Individual artists, art monographs

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A beautiful art book and travelogue detailing the life and inspirations of Vincent Van Gogh featuring over 250 black-and-white and full-color images.

Als Impressionist zu gelten war für Monet eine Auszeichnung.

Since his death 100 years ago, Cezanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century.

Der unter dem Namen Canaletto bekannte Venezianer Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768) wurde durch seinen Vater, einen Theaterdekorateur, an die Malerei und die Perspektive herangeführt.

The incarnation of the myth of a cursed artist, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is a legend who became a reference for modern art.

Welcome to the world of Fine Little Day.

The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights.

From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist.

At a time when the dominant mode of painting, Abstract Expressionism, emphasised expressive drama through bold brushwork and largely abstract compositions, Johns' paintings of the American flag, targets, numbers and the alphabet demonstrated a decided departure from convention.

Bryan's writing pops and zings like a Basquiat painting NOEL FIELDINGIn Bright Stars, Kate Bryan examines the lives and legacies of 30 great artists who died too young, celebrating their inspirational stories and extraordinary talent.

Behind Frida Kahlo's portraits, lies the story of both her life and work.

In the early twentieth century, the French Quarter had become home to a vibrant community of working artists attracted to the atmosphere, architecture, and colorful individuals who populated the scene (and who also became some of its first preservationists).

Gorges Seurat (1859-1891) ist berühmt für seine außerordentliche Technik des Pointillismus.

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

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

A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M.

The first clearly-illustrated, comparative book on developmental primate skeletal anatomy, focused on the highly informative newborn stage.

This book offers a fresh reading of Latin American modernism through the lenses of gender and space.

The Art of Lovetells the stories of the most fascinating couples of the art world uncovering the passionate, challenging and loving relationships behind some the worlds greatest works of art.

In 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic.

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

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.

Alfons Mucha ist der ungekrönte König der Jugendstil-Illustration.

A well-known advocate and proponent of art in Chicago, Paul Klein is a long-time gallerist whose friendships with artists, dealers, collectors and curators have afforded him a rare vantage point on the vagaries and victories of the art world.

Fred spent his youth trying to impress his father, while living in the shadow of his successful older brother.

À partir de la création de son premier atelier à l’âge de seize ans, sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) devint célèbre dans le monde de l’art.

A globetrotting Gold Rush heiress.

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

An icon in the Art Nouveau movement, Emile Galle (1846-1904) sought to portray the beauty and simplicity of nature in his glass art.

Primate Sexuality provides an authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of current research on the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates - prosimians, monkeys, apes, and human beings.

The long-awaited biography of one of Canada's most intriguing and beguiling artists.

A landmark account of the work, thought, and life of the seventeenth-century French painterIn this book, Anthony Blunt presents a rich account of the paintings, life, and development of the great seventeenth-century French classicist Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), addressing the artist's entire oeuvre alongside his theory of art.

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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.

For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves.

Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, Fascist Visions explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse, cultural policy, and artistic production in France and Italy.

Katsushika Hokusai ist ohne Zweifel der seit der Mitte des 19.

Der russische Maler Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) gilt als einer der Ersten, die sich auf das Feld der abstrakten Kunst gewagt haben.

After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592.

A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John Ruskin (1819-1900).

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.

This book explores how seasonal variation in resource abundance might have driven primate and human evolution.