Individual artists, art monographs

Discover this remarkable account of twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons from the New York Times bestselling author of Behave.

A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century Art is the language that speaks to the soul Why do we make art?

When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "e;who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it.

Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (Caprese, 1475 – Rome, 1564)Michel-Ange, comme Léonard de Vinci, avait plusieurs cordes à son arc et était à la fois sculpteur, architecte, peintre et poète.

One of the most prolific and influential artists of the 20th century, Jean Dubuffet has featured in a multitude of exhibitions and catalogues.

Irene Avaalaaqiaq has received commissions for public buildings from Churchill, Manitoba, to Minneapolis, to Ottawa.

Als Impressionist zu gelten war für Monet eine Auszeichnung.

Les portraits, les nus et les natures mortes de Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) résument l’esprit Art déco et Jazz Age.

One of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Hans Holbein the Younger was also a complex and fascinating man who knew Erasmus, Thomas More, Henry VIII and many of the sixteenth century's wielders of power and influence.

The classic book on the art and history of weaving-now expanded and in full colorWritten by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design.

Miguel Ángel, como Leonardo, fue una persona con muchos talentos: escultor, arquitecto, pintor y poeta.

Drei Männer.

A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us.

Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, und Denis, die bekanntesten Vertreter der Nabis-Gruppe, revolutionierten den Geist der dekorativen Techniken während einerder produktivsten Perioden der französischen Malerei.

Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she wrote this loving account of his passion for art, his own painting, and his challenging critical theories.

Drawing on unpublished documents and oral histories, an illustrated examination of an iconic artwork of an artist who has made a lifework of tactical evasion.

Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker.

A study of Kusama''s era-defining work, a “sublime, miraculous field of phalluses,” against the background of abstraction, eroticism, sexuality, and softness.

Desde su muerte, hace 100 años, Cézanne se ha convertido en el pintor más famoso del siglo XIX.

In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s.

Among the women artists who came to prominence in the postwar era in New York, painter Nell Blaine had a uniquely hard-won career.

Global iconSix-time Grammy winnerHeadline-makerThe most talented recording artist of her generationMuch has been said about Amy Winehouse since her tragic death aged just 27.

Gustave Caillebotte was more than a painter: he collected and researched postage stamps; designed and built yachts; administered and participated in the sport of yachting; collected paintings; cultivated and collected rare orchids; designed and tended his gardens; and engaged in local politics.

For Canadian impressionist Mary Riter Hamilton, capturing the emotional landscape of battlefields and graveyards in the months after the Great War's armistice became an artistic calling and defined her work.

The beauty and spirit of coastal landscapes and waterways captured and celebrated in artPainting the Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser is a stunning collection of the works of West Fraser, one of the nation's most respected painters of representational art.

Mit The Great Hidden Inspirer, dem vierten Band der Poiesis-Reihe, widmet sich der renommierte Duchamp-Forscher Michael R.

Hieronymus Bosch (S’Hertogenbosch, 1450 – 1516)Né au milieu du XVe siècle, Jérôme Bosch fait l'expérience d'un monde pris dans les luttes religieuses, où les valeurs médiévalestraditionnelles commencent à s'effondrer.

Louise Larocque Serpa often said she was born ';in the wrong place, to the wrong woman, at the wrong time.

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions.

Pornografisch, unsittlich, amoralisch und letztendlich sogar „entartet“ wurde die Kunst des Egon Schiele genannt.

Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), peintre d’origine biélorusse, inconventionnel et controversé, combine influences de la peinture classique européenne avec postimpressionnisme et expressionnisme.

Degas was closest to Renoir in the impressionist's circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings.

Robert Morris, a leading figure in postwar American art, is best known as a pioneer of minimalist sculpture, process art, and earthworks.

The hugely acclaimed biography of one of history's greatest directors, Jean-Luc Godard'MacCabe's book is in a league of its own .

La campagne russe est l’une des plus charmantes du monde pour ses célèbres étendues de fleurs sauvages qui lui donnent un air de forêt au printemps, pour les hivers polaires de la toundra qui triomphèrent sur l’avancée de Napoléon ou Hitler et qui seront le cadre de nombreuses scènes célèbres de la littérature russe.

Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2021Arthur Jeffress was an art dealer and collector from a Virginian family who bequeathed his subversive little collection (Derek Hill) to Tate and Southampton City Art Gallery on his suicide in 1961.

Si le ravissant « Pays du soleil levant » devait, lors d’une de ces éruptions volcaniques qui le menacent d’extinction, sombrer à jamais dans les profondeurs de l’océan, il continuerait de vivre pour nous à travers le trait magique d’Utagawa Hiroshige.

This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and subject matter.

They met in 1928, Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age.

This monograph presents Kaldahl's experimental work in clay sculpture.

Jenseits der Sonnenblumen, der Schwertlilien und des Porträts von Doktor Gachet befindet sich ein Mensch, Vincent van Gogh (geboren 1853; gestorben 1890) mit all seiner Begabung und Zerbrechlichkeit.