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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged, intensely colored paintings and disseminated his ideas...

Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool accompanies the first career retrospective of the renowned American artist Barkley L. Hendricks. Hendricks was born in 1945 in Philadelphia. His unique work contains elements of both American realism and...

Genius, eccentric, exhibitionist: there is no shortage of adjectives to describe the great surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Yet this iconic artist and controversial thinker remains a figure shrouded in mystery. Plunging into the Spanish painter's...

Known since the early 1990s for his photographs of young people in their social environment - clubs, gay pride parades, warehouse parties - Wolfgang Tillmans created an enigmatic, sexy and highly innovative photography while inventing new icons of beauty...

This ground-breaking publication provides a new view of the great Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), whose intensely physical gestural painting stood the staid post-war British art world on its head. In advance of a new Davie gallery in Hertford,...

As the wife of King George II, Caroline of Ansbach became queen of England in 1727. Known for her intelligence and strong character, Queen Caroline wielded considerable political power until her death in 1737. She was enthusiastic and energetic in her...

A charming checklist for decluttering. In this whimsical yet practical guide to sorting through the too-much-stuff of modern life, the premise is simple: on each page, a delightful illustration of items that fill our lives-novelty ice cube trays, a...

Told in classic comic-book form, this graphic biography invites a new audience to learn about Banksy-and uses a pitch-perfect medium to convey the artist's message that art is for the people. Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist of all...

The perfect introduction to the life and art of Joseph Beuys.About the AuthorAllan Antliff holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern Art at the University of Victoria. He specializes in the history of modern art, contemporary art and anarchist studies...

"Michael Borremans may be the greatest living figurative painter." -John Vincler, The New York Times "'The Acrobat' provides an opportunity - all too rare on this side of the Atlantic - to see the genius of Borremans in the flesh...It's painterly magic...

There is 'luxury and inconvenience on the one hand, liberty, hard living and filth on the other'. So Edward Lear described the mysterious and often misunderstood country of Albania. Edward Lear's travels through Albania and Macedonia in 1848 came about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909932067Author Glenn LigonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

From 1942 to 1954, Sister Jacques-Marie, initially Monique Bourgeois, retraces her encounter with Henri Matisse, which led to the creation of the Rosary Chapel in Vence (Provence, France). The last and final project of the artist, it corresponds to the...

When Marcel Duchamp shipped Constantin Brancusi's sculpture Bird in Space to Edward Steichen in 1926, New York customs officials refused to accept that it was a work of art, instead levying the standard import tariff for a manufactured object. A legal...

Outtakes Of An American Genius Acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware reveals the outtakes of his genius in these intimate, imaginative, and whimsical sketches collected from the years during which he completed his award-winning graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan:...

At the nexus of art and science, this dazzling new edition of Ernst Haeckel's first work reintroduces the genius of an enigmatic scientist and passionate observer of the natural world. Although original editions of this book are extremely rare, it is now...

Celebrates one of the greatest and most beloved painters of the Early Renaissance with luxurious, large-format images Sandro Botticelli, one of the greatest painters of the Italian High Renaissance, enjoyed the patronage of the greatest Florentine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584236641Author Benjamin LacombeFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, Inc

Starting with the precursors of plein air painting, including Camille Corot and Gustave Courbet, the show gradually guides the audience through major works by the Impressionists with Claude Monet in their centre: Landscape painting, riverscapes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868280562Author Andrej KrementschoukFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 854g

Roy De Forest's brightly hued, crazy-quilted paintings and sculptures are dotted with nipples of color and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own, a perennial favorite being his instantly recognizable, wild-eyed and pointy-eared dogs...

Many people know that Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet, a pioneer of Modernism and Cubism whose works include `Les Demoiselles D'Avignon'. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his full name is 23 words...

In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with...

Basil Gogos changed the face of classic horror with his film monster portrait art. Like a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell, he created magazine covers of Frankenstein, the Creature from the Black Lagoon. the Phantom of the Opera, and countless others in...

The Day of the Dead is a festival of culture and youth, a feast of the senses and celebration of life in death. Originating in Mexico and the Latin American countries it began as a way of remembering departed relatives, as a means of embracing rather...

Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized...

Visual artist, choreographer, writer and director, Jan Fabre has been one of the most influential figures on the European scene for over twenty years. His provocative forays into all different art forms are aimed at breaking down the artistic and moral...

There are no rules, and even less justice. Death takes everyone without discrimination. Sometimes it is accidental - like Signorelli, who fell from scaffolding. Sometimes it is expected, as with the diabetic Cezanne, who wrote "I am old, sick, and I...

Joseph Beuys is arguably the most important and most controversial German artist of the late twentieth century, not least because his persona is interwoven with Germany's fascist past. This book illuminates two defining threads in Beuys's life and art:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211927Author Marc LevertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Pro-Actif Communications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753301259Author James AttleeFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783777427591Author Hajo DuchtingFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Hirmer VerlagPublisher Hirmer VerlagWeight(grams) 290g

2022 IPPY AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST - HOLIDAY "[A] breathtaking family treasure to page through, highly recommended." -Midwest Book Review An instant holiday classic. A happy little Christmas miracle.Even after more than 20 years after his death, pop...

This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the most creative figures in Western culture, weaving together the multiple threads of Michelangelo's life and times with a brilliant analysis of his greatest works. The author retraces...

This book serves as an artful and loving reminder: it's OK to put yourself first. We know self-care is important-after all, if we want to take care of others, we must first take care of ourselves-but what does that actually mean? You Are Your...

Have you ever thought of citrus fruits as celestial bodies, angelically suspended in the sky? Perhaps not, but J. C. Volkamer (1644-1720) did-commissioning an extravagant and breathtaking series of large-sized copperplates representing citrons, lemons,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870708176Author Leah DickermanFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 960g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130758Author Johanna BasfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 330mm * 254mm...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as they are startling, sensual, and swan-necked. ...

WHAT MAKES A CULT ARTIST? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique, or critically divisive, cult artists come in all shapes and guises. Some gain instant fame, others instant notoriety, and more still remain anonymous until a...