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Une Semaine de Bonté – Max Ernst’s Surreal Masterpiece

ISBN: 0486232522 Une Semaine de Bonte by Max Ernst
Spend a surreal week in the company of German artist Max Ernst. Une Semaine de Bonté, a rather unsettling book whose title translates as A Week of Kindness, is a piece of surreal art like no other surreal piece of art – and that’s saying something.

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Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel

Lucinda Hawksley

Lucinda Hawksley's Lizzie Siddal ISBN 0233002588The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than one hundred years previously, with a stunning young artists' model whose face captivated a generation. Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by an astute young Pre-Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure of London's artistic world, until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 1862. In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know her name always recognise her face: she is Millais' doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. Her image haunts the viewer and has become the globally recognised incarnation of Pre-Raphaelitism. This colourful and emotionally-charged biography takes Lizzie from the background of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's life and, finally, brings her to the forefront of her own.

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A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits

Laura Cumming

A Face to the World by Laura Cumming ISBN: 0007118430 Laura Cumming, art critic of the Observer, investigates the drama of the self-portrait, from Durer, Rembrandt and Velazquez to Munch, Picasso, Warhol and the present day. She considers how and why self-portraits look as they do and what they reveal about the artist's innermost sense of self -- as well as the curious ways in which they may imitate our behaviour in real life.

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The Photograph as Contemporary Art

Charlotte Cotton

ISBN 0500204012 The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charotte Cotton

This book, now updated and expanded, is a profusely illustrated survey of the use of photography in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. It features the work of more than 170 of internationally renowned and up-and-coming artist-photographers. Themed chapters consider subjects such as narrative and storytelling in art photography, photographing the everyday and the insignificant, the use of photography in conceptual art, and the cool, detached, objective aesthetic prevalent in current art photography.

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