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Publications 2017–18 Publications 2017–18 Shortlisted for Saltire Society Publisher of the Year New Books The National Galleries of Scotland’s award-winning TRUE TO LIFE British Realist publishing house is committed to producing books Painting in the on the visual arts which are engaging, accessible 1920s & 1930s and affordable, combining high-quality writing and rigorous research with the best in contemporary design. As well as producing books that provide access to the national collection and accompany exhibitions, we publish a number of titles on different aspects of art, art practice and art history, furthering the Galleries' programme of scholarly research. Our publications are designed to enhance the visitor experience and to reflect and extend the Galleries’ educational and scholarly activities. Our publications encompass new academic research; fresh perspectives on well-known and loved art; books aimed at introducing those outside Scotland to our national collection, and the Scottish public to artworks from home and abroad; children’s titles; lectures; full catalogues and bite-sized introductions. Most of True To Life: British Realist passed out of fashion as abstraction and our titles are highly illustrated and we are dedicated to Painting in the 1920s & 1930s Pop Art became the dominant trends in ensuring the finest production values. the post-war years. In the last decade Patrick Elliott and Sacha Llewellyn their work has re-emerged and interest We have been shortlisted for Best Exhibition Catalogue 300 X 245MM | 144PP | JULY 2017 in them has grown. Interwar realist art at the British Book Design and Production Awards a 140 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS embraces a number of different styles, 978 1 911054 05 4 | £19.95 PAPER number of times and won with From Death to Death and but is characterised by fine drawing, other Small Tales in 2013. In 2016, we were shortlisted British realist art of the 1920s and meticulous craftsmanship, a tendency 1930s is visually stunning – strong, towards classicism and an aversion to for the Saltire Society Publisher of the Year Award. seductive and demonstrating extraordi- impressionism and visible brushwork. nary technical skill – and yet it is often Artists such as Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, overshadowed by abstract art. This book Meredith Frampton, James Cowie and presents the very first overview of British Winifred Knights combine fastidious realist painting of the period, showcasing ‘Old Master’ detail with 1920s modernity. outstanding works from private and Featuring many Scottish and women public collections across the UK. Of the artists, this book promises a fascinating 58 artists featured, many were major discovery of this captivating period of figures in the 1920s and 1930s but later British art. NEW BOOKS | 3 A Perfect Chemistry: are among the first images of social A New Era: Scottish Modern Art movements of modern art, from Fauvism Photographs by Hill & Adamson documentary photography. 1900–1950 to Cubism, Abstraction, Constructivism In the space of four and a half years Hill and Surrealism, will also be revealed. J.D. Anne M. Lyden and Adamson produced several thousand Alice Strang Fergusson and S.J. Peploe’s daring work 250 X 205MM | 120PP | (HB) MAY 2017; prints encompassing landscapes, archi- 265 X 245MM | 136PP | DECEMBER 2017 made in pre-World War One Paris is a (PB) JAN 2018 | 110 ILLUSTRATIONS tectural views, tableaux vivants from 80 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS lesser known aspect of the famous Scottish 978 1 911054 04 7 | £29.95 HARDBACK Scottish literature and an impressive suite 978 1 911054 16 0 | £19.95 PAPER Colourists’ careers, whilst the exploration 978 1 911054 10 8 | £19.95 PAPER of portraits featuring key members of As Scottish artists began to look of abstraction by artists including William Pioneering Edinburgh photographers Edinburgh society. beyond their own country for inspira- McCance and William Gillies and the David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) and Anne M. Lyden, International tion, absorbing and interpreting ideas Surrealism of William Johnstone and Robert Adamson (1821–1848) together Photography Curator at the National from Europe, they created a definably James Cowie will be at the forefront of a formed one of the most famous partner- Galleries of Scotland, discusses the ‘Scottish’ art partly through a ‘Celtic presentation of avant-garde Scottish art ships in the history of photography. dynamic dispute that brought these two Revival’. This broke down art historical made between the wars. Producing highly skilled photographs men together and reveals their perfect barriers as subject matter moved from A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900- just four years after the new medium was chemistry as the first professional partner- reality to ideas, realised in stylised and 1950 will reveal and celebrate Scotland’s announced to the world in 1839, their ship in Scottish photography. simplified forms of beauty and enigma, hitherto unknown