From a cardboard cathedral to emergency shelters in paper tubing, Pritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban has made his name with a restlessly inventive response to material and situation. This book presents the architect’s most important projects... Zobraziť viac
Georges Seurat redefined 19th-century art. His paintings of bodies at leisure and boats at harbor showcase his signature technique of Divisionism, which built up individual dots or patches of color into such shimmering canvases as the celebrated A... Zobraziť viac
Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for well over 50 years, the value of his paintings now climbing as high as his fans’ admiration. Each year his works break the previous year’s auction records, with the cover for Lancer... Zobraziť viac
With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, and Gino Severini. With affiliate painters, sculptors, designers,... Zobraziť viac
Hilma af Klint painted as though she was channeling the universe. Fascinated from childhood by botany and mathematics, she began her career painting landscapes and portraits, but other preoccupations stirred within her: questions of spirit, unseen... Zobraziť viac
A key contributor to Nouveau Réalisme in early 1960s Paris, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) worked alongside artists such as Arman, Yves Klein, and Jean Tinguely, scavenging real objects in place of traditional art materials. She connected art to life... Zobraziť viac
From Parisian banlieues to cities worldwide, JR’s monumental works celebrate humanity. He takes portraiture out of the gallery and into the street, inviting the otherwise ignored to be celebrated. From early graffiti tags to his most recent work on... Zobraziť viac
From decorative 1890s Art Nouveau posters via typographical ads from the 1960s to social media-led work of the 2010s, Jens Müller explores how this persuasive visual language reached every part of society and changed the world. With hundreds of seminal... Zobraziť viac