A compact edition of Joseph Banks’ extraordinary botanical engravings of flora discovered on Captain Cook’s first voyage.
Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never been seen or studied by Europeans. On his return, Banks commissioned over 700 engravings. Known collectively as Banks’ Florilegium, they are some of the most precise and exquisite examples of botanical illustration ever created.
The Florilegium was never published in Banks’ lifetime, and it was not until 1990 that a complete set in color was issued under the direction of the British Museum. It is from these prints that the new compact edition of Joseph Banks’ Florilegium is selected, as directed by David Mabberley, who has provided expert botanical commentaries. Art historian Mel Gooding sets the works in context while an afterword by Joe Studholme describes the history of modern printing.
Joseph Banks’ Florilegium is not only a great work of science, but also a major achievement in collaborative Enlightenment art and a volume of outstanding beauty. 180 illustrations

Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage

History

Gooding, Mel

Mabberley, David

Studholme, Joe

World

Thames&Hudson

Herman de Vries Chance and Change /anglais

Arts & Photography

Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: 2006 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Limited This monograph traces the withcareer of the renowned contemporary artist John Hoyland Hoyland emerged as itain's leading abstract painter in the 1960s. exhibiting with both the influential Situation group in 1960 and '61 and the young New Generation artists in 1965.

John Hoyland /anglais

Reference

For the past four decades, a quiet but remarkably resilient strand of activity in contemporary art has been evident - that of artists who have largely turned their back on the city to embrace the context and inspiration offered by the natural environment, though in a spirit quite distinct from the tradition of landscape painting. Song of the Earth showcases the work of six important contemporary artists who work in the landscape and make use of the materials and processes of nature. Their methods favour observation, collecting and forms of manipulation that are more reflective than intrusive, setting them firmly apart from artists of the American Land Art movement working over the same period. Herman de Vries, Chris Drury, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Nikolaus Lang, Richard Long and Giuseppe Pennone do not belong to a particular school, but they are united in their empathy for nature and their decision to work outside the urban contexts of much modernist art. Interviews with the artists, conducted by William Furlong, reveal both widely differing motivations in their approaches to their work and striking similarities in their underlying concerns, and sometimes, methods of working. The introductory essay by Mel Gooding places these artists in both historical and contemporary contexts, as well as discussing other artists including Josef Beuys, Sjoerd Buisman, Hamish Fulton, Andy Goldsworthy and David Nash. Song of the Earth fills a significant need for more information about a field of contemporary art that enjoys an impressively warm response when it is seen, but whose character and sometimes remote location can make it inaccessible to the public gaze. This richly illustrated book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary European art and will delight all those who are drawn to the natural environment.

Song Of The Earth European Artists /anglais

Painting

Abstract Art (Movements in Modern Art)

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

Abstract art in its many forms has been a dominant mode in the visual arts for the better part of a century. Popular histories usually trace "abstraction" as a succession of style or "isms," each set within it particular art-historical context, assuming a general familiarity with this kind of critical narrative. The book addresses itself to the interested non-specialist who frequents galleries and reads art books, but who often feels mystified when confronted by abstract work. Abstract art by its nature demands an imaginative response, a personal constructon of meaning. Mel Gooding offers readings of specific paintings and sculptures--by artists such as Kandinsky, Mondrian, Gabo and Polloc--treating them as exemplary of particular tendencies within the overlapping histories of abstraction. The book defines distinctions between types of abstract art that may seem similar and discoveries underlying correspondences between those that may seem different, enabling the reader to identify links between abstract works across traditional art-historical periods.

Bruce McLean

Individual Artists

Phaidon Inc Ltd

This volume features Patrick Heron, born in 1920, and one of the leading artists of his generation and a key figure in abstract art. He was associated with the St Ives group, and has been obsessed by colour and light in a long succession of paintings reviewed here.

Patrick Heron

Heron, Patrick

Biographies & Memoirs

The Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, where architect Plecnik spent the latter part of his life, is the backdrop for some of his most ambitious schemes. Of these, the most monumental is the National and University Library, which ingeniously combines topographical features and cultural symbolism. Typical Plecnik features include the long colonnade in dark stone on either side of the central staircase which leads to a reading room that fills the entire width of one wing of the building. Contrasted with this is the powerful, expressive street elevation which only partly relates to activities inside the building. This facade was designed to replace one of Ljubljana's most handsome early Baroque palaces and is representative of Plecnik's most eccentric mannerist style. The author explores the building and its historical context, providing an account of the construction of the library and of Plecnik's urban designs for the city of Ljubljana, redeveloped in the interwar years. The photographs of the library are complemented by further images of key Plecnik works and drawings are provided by Slovenian architect Marko Music, commissioned to design an annex to the library.

National and University Library, Ljubljana (Architecture in Detail Series)

Architecture

Phaidon Press

This text looks at the life and times of Patrick Heron, and provides a detailed examination of the progression of his career as an artist.

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Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage

Herman de Vries Chance and Change /anglais

John Hoyland /anglais

Song Of The Earth European Artists /anglais

Abstract Art (Movements in Modern Art)

Abstract Art (Movements in Modern Art)

Bruce McLean

Patrick Heron

National and University Library, Ljubljana (Architecture in Detail Series)

Patrick Heron