How to Read a Modern Painting: Understanding and Enjoying the Modern Masters: Understanding and Enjoying 20th Century Art (English and Spanish Edition)

Jon Thompson

History

Thames&Hudson

Richard Deacon has occupied the foreground of British sculpture since the 1980s. His virtuoso constructions in wood or metal range in scale from the domestic to the monumental, their structure recalling both engineering and anatomy. The forms he creates evoke the material world of everyday artefacts and the inner world of the body, as a site of sensuality, memory and language. The survey by British writer and curator Jon Thompson traces the genealogy of Deacon's work in relation to language; the artist talks with Italian scholar Pier Luigi Tazzi, co-Director of Documenta IX, about the context of space and place; US art critic Peter Schjeldahl reveals the complexities of a single sculpture, Keeping the Faith (1992). Deacon's selected text, by renowned anthropologist Mary Douglas, is on dirt 'as matter out of place'. His own writings are on subjects ranging from Rilke's poetry to the car as public sculpture. This revised and expanded second edition includes over fifty additional pages documenting Deacon's work from 1995 to 2000. Deacon's recent writings - a key text, 'In Praise of Television', and an interview with critic Ian Tromp - accompany an update essay by Penelope Curtis, Curator at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Curtis approaches Deacon's recent work through an examination of the links between his drawings and collages and the three-dimensional sculptures. She reveals the continuing experimental nature of Deacon's work, which despite being the subject of international public commissions, resists the formulaic and the monumental.

Richard Deacon (Contemporary Artists) (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Peter Schjeldahl

Pier Luigi Tazzi

PENELOPE CURTIS

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

This lavish catalog documents the most opulent period of later Persian history through over one hundred twenty-five superlative works of art from public and private collections in Europe, North America and Asia, including Iran. The volume, which examines pieces chosen for their exceptional quality and historical importance, includes works in all media-carpets, paintings, metalwork, ceramics, lacquer and hardstones. Hunt for Paradise is the first exhibition catalog to bring together these treasures from many countries in order to present a unique and comprehensive picture of the art of the Safavid court. This serious and original contribution to the study of Persian art and culture is of the highest quality and includes critical text by leading specialists in the field.

Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran 1501-1576

Shiela R. Canby

Skira

Book by Ridgway, Emma, Sean, Gregory, Ainslie, Sarah, Lambert, Gill

Carpet magic: The art of carpets from the tents, cottages, and workshops of Asia

Barbican Art Gallery

Bouldering Lake Tahoe-South/East Edition features over 3,500 problems at 30 different areas.This is a comprehensive guide covering every pebble that has been wrestled on the south and east shores of Tahoe. Some of the areas included are: Phantom Spires, Lovers Leap, Benwood Meadows, Flagpole Peak, The Beavers, Luther Pass, Burnside Lake, Kirkwood, The Pieshop, The Zephrys, Incline Village and much more. It has full color photos of all the boulders, topos, overview maps, breathtaking photography and everything else you need to get you to the boulders.This book is written by local climbing pioneers Dave Hatchett, Jon Thompson and Frank Lucido, so you can be assured the info will be accurate and up date. It is currently under construction and will be available in summer 2014.

Bouldering Lake Tahoe - South/East Shore Edition - Volume One and Two

Dave Hatchett

Frank Lucido

Tahoe Bouldering Guides

Gravity & grace: The changing condition of sculpture 1965-1975

South Bank Centre

By dividing carpets into four categories - tribal, cottage industry, workshop and court, the author shows the reader how to begin to trace the likely origins of carpets, to understand how they are made, and to appreciate how and why patterns differ. This approach, which depends not on learning names, but on a much broader understanding, draws the reader into a world in which carpet-weaving is a way of life, closely bound up with centuries of tradition. Since 1979 the author has travelled extensively in Turkey, Iran and Central Asia, studying tribal life and culture.

Carpets: From the tents, cottages and workshops of Asia

Laurence King Publishing

Timbuktu to Tibet

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Thomas J. Farnham

Crafts & Hobbies

The Hajji Baba Club of New York

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