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John Craxton

Author : Ian Collins
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300276052
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book John Craxton written by Ian Collins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922–2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a “kind of Arcadian”. His early art was influenced by Blake, Palmer, Miró, and Picasso. After achieving a dream of moving to Greece, his work evolved as a personal response to Byzantine mosaics, El Greco, and the art of Greek life. This book tells his adventurous story for the first time. At turns exciting, funny, and poignant, the saga is enlivened by Craxton’s ebullient pictures. Ian Collins expands our understanding of the artist greatly—including an in-depth exploration of the storied, complicated friendship between Craxton and Lucian Freud, drawing on letters and memories that Craxton wanted to remain private until after his death.

Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor

Author : Evita Arapoglou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789963732289
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor written by Evita Arapoglou and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 24, the art lovers of Cyprus will be able to enjoy a fascinating retrospective of the life and work of three important artists of the 20th century. The exhibition 'Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor: Charmed lives in Greece', presents the friendship of three significant figures, the artists Nikos Hatzikyriakos-Ghika (1906-1994) and John Craxton (1922-2009) and the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), from the early years of their acquaintance in the mid-1940s to the end of their lives. Through the display of works of art, extracts from texts, photographs, letters, manuscripts and publications, we follow their relationship and their artistic and literary careers, with their love of Greece always a common denominator. As well as giving a chronological account, the exhibition plays on the theme of the places which inspired them - Hydra, Kardamyli, Crete and Corfu - and where they found hospitable settings to live and create. Nikos Ghika and John Craxton first met in London in 1945 and a year later Craxton visited Greece; prompted by Patrick Leigh Fermor, he stayed and painted with Lucian Freud on the island of Poros. After traveling around the country, he soon realised that Greece should become his home base. Similarly, Leigh Fermor, who knew Greece from his earlier travels, would choose the southern Peloponnese for his own home in 1960. The enduring friendship amongst the three men lasted for over fifty years. Greece was an integral part of their relationship, as well as an inspiration apparent in every aspect of their work. The friendship between them was sealed in four particular areas which also became a source of artistic inspiration: Hydra, Kardamyli, Crete and Corfu. The exhibition will be launched at the A. G. Leventis Gallery in Nicosia (February-May 2017), then at the central building of the Benaki Museum in Athens (June-September 2017) and finally, at the British Museum in London (March-June 2018).--Leventis Gallery website.

The Broken Road

Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590177568
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Road written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts the last leg of his epic walk across Europe as he makes his way through Bulgaria, Romania, and finally Greece. In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him almost a year. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, two books now celebrated as among the most vivid, absorbing, and beautifully written travel books of all time. The Broken Road is the long-awaited account of the final leg of his youthful adventure that Leigh Fermor promised but was unable to finish before his death in 2011. Assembled from Leigh Fermor’s manuscripts by his prizewinning biographer Artemis Cooper and the travel writer Colin Thubron, this is perhaps the most personal of all Leigh Fermor’s books, catching up with young Paddy in the fall of 1934 and following him through Bulgaria and Romania to the coast of the Black Sea. Days and nights on the road, spectacular landscapes and uncanny cities, friendships lost and found, leading the high life in Bucharest or camping out with fishermen and shepherds–in the The Broken Road such incidents and escapades are described with all the linguistic bravura, odd and astonishing learning, and overflowing exuberance that Leigh Fermor is famous for, but also with a melancholy awareness of the passage of time, especially when he meditates on the scarred history of the Balkans or on his troubled relations with his father. The book ends, perfectly, with Paddy’s arrival in Greece, the country he would fall in love with and fight for. Throughout it we can still hear the ringing voice of an irrepressible young man embarking on a life of adventure.

The Photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor

Author : Ian Collins (Art critic)
Publisher : Haus Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781910376942
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book The Photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor written by Ian Collins (Art critic) and published by Haus Pub.. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elusive, enigmatic and beautiful, Joan Leigh Fermor [a.k.a. Joan Rayner] (1912-2003) was also one of the finest photographers of her time. Although hailed and hired by John Betjeman and Cyril Connolly from the 1930s, and a remarkable recorder of the London Blitz, she most excelled in pictures of unspoilt Greece taken between 1945 and 1960 as visual notes and with no thought of publication. The scale of her achievement was only discovered after her death in 2003. What emerge in her wide-ranging work is an eye of immense subtlety and empathy, and an entire absence of ego. The artist's ease is reciprocated in the faces of Cretan shepherds, Meteoran monastics and Macedonian bear-tamers. Her vision is both intimate in portraiture and architecture, and panoramic in landscape, and most firmly focused in an abiding love of Greece. The archive of 5,000 images now in the National Library of Scotland - and partly introduced in this monograph - reveals, at long last, a 20th century photographer of significance."--Provided by publisher.

John Craxton

Author : Ian Collins
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300255292
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book John Craxton written by Ian Collins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922-2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a "kind of Arcadian". His early art was influenced by Blake, Palmer, Miró, and Picasso. After achieving a dream of moving to Greece, his work evolved as a personal response to Byzantine mosaics, El Greco, and the art of Greek life. This book tells his adventurous story for the first time. At turns exciting, funny, and poignant, the saga is enlivened by Craxton's ebullient pictures. Ian Collins expands our understanding of the artist greatly--including an in-depth exploration of the storied, complicated friendship between Craxton and Lucian Freud, drawing on letters and memories that Craxton wanted to remain private until after his death.

Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters

Author : Martin Gayford
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774242
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters written by Martin Gayford and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj’s proposal, made in 1976, that there was a “substantial School of London” was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a movement or stylistic group at work, when in reality no one style could cover the likes of Francis Bacon and also Bridget Riley. Modernists and Mavericks explores this period based on an exceptionally deep well of firsthand interviews, often unpublished, with such artists as Victor Pasmore, John Craxton, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Allen Jones, R. B. Kitaj, Euan Uglow, Howard Hodgkin, Terry Frost, Gillian Ayres, Bridget Riley, David Hockney, Frank Bowling, Leon Kossoff, John Hoyland, and Patrick Caulfield. But Martin Gayford also teases out the thread weaving these individual lives together and demonstrates how and why, long after it was officially declared dead, painting lived and thrived in London. Simultaneously aware of the influences of Jackson Pollock, Giacometti, and (through the teaching passed down at the major art school) the traditions of Western art from Piero della Francesca to Picasso and Matisse, the postwar painters were bound by their confidence that this ancient medium could do fresh and marvelous things, and explored in their diverse ways, the possibilities of paint.

Keith Vaughan

Author : Philip Vann
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781848220973
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Keith Vaughan written by Philip Vann and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was a major figure in post-war British art who is known for his searching portraits of the male nude and his association with the Neo-Romantic painters. This book provides for the first time a definitive, illustrated account of his life and work, exploring his wide-ranging achievement as a modern British artist.

Early Works

Author : Lucian Freud
Publisher : National Galleries of Scotland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Works written by Lucian Freud and published by National Galleries of Scotland. This book was released on 1997 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland on the occasion of the exhibition Lucian Freud: early works at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 18 January - 13 April 1997.

John Craxton

Author : John Craxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book John Craxton written by John Craxton and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Genre Painting

