Illustrated Books March 2021 Contents Art 0/4 Photography 18/ Fashion 22/ Lifestyle & Popular Culture 27/ History & Natural History36/ Design & Architecture48/ Backlist Highlights56/ Contacts58/ Confidential. Not for general circulation. Art David Hockney is perhaps Art the most critically acclaimed artist of our age. He has produced work in almost every medium and has stretched the boundaries of all of them. His bestselling Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters is also published by Thames & Hudson. Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator. His books include Modernists & Mavericks, A History of Pictures (with David Hockney), The Pursuit of Art, and Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now (with Antony Gormley). 142 illustrations 22.9 × 15.2 cm (91/8 × 6 in.) 280 pp Hardback with jacket £25 Spring 2021 Rights sold: French, Spanish, Korean, simplified Chinese Click here for presentation Spring Cannot • An uplifting manifesto that affirms art’s capacity to divert and inspire. be Cancelled • Based upon a wealth of new interviews by Martin Gayford David Hockney in conducted during Hockney’s confinement in his studio in Normandy, France, interlaced with correspondence between Normandy the two friends, recollections and earlier conversations. David Hockney and • Illustrated with Hockney’s new Normandy iPad drawings Martin Gayford (many previously unseen), alongside comparative works from Van Gogh, Monet, Veronese, Bruegel and others. David Hockney reflects • The Royal Academy of Arts, London, will host an exhibition upon life and art as he of Hockney’s Normandy iPad drawings in May 2021. experiences lockdown in rural Normandy. On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time. So when COVID-19 and lockdown struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries- old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year before, in time to paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he relished the enforced isolation as an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art. ‘We have lost touch with nature, rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time be over and then what? What have we learned? … The only real things in life are food and love, in that order, just like [for] our little dog A4 Ruby… and the source of art is love. I love life.’ David Hockney 4 5 Art Susie Hodge is a bestselling Art author, art historian, historian, and artist. She is the author of more than 90 books for adults Dissipating and children. Her previous Anger books include Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That (2012), My Big Art Show According to Dr Susan David, author of the book Emotional Agility, if we stifle, suppress or agonize (2014), Art in Detail (2016), over our emotions, they fester and we end up magnifying them so that they overwhelm us or become part of us, affecting how we behave. Why is Art Full of Naked People? One way of releasing or alleviating anger is through art. As a cathartic experience, creating or (2016), Modern Art in Detail studying art can help us escape from the everyday world. Many artists have known this and have expressed or worked through their feelings in (2017) and Painting Masterclass different ways. Artemisia Gentileschi, Francisco Goya and Pablo Picasso are three examples of (2019), all published by artists who famously used their art as an outlet for their anger. They expressed the things that angered them and articulated how they were Thames & Hudson. feeling through the subjects and act of creation. These approaches enabled the artists to work through their anger, by exploring and purging their emotions without harming themselves or anyone else. In this way many of the negative feelings were c. 72 illustrations expunged and each work became an expression of their energies. By addressing and channelling anger 21.0 × 14.8 cm (83/8 × 57/8 in.) through art, energy becomes impersonal, detached and dissipated, and the artist or viewer moves through a journey of self-discovery and acceptance. 192 pp PLC £14.99 Expulsion of the Money-changers Spring 2022 from the Temple (detail) Giotto 13 Click here for presentation Embracing Henri Matisse ‘Look at life Happiness with the eyes of a child.’ Matisse’s challenges Arcadian landscape • Although he trained as a lawyer, Henri In 1905, Matisse depicted the manifes- Matisse (1869–1954) discovered the ther- tation of happiness in a painting now apeutic benefits of painting when he was regarded as one of the forerunners of 21 and convalescing from appendicitis. He modernism. Le Bonheur de Vivre (in later declared: ‘What I dream of is an art English The Joy of Life), was exhibited in of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid Paris in March 1906. The huge painting of troubling or depressing subject- possibly inspired Picasso to paint matter, an art which could be…a soothing, his groundbreaking Les Demoiselles calming influence on the mind, something d’Avignon. In a yellow woodland, naked like a good armchair which provides figures recline, talk, kiss, dance and play relaxation from physical fatigue.’ In 1905, musical instruments. Leaves in the trees with André Derain, Matisse initiated are blue, violet, orange, gold, green and the art movement known as Fauvism; brown; colours and distortions that make a colourful, emotional style that used it almost an abstraction. The location is • This innovative self-help manual shows how to use art expressive colours. Later in life, he proved Arcadia; a mythical location, described in How Art Can that art heals. In 1941, during the Second ancient texts and poetry as an idyllic place World War, when he was 82, he underwent where people live in bliss, close to nature as a tool to destress, reduce anxiety and enhance your major operations for intestinal cancer as and uncorrupted by civilization. the Germans occupied France. Both had One of Matisse’s last statements mood in an age where there is a growing awareness of a devastating effect on his health. Mainly expressed his beliefs about the bene- Change Your bedridden, he lost the physical strength ficial effects of painting: ‘Colours win to paint, but rather than succumbing to you over more and more. A certain blue the importance of mental wellbeing. depression, he created art: ‘I completely enters your soul. A certain red has an forget my physical suffering and all the effect on your blood pressure.’ As he unpleasantness of my present condition knew, art can make you happy. Whether Life and I think only of the joy of seeing the creating or looking at it, art helps our • The growth in social media has led to more individuals sun rise once more and of being able to bodies to reduce the stress hormone work.’ Using paper, gouache and scissors, cortisol and release the feel-good he made ‘cut-outs’; cutting shapes from chemicals endorphins and dopamine. viewing and using art as a source of reflection and brightly painted large sheets of paper. Endorphins help to fight stress and pain, Susie Hodge When he was satisfied with his arrange- while dopamine generates feelings of ments of these on large supports of paper, positivity. In addition, art maximizes perspective on their daily lives. canvas or board, he glued them down. our ability to focus, and artists have better memories than non-artists. The Joy of Life 1905 • oil on canvas • 176.5 x 240.7 cm (69½ x 94¾ in) Offering upbeat and • Written in an accessible, friendly voice by a bestselling 170 Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA accessible guidance, this author, art historian and artist. illustrated handbook • Features over 70 artworks reflecting a wide range of introduces new ways of expressions and emotions, by Jean-Michel Basquiat, viewing art, and shows Frida Kahlo, Katsushika Hokusai, Claude Monet and many others. Vincent van Gogh ‘I am how anyone can use art to Inspiring Self-reflection seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.’ enlighten, uplift, calm and ease stress and anxieties. Enlightening, challenging, informative and arresting, Van Gogh’s travels Landscape of emotions • visual art can also be therapeutic, reducing anxiety and Unappreciated during his life, Vincent Painted during his stay at the asylum of van Gogh (1853–90) is now famous for his Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Rémy- expressive art, his mental anguish and life de-Provence, this is one of Vincent’s most stress levels, and offering perspective on the challenges traumas, much documented in his many famous works. At the asylum, he was letters. diagnosed with epilepsy, paranoia and fits, Born in the Netherlands, the son of but he painted when he was lucid. that we all face in our lives. This guide introduces readers a pastor, Vincent was given the name A diligent, devout and difficult man, of a brother stillborn exactly a year Vincent was largely self-taught as an before his birth. Growing up, he took artist. Over ten years, he produced more to new ways of looking at a wide range of art. Through numerous jobs, including teaching in than 2,000 oil paintings, watercolours, England and preaching in Belgium, drawings and sketches. He corre- but he was dismissed from most of the sponded avidly, especially with Theo. careful examination and explanation, it investigates how jobs and became involved in unsuitable His letters are filled with self-reflection and unhappy romances. At 27 in 1880, and thoughts about art. For instance, he became an artist, supported finan- he wrote to Theo about this painting: engaging with art and drawing upon its ideas can help cially by his brother Theo.