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Antwerp and the golden age
£30.00Antwerp and the golden age
A remarkable painting by the Antwerp painter Maerten de Vos, ‘Moses Showing the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites’, shows wealthy merchants, artists and poets, a ground-breaking botanist, a pioneer in women’s education, and the greatest publisher of the age gathered around a portrayal of Moses and Aaron with the stone tablets of the law engraved with the Ten Commandments in Dutch. In searching for an answer to the question of what brought together this diverse group of influential people in sixteenth-century Antwerp, Richard Willmott turns to their letters, diaries, friendship albums and poetry to write a group biography.
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Beyond Ophelia
£30.00Beyond Ophelia
Better known as ‘Lizzie Siddal’, the model who posed for John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia, Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti is now finally recognised as a Pre-Raphaelite artist in her own right, working alongside her male colleagues on equal terms. Elizabeth’s designs were truly original, the creation of her own imagination. They embodied the essence of Pre-Raphaelitism that her husband Gabriel & other members of the circle were striving to achieve. The male members of the group copied the ideas from Elizabeth’s small sketches to create their own masterpieces which have since become the epitome of Pre-Raphaelite art. The exclusion of women from the narrative has had a major impact in creating the perception of the Pre-Raphaelites as a male artistic movement; in ‘Beyond Ophelia’, Glenda Youde shows Elizabeth not as a pathetic drowning figure, but as the initiator of a directional change in Pre-Raphaelite art.
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Great Women Sculptors
£49.95Great Women Sculptors
A celebration of more than 300 groundbreaking women sculptors that surveys 500 years of creative ingenuity from around the world
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Janet Leach
£25.00Janet Leach
Janet Leach’s childhood in Texas through the Roaring Twenties and the Depression imbued her with resilience and numerous practical skills, initially acquired on her grandparents’ self-sufficient farmstead. At nineteen she took a Greyhound bus to cosmopolitan New York and soon found work as a sculptor’s assistant. During the war she worked on Staten Island, welding the hulls of US-Navy destroyers. After discovering pottery, she met Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, before spending two years potting in Japan, where her love of pottery was sealed.
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To everything there is a season
£40.00To everything there is a season
Emma Haworth is a painter of the urban scene. Her art is built upon meticulous observation of the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life – in the streets, the parks, the squares of London, New York, Paris and other great cities: it is a constantly shifting drama of moving people and changing light, played out in a great arena that is both architectural and natural. In ‘To Everything There is a Season’, Emma shows us an overview of her oeuvre and working practices.
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Tree
£44.95Tree
An extraordinary collection of more than 300 images celebrating the beauty and diversity of trees
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