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保罗·高更最早是一名水手，之后成为巴黎一名成功的股票经纪人，不过1874年他开始在周末画画，9年之后，在一次股市崩盘之后，他退休成为全职画家。1891年高更离开法国，在塔希提度过两年时光，并决定了他未来的生活……続きを見る

马克·夏加尔出生于一个家风严谨的犹太家庭，人性被教条主义压抑。1910年他搬到巴黎，希望“探索万物”。对于他欣赏的作品，夏加尔率直地学习，他摆脱了自己的年轻的尴尬，却不失内心的真挚。他从细微处着手，认真反……続きを見る

对于克劳徳·莫奈，“印象派大师”的称号始终是他自豪的源泉，他始终是一名坚定的印象主义者直到生命终结，或许因为只坚持印象艺术的创作，放弃了很多机会但是他有惊人的天赋作支撑。他只创作风景画，并且他达到了同……続きを見る

Le continent européen réunit sans nul doute les œuvres d’art les plus connues, témoins de l’histoire artistique occidentale. Les capitales culturelles et leurs musées emblématiques renferment tablea……続きを見る

身为画家、设计师、奇异物品发明者、作家以及电影导演，达利可以说是最著名的超现实主义者。布纽埃尔、洛卡、毕加索和布列塔尼都对他的生涯产生了巨大的影响。达利的电影，《一只安达卢西亚犬》标志着他进入了巴黎……続きを見る

The Venetian old master Canaletto achieved international fame for his landscapes, ‘vedute’, which were celebrated for their masterful expression of atmosphere. His detailed paintings of Venice, Lond……続きを見る

This single volume traces three approaches to the study of the Holocaust - through notions of history, theories of memory, and a focus on art and representation. It introduces students to the differ……続きを見る

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis, production and the critical appreciation of the illustrations to the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson is one of the mo……続きを見る

The long-awaited biography of one of Canada’s most intriguing and beguiling artists. Do artists really thrive in big cities, or do they just learn to imitate New York? Is it a contradiction for an a……続きを見る

Eva Neurath, co-founder of Thames & Hudson, wrote this memoir for her granddaughters, and it is a private story of a remarkable 20th-century life. The youngest child of a principled and avant-garde ……続きを見る

50 artistes qui ont marqué l'histoire de l'art ! Découvrez les vies hors du commun de ces artistes de génie dont les noms sont restés à la postérité. De Van Gogh ou Gauguin à Pissaro et Cézanne en p……続きを見る

From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dom……続きを見る

Henry Stuart’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years’ War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century society, econom……続きを見る

Eines der besten Referenzwerke zur Geschichte der Malerei. Auszug aus dem Inhalt: Band 1 I. Das Mittelalter 1. Der Mosaikstil 2. Die Tafelmalerei unter dem Zeichen der Mystik. 3. Die Begründung des ……続きを見る

First published in 1985, this book draws together the author’s artistic with analytical practices which had been developed over many years of sociological enquiry. It interprets a ‘work of art’ as a……続きを見る

Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 explores how urban lives in the nineteenth century were increasingly touched by innovations in the technologies and aesthetics of illumin……続きを見る

In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910–2……続きを見る

This is the first book on British theatre historiography. It traces the practice of theatre history from its origins in the Restoration to its emergence as an academic discipline in the early twenti……続きを見る

The Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture covers the theories, media forms, fads, celebrities and icons, genres, and terms of popular culture. From Afropop and Anime to Oprah Winfrey and the X-Files……続きを見る

James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music is the first full-length and in**-**depth study to position this painter within the overall trajectory of French modernism d……続きを見る

In 1864, Union soldier Charles George described a charge into battle by General Phil Sheridan: "Such a picture of earnestness and determination I never saw as he showed as he came in sight of the ba……続きを見る

A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “A truly intimate portrait of one of the greatest creators in human history,” this Leonardo Da Vinci biography brings both artist ……続きを見る

Beautifully illustrated with a covetable rose gold foil cover, Modern Calligraphy is a step-by-step workbook for those wanting to learn this super trendy form of lettering. Written by Lucy Edmonds, ……続きを見る

What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity examines how the biograph……続きを見る

Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in t……続きを見る

A definitive and illuminating biography of one of the most famous – and most famously unfinished – buildings in the world, the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona. Its scaffolding-cloaked spires reach up t……続きを見る

John Heskett was a pioneering British design historian, with a particular interest in design and economics. Design and the Creation of Value' publishes for the first time his groundbreaking seminar ……続きを見る

As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms ……続きを見る

W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known w……続きを見る

Recent decades have seen photography’s privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography in the 1980s and the rise of digital technologies so……続きを見る