Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His books include Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud; Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters; A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen and Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy, both with David Hockney; Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now, with Antony Gormley; Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud, 1939–1954, with David Dawson; Venice: City of Pictures; and How Painting Happens (and why it matters).
23 Ebooks door Martin Gayford
Martin Gayford: Constable In Love
When John Constable fell in love with Maria Bicknell, granddaughter of a Suffolk country neighbour, he little knew how long it would take to make her his wife. The impediment to their marriage was si …
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Martin Gayford: Michelangelo
At thirty one, Michelangelo was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever l …
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Martin Gayford: Yellow House
REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION’Masterly . . . a wonderfully alert and moving portrait’ Mail on Sunday———————Two artistic giants. One small house.From October to December 1888 a pair of at …
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Martin Gayford: Man with a Blue Scarf
Lucian Freud is widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time. Freud spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford and the daily narrative of their encounte …
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€14.13
Martin Gayford & Philippe de Montebello: Rendez-Vous with Art
This unique, richly illustrated book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art? Beginning with an enigmatic fragment of yellow jasper – all that is left of the face of an Egypt …
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€32.09
Martin Gayford: Bigger Message
David Hockney is possibly the worlds most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the proble …
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€21.76
Martin Gayford & David Hockney: History of Pictures
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100, 000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are fro …
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€25.78
Martin Gayford: Pursuit of Art
In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayfords journeys, often to fairly inaccessible …
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€21.90
Martin Gayford: Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud
“An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art.” —ARTnews Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greates …
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€19.99
Philippe de Montebello & Martin Gayford: Rendez-vous with Art
The fruits of a lifetime of experience by a cultural colossus, Philippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its history, distilled in conversations with a …
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€29.99
Martin Gayford: A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (Revised Edition)
“Sumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist.” —Booklist David Hockney’s exuberant work is highly praised and widely celebrated—he is perhaps t …
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€20.99
Martin Gayford: Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters
Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves The development of painting in London …
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€34.99
Martin Gayford: The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations
One of our leading art critics and writers, Martin Gayford, recounts his travels and meetings with the world’s greatest artists. In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, critic Marti …
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Martin Gayford & David Hockney: Spring Cannot be Cancelled
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 lo …
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€31.88
Martin Gayford & David Hockney: Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy in this inspiring book which includes conversations with the artist and his latest artworks. On turning eighty, D …
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Philippe de Montebello & Martin Gayford: Cita con el arte
Dos expertos de fama internacional analizan cómo experimentamos el arte, cómo lo contemplamos y cómo lo pensamos. El texto se estructura en torno a la conversación que ambos mantuvieron durante sus v …
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Martin Gayford: Modernists & Mavericks
The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s is the story of interlinking friendships, shared experiences and artistic concerns among a number of acclaimed artists, in …
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€16.75
David Hockney & Martin Gayford: Frühling wird es sicher wieder
»Man muss im Hier und Jetzt leben. Es ist das Jetzt, das ewig ist.« – David Hockney – Mit über 80 Jahren zog sich David Hockney in die ländliche Beschaulichkeit der Normandie zurück, um im Atelier vo …
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David Dawson & Martin Gayford: Love Lucian
The young Lucian Freud was described by his friend Stephen Spender as totally alive, like something not entirely human, a leprechaun, a changeling child, or, if there is a male opposite, a witch. All …
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€83.55
Martin Gayford: Venice: City of Pictures
A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as, “La Serenissima”—a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art. Venice was a major center o …
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Martin Gayford: Venice
Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The achievements of the Bellini brothers, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto and …
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€38.41
David Hockney & Martin Gayford: A Bigger Message
David Hockneys Werke reichen von winzig kleinen Bildern von nur wenigen Zentimetern bis zu solchen, die mehrere Quadratmeter groß sind. Seine Techniken umfassen verschiedene Materialien und Medien: E …
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Martin Gayford: How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters)
Drawing on decades of conversations with practicing artists, Martin Gayford offers intimate insight into the practice, meaning, and potential of painting. Painting is an almost inconceivably ancient …
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€45.99
