Susie Hodge: Artistic Places | Buch

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Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find peace in Monet’s lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a printmaker’s pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to stretch your imagination, or contemplate light and the changing seasons on Chelsea Embankment.

Artistic Places is a stunningly hand-illustrated, visionary guide for seekers of beauty, rare tales and cultural riches. Find yourself instantly transported to the places where great artists have sought refuge, found their inspiration and changed the course of art history forever.

Susie Hodge, bestselling author and art historian, presents 25 famous and forgotten artistic destinations around the world, and connects these to the artists they inspired. In keeping with the Inspired Traveller’s Guide series design, each entry is accompanied by specially commissioned illustrations from Amy Grimes which perfectly evoke the wonders that first attracted the masters, while Hodge delves into each location's curious history with insightful stories both in and beyond the canon. So take a leaf out of your favourite artist’s sketchbook and discover the places they loved best.

Artists and locations include:

J.A.M Whistler in London, England
John Constable in Suffolk, England
Barbara Hepworth in St Ives, England
Paula Rego in Cascais and Estoril, Portugal
Pablo Picasso and Guernica, Spain
Salvador Dalí in Catalonia, Spain
Claude Monet in Giverny, France
Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France
Rene Magritte in Brussels, Belgium
Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland
Michelangelo in Florence, Italy
Canaletto in Venice, Italy
Johannes Vermeer in Delft, Netherlands
Anni Albers in Dessau, Germany
Caspar David Friedrich in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany
Gustav Klimt and Lake Attersee, Austria
Edvard Munch in Oslo, Norway
Hilma af Klint and Lake Mälaren, Sweden
Henri Matisse in Tangier, Morocco
Hokusai on Mount Fuji, Japan
Paul Gauguin in Papeete and Papeari, Tahiti
Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York, USA
Grant Wood in Iowa, USA
Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico, USA
Frida Kahlo in Coyoacán, Mexico

Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Spiritual Places, Literary Places, Hidden Places and Mystical Places.

J.A.M Whistler in London, England
John Constable in Suffolk, England
Barbara Hepworth in St Ives, England
Paula Rego in Cascais and Estoril, Portugal
Pablo Picasso and Guernica, Spain
Salvador Dalí in Catalonia, Spain
Claude Monet in Giverny, France
Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France
Rene Magritte in Brussels, Belgium
Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland
Michelangelo in Florence, Italy
Canaletto in Venice, Italy
Johannes Vermeer in Delft, Netherlands
Anni Albers in Dessau, Germany
Caspar David Friedrich in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany
Gustav Klimt and Lake Attersee, Austria
Edvard Munch in Oslo, Norway
Hilma af Klint and Lake Mälaren, Sweden
Henri Matisse in Tangier, Morocco
Hokusai on Mount Fuji, Japan
Paul Gauguin in Papeete and Papeari, Tahiti
Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York, USA
Grant Wood in Iowa, USA
Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico, USA
Frida Kahlo in Coyoacán, Mexico

Über den Autor

Susie Hodge has written over 100 books on art, art history and artistic techniques, including I Know an Artist, Art Quest: Classic Art Counterfeit, What Makes Great Design, Modern Art Mayhem, Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That, Art in Detail and Modern Art in Detail. In addition, she hosts lectures, talks and practical workshops, and regularly appears on television and radio, as well as in documentaries. She has twice been named the No. 1 art writer by the Independent.Amy Grimes is an illustrator based in London, UK. Drawing inspiration from nature and the natural world, Amy's work often features bright and bold illustrated motifs, floral icons and leafy landscapes. As well as working on commissioned illustrations, Amy also sells prints, textiles and stationery under the brand of Hello Grimes.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS:

Introduction 6
London, England, J.A.M Whistler 10
Suffolk, England, John Constable 16
St Ives, England, Barbara Hepworth 20
Cascais and Estoril, Portugal, Paula Rego 26
Guernica, Spain, Pablo Picasso 30
Catalonia, Spain, Salvador Dalí 36
Giverny, France, Claude Monet 42
Arles, France, Vincent van Gogh 48
Brussels, Belgium, Rene Magritte 54
Bern, Switzerland, Paul Klee 58
Florence, Italy, Michelangelo 64
Venice, Italy, Canaletto 70
Delft, Netherlands, Johannes Vermeer 78
Dessau, Germany, Anni Albers 82
Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany, Caspar David Friedrich 88
Lake Attersee, Austria, Gustav Klimt 92
Oslo, Norway, Edvard Munch 98
Lake Mälaren, Sweden, Hilma af Klint 102
Tangier, Morocco, Henri Matisse 106
Mount Fuji, Japan, Katsushika Hokusai 112
Papeete and Papeari, Tahiti, Paul Gauguin 118
New York, USA, Jean-Michel Basquiat 124
Iowa, USA, Grant Wood 128
New Mexico, USA, Georgia O’Keeffe 134
Coyoacán, Mexico, Frida Kahlo 140

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Allgemeine Kunst
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Inspired Traveller's Guides
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780711254534
ISBN-10:	0711254532
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Hodge, Susie
Illustrator:	Grimes, Amy
Hersteller:	Quarto Publishing PLC Inspired Traveller's Guides
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	218 x 150 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Susie Hodge
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.03.2021
Gewicht:	0,439 kg