Luscious Lights and Decorated Domes – Frame magazine

 

The May/June edition of Frame magazine is an opulent, tactile affair. Frame shows us the potential of what it calls “the great indoors” showcasing contemporary interior design from around the globe. The magazine focuses on photos and drawings with the the story behind each design being written in easy-to-understand, down-to-earth English.  The current edition shows us (amongst other things) two very different but equally submersive interiors in the works of Liz West and Elise Morin.

 

 

Liz West’s light art installation Your Colour Perception in the Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces Federation House in Manchester, saturates the space with artificial chromatic light. The artist says she is interested in “creating illusions and in making people question what they are really looking at.”

 

 

Paris-based artist Elise Morin has conjured a multimedia event out of piles of old CDs and inflatable domes. The installation, Waste Landscape #4, turns an old swimming pool turned cultural centre in Slovakia into a scaly landscape. Each installation is a “social event”. For this work volunteers from the local jail helped attach the 180,000 CDs to the inflatable domes by hand. Lighting design and a specially made soundscape accompanied the structures.

 

Follow the blue signs for journals through the learning centre:

Zone 3, Floor 2: A- H

Zone 3, Floor 3: I- Z and archive

 

From Painting to Performance – Eclectic Artists in New Frieze Journal

April sees a new edition of the well known Frieze magazine arrive into Llandaff library. Frieze was set up in 1991 and is one of the leading magazines of contemporary art and culture. Frieze includes essays, reviews and columns by some of today’s most forward-thinking writers, artists and curators.

 

April’s edition features 41 reviews from 28 cities. Amongst these is an article by Jennifer Higgie on the bewildered mystics, mournful minstrels and mysterious rituals of Ryan Mosley’s paintings. There is also a review by Lucy O’Brien on the experience of seeing  musician PJ Harvey record her album in a vitrine at Somerset House in London during Recording in Progress.

 

 

 

Ryan Mosley, Dance of the Nobleman, 2010–11, oil on canvas, 2.1 × 1.8 m.

PJ Harvey photographed by Seamus Murphy, 2014.

 

Follow the blue signs for journals through the learning centre:

Zone 3, Floor 2: A- H

Zone 3, Floor 3: I- Z and archive

COLLAGE

 

 

 

 

We had a great workshop in the Special Collections room in Llandaff Library this morning!  Ten students from the Field module: Collage along with James Green came to see a range of artists’ books.  We also gathered some books from the main collection on the subject of collage and about artists using this medium.

Here are just a few . . . .

Hannah Hoch : 1889-1978 collages

Eduardo Paolozzi: sculpture, drawings, collages and graphics

Karl Blossfeldt: working collages

Paper Spirits: collage portraits by Vladimir Sulyagin

Suspects, smokers, soldiers and salesladies

Geest van papier = Spirit of paper

Richard Meier: collages

Collage, assemblage, and the found object

Cut & paste: 21st-century collage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collage Techniques: a guide for artists and illustrators

Robert Motherwell: early collages

Max Ernst: collages: the invention of the surrealist universe

Manifesto Collage

About collage: Peter Blake

Collage: the making of modern art

Kurt Schwitters: color and collage

 

New books

These are on display until Wednesday 21st  for you to browse, enjoy and reserve if you wish. Follow the links to the catalogue to see more information about each item.

Textiles . . . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Fashion Illustration School                     Stitch, Cloth, Shimmer & Shine

 

Printmaking . . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hockney Printmaker                            Edvard Munch: A Genious of Printmaking

and also . . . . .

 

Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye

 

Publics and Counterpublics

The Art & Craft of Richard Woods

The Politics of Aesthetics

Troika®, 63-83

How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit

Christopher Wood

Art Inc: The Essential Guide for Building your Career as an Artist

Marking Language

The Global Art Compass

Canan Tolon, sidesteps

100 Works of art that will define our age

Mothers of Africa

A display of image rich library resources can still be seen on the second floor of Zone 3 in the Library at Llandaff.

 

 

 

 

Whilst they have been assembled to support the Textiles Mothers of Africa project, these could be of interest to all students, and will be displayed until Friday 12th December.

Controversy

Visit the 2nd floor of zone 3 (the journals area) in the library to see the current display of materials selected on the topic of the Level 4 Constellation assignment ‘Controversy’. They will be there until Friday 14th November.

