books by Martin Gayford

books by Martin Gayford

books:

Martin Gayford

British Figurative Art: Painting, the Human Figure

Martin Gayford

Art Books Intl Ltd, 1998

An Interesting Overview
BRITISH FIGURATIVE ART is basically a catalogue for an exhibition and as such there is a bit more curatorial edge than other surveys of current figurative painting. The British have always taken the lead in representing the Figure so it is with much interest that we ...

BP Portrait Award

National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2001

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeksin Provence

Martin Gayford

Mariner Books, 2008

Vincent and Paul
A greatly enjoyable book. While focussed on just nine weeks in Arles, the narriative darts back and forth over the past lives of Van Gogh and Gauguin in the attempt to explain their specific actions that took place in and around the famous Yellow House. Martin ...

The Grove Book of Art Writing: Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst

Grove Press, 2000

History and Philosphy of Art
Gayford and Wright have gathered together some seminal statements on Art made over the centuries. Covering artists, their patrons, media and techniques, the book is a very useful insight into interpretations of Art in all of its forms. It becomes heavy reading ...

Classic Jazz (Essential Guides (Simon & Schuster))
Martin Gayford

Carlton Books Ltd, 2005

Offered with an exclusive compilation CD containing 10 genre-defining tracks, each title in the series of six, reflecting retail's most popular categories, looks at the history of the music and its greatest performers, provides a who's who, reviews the classic albums and catelogues the master works currently available.

Patrick Heron

Patrick Heron, David Sylvester, ...

Tate Gallery Pubn, 1998

Recommended
It's not easy to find writing on Heron or repoductions of his work but this book about covers it all. Examines the artist's art and life and how they relate. Wonderful repoductions of work throughout a long career---every phase is represented. A great tool for ...

Euan Uglow: Controlled Passion - 50 Years of Painting

Richard Kendall, Martin Gayford

Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 2003

exceptional overview
Contrary to the book description provided by Amazon this is not the first Uglow book, although it is by far the superior due to the increase in material. Uglow is relatively unknown in the US primarily due to his success in Great Britain (virtually his entire ouevre is ...