Mel Gooding Livres

The work of one of the leading figures in British abstract art.

Outstanding interviews with 43 towering figures of recent art history.

This delightful collection allows everyone to enjoy firsthand the provocative methods used by the artists and poets of the Surrealist school to break through conventional thought and behavior to a deeper truth. Invented and played by such artists as André Breton, Rene Magritte, and Max Ernst, these gems still produce results ranging from the hilarious to the mysterious and profound.

Make art as modern artists do! A quirky collection of games and techniques inspired by modern art to encourage the creative impulse, from the creators of Mind Games and Psychobox. It is one of the great liberating ideas of modern art that everyone is a creative being capable of making art. But all too often a mechanical education stifles the creative impulse, induces anxiety, and represses the imagination. Making art is a form of play with techniques, rules, and strategies--and everyone can play! Art Rules! (And How to Break Them) liberates you to make art as modern artists do. You learn from the inside how modern art works and how to look at it, creatively, with new eyes. This box set answers the questions what is modern art? and how does it work? It is an education and an inspiration. There is nothing like it. Box set containing a 64-page booklet, Modern Art: Inside Out, and 42 interactive cards that encourage you to try modern art techniques yourself--including collage, photographic games, picture poems, surrealist games, and more.

Make art as modern artists do! A quirky collection of games and techniques inspired by modern art to encourage the creative impulse, from the creators of Mind Games and Psychobox.      It is one of the great liberating ideas of modern art that everyone is a creative being capable of making art. But all too often a mechanical education stifles the creative impulse, induces anxiety, and represses the imagination. Making art is a form of play with techniques, rules, and strategies--and everyone can play! Art Rules! (And How to Break Them) liberates you to make art as modern artists do. You learn from the inside how modern art works and how to look at it, creatively, with new eyes. This box set answers the questions "what is modern art?" and "how does it work?" It is an education and an inspiration. There is nothing like it. Box set containing a 64-page booklet, "Modern Art: Inside Out," and 42 interactive cards that encourage you to try modern art techniques yourself—including collage, photographic games, picture poems, surrealist games, and more.

Born in British Guiana in 1934, Bowling arrived in England in his late teens, going on to study at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney and Derek Boshier. By the early 1960s he was recognised as an original force in the London art scene, with a style that combined abstract elements. This title deals with the art of Frank Bowling.

This is the first monograph on the Scottish-born artist Elsa Vaudrey (1905-1990), whose 60-year career began in the 1920s when she was a student at the Glasgow School of Art. Perhaps best known for her atmospheric abstract paintings, which she executed from the late 1950s onwards, she also produced a large body of figurative work, mainly still lifes and landscapes, most of which have never before been seen. This lavishly illustrated book brings together both stages of her artistic journey for the first time. Although informed by an understanding of the Glasgow School, Fauvism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, Elsa Vaudrey's vision was highly personal and she developed an expressive and vibrant style entirely her own. Her paintings were often a response to her immediate surroundings, to places such as Wookey Hole in Somerset (where she lived with her husband, the artist Peter Barker-Mill), Chelsea in London, the Welsh countryside and, further afield, Rome, Paris, Antibes and Jerusalem. During her lifetime, she exhibited widely both in Britain and abroad, most notably in a series of solo shows at the Redfern Gallery in London. Much of the book was informed by the artist's own papers, collected together in the Elsa Vaudrey archive, which chart key moments in her personal and professional life and document her friendships with figures such as John Cowper Powys, Mary Quant, Ceri Richards, Eduardo Paolozzi and Erica Brausen.

Mick Moon RA was born in Edinburgh in 1937 and grew up in Blackpool. Moon's paintings and prints combine a wide variety of media and techniques in complex and intriguing layers. The art historian Mel Gooding provides an authoritative insight into his practice and a definitive overview of his career.

One of Plecnik's finest and most exuberant mature works, the Library exemplifies his eccentric Mannerist style and synthesizes both Classical and vernacular sources. It is also unquestionably his most significant building in his native Slovenia.