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Queen Street Gallery in association with are pleased to be able to offer you a fine selection of specially chosen art books. These can be purchased here on-line directly from Amazon and delivered to your door. Just click on the buy link for your chosen book and Amazon will do the rest. The Queen Street Gallery Choice: Freud at Work by Sebastian Smee Hockney's Pictures by David Hockney Stanley Spencer by Keith Bell Giacometti by Yves Bonnefoy Francis Bacon .'The violence of the real' by Peter Berger The Portfolios of Ansel Adams by Ansel Adams Ben Nicholson by Norbert Linton Wall and Piece by Banksy Francis Bacons Studio by Margarita Cappock Andy Warhol Prints by Frayda Feldman Andrew Wyeth.'Memory and Magic' by Anne Et Al Knutson Edward Hopper by Michael Frayne Best of Helmut Newton by Helmut Newton Hogarth. A Life and World by Jennifer Uglow Patrick Heron by Mel Gooding Mies Van Der Rohe. Less is More by Claire Zimmerman L S Lowry by Michael Leber Dali.The Paintings by Robert Descharnes The Ultimate Picasso by Bridget Leal Picasso and Lump. A Dachshunds Odyssey by David Douglas Duncan			A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 - Annie Leibovitz If a great portrait photographer can wring powerful meaning from people she barely knows, imagine what she can do with those she knows and loves. That's the exciting door that Annie Leibovitz opens for us in publishing A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005. Walk through that door, and you'll never be the same. While there are many wonderful celebrity portraits in the volume, those mostly pale my comparison to the intimate portraits from Ms. Leibovitz's personal life. In many ways, Ms. Leibovitz's life is both mundane and extraordinary . . . and these images help us see more deeply into both. As she hints in the introduction, Ms. Leibovitz sees each person as small and fleeting in terms of the universe . . . but large and important in the moment terms of the uniqueness of that person and that moment for those whose lives are touched at the time. The iconic photographs of Susan Sontag dwarfed by the opening to Petra in Jordan and sitting on the Great Pyramid capture this sense beautifully. But so do photographs of celebrities (like Cindy Crawford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Carrey, and Sylvester Stallone) looking as they never looked before or since.
			Freud at Work - Sebastian Smee Lucian Freud is not only the most celebrated artist working in England, but one of the most private. He has frequently stated his reluctance to be photographed and he has almost never agreed to be interviewed.Following the publication of the last ten years of his work by Jonathan Cape in the autumn of 2005, the painter has agreed to talk to Sebastian Smee, a writer on art whom he greatly respects, in a series of conversations rather than formal interviews. He wants to talk about painting itself, the demands of his own work and the painters he admires. Two photographers have had access to Freud's studio. The late Bruce Bernard was a friend for many years and the subject of two of Freud's paintings. Bernard was an authority on photography, a great picture editor, and also a very fine photographer. He made a number of studies of Freud at work. Over the last five years in particular, Freud's assistant, the painter David Dawson, has been photographing the artist constantly. The results reveal various stages of works in progress, including paintings of Dawson himself, and the intensity of the activity in this very secret domain. The only precedent to such a document might be David Douglas Duncan's photographs of Picasso at work, but nothing as extensive has been published on such a major painter before.
			Hockney's Pictures - David Hockney This much acclaimed book, newly available in paperback, is the definitive retrospective of the most popular serious artist in the world today, covering all media over almost fifty years. Presented thematically to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and photography, it also features quotes from the artist himself that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the works produced. Its huge international success confirms Hockney's position as the world's most popular living artist.
			Stanley Spencer - Keith Bell Stanley Spencer's reputation has grown rapidly in recent years, and his visionary contribution to British art and his true stature as an artist are now internationally recognised. This is an abridged version of the 1992 catalogue raisonne of Spencer's work compiled by the same author, reproducing many of the illustrations and some of the original narrative. The work is presented chronologically and divided between figurative and landscape.
			Giacometti - Yves Bonnefoy Back in print and re-released to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the artist's death, this is the essential, authoritative monograph on Giacometti. Yves Bonnefoy examines the entire range of Alberto Giacometti's creative production - sculpture, painting, drawing, and lithographs - in this classic, singular study of the Swiss sculptor. By focusing on the works rather than on the details of the artist's life, and by relying on the evidence of Giacometti's important writings and statements, the author - a poet, essayist, and friend of the artist - provides a wealth of interpretations of Giacometti's drawings, canvases, and sculptures. Bonnefoy's eloquent and incisive text traces Giacometti's artistic development - from his experience with surrealism, to his return to figurative sculpture, to the period of his monumental Walking Man series. The superbly designed and copiously illustrated volume is further enriched with archival photographs of Giacometti's studios and five decades of artistic life in Paris. This oversized and exquisitely-produced monograph, accompanied by an extensive biographical chronology and bibliography, and illustrated with nearly 600 works and documents, has been re-released to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the master sculptor's death on January 11, 1966.
