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Artistic genius, political
activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious
graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe
when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan
Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges
and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his
stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces,
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Today, photojournalist David Rubinger stands at the peak of his profession: a winner of the Israel Prize for services to the media and a fixture on the masthead of Time, he is the only photographer whose work is on permanent display at the Knesset, Israel's legislature. In this fascinating volume, he reports his own story, which in many ways reflects the history of Israel that he has recorded so faithfully with his camera. Born in Vienna in 1924, he emigrated to British Palestine in 1939 and developed a passion for photography while serving in the British army's Jewish Brigade. After fighting in Israel's War of Independence, he became a professional news photographer, reporting on each of his young nation's subsequent wars from the front lines, at first for the Israeli media and later as correspondent for Time-Life. But Rubinger has not confined his reporting to war and politics; by photographing the successive waves of Jewish immigrants from Europe, the Arab world, Russia, and Ethiopia, he has also created a valuable record of Israel's transformation from a country of six hundred thousand to one of seven million. | |
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This work contains rings of seahorses that seem to
rotate on the page, and butterflies that transform right before
your eyes into two warriors with their horses. These dazzling and
often playful artistic creations manipulate perspective so cleverly that they simply outwit
our brains: we can't just take a quick glance and
turn away. From Escher's famous and elaborate "Waterfall"
to Shigeo Fukuda's "Mary Poppins," where a heap of bottles,
glasses, shakers, and openers somehow turn into the image
of a Belle Epoque woman when the spotlight hits them, these
works of genius will provide endless enjoyment. | |
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This
extraordinary and beautifully written book tells a vivid and compelling new story of
art for the 21st century. Concise, lucid
and original, Julian Bell's account is truly unlike any other.
Previous histories have tended to focus only on the masterpieces of Western art, or
else consider developments around the world as separate, unrelated
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| One of the
foremost figurative artists working today, Lucian Freud has
redefined portraiture and the nude through his unblinking scrutiny
of the human form. Although he is best known as a painter, etching
is integral to his practice. "Lucian Freud: The Painters Etchings"
accompanies an exhibition that will present the full scope of Freuds
etchings, including some
75 works, from the rare
early experiments in the 1940s to the increasingly complex compositions he has created
since rediscovering the medium in the early 1980s. The catalogue
will also include a selection of paintings and drawings, illuminating the crucial, cross-pollinating relationship
between Freud's etchings and his paintings. | |
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These photographs are more than simply a journalistic record of conflict and turmoil. They are the product of a very personal journey in a place full of shattered dreams brought about by an endless conflict which crosses the boundaries of culture and time. It's a place where the young are robbed of their youth and the elderly stripped of their dignity. The people who live here glorify their past, curse the present, and have difficulty imagining a future. Publishing this book for the 60th anniversary serves as a way of explaining the profound sense of frustration and loss felt on both sides of the Israel/ Palestine divide. | |
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| Intimate, humorous, and
refreshingly candid, this extraordinary work is a remarkable record
- in both words and images - of Jewish life in a Polish town before
World War II as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive boy. Mayer
Kirshenblatt, who was born in 1916 and left Poland for Canada in
1934, taught himself to paint at age 73. Since then, he has made it
his mission to remember the world of his childhood in living color,
'lest future generations know more about how Jews died than how they
lived.' This volume presents his lively paintings woven together
with a marvelous narrative created from interviews that took place
over forty years between Mayer and his daughter, Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.Together, father and daughter draw readers
into a lost world - we roam the streets and courtyards of the town
of Apt, witness details of daily life, and meet those who lived and
worked there: the pregnant hunchback, who stood under the wedding
canopy just hours before giving birth; the khayder teacher caught in
bed with the drummer's wife; the cobbler's son, who was dressed in
white pajamas all his life to fool the angel of death; the corpse
that was shaved; and the couple who held a 'black wedding' in the
cemetery during a cholera epidemic.
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"Don McCullin" is one of the titles in Thames & Hudson's acclaimed "Photofile" series. Each book brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. Handsome and collectable, the books are printed to the highest standards. Each one contains some sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Also available in the series: Bill Brandt, Josef Koudelka, Elliott Erwitt, Sebastiao Salgado, Man Ray, Andre Kertesz and Henri Cartier-Bresson. | |
