A richly illustrated history of the glittering world of queer artistic life in the 1920s and '30sIn Queer Moderns, Alice Friedman tells the fascinating story of the queer avant-garde of the 1920s and '30s in New York, Paris, and Venice, as seen through the eyes of Max Ewing (19031934), a young musician, photographer, and man-about-town who, although virtually unknown today, moved in extraordinary circles.
À l’époque où l’expressionnisme abstrait, mode de peinture alors dominant, mettait l’accent sur l’expression dramatique à travers des coups de pinceaux audacieux et de larges compositions abstraites, les peintures du drapeau américain, des cibles, des nombres ou de l’alphabet réalisées par Jasper Johns apparurent comme une rupture radicale.
In this book, leading art experts, art historians, and critics review the life, career, and artistic development of New York based Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu.
Kasimir Malevitch (Kiev, 1878 — Saint-Pétersbourg, 1935) était un peintre, un grand théoricien d’art, et surtout le père fondateur du suprématisme, style basé sur les formes géométriques et la recherche de l’abstraction pure.
Miguel Ángel, al igual que Leonardo, fue un hombre de muchos talentos: escultor, arquitecto, pintor y poeta; logró expresar la apoteosis del movimiento muscular, que para él era la manifestación física de la pasión.
The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans.
When Jeffrey Koterba was six, he started drawing his first cartoons, painstakingly copying from the Sunday Omaha World Herald's funny papers and making up his own characters.
Le Caravage (Michelangelo Merisi) (Caravaggio, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610)Après avoir séjourné à Milan durant son apprentissage, Michelangelo Merisi arriva à Rome en 1592.
Mit DeConceptualize – Zur Dekonstruktion des Konzeptuellen in Kunst, Film, Musik legt Stefan Römer nach Strategien des Fake (2001) und Inter-esse (2014) sein drittes Theoriebuch vor, das durch das Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung ermöglicht wurde.
This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist.
Salvator Rosa (1615--1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet.
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.
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.
« 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.
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Chevalier of France's Order of Arts and Letters, and recipient of the Order of Ontario, painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and author, Charles Pachter is one of Canada's best-loved and most celebrated artists.
This biography follows the remarkable life of Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, whose portraits of European royalty and nobility hang in many of the world's most important galleries.
An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DurerAlbrecht Durer's depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images.
