Basic Art
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Rockwell
$20.00 Add to cartAn extraordinarily prolific artist, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) produced some 4,000 paintings in his lifetime, not including a prodigious quantity of commissioned editorial, commercial, and advertisin
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Marling, Karal Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 28 2017
- ISBN10: 3836532042
- Language: English
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Morris
$20.00 Read moreWilliam Morris (1834-1896) was one of the greatest creative figures of the 19th century. As a visionary designer, as well as a manufacturer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, he pioneered the Ar
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Fiell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 19 2017
- ISBN10: 3836561638
- Language: English
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Louis I. Kahn
$20.00 Read moreLouis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modern
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Rosa, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 08 2016
- ISBN10: 3836543842
- Language: English
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Miró
$20.00 Read moreWith a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Mir? (1893-1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and em
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Mink, Janis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836529238
- Language: English
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Bacon
$20.00 Read moreLargely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions.
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- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Ficacci, Luigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 31 2015
- ISBN10: 3836559692
- Language: English
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Le Corbusier
$20.00 Add to cartBorn Charles-?douard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ide
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Cohen, Jean-Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 23 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560356
- Language: English
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Vermeer
$20.00 Add to cartThough numbering just 35 known works, the oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in art history. His paintings have prompted a New York
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Schneider, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836504898
- Language: English
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Prouvé
$20.00 Add to cartFrench-born Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was the 20th century’s leading construction designer, a self-declared constructeur and member of the jury who oversaw the design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. A
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Peters, Nils
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 22 2017
- ISBN10: 3836543818
- Language: English
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Michelangelo
$20.00 Add to cartItalian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architect
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836530341
- Language: English
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Munch
$20.00 Add to cartA hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting The Scream, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) created Mona Lis
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Bischoff, Ulrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 31 2016
- ISBN10: 3836528959
- Language: English
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Abstract Art
$20.00 Add to cartAbstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of c
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Elger, Dietmar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 02 2017
- ISBN10: 3836546787
- Language: English
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Cézanne
$20.00 Add to cartIn the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul C?zanne (1839-1906), busily plied his brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of mod
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Becks-Malorny, Ulrike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 29 2016
- ISBN10: 3836530171
- Language: English
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Degas
$20.00 Add to cartMost commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in fact defied easy categorization and instead developed a unique style, strong
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Growe, Bernd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 29 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532719
- Language: English
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Cubism
$20.00 Add to cartPioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitio
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Ganteführer-Trier, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836505398
- Language: English
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Caravaggio
$20.00 Add to cartMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, p
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Lambert, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 31 2015
- ISBN10: 3836559935
- Language: English
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Hiroshige
$20.00 Add to cartUtagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e was a particular woodblock print genre of art that
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Schlombs, Adele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836519631
- Language: English
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Rembrandt
$20.00 Add to cartRembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the course of Western art. His prolific oeuvre encompass
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Bockemühl, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 29 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532131
- Language: English
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Albert Frey
$20.00 Add to cartArchitect Albert Frey (1903-1998) saw a modernist utopia in the desert. Born in Zurich, he studied in Europe with Le Corbusier before moving to the United States in 1930, convinced it was the land of
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Koenig, Gloria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 20 2017
- ISBN10: 3836547465
- Language: English
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Turner
$20.00 Add to cartIn the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) lies an impact akin to a sudden acquisition of sight. His landscapes and seascapes scorch the eye with such ravishing light and color, with suc
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Bockemühl, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836504545
- Language: English
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Surrealism
$20.00 Add to cartWith Salvador Dalà as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the psychoanalytica
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Klingsöhr-Leroy, Cathrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 14 2015
- ISBN10: 3836506734
- Language: English
