Due out at the end of this month, The Guide is a hard copy manual designed to complement Klein's successful first instructional video, Flower Painting. The booklet will contain still images from the DVD, as well as in-depth discussions on his technique, and his personal thoughts on the project.
I'm looking forward to Klein's Guide, and am hoping that more artists offer similar supplements to their videos in the future. Previously, I have watched several videos in my collection while having a copy of a magazine interview with the artist at hand, and I have found it very helpful.
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Philip de László: Life and Art by Duff Hart-Davis
Hardcover, 448 pages, 45 color illustrations, 100 B&W
"Philip de Laszlo (1869-1937) was the pre-eminent portrait artist working in Britain between 1907 and 1937. He painted nearly 3,000 portraits, including those of numerous kings and queens, four American presidents and countless members of the European nobility. There has been no biography of him since 1939, and this new account of both his life and his work draws on previously untapped material from the family archive of over 15,000 documents, to which the author has had unrivalled access. It establishes the intrinsic importance of his art and re-positions him in his rightful place alongside his great contemporaries John Singer Sargent, Sir John Lavery and Giovanni Boldini."
(from the book description available at Michael Shamansky, Bookseller, Inc.).
Available Summer 2010.
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John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter by Christiana Payne
Hardcover, 256 pages, 120 color illustrations, 150 B&W
John Brett (1831-1902) was considered the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school, and this book examines his life as well as presents the catalogue raisonné of his artworks.
Available Summer 2010.
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4 comments:
Great to hear about a new deLazlo book, his other one is out of print and goes for big $ now. It's too bad that most of the illustrations will be in black and white though. One of the benefits of most new art books is that they are now usually 100 percent color, ah well.
aw.. the John Brett link isn't working for me. I'll just have to go hunt it down and find it. Looks ridiculous amounts of awesome. i love me some Pre-Raphaelites. THANKS :]
Kendra- I think I fixed the link...
OH yes! Thank you!
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