Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important and prolific portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Sylvia Plath: Drawings is a portfolio of pen-and-ink illustrations created during the transformative period spent at Cambridge University, when Plath met and secretly married poet Ted Hughes, and traveled with him to Paris and Spain on their honeymoon, years before she wrote her seminal work, The Bell Jar.
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.
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.
El arte del Ukiyo-e es la expresión artística de una civilización aislada que, cuando se convirtió en algo accesible para Occidente, influyó de manera significativa a un gran número de artistas europeos.
Franz Marc (1880-1916), bedeutender Künstler des deutschen Expressionismus und später von den Nationalsozialisten als entartet gebrandmarkt, war nicht nur ein enger Freund Wassily Kandinskys, sondern auch Mitbegründer des Künstleralmanachs Der Blaue Reiter„.
Addison Mizner's Mediterranean-style mansions are much-admired Florida icons, where even today you can find many homes modeled with stucco walls and tiled roofs.
After sixty surgeries at a cost of almost $200,000 to feminize and beautify her originally male body, transgendered Canadian artist Nina Arsenault has created a body of work emanating from her experiences that includes photographs, videos disseminated online, a website, a blog, several social networking presentation sites, stage plays, print media writing and performance of the body in both celebrity appearances and daily public life.
Rain Later, Good is the award winning story of Peter Collyer's extraordinary journey around the Shipping Forecast areas and has been a bestseller since first publication.
Composed of stories that sketch the resonant heights and depths of an auto- biography, Subject to Change is a series of portraits along the road of a life well lived.
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.
Andrey Shabanov's seminal reinterpretation of the Peredvizhniki is a comprehensive study that examines in-depth for the first time the organizational structure, self-representation, exhibitions, and critical reception of this 19th-century artistic partnership.
A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolina's Bayard Wootten (1875-1959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the state's most significant early female photographer.
Poète de l’Art d’aimer du temps », voilà comment les Goncourt définissent Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), un des artistes les plus importants de sa génération, qui a pourtant failli plonger dans l’oubli, dépassé par l’influence grandissante du mouvement néo-classique dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIème siècle.
Widely acknowledged as a major turning point in the history of visual depictions of war, Francisco de Goya's renowned print series The Disasters of War remains a touchstone for serious engagement with the violence of war and the questions raised by its artistic representation.
A BELOVED CLASSIC FOR DOG LOVERS OF ALL AGESWith a new foreword by Ann PatchettIn the 1930s, Lucy Dawson’s friendly, sympathetic portraits of dogs were so popular with readers of American and British magazines that she agreed to gather them together in a book, Dogs As I See Them.
This is an art book on the politics of urban conflict based around artist Stan Douglas' stunning photo installation of the same name, depicting a violent confrontation in 1971 between police and Vancouver's counterculture known as the Gastown Riot.
‘[A] richly evocative, captivating, and reflective memoir” of a feminist artist who broke free of the limits placed on her by family, Judaism and society (Publishers Weekly).
Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist's multifaceted life and work-an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing.
In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings.
Max Pechstein (1881-1955) is one of the most prominent German artists of the twentieth century, not least because of his crucial role in the breakthrough of German Expressionism.
Artist Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), whose Russian Jewish family settled in Manhattan in 1912, was devoted to painting people in their everyday urban lives.
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.