Marina Vaizey's Books

Cv/VAR 147' publishes an essay by Marina Vaizey which explores the work of artist Tracey Emin, exhibited at the Turner Contemporary Gallery Margate, from May to September 2012. She considers her drawings, embroidery, prints and neons, manifesting the intricate correspondence of her art and life.

Smile is a delightful gift book sure to bring a smile to every readers face! With 48 beautiful colour images drawn from the wide range of collections in The British Museum, it illustrates how the smile has been used in art the world over to great effect for many centuries. Each spread shows a detail of the smile and the full image to place its context. The captions are enlivened by revealing and amusing quotations on the subject of smiles and happiness. Marina Vaizey's introduction examines the concept of the smile in art history and looks at some of art's most famous smiles, from the Mona Lisa to the grinning Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland. Elegantly designed and stunningly illustrated, Smile will make the perfect gift book for all ages.

A review of Lucian Freud Portraits exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery London from February to May 2012.It considers some fifty portraits covering the span of the artist's working life, their qualities of personal perception and as works of art within the canons of Western classical tradition.

A refreshingly different art book, arranged chronologically, tells the story of the art through exemplary works selected and explained by world-renowned experts. All the different branches of artistic endeavor are included, from painting and sculpture, to collage and installation. Concise overviews of each period provide a good introduction for the novice and a handy brush-up for those familiar with the material.

Cv/VAR 104 reviews 'David Hockney RAL A Bigger Picture', exhibited at The Royal Academy January to April 2012. The project of creating monumental landscape paintings was based on a small area near the artist's home at Bridlington in East Yorkshire. The project developed with time-framed films, i-pad works, drawings, sketchbooks, oils

The first showing since its highly acclaimed debut in London at the Tate Turbine Hall Commission in 2012, Tacita Deans, FILM, is an epic, episodic homage to the analogue processes of celluloid cinema.

Book's by Marina Vaizey

Being Tracey

Being Tracey

Smile

Smile

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Art - the Critics Choice

Art - the Critics Choice

Homeland

Homeland

William Delafield Cook

William Delafield Cook

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