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Discover the best-selling art books and insightful artist biographies at our online bookstore, featuring a curated selection of must-read books about art and artwork. Explore our collection to find the best books to read, from captivating artist biographies to beautifully illustrated artwork books.
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MarcPrintmaker, landscape painter, and cofounder of Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), Franz Marc (1880-1916) left an exceptional legacy in German Expressionism. His work absorbed influences including Paul Gauguin, van Gogh, Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Robert Delaunay to galvanize a new vocabulary of form...
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Pop ArtParvenu à son apogée dans les années 1960, le Pop Art débuta comme une révolte contre l'approche majoritaire de l'art et de la culture, et se mua en une interrogation globale sur la société moderne, la culture consumériste et le rôle de l'artiste et...
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KleeFort de ses théories minutieuses et de milliers de tableaux, dessins et aquarelles, Paul Klee (1879-1940) est considéré comme l'un des chefs de file les plus cérébraux et les plus prolifiques de l'art européen au XXe siècle. Même s'il a souvent créé des petits...
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Emil Nolde: The SeaExpressionist painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was a trailblazing virtuoso of watercolor painting. Applying paint to paper with incomparable intensity, he created richly luminous paintings of brooding, romantic landscapes and alienating modern city scenes. The sea occupies a singularly important place in his oeuvre; Nolde...
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Emil Nolde: FlowersThough Emil Nolde (1867-1956) began to paint flower watercolors fairly late in his career--around 1918--they became nonetheless central to his oeuvre. These works range from depictions of single blooms and carefully arranged still lifes to full bouquets and fields of flowers captured in flowing...
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Emil Nolde: My Garden Full of FlowersThis new title in DuMont's themed Emil Nolde series is devoted to the painter's garden and flower pictures. Wherever he settled, Nolde always planted a flower garden. Nolde's garden at Seeb ll is a particular focus of this volume, and one of the artist's...
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The Unnatural History MuseumViktor Wynd, master of the contemporary Wunderkabinett, is back with a collection of artifacts and curiosities that are more bizarre and wonderful than ever. For over a decade, from a tiny storefront in east London, the artist Viktor Wynd has been reinventing the cabinet...
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A Year in ImpressionismFeaturing 365 great Impressionist paintings, this book offers a beautiful and inspiring way to celebrate art every day of the year. A perfect gift for art lovers or anyone interested in Impressionism, this collection of 365 pictures gathers the best of the genre's masterpieces...
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50 Art Movements You Should Know: From Impressionism to Performance ArtThe latest volume in this beautifully produced and affordable series introduces readers to the major developments in the history of modern art--from Realism to the New Leipzig School. The story of modern art begins with a revolution--when the realists started rejecting romanticism in favor...
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Schönheit and Revolution: Klassizismus 1770-1820From Jacques-Louis David to Antonio Canova, from Bertel Thorvaldsen to Karl Friedrich Schinkel - the great masters of neo-classicis were united by their shared interest in antiquity. Their paintings and sculptures evidence a variety of forms of expression, ranging from austerity and rationality to...
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Max Pechstein: Pionier Der Moderne / Pioneer of ModernismMax Pechstein was a protagonist of the artistic avant-garde in Germany before the First World War. He was one of the founders of Expressionism within the circle of the "Brücke" painters, creating pictures and graphic works of ingenious and impulsively demonstrated expressiveness in an...
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Spanish Painting 1200-1665From the medieval works of Romanesque and Gothic art to the golden age of the Baroque, from the famous Beatus Apocalypses to Diego Vel zquez and Francisco de Zurbar n, Spanish painting offers a unique abundance of artistic themes and styles. Intimately connected with...
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The National Gallery LondonThe National Gallery in London has been showing paintings owned by the British nation since 1824. Among the focal points of the collection are paintings from the late Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, and the Dutch Baroque, which, like British painting from the eighteenth...
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American Patriotism and Corporate Identity in Automobile Advertising: «What's Good for General Motors Is Good for the Country and Vice Versa?»The triumphal march of the automobile and its connection with American culture have often been acknowledged in scholarship. By contrast, the culture-specific, value-oriented advertising strategies of the most important US carmaker General Motors (GM) in its home market have received less attention, especially in...
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Bonsai Penjing: The Collections of the Montréal Botanitcal GardenThe beauty and evolution of an intriguing art form.The Montréal Botanical Garden's collections of bonsai and penjing are among the best in North America, including more than 350 trees, some dating from the 17th century. For the first time, these stylized horticultural creations have...
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Adrian Ghenie: The Battle Between Carnival and FeastAdrian Ghenie (born 1977) experiments with color in ten paintings inspired by Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Battle between Carnival and Lent, produced specifically for an exhibition at the Palazzo Cini in Venice. Here, Ghenie's expressive paintings are presented alongside an essay by...
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Jan Dibbets: Robin Redbreast's Territory Sculpture 1969This classic artist's book by Dutch Conceptualist Jan Dibbets (born 1941) documents the artist's researches into the European robin through his readings of books on the subject. The book was originally published by Seth Siegelaub with Walter Koenig in 1970.Author: Jan DibbetsPublisher: Zedele EditionsPublished:...
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ChanelChanel is a fashion word that everyone knows: the epitome of taste, glamour and style. Founded in the '20s by the legendary Coco Chanel, the House of Chanel continues to fuel fashion to this day. This book illustrates in colour the trademarks of Chanel...
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Zoologia: The Art of Stan ManoukianStep into the fantastical world where Stan Manoukian's complex and intricate creatures inhabit. Zoologia: The Art of Stan Manoukian is a 200-page anthology that showcases the famed illustrator's most loved creations. Inspired by engraved plates and old encyclopedias, Zoologia: The Art of Stan Manoukian...
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Franaois Delarozia]re: Bestiary, Machines and Ornaments: DrawingsIn 1999, Fran ois Delarozi re (born 1963) founded the street theater company La Machine, which, through collaborations between artists, fabricators, designers and more, engineers giant performing machines. His preliminary sketches are collected in this volume, revealing his ingenious technical imagination.Author: Francois DelarozierePublisher: Actes...
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