British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) played a key role in the development of modern abstract art in Britain. This new paperback edition of Lynne Green's classic monograph completes the story of the artist's life and work with a new Coda covering Barns-Graham's final years.
Provides the account of the life and work of Winifred Knights (1899-1947), the first woman to win the Prix de Rome (1920) and one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women painters of the first half of the 20th century.
This book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
Through several case studies, this book suggests ways in which the art of early modern Venice may be interpreted through a hybrid analysis of their visual form and social context to expand our understanding of women as active participants in the social, intellectual, economic and political life of the early modern Republic.
In Wonderland, Vienna-based artist Thomas Riess presents seven years of work exploring time, reality, and identity. His mystical, abstract paintings and videos probe media-driven society, blurring fact and illusion while confronting mortality and the fragility of existence. Text in English and German.
Crafters can relish a new project every week with this full-color guide. Offering a wealth of inspirational and meditative themes, the book presents 52 weekly words — relax, tranquil, spirit, dream, believe — accompanied by a radiant mandala design.