Alastair Brotchie

Mel Gooding

Presents a collection of word and image games developed by surrealists.

Including the Little Surrealist Dictionary

A Book of Surrealist Games

Make art as modern artists do! A quirky collection of games and techniques inspired by modern art to encourage the creative impulse, from the creators of Mind Games and Psychobox. It is one of the great liberating ideas of modern art that everyone is a creative being capable of making art. But all too often a mechanical education stifles the creative impulse, induces anxiety, and represses the imagination. Making art is a form of play with techniques, rules, and strategies--and everyone can play! Art Rules! (And How to Break Them) liberates you to make art as modern artists do. You learn from the inside how modern art works and how to look at it, creatively, with new eyes. This box set answers the questions "what is modern art?" and "how does it work?" It is an education and an inspiration. There is nothing like it. Box set containing a 64-page booklet, "Modern Art: Inside Out," and 42 interactive cards that encourage you to try modern art techniques yourself--including collage, photographic games, picture poems, surrealist games, and more.

How to Think Like a Modern Artist

Art Rules! (and How to Break Them)

William Furlong

"Chris Drury, herman de vries, Nikolaus Lang, Richard Long, and Giuseppe Penone do not belong to a particular school, but they are united by their empathy for nature and their decision to work outside the urban contexts of much modernist art. Interviews with the artists, conducted by William Furlong, reveal both widely differing motivation in their approaches to their work and striking similarities in their underlying concerns, and, sometimes, in their working methods. The introductory essay by Mel Gooding places these artists in both historical and contemporary contexts, as well as discussing other artists, including Roger Ackling, Sjoerd Buisman, Susan Derges, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Andy Goldsworthy, Peter Hutchinson, and David Nash."--BOOK JACKET.

Artists, Land, Nature

Pete Hoida

Museum in the Park (Stroud, England) Staff

St Mary of the Angels (Church : Stroud, England) Staff

New Paintings 2010-2012 and Paintings 70's 80's 90's 00's

The Black Morar Series

Surveys 20 works of art in public spaces, including finished works, works in progress, and unseen alternative designs.

A Decade of Public Art Commissions Agency, 1987-1997

Public--art--space

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Trinity Hall

The Art of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Elemental Energies

Jason Beard

Alan Davie

John Bellany

Amie Corry

Cradle of Magic

John Bellany and Alan Davie

Julian Rothenstein

How better to face the future in a new century than by recalling the wonderful diversities of science? This diary for the year 2000 celebrates the universal human impulse to discover and describe the reality of the world.

Redstone Diary

This volume features Patrick Heron, born in 1920, and one of the leading artists of his generation and a key figure in abstract art. He was associated with the St Ives group, and has been obsessed by colour and light in a long succession of paintings reviewed here.

Patrick Heron

Sylvia Wishart

This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Sylvia Wishart's work and contains over 100 full-colour illustrations that range from her earliest drawings to her late, large-scale paintings that capture the vista of the Hoy Hills and Pentland Firth from her home outside Stromness.

A Study

Terry Frost

Isabel Carlisle

Is published to accompany a retrospective of the work of one of Britain's most distinguished abstract painters. Includes an essay & interview with Sir Terry Frost RA, setting his colorful work in context.

This monograph on the work of Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary contains full-page illustrations of her most recent paintings, sculptures and film-based works. Executed on either black or white monochromatic canvas each one of the delicate markings represent a word, the meaning of which remains unknown. The theme of the films places itself between form and formlessness, presence and invisibility. The complementary colour illustrations in the essay by art critic Mel Gooding include works by Jacopo Pontormo, Fra Angelico, Kasimir Malevich and Constantin Brancusi. English text.

Shirazeh Houshiary

Artist Printmaker : Exploding the Boundaries

Michael Rothenstein

This volume - newly available in paperback - is the first comprehensive monograph on the art of Frank Bowling. Born in British Guiana in 1934, Bowling arrived in England in his late teens, going on to study at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney and Derek Boshier. By the early 1960s he was recognised as an original force in the vibrant London art scene, with a style that brilliantly combined figurative, symbolic and abstract elements. Dividing his time between London and New York since the late 1960s, he has developed a unique and virtuosic abstract style in which certain formal aspects of American painterly abstraction are assimilated to a treatment of light and space that recollects the great English landscape painters Gainsborough, Turner and Constable. In a compelling text Mel Gooding establishes Bowling as one of the finest British artists of his generation.

Frank Bowling

Lucy Inglis

This is the first monograph on the Scottish-born artist Elsa Vaudrey (1905-1990), whose 60-year career began in the 1920s when she was a student at the Glasgow School of Art. Perhaps best known for her atmospheric abstract paintings, which she executed from the late 1950s onwards, she also produced a large body of figurative work, mainly still lifes and landscapes, most of which have never before been seen. This lavishly illustrated book brings together both stages of her artistic journey for the first time. Although informed by an understanding of the Glasgow School, Fauvism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, Elsa Vaudrey?s vision was highly personal and she developed an expressive and vibrant style entirely her own. Her paintings were often a response to her immediate surroundings, to places such as Wookey Hole in Somerset (where she lived with her husband, the artist Peter Barker-Mill), Chelsea in London, the Welsh countryside and, further afield, Rome, Paris, Antibes and Jerusalem. During her lifetime, she exhibited widely both in Britain and abroad, most notably in a series of solo shows at the Redfern Gallery in London. Much of the book was informed by the artist?s own papers, collected together in the Elsa Vaudrey archive, which chart key moments in her personal and professional life and document her friendships with figures such as John Cowper Powys, Mary Quant, Ceri Richards, Eduardo Paolozzi and Erica Brausen.

Elsa Vaudrey

Abstract art in its many forms has been a dominant mode in the visual arts for the better part of a century. Popular histories usually trace "abstraction" as a succession of style or "isms," each set within it particular art-historical context, assuming a general familiarity with this kind of critical narrative. The book addresses itself to the interested non-specialist who frequents galleries and reads art books, but who often feels mystified when confronted by abstract work. Abstract art by its nature demands an imaginative response, a personal constructon of meaning. Mel Gooding offers readings of specific paintings and sculptures--by artists such as Kandinsky, Mondrian, Gabo and Polloc--treating them as exemplary of particular tendencies within the overlapping histories of abstraction. The book defines distinctions between types of abstract art that may seem similar and discoveries underlying correspondences between those that may seem different, enabling the reader to identify links between abstract works across traditional art-historical periods.

Abstract Art

David Maberley

Joe Studholme

A compact edition of Joseph Banks' extraordinary botanical engravings of flora discovered on Captain Cook's first voyage.

Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage

Joseph Banks' Florilegium

Gillian Ayres

This is the first book on major British abstract painter Gillian Ayres (b.1930). Over 130 colour reproductions of her paintings accompany Mel Gooding's illuminating text, making the book an essential contribution to the recent history of British art.

Clocks, calendars, timetables and guidebooks assure us: there is an order to things. You can tell the time, organise your days, plan your weeks, cultivate your garden, plot your travels. In Dr Clock's absurd world, on the contrary, things are not always what they seem. Logic leads to surprise, paradox reigns with looking-glass rules, things slide quickly from the sublime to the ridiculous. It's a world turned upside down and back to front. And it all makes perfect sense.

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