Individual artists, art monographs

Mondialement célèbre pour ses nus sensuels, aux formes généreuses, Pierre Paul Rubens (1577-1640), était un artiste dont la préoccupation première était la sensualité.

Lang vor der Erfindung von neuen, mit exotischen Monstern gespickten Medien wie Comics und Computerspielen zeigte der niederländische Maler Hieronymus Bosch in seinen Gemälden, oft mit einer Prise Humor verbunden, eine große Anzahl von schrecklichen, wahrlich Furcht einflößenden Fantasiewesen, wie sie ausgefallener nicht hätten sein können.

Felix Vallotton (1865-1925) was active at the turn of the century.

The Study of Prosimian Behavior aims to provide as complete coverage as possible to the field of prosimian behavior.

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Paul Klee gehört zu den Künstlern, die sich nur schwerlich einer bestimmten kunstgeschichtlichen Bewegung zuordnen lassen.

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuentetodos, 1746 – Bordeaux, 1828)Goya est peut-être le peintre le plus accessible entre tous.

Pieter Bruegel, l'Ancien (près de Breda, 1525 – Bruxelles, 1569)Pieter Bruegel fut le premier membre important d'une famille d'artistes, actifs durant quatre générations.

Dem Grafiker, Maler, Bildhauer und Lehrer Max Beckmann (1884-1950) gelang mit seinem Lebenswerk etwas, um dass sich viele Künstler vor und nach ihm vergeblich bemüht haben: Ein Œuvre zu schaffen, das den großen Kunsttraditionen huldigt ohne dabei nachahmerisch zu wirken, das expressionistisch ist ohne dabei die Realität ins Unkenntliche oder Lächerliche zu abstrahieren, das modern und wegweisend ist ohne der Selbstgefälligkeit eines avantgardistischen Denkens zu verfallen.

Encore aujourd’hui considéré comme un bad boy, Pascin était un artiste brillant qui vécut dans l’ombre de contemporains tels que Picasso, Modigliani et tant d’autres.

Primate Locomotion discusses researches on the concept of primate locomotion.

A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada's best-known artists, Jackson's Wars follows A.

Léonard de Vinci (Vinci, 1452 – Le Clos-Lucé, 1519)Léonard passa la première partie de sa vie à Florence, la seconde à Milan et ses trois dernières années en France.

One of the most vibrant artists of her generation, Pegi Nicol MacLeod was a charismatic bohemian whose expressive images of the contemporary world were an essential component of Canadian modernism during the 1930s and 1940s.

Here's a secret: God has deposited a gift inside of you.

Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artistsIn Hollywood's heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department.

Mary Cassatt (Pittsburg, 1844, – Château de Beaufresne, 1926)Mary est née à Pittsburgh.

Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), an eminent seventeenth-century landscape painter, was an equally talented graphic artist.

Pierre–Auguste Renoir (Limoges, 1841 – Cagnes-Sur-Mer, 1919)Pierre-Auguste Renoir naquit le 25 février 1841 à Limoges.

Not only was Leonardo da Vinci (1453-1519) an astonishing painter, but also a scientist, anatomist, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, inventor, and more.

In this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic and controversial artist of modern times.

Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.

À partir du milieu des années 1960, Vittorio a régné durant trois décennies sur l'affiche au Québec et au Canada, où ses photographies, ses illustrations et ses bandes dessinées ont également été exposées et primées.

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In Michael Tisserand's biography Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, the creator of history's greatest comic strip finally gets his due.

Born in 1776 in East Anglia near the river Stour, John Constable was destined for his father's business of milling and grain-shipping.

To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer.

The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged over the past twenty-five years as a wildly original voice in feminist art.

In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this book's author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.

C’est avec Impression, soleil levant, exposé en 1874, que le peintre Claude Monet (1840-1926) se fait connaître du grand public et donne naissance au mouvement impressionniste.

Sifting the available evidence, Carlo Ginzburg builds up a vivid portrait of Piero della Francesca's patrons and convincingly explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his painting.

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) est connu pour son style unique et saisissant au répertoire artistique varié, mêlant cinéma, peinture, photographie et sculpture.

El arquitecto y diseñador español Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) es una importante e influyente figura en la historia del arte contemporáneo de España.

Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.

The celebrity tattoo artist takes fans on a tour through his life and art, combining captivating vignettes and stories with more than one hundred color photos.

Frida Kahlo est devenue plus familière aux amateurs d’art après la sortie d’un film sur sa vie.

An illustrated examination of a 1995 work by Mike Kelley that marked a significant change in his work.

At a time when the dominant mode of painting, Abstract Expressionism, emphasised expressive drama through bold brushwork and largely abstract compositions, Johns' paintings of the American flag, targets, numbers and the alphabet demonstrated a decided departure from convention.

Katsushika Hokusai ist ohne Zweifel der seit der Mitte des 19.

Grace Hartigan emerged during the 1950s as a leading representative of the "e;second generation"e; of the New York School of abstract expressionist painters, a movement that achieved international standing for American art.

Denken – Sprechen – Hören: Ein Werkporträt

Das Hören bzw.

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans.

Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper.

Im Gegensatz zu seinem Vorgänger van Eyck war Memling, der lange Zeit als ein weniger bedeutender Maler galt, kein Hofmaler, sondern ein Maler des Bürgertums.

Qu'est-ce que l'art?

The motivation for this volume arose from a desire to bridge the gap between artists and their audience, facilitating a deeper understanding of the artists purpose and process.