radicalism. images of people, buildings and scenes in Illustrated with around 100 full of symbolism and paving the way for and around Edinburgh offer a fascinating masterpieces from the Galleries’ Modernism. glimpse into 1840s Scotland. Their much- unique, vast collection of the duo’s The previously overlooked contri- loved prints of the Newhaven fisherfolk ground-breaking work. butions of Scottish artists to the great A NEW ERA SCOTTISH MODERN ART 1900–1950 4 | NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND NEW BOOKS | 5 Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place to tight-knit communities, living under extreme pressure: Townhead suffered from Patrick Elliott with Anne Galastro overcrowding and poverty, and Catterline 240 X 275MM | 120PP | NOVEMBER 2016 from depopulation brought about by the 120 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS declining fishing industry. Eardley was 978 1 911054 02 3 | £19.95 PAPER inspired by the humanity she found in Joan Eardley (1921–1963) is one of both places. Scotland’s most admired artists. During These two intertwining strands are the a career that lasted barely fifteen years, focus of this book, which looks in detail at she concentrated on two very distinct Eardley’s working processes. Her method themes: children in the Townhead area can be traced from rough sketches and of central Glasgow, and the fishing village photographs through to pastel drawings of Catterline, just south of Aberdeen, and large oil paintings. Identifying many with its leaden skies and wild sea. The of Eardley’s subjects and drawing on contrast between this urban and rural unpublished letters, archival records and subject matter is self-evident, but the interviews, the authors provide a new and two are not, at heart, so very different. remarkably detailed account of Eardley’s Townhead and Catterline were home life and art. JOAN EARDLEY Emil Nolde painted, identifying with his subjects in A SENSE OF PLACE every brushstroke he made, heightening Keith Hartley, Sean Rainbird, his colours and simplifying his shapes, so Christian Weikop, Frances Blythe and that we, the viewers, can also experience Astrid Becker his emotional response to the world about 265 X 245MM | 136PP | FEBRUARY 2018 him. This is what makes Nolde one of 100 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS Germany’s greatest expressionist artists. 978 1 911054 15 3 | £20 PAPER This book comprising of five essays Emil Nolde (1867–1956) was one of the has over 100 illustrations, drawn from greatest colourists of the twentieth the incomparable collection of the Emil century. An artist passionate about his Nolde Foundation in Seebüll (the artist’s north German home near the Danish former home in north Germany). It covers border, with its immense skies, flat, Nolde’s complete career, from his early windswept landscapes and storm-tossed atmospheric paintings of his homeland seas, he was equally fascinated by the right through to the intensely coloured, demi-monde of Berlin’s cafés and cabarets, so-called ‘unpainted paintings’, works the busy to and fro of tugboats in the port done on small pieces of paper during the of Hamburg and the myriad of peoples and Third Reich, when Nolde was branded places he saw on his trip to the South Seas a ‘degenerate’ and forbidden to work as in 1914. Nolde felt strongly about what he an artist. 6 | NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND NEW BOOKS | 7 The Monarch of the Glen on a new role as marketing image which christopher baker · baker christopher gave it global recognition. It also inspired J.M.W.TURNER Christopher Baker The Vaughan Beques the work of a wide spectrum of other 190 X 170MM | 64PP | SEPTEMBER 2017 artists, ranging from Sir Bernard Partridge J. M.W.Turner 1775–1851 was perhaps the most prolific and 30 ILLUSTRATIONS innovative of all British artists. His outstanding watercolours and Ronald Searle to Sir Peter Blake and J.M.W.TURNER 978 1 911054 17 7 | £9.99 HARDBACK in the National Gallery of Scotland are one of the most popular Peter Saville. Today the picture has an features of its collection. Bequeathed to the Gallery in 1899 by the distinguished collector Henry Vaughan, they have been exhibited, The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin intriguing status, being seen by some as a as he requested, every January, for over 100 years. Re nowned for · · Landseer (1802–1873) is one of the most splendid celebration of Scotland’s natural their excellent state of preservation, they provide a remarkable BE VAUGHAN THE overview of many of the most imp or tant aspects of Turner’s celebrated paintings of the nineteenth wonders and by others as an archaic career. This richly illustrated book, provides a commentary century and was acquired by the National trophy. This publication will make a signif- on the watercolours, addressing questions of technique and function, as well as considering some of the numerous contacts Galleries of Scotland in 2017. In this new icant contribution to the debates that it Turner had with other artists, collectors and dealers.
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