Individual artists, art monographs

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.

Jean Hlion, the French painter who died at eighty-three in 1987, brought together in his copious and essential writing on art the theoretical authority of the intellectual and the fundamental insights of the craftsman in his studio.

Alexander Calder was one of the most original artists of the twentieth century and a major figure in American art.

Stories of Remarkable People and Enduring Love in the Time of WoodstockIn the 1960s and '70s, Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together the Woodstock Festival of 1969, the eras emblem of love and peace.

A TOUCHING MEMOIR OF ART AND MARRIAGE IN BOSTON'S VIBRANT SOUTH END In Love Made Visible, Jean Gibran portrays her role as spouse of a gifted artist and their often stormy family life together in Boston's diverse South End.

The Beauty of the Beast Featuring 200 superb images, this book is the first retrospective of the work of Dean Russo, a Brooklyn-based artist known for his soulful animal portraits.

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.

Erwin Rosenthals Contemporary Art in the Light of History, originally published in 1971, is a small masterpiece of writing on the art of the twentieth century.

Acclaimed photographer Kosti Ruohomaa is widely known for his photographs of hard scrabble Yankees in mid-century Maine.

Winslow Homer was the antithesis of the unkempt bohemian artist of the nineteenth century.

When artist Tom Curry first moved to Maine, his house overlooked a small, uninhabited island in Eggemoggin Reach.

A fully illustrated inspirational art book from visionary painter Francene Hart*; Includes more than 80 full-color reproductions of Hart's intricate watercolor paintings and the stories behind them*; Recounts the evolution of her art and her discovery of the hidden order of Nature that led to her masterful artistic integrations of Nature, Spirit, and Sacred Geometry*; Explores how to tap into the energies provided by spirit guides and power animals, like Jaguar, Raven, Octopus, and Dolphin, and harness the intelligence of the heart for creative inspiration and visionEvery one of us possesses the potential to receive visionary experiences and integrate them into our lives.

A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historiansThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century.

Matrescene meets the Golden Mole - discover what the animal kingdom expects when it's expectingIt takes 40 weeks to grow a human baby.

'A masterpiece' Sunday Times'Magisterial.

This richly illustrated catalogue brings together over 70 works created by Sean Scully between 1981 and 2024, focusing on the artist's transformative encounter with the natural landscape of Montauk, Long Island.

Das Buch beinhaltet zum ersten Mal einen ausführlichen biografischen Entwurf über die ersten 30 Lebensjahre der Schriftstellerin, Theater-Schauspielerin, Drehbuchautorin und Regisseurin Thea von Harbou.

Designed for how people learnmakes drawing manga easyThe ideal manga drawing book for beginnerseyes, hands, feet, body shapes, and moreIncludes ideas for how to draw your own graphic novel Have you spent years admiring manga drawing and wondering how to draw cool stuff, but you havent known how to draw it on your own?

For fans of Mrs Hemingway and The Paris Wife, Whitney Scharer's The Age of Light is the riveting, vivid and powerful story of the photographer Lee Miller and her lover, Man Ray.

'A sweet winter light blushedas Pablo Picasso walked his dogunder the cypress treesand the bell of the old chapel guessed at the hour.

What is a 'symbolic revolution'?

A visionary scientist, a supreme painter, a man of eccentricity and ambition: Leonardo da Vinci had many lives.

Revel in the enduring legacy of Mexican artist Frida Kahlofrom the self-portraits, to the flower crown, to her iconic eyebrowswith this fun and commemorative book!

Wie kann Malerei Wissen vermitteln oder gar generieren?

In words and photographs, the story of visionary architect Addison Mizner* Introduced the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles to southern Florida* Designed and developed the resort town of Boca Raton* Designed the exquisite Everglades Club in Palm BeachAddison Mizner transformed Palm Beach and South Florida with his visionary architecture.

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.

One of The Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year ';An engrossing reada historically and psychologically rich account of the young Picasso and his coteries in Barcelona and Paris' (The Washington Post) and how he achieved his breakthrough and revolutionized modern art through his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

A richly illustrated history of the glittering world of queer artistic life in the 1920s and '30sIn Queer Moderns, Alice Friedman tells the fascinating story of the queer avant-garde of the 1920s and '30s in New York, Paris, and Venice, as seen through the eyes of Max Ewing (19031934), a young musician, photographer, and man-about-town who, although virtually unknown today, moved in extraordinary circles.

** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his finger ends.

Lavishly illustrated with breathtaking art and imagery from the highly anticipated new movie, the exclusive Visual Companion is the ultimate introduction to every character, creature and location you will encounter in this epic adventure from the official Lord of the Rings saga.

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet and shares photos of his extensive unique personal T-shirt collection.

'Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what' Olivia LaingI'm not a portrait painter.

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch.

In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear.

Vermeer has always been considered the most elusive of great artists, but this book tracks him down in his home town.

A stunning portfolio of Discworld illustrations from the brush of Paul Kidby, Sir Terry Pratchett's artist of choice.

Walter Potter (1835-1918), a country taxidermist of no great expertise, became famous as an icon of Victorian whimsy.

A fascinating written exploration of the superhero phenomenon, from its beginnings in the depths of Great Depression to the blockbuster movies of today.

Dieses eBook: "Gedankengut aus meinen Wanderjahren" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

A bold new interpretation of two northern Renaissance mastersIn this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy hell-bent on destroying us.

Dahlov Ipcar is best known for her vibrant collage-style paintings of jungle and farm animals.

Rom, das Herz des antiken Imperiums, wird im Jahr 64 n.

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.

Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill.

Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models.

An art historical epic for dangerous timesWhat do artworks look like in extreme cases of collective experience?

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.

Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (c.

'Phiz' - Hablot Knight Browne - was the great illustrator of Dickens' fiction.