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Albrecht Durer 1471-1528 - The genius of the German Renaissance by Norbert Wolf
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art | Reading Level: very good
Germany's greatest Renaissance artist Though he is most famous for his engravings, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. Durer's importance in the German High Renaissance was such that he can be considered to embody the moveme ...Show more
Amedeo Modigliani1884-1920 - The Poetry of Seeing by Doris Krystof
$14.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) a tracé des odes infinies aux formes féminines, inscrivant ses corps allongés, ses yeux en amande et son propre nom dans l'histoire de l'art. Ses personnages féminins alanguis au longs cous, surprenants et sensuels, se reconnaissent au premier coup d'oeil. Le style unique d ...Show more
Andy Warhol 1928-1987 - Commerce into Art by Klaus Honnef
$15.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: very good
Part of the Taschen Basic Art Series, this book profiles Andy Warhol and his work in the Pop Art style he excelled in.
August Macke 1887-1914 by Anna Meseure
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
August Macke (1887-1914) quickly ascended to notoriety, only to be killed at the tender age of 27 at the start of World War I. Despite his brief career, the artist left a remarkable oeuvre in his wake, his obsessions with color reflecting aspects of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Expres ...Show more
Bacon by Luigi Ficacci
$20.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Series 2 | Reading Level: very good
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figurative, human-like forms that seem to evoke the raw emotions that bore them. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos ...Show more
Caravaggio 1571-1610 by Gilles Lambert; Gilles Neret
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art | Reading Level: very good
A genius beyond his time Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashio ...Show more
Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
$12.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: very good
The Case Study House program (1945-1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences ...Show more
Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840 - The painter of stillness by Norbert Wolf
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art | Reading Level: very good
Sublime stillness: Capturing nature's moody splendor The solitude of man and the bleak beauty of nature are prominent themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the great romantic painter whose importance and influence have often been underestimated. Now widely considered to be the most i ...Show more
Diego Rivera 1886-1957 : A Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art by Andrea Kettenmann
$15.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Diego Rivera - A revolutionary and troublemaker It was as a revolutionary and troublemaker that Picasso, Dali and Andre Breton described the husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, but he was also responsible for creating a public art that was both highly advanced and profoundly accessible. From 1910 Riv ...Show more
Edgar Degas 1834-1917 by Bernd Growe
$10.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in fact defied easy categorization and instead developed a unique style, strongly influenced by Old Masters, the body in motion, and everyday urban life. The elder scion of a wealthy ...Show more
Edouard Manet 1832-1883 - The First of the Moderns by Gilles Néret
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art | Reading Level: very good
The inventor of modernity Violently criticized during his lifetime for his supposedly provocative paintings, French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered a master of inestimable importance in the history of painting. His 1863 painting "Dejeuner sur l'herbe" depicting two clothed men picnic ...Show more
Edvard Munch 1863-1944 Images of Life and Death by Ulrich Bischoff
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: near fine
For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, "The Scream" (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known-a ...Show more