Kein anderer war in der deutschen Theaterlandschaft über Epochen und Systeme hinweg so präsent wie der Schauspieler und Regisseur Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963).
With Impression, Sunrise, exhibited in 1874, Claude Monet (18401926) took part in thecreation of the Impressionist movement that introduced the 19th century to modern art.
Condamné par les Nazis comme étant un artiste « dégénéré », Franz Marc (1880-1916) est un peintre allemand dont l’utilisation des lignes sèches et de la couleur exprime de manière éloquente la douleur et le traumatisme de la guerre.
Among Walter Anderson's best-loved books, An Alphabet and Robinson: The Pleasant History of an Unusual Cat are much admired by children and parents, and have long been given as special gifts emblazoned with Anderson's unique art.
Fra Angelico (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole) (Vicchio di Mugello,1387 – Rome,1455)Isolé du monde par les murs d'un cloître, ce moine peintre, appartenant à l'ordre des dominicains, voua son existence à la peinture religieuse.
In 1880 the Art Association of Montreal established the Spring Exhibitions, an annual event which played a critical role in establishing a widespread appreciation of Canadian art.
« Je connaissais Diego Rivera, le muraliste mexicain, bien avant de découvrir les nombreux autres « Diego Rivera » qui hantèrent le monde du début du XXe siècle à la fin des années 1950.
This book presents new archival sources, suggests new interpretations of the David, and connects the statue to contemporary historical events in Florence.
Le Caravage (Michelangelo Merisi) (Caravaggio, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610)Après avoir séjourné à Milan durant son apprentissage, Michelangelo Merisi arriva à Rome en 1592.
This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art and explores a thrilling moment in the history of modernism'The beautiful, revelatory biography we have been waiting for.
Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City.
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2005Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2005The second in Hilary Spurling's sweeping, two-volume biography of Henri Matisse, one of the most influential and beloved artists of the twentieth centuryThis fascinating exploration of Matisse's world uncovers the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked his contemporaries while paving the way for modern art.
Bring your favorite anime foods to life with 75 recipesfrom traditional Japanese favorites to inventive recreationsthat are easy to make, fun, and delicious.
In the first volume to collect the paintings and drawings of Clarence Major, readers are offered six decades of unique, colorful, and compelling canvases and works on paper-works of singular beauty and social relevance.
Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever.
Als Mitbegründer der symbolistischen Malerei, des Cloisonismus und des Synthetismus, war Emile Bernard eine der glanzvollsten Persönlichkeiten des endenden 19.
Due to the huge success of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in 2006 and its subsequent Tony Award-winning musical adaptation in 2009, Alison Bechdel (b.
The beauty and spirit of coastal landscapes and waterways captured and celebrated in artPainting the Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser is a stunning collection of the works of West Fraser, one of the nation's most respected painters of representational art.
From his earliest work with glass to the stunning aerial panoramas of Maine islands that have gained him far-reaching fame, Eric Hopkins has consistently explored boundaries-of medium, of space, of vision.
Félix Vallotton, né à Lausanne le 28 décembre 1865 et mort à Paris le 29 décembre 1925, est un artiste peintre, sculpteur et graveur sur bois Suisse, naturalisé Français en 1900.
Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle-faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault.
A rich exploration of the possibilities of representation after Modernism, Mark Taylor's new study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind Tansey's art.
An entirely new perspective on Churchill and his paintings told in his own words and including material never before published, edited and introduced by David Cannadine.
