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Author
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tate Britain is the home of British art from 1500 to the present day. This guide to the highlights of the collection provides an introduction to the development of British art over the centuries, telling the story of the collection and presenting a selection of the works on display. British art is also notable for genres unique to itself: group portraits, known as 'conversation pieces', focusing on social relations between friends, family and allies;...
Author
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A major survey including new and celebrated works by Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili. Set to accompany the first major museum show in the United States of contemporary British artist Chris Ofili, this richly illustrated volume surveys two decades of artworks that meld figuration, abstraction, and decoration to yield hybrid juxtapositions of high and low culture. Best known for intricately constructed works featuring beadlike dots of paint,...
Author
Publisher
National Gallery Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"George Shaw is known for his minutely detailed and luminously atmospheric depictions of the urban landscape and woodlands of central England. Painting scenes from his native region, he meditates on the central themes of relationships, ancestry and love. His preferred medium, Humbrol enamel paints, is a deliberate means of distancing himself from the traditions of oil painting. Yet as a teenager in Coventry, Shaw developed a deep relationship with...
15) The Oriental obsession: Islamic inspiration in British and American art and architecture, 1500-1920
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britain's first modern art movement, the Brotherhood combined rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision, and imaginative grandeur. Today, the works of the Pre-Raphaelites are among the best known of all English paintings, and yet they have often been dismissed or misunderstood as Victoriana or escapism. This fascinating book convincingly corrects that view, examining...
19) Frank Auerbach
Author
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Frank Auerbach has made some of the most resonant, inventive, and perpetually alive paintings, both of people and of the urban landscapes near his studio in Camden Town, London. This publication accompanies a retrospective of Auerbach's work at Tate Britain and the Bonn Kunstmuseum in 2015." --
