Art, Photography & Fashion

Paul Cezanne, a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter, was an important catalyst to the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to the modern and radically different world of art that emerged full bore in the 20th century. Cezanne successfully melded the structural impulse ...

Gauguin's paintings are redolent of the South Sea Islands, full of exotic women, vibrant flora and brilliant colour. They range from normal life in France, to Provence where he lived and painted briefly with Van Gogh to French Polynesia. This compact collection gives a brief history of his turbulent ...

*This is an important new survey on the under-appreciated development of surrealism in Latin America. Including texts by a wealth of authorities on the subject, it appeals to both academics and general-interest readers.

The consistently original painter, sculptor and video artist Mark Wallinger has created some of the most subtly intelligent and irreverent work from the UK in the last twenty-five years. Studying in London at the Chelsea School of Art (1978 - 81) and Goldsmiths College (1983 - 5), his early work questioned ...

A hard-hitting expose into Big Oil sponsorship of the arts.

Features images that represent five European cities Paris, Istanbul, Palermo, Berlin and Budapest through their surface markings. Exploring the interaction between a city and its citizens as recorded by graffiti and advertising, this work invites us to look at graffiti and other unofficial interventions anew.

The best of Tim Richardson's groundbreaking work as one of the world's most inventive fashion photographers is gathered together for the first time in this lavishly produced volume.

The most awe-inspiring churches and cathedrals from around the world

Examines the ways in which dress 'performs' in a wide range of contemporary and historical literary texts. This book includes essays which explore the function of clothing within fictional narratives, including those of film, television and advertising. It provides an examination of the interconnected worlds of fashion and words.

Posters provide an instructive glimpse of an era's prevailing ideals, prejudices, and presumptions. This title suggests how a famous face can enhance the message of the poster and, conversely, how posters have defined and disseminated images of prominent Americans.

Aesthetics is regarded, traditionally, as an aspect of philosophy. Arthur Edwards' approach is different. Ignoring philosophy, he points out that any work of art is devised in the mind of the artist and interpreted through the mind of the beholder and the object must therefore constitute a device of ...

Maurice Cockrill RA (b 1936) is one of Britains most important abstract artists. This book traces his career, from the realist and Pop works he produced as a central figure in the Liverpool art scene in the 1960s, to the expressionist and abstract work he began to make after moving to London in the 1980s.

What do John Hoyland's boots, Peter Blake's photomontages and Laura Knight's drawing of Venus have in common? They've all featured on Royal Academy posters. Every year, since the founding of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768, there has been a Summer Exhibition. The open event annually draws 10,000 submissions ...

This book arises from the Cities in dialogue exhibition that was held in in FACT in conjunction with the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool Independents Biennial in 2014, and covers the works of artists Brian Mackern (Uruguay), Barbara Palomino (Chile), Marina Zerbarini (Argentina), and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (US-Nicaragua).

Looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late nineteenth-century France - Degas' representation of ballet dancers and the transforming tradition of female portraiture.

This fully illustrated catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Barbara Kruger at Modern Art Oxford, 28th June - 31st August 2014.Kruger created a major site-specific text installation in Modern Art Oxford's iconic Upper Gallery, as well as exhibiting ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Dec. 11, 2010-Feb. 20, 2011.