Мартин Гейфорд — новинки

Историко-искусствоведческое исследование Мартина Гейфорда (род. 1952), автора сборников интервью с Дэвидом Хокни и Люсьеном Фрейдом, книг о британском искусстве, Ван Гоге и Микеланджело, посвящено лондонской живописи 1950–1970-х годов, в которой причудливо переплелись новшества поп-арта с его одержимостью массовой культурой общества потребления, экзистенциально ориентированный неоэкспрессионизм и традиционный для Англии интерес к красочной материи. Творчество ведущих британских художников этого времени — Фрэнсиса Бэкона, Люсьена Фрейда, Р. Б.Китая, Дэвида Хокни и др. — рассматривается автором в контексте эстетических поисков и бурной богемной жизни свингующего Лондона.

Книга написана на материале бесед Гейфорда с большинством художников, о которых он рассказывает; многочисленные выдержки из этих бесед погружают читателя в атмосферу британского искусства недавнего прошлого.

Новая книга английского историка искусства и художественного критика Мартина Гейфорда (род. 1952), автора сборников интервью с Дэвидом Хокни и Люсьеном Фрейдом, исследований о британской живописи 1960–1980-х годов, Ван Гоге и Микеланджело, представляет собой увлекательный искусствоведческий травелог: в ней собраны рассказы о своеобразных паломничествах к святыням классического и современного искусства. Доказывая тезис о том, что любое художественное произведение, а великое — особенно, может быть в полной мере воспринято и прочувствовано только воочию (не в репродукции), Гейфорд делится своими впечатлениями о поездках в Дордонь для осмотра палеолитической пещеры Лез-Эзи, в Тируваннамалай, центр индийского культа Шивы, в музей минималистской скульптуры в городке Марфа (Техас), а также о встречах с художниками — Ансельмом Кифером, Мариной Абрамович, Робертом Раушенбергом и другими — у них в мастерских.

В тридцать один год Микеланджело считался лучшим художником Италии и, возможно, мира; задолго до его смерти в преклонном возрасте без малого девяноста лет почитатели называли его величайшим скульптором и художником, из когда-либо живших на свете. (А недоброжелатели, в которых тоже не было недостатка — высокомерным грубияном, скрягой и мошенником). Десятилетие за десятилетием он трудился в эпицентре бурных событий, определявших лицо европейского мира и ход истории. Свершения Микеланджело грандиозны — достаточно вспомнить огромную площадь фресок Сикстинской капеллы или мраморного гиганта Давида. И все же осуществленное им на пределе человеческих сил — лишь малая толика его замыслов, масштаб которых был поистине более под стать демиургу, чем смертному…

В своей книге известный искусствовед и художественный критик Мартин Гейфорд исследует, каков был мир, в котором титаническому гению Возрождения довелось свершать свои артистические подвиги, и каково было жить в этом мире ему самому — Микеланджело Буонарроти, человеку, который навсегда изменил наше представление о том, каким должен быть художник.

In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking and sometimes provocative new book, leading sculptor Antony Gormley, informed and energised by a lifetime of making, and art critic and historian Martin Gayford, explore sculpture as a transnational art form with its own compelling history. The authors' lively conversations and explorations make unexpected connections across time and media.
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«История картин для детей» предлагает совершить путешествие по истории искусства — от древних рисунков на стенах пещер до изображений, создаваемых сегодня с помощью компьютеров и смартфонов. Основанная на одноименном бестселлере для взрослых, эта книга составлена из разговоров двух друзей — художника Дэвида Хокни и искусствоведа Мартина Гейфорда. Они удивительно просто и интересно рассказывают о множестве тем, связанных с художественным творчеством. Роз Блейк дополнила текст веселыми иллюстрациями, которые наверняка понравятся юной аудитории.

‘What can painting do?’

This question bound together a diverse community of artists in London after the Second World War. In answering it, many became household names: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Howard Hodgkin and more.

Drawing on decades of interviews, Martin Gayford unpicks the creative threads and maverick personalities of interwoven lives from postwar Soho bohemia to the Swinging Sixties. It is a story of friendships, experiences and artistic concerns shared between talented individuals who each developed their own singular approach to painting. All passionately believed that even in the age of new media, an ancient form could do fresh and marvellous things.

A masterfully narrated account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs and works of art

The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s is the story of interlinking friendships, shared experiences and artistic concerns among a number of acclaimed artists, including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling and Howard Hodgkin.

Drawing on extensive first-hand interviews, many previously unpublished, with important witnesses and participants, the art critic Martin Gayford teases out the thread connecting these individual lives, and demonstrates how painting thrived in London against the backdrop of Soho bohemia in the 1940s and 1950s and ‘Swinging London’ in the 1960s. He shows how, influenced by such different teachers as David Bomberg and William Coldstream, and aware of the work of contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock as well as the traditions of Western art from Piero della Francesca to Picasso and Matisse, the postwar painters were allied in their confidence that this ancient medium, in opposition to photography and other media, could do fresh and marvellous things. They asked the question ‘what can painting do?’ and explored in their diverse ways, but with equal passion, the possibilities of paint.

