Böcker av Kathryn Brown

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices.The first in-depth examination of this major artist's impact on contemporary art, this book explores how contemporary practitioners have used Degas's creativity as a springboard to engage imaginatively and critically with themes of colonialism, gender, race and class. Through close analyses of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, Brown shows how Degas's technical and compositional experiments have been extended or challenged in innovative ways by contemporary artists including: Frank Auerbach, Cecily Brown, Xinyi Cheng, Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Chantal Joffe, Leon Kossoff, R.B. Kitaj, Juan Muñoz, Paula Rego, Jenny Saville, Yinka Shonibare, Cy Twombly and Rebecca Warren.Eschewing familiar conceptions of influence, the book opens transhistorical dialogues that generate new perspectives on histories of 19th-century art. These encounters also reframe contemporary art practices, prompt innovative ideas about the agency of visual artefacts, and offer a new methodology for writing about art. With such breadth of analysis, the book makes an important contribution to scholarship in Degas studies, contemporary art, reception theory, art history, and fine art.

For most of the Gryphs in Arias's flock, their arduous trek from the mainland ended with discovering new territory and starting a brand new eyrie. For Arias, however, the journey has only just begun.Ever since the events at Dantzik, Arias hasn't been the same. Plagued by a constant fatigue, his waking hours are spent both haunted by the past and worried about the future. What is wrong with him? Where are Brynne and Tybrake? Is the Pale still a threat? Are his friends, still stranded across the sea, safe?Is anyone ever truly safe?Unsatisfied with sitting by idly, Arias sets out on a quest to uncover answers. He finds himself on an epic journey of self-discovery, where he'll learn of a shocking new ability, encounter a mysterious and powerful creature, and finally be forced to confront the dark ties that exist within his world... and within himself.

Art auctions are spectacular theatres of the contemporary art world. From glittering black-tie events to the anonymity of the digital realm, auctions stage the creation of value and can make or break artists' careers. They are a strange phenomenon: relics from the 18th century which remain at the heart of the art world in our digital age. And yet they have undergone huge transformation in the past decades, adapting to online formats, encroaching on territory which was once the preserve of galleries, and expanding ruthlessly into new regions and categories. Why are they still relevant, and what does their future hold? This accessible new book offers a fresh view of auctions, exploring their multifaceted role in today's international art market.

Arias's future-and that of the unlikely flock he's travelling with-is uncertain. New challenges present peril at every turn, granting them no promise of a safe destination. Arias fears that the group's differences will threaten to tear it apart, and Hlaena, his only surviving family member, seems to be hiding something from him. A race against time is the last thing he needs... but it may be exactly what the future holds.

An outcast among his kind, Arias the Gryphon is taken aback when a group of newcomers called Strigigryph offer him a place among their ranks. Their territory is stunning, but Arias can't shake the feeling that something isn't right. Why don't other Gryphons here ever speak? What is the leader of the Strigigryph trying to hide? And how can Arias learn more when every tree here seems to be posted with sentries?Arias's discoveries could mean more than just the end of the world as Gryph-kind knows it... It could mean watching the destruction of an entire ecosystem.

A new, critical biography of the innovative and influential French artist Henri Matisse.

A monograph that examines the depiction of reading women in French art of the early Third Republic. It evaluates the pictorial significance of this imagery, its critical reception, and its impact on notions of femininity and social relations. It covers a broad range of paintings, prints, and sculptures.