Des coeurs aux poignards en passant par les navires et les phares, ce livre d'autocollants présente des centaines de motifs de tatouage dans le style traditionnel américain.
''For years now, I''ve been taking fugitive snaps of my band, Radiohead. I''ve tried to catch out my friends with my small black Yashica T4 Super. They are so lost in their own moment of performance that they don''t see me with the camera.'' Colin Greenwood
How to Disappear is bassist Colin Greenwood''s stunning portrait of Radiohead in his own photographs. Two decades in the making, he takes us on a journey into the heart of the 21st-century''s most influential band, a maverick collective who have vastly broadened our musical landscape while they dominate and distort it. On stage, backstage, in the rehearsal room, behind the scenes, on tour, at work and at play, Colin''s photographs, and the stories and memories they evoke for him in his accompanying text, form an intimate portrait of the musical and cultural iconoclasts as they travel through ''our middle years: all the joy and doubt and confidence and uncertainty we would oscillate between''.
No Rain, No Flowers is a collection of irreverent, addictive, astute, and life-affirming handwritten notes from French artist, curator and gallerist, Thomas Lelu - sharing his viral inspiration, wisdom and humour.
At the core of Lelu's work is the message that art has the power to help humans through any kind of emotional challenge. A cultural innovator of the highest degree, his fans range from Snoop Dog to The Kardashians and he works with some of the biggest lifestyle brands in the world.
No Rain No Flowers is an antidote to the age of the filter, Thomas has a rare ability to capture universal feelings in the ether - via simple, shareable, escapism.
A visual celebration of the eminent photographer's most significant works collects four hundred chronologically arranged, essay-complemented pieces, from his first landscapes of Yosemite and the High Sierra in 1916, to his depictions of national parks in the 1940s, to his last achievements from the 1960s. 125,000 first printing.
Before We Were Trans est une histoire nouvelle et différente du genre, qui ne cherche pas à être exhaustive ou définitive, mais - en mélangeant culture, féminisme et politique - à élargir la portée de ce que nous considérons comme l'histoire trans en racontant les histoires de personnes à travers le monde dont l'expérience du genre a été transgressive, ou non caractérisée par des catégories stables ou binaires. Nous transportant de la Venise de la Renaissance à l'Angola du XVIIe siècle, du Japon d'Edo à l'Amérique du Nord, les histoires que ce livre raconte posent des questions et résistent aux conclusions simples. Elles défient la terminologie et les catégories occidentales modernes - notamment la catégorie des « trans » elle-même. Mais les raconter fournit une histoire qui reflète la richesse de la réalité trans moderne plus fidèlement.
Francoise Gilot met Picasso during the German occupation of Paris, she was twenty-one, he was sixty-two. For nearly a decade, Gilot shared her life with this giant of the art world, giving birth to two of his children, working as his model, and sharing his world. This uniquely candid and vivid memoir takes readers behind the Piccasso legend to meet the man.
Cet ouvrage rassemble les meilleurs clichés du mythique compte instagram Accidentally Wes Anderson, sur lequel les internautes postent des images rappelant de manière frappante l'univers coloré du réalisateur.
Kiki Man Ray éclaire pour la première fois l'influence déterminante de Kiki sur la culture du Paris des années 1920 et remet en question les idées sur les artistes et les muses, ainsi que les lignes qui les séparent. 'Kiki de Montparnasse était plus qu'une muse - c'était une femme vive et indépendante dont le talent et le magnétisme ont contribué à faire de Paris le centre du monde de l'art dans les années 1920. Dans cette histoire racontée par Mark Braude, la Reine de Montparnasse renaît, dans un hommage vivant et compatissant à la chanteuse, mannequin et portraitiste qui a occupé le devant de la scène et qui a inspiré certains des plus beaux arts surréalistes du XXe siècle.
Andrew Martin has been described as 'the laureate of railways', having written many books with railway themes. But Andrew has always been obsessed with the Paris Metro, hence Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, the first English history of the Metro for the general reader.
