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1 Publications 2019–20 2 The National Galleries of Scotland’s award- ‘Ofallthedesigners 3 whoemergedduring winning publishing house is committed to BOOKS NEW producing books on the visual arts which thisperiod,Henri are engaging, accessible and affordable, deToulouse-Lautrec combining high-quality writing and wasundoubtedly rigorous research with the best in design. themostgiftedand sought-after.’ 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; lectures; full catalogues and bite-sized introductions. Pin-ups 170 X 300mm • 120pp 100 colour illustrations Toulouse-Lautrec and the Art of Celebrity Most of our titles are highly illustrated and 9781911054214 • £22.99 paper Hannah Brocklehurst and Frances Fowle we are dedicated to ensuring the finest production values. HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC is one of Ambassadeurs and the Folies-Bergère. history’s most brilliant poster designers Including less familiar lithographs as who chronicled Paris’s famous music hall well as some of the most iconic images of celebrities of the late 19th century. Many the period, Pin-Ups brings together works Cover image: Back cover: of his finest graphic works were startlingly by Lautrec and his key contemporaries Jim Lambie b.1964 Kasimir Malevich (1879–1935) Sticky Fingers, 2010 Lady at a Poster Column, 1914 modern images of the stars of the legendary in Paris, who helped bring artistic and Jupiter Artland. © Jim Lambie. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. bohemian night clubs of Montmartre: cultural significance to the world of All rights reserved, DACS 2019. the Moulin Rouge, Le Chat Noir, Les popular advertising. 4 5 NEW BOOKS NEW BOOKS NEW Cut and Paste 245 X 265mm • 184pp 240 colour illustrations 400 Years of Collage 9781911054313 • £25.00 paper Patrick Elliott, Freya Gowrley and Yuval Etgar COLLAGE IS ONE of the most popular and do-it-yourself collage during the Victorian pervasive of all art-forms, yet this is the period, and then through Cubism, first historical survey book ever published Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. on the subject. Collage became the technique of Featuring over 200 works, ranging from choice in the 1960s and 1970s for the 1500s to the present day, it offers an anti-establishment protest and, in the entirely new approach. In the past, collage present day, is used by millions of us has been presented as a twentieth-century through digital devices. The definition phenomenon, linked in particular to Pablo of collage employed here is a broad one, Picasso and Cubism in the years just before encompassing cut-and-pasted paper, the First World War. In CutandPaste:400 photography, patchwork, film and digital YearsofCollage, we trace its origins back to technology and ranging from work books and prints of the 1500s, through to by professionals to unknown makers, the boom in popularity of scrapbooks and amateurs and children. 6 7 NEW BOOKS NEW NEW BOOKS NEW Bridget Riley 270 X 245mm • 280pp 120 colour illustrations Bridget Riley, Michael Bracewell, 9781911054245 • £44.99 • hardcover Éric de Chassey, John Elderfield, Dave Hickey, Robert Kudielka, Richard Shiff, Frances Spalding, 9781911054320 • £34.99 • paper David Sylvester, David Thompson EXCEPTIONALLY BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED, this landmark book reflects on almost 70 years of works by Bridget Riley (b.1931), from some of her earliest to very recent projects, providing a unique record of the work of an artist still very much at the height of her powers. Essays from leading scholars and commentators on Riley’s work will make this title the authority on Riley’s practice. The book presents a selection of critical writings, statements and conversations that have been specially selected by the artist – and some of her own writings are included among them. The selection starts with David Sylvester’s review of her first exhibition in 1962 and ends with Éric de Chassey’s newly commissioned 2019 essay. 8 9 NEW BOOKS NEW BOOKS NEW I Want to Be a Machine 220 X 245mm • 36pp Charles Rennie 265 X 245mm • 120pp 25 colour illustrations 70 colour illustrations Andy Warhol & Eduardo Paolozzi 9781911054306 • £7.95 paper Mackintosh in France 9781911054405 • £17.99 flexicover Keith Hartley Revised edition Pamela Robertson and Philip Long THROUGH THE EARLY works of Andy to achieve a sense of naïve uniqueness. Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi, this book Paolozzi made his first bronzes himself KNOWN WORLDWIDE FOR his architecture as an architect and designer. traces the development of their deep in a friend’s garden. and interior designs, Charles Rennie This book charts Mackintosh’s time fascination with the machine. Neither artist made the logical next Mackintosh (1868–1928) was also an in France and explores his career as a Looking at the way that both artists step, inherent in the photographic extremely gifted painter. Towards the landscape painter, placing his work in began in the late 1940s and the years images that inspired them, and used end of his life he gave up his principal the context of the modern movements. following, the book illustrates their a truly mechanical means to create career as an architect and moved to the The forty-four paintings Mackintosh is fascination with popular culture and their own artworks until the early south of France where he devoted himself known to have completed while in France the methods that they used in creating 1960s. Warhol made his first photo- to painting in watercolour. Meticulously are illustrated, and are supported by their art. Common to all their methods silkscreened paintings in the summer executed and brilliantly coloured, these documentary photographs of the places he of making works was their hand-made of 1962 and his first photo-silkscreened landscape watercolours are conceived with painted as well as extracts from his letters quality. Even when Warhol made limited- prints in 1963. During the same period, a sense of design and an eye for pattern in written to his wife and friends. edition books during this period, he Paolozzi realised the full potential of nature, which owes much to his brilliance would organise colouring-in parties so as photo-screenprinting. 10 11 NEW BOOKS NEW POPULAR TITLES J.M.W. Turner 220 X 245mm • 120pp Raqib Shaw 240 X 300mm • 48pp 60 colour illustrations 50 colour illustrations Reinventing the Old Masters The Vaughan Bequest 9781911054092 • £17.99 flexicover 9781911054207 • £17.99 paper Revised edition Patrick Elliott Christopher Baker RAQIB SHAW IS one of the most months on preparatory drawings, J.M.W. TURNER WAS perhaps the most prolific and ‘Thesewatercolours extraordinary and sought-after artists tracings and photographic studies, he working in the world today. then transfers the composition onto innovative of all British artists. His outstanding providearemarkably watercolours in the Scottish National Gallery are Born in Calcutta in 1974 and raised in prepared wooden panels, establishing an one of the most popular features of its collection. richoverviewofthe Kashmir, he came to London to study in intricate design with acrylic liner, which Bequeathed in 1899 by the distinguished collector achievementofone 1998 and has lived there ever since. Inspired leaves a slightly raised line. He adds the Henry Vaughan, they have been exhibited, as he ofthemostaccessible by a broad range of influences, including enamel paint using needle-fine syringes the old masters, Indian miniatures, Persian and a porcupine quill, with which he requested, every January, for over 100 years. Renowned andadmiredofall for their excellent state of preservation, they provide carpets and the Pre-Raphaelites, his manoeuvres the paint. The finished works a remarkable overview of many of the most important Romanticartists.’ paintings are infused with memories and are intricate, magical and breathtaking in aspects of Turner’s career. longing for his homeland in Kashmir. their colour and complexity. His technique constitutes a completely unique kind of enamel painting. Spending 12 13 POPULAR TITLES POPULAR TITLES Victoria Crowe 220 X 245mm • 96pp A Shepherd’s Life 195 X 175mm • 62pp 25 colour illustrations 65 colour illustrations Paintings of Jenny Armstrong Beyond Likeness 9781911054221 • £17.99 paper 9781903278024 • £12.99 hardback Duncan MacMillan and Julie Lawson by Victoria Crowe Julie Lawson and Mary Taubman ‘THE MOST IMPORTANT portraits to me her own thoughts and perceptions as each are the ones of people who have enriched work developed. A SHEPHERD’S LIFE centres on Jenny ‘Withtheartist'sgrowing my own thinking or awareness. Areas This book also tells Crowe’s own story – Armstrong, born in 1903 at the farm of understandingofherfriend’sway of philosophy, religion, psychological both professional and personal – through Fairliehope, who spent her life working perspectives, poetry, music, art history, her art. She has developed an approach as a shepherd in the Pentland Hills. oflife,therealitiesofitsharshness women’s roles and the inner life are to portraiture that seeks to do more In a series of remarkable paintings andrewardswereborneinupon important issues for me – and all have been than record the outward appearance of a made over twenty years and based on herandthepicturesbeganto nurtured by these people whom I have met person; she aims to represent something close observation, Victoria Crowe, one centreonthefigureofJenny,with through portraiture.’ Victoria Crowe of the inner life. of Scotland’s foremost painters, pays With eighty illustrations, the portraits tribute to the life and work of this theresultthatthegauntwoods Victoria Crowe is one of Britain’s most include the artist’s family, composer exceptional woman.