Individual artists, art monographs

An artist's record of the homes of 89 leading creatives from interior designers to ceramicists, antiques dealers, florists and chefs.

A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner.

Am Zeitraum zwischen Geburt und Tod der Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) streift die gesamte moderne Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten vorbei wie ein Hollywood-Film.

Entre courbes et contre-courbes, Mucha créa, à la fin du XIXe siècle, une égérie nouvelle qui devait hanter les rues de Paris.

Artist, columnist, and poet Gertrude McCarty Smith (1923-2007) of Collins, Mississippi, carried herself as a demure and proper southern lady, yet this was deceiving as she was a prolific, creative trailblazer who had collectors and dedicated readers from coast to coast, and even in Europe.

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

Artist, columnist, and poet Gertrude McCarty Smith (1923-2007) of Collins, Mississippi, carried herself as a demure and proper southern lady, yet this was deceiving as she was a prolific, creative trailblazer who had collectors and dedicated readers from coast to coast, and even in Europe.

Ronald Lockett (1965-1998) stands out among southern artists in the late twentieth century.

Inspiré dès son jeune âge par le travail de Monet, Paul Signac (1863-1935) était l’ami et le disciple de Georges Seurat qui a mélangé la précision scientifique du pointillisme aux couleurs vivantes et à l’émotion de l’impressionnisme.

In 1977, Dave Sim (b.

Marc Chagall nació en el seno de una familia judía sumamente estricta, para la cual la prohibición de la representación de la figura humana tenía la fuerza de un dogma.

Ten women artists, counterparts of the Group of Seven, are finally being given their due.

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1950s, German writer and artist Unica Z rn produced a wealth of remarkable textual and visual material within psychiatric institutions across Germany and France.

The deeply personal story of artist, activist, and influencer Laetitia Ky, told through the powerful sculptures she creates with her own hair that embrace Black culture and beauty, the fight for social justice, and the journey toward self-love.

Virtuoso Chris Ware (b.

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

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices.

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

According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model.

Donald Rodney (1961-1998) was one of the most gifted, perceptive, and innovative contemporary British artists of his time.

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.

'The best of these Darwins is that they are cut out of rock - three taps is enough to convince one how immense is their solidarity.

Identified as "e;the first designer of what would become known as Swedish Modern"e; by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.

John Bramblitt makes his living as a visualartist.

The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam Blake (1757-1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking.

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.

A comprehensive re-assessment of Raphael''s artistic achievement and the ways in which it transformed the idea of what art is.

By imaginatively recreating the play's original staging and debunking the interpretations of various critics, including Aristotle, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, E.

This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated artistic genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us.

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A glimpse into the mind and life of one of the most creative and enigmatic visionaries of our time, filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky *; Retraces the spiritual and mystical path Jodorowsky has followed since childhood, vividly repainting events from the perspective of an unleashed imagination *; Explores the development of the author's psychomagic and metagenealogy practices via his realization that all problems are rooted in the family tree *; Includes photos from Jodorowsky's appearance at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and from the film based on this book, which debuted at Cannes Retracing the spiritual and mystical path he has followed since childhood, Alejandro Jodorowsky re-creates the incredible adventure of his life as an artist, filmmaker, writer, and therapist--all stages on his quest to push back the boundaries of both imagination and reason.

Adrian Ghenie is one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation.

A personally compelling introduction to Leonardo's genius, a classic monograph of Leonardo's art and his development.

In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Zu einer Zeit, als der abstrakte Expressionismus die amerikanische Malkunst beherrscht und die Betonung auf kühnen Farben, einem fast brutalen malerischen Duktus und zumeist abstrakten Kompositionen liegt, beschreitet Jasper Johns mit seinen amerikanischen Flaggen, Schießscheiben, Zahlen und Buchstaben ganz eigene Wege.

"e;Reading Patricia Vigderman is like attending an ideal dinner party, where everyone has read your favorite books.

In the past, few women artists were commissioned to create public works of art.

In 1983, Christine Taylor Patten was hired as one of the people who took care of Georgia O'Keeffe, then ninety-six.

Dalí, Salvador (Figueras, 1904 – Torre-Galatea, 1989).

This long-awaited study, lavishly illustrated, tells the remarkable story of the work of one of Canada's great artists.

Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) was a painter and a great art theorist, but first and foremost he was the founder of Suprematism, a style seeking pure abstraction based on geometrical forms.

Pionnier au Portugal, son pays d’origine, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1887-1918), fut aussi bien in fluencé par l’impressionnisme que par le fauvisme, l’expressionnisme et le futurisme.

The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam's south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009.

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization whose mission is to preserve, document and present works of avant-garde art by emerging artists - particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politically unpopular content.