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El arte ecléctico con el que soñaba la familia Carracci quedó finalmente plasmado en la obra de Rubens, con toda la facilidad del genio. Sin embargo, el problema era mucho más complicado para un hombre del norte, que deseaba añadir una fusión de los espíritus flamenco y latino, algo cuya dificultad se había reflejado en los intentos más bien pedantes del romanismo. Lo logró sin perder nada de su desbordante personalidad, su inquieta imaginación...
22) The Red Thread
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The Red Thread is the definitive work on Larry Gottheim, a key figure in the history of American experimental film.
Gottheim's account of the evolution of his work over the decades provide an extraordinary window onto the development of the art form in America in the late 20th century. His own account of his lifelong exploration of the boundaries of cinematic perception is here combined with the reflections of other major film artists and critics...
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This beautiful volume celebrates one of the twentieth century's most important photographers, Dorothea Lange. Led off by an authoritative biographical essay by Elizabeth Partridge (Lange's goddaughter), the book goes on to showcase Lange's work in over a hundred glorious plates. Dorothea Lange is the only career-spanning monograph of this major photographer's oeuvre in print, and features images ranging from her iconic Depression-era photograph Migrant...
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A 100-year visual history of the magazine, showcasing the work of top interior designers and architects, and the personal spaces of numerous celebrities.
Architectural Digest at 100 celebrates the best from the pages of the international design authority. The editors have delved into the archives and culled years of rich material covering a range of subjects. Ranging freely between present and past, the book features the personal spaces of dozens...
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Bosworth's remarkable look at the life of Diane Arbus, one of the most acclaimed and provocative photographers of her time Diane Arbus became famous for her intimate and unconventional portraits of twins, dwarfs, sideshow performers, eccentrics, and everyday "freaks." Condemned by some for voyeurism, praised by others for compassion, she was nonetheless a transformative figure in twentieth-century photography and hailed by all for her undeniable...
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Poster Child: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd is a stunning retrospective on the art and stories behind one of rock 'n' roll's most influential artists-written by Byrd and author Robert von Goeben.
Foreword by Marc Myers, Award-Winning Author of Rock Concert: An Oral History
Beginning in the late 1960s, graphic artist David Edward Byrd pioneered the iconic visual styles that have come to define rock 'n' roll...
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The first definitive monograph of color photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier.
Photographer Vivian Maier's allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery. Her story-the secretive nanny-photographer who became a pioneer photographer-has only been pieced together from the thousands of images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced about her life. Vivian Maier: The Color Work is the...
28) Vincent Van Gogh
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a vita e l'opera di Vincent van Gogh sono talmente intrecciate che è quasi impossibile osservare i suoi quadri senza leggervi la storia della sua vita: una vita raccontata tanto spesso da essersi trasformata in leggenda.
Van Gogh è l'incarnazione della sofferenza, il martire incompreso dell'arte moderna, l'emblema dell'artista come outsider.
29) Aubrey Beardsley
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Né en 1872, Aubrey Beardsley fut, avec Oscar Wilde, une figure emblématique de la décadence qui marqua la fin du règne de la reine Victoria. Largement autodidacte, Beardsley témoigne d'abord dans ses dessins de l'influence des Préraphaélites, comme Burne-Jones et Rossetti. Par la suite, il adopte un style plus radical et novateur, en illustrant Le Morte d'Arthur de Sir Thomas Malory et participe à la création de la revue The Yellow Book.
Mais...
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The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City-a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passions-with cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and a host of others legendary artists.
Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the late 1970s, yearning for artistic and personal freedom. Smash Cut is his bold and intimate memoir of...
31) Auguste Renoir
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) est l'un des plus célèbres peintres impressionnistes français. Influencé dans ses premières œuvres par Raphaël, et créateur de plus de 6 000 tableaux, Renoir accordait plus d'importance à la figure humaine qu'au paysage. Ses œuvres, enrichies d'une palette exclusive et unique à l'artiste, nous montrent la vie à Paris à cette époque. Son plus grand chef-d'œuvre reste le Bal du Moulin de la Galette.
