New Releases by Peter Blake

Marvin Levy: The Publicist Behind Hollywood''s Most Iconic Films takes readers inside the life of one of Hollywood''s most influential publicists. Through his innovative marketing strategies, Levy helped shape the success of legendary films like Jaws, E.T., and Schindler''s List. His unique ability to craft compelling narratives around these films transformed the way movies were marketed, forever changing the landscape of film publicity. This captivating biography explores Levy''s extraordinary career, delving into his close collaboration with Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood luminaries. It reveals how Levy''s personal touch and deep understanding of the audience became the cornerstone of his groundbreaking campaigns. In this book, you''ll discover not only the story of a remarkable publicist but also the behind-the-scenes world of Hollywood''s most iconic films. For anyone fascinated by the art of storytelling, marketing, and cinema, this book offers an unparalleled look at the genius behind the spotlight.

Dive into the remarkable journey of Victor Wembanyama, a generational talent who transformed the NBA. From his early days as a lanky teenager with unmatched potential to his reign as a dominant champion, this biography chronicles his rise to superstardom. Witness his impact on the court, ushering in an era of positionless basketball and redefining the center position.But Victor''s legacy extends beyond wins and championships. Explore his influence as a global icon who inspired young athletes worldwide. This captivating narrative goes beyond the games, delving into his philanthropic endeavors and his dedication to social causes. Beyond the Blockbuster: The Legacy of Victor Wembanyama is a testament to the power of hard work, dedication, and a kind heart. It''s a story that will resonate with basketball fans and anyone who dares to dream big.

Roberta Karmel was more than just a lawyer or commissioner she was a trailblazer. This biography chronicles her remarkable journey, shattering glass ceilings on Wall Street and in academia. As the first woman commissioner of the SEC, Roberta championed reforms that safeguarded investors and ensured fair play in the financial markets. Her dedication to ethical practices and investor education left a lasting legacy.The Trailblazer explores not just her policy achievements, but the impact she had on generations of women pursuing careers in law and finance. This inspiring story offers valuable lessons in leadership, perseverance, and the enduring fight for a just and equitable financial system.

In this new edition Blake gives a personal account of his professional experience of working with children and adolescents over the last 45 years. Providing a wonderful integration of the conceptual and the practical, this book clarifies complex theory while giving practical advice for clinicians through a nuts and bolts description of how to interview parents, emotionally assess a child and adolescent, set up a consulting room and conduct a therapy session. The addition of chapter summaries, questions and suggested further readings provides a valuable structure to those in child and adolescent training programmes. The author’s experience, gained from public and private work, is vividly described with the use of clinical examples to illustrate his thinking and way of working. This third edition highlights his evolution from a more traditional epistemological (knowing) approach, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight, to a more ontological (being) framework. He explores a more intuitive and unconscious way of working and argues this is more developmentally appropriate to children and adolescents. His accessible writing style transports the reader into his clinical world: a world full of fascinating stories of children talking through their play; of adolescents exploring who they are through their discussions about music, films, sport and computer games; of helping parents to understand and thoughtfully manage their child’s emotional struggles. This new edition, an amalgam of theoretical orientations (Kleinian, Bionian, Winnicottian, relational, non-linear and neurological), draws from recent developments, both in theory and technique. It will be of immense value to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and all those involved in the treatment of children’s mental health.

An obsession that has spanned almost 30 years, Dylan Thomas''s seminal mid-century ''play for voices'', ''Under Milk Wood'', has long been present in the imagination of Peter Blake. From trips during his Brotherhood of Ruralists'' days to Thomas''s creative refuge at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, to repeated playing of the recorded versions in his treasure trove of a studio, the ''dismays and rainbows'' of these sequences of 110 watercolours, pencil portraits and etchings will form one of Blake''s most substantial single bodies of work.

Presents a series of alphabetical spreads featuring objects gathered in Peter Blake''s studio throughout his career.

In this new collection from Sir Peter Blake, the renowned pop artist chooses figures that have inspired or informed his knowledge of art and pays tribute to them. The artists featured are Joseph Cornell, Sonia Delaunay, Mark Dion, Damien Hirst, Henri Matisse, Jack Pierson, Robert Rauschenberg, Kurt Schwitters, Saul Steinberg and HC Westerman. The project has also given Blake, an inveterate collector of everything from pop culture to found objects and sea detritus, the chance to delve into his magpie-like hoard and put pieces to unexpected use.