Author : Elizabeth Johns
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300057546
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book American Genre Painting written by Elizabeth Johns and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American genre painting flourished in the thirty years before the Civil War, a period of rapid social change that followed the election of President Andrew Jackson. It has long been assumed that these paintings--of farmers, western boatmen and trappers, blacks both slave and free, middle-class women, urban urchins, and other everyday folk--served as records of an innocent age, reflecting a Jacksonian optimism and faith in the common man. In this enlightening book Elizabeth Johns presents a different interpretation--arguing that genre paintings had a social function that related in a more significant and less idealistic way to the political and cultural life of the time. Analyzing works by William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, David Gilmore Blythe, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others, Johns reveals the humor and cynicism in the paintings and places them in the context of stories about the American character that appeared in sources ranging from almanacs and newspapers to joke books and political caricature. She compares the productions of American painters with those of earlier Dutch, English, and French genre artists, showing the distinctive interests of American viewers. Arguing that art is socially constructed to meet the interests of its patrons and viewers, she demonstrates that the audience for American genre paintings consisted of New Yorkers with a highly developed ambition for political and social leadership, who enjoyed setting up citizens of the new democracy as targets of satire or condescension to satisfy their need for superiority. It was this network of social hierarchies and prejudices--and not a blissful celebration of American democracy--that informed the look and the richly ambiguous content of genre painting.

Paintings and Drawings 1941-1966

Author : John Craxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paintings and Drawings 1941-1966 written by John Craxton and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Time to Keep Silence

Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848547021
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book A Time to Keep Silence written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of 'supernatural windfall' which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records.

Glyn Philpot

Author : Simon Martin
Publisher : Pallant House Gallery
ISBN 13 : 9781869827762
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Glyn Philpot written by Simon Martin and published by Pallant House Gallery. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first color monograph on the artist Glyn Philpot - a key figure in Modern British art Glyn Philpot (1884-1937) was a key figure in Modern British art in the first half of the twentieth century, whose work spanned Arts and Crafts illustration, Edwardian "Swagger" portraiture, Symbolism, and Art Deco Modernism. Drawing on new research and recently rediscovered paintings and archive material, the first color monograph on the artist looks at his career from early works comprising more traditional formal portraiture through to modernism in the 1920s and 30s. Exploring Philpot's engagement with international modernism, it looks at his exposure to American art and the Harlem Renaissance, Neue Sachlichkeit in Berlin and the impact of living and working in Paris, especially the work of Rodin, Matisse, Picasso, and Cocteau. It also considers Philpot's work in the light of recent queer theory and writing on race, discussing Philpot's impact on queer writers and artists, including more recent works by Isaac Julien--in particular his film 'Looking for Langston'--and writers such as Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst, who provides an introduction to this volume.

The Cat

Author : Emilia Will
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849767385
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book The Cat written by Emilia Will and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming gift book, celebrating the cats in Tate's collection Following Tate's publication Love, this new selection of works showcases the most endearing, quirky, and amusing depictions of cats drawn from Tate's collection. Divided into key themes--"Snap Cat," "Cats on Laps," "Fierce Felines," "Scratchy Sketches," "Painterly Paws," and "Prints and Pawings"--this little book considers how cats have been revered in culture and have influenced artists over the centuries. Works of art--including paintings, drawings, sculptures, illustrations, and installations--are introduced by a brief introduction text adding background detail or additional information about the art, artists, and their subjects. Featured artists include: Prunella Clough, John Craxton, Sunil Gupta, Édouard Manet, Bernard Leach, David Hockney, William Blake, Andy Warhol, and Alex Katz. Sometimes traditional, sometimes contemporary, often touching and occasionally telling, placed together these beautiful images create a fascinating and enlightening journey through the visual portrayal of cats in Western art.

John Craxton

Author : John Craxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book John Craxton written by John Craxton and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower and Other Work by John Minton

Author : Martin Salisbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957666535
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower and Other Work by John Minton written by Martin Salisbury and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Matisse

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse written by Hilary Spurling and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 2009 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and competitor - Pablo Picasso. Hilary Spurling's The Unknown Matisse and Matisse the Master were together heralded as the definitive biography of the artist, and Matisse the Master went on to win the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 2005. In this abridged, one-volume edition, Hilary Spurling reveals the origins of Matisse's astonishing talent, provides a unique insight into his life and work, and, by documenting the difficult path he took alone, clearly places him at the front rank of those who made art modern.