Умудренный и воодушевленный опытом целой жизни, отданной живописи, рисованию, экспериментам с фото- и другими камерами, Хокни в компании с художественным критиком Мартином Гейфордом рассуждает о том, как и для чего создавались картины на протяжении тысячелетий. Что заставляет людей делать метки на плоской поверхности? Как в неподвижной картине представить движение — и зачем кино и телевидение обращаются к опыту живописцев прошлого? Как статичный образ на холсте или экране может вобрать в себя время и пространство? Что показывают картины: правду или ложь? Можно ли верить фотографиям? Сопоставляя самые разные изображения — кадр из…

A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can give an account of what we see. But all picture-makers face a common problem: how to compress three-dimensional people, things and places onto a flat surface? The results are often pigeonholed as paintings, photographs or films. Alternatively, they may be sorted by date and style: medieval, Renaissance or baroque. In fact, Hockney argues, whether they are made by brush, camera or digital program, and no matter if they are on cave walls or computer screens, first and foremost they are all pictures. And for us to understand how we see the world around us - and hence ourselves - what is needed is a history of pictures. This is that book.

Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do you show movement in a still picture, and how, conversely, do films and television connect with old masters? What are the ways in which time and space can be condensed into a static image on a canvas or screen? What do pictures show - truth or lies? Do photographs present the world as we experience it?

Juxtaposing a rich variety of images - a still from a Disney cartoon with a Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshige, a scene from an Eisenstein film with a Velázquez painting - the authors cross the normal boundaries between high culture and popular entertainment, and make unexpected connections across time and media. Building on Hockney's groundbreaking book Secret Knowledge, they argue that film, photography, painting and drawing are deeply interconnected. Insightful and thought-provoking, A History of Pictures is an important contribution to our appreciation of how we represent our reality.

A new biography of Michelangelo by Martin Gayford, the acclaimed author of Constable in Love and The Yellow House.
There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser). For decade after decade, he worked near the dynamic centre of events: the vortex at which European history was changing from Renaissance to Counter Reformation. Few of his works - including the huge frescoes of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the marble giant David and the Last Judgment - were small or easy to accomplish. Like a hero of classical mythology - such as Hercules, whose statue Michelangelo carved in his youth - he was subject to constant trials and labours. In Michelangelo Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be Michelangelo Buonarroti, and how he transformed forever our notion of what an artist could be.

David Hockney’s exuberant work is widely loved and widely praised, but he is also an incisive and original thinker on art. Based on a series of conversations between Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, this book distills the essence of the artist’s lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface.

How does drawing make one “see things clearer and clearer and clearer still”? What significance do differing media, from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad, have for the images we see? What is the relationship between the images we make and the reality around us? And how can we fully enjoy the pleasures of just looking—at trees, or faces, or sunrises?

These conversations are punctuated by wise and witty observations by both artist and interviewer on many other artists—Vermeer, Tiepolo, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, and Monet among them—and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney spent so many years, and East Yorkshire, his birthplace, to which he has now returned.

Lucian Freud, perhaps the world's leading portrait painter, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting, and he vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of creating a work of art.


As Freud completes his portrait of Gayford, so the art critic produces his own portrait of the artist, giving a rare insight into Freud’s working practice. Through their wide-ranging conversations, the reader learns not only about Freud’s choice of models, lighting, setting, pose, and colors, but also about his likes and dislikes, his encounters and experiences, and the ways in which he approaches his relationship with each portrait subject. Gayford records Freud’s observations on the work of Michelangelo, Vermeer, Titian, Chardin, Goya, van Gogh, Mondrian, and his great contemporary Francis Bacon. The book is full of revealing anecdotes about the people Freud has met in the course of his long career, including Max Ernst, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, George Orwell, W. H. Auden, Greta Garbo, and his grandfather Sigmund Freud.


Illustrated with photographs of Freud at work and an etching that Freud did of Gayford after the painting was completed, the book also features other paintings by Freud from the 1940s to the present, as well as images by artists discussed by Freud with Gayford.

Discussing the visual arts successfully in words is often held to be an impossible task. In fact it is merely difficult. And since the days of the ancient Greeks, many writers of all kinds have taken up the challenge -- not only art critics but novelists, poets, gossips, artists, and essayists. In The Grove Book of Art Writing, Martin Gayford and Karen Wright have collected the best and most lively attempts to pin it down, in a single-volume cornucopia of writing on art. From Vasari and Freud on why Mona Lisa smiles, to Adolf Hitler on the degeneracy of modernism, to Picasso on how to measure the depiction of the female body, art historians, art critics, artists, as well as the aforementioned weigh in on what makes art so wonderful, frustrating, what makes it art. From the deadly serious to the deeply witty, from the sublime to the ridiculous, The Grove Book of Art Writing is an eloquent compendium of insight into the diverse ways the visual arts can be seen and thought about.