Another piece derived from Monet’s Haystacks.
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Pixel shift abstract inspired by the #Mini
Contemporary Art, Digital Art, Pixel ShiftAnd not just any MINI. This vibrant image is based on the MINI convertible. Fully vectored and able to be printed at any size.
Lotus Elise abstract digital art
Contemporary Art, Digital ArtAn abstract digital painting based on a Lotus Elise.
Can’t escape the pain digital painting #depression #anxiety
Contemporary Art, Digital ArtSometimes it is all too much. The constant barrage.
British Politics is currently best illustrated with glitch art #brexit
brexit, british politics, Contemporary Art, Digital Art, Glitch art1. Glitch 10.
Number Ten Downing Street, home of the British PM.
Glitch art seems made for this period in British politics. There’s something of the turmoil going on inside demonstrated in the architecture.
#Glitchart based on Monet’s Haystacks
Contemporary Art, Digital Art, Glitch artUnexpectedly highly coloured, yet as bright and vibrant as a picture of haystacks deserves to be.
Busyness of life digital sketch
Contemporary Art, Digital ArtOf course this doesn’t reference any recognisable form. But the drawing embodies the speed and busyness of life. The incomprehensibility and constant change.
Digital portrait of Formula E winner Antonio Felix da Costa
Contemporary Art, Digital Art, portrait, UncategorizedHere we have a digital portrait of Formula E race winner Antonio Felix da Costa
It’s a digital liquidity with hints of Francis Bacon? Almost watercolor in appearance. (Ps, I’ve been asked to add that the white mark between the eyes is a watermark).
New digital landscape art available
Contemporary Art, Digital ArtWe have two new landscape images for sale. Each is a one-off piece of digital art – you will be the only person with the work on your wall. Each picture is around A1 in size, printed on high quality paper. We can arrange framing if required at extra cost.
Each unique image is £500
Inspired by writing about the English countryside these images reflect a pastoral idyll (above) and a busier urban conurbation (below).
Peter Harrington Rare Books (@PHRareBooks) launches new Economics, Politics and Philosophy catalogue
UncategorizedPeter Harrington, the UK’s largest rare book seller has recently published a catalogue featuring 248 fascinating books and manuscripts on Economics, Politics and Philosophy including Mathematics, Logic and Computing. It offers a wide range of items from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Prices range from £200 to £150,000.
Highlights of this catalogue include:
Economics
In the field of economics, there are works from the age of mercantilism by authors such as Josiah Child, William Petty and Andrew Yarranton. Early 18th century texts preceding Adam Smith’s classical text, are represented by such rare works as David Hume‘s Political Discourses, in which can be found the foundation of classical monetary economics, and Jacob Vanderlint‘s Money Answers All Things, the first scientific study of the question of distribution. Daniel Defoe offers advice on how to trade, warning about the dangers of borrowing – he himself had been a bankrupt – and recommending the involvement of a spouse in business.
Classical works are presented with those of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus and John Stuart Mill to mention but a few, including an unpublished autograph letter by Adam Smith in which he amusingly remarks “I once had the vanity to flatter myself that I was the only Adam Smith in the world; but to my unspeakable mortification, there are two or three others of the same name in this town.”
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). First edition of “the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” in two volumes. £150,000. Plus a newly discovered unpublished two and a half page autograph letter by Adam Smith (1783) discussing customs, smuggling and “our future commercial connexions with our thirteen revolted colonies.” £75,000
Continental authors include Turgot, Isnard, whose Traite des richesses offers one of the most important contributions in the history of the development of mathematical economics, and Karl Marx.
Karl Marx, A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production (1877) – first edition in English, two volumes, very scarce and important printing. £5,250
Modern authors include Hayek, Keynes, Henry Hazlitt, and Ludwig von Mises, whose libertarian views have influenced many of today’s leading figures. There are additionally works on finance and speculation, by such noted authors as Charles Mackay, Edwin Lefevre, John Law and R.N. Elliott, the father of the wave principle.
Politics
In Politics, there are works by early authors such as John of Salisbury, whose Policraticus has been described as “the first medieval treatise on political thought.” Thomas Hobbes‘s Leviathan and James Harrington‘s Oceana examine political theory and the foundations of government. Algernon Sidney and James Burgh consider political freedoms, and in the nineteenth century, there are major American works by John Adams, William Harrison and Abraham Lincoln, all signed or inscribed.
Modern politicians and statesmen include Churchill, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Lloyd George, Enoch Powell and Harry S. Truman.
Mahatma Gandhi, Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) – a very good copy, first edition owned and inscribed by Martin J Hillenbrand an American diplomat who served as vice consul to India. £2,250
David Lloyd George, The Truth about the Peace Treaties (1938) – first edition of the publisher’s archive two volumes copy which is decidedly uncommon in the dust jackets. £325
Philosophy
The highlight of the philosophy selection comprises a presentation copy of Ludwig Wittgenstein‘s Tractatus Logicus Philosophicus, inscribed by him to Ludwig Hänsel, one of his closest friends. The catalogue includes works by Montaigne, Hobbes, Bentham, Hume, and several other authors of the Scottish Enlightenment. Rousseau, Condorcet and Voltaire are representative of French Enlightenment authors.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (probably c.1695-1702) – definitive edition of one of the most famous books of the 17th century. £6,500
Modern philosophers include Austin, Derrida, Jaspers and Bertrand Russell, with works on mathematics and logic by Jevons, Ramsey and Marquand, early pioneers of computing.
The catalogue is available to download at www.peterharrington.co.uk