{"title":"Marco Livingstone","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarco Livingstone’s works offer insightful explorations into modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on influential figures such as David Hockney and Peter Blake. Readers can expect thoughtfully crafted narratives that delve into the intersections of portraiture, culture, and creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging and richly illustrated, Livingstone’s books invite a deeper appreciation of artistic expression and its impact within the broader context of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e. These titles are ideal for anyone interested in the nuanced stories behind some of today’s most celebrated artists.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"peter-blake-by-marco-livingstone-9780500025314","title":"Peter Blake","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fully updated edition of the most comprehensive illustrated survey of the life and work of Peter Blake, one of Britain's most popular artists.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince his emergence in the early 1960s as a key member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake has become one of the best-known and most popular artists of his generation. Though primarily a painter, he has worked across many media, from drawings, watercolours and collages to sculpture and printmaking, as well as commercial art in the form of graphics and album covers—most notably his design for The Beatles' \u003ci\u003eSgt. Pepper\u003c\/i\u003e album in 1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExploring his remarkable creative output from the 1950s to the present, \u003ci\u003ePeter Blake\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive illustrated survey available of the life and work of the artist. Marco Livingstone grounds Blake's art firmly in his working-class origins, identifying a yearning for the innocence of childhood in his bittersweet paintings of the early to mid-1950s that depict children reading comics or going to the Saturday matinee at the cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom that moment, while studying at the Royal College of Art in London, Blake concerned himself with popular entertainments as subject matter and as the source of formal solutions for his paintings. The directness with which Blake gave expression to his enthusiasms for mass culture during the 1950s brought him to the forefront of the Pop Art movement before it had even been named and independently of the investigations into similar areas by other British, American and European artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe radical nature of his collage paintings of 1959-62, in particular, in which he combined existing imagery from popular culture with unapologetically bold and bright colours, made him a singularly influential figure within British Pop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis fully updated edition includes a new chapter on what the artist has jokingly styled his 'Late Period', in which Blake has continued to mine the many strands of his art with undiminished energy and completed some of his most ambitious long-standing projects. As well as the sheer scale of Blake's production, what becomes clear is the kaleidoscopic variety of subject matter, form and medium to be found in his work, its humour and friendly appeal, and, above all, its celebration of life and humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426982314220,"sku":"9780500025314","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780500025314.jpg?v=1774767730"},{"product_id":"hockneys-portraits-and-people-by-marco-livingstone-9780500292341","title":"Hockney's Portraits and People","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEver since he made his first portraits at the age of sixteen, David Hockney has been fascinated by people—'the human clay', as W. H. Auden put it—and how they have been represented throughout the history of art. As much as any other artist in recent years, he has embraced, invigorated, and often subverted traditional portraiture, making it a central concern of his art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a careful selection of works both iconic and previously unpublished, this book explores the many ways in which Hockney has depicted the people around him, be they famous names such as Andy Warhol, Christopher Isherwood, and W. H. Auden or lifelong friends such as Henry Geldzahler and Celia Birtwell, among many others. It tells the story of the artist's relationships with family, friends, and lovers, illustrated by works ranging from the intimate and frequently moving studies of his parents and partners to his very recent large-scale double portraits in watercolour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevealing and always touching, \u003ci\u003eHockney's Portraits and People\u003c\/i\u003e is both a unique record of the life and loves of one of the world's best-known artists, and a valuable glimpse of the moment when life and art meet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430851231980,"sku":"9780500292341","price":48.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780500292341.jpg?v=1774558295"},{"product_id":"david-hockney-by-marco-livingstone-9780500204344","title":"David Hockney","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most popular and influential British artists of our times, David Hockney has never ceased to change his style and ways of working, always re-energising his art with new solutions, fresh ideas, and technical mastery. Now excitedly embracing his 'late period', Hockney remains as engaged as ever with the questions he has always posed for himself—what to depict, how to depict it, and how to persuade the spectator that he or she is an active participant rather than just a passive witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished to mark Hockney's 80th birthday and in the wake of the most extensive Tate retrospective ever accorded to a living artist, this new edition includes a new preface, afterword, and final chapter covering work of the past two decades. Tracing a line from the beginnings of Hockney's career in the early 1960s—the portraits and images of Los Angeles swimming pools, his drawings and photocollages—to his highly acclaimed stage designs for the opera, video works, his iPad drawings and other novel forms of picture-making, Marco Livingstone shows the continuing preoccupation with invention and artifice that has made this artist's work at once popular and enduring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596103860460,"sku":"9780500204344","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780500204344-david-hockney.jpg?v=1777916720"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/marco-livingstone.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}