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How Painting Happens (and why it matters) – A Times Book of the Year 2024
Inbunden, 2024
423 kr
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A Times Book of the Year ‘This is as clear a piece of writing about the experience of looking at a great painting as I have ever read … Gayford seems to have seen everything and thought deeply about all of it’ Andrew Marr, New Statesman 'If you are someone who revels in the deliciousness of oil …
World According to David Hockney
Av David Hockney, Martin Gayford m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
198 kr
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A collection of legendary British artist David Hockney's insights into art, life, nature, creativity and much more. 'I've always been a looker ... that's what artists do' This anthology of quotations by David Hockney follows in the successful format of 'The World According to' series. Ranging …
Spring Cannot be Cancelled
David Hockney in Normandy
Av Martin Gayford, David Hockney
Häftad, 2022
196 kr
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A burst of springtime joy' Daily Telegraph'A springboard for ideas about art, space, time and light' The Times'Lavishly illustrated' GuardianDavid Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural NormandyAn uplifting manifesto that affirms art’s …
Man with a Blue Scarf
On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud
Häftad, 2019
118 kr
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Lucian Freud (1922–2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes us into that most private place, the artist’s studio, and to the heart of the working …
My Heart is This
Tracey Emin on Painting
Inbunden, 2026
307 kr
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'A book full of heart – frank and confessional – that presents Emin at the zenith of her powers, having survived near-fatal cancer and found new purpose and conviction ... this concise, elegant and beautifully illustrated study, with Gayford’s skilful and always apposite narrative, is as …
Spring Cannot be Cancelled
David Hockney in Normandy - A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Av Martin Gayford, David Hockney
Inbunden, 2021
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
307 kr
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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘We have lost touch with nature, rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time be over and then what? What have we learned?... The only real things in life are food and love, in that order, just like [for] our little dog Ruby... and the source …
History of Pictures
From the Cave to the Computer Screen
Av David Hockney, Martin Gayford
Häftad, 2020
249 kr
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'What makes some pictures a masterpiece? Who better to explain than our greatest living artist, as he teams up with art critic Martin Gayford to open your eyes to the works of genius he holds dear' --Mail on Sunday'His sharp and often delightfully slanted take on pictures, explained in clear terms, …
Venice
City of Pictures
Häftad, 2025
172 kr
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A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year. This is a unique and compelling journey through five centuries of the city known as ‘La Serenissima’ – a perfect companion for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art. Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on …
Lucian Freud
Av Martin Gayford, David Dawson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1428 kr
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A sumptuous single-volume edition of Phaidon's acclaimed overview of one of the greatest painters of our time Larger-than-life British artist Lucian Freud enjoyed a career lasting over seven decades. He worked almost until the day he died, when he left a portrait of friend and studio assistant …
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Conversations with David Hockney
Häftad, 2025
158 kr
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The bestselling book of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as they explore the nature of creativity. David Hockney’s exuberant work is highly praised and widely loved, but he was also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. In this now classic book, …
David Hockney und wie er die Welt sieht
Av David Hockney, Martin Gayford
Inbunden, 2024
194 kr
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Michelangelo and Men
The Male Body in the Life and Work of Michelangelo
Av Martin Gayford, Klazina Botke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
457 kr
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Michelangelo’s men are world famous. Everyone knows his David and his The Creation of Adam at the centre of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. His powerful, muscular nudes, precise anatomical drawings and magnificent, androgynous figures left a profound mark on art history.In this book, leading …
History of Pictures
From the Cave to the Computer Screen
Av David Hockney, Martin Gayford
Inbunden, 2016
358 kr
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'What makes some pictures a masterpiece? Who better to explain than our greatest living artist, as he teams up with art critic Martin Gayford to open your eyes to the works of genius he holds dear' --Mail on Sunday'His sharp and often delightfully slanted take on pictures, explained in clear terms, …
Lucian Freud
Av Martin Gayford, David Dawson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
5807 kr
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'Provoking, vital, engrossing, gorgeously produced... My art book of the year.' - Financial TimesWith more than 480 illustrations, this is the most comprehensive publication to date on one of the greatest painters of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Lucian Freud.Lucian Freud was one …