The 224 page book Peter Blake: Alphabets, has been created by Douglas Wilson, a graphic design lecturer in the university''s School of Art and Design, and features 18 previously published and unpublished alphabets produced by Sir Peter.Sir Peter - who was behind the iconic design of the Beatles'' album Sgt Pepper''s Lonely Hearts Club Band - has had a love of letters since the beginning of his artistic life and produced his first alphabet in 1991, a set of bold and colourful silkscreen prints representing each letter. Many more followed, including one created from Polaroid images, one which he sculpted and one created from objects he found and collected.

Peter Blake, founding father of British Pop Art, has been producing quirky and inventive collages since the mid-1950s, when he was in his early twenties. His Venice Fantasies, made in his mid-seventies with the same lightness of touch and fresh eye that has distinguished all his work, are marked by his characteristic wry humor and unerring sense of the absurd. Fifty years after his first trip to the most magical of Italian cities, he made his first return visit in 2007, just as he was embarking on this series of affectionate and often frankly preposterous tributes to the city as reconfigured in his imagination. Taking as his cue the Surrealist collages of Max Ernst and others, he engages in the same sort of time travel and unlikely alliances that marked his celebrated cover design for the Beatles LP Sgt. Pepper''s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Each of the 21 images takes as its starting-point a photographic view of Venice from the early 1900s, part of a concertina set of tourist postcards, but then subverts it to consistently surprising ends. The city is invaded by penguins and engulfed in icebergs, used as a stage set by dance companies and as a camp site by scout troops, its tranquillity shattered by plane crashes, madly overcrowded regattas, fishermen, motorboat racers and "magic crowds." On the Piazza San Marco, citizens from ancient times rub shoulders at a café with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, quintessential American tourists happily consuming their own picnic. Teeming with detail, these humorous and highly entertaining pictures show Blake at his imaginative best.

The Skipper''s account of the 1981-82 Whitbread Round the World Race.

Galerie Hamburg, November 2008 - January 2009, and at Galerie Lorenzelli Arte, Mailand, January - February 2009." --Book Jacket.

This book presents the newest portfolio of prints from Peter Blake, the godfather of British pop art. Blake has always had a deep interest in the letters of the alphabet, and this book reproduces 26 of his newest prints, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each visual interpretation is a collage of images from vintage cards, magazines and books, and the finished works are both nostalgic and whimsical, humorous and fascinating. Including an interview by the renowned art writer, Mel Gooding, and a specially designed cover by the artist, this will be required reading for all Peter Blake fans.

Artist''s statement - About collage: Peter Blake in conversation with Natalie Rudd - Collage: a brief history - Biography.

Fascinated from an early age by the paintings of Poussin, Leonardo and other great masters, Peter Blake has watched as others have made guesses as to their meanings, even linking them to the mysteries surrounding the French village of Rennes-le-Chateau - at the core of the seminal " Holy Blood, Holy Grail" . But from the recurrent geometrical themes Blake has discerned in the paintings, he reaches quite different conclusions from those grasped at by other researchers. For instance, by overlaying the grids found in key paintings of both Poussin and Leonardo on maps of the Langeudoc, he has pinpointed a never-before-discovered hill tomb. If the clues that have lead him this far on the trail are right, this could be the final resting place of two of the most significant characters from the Bible. But the fact that the tomb exists is only a starting point. Through following the trail by which he found it we unravel a rich cloth of learning and religion spun in secrecy over the centuries, and uncover the true identity of a host of remarkable historical characters, all party to the secret of the ciphers - from popes and painters to the real Man in the Iron Mask.

This is a richly illustrated monograph on one of the masterpieces of Philip Johnson, the sculpture "Wiener Trio", built in 1996 in Vienna. For the architect, the "turning point" signifies not only the change taking place within himself and the turning towards a new century, but also the confrontation with new concepts and thereby with a completely new architectural vocabulary.

The story of modern architecture is told here through the lives and works of three men who changed the face of the cities we live in. Le Corbusier gave to modern design a sure and brilliant sense of form; Mies brought an almost Gothic discipline of structure; and Wright heralded a new and dramatic concept of space and freedom. Through this triple focus, Peter Blake provides a perspective on the entire range of twentieth-century architecture.

Philip Johnson, born in 1906, has done much to shape the architecture of this century, both through his buildings and his architectural criticism. Legendary is his influential 1932 "The International Style" exhibition for the New York Museum of Modern Art. Among the most renowned buildings from Johnson''s extensive oeuvre - over 200 built works are to his credit - are the Glass House and the New York City AT & T skyscraper. In 1979, he received the Pritzker Prize. This monograph offers a comprehensive survey of Johnson''s work.

In this beautiful and practical book, one of the world''s foremost sailors, Peter Blake, now head of the Cousteau Society, tells you all you need to know about the basics of sailing.