Ai Weiwei is not only one of the most important contemporary artists; he is also an untiring activist and critic of authoritarian systems... Zobraziť viac
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 delves into the various circles of artists who lived in France following World War II. Featuring new scholarship and illuminating essays, this groundbreaking volume illustrates many... Zobraziť viac
This volume collects the fifteen oil paintings in Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger" series, which are scattered in museums around the world.Picasso’s study of the old masters forms an impressive focus of his late work. At the beginning of this new... Zobraziť viac
The American artist Leon Kelly (1901–1982) is known for his surrealist work. However, his career, which spanned fifty years, was also influenced by cubism, abstraction and social realism. With handsome full-page reproductions, this volume provides a... Zobraziť viac
The artistic gaze into the mirror - Egon Schiele personally and in close-up... Zobraziť viac
Munch's pictorial worlds - the initial impetus for modernism... Zobraziť viac
Alongside artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) was one of the most important pioneers of Abstract Expressionism. Sixty outstanding works from all creative phases allow us to immerse ourselves in the... Zobraziť viac
Experimenting with light and shadow, multiple exposures, surrealist imagery, and roleplay – this is the artistic terrain of Marta Astfalck-Vietz (1901–1994). Her spellbinding photography from the 1920s stages bodies, interweaves pictorial planes, and... Zobraziť viac
Like no other artist, Henry Moore (1898 – 1986) sought the challenge of the monumental and made the outdoors the playing field for his artistic creativity. In its handsome horizontal format, this volume puts Moore’s large sculptures center stage and... Zobraziť viac
The publication presents large-format works by 14 Japanese artists that fascinate us with their aura of mystery... Zobraziť viac
This publication, accompanying the worldwide exhibition series, takes the quotation of the former Bauhaus student and subsequent university teacher Fritz Kuhr as a starting point for reflections on the Bauhaus... Zobraziť viac
The history and culture of Europe has been decisively shaped by the exploration and use of the seas surrounding Europe. This catalogue book reflects the significance of the sea as a space of rule and trade for Europeans, as bridge and border... Zobraziť viac
Over a career that now spans nearly seven decades, the American painter Alex Katz (b. 1927, New York) has devoted himself to the representation of the here and now and to the immediacy of human perception – a commitment to what the artist has ... Zobraziť viac
Courageous, free, humorous, touching and disturbing: these works by fifty international artists show how eccentric means more than neurotic or decadent. Eccentricity resists all kinds of ideology, and indeed it can be an engine of social freedom and... Zobraziť viac
New insight into German Expressionism through its permanent collection at the Saint Louis Art Museum... Zobraziť viac
Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York) is one of the most highly regarded and influential artists working today. This book focuses on her new exhibition, film screenings and performances at Tate Modern ... Zobraziť viac
A globalised view of the Renaissance: Luxury production and consumption in Venice "Global Luxury in Renaissance Venice" offers an unprecedented exploration of maiolica in the Serenissima set in a vibrant context of hybridity and exchange. Versatile... Zobraziť viac
The year 1918 marked the end of a golden era in central European art. It was the year that Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser, and Otto Wagner died. Artistic activity, however, had already begun to ... Zobraziť viac
The Cubist Cosmos traces the development of Cubism between 1907 and 1917. The publication reveals the boundless innovative power of the works of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It also shows how the Cubist pictorial language was received and advanced by Zobraziť viac
This richly illustrated book features an introduction by the National Portrait Gallery’s chief curator and nearly 150 insightful entries on key self-portraits in the museum’s collection. Eye to I provides readers with an overview ... Zobraziť viac