			Francis Bacon .'The violence of the real' - Peter Berger Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was renowned for his dramatic depictions of the human form; he portrayed the ordeal of the vulnerable, defencelessly exposed body like no other artist of his generation. At the centre of this volume are about sixty of Bacon's disturbing yet captivating studies of the human figure, encompassing works from the late 1940s until his death. Texts by a range of experts on the artist offer new insights into these radical and often discomfiting images, so brilliantly reproduced on the pages of this book.
			The Portfolios of Ansel Adams - Ansel Adams From 1948 - 1976 Ansel Adams produced seven portfolios, each a limited edition of 10-15 signed photographic prints. This book reproduces all 90 of these superb images, including many of Adams' most famous monumental landscape photographs and some remarkable, less familiar portraits and architecture studies. The book was first published in 1977 and in 1981 it was decided to take advantage of new printing technology to have the book re-designed. In this new printing the typography from the introductory texts of the original portfolios was reproduced. In addition, new laser-scanned separations were made of all the images to guarantee the best possible reproductions of the photographs. In his eloquent introduction, John Szarkowski observes that 'of all Adams' publications, his portfolios most clearly represent his personal view of the meaning of his work.
			Ben Nicholson - Norbert Linton Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the finest British artists of the twentieth century. This monograph pays tribute to the artist on the centenary of his birth. Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, who first came to international prominence with his famous "white reliefs" of the 1930s. A pioneer of abstract art in Britain, he played a significant role in the European avant-garde, forming close links with Picasso, Braque, Mondrian and others. At the same time he had a strong sense of tradition, maintaining a lifelong attachment to landscape and still-life forms. This book presents a portrait of this complex and single-minded artist, who refused to be pinned down by labels. Within a broadly chronological framework, it focuses on individual works, analysing their content as well as their appearance, and showing how the artist transformed and transcended the influences he absorbed.
			Wall and Piece - Banksy Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except may be when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills, and umbrellas. If you look hard enough you'll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he's putting together the best of his work - old and new in a fully illustrated colour volume.
			Francis Bacons Studio -Margarita Cappock In-depth study of Bacon's studio, where he worked from 1961 until his death, offering insights into the significance on the artist's work of the 7500 objects found there, amongst them photographs, slashed canvases and handwritten notes.
			Andy Warhol Prints - Frayda Feldman This revised and expanded fourth edition of Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1962-1987, with 1,700 illustrations and full documentation, presents the artist's complete graphic production, from his first unique works on paper in 1962 through his final published portfolio in 1987, including trial proof prints and unpublished prints. The fourth edition contains a new portrait section, featuring images of artists, entertainers, writers and sports figures, among others, with 125 illustrations, one hundred of which were not included in the earlier editions of this catalogue. Another highlight is a 33-page supplement covering the illustrated books and portfolios Warhol created in the 1950s, which documents techniques that reappear, in more developed forms, in his later prints. These innovative works of the 1950s, explored in a new essay by Donna De Salvo, represent the first phase in the process of Warhol's conceptualization of printmaking. Two other perceptive essays analyse Warhol's graphic work from different perspectives. In 'God is in the Details', De Salvo traces the evolution of Warhol's printmaking process from blotted line to silkscreen, revealing how Warhol dissected the mechanics of image production to create a truly original - and influential - art form. Arthur C. Danto, in 'Warhol and the Politics of Prints', examines the artist's work in relation to the political climate of the time. Andy Warhol Prints, richly illustrated with over 1,500 colour reproductions and descriptive technical data, is an authoritative reference source that establishes Warhol's prints as among the most distinctive graphic works of our time. By appropriating the silkscreen as a fine art medium, Andy Warhol discovered a way to be original and, in the process, forever altered printmaking in the late 20th century.
