une philosophie cohérente et inspirante de l'art et de la vie.

Résumé : Bringing together more than 100 items of clothing, this book reveals the intricacies of Japanese dress from the 18th century to the present. Including garments for women, men and children, the details have been selected both for their exquisite beauty and craftsmanship, and for how much they impart about the wearer’s identity, be it age, status or taste. A comprehensive introduction, illuminating the main periods and key themes of Japanese fashion history, is followed by thematic chapters that cover all aspects of clothing, from hair accessories and necklines to hemlines and shoes. Each garment or object is accompanied by a short text exploring its structure and the fascinating range of decorative techniques employed, including embroidery, weaving, lacquering, stencilling, dyeing and digital technology. Specially commissioned detail photography and line drawings provide an invaluable resource for Japanophiles, students, collectors, designers and lovers of fashion and world dress.. Rassemblant plus de 100 pièces de vêtements, ce livre révèle les subtilités de l'habillement japonais du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours. Comprenant des vêtements pour femmes, hommes et enfants, les détails ont été sélectionnés à la fois pour leur beauté exquise et leur savoir-faire, et pour ce qu'ils transmettent sur l'identité du porteur, que ce soit l'âge, le statut ou le goût. Une introduction complète, présentant les principales périodes et les thèmes clés de l'histoire de la mode japonaise, est accompagnée de chapitres thématiques qui couvrent tous les aspects de l'habillement, des accessoires pour cheveux et des décolletés aux ourlets et aux chaussures. Chaque vêtement ou objet est accompagné d'un court texte examinant sa forme et la gamme fascinante de techniques décoratives employées, notamment la broderie, le tissage, le laquage, le pochoir, la teinture et la technologie numérique. Des photographies de détail et des dessins au trait spécialement conçus constituent une ressource inestimable pour les Japonophiles, les étudiants, les collectionneurs, les créateurs et les amoureux de la mode et des vêtements du monde.