Happy Birthday Mr Van Gogh!

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist20th century art for its vivid colours and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, and died largely unknown, at the age of 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death. Today, he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. Although he was little known during his lifetime, his work was a strong influence on the Modernist art that followed. Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art.

You can find a great range of Van Gogh products on the Pomegranate Website.

Last New Book of the Week

All this week we have been featuring a new book each day, and to end our New Book week here's:

AMISH ABSTRACTIONS

At first glance, Amish quilts may appear curiously similar to works by the great abstract artists of the twentieth century. With their vibrant colors and bold geometric forms, the handcrafted designs seem reminiscent of paintings by Joseph Albers, Mark Rothko, and Frank Stella, among others. This visual coincidence invites a deeper appreciation of the quilts and the communities in which they were created. Closer examination reveals that the principles of the Amish faith—simplicity, humility, discipline, and community—are masterfully stitched into each design. Colorful and dynamic, the remarkable quilts radiate the harmony and dignity of Amish life while providing a window onto the history of American art and textile traditions.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown explores the origins, techniques, and context of these visual masterpieces. More than seventy-five quilts originating in communities throughout Pennsylvania and the Midwest from the 1880s to the 1940s are presented with contributions by three quilt experts: Joe Cunningham, a well-known quilt artist, author, and lecturer; Robert Shaw, an independent curator of numerous quilt exhibitions; and Janneken Smucker, a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware specializing in quilts from the Amish and Mennonite traditions.

PAGE SPREADS

Includes Collector’s Note by Faith and Stephen Brown. 128 pages with more than 90 colour images. Size: 9 x 10½ inches. Smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket. ISBN 978-0-7649-5165-7.

Available now from sales@pomeurope.co.uk or (+44) 0 1926 430111

New Book Week: GLORIOUS GOREY

Today's NEW BOOK is THE DONG WITH THE LUMINOUS NOSE by Edward Gorey


For a peek into the pages of this fantastical book click on:

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/pomegranate/pros-a183.pdf

Text by Edward Lear; illustrated by Edward Gorey. 48 pages with 22 black-and-white illustrations. Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket. Size: 8 ½ x 6 inches. ISBN 978-0-7649-5427-6.

Available now from sales@pomeurope.co.uk or =44 [0] 1926 430111

£8.99 11.50Euro

Evilution - what a title!

Day Three of Pomegranate's NEW BOOK week.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY AN EVILUTION

The “evilution” of Charles Addams’s singularly eccentric family began long before the television and film interpretations made them icons of American popular culture. Addams first created Morticia, Lurch, and The Thing in a cartoon published in a 1938 issue of the New Yorker—though he hadn’t named them at the time, or even conceived of a family unit. (When he did name the deadly matriarch, he was inspired by the Yellow Pages listing for “Morticians.”) Other characters were born and developed in a multitude of Addams’s cartoons over the next twenty-six years, before the cheerfully creepy clan debuted on ABC television in 1964 and later on the big screen, twice, in 1991 and 1993.

The Addams Family: An Evilution is the first book to trace The Addams Family history, presenting more than 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams (American, 1912–1988) throughout his prolific career; many have never been published before. Text by H. Kevin Miserocchi, director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, offers a revealing chronology of each character’s evolution (for instance, did you know that Addams originally named Pugsley “Pubert”?), while Addams’s own incisive character descriptions, originally penned for the benefit of the television show producers, introduce each chapter. As the presence of the Family continues to permeate generation after generation, and in celebration of the Broadway musical debuting in 2010, this book reminds us where these oddly lovable characters came from and, in doing so, offers a lasting tribute to one of America’s greatest humorists. A phenomenon of rare proportion, The Addams Family is the manifestation of one artist’s dark but irresistible wit, expressed with an uncommonly deft hand.