			Andrew Wyeth.'Memory and Magic' - Anne Et Al Knutson While striving for a comprehensiveness that is appropriate to the breadth and scope of Wyeth's prolific oeuvre, "Andrew Wyeth: Memory & Magic" will focus on the artist's ongoing love affair with everyday things - domestic, natural and architectural. Found throughout Wyeth's portraits, landscapes and domestic interiors, these objects form patterns that illuminate core themes and reveal the artist wrestling with issues of memory, temporality, embodiment, and the metaphysical. The book will include a number of portraits, which will introduce readers to the people associated with these painted things and places. Organized chronologically and thematically, this book will explore how the artist's approach to these subjects was formed in his early career, became distinct in his middle period, and has been revisited in new and surprising ways in recent years.
			Edward Hopper - Michael Frayne (Taschen Portfolio) (Paperback)
			Best of Helmut Newton - Helmut Newton
			Hogarth. A Life and World - Jennifer Uglow Born and raised in Smithfield, between the hospital and the debtor's prison, William Hogarth witnessed greed and cruelty, crime and disease, the "scummy, solid and stinking" Holborn River, the lively spectacle of "waxworks, rope-dancing and music booths" and "obscene, lascivious and scandalous plays, comedies and farces" otherwise known as Bartholomew Fair. He walked past brewers' barrels, fish stalls, ungrateful beggars, and all orders of fops, harlots and chimney sweeps--and, luckily for us, captured his vibrant 18th-century surroundings with a satirical, exacting and often tender eye.
			Patrick Heron - Mel Gooding Heron rebelled against the idea of the monolithic monochrome canvas. Instead he viewed the canvas as an arena intended for witnessing the effects created by juxtaposition of colour and shape, thus creating a variety of spatial effects, including some that broke the laws of accepted wisdom passed down by the likes of Mondrian and his De Stijl cronies. He said that he could not understand why it was not OK simply to create beautiful pictures for beauty's sake. He also said that colour was the last great area of Art to be explored.His passion for colour and space and all the other thing he loved so much are expressed and reproduced in this book. If you love the same things as he did then miss this book at your peril. It conveys a perfect distillation of the joy and passion that he experienced during his long and fruitful career.
			Mies Van Der Rohe. Less is More - Claire Zimmerman Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture. The creator of the Barcelona Pavilion (1929), the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois (1945-1951) and the Seagram Building in New York (1954-1958), Mies was one of the founders of a new architectural style. Well known for his motto "less is more," he sought a kind of refined purity in architectural expression that was not seen in the reduced vocabulary of other Bauhaus members. His goal was not simply building for those of modest income but building economically in terms of sustainability, both in a technical and aesthetical way; the use of industrial materials such as steel and glass were the foundation of this approach. Though the extreme reduction of form and material in his work garnered some criticism, over the years many have tried - mostly unsuccessfully - to copy his original and elegant style. This book explores more than 20 of his projects between 1906 and 1967, from his early work around Berlin to his most important American buildings.
			L S Lowry - Michael Leber L.S. Lowry's "matchstick men" have become one of the most readily recognised images in 20th-century British art. His vivid and faithful portrayal of the industrial north has led to his adoption as "the people's artist", though art historians and critics have sought for years to analyse his significance and appeal. Over 10,000 works by Lowry are known, ranging from finished oil paintings to hastily drawn sketches. The industrial scene was his most frequent subject but he also painted seascapes and portraits. He was a great humorist and had intense insight into human nature, characterising it without sentiment. His death in 1976 was marked by unprecedented homage by the ordinary people. This study of Lowry's life and work provides a full account of his career. Also included are excerpts from a rare interview given to Edwin Mullins and a discussion by Marina Vaizey of his place in art history.
			Dali. The Paintings - Robert Descharnes This publication presents the entire painted uvre of Salvador Dal (1904-1989). After many years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret finally located all the paintings of this highly prolific artist. This book therefore presents many works that have rarely been seen.
			The Ultimate Picasso - Bridget Leal Of all the books on the man many consider the greatest genius of twentieth-century art, this sumptuous work - now available as a compact, affordable paperback - stands out as truly the "ultimate" Picasso. Not only does it cover in one volume all the periods of Picasso's long, incredibly versatile career - with exquisite reproductions of nearly every significant work he ever created - but the scholarship is also impeccable: each of the three authors is a leading authority on a particular period of Picasso's artistic evolution. Brigitte Leal covers Picasso's formative years from 1881 through 1916, a period that includes his invention of Cubism with Georges Braque. Christine Piot explores the astonishingly fertile period from 1917 through 1952. Marie-Laure Bernadac discusses the unabashed vigor of Picasso's later years, from 1953 until his death in 1973. Over 1200 magnificent reproductions, 798 in full color, illustrate Picasso's breathtaking range of artistic expression, including paintings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics, and sculpture.
			Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey - David Douglas Duncan

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