Colibris

One hundred of the most famous works of art in Buckingham Palace are presented in this fully-illustrated text, with accompanying notes for each plate and a brief introduction.

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Alive, arresting and diverse, Australian painting continues to extend cultural and aesthetic boundaries in new ways.

Australian Painting Now profiles the work of 80 significant contemporary Australian artists, and provides a view of the achievements of the Australian art scene in recent years.

Nominated for inclusion by 14 Australian writers on art, the artists introduced range from postmodernists to those who have chosen to abandon theories of art altogether. Some are engaged with their immediate environment, others explore myths or seek a sense of transcendence which takes painting beyond form and context. The work of Aboriginal artists recording the sacred iconography of their land is an important feature, and Australian Painting Now also includes current innovative approaches to art, building on directions explored by Australian painting in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Ranging over hundreds of years—and countless styles—with breathtaking virtuosity, George Deem has repainted the history of Western art. Deem’s special gift is to paint, with witty sympathy, his own “revisions” of famous works, revisions that look like the originals but transform them in some way.

Now, in the most comprehensive collection of his work ever assembled, the amazing scope of Deem’s devotion to his subject, art itself, can be seen. The greatest American and European artists are represented; their work, at first glance, seems uncannily perfect. Here is an exquisite Vermeer, looking so much like the original that it takes a moment to realize there is no woman holding a water pitcher in the corner of the room. And here is Cubist Cache, Deem’s tour de force imagining of what Parisians do with their cubist art when they go away on vacation.

As a special feature the book includes a die-cut, ready-to-assemble version of Deem’s quotation of Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, a cube in which we view the famous picnic from all four sides and from above.

This is the perfect gift book for art lovers. On one level it offers a delightful excursion through the famous paintings that everyone loves. On another, we marvel at the virtuoso display of artistic technique, in which no style or era can resist Deem’s fond embrace and witty act of quotation. And finally, here is a body of work that, in affirming the richness and variety of its subject, reaffirms the pleasure we take in painting. 80 color illustrations.

About author

George Deem’s work is in numerous public and private collections and was included in the Art about Art exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York. Robert Rosenblum is Professor of Modern European Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and curator of twentieth-century art at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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