Sample page spread

Download more page spreads here: http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/pomegranate/pros-a180.pdf

By Kevin Miserocchi. 224 pages with more than 200 cartoons (approximately 50 are published here for the first time), many in color. Ten chapters explore each Addams Family character, as well as their mansion (a “House To Die For”). Size: 8 x 10 inches. Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket. ISBN 978-0-7649-5388-0.

Available now from sales@pomeurope.co.uk or +44 (0) 1926 430111
£27.95 30.00Euro

NEW BOOK WEEK - MONET'S PASSION

Our New Book week continues with the beautiful Monets Passion.

In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of Monet’s Passion: Ideas, Inspiration & Insights from the Painter’s Gardens, this completely revised edition of Elizabeth Murray’s best-selling book offers new text, new images, and new garden plans based on Claude Monet’s spectacular gardens at Giverny.

A professional gardener and artist, Murray helped to restore the Giverny gardens in the 1980s and has since enjoyed privileged access to the site, where she returns annually to capture Monet’s passion at its most radiant and riotous. In this redesigned, updated edition, Murray discusses the development and history of Monet’s Giverny estate and brings new insight to Monet’s approach to gardening and design. Emphasizing his keen understanding of color balance and his genius for maximizing the effects of light, Murray explores the favorite color combinations and techniques with which Monet experimented in both painting and gardening—each pursuit informing the other. Murray’s lush photographs chronicle the present-day gardens, and a section titled “Bringing Giverny Home” provides detailed Giverny-based garden plans that can be executed anywhere. Full-color illustrations of the gardens, a list of the plants originally used by Monet, and a plant cultivation section round out this immensely helpful guide to creating year-round beauty in one’s own backyard.

Sample pages:

To have a more detailed peek into this book, go to: [you can also download a press release]

Monet's Passion New Edition

Here's the technical stuff:

By Elizabeth Murray. 140 pages with over 75 color photographs, along with color garden plans, transparent overlays for garden designs, and historical photographs. Size: 8 ¾ x 8 ¾ inches. Smyth-sewn casebound book with ribbon marker and jacket. ISBN 978-0-7649-5389-7.

AVAILABLE NOW at sales@pomeurope.co.uk or +44 [1] 926 430111

Hieroglyph - the Movie

A new book, a unique way of teaching children the alphabet, from Pomegranate.

Copy the link below, press play and watch the movie!

Hieroglyphs - the Movie

POM BOOK WEEK

It's NEW BOOK WEEK at Pomegranate and each day of this week we are going to introduce to a different new title and what a debut we have, with Pomegranate's first ever children's book!

HIEROGLYPHS

Hieroglyphs from A to Z is the first book published by PomegranateKids™, an imprint of Pomegranate Communications, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. With bold graphics, charming, rhyming text, and solid educational content, it explains the hieroglyphic code while imparting important facts about ancient Egypt. As an added bonus, a separate sheet of stencils is provided, slipped inside the back cover, so that kids can easily draw their own hieroglyphs. All told, this is the perfect book for any small visitor to a museum with Egyptian artifacts, or for any child who simply loves words and pictures.

Here's a glimpse inside:

Two Very Cool Things About This Book:

1. The author, Peter Der Manuelian, is interested in using the tools of the future to study the past, and combined his hand-drawn hieroglyphic artwork with a computer to produce this book.

2.  The book includes a sheet of punch-out stencils of hieroglyphs so that children can learn to spell their own name in Hieroglyphics.

 Size: 8½ x 10¼ x 3/8 inches. Smyth-sewn casebound book. ISBN 978-0

Available from sales@pomeurope.co.uk

£10.99/13.50 Euro

To see more inside pages and read the Press Release go to:

http://pomegranate.stores.yahoo.net/a184.html

Mothering Sunday

Mother's day is fast approaching, hope you've all remembered to buy your cards and gifts.

Something you may not have thought of though, if you have any of Pomegranate's superb Reading Woman product get it in your windows and to the front of your shelves because it's all perfect for mother's day!

"Artists have always found the reading woman a worthy subject, fascinating for all she doesn’t reveal. We’ll never know what she’s thinking as she turns the pages..."