PHAIDON SELECTS
INTRODUCTION
Phaidon is the world’s premier publisher of books on the visual arts. We believe passionately in the creative act and aim to make it exciting and understandable by all and to celebrate its greatness in everything we produce. We have published books with some of the most creative artists, architects, designers, photographers and chefs of the 20th and 21st centuries. We work collaboratively with the creative arts world’s most inspiring names to achieve the most faithful representation of, and the truest insight into, the way those artists and visionaries interact with the world around them – whatever medium they work in.
This book displays a handful of selected artists featured in Phaidon publications. The artists selected all specialise in a particular area of creative arts. In each area covered, an infographic aims to deliver relevant details of the various publications, including price brackets and amount of hardback or paperbacks.
CONTENTS
Architecture
1-4
Art
5-8
Children’s Books
9-12
Cooking
13-16
Design
17-20
Fashion
21-24
Photography
25-28
Sculpture
29-32
BOOKS ON: Architecture Price Range: Hardback:
£ 1 - 30 £ 31 - 60 £ 61 - 90 £ 91 - 130
1:1 Book ratio. There are155 English books.
Paperback:
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ARCHITECTURE Carlo Scarpa
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Italian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) is a unique figure in the Modern movement and even today his work continues to challenge accepted notions of modern architecture. While intensely revered as an architect of immense detail and consideration, no comprehensive monograph has been produced on this scale to date - nothing that approaches the breadth and depth covered by this title. Scarpa possessed an exceptional understanding of raw materials, and from 1933 to 1947, was artistic director of Venini, one of the most prominent producers of Venetian glass, before beginning his career as an architect. His architecture is steeped in the culture of his home city of Venice, and also takes elements from Japanese culture and numerology. To a degree unmatched by any other Modern architect, Scarpa stood in two worlds, the ancient and the modern, and his architecture, so representative of time and place, is particularly shaped by the experience of the inhabitant.
Fig.1: Portrait of Carlo Scarpa.
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Fig.2: Gipsoteca Canoviana Addition, Possagno, 1955–7; addition; exterior view of the southern facades of Scarpa’s museum additions. Canova’ s Three Graces is visible through the full-height glazing at the end of the long southern gallery. Fig.3: Venezuelan Pavilion, Venice, 1953–6; front elevation from the garden avenue. 03
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Fig. 4: Brion Cemetery, San Vito d’Altivole, 1969–77; Propylaeum, entry portal to the Brion tombs, its surface densely steeped in concrete bands. Fig.5: Banca Popolare, Verona, 1973–8; interlocked serrated walls of the eastern corner’s upper and lower staircases.
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BOOKS ON: Art
Price Range: £ 1 - 30 £ 31 - 60 £ 61 - 90 £ 91 - 130 £ 130 +
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2:1 Book ratio. There are 400 English books.
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ART
Francis Bacon
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The art of Francis Bacon (1909–1992) epitomizes the angst at the heart of the modern human condition. His dramatic images of screaming figures and distorted anatomies are painted with a richly gestural technique, alluding to such Old Masters as Titian, Velåzquez and Rembrandt. Displaying repressed and raw emotion, his body of work includes portraits of Lucian Freud and John Deakin.
Fig.6: Portrait of Francis Bacon.
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Fig.7: Study for Head of George Dyer, 1967 Oil on canvas 35.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in) Private collection Fig.8: 1991 Oil and pastel on canvas 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 58 in) National Gallaries of Scotland, Edinburgh Fig.9: 1954 Oil on canvas 198.7 x 137.1 cm (78.5 x 54 in) Washington, DC 08
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Children’s Books
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1:1 Book ratio. There are 68 English books.
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CHILDREN’S BOOKS Speck Lee Tailfeather Natsko Seki
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Natsko Seki was born in 1976, grew up in Tokyo, studied illustration in Brighton, and made her way to London where she now lives and works. Inspired by architecture, vintage culture and fashion from different ages and cultures, Natsko creates vibrant cityscapes and enjoys applying her friends and family members into her illustrations by collaging photos from her old family albums and her own photographs. In a bid to improve ever worsening relations between our two species, pigeon elder Speck Lee Tailfeather has been elected by his peers to reveal to human beings the truth about pigeons’ finer sensibilities.
Fig.10: Portrait of Natsko Seki.
It is already a little known fact that pigeons are amongst some of the most intelligent creatures in the world. However, Speck plans to divulge more. Namely that - far from the perceived pests who plague our buildings - pigeons are in fact great admirers and aficionados of architecture. It is of course for this reason that they can be found in great numbers around the most beautiful and significant buildings in the world.
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Fig.11: Portrait of Spek Lee Tailfeather
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Fig.12 Fig.12: Speck surveys the Taj Mahal. Fig.13: Speck ventures to a waterfall with some nice architecture.
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BOOKS ON: Cookery
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1:1 Book ratio. There are 60 English books.
