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Artemisia Gentileschi - Lives of the Artists series by Jonathan Jones
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the great Caravaggio. As a young woman she was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was ...Show more
Caravan - A Great British Love Story by Jonathan Meades (Foreword by); Gareth Iwan Jones (By (photographer))
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Photographer Gareth Iwan Jones has gone on the road around the UK to create this witty, warm and insightful portrait of caravanning today. Capturing the minutiae of caravanning, as well as the holidaymakers hooked on the pursuit, his stellar photographs are as revealing as they are charming. Alongside t ...Show more
Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
Category: Art Literature
This imaginative reframing of the Renaissance presents its history asthat of connections across Europe, where artists from the north andsouth were products of the brilliantly fertile mix of classical inspiration, observation, and self-consciousness that set European culture alight from the fifteenth to ...Show more
Jonathan Jones: Untitled (transcriptions of Country) by Jonathan Jones (Artist); Genevieve O'Callaghan (Editor)
Category: Australian Studies
Jonathan Jones, untitled (transcriptions of country) looks at the colonial transportation, trade and translation of Australian native plants, animals and Aboriginal portraits, objects and music and their associated knowledges, by examining the 1800–1804 French expedition commissioned by Napoleon Bonapar ...Show more
Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Bansky by Jonathan Jones
Category: Art and Design
What is the artistic impulse uniting Robert Hooke's drawings of insects, George Stubbs's studies of horses, and Damien Hirst's pickled shark? In this new and spirited account of British art, Jonathan Jones argues for empiricism. From the Enlightenment to the present, British artists have shared a passio ...Show more
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
Category: Art and Design
Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. They have been equally revered and famous since their lifetimes, but our admiration for them exists mostly in isolation of each other. But in 1504 ...Show more
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
Category: Art and Design
Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. They have been equally revered and famous since their lifetimes, but our admiration for them exists mostly in isolation of each other. But in 1504 ...Show more
The Lost Battles - Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
Category: Reference
From one of Britain's most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned ...Show more
The Loves of the Artists by Jonathan Jones
Category: Art and Design
A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the mostâ¦sex. Taking Donatello's provocative reinvention of the nude as his starting point, Jonathan shows how the story of the Renaissance is the story ...Show more
The Loves of the Artists: Art and Passion in the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
Category: History
A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the mostâ¦sex. Taking Donatello's provocative reinvention of the nude as his starting point, Jonathan shows how the story of the Renaissance is the story ...Show more
Tracey Emin by Jonathan Jones
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Art File Ser.
This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the work of one of the most important and respected artists working today. From some of her previously unpublished early works from the 1980s, through the period of the "Young Brit ...Show more
Tracey Emin: Works 2007 - 2017 by Jonathan Jones
Category: Art and Design
A new comprehensive monograph on the work of an enduring icon of contemporary art. Compiled in close collaboration with the artist and unprecedented in its scope, this definitive book collects ten years of Tracey Emin's drawings, paintings, sculptures, appliqu s and embroideries, neons, video stills ...Show more
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