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The Power of Art
The Power Of Art
    * 'Great art has
    dreadful manners...'
    Simon Schama observes at
    the start of his epic
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Freud At Work: Lucian Freud in conversation with Sebastian Smee. Photographs by David Dawson and Bruce Bernard
Freud At Work: Lucian Freud In
Conversation With Sebastian
Smee. Photographs By David
Dawson And Bruce Bernard
    Lucian Freud is not only
    the most celebrated
    artist working in
    England, but one of the
    most private. He has
    frequently stated his
    reluctance to be
    photographed and he has
    almost never agreed to be
    interviewed. Following
    the publication of the
    last ten years of his
    work by Jonathan Cape in
    the autumn of 2005, the
    painter has agreed to
    talk to Sebastian Smee,
    a writer on art whom he
    greatly respects, in a
    series of conversations
    rather than formal
    interviews. He wants to
    talk about painting
    itself, the demands of
    his own work and the
    painters he admires.


    Two photographers
    have had access to
    Freud
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Germania
Germania
    The very title
    Germania suggests
    an empire of ruin, a
    dream of Albert Speer,
    or the
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John Bellany
John Bellany
    John Bellany is the most
    influential Scottish
    painter since the Second
    World War,
    re-establishing a
    narrative, figurative
    art at a time when
    Modernism and abstraction
    seemed invincible.Born at
    Port Seton in 1942 into a
    family of fisherman and
    boat builders, and
    steeped in Calvinism as a
    child, his art is
    profoundly religious in
    its intimation of
    mortality and recognition
    of evil: facts reinforced
    in 1967 by a traumatic
    visit to the remains of
    the Buchenwald
    concentration camp. But
    Bellany's life voyage has
    proved every bit as
    perilous as the sea
    voyages of his ancestors.
    Throughout his career he
    has painted elemental
    allegories encompassing
    the complexities of the
    human condition and
    anchored in the rich
    poetry of the sea, but
    after moving to London in
    1965 to study at the
    Royal College of Art,
    his vision and
    iconography became
    broader. In the 1970s,
    when his personal life
    was in turmoil, he
    embarked on a near-fatal
    journey of
    self-destruction, which
    is reflected in the
    angst-ridden images in
    his paintings of the
    period. In the '80s, he
    successfully underwent a
    liver transplant, which
    inspired a remarkable
    series of pictures
    started, to the
    astonishment of his
    surgeon, within hours of
    regaining consciousness.
    Bellany's towering
    example has inspired a
    new pride in Scottish
    artists: a fact duly
    recognised in 1994 when
    he received the CBE. His
    paintings are in the
    collections of major
    museums and art galleries
    throughout the world,
    including the National
    Gallery of Scotland; the
    Tate Gallery; the Museum
    of Modern Art, New York;
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Simon Schama
Simon Schama's Power Of Art
    'Great art has dreadful
    manners...' Simon Schama
    observes at the start of
    his epic exploration of
    the power, and whole
    point, of art. 'The
    hushed reverence of the
    gallery can fool you into
    believing masterpieces
    are polite things,
    visions that soothe,
    charm and beguile, but
    actually they are thugs.
    Merciless and wily, the
    greatest paintings grab
    you in a headlock, rough
    up your composure and
    then proceed in short
    order to re-arrange your
    sense of reality...' With
    the same disarming force,
    Power of Art
    jolts us far from the
    comfort zone of the
    hushed art gallery, as
    Schama closes in on
    intense make-or-break
    turning points in the
    lives of eight great
    artists who, under
    extreme stress, created
    something unprecedented,
    altering the course of
    art forever.
    The
    embattled heroes -
    Caravaggio, Bernini,
    Rembrandt, Turner, Van
    Gogh, Picasso and Rothko
    - faced crisis with
    steadfast defiance. The
    masterpieces they created
    challenged convention,
    shattered complacency,
    shifted awareness and
    changed the way we look
    at the world. With
    powerfully vivid
    story-telling, Schama
    explores the dynamic
    personalities of the
    artists and the spirit of
    the times they lived
    through, capturing the
    flamboyant theatre of
    bourgeouis life in
    Amsterdam, the passion
    and paranoia of
    Revolutionary Paris, and
    the carnage and pathos of
    civil-war Spain.
    Most
    compelling of all,
    Power of Art
    traces the extraordinary
    evolution of eight
    world-class works of art.
    Created in a bolt of
    illumination, such works
    'tell us something about
    how the world is, how it
    is to be inside our
    skins, that no more
    prosaic source of wisdom
    can deliver. And when
    they do that they answer,
    irrefutably and
    majestically, the
    nagging question of every
    reluctant
    art-conscript... 'OK,
    OK, but what's art
    really
    for?'
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Abstract America
Abstract America
    A radical new generation
    of American abstract
    painters has emerged at
    the start of the new
    century. Whereas their
    twentieth-century
    predecessors advanced the
    realm of abstraction with
    all the audacity and
    ambition of the postwar
    years, this new
    generation is caught at
    the very moment of
    transition from the
    analogue to the digital
    age.

