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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negativ……続きを見る

An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the ……続きを見る

Since his death 100 years ago, Cézanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century. He was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and the happiest period of his life was his early youth in……続きを見る

Rembrandt is completely mysterious in his spirit, his character, his life, his work and his method of painting. What we can divine of his essential nature comes through his painting and the trivial ……続きを見る

Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did ……続きを見る

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), who can be assigned to the school of classical modernism, was born in Amersfort, Netherlands. After studying in Amsterdam, he started his artist´s career in the impression……続きを見る

Burne-Jones’ oeuvre can be understood as an attempt to create in paint a world of perfect beauty, as far removed from the Birmingham of his youth as possible. At that time Birmingham was a byword fo……続きを見る

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy con……続きを見る

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí'……続きを見る

Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

“I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women…”Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt’s paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisu……続きを見る

Leonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sc……続きを見る

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstoo……続きを見る

Lawrence W. Chisolm's Fenollosa: The Far East and American Culture is a comprehensive biography of Ernest Fenollosa, the influential scholar, collector, and advocate of East Asian art whose work hel……続きを見る

Virgil Charles Aldrich's Philosophy of Art is a thought-provoking exploration of the nature, meaning, and purpose of art. Blending aesthetics, philosophy, and critical analysis, Aldrich examines the……続きを見る

I Mellan Ljus och Skugga presenterar konstnären Christine Djerf nitton målningar som utforskar ögonblicket där ljuset övergår i skymning och detaljer börjar lösas upp. Varje verk återges på egen sid……続きを見る

Persistent Illusions examines the visual representation of history in interwar Hungary, where interpretations of the past were suffused with references to the country's recent territorial loss. In t……続きを見る

There is no better introduction to Italy than the classic itinerary of Rome, Florence and Venice. But it is not dummy-proof, which is why we enlisted three of Italy’s most knowledgeable expertsーEli……続きを見る

This book offers an autoethnographic exploration of the interplay of art, memory, and resilience in Eastern Europe, weaving together the personal and collective histories of Belarusians – those who ……続きを見る

Establishing a ‘missed link’ between the work of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists’ practi……続きを見る

As You Start This Short Book, Your Life Will Start to Change This is not a book of noise. It is a book of stillness. The Silence of Self-Respect is not written to decorate your shelves. It is writte……続きを見る

Why has Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles, defining symbol of hedonistic opulence in 17th-century France and synonymous with the notion of the divine right of kings, continued to shape the aesthetics……続きを見る

Journey back in time with "The Dark Ages," Charles Oman's meticulously researched and riveting account of medieval Europe. Immerse yourself in the tumultuous and fascinating era known as the Dark Ag……続きを見る

This edited volume is centered on the production, discussion, and consumption of contemporary art in the post-Yugoslav space now. Authors in this volume demonstrate how and why contemporary art disc……続きを見る

Color: A Survey in Words and Pictures by Faber Birren is a rich exploration of the history, meaning, and emotional power of color, presented through a unique blend of text and imagery. As one of the……続きを見る

Rodin by Alfred E. Elsen is a masterful study of the life and work of Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor who revolutionized modern sculpture with his expressive forms and bold naturalism. Published ……続きを見る

This volume reframes French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) in the history of art via a focus on the spaces and people that informed her work and thereby offers a new interpretation……続きを見る

Drei Becher, eine Kugel, ein schneller Griff – und der Ausgang steht fest, lange bevor der Spieler seine Wahl trifft. Das Hütchenspiel wirkt wie ein harmloser Zeitvertreib am Rande der Straße. Doch ……続きを見る

This book is the first academic study of contemporary feminist art in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Focusing on art from BiH–a Former Yugoslav republic that has been largely overlooked in the litera……続きを見る