Joanna Sheers Seidenstein Livres

Turner's sketchbooks provide us with a rare and unique opportunity to witness the building blocks, steps and missteps of an artist unparalleled in impact.

New volume in the Frick Diptych series features an essay by Susan Grace Galassi, curator emerita at The Frick Collection, paired with a contribution from renowned artist Olafur Eliasson.

"This compelling new poetry collection presents Hypatia of Alexandria, the Neoplatonic philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who was murdered by Christians in the fifth century. The dearth of fact and truth about her has led to many false and fanciful representations of Hypatia. Hypatia’s Wake addresses these and the reliable truth about her life. The double bind, a situation in which a person is given two different messages one of which negates the other, features largely in Hypatia’s Wake. It links Hypatia’s life and example to Luce Irigaray’s philosophical theory. If you’re a woman you’re damned if you fail at philosophy, but also if you succeed at it. If we make amends to history and the river of time by waking Hypatia’s death, we wake up to her life, and the significance of our loss."-- Provided by publisher

In this beautiful selection, Ian Warrell employs the very finest examples of Turner's Venetian studies to either guide your next visit or awaken your memories of trips past.

An engaging look at one of the central motifs in the work of the great 19th- century painter

Explores Rembrandt's unique approach to depicting the nature of divine encounter and the complexities of its representation.

Up until a few years ago, biographies of both JMW Turner and John Ruskin had claimed that, in 1858, Ruskin burned bundles of erotic paintings and drawings by Turner in a fit of embarsassed Victorian censorship, to protect Turner's posthumous reputation. This title examines this little known aspect of the artist's oeuvre.