Metropolitain is as stylish as the Metro itself and laced with cultural references. Andrew explains why Last Tango in Paris is a great Metro film, and what the Metro chase scene in the classic thriller, Le Samourai, says about Parisian culture. He describes how he came to appreciate the beauty of Guimard's sinuous green Metro entrances when he bought a lily of the valley and observed it flowering on his desk. We meet Andrew's half-English, half-French friend, Julian, who runs a society dedicated to Metro history. He tells Andrew, 'A Metro station is like the wine cellar of chateau, which is a very nice thing to be reminded of.'
The book takes the reader on a constant tour of Paris, both underground and over. But Paris, and the Metro, is changing, undergoing a huge expansion. This, and the imminence of the Paris Olympics, make this a timely title.
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come.
Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life.
Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.
Du denim haut de gamme aux boutonnières oxford, les designers japonais ont pris le look américain classique - connu sous le nom d' ametora, ou «traditionnel américain» - et en ont fait la base d'entreprises comme Uniqlo, Kamakura Shirts, Evisu et Kapital. Dans cet ouvrage, l'historien culturel W. David Marx retrace l'assimilation japonaise de la mode américaine au cours des cent cinquante dernières années, montrant comment les créateurs de tendances et les entrepreneurs japonais ont imité, adapté, importé et finalement perfectionné le style américain, remodelant de façon spectaculaire non seulement la culture japonaise mais aussi celle des Etats-Unis par ses processus.
The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by the author of The Mirror and the Palette.
It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men-including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee-without repercussion. The fact that so many radical female artists of their generation-and earlier-also drank deeply from the same spiritual well has been sorely neglected for too long.
In The Other Side, we explore the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women, from the twelfth-century mystic, composer, and artist Hildegard of Bingen to the nineteenth-century English spiritualist Georgiana Houghton, whose paintings swirl like a cosmic Jackson Pollock; the early twentieth-century Swedish artist, Hilma af Klint, who painted with the help of her spirit guides and whose recent exhibition at New York's Guggenheim broke all attendance records to the 'Desert Transcendentalist', Agnes Pelton, who painted her visions beneath the vast skies of California. We also learn about the Swiss healer, Emma Kunz, who used geometric drawings to treat her patients and the British surrealist and occultist, Ithell Colquhoun, whose estate of more than 5,000 works recently entered the Tate gallery collection. While the individual work of these artists is unique, the women loosely shared the same goal: to communicate with, and learn from, other dimensions.
Weaving in and out of these myriad lives while sharing her own memories of otherworldly experiences, Jennifer Higgie discusses the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art. A radical reappraisal of a marginalized group of artists, The Other Side is an intoxicating blend of memoir, biography, and art history.
At Chicago's world-renowned, Michelin-starred restaurant Moto, Homaro Cantu pushed the limits of cuisine to deliver an unforgettable experience at the intersection of food, art, and science. Each meal reimagined what cooking could be: edible menus imbued with the flavors of the dishes to follow, carbonated fruit that fizzed when bitten, a transparent box that cooked fish in front of your eyes.
Paris is the city of light, the city of love, and the city of more art than you could possibly explore in a lifetime-and not just in museums. Tucked away in tree-lined parks, preserved in world class restaurants, emblazoned on Metro station walls, and hidden in the most unexpected places are masterpieces worthy of the Louvre, if you know where to look!
In this whimsically illustrated celebration of Parisian art and artists, author and curator Lori Zimmer highlights more than 100 treasures. From the gorgeous remnants of the Art Nouveau era to the homes of some of the world's most influential artists-including Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and more-to an introduction to the modern masters of urban art, there are endless riches to be explored. Discover art that was hidden for decades inside cafes, shops and even a Belle Epoque brothel! Paris will surprise you.
Illustrated by artist Maria Krasinski, this book provides curated itineraries for dreaming up your next urban exploration, and is perfect for displaying on any art lover's shelf.
The noted photographer provides detailed descriptions of the basic equipment of photography, discussing the major camera formats and techniques for using that equipment creatively.
