{"title":"Ester Coen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEster Coen\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the vibrant intersections of art, culture, and society through compelling narratives that challenge and inspire. Her works, including titles such as \u003cem\u003eFuturBalla\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFuturLiberty\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers to reimagine contemporary creative landscapes and the possibilities they hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the world of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Coen’s writing offers insightful reflections on the evolving nature of freedom and expression. Her books encourage a thoughtful engagement with both present challenges and future aspirations in artistic practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"futurliberty-by-richard-cork-9780500026717","title":"FuturLiberty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFuturLiberty\u003c\/em\u003e offers a unique exploration of the close relationship between art and design, showcased through the historic and contemporary fabric designs of Liberty, where avant-garde art has influenced the colourful, geometric collections for more than half a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiberty is renowned internationally for its fabrics, especially its floral patterns, but it also has a long history of developing bold, geometric designs. Many of these have been inspired by early 20th-century avant-garde art, notably by the Italian Futurists—by artists such as Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni—and their English contemporaries, the Vorticists, including Christopher Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn anticipation of Liberty's 150th anniversary, esteemed couturier and interior designer Federico Forquet has curated a striking new range of fabrics—the FuturLiberty Collection—that carries Liberty's creative heritage into our own age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Futurist and Vorticist art that lies behind the new designs is explored by specialists Ester Coen and Richard Cork, while archivist Anna Buruma examines Liberty's rich history of avant-garde designs. By illuminating the process by which the FuturLiberty Collection came into being, this highly visual study also reveals how art can inform design, making it contemporary, relevant, and engaging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833041178860,"sku":"9780500026717","price":132.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/88033482366.jpg?v=1758431167"},{"product_id":"futurballa-by-keiko-kawashima-9788857233864","title":"FuturBalla","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFuelled by a spirit of solidarity with the world of outcasts, Giacomo Balla learned his trade in Turin and reflected the cruel, painful reality of society's underclass with a penetrating, human eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eParallel to the themes of suffering and alienation, the artist developed an original style of the utmost technical sensitivity rooted in the Divisionist schools of the Piedmont region. It is this brushwork, with its wealth of glowing streaks, bold contrasts of light and dark, and daring perspective, that constituted a unique and extraordinary model for the Futurist generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the second phase, Balla embraced the poetics of Futurism and addressed the themes of modernity in the chromatic synthesis of individual elements of light, visible in the Iridescent Interpenetrations. This was followed by exploration in the third phase of the new dynamic reality with his \u003cem\u003eLines of Speed\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a gradual progress towards pure mathematical, vertical, diagonal, and spiral signs, Balla discovered new categories of representation in its primary parameters, in the amplification of the physical phenomenon, isolated and dissected in its reality as vibratile matter. A vision that plumbed the greatest depths in order to transcend the limits of the frame in an ever-greater response to life, the ultimate signal of a universal force whose power reverberates in the \"voices of nature\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430787596524,"sku":"9788857233864","price":78.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9788857233864.jpg?v=1774558604"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ester-coen.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}