Basic Art
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Ensor
$20.00 Add to cartAn Expressionist before the term was coined, James Ensor (1860-1949) was the classic insider-outsider enigma. He knew all the right art-world figures but loathed most of them. His style lurched from t
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Becks-Malorny, Ulrike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836560569
- Language: English
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Bosch
$20.00 Read moreAs cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their intricate, allegorical, and often startling cont
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836559862
- Language: English
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Chagall
$20.00 Add to cartFor Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual language carved out a unique early 20th-century niche, often identi
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 29 2016
- ISBN10: 3836527839
- Language: English
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Expressionism
$20.00 Read moreSharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality. Though par
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Wolf, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 11 2015
- ISBN10: 3836505282
- Language: English
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Richter
$20.00 Read moreAn encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Honnef, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 383657523X
- Language: English
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Renoir
$20.00 Read moreOne of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Feist, Peter H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 29 2016
- ISBN10: 3836531097
- Language: English
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
$20.00 Add to cartThe work of the artist couple Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) resists categorization. It is a hybrid of art, urban planning, architecture, and engineering, but above all an aesthetic
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Baal-Teshuva, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836524090
- Language: English
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Dadaism
$20.00 Add to cartEmerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanove
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Elger, Dietmar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836505622
- Language: English
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Freud
$20.00 Read moreLucian Freud (1922-2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen a
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Smee, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560631
- Language: English
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D?er
$20.00 Read moreA polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht D?er (1471-1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from religion to art theory to philosophy. His vast body of
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Wolf, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836530813
- Language: English
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Egyptian Art
$20.00 Add to cartThe art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of these unknown masters no less than the works of later centuries, such as stat
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 31 2018
- ISBN10: 3836549174
- Language: English
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Matisse. Cut-Outs
$20.00 Read moreHenri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 3836534274
- Language: English
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Gio Ponti
$20.00 Add to cartItalian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre remains one of the most diverse and groundbreaking
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Roccella, Graziella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 25 2017
- ISBN10: 3836564394
- Language: English
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Hundertwasser
$20.00 Add to cartVivid color, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines were just a few stalwart characteristics in the unique practice of Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). A non-conformist hero, the arti
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Restany, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 19 2018
- ISBN10: 3836564211
- Language: English
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Malevich
$20.00 Read moreAfter flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his m?ier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into pure emotionall
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 07 2017
- ISBN10: 3836546396
- Language: English
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Rubens
$20.00 Add to cartThere are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality. This essential introduction takes in the most impo
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 3836545144
- Language: English
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Breuer
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining “form-givers of the 20th century.” Today, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Cobbers, Arnt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 20 2017
- ISBN10: 3836544733
- Language: English
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El Greco
$20.00 Add to cartTo his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541–1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Through
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Scholz-Hänsel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 16 2016
- ISBN10: 3836534533
- Language: English
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Mackintosh
$20.00 Read moreScottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was one of the earliest pioneers of modern architecture and design. While he did not receive much recognition in his hom
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Fiell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 27 2017
- ISBN10: 3836561603
- Language: English
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Gropius
$20.00 Add to cartWalter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Lupfer &. Paul Sigel, Gilbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 20 2017
- ISBN10: 3836544342
- Language: English