Michelangelo
His Epic Life
Häftad, 2017
337 kr
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'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely …
Yellow House
Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
Häftad, 2007
160 kr
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REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION'Masterly . . . a wonderfully alert and moving portrait' Mail on Sunday---------------------Two artistic giants. One small house.From October to December 1888 a pair of at the time largely unknown artists lived under one roof in the French provincial town of Arles. Paul …
Constable In Love
Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter
Häftad, 2010
165 kr
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Art critic Martin Gayford, author of The Yellow House, brings the Regency period to life in Constable in Love: Love, Landscape and the Making of a Great Painter his account of the life of English Romantic painter John Constable. Love, not landscape, was the making of Constable. . . John Constable …
Constable In Love
Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter
E-bok, 2009
170 kr
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When John Constable fell in love with Maria Bicknell, granddaughter of a Suffolk country neighbour, he little knew how long it would take to make her his wife. The impediment to their marriage was simple: 'that necessary article cash'. He was a painter without sufficient funds to support the …
Michelangelo
His Epic Life
E-bok, 2013
170 kr
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At thirty one, Michelangelo was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser).For decade after decade, he …
Yellow House
Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
E-bok, 2007
125 kr
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REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION'Masterly . . . a wonderfully alert and moving portrait' Mail on Sunday---------------------Two artistic giants. One small house.From October to December 1888 a pair of at the time largely unknown artists lived under one roof in the French provincial town of Arles. Paul …
Lucian Freud
The Copper Paintings
Av Martin Gayford, David Scherf
Inbunden, 2021
375 kr
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Brings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced beforeIn the early 1950s, Lucian Freud produced several works in oil paint on copper, a technique favored by 17th-century artists …
Venice
City of Pictures
Inbunden, 2023
307 kr
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A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as 'La Serenissima' – a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art. Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on …
Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939–1954 – A Times Best Art Book of 2022
Av David Dawson, Martin Gayford
Inbunden, 2022
659 kr
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A Times Best Art Book of 2022Reproductions of the young Lucian Freud’s letters alongside insightful context and commentary reveal the foundations of the artist’s personality and creative practice. The young Lucian Freud was described by his friend Stephen Spender as ‘totally alive, like something …
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Conversations with David Hockney
Häftad, 2016
177 kr
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'David Hockney reveals what drives him' Telegraph David Hockney’s exuberant work is highly praised and widely loved, but he was also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. In this remarkable book, a record of a decade and a half of conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, …
Modernists & Mavericks
Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters
Häftad, 2019
158 kr
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Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 2018'If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If you are not, read it.' - Grey Gowrie, Financial Times 'All the good stories, and more, are here … this is a genuinely encyclopaedic work, unlike anything else I have come across on the …
Pursuit of Art
Travels, Encounters and Revelations
Häftad, 2027
116 kr
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Critic, author and art pilgrim Martin Gayford recounts some of the many journeys he has made in the course of a lifetime in pursuit of art. In the course of a career spent thinking and writing about art, the critic Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world in pursuit of first-hand encounters …
Shaping the World
Av Antony Gormley, Martin Gayford
Häftad, 2027
358 kr
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Leading sculptor Antony Gormley, informed and energised by a lifetime of making, and art critic and historian Martin Gayford, explore the central role of sculpture in the development of human culture from prehistory to the present day. Sculpture is the universal art. It has been practised by every …
History of Pictures for Children
Av David Hockney, Martin Gayford
Inbunden, 2018, 6-9 år
170 kr
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Winner of the prestigious BolognaRagazzi New Horizons Award 2019A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today on our computers and phone cameras. Based on the bestselling book for adults, this …
Memoir of Vincent van Gogh
Av Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Martin Gayford
Häftad, 2018
189 kr
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Vincent van Gogh's short, passionate life was driven by an almost unimaginable creative energy that eventually overwhelmed him. The outlines of his story - the early strivings in Holland and Paris, the revelatory impact of the move to Provence, the attacks of madness that led ineluctably to his …
