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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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Martha Jungwirth: Panta RheiPanta Rhei presents works by Austrian painter Martha Jungwirth (born 1940) from the 1970s to the present, with a focus on her watercolors. The translated title of this volume, "Everything Flows," alludes to Jungwirth's gestural watercolors in which she applies layers of soft, transparent...
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Jim Dine: This Goofy Life of Constant MourningThis Goofy Life of Constant Mourning is the sincere title of a long visual poem by artist Jim Dine. The result of years of photographing poems after he has written them on walls and objects, it presents a symbiotic marriage of three very personal...
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Gustav Klimt: Life and WorkUp until today, Gustav Klimt has been labelled variously: revolutionary and modernist pioneer, compulsive pornographer, ladies' man, enfant terrible for the conservative educated middle-class, and overrated painter of golden kitsch. For a number of years he has also been a significant protagonist in the...
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The Essence of Light: Centre for International Light Art UnnaA celebration of the Centre for International Light Art's 10-year anniversary, this beautiful catalog presents fascinating photos of the museum's light installations accompanied by explanatory texts and artist biographies. The book details the space's effective presentation of works created specially for the former Lindenbrauerei...
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Max NeumannGerman painter Max Neumann (born 1949) turns the human figure into a symbol, abstracting his subjects into outlines and silhouettes. Splashes of color suggest the preoccupations of these somber characters: a red bird, a yellow dot, a green wash of pooling water. This monograph...
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Elizabeth Peyton: Here She Comes NowElizabeth Peyton rose to fame in the early 1990s as a painter energetically renewing portraiture's relationship to popular culture. Consciously locating her work in the tradition of nineteenth-century painters of society and celebrity such as Manet, Peyton uses a loose, sensuous figuration to portray...
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Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography: A-Z- Features recently discovered, previously unpublished materials from the archives of the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin by Bauhaus professor and renowned avant-garde artist L szl Moholy-Nagy- Includes work by Moholy-Nagy, Guillaume Apollinaire, F.T. Marinetti, Theo van Doesburg, Herbert Bayer, Walter Dexel, and El Lissitzky- Published...
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Beaumen 2In a very American, Hollywoodesque style, the California painter and illustrator certainly understands how to draw unrelenting scenes of dominance and submission. This work is reminiscent of his earlier volume and overall is clearly influenced by Tom of Finland.Author: BeauPublisher: Bruno Gmuender GMBHPublished: 09/01/2005Pages:...
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The Giedion World: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in DialogueSigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto,...
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Vienna 1900Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: "To every age its art -- to every art its freedom;" and tremors warned of looming...
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Hiroshige Poster SetCurate your home: Print Set Hiroshige This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of...
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Lena Herzog. Strandbeest. the Dream Machines of Theo JansenFor seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog followed the evolution of a new kinetic species. Intricate as insects but with bursts of equine energy, the "Strandbeests," or "beach creatures," are the creation of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who has been working for nearly...
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MalevitchAprès avoir flirté avec le réalisme, l'impressionnisme et le symbolisme, Kasimir Malevitch (1878-1935), né à Kiev, trouve sa voie dans la dissolution des figures et des paysages représentés littéralement en une abstraction pure et chargée d'émotion. En 1915, il crée ce que bon nombre...
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Winsor McCay: The Complete Little Nemo, 2 Volumes XLAdventures in pajamasThe complete Little Nemo compilation Meet Little Nemo, a diminutive hero of comic narrative, but one of the greatest dream voyagers of the 20th century. The master creation of Winsor McCay (1869-1934), restless sleeper Nemo inspired generations of artists with his weekly...
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Crazy CompetitionsWhether it's flinging frozen rats or parading in holly evergreens, racing snails or carrying wives, human beings have long displayed their creativity in wild, odd, and sometimes just wonderful rituals and competitions. To show what lengths we'll go to uphold our eccentric customs, British...
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Michel-Ange. l'Oeuvre Peint, Sculpté Et Architectural CompletAvant d'atteindre le jeune âge de 30 ans, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) avait déjà sculpté la Pietà et David, deux des oeuvres les plus célèbres de toute l'histoire de l'art. Sculpteur, mais aussi peintre, dessinateur et architecte, les créations de ce maître absolu de la...
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Renoir. Painter of Happiness"Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world." --Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir's timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. TASCHEN's Renoir: Painter of Happiness, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work yet published, examines the...
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Pre-RaphaelitesFounded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what they saw as a more spiritual, sincere, and naturalistic approach. Founded by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel...
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KoonsLes créations de Jeff Koons (né en 1955) sont à la fois immédiatement accessibles et très éloquentes du point de vue de l'histoire de l'art. De l'aquarium pour ballons de basket aux chiots-fleurs, son travail éminemment reconnaissable flirte avec un imaginaire trivial tout en...
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TurnerL'oeuvre de Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) déclenche une émotion proche d'une acquisition soudaine de la vue. Ses paysages terrestres et marins aux couleurs et lumières enchanteresses brûlent la rétine avec une force fondamentale, élémentaire, comme si le soleil lui-même brillait hors du cadre.Pertinemment...
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