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Freud At Work by Sebastian Smee
$95.00 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Reading Level: very good
Lucian Freud is not only the most celebrated artist working in England, but one of the most private. He has frequently stated his reluctance to be photographed and he has almost never agreed to be interviewed.Following the publication of the last ten years of his work by Jonathan Cape in the autumn of 2 ...Show more
Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits by David Dawson (Text by); Lucian Freud (Artist); Joseph Koerner (Text by); Jasper Sharp (Text by); Sebastian Smee (Text by)
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography
The artist stripped bare by himself: Lucian Freud's self-portraits redefine the genre In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them "revealing, telling, believable ... really shameless." It was advice that the artist wa ...Show more
Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee
$36.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Impressionism--its dramatic depiction of light, its lovely evocation of the transience of everything--remains wildly popular. Crowds flock to exhibitions by its greatest artists--Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro. But as Sebastian Smee show ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 72: Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age by Sebastian Smee
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Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 72 | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What is the inner life? And is it vanishing in the digital age? Throughout history, artists and philosophers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitudeand reflection. But today, through social media, wall-to-wall marketing, reality television and theagitation of modern life, everything f ...Show more
The Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography
"Genius, friend, rival: this is the story of four pairs of artists whose intense relationships spurred and shaped their art. Matisse and Picasso. Manet and Degas. Bacon and Freud. De Kooning and Pollock. Eight of the most significant modern artists; four pairs linked by friendship and a shared spirit of ...Show more
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