Individual artists, art monographs

The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists.

The young Thomas Eakins's most revealing letters-published here for the first timeThe most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870.

In 1963, British inventor Alex Moulton (1920-2012) introduced an innovative compact bicycle.

Ornans, Courbet's birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape.

The quotable Ai WeiweiThis collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life.

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

Explores the insights that fossil hominin teeth provide about human evolution, linking findings with current debates in palaeoanthropology.

Libby Heaney worked for several years as a quantum physicist before turning to art.

Als Impressionist zu gelten war für Monet eine Auszeichnung.

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.

Goya es tal vez el pintor más accesible.

The study of the chimpanzee, one of the human species' closest relatives, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and cognition over the past half century.

When Pam Valois, a young photographer, met Jacomena Maybeck in 1979, she saw the woman she wanted to be in her own later years.

Diego Velázquez (Séville, 1599 – Madrid, 1660)Diego Velázquez était un artiste anticonformiste de l'ère baroque.

The first appearances of graffiti "e;tags"e; (signatures) on New York City subway trains in the early 1970s were discarded as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the ignorant and impoverished.

The smoothly metallic portraits, nudes and still lifes of Tamara de Lempicka encapsulate the spirit of Art Deco and the Jazz Age, and reflect the elegant and hedonistic life-style of a wealthy, glamorous and privileged elite in Paris between the two World Wars.

Die russischen Landschaften gehören zu den schönsten der Welt, mit den berühmten Wildblumenteppichen in den Wäldern im Frühling und der eisigen Wintertundra, die das Vordringen Napoleons und Hitlers vereitelte, bilden sie die Kulisse für so viele bekannte Szenen der russischen Literatur.

This is an intimate biography of an artist who became a legend after his death, but who in his private life stands revealed as a troubled man who was, in many ways, his own victim.

Sie lernten sich 1928 kennen, als Frida Kahlo gerade einundzwanzig Jahre und Diego doppelt so alt war.

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

Creative Infrastructures is a new collection of connected essays that examines the relationships between art, innovation, entrepreneurship and money.

Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine.

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Repin wurde 1844 in der Provinz Charkow (Ukraine) geboren und lernte bereits als 12-Jähriger die Ikonenmalerei.

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.

In the years before, during, and after the First World War, hundreds of young Jews flocked to Paris, artistic capital of the world and center of modernist experimentation.

In die Porträts der Frida Kahlo sind sowohl ihr Leben als auch ihr Wirken selbst eingeflossen.

The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernismJoseph Cornell (1903-1972) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed found objects-such as celestial charts, glass ice cubes, and feathers-into enchanted worlds that blur the boundaries between fantasy and the commonplace.

Tout à la fois influencé par les maîtres de l’Antiquité, le génie de Michel-Ange et la sculpture baroque, Auguste Rodin est l’un des artistes les plus reconnus de l’histoire.

Der zu seinen Lebzeiten als kontrovers geltende italienische Maler Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) hat seinen heutigen Weltruhm als hervorragender Künstler des Barock einer Wiederentdeckung im frühen 20.

'Deeply moving story of self-sacrifice and pride' - Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's WeeklyOne family's epic tale of survival in tumultuous twentieth-century China.

Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.

Odilon Redon, né le 20 avril 1840 à Bordeaux, et mort le 6 juillet 1916 à Paris est un peintre et graveur symboliste de la fin du XIXe siècle.

Als Humanist, Geometer und Archäologe ein Mann von herausragender Intelligenz und Phantasie, übte Mantegna dank seiner imposanten Persönlichkeit eine starke Wirkung aus.

Latin Americans have long been relegated to the cultural background, obscured by the dominant European culture.

The Reverend Howard Finster (1916-2001) was called the "e;backwoods William Blake"e; and the "e;Andy Warhol of the South,"e; and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art.

Zu Lebzeiten für seine emotional aufgeladenen Meereslandschaften mit Schiffen gefeiert und umworben, geriet Anton Melbye nach seinem Tod allmählich in Vergessenheit und wurde erst in den letzten Jahren wiederentdeckt.

This guide introduces aspiring manga artists to drawing chibi characterswide-eyed caricatures beloved for their cartoonish exaggeration.

Hopper stellt in seinen Werken auf poetische Weise die Einsamkeit des Menschen im Angesicht des sich in den 1920er Jahren entwickelnden American Way of Life dar.

Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.

As an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman, Jim Shooter (b.

Memory Work demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt.

The first biography in English of the Japanese artist who was a central figure in the dazzling artistic milieu of 1920s ParisWhen we think of expatriates in Paris during the early decades of the twentieth century, certain names come to mind: Hemingway, Picasso, Modigliani-and Foujita, the Japanese artist whose distinctive works, bringing elements of Japanese art to Western oil painting, made him a major cultural figure in 1920s Montparnasse.

In 2018, the artist Elisa Rose and the musician Gary Danner will have been involved in digital art for 30 years as STATION ROSE/STR.

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.

Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b.

George Heriot (1759-1839), a Scot, is best known as a skilled landscape watercolourist and as the contentious deputy   postmaster general of British North America from 1800 to 1816.