Jonathan Jones

Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the great Caravaggio. As a young woman she was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honor was everything. Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century. Gentileschi's art communicated a powerful personal vision. Like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, or Tracey Emin, she put her life into her art.

Artemisia Gentileschi

A thousand years ago, mankind thought the greatest thing technology would ever achieve would be crafting a stronger sword or a larger building. Flying? Mind reading? Virtual universes? These things were reserved for Gods and Heavens. But now, with the 'singularity' only twenty years away, it has become clear that technology has no limits. And with science fiction becoming science fact and the miraculous becoming the mundane, perhaps the time has come to apply a new, scientific interpretation to events that we have always thought of as 'supernatural'. Even the possibility of our afterlife itself.Which is why this book dares to ask the taboo question, "What if the light at the end of that tunnel... is a technologically advanced future?"'Technological Resurrection: A Thought Experiment' explores these questions and more as it gives us all a glimpse into our wild, new future, with insight, humor, and a dash of hope. Written by Jonathan A. Jones, author of 'Gods of the Singularity' and 'DoomsdAI'

Technological Resurrection: a Thought Experiment

A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the most…sex. Taking Donatello's provocative reinvention of the nude as his starting point, Jonathan shows how the story of the Renaissance is the story of a sexual revolution. The great artists of the 15th and 16th century were not just visionaries, but lovers. Jonathan argues that the famous nudes of Michelangelo and Titian are not abstract images of ideal beauty, but erotic expressions of love and desire; and that in order to understand the Renaissance, we have to understand the sex lives of the men and women who defined it - men like Raphael, who obsessively painted his lover La Fornarina in the nude, Michelangelo, who made beautiful drawings of naked male bodies to present to the young man he adored, and Rembrandt, whose bedroom portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels are the frankest expressions of love anywhere in art.Sweeping from its origins in Florence in the mid-15th century to its culmination in the work of Rubens and Rembrandt in the 17th, The Loves of the Artistsshows that the Renaissance invented eroticism as we know it, and that the new ways of thinking about sex it engendered are crucial to understanding not only art but European culture as a whole.

Art and Passion in the Renaissance

The Loves of the Artists

Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. They have been equally revered and famous since their lifetimes, but our admiration for them exists mostly in isolation of each other. But in 1504 they competed with each other directly, to paint the walls of a room in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. It is remarkable enough that the same city had produced two such geniuses in the same century -- let alone that they met and exhibited together. But this competition, perhaps the most important event in the history of Renaissance art, the moment at which individual style came to command its own value, has been largely forgotten because the rival works did not survive. This great artistic clash, Jonathan Jones argues in this riveting account, marks the true beginning of the High Renaissance. Re-creating sixteenth-century Florence with astonishing verve and aplomb, THE LOST BATTLES not only sheds new light on the making of the modern world but, in its portrait of two cultural titans going toe to toe, rewires our understanding of the personalities of the Renaissance's greatest icons.

Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance

The Lost Battles

Life can be brutal. So often it feels like a boxing match. When life knocks you down, you need someone in your corner of the ring. This devotional book is designed to inspire your life by looking at the promises made to you by Jesus. As you read these promises, you will find reassurance that, with Jesus, there is always an Amen in Your Corner.

Promises from Jesus to Inspire Your Life

The Amen in Your Corner

Evidence for 1995 to 1999

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Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. They have been equally revered and famous since their lifetimes, but our admiration for them exists mostly in isolation of each other. But in 1504 they competed with each other directly, to paint the walls of a room in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. It is remarkable enough that the same city had produced two such geniuses in the same century - - let alone that they met and exhibited together. But this competition, perhaps the most important event in the history of Renaissance art, the moment at which individual style came to command its own value, has been largely forgotten because the rival works did not survive. This great artistic clash, Jonathan Jones argues in this riveting account, marks the true beginning of the High Renaissance. Re - creating sixteenth - century Florence with astonishing verve and aplomb, THE LOST BATTLES not only sheds new light on the making of the modern world but, in its portrait of two cultural titans going toe to toe, rewires our understanding of the personalities of the Renaissance's greatest icons.

Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance

Recounts the Renaissance artistic competition between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the legendary "lost" masterpieces "The Battle of Anghiari" and "The Battle of Cascina" on the wall of the Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio.

Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance

Howard Morphy

Maria Nugent

Lissant Mary Bolton

Gaye Sculthorpe

Dr. John Carty

Ian Coates

Published to accompany major exhibitions at the British Museum and the National Museum of Australia in 2015, Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation uses objects from the extraordinary collection of the British Museum to celebrate the unique and ongoing relationship that Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders have to place and country. This groundbreaking new publication also explores the profound impact and legacy of colonialism, the nature of collecting and the changing meaning of objects now in the collection of the British Museum. This richly illustrated book challenges pre-existing ideas about Indigenous Australian culture and highlights its beauty, diversity and vitality.

Enduring Civilisation

Indigenous Australia

From some of her previously unpublished early works from the 1980s, through the period of the 'Young British Artists' when she first found international fame, and up to her very latest works--many also published here for the first time--Jonathan Jones brings together Tracey Emin's complete career into one concise and essential volume.

Tracey Emin

Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day. As a young woman Artemisia was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honour was everything. Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century. Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century. Gentileschi's art communicated a powerful personal vision. Like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois or Tracey Emin, she put her life into her art. ‘Lives of the Artists’is a new series of brief artists biographies from Laurence King Publishing. The series takes as its inspiration Giorgio Vasari's five-hundred-year-old masterwork, updating it with modern takes on the lives of key artists past and present. Focusing on the life of the artist rather than examining their work, each book also includes key images illustrating the artist’s life.

Peter Hore

Stephen Wimperis

The renowned Oxford Chemistry Primers series, which provides focused introductions to a range of important topics in chemistry, has been refreshed and updated to suit the needs of today's students, lecturers, and postgraduate researchers. The rigorous, yet accessible, treatment of each subject area is ideal for those wanting a primer in a given topic to prepare them for more advanced study or research. NMR: The Toolkit describessuccinctly the range of NMR techniques commonly used in modern research to probe the structures and properties of molecules in liquids. Emphasis is placed throughout on how these experiments actually work, givinga unique perspective on this powerful experimental tool.

How Pulse Sequences Work

NMR - The Toolkit

What is the artistic impulse uniting Robert Hooke's drawings of insects, George Stubbs's studies of horses, and Damien Hirst's pickled shark? In this new and spirited account of British art, Jonathan Jones argues for empiricism. From the Enlightenment to the present, British artists have shared a passion for looking hard at the world around them. Jones shows how this zeal for precision and careful observation paved the way for Realism, Impressionism, and the birth of modern art

The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy

Sensations

Gerald Murnane

Megan Cope

Brian Fuata

Rafael Bonachela

Saskia Havekes

Tom van Dooren

Latai Taumoepeau

Khaled Sabsabi

nova Milne

Tracey Moffatt

Ian Milliss

Julia Jacklin

Janet Laurence

Amrita Hepi

Dale Harding

Lauren Brincat

do it (australia) is a continuation of curator Hans Ulrich Obrist's initiative do it, the longest-running artist-led project in the world. During a time of international lockdowns precipitated by COVID-19, Kaldor Public Art Projects commissioned 18 Australian artists to write simple instructions for audiences to follow at home. Each instruction can be used to generate an artwork, whether an object, a performance, or something else entirely. The do it (australia) publication is a do-it-yourself "instruction manual" containing all commissioned instructions alongside essays and artist interviews.

Do It (australia)

Abigail Amey

Robert Sablowski

Liam Dolan

Alison M. Smith

Nicholas Harberd

Cathie Martin

George Coupland

Plant Biology is a new textbook written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It is an account of modern plant science, reflecting recent advances in genetics and genomics and the excitement they have created. The book begins with a review of what is known about the origins of modern-day plants. Next, the special features of plant genomes and genetics are explored. Subsequent chapters provide information on our current understanding of plant cell biology, plant metabolism, and plant developmental biology, with the remaining three chapters outlining the interactions of plants with their environments. The final chapter discusses the relationship of plants with humans: domestication, agriculture and crop breeding. Plant Biology contains over 1,000 full color illustrations, and each chapter begins with Learning Objectives and concludes with a Summary.

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