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COOKERY
René Redzepi
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Noma is a two Michelin star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi in Copenhagen, Denmark. The cuisine of Noma is Nordic/Scandinavian; the restaurant’s founders René Redzepi and Claus Meyer have attempted to redefine this Nordic cuisine. The cuisine of Noma can be considered more an interpretation of Nordic food than classical Nordic food itself, according to Meyer in the book Noma – Nordic Cuisine. Famous dishes include ‘The Hen and the Egg’. Noma has won the Restaurant magazine award for Best Restaurant three years in a row, back from 2010. In 2010, the restaurant, as a relative newcomer, startlingly stole the crown that El Bulli had held for four consecutive years. This came soon after previous first and second place chefs Ferran Adria and Heston Blumenthal announced that they would be temporarily closing their restaurants. At the time, Noma was viewed as the head of a new movement to spread New Nordic cuisine. Fig.14: Portrait of René Redzepi.
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Fig.15: Fresh Rhubarb. Fig.16: Abstract plate. Fig.17: Boiled egg and flowers. Fig.18: Poached egg. Fig.19: Greens and cheese.
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BOOKS ON: Design
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1:1 Book ratio. There are 82 English books.
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DESIGN
Shiro Kuramata
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Shiro Kuramata (1934–91) was a truly exceptional designer of furniture and interiors. Many of his poetic, precise and unique pieces, like the expanded-metal-mesh, How High the Moon Armchair and the acrylic, aluminium and paper-flower Miss Blanche Chair, are still highly prized, collected by museums like MoMA and the V&A and sold at auction. Sadly, however, most of the hundreds of interiors he designed no longer exist, and can only be glimpsed in photographs or described by those who saw them. This combination of the precious and the disappeared is appropriate for a designer like Kuramata, whose work was neither modern nor nostalgic, neither western nor Asian, but which has a remarkable creative power as well as a sense of endless invention. This compelling and highly influential work is documented here in this beautiful monograph.
Fig.20: Portrait of Shiro Kuramata.
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Fig.23 Fig.21: Simple clock. Fig.22: Drawer piece. Fig.23: Chair. 20
BOOKS ON: Fashion
Price Range: £ 1 - 20 £ 21 - 40 £ 41 - 0
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FASHION
Philip Treacy
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Born in the west of Ireland and an MA student in Fashion Design at the Royal College of Arts in London, Treacy graduated in 1990 and was discovered by the then Style Editor of Tatler Isabella Blow. He soon became, and has remained, the milliner of choice for many of the top fashion designers including Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld, Valentino and Chanel, but is also the first milliner invited to have his own show during Paris couture week. The recipient of numerous international fashion awards, Treacy is credited with changing the perception of hat and accessories in fashion. Treacy’s unique creations are hand-made to order for the like of Grace Jones, Victoria Beckham, Madonna, The Duchess of Cambridge and the daughters of Prince Andrew. Hat maker to royalty and the stars, Treacy designed over 30 hats for the 2011 wedding between Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge. He has designed hats for films, including the enormously successful Harry Potter franchise and has also developed ranges for high street fashion outlets.
Fig.24: Portrait of Philip Treacy.
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Fig.25: Dipping a hat feature in paint. Fig.26: Smoothing sides to a hat feature.
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Fig.27: Photograph of a private show. Fig.28: Flat hat with tassels at private show. Fig.29: Two models at private show. Fig.30: Victoria and David Beckham at the Royal Wedding.
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BOOKS ON: Photography Price Range: £ 1 - 30 £ 31 - 60 £ 61 - 90 £ 91 +
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PHOTOGRAPHY Joel Meyerowitz
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Joel Meyerowitz (b.1938) began his career making spontaneous pictures on the streets of New York and has become known as one of the most important street photographers of his generation. He was one of a small group of photographers who, in the 1960s and 70s was instrumental in changing attitudes towards colour photography from those of resistance to universal acceptance. An innovator and highly influential teacher, he has won innumerable awards and perhaps is best known for his pioneering colour photographs of architecture, light and space.
Fig.31: Portrait of Joel Meyerowitz.
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Fig.32: Along the banks of the Yangtze river in China, 1979. Fig.33: Bay/sky in Massachusetts USA, 1965. Fig.34: New York City, 1963. Fig.35: New York City, 1963.
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BOOKS ON: Sculpture Price Range: £ 20 - 30 £ 31 - 40 £ 41 - 50
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SCULPTURE David Smith
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One of the best-known American sculptors of the modern period, David Smith (1906–1965) was a pioneer of abstract sculpture. He revolutionized the possibilities of metal sculpture by introducing the industrial process of welding, enabling him to create the most extraordinarily balanced compositions, using metal to ‘draw in space’. Predominantly known as a sculptor, the book also sheds light on his prolific practice of drawing, sketching, writing and photographing his sculptures.
Fig.36: Portrait of David Smith.
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Fig.37: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1939. Fig.38: The Estate of David Smith New York, 1932.
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Fig.40 Fig.39: Sculpture Garden Washington DC, 1936. Fig.40: Weatherspoon Art Museum University of North Carolina, 1937.
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This book displays a handful of selected artists featured in Phaidon publications. The artists selected all specialise in a particular area of creative arts. In each area covered, an infographic aims to deliver relevant details of the various publications, including price brackets and amount of hardback or paperbacks.