    America has
    shifted beyond anyone's
    wildest preconceptions
    from immediately before
    9/11 to the present.
    Events are mediated in
    new ways - television
    offers a parallel
    reality, the news is a
    branch of entertainment
    and the Internet provides
    an infinite alternative.
    The weather is
    unpredictable.

    In
    these shifting times
    artists reach for
    different materials and
    uncover surprising
    sources. The artists'
    alter ego might well be
    the DJ. The brushstroke
    has been replaced by the
    'riff'. This is the age
    of 'remix'. 'Old School'
    palettes have been
    discarded for 'Teletubby
    purple' or 'gummy pink'.
    Raw material is
    downloaded. Photoshop is
    the tool. These knowing
    abstract practitioners
    have irony at their
    disposal and can switch
    to tie-dye aesthetics or
    psychedelia as fast as
    they can"e Malevich
    or Brice
    Marden.

    The daring
    of this next wave is
    thrilling. Painted loops,
    reminiscent of Pollock
    in full action, are
    revealed to be the skid
    marks of motorbikes
    across hundreds of boards
    set out on the floor of a
    massive industrial space,
    so bringing new meaning
    to the idea of abstract
    expressionism. Even
    though traditions are
    'deconstructed' and
    paintings can echo
    grunge, there is room
    for historical references
    to war, brutality and
    the dripping of blood,
    which lie at the climax
    of the book's narrative.
    As Max Henry writes in
    his introduction, 'The
    American Dream of the
    twentieth century does
    not exist any more. It is
    in itself an abstraction.
    The modernist grid has
    been given a
    working-over.'

    Abstract
    America     is a further
    title in the series
    Jonathan Cape is
    publishing in conjunction
    with the exhibition
    programme of the new
    Saatchi Gallery in
    London.
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Abstract America
Abstract America
    The twentieth anniversary
    of the Saatchi Gallery
    was celebrated in 2005
    with The Triumph of
    Painting, a landmark
    exhibition. The show
    presented painting as a
    fundamental root of
    artistic expression. It
    demonstrated how in an
    age of endless artistic
    possibilities painting
    remained a primary
    medium. The influences of
    photography, cinema and
    fashion were all
    reflected in the work of
    the new European
    painters. Especially
    influential was the work
    of a generation of German
    artists who had grown up
    in a post-war and divided
    nation. The book
    accompanying the
    exhibition, the first
    publication to make the
    disparate currents of the
    new painting coherent,
    was soon out of print.


    The Triumph of
    Painting has been
    expanded into an ongoing
    project and to mark the
    opening of the
    gallery
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Lucian Freud: 1996 - 2005
Lucian Freud: 1996 - 2005
    At the time of the
    publication of Lucian
    Freud    , the
    definitive monograph, by
    Jonathan
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