Art

Rembrandt

Images and Metaphors
by Christian Tümpel

Rembrandt used the achievements of his teachers, predecessors and contemporaries to develop and realise his own artistic aims and abilities, and it was to these too that he owed his basic artistic impulses. His urge to achieve unmistakable originality led him to overturn aesthetic and thematic conventions; he expanded technique and experimented with the use of colour and forms of etching. Although the art of the past always served him as a starting point, he sought to surpass it by staging works that were both unexpectedly daring and apposite to their subject.

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Price: £16.00

Pictures from the Surface of the Earth


by Wim Wenders

German film director Wim Wenders always carries an old panoramic camera. As this collection of his landscape photography attests, over the past 30 years he has used it to capture vast stretches of barren terrain and sleepy backwater towns. The images resemble ready-made sets for his offbeat, melancholic films such as 1984's Paris, Texas.

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Price: £11.99

L S Lowry

A Life
by Shelley Rohde

In the thirty years since L S Lowry’s death several items have come into the public domain - including collections of private letters, now housed in the archives of The Lowry, the millennium arts centre on the banks of the Irwell, which were made available to the author. Extracts from these will be included in her new biography to give added insight to the man.

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Price: £20.00

Rembrandt

Images and Metaphors
by Christian Tümpel

Rembrandt used the achievements of his teachers, predecessors and contemporaries to develop and realise his own artistic aims and abilities, and it was to these too that he owed his basic artistic impulses. His urge to achieve unmistakable originality led him to overturn aesthetic and thematic conventions; he expanded technique and experimented with the use of colour and forms of etching. Although the art of the past always served him as a starting point, he sought to surpass it by staging works that were both unexpectedly daring and apposite to their subject.

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Price: £24.00

Monet


by Matthias Arnold

Claude Monet spent most of his life painting his own spontaneous impressions of nature and the world that was closest to him. His works provoked the description 'Impressionist', the name given to the style of art that he created together with Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley.

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Price: £7.99