Matthew Collings

"This monograph offers a comprehensive overview of Lucas' unusual photographs, sculptures, and installations with essays ... and a complete catalogue of Sarah Lucas' work to date ... 454 illustrations, 76 in colour"--Dustjacket.

Sarah Lucas

Modern art is controversial, intimidating, and bound to divide any group of people into opposing camps. But how many of us really understand it? With wit, knowledge, and plenty of illustrations, artist and author Matthew Collings opens our eyes to the shock of the new. He whisks us on a journey across the globe to galleries, museums, and studios, all the while offering hard information on major artists and movements as well as answers to the types of questions ordinary befuddled viewers might have: What makes art modern? Can anyone do it? And, whatever happened to beauty? An entertaining and enlightening survey.

This is Modern Art

An incredibly readable, funny, opinionated, idiosyncratic book which tells the story of modern art from Picasso to Damien Hirst - to tie-in with 6-part prime-slot Channel 4 series presented by Matthew Collings

Tony Godfrey

Luke Frost

Luke Frost is the sixth artist to emerge from the Tate St Ives residence programme at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. An abstract painter, much of his work consists of solid blocks of colour, built up layers with the surface left smooth.

Paintings in Five Dimensions

Roberta Smith

Bob and Roberta Smith

'Make Your Own Damn Art' examines Bob and Roberta Smith's methods and explores their work through conversations with critic and artist Matthew Collings and an essay by German curator Horst Griese.

Make Your Own Damn Art

During a career that has brought her controversy and acclaim in equal measure, Sarah Lucas has made art from the discarded and the unexpected, incorporating such diverse masterials as cigarettes, food, second-hand furniture, and her own self-image. This comprehensive survey of her work explores one of the contemporary art's most fascinating figures. New interviews give an insight into the artist's own assessment of her work.

Ron Arad

This book gives readers an insight into the work of one of the world's most successful contemporary designers, Ron Arad. In a long conversation with art critic Matthew Collings, Arad talks about how his career has unfolded and the elements it now encompasses: product and furniture design, architecture, public sculpture and exhibitions. As well as revealing both the thinking and stories behind many of Arad's designs and projects, this discussion also touches on whether art and design can really mix, the nature of the client-designer relationship, how workshop projects feed designs for mass-production, the fun of working both with simple materials and cutting-edge technology, what makes good architecture, and refusing to decide whether you're a designer or an architect. Illustrated with over 350 images of his work (including specially commissioned pictures by Tom Vack) Ron Arad talks with Matthew Collings is the most complete overview of Arad's career to date.

Ron Arad Talks to Matthew Collings About Designing Chairs, Vases, Buildings and ...

From the anguished, screaming, tortured canvases of Francis Bacon to the witty, ironic, twirling, sliced farmyard animals of Damien Hirst, Matthew Collings guides us merrily through art's Yellow Pages. "Matthew's wired and rushy art history, alternately irritating and insightful, gives late 20th century BritArt what it needs--a confusing, loony relevance".--David Bowie.

Matthew Collings

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