 

 

 

 

 

New DVD recordings

Waterloo, London, 1960-72 (b/w photo), Gay, John (1909-1999)

Image courtesy of Bridgeman Education

 

Photo you

A day at an automatic photo booth on Waterloo station

The sexual century – Parts 1 & 2

Series examining attitude changes that have allowed sex to become a dominant issue in modern Britain. 1) The Sexual Explorers: looks back at the lives of famous sex researchers – Marie Stopes, Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, and Wilhelm Reich of the Orgone Institute. 2): The Look of Love: Effects of cinema’s first fantasy images on a mass audience – notes idols Rudolph Valentino, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich

Bjørn Lomberg on environmentalism

This debate is presented by the controversial Danish author of ‘The Sceptical Environmentalist’, Bjorn Lomborg, who traces the origins and history of the green phenomenon, from the small bands of protesters sailing towards nuclear bomb tests of the 1970s, to being one of today’s most powerful worldwide movements.

Joseph Stiglitz on capitalism

Former chief economist of the World Bank and Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz explores the history of capitalism. From the writings of Adam Smith to the impact of globalisation on a fractious world, he sheds light on this baffling idea that is central to the way human beings live.

Fear and loathing : A small town in Poland, The lost race

‘A small town in Poland’ is a Storyville film, directed by Marian Marzynski, about anti-Semitism in contemporary Poland. Bransk has a large Jewish population before the Holocaust, but nearing its 500th anniversary, the authorities debate whether to acknowledge the town’ Jewish past. ‘The Lost race’ considers the consequences of the collapse of support in the 1979 General Election for the National Front. Looks at the 1989 ‘Massacre of Welling Library’ in which the British National Party (BNP) injured 16. Also examines the influence of Italian neo-fascists on modern-day supporters.

Japan in colour : the wonderful world of Albert Kahn

In 1908, the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched one of the most ambitious projects in the history of photography. Kahn created what he called his Archive of the Planet. Some of the most important of Kahn’s Archive were shot during three visits to Japan. This film showcases Kahn’s pictures that were recorded at a time when this fascinating country was going through momentous changes.

Documentaries of five female photographers

 1: Lee Miller. Lee Miller led one of the most fascinating lives of the 20th century. A model for Vogue, pupil and lover of Man Ray in Paris and the only female photojournalist covering WWII, her work encompassed surrealist images and shocking reportage from Dachau. Having given up photography later, Miller’s archive of 40,000 negatives was only rediscovered after her death. 2: Annie Leibovitz. Programme presenting an intimate portrait of the American photographer who, now in her late fifties, is still universally in demand from pop stars to political leaders, rabble-rousers to royalty. 3: Linda McCartney. Programme focusing on LInda McCartney’s photographic career, which she followed for thirty years. 4: Eve Arnold. Programme examining the photographer’s life and work as well as the changing role of photography during her career. 5: Sharon Chazan. Documentary showcasing the work of photographer Sharon Chazan, who was hailed as a new star of photojournalism when she left Newport College in 1987. Her promise was never realised, because in November of that year she was murdered by a 61 year-old Polish refugee who had figured in her final-year project. The film asks whether it was her closeness to her subjects which led ultimately to her death

 

New DVDs on Architecture

This is a selection of new DVDs now on display. They cover diverse subjects within architecture including the tallest buildings in Saudia Arabia and the birth of the skyscraper, the rebuilding of the Reichstag, religious architecture, and the evolution of British architecture. They reflect the breadth of information available on this subject in the library.

Plan and Section of the Roof of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, from ‘The History of Cambridge’, engraved by J. Bluck (fl.1791-1831), pub. by R. Ackermann, 1815 (colour aquatint) – Mackenzie, Frederick (1788 – 1854).

Image courtesy of Bridgeman Education

 

The world turned upside down

Part of a series presented by Dr. Paul Binski which examines Britain’s religious art. In this programme he contrasts the lavish chapel at King’s College Cambridge with much simpler post-Reformation churches in Little Gidding and Leighton

Building sights

Series in which artists, musicians and architects share their appreciation of buildings and architecture

Temples of Suburbia

Part of a series in which art historian Dr Paul Binski examines some of Britain’s most fascinating works of religious art. In this programme he visits Leicester and north London to see some spectacular examples of Hindu and Jain art

Dan Cruickshank’s marvels of the modern age

Documentary series exploring the architecture of the 20th century and revealing the making of the modern world.

Part 1 The Dream. At the start of the 20th Century, a group of architects believed they could solve the world’s problems with a bright new architecture; poverty, ignorance and disease would be eradicated, buildings would touch the heavens, light and fresh air would bring happiness and efficiency. They thought progress and invention would make the world a better place, but alas, Hitler had other plans.

Part 2 Rebuilding Britain. This programme traces the evolution of architectural style in Britain from the 1920s to the Swinging Sixties and beyond.

