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500 Self-Portraits, New Edition. by Liz Rideal (Contribution by); Julian Bell (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
A compelling collection of self-portraits from throughout recorded history, revised to include captivating contemporary works The challenge of interpreting and recreating their own likenesses has proven irresistible to artists throughout the ages. Originally published more than 80 years ago and last re ...Show more
500 Self-portraits by Julian Bell
Category: Art and Design
A new version of a Phaidon classic published in 1937, this evocative and fascinating book, now issued as a paperback, presents 500 of the world's greatest self-portraits, arranged in a simple chronological sequence from ancient times to the late twentieth century. 'The mirror, above all - the mirror is ...Show more
Julian Bell on Painting by Julian Bell
Category: Art and Design | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more
Julian Rosefeldt: Euphoria by Julian Rosefeldt (Artist); Ralf Beil (Editor); Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Text by); bell hooks (Text by); Je Wood (Text by)
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
An artistic tour de force through the history of capitalismIn his latest film, Julian Rosefeldt (born 1965) focuses on "the unleashed neoliberal market economy." We enter a bank lobby with dancing employees, listen to skateboarders in an abandoned bus depot and follow an animated tiger voiced by Cate Bl ...Show more
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
Category: Art and Design
What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? These are some of the many questions that Julian Bell considers in this new story of art for the 21st century.From humans' first impulses to create form out of raw materials to the most modern of gallery installations, people ...Show more
Mirror of the World: A New History of Art by Julian Bell
Category: Art and Design
What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? These are some of the many questions that Julian Bell considers in his highly acclaimed book, now available in paperback. Bell, himself a painter, takes a global perspective and uses a wide range of objects to set up juxtaposi ...Show more
Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science by Julian Bell
Category: Art
Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and debates over what was real and what constituted "nature," currents that would soon gather force to form modern science. Natural Light deliberates on the era's uncertainties, as distilled in the work of long underappreciated artist Adam Elsheimer (1 ...Show more
Ways of Drawing: Artists' Perspectives and Practices by Bell, Julian
Category: Art and Design
A lavishly illustrated collection of essays on drawing as a vital intellectual, artistic and life practice, by the artists of the Royal Drawing School. Drawing is among the most profound ways of engaging with the world. It is absorbing, instinctive - a way not just of seeing, but of understanding what w ...Show more
Ways of Drawing - Studio Space, Open Space, Inner Space by Julian Bell; Royal Drawing School Staff; Anon
Category: Art and Design
Ways of Drawing brings together a sophisticated, exciting range of reflections on markmaking by practising artists, teachers and writers. From explorations of how it feels to draw and personal accounts of artistic development, to short, imaginative propositions for looking, understanding and experiencin ...Show more
What is Painting? by Julian Bell
Category: Art and Design
Julian Bell's incisive, fully updated study of modern art and the nature of painting, which daringly tries to explain it
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