Basic Art
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Van Gogh
$20.00 Add to cartToday, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and dra
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 29, 2016
- ISBN10: 3836527367
- Language: English
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Haring
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958-1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique,
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Kolossa, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 23 2016
- ISBN10: 383653049X
- Language: English
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Warhol
$20.00 Add to cartAndy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society, he explored key themes of consumerism, materialism, med
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Honnef, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 09 2015
- ISBN10: 3836543893
- Language: English
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Klimt
$20.00 Add to cartThe unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, ag
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15, 2015
- ISBN10: 3836558076
- Language: English
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Hokusai
$20.00 Read moreMeet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also significantly inf
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Paget, Rhiannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 08 2018
- ISBN10: 3836563371
- Language: English
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Case Study Houses
$20.00 Add to cartThe Case Study House program (1945-1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building bo
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Smith, Elizabeth A. T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836535602
- Language: English
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Giger
$20.00 Add to cartSwiss artist HR Giger (1940-2014) is most famous for his creation of the space monster in Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror sci-fi film Alien, which earned him an Oscar. In retrospect, this was just one of t
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Giger, Hr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 21 2018
- ISBN10: 3836534207
- Language: English
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Monet
$20.00 Read moreHailed the “Prince of the Impressionists”, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only r
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Heinrich, Christoph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836503999
- Language: English
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Eames
$20.00 Read moreThe creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also fore
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Koenig, Gloria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560216
- Language: English
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Basquiat
$20.00 Add to cartAn icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag “SAMO”, before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. A
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Emmerling, Leonhard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 383655979X
- Language: English
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Bauhaus
$20.00 Read moreIn a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school develope
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Droste, Magdalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560143
- Language: English
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Kahlo
$20.00 Read moreThe arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and chil
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Kettenmann, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 383650085X
- Language: English
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DalÃ
$20.00 Add to cartPainter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dal? (1904-1989) was one of the 20th century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insigh
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560003
- Language: English
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Saarinen
$20.00 Read moreThe creator of the ubiquitous Knoll “Tulip” chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century’s most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Serraino, Pierluigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 25 2017
- ISBN10: 3836544318
- Language: English
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Matisse
$20.00 Read moreThe work of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) reflects an ongoing belief in the power of brilliant colors and simple forms. Though famed in particular for his paintings, Matisse also worked with drawing, scul
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Essers, Volkmar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836529041
- Language: English
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Hopper
$20.00 Read moreEdward Hopper (1882-1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. As he appr
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Renner, Rolf G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 23 2015
- ISBN10: 3836500337
- Language: English
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M.C. Escher. the Graphic Work
$20.00 Read moreFrom impossible staircases to tessellated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intrica
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 30 2016
- ISBN10: 383652984X
- Language: English
