Basic Art

  • Piano

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    While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their di

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Jodidio, Philip
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 15 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836536463
    • Language: English
  • Schiele

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    With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism and one of the most startling portrait pa

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Steiner, Reinhard
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: July 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 3836504421
    • Language: English
  • Calatrava

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    Spanish visionary Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. Famed for bridges as much as buildings, he has made his name with neofutur

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Jodidio, Philip
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 02 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836535653
    • Language: English
  • Duchamp

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    When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist’s Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery, sent

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Mink, Janis
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 11 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836534320
    • Language: English
  • Modigliani

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    In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Krystof, Doris
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 03 2015
    • ISBN10: 3836503670
    • Language: English
  • By: Hagen

    Bruegel

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    The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Hagen
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: August 03 2015
    • ISBN10: 3836553066
    • Language: English
  • Toulouse-Lautrec

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    In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, paintings, and drawings, the artist immortalized the cit

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Arnold, Matthias
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 31 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836534908
    • Language: English
  • Velázquez

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    Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodr?guez de Silva y Vel?zquez (June 1599 – August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spanish Golden Age, but among the most celebrated masters

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Wolf, Norbert
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 30 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836532107
    • Language: English
  • Schindler

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    Hailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los Angele

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Steele, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: August 16 2019
    • ISBN10: 383656436X
    • Language: English
  • Van Eyck

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    Often imitated but never equaled, Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future realist painters. With its unprecedented precision and master

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Borchert, Till-Holger
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 04 2020
    • ISBN10: 3836545055
    • Language: English
  • Self-Portraits

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    The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this collection brings together some of the best examples of self-portraiture

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Rebel, Ernst
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 13 2017
    • ISBN10: 3836537095
    • Language: English
  • de Lempicka

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    Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set abo

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Néret, Gilles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: December 09 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836532271
    • Language: English
  • Gauguin

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    Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Walther, Ingo F.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 27 2017
    • ISBN10: 3836532239
    • Language: English
  • Gaudí

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    From the towering Sagrada Fam?lia to the shimmering, textured fa?ade of Casa Batll? and the enchanting landscape of Park G?ell, it’s easy to see why Antoni Gaud? (1852-1926) gained the epithet “God’s

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Crippa, Maria Antonietta
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: July 15 2015
    • ISBN10: 3836560283
    • Language: English
  • Manet

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    Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter ノdouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered a crucial figure in the history of art, bridging the transition

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Néret, Gilles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 26 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836535106
    • Language: English
  • Yves Klein

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    In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928-1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful c

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Weitemeier, Hannah
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: December 09 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836553139
    • Language: English
  • Friedrich

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    The beauty of nature and man’s loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small human figure in a broad landscape, as in his famous pai

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Wolf, Norbert
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 16 2015
    • ISBN10: 3836560712
    • Language: English
  • Raphael

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    In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (1483-1520) is one such star. The man we call simply Raphae

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Thoenes, Christof
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 07 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836532425
    • Language: English
  • By: Hagen

    Goya

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    From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jos? de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) made a mark as one of Spain’s most revered and controversial ar

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Hagen
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 16 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836532689
    • Language: English
  • Mondrian

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    A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day. Coining the term “Neo-

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Deicher, Susanne
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 14 2015
    • ISBN10: 3836553309
    • Language: English
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