Voici 2 très beaux #dessins récemment acquis par les #ArchivesDeLyon : il s'agit des décors peints de 2 des 4 façades de la cour intérieure de l'ancien collège de la Trinité, actuel lycée Ampère à #lyon.
Les dessins sont attribués à Pierre-Paul Sevin (1646-1710) et datent de 1662-1663.
Ils complètent un dessin acheté en 2005 : il n'en manque donc plus qu'un pour faire le tour de la cour !
In Radiant: The Life & Line of Keith Haring (2024), Brad Gooch presents a compelling account of Haring's life & work with a strong emphasis on the public artist & his positive/supportive relationship with young people via such public art. Not shying away from Haring's sometime difficult personal life, this well-judged & highly detailed (but never boring) bio will become the standard work on the artist. Really excellent!
So my entry in the @neilhimself Folio Society contest didn't make the cut as a finalist 😢 It's disappointing, but I gave it my best shot and am very happy with what I created ☠️ 🖤
I might still turn it into an art print for my Etsy shop with a portion of funds raised going to charity, like I did with the bookmark art I also did for 'The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains'. If I do I will post about it here later on
Tremor, by Teju Cole.
You are a photographer and academic (or maybe you are the reader? Hard to tell) from Africa, but also of the West in some ways, who is wondering if art is an artifact or alive (or both? Maybe neither?).
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈. @bookstodon#bookstodon#reading#art#photography#race
This amazing graphic novel is a perfect blend of new style and good storytelling!
Panchaud uses dots for his characters, and they really make the reading experience come alive. The story (a sad little boy fights for his happiness) is not so new, but the telling of it is with a lot of excitement.
Die Farbe der Dinge / The Color of Things/ La couleur des choses/ De kleur van Dingen
by Martin Panchaud
"an impressive achievement, covers a wide range..strongly recommended."- Paul Joannides, Cambridge U
"...beautifully shot, illuminating on the painter’s relationships w/ contemporary artists, his studio & on his relations with clients." - Jane Stevenson, SRF, U of Oxford
Hugh Eakin' highly readable Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America (2022), focusses on the campaign firstly by John Quinn, then Alfred Barr (MOMA) to raise Picasso's profile in the USA in the first half of C20th & is an accessible account of the art worlds of New York & Paris from 1900-1945. Its perhaps a little more journalistic than analytical but relates a fascinating story well, even if it needed more illustrations.
Another excellent review of RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT: “Sheds essential light on one of history’s greatest artists. Meticulously researched while there’s much to enjoy for even the dilettante..a thing of splendour"
Details: https://ideasroadshow.com/raphael/
Unflattering portraits of King Charles and Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart were all over the news last week, but these unusual depictions are nothing new. National Geographic analyzes images of Anne of Cleves, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and more to show how they added to mythologies and even changed the course of history.
If you like economic anthropology/sociology & are interested in the work of artists, then Alison Gerber's concise & highly readable, The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (2017) is for you. Assessing how value is seen in (manly US) art worlds, Gerber doesn't model or use aggregated statistics, but actually asks artists & reports/reflects on what they tell her. the result is compelling & informative!