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Blue by Derek Jarman
$22.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
"For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions." —Derek JarmanOriginally released as a feature film in 1993, the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's death due to an AIDS-related illness, Blue is a daring and powerful work of art. The film - and this highly-anticipated book's te ...Show more
Degas and His Model by Alice Michel
$18.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis
Never before translated into English, the text's original publication in Mercure de France in 1919, shortly after the artist's death, has been treated as an important account of the master sculptor at work. We know that Alice was writing under a pseudonym, but who the real person behind this account was ...Show more
Letters to a Young Painter by Damion Searls (Translator); Rachel Corbett (Introduction by)
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke's fascinating Letters to a Very Young Painter , written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet , earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. While the latter has become a g ...Show more
Mad about Painting by Katsushika Hokusai
$22.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Best known for his iconic print Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as the Great Wave, Katsushika Hokusai was a revolutionary printmaker. His mastery of ukiyo-e in the nineteenth century has inspired generations of artists since, and his works exposed the world to the delicate beauty and power of Ja ...Show more
My Friend Van Gogh by Émile Bernard
$22.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
An intimate testament to the power of friendship between two creative forces-available again in English after more than a century. "I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but I still don't invent the whole of painting; on the contrary, I find it ready-made, but to be untangled, in the r ...Show more
Oh, To Be a Painter! by Virginia Woolf
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
The twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf's writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no acces ...Show more
Paul Gauguin: Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter by Donatien Grau
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis
"Criticism is our censorship...." So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) wrote "Racontars de Rapin" only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained unpublished until 1951. Through discussions of numerous artists, both his ...Show more
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