32) Miró
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The bright colours and graphic strength of paintings by Joan Miro have made him an immensely popular modern painter, but the artist would have been extremely disappointed to see his work treated as little more than interior décor.
In this accessible survey of the artist's life and career, Iria Candela explains the complex roots and darker shades that lie behind the evolution of Miró's work, from the culture of his Catalan homeland to his exposure...
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Creative Confession brings together three short critical texts written by Paul Klee, one of the most distinctive artists of the early twentieth century. Reflective and often lyrical, the essays exemplify Klee's artistic thinking and his relationship with the creative process.
Entitled "Graphic Art" (published as Creative Confession, 1920), "Ways of Nature Study" (1923) and "Exact Experiments in the Realm of Art" (1928), the texts arch into each other...
34) Gauguin
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The vivid and sensuous paintings of Paul Gauguin are among the most reproduced and recognisable in the history of art. Most books on the artist concentrate on one aspect of his story, whether it is the time he spent in Brittany, in Arles with his friend Vincent van Gogh or in the South Seas. By contrast, this concise introduction looks at his career in its entirety, reaching beyond the myths to discover one of the most fascinating and engaging artists...
35) Félicien Rops
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Félicien Rops (1833-1898) est un artiste très surprenant. Graveur et dessinateur d'exception, Félicien Rops capte et anticipe le corps féminin avec un talent étonnant et une grande modernité. Abandonnant les formes conventionnelles de l'époque, l'artiste crée un monde plein d'humour, de tendresse et, parfois, d'insolence pour la jubilation de l'œil du spectateur. Nombre des œuvres les plus célèbres de Rops traitent de thèmes érotiques...
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Max Beckmann is widely acknowledged as one of Germany's leading twentieth-century artists. A figurative painter throughout his career, Beckmann depicted the world around him with an unparalleled intensity. His art emerges directly from his experiences of the First and Second World Wars, the political upheavals of the 1920s and 1930s, the rise of Nazism, exile in Amsterdam and his final emigration to the United States. By capturing the objects and...
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"Compelling." - Kirkus Reviews
"The Fellowship both fascinates and infuriates. You can't top the material for richness: genius, sex, spirituality, madness, money, mania." - USA Today
"[A] blockbuster…packed [with] plenty of sex and surprises. …This book has a lot of news." - Capital Times
"A mesmerizing account of the drama that compelled the great architect…to greater accomplishments…and the cost of that success." - Ken Burns, award-winning...
38) Claude Monet
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Per Claude Monet la creazione artistica è sempre stata una lotta sofferta. Attribuiva maggiore importanza di quanto non facessero i suoi contemporanei a un aspetto essenziale dell'Impressionismo: comunicare all'osservatore le emozioni prodotte dalla luce. Per usare le parole di Monet: «Le tecniche vanno e vengono […] L'arte rimane la stessa: una rappresentazione della natura che richiede impegno e sensibilità. Io mi misuro e combatto con il sole...
39) Gustav Klimt
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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), fondatore del movimento della Secessione Viennese, fu uno degli artisti pi influenti della fine del XIX secolo. Attraverso questo movimento Klimt espresse il suo assoluto disprezzo per l'arte "ufficiale", caratterizzata dall'opposizione al cambiamento e dal rifiuto a legittimare una certa visione del Modernismo. Klimt si ispirò al lento ma inesorabile declino dell'Impero austro-ungarico e alla sua multiforme composizione...
40) Auguste Renoir
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir nació en Limoges, el 25 de febrero de 1841. En 1854, sus padres lo sacaron de la escuela y le consiguieron un sitio en el taller de los hermanos Lévy, donde aprendió a pintar porcelana. El hermano menor de Renoir, Edmond, opinó al respecto: "A partir de lo que pintaba al carbón en las paredes concluyeron que tenía habilidad para las artes. Así fue como nuestros padres lo pusieron a aprender el oficio de pintor de porcelana"....
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