Delacroix, Graphic Design, Turner & Bloomsbury Artists

Eugene Delacroix: Selected Letters, 1813-1863

This volume contains the most representative and informative selection available of the letters of Eugene Delacroix, perhaps the most brilliant visual artist of the French Romantic movement. As edited by Jean Stewart, they are divided into four sections: the first letters were written in his teens and early twenties, and show the essential loneliness that would dominate his life; the second, stretching to the age of 35, detail the travels that indelibly marked him; the third group dates from his return to France in 1833, telling of his grand commissions and of his relationships with George Sand and Mme. de Forget; and last are the letters from his final years, a time of official acceptance and relations with such notable figures as Stendhal and Merimee. Intelligently edited and fluently translated, these "Selected Letters" bring to life, in his own words, one of the greatest artistic geniuses of the 19th century.
Eugene Delacroix: Selected Letters, 1813-1863
MFA Publications, 2001, ISBN: 0878466320

American Modernism: Graphic Design, 1920-1960

This insightful book is the first to present a comprehensive survey of the Modernist movement as it emerged in America between 1920 and 1960 in various graphic media. It identifies and examines great works in advertising, information design, identity, magazine design, print, dimensional design, and posters that by mid-century had defined American graphic design. R. Roger Remington begins by discussing the emergence of Modernism and its major historical influences, including European avant-garde art movements, technology, geopolitical issues, popular culture, educational innovations such as the Bauhaus, architecture, industrial design, and photography.
The heart of the book brings together the key works of mid-century Modernism, presenting them chronologically from the 1930s to the 1950s. The final section shows the impact of and reactions to these Modernist influences as graphic design in America matured into the 1960s and beyond. Handsomely designed and illustrated, American Modernism is destined to become a classic text in the study of design and visual culture.
R. Roger Remington is professor of graphic design at Rochester Institute of Technology. His previous books include Nine Pioneers in American Graphic Design (1992) and Lester Beall: Trailblazer of American Graphic Design (1996).
American Modernism: Graphic Design, 1920-1960 by R. Roger Remington
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; (October 1, 2003)
ISBN: 0300098162

Cezanne by Ambroise Vollard

The famous French art dealer's chatty, anecdotal memoirs reveal the man behind the masterpieces: his life in Paris and Aix, his tumultuous friendship with Emile Zola, extraordinary passions and eccentricities. Includes 20 painstakingly reproduced paintings; excerpts from the critics.
Cezanne by Ambroise Vollard
Dover Publications, Incorporated, 1984

Turner by James Hamilton

J.M.W. Turner was a painter whose treatment of light put him squarely in the pantheon of the world's preeminent artists, but his character was a tangle of fascinating contradictions. While he could be coarse and rude, manipulative, ill-mannered, and inarticulate, he was also generous, questioning, and humane, and he displayed through his work a hitherto unrecognized optimism about the course of human progress. With two illegitimate daughters and several mistresses whom Turner made a career of not including in his public life, the painter was also known for his entrepreneurial cunning, demanding and receiving the highest prices for his work.
Over the course of sixty years, Turner traveled thousands of miles to seek out the landscapes of England and Europe. He was drawn overwhelmingly to coasts, to the electrifying rub of the land with the sea, and he regularly observed their union from the cliff, the beach, the pier, or from a small boat. Fueled by his prodigious talent, Turner revealed to himself and others the personality of the British and European landscapes and the moods of the surrounding seas. He kept no diary, but his many sketchbooks are intensely autobiographical, giving clues to his techniques, his itineraries, his income and expenditures, and his struggle to master the theories of perspective.
In Turner, James Hamilton takes advantage of new material discovered since the 1975 bicentennial celebration of the artist's birth, paying particular attention to the diary of sketches with which Turner narrated his life. Hamilton's textured portrait is fully complemented by a sixteen-page illustrations insert, including many color reproductions of Turner's most famous landscape paintings. Seamlessly blending vibrant biography with astute art criticism, Hamilton writes with energy, style, and erudition to address the contradictions of this great artist.
Turner by James Hamilton
Random House, 2003, ISBN: 140006015X

The Bloomsbury Artists: Prints and Book Design

This volume comes as an important addition to the extensive scholarship on the Bloomsbury Group. For the first time all the woodcuts, lithographs, etchings and other prints created by Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant are catalogued with numerous colour and black-and-white reproductions.
In addition, the many book jackets (principally but not exclusively for the Hogarth Press, the publishing business started by Leonard and Virginia Woolf) are included. Consequently all the multiples (some 200 in total) created by the Bloomsbury artists are listed. The book closes with an ephemera section detailing trade cards, invitations, catalogue covers and bookplates devised by these wide-ranging artists.
Carefully catalogued, and with most of the entries illustrated in either colour or in black and white (a number to the original size), this book provides a treasure trove for the large and enthusiastic audience keenly interested in the art and literature of the Bloomsbury Group. In adition, the catalogue is a valuable reference work for university and art historical libraries. Tony Bradshaw is the owner of The Bloomsbury Workshop and has mounted many exhibitions on the paintings and graphic work of the Bloomsbury Group.
The Bloomsbury Artists: Prints and Book Design, A Catalogue by Tony Bradshaw
ISBN: 1859282776

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