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The Winter Queen: The Life of Elizabeth of Bohemia 1596-1662

Biographies & Memoirs

MARSHALL, Rosalind K.

Arts & Literature

Natl Galleries of Scotland

F.C.B. Cadell, J.D. Ferguson, G.L. Hunter and S.J. Peploe are now amongst the most admired of early twentieth century British artists. Their direct contact with French Post-Impressionism and early knowledge of the work of Matisse and the Fauves, encouraged them to produce paintings which are considered some of the most progressive in British art of the early twentieth century. During their lifetime the Colourists developed an international reputation, exhibiting in Paris, London and New York as well as Scotland. Since their deaths they have often been overlooked in histories of British art, but in the last twenty years there has been a dramatic revival of interest in their work. Featuring essays describing the artists' lives and their involvement with the avant garde in Paris in the early years of the twentieth century, this book is richly illustrated with over 100 of the Colourists' most stylish and inventive paintings.

The Scottish Colourists 1900-1930

Long, Philip

Arts & Photography

Focusing on Rembrandt's portrayal of women, this work accompanies a major exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London. It examines the women in Rembrandt's life, as well as his unique approach to depicting the female form in paintings, drawings and prints. The book features 140 works drawn from the finest collections in the world - sketches of women employed in household chores, mothers with babies and toddlers, paintings of smiling servant girls and wizened old women, studies of the female nude, pictures of goddesses and historical heroines, and his little-known erotic prints. It traces how mother, wife, mistress, maid and models appear in compositions, and followed how, throughout his life, Rembrandt combined classical and northern traditions, the personal and universal, with an extraordinary breadth of vision in his depiction of womankind. The essays by major Rembrandt scholars discuss the painter's biography in relation to the portrayal of the women in his household; the social position of women in Rembrandt's time; the artistic context of Rembrandt's nudes; the identity of the women who modelled for artists in 17th-century Holland; the significance of costume and jewellery in Rembrandt's images; eroticism in Rembrandt's works; and responses to Rembrandt's portrayal of women of later artists through the 18th and 19th centuries up to Picasso.

Rembrandt's Women

National Galleries Of Scotland

Painting

Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most inventive and prolific artists in the history of western art. After his early training in Antwerp, Rubens spent formative periods in Italy between 1600 and 1608. This book explores the ways in which Rubens studied, copied, and adapted the work of artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian. A large group of drawings by Italian artists, many of which were owned by Rubens and extensively transformed by him, are illustrated. These works show how Rubens's dialogue with Italian art went far beyond mere imitation and how his copies and adaptations attracted the attention of scholars and collectors from his lifetime onwards.

Rubens: Drawings on Italy

WOOD, Jeremy

Individual Artists

New is a selection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's most recent acquisitions of contemporary British art, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, works on paper, installations, artist books, and a DVD projection. Revealing the broad range of ideas and media used by artists working in Britain today, this book examines, in detail, over 150 works by over 80 artists. The selection includes many of the artists who have risen to prominence in the last decade, such as Damien Hirst, Douglas Gordon and Rachel Whiteread, as well as recent works by more senior figures such as Lucian Freud, Alan Davie and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

New: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Alice Dewey

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The Boyle family is made up of four British artists: Mark Boyle, Joan Hills and their children Sebastian and Georgia who work together on their artworks, many of which may be found in museum collections around the world. A comprehensive study of the Boyle Family, this book accompanies an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. Lavishly illustrated , it explores the work of the Boyle family from their beginnings in the 1960s to the present day. It features three essays: Patrick Elliot discusses their history; Andrew Wilson explores their film and performance work in the 1960s; and Bill Hare looks at the nature of the Boyle Family project.

Boyle Family

WILSON, ANDREW

Hare, Bill

Elliot, Patrick

Lucian Freud: Etchings 1946 - 2004

Hartley, Craig

Towards the end of his life Charles Rennie Mackintosh moved to the south of France where he devoted himself to painting in watercolour. Meticulously executed and brilliantly coloured, these works are conceived with a sense of design and an eye for pattern in nature which owe much to his genius as an architect and designer. This book records Mackintosh's time in France and explores his career as a landscape painter, placing his paintings in the context of the modern movement. All the works Mackintosh is known to have completed in France are illustrated and are accompanied by photographs of the places he painted as well as extracts from his letters.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh in France: Landscape Watercolors

Robertson, Pamela

History & Criticism

Harry Benson has enjoyed an extraordinary and unprecedented career as a photojournalist gaining access to some of the key figures of the last fifty years often at decisive moments of history. His work, plotted across the pages of the most influential and culturally significant magazines and newspapers of the twentieth century, charts a fascinating course mapping the worlds of politics and culture, sport and fashion and the stellar successes and crashing failures of celebrity. He developed a forensic eye for creating memorable pictures of defining personalities and events of the moment. Born in Glasgow, he travelled with the Beatles on their first visit to America and he has lived there ever since. This book, which accompanies the summer show at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, illustrates many of his most iconic images placing them within the context of the shifting fashions and fortunes of an editorial industry of which he has always been a champion.

Being There: Photography of Harry Benson

Hargreaves; Roger

Durer's Fame presents a selection of outstanding Albrecht Durer impressions from the National Galleries of Scotland. Examining different aspects of fame, it also features contemporary and later copies, imitations and forgeries, as well as portraits of Durer and works that reflect his art. In addition to famous Italian and Netherlandish examples it includes works by British artists such as John Runciman and William Bell Scott, whose response to Durer's art is less well known. 20 colour illustrations

Durer's Fame

Seifert, Christian Tico

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