Part 3 Back to the Future. At the start of the 20th century the modernists proclaimed that history was dead and they would re-invent the world so that science, technology and progress decided the future. But the modernists owed more to history than they would admit. Dan Cruickshank travels from 2700BC to 1900AD, from ancient Egypt to a country house in the Lake District, to find the future in the past.

Part 4 The Final Frontier. In the early 20th century, modernism set out to change the world; now it is on a mission to save it

New DVD recordings

Study for Portrait, 1978 – Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

Image courtesy of Bridgeman Education

Arthouse  : the other Francis Bacon

Barry Joule’s collection of some 500 preparatory drawings and paintings said to be by Francis Bacon – considers the authenticity of the archive and why Bacon would have wished to deceive the public

The South Bank Show  : Cosmic garden

Melvyn Bragg talks to celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks in the stunning 30-acre Garden of Cosmic Speculation at Portrack House, Dumfries. The garden, which he designed and created with his late wife Maggie Keswick, is a series of metaphors exploring the origins, destiny and substance of the universe. Jencks reveals how it represents the nature of matter, the foundations of life and the history of creation

The Culture Show : arts and crafts at the V&A

Mark Kermode presents the arts and culture magazine, featuring a rare interview with legendary 1960’s alternative cartoonist Robert Crumb at his house in France, a look at the legacy of the Arts and Crafts movement on the eve of a major exhibition at London’s V&A, and a report from Brixton prison as inmates rehearse a production of Othello

The dog who was a cat inside : No experience necessary : Eating for two: Mervyn

Four craft based animated films, developed through channel 4’s ‘ Animation in Residence’ scheme.

Arthouse  : In search of the Amber Room

Anthony H. Wilson attempts to find the remains of the Amber Room of the Russian Tsar’s Winter Palace near St Petersburg. It consisted of a series of hand-crafted amber panels stolen by the Nazis and installed in Kongsberg in Germany, but hidden in 1945 and never seen again

Living with Modernism – Parts 1-6

Simon Davies presents a series of 6 programmes looking at Modernist homes in the UK and the people who live in them. Pt. 1.the Hertfordshire home of architect George Marsh. Pt. 2. The Firs in Hampstead designed in the late 1950s by Patrick Gwynne. Pt. 3. Brackenfell in Cumbria, designed by Sir Leslie Martin and his wife Sadie Speight. Pt. 4.  One of Scotland’s finest modernist houses , is revisited by the architects Bob Steedman.Pt. 5. Stillness, the Bromley home of designer David Callcott.Pt.6. Capel Manor in Kent  a classic steel and glass Miesian pavilion from the late sixties.

Monet’s garden  – Parts 1-5

A series of five short films in which contemporary artists find inspiration in the gardens at Giverny, northern France, where Monet spent his final years. Featuring Paul Riley, Vivian Russell, Jean-Marie Toulgouat, Kaffe Fassett and Takashi Sawano

New DVD recordings

These recordings are currently on the DVD display in Howard Gardens library.

View of the painting ‘Guernica’ by Pablo Picasso in his studio, rue des Grands-Augustins, Paris, December 1937 (b/w photo) – Maar, Dora (1907-1997)

Image courtesy of Bridgeman Education

Modern art : practices and debates – Programme 16 : Picasso’s ‘Guernica’

Painted in protest at the bombing of a town during the Spanish Civil War, what meaning can Picasso’s masterpiece have for today?

Modern art : practices and debates – Programme 22 : Flag

Exploring the meanings behind Jasper John’s famous image of the stars and stripes

Modern art : practices and debates – Programme 5 : Berthe Morisot – an interview with Kathleen Adler

Understanding the restrictions placed on women in 19th-century society gives an insight into Berthe Morisot’s art

Peter Greenaway

A profile of controversial artist and film-maker Peter Greenaway

Divine designs : New money

Paul Binski presents the series examining some of Britain’s most fascinating works of religious art and artefacts. He visits Stanmore in North London and Great Witley, Worcestershire, to view two of the most extravagant Baroque churches in the country.

The Turner Prize 1997

Coverage of the arts awards ceremony at the Tate Gallery London presented by Matthew Collings. Shortlisted artists are Christine Borland, Angela Bulloch, Cornelia Parker and video artist Gillian Wearing.The Turner Prize Discussion: Is Painting Dead? Chaired by Waldemar Januszczak and Karen Wright with contributions from Ruger Scruton, Norman Rosenthal and Tracey Emin who debate whether painting is dead. Writing about art. Four short daily programmes with winning entries from a competition in which entrants were asked to write about any piece of work shortlisted for the Turner Prize.

Shoot out in Swansea : the making of Twin Town

Documentary exploring the process of making ‘Twin Town’, Kevin Allen’s dark comedy thriller set in Swansea