Claude Monet, 1840-1926 ♡ 23 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny
Impressionism ♡ 15 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The Impressionists and the succeeding Neo-Impressionists were avant-gardist and revolutionary, paving the way for modern art. Present-day viewers, hardly realizing this revolutionary potential, can be
Jan Van Eyck: Renaissance Realist (Basic Art) (German Edition) ♡ 9 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Van Eyck left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future realist painters. This title in the Basic Art series features
Titian, 1490-1576 ♡ 9 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The freedom exhibited in his pictorial compositions was unprecedented and greatly influential on later artists, notably Manet, who closely studied Titian's work at the Louvre.
Vermeer, 1632-1675: Veiled Emotions ♡ 9 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals as one
Andy Warhol, 1928-1987: Commerce Into Art ♡ 9 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consumerism in his paintings (Campbell- and Brillo series), as well as their fascination for
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959: Building for Democracy ♡ 9 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 His prairie house concept--that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure--was the driving force behind some of his most
Surrealism ♡ 8 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Introduction with 30 photographs plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, scientific and sporting events that took place during the movement 35 most
Robert Doisneau ♡ 21 47 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Doisneau's gift was the ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, those little epiphanies of everyday Parisian life. This book traces Doisneau's
Candela (Basic Architecture) ♡ 9 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Candela features some of the loveliest and unique homes in the picturesque state of Bahia, Brazil. Highlights include a treehouse by sculptor Frans Krajeberg, a
Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus ♡ 8 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture - American and
Charles & Ray Eames: 1907-1978, 1912-1988 Pioneers of Mid-Century Modernism ♡ 8 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 This book covers all the aspects of their illustrious career, from the earliest furniture experiments and molded plywood designs to the Case Study Houses to
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919: A Dream of Harmony ♡ 19 45 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape, he said, or pass my hand over breast or back
Antoine Watteau 1684-1721 ♡ 7 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Watteau was inspired by the theater and in particular the commedia dell'arte, hence elaborately costumed actors, dancers, and musicians were recurrent subjects he was also
Dadaism ♡ 21 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 A precursor to Surrealism, the Dada movement stressed the absurd and unpredictable, the illogical and chaotic, lashing out against traditional aesthetics and upending artistic conventions.
Abstract Art ♡ 7 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Each book in Tachen's Basic Genre series features: a detailed introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural,
Tadao Ando: 1941 ♡ 7 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water,
The Bauhaus: 1919-1933: Reform and Avant-Garde ♡ 7 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its members artists and architects such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and
Calder, 1898-1976 (Album Series) ♡ 7 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 He operated at the point where Modernity and nature Fused, developing an environmental art that changed the medium Forever. Visiting his Paris atelier in 1932,
Caravaggio, 1571-1610 ♡ 7 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Though his body was never found, he is assumed to have been murdered by ruffians on a beach south of Rome-a fate strangely similar to
Albrecht Durer ♡ 7 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 His visits to Italy (where he studied most notably with Giovanni Bellini) had a profound effect on his artistic development and enabled him to combine
Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903 the Primitive Sophisticate ♡ 7 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment
Wassily Kandinsky: 1866-1944 a Revolution in Painting ♡ 7 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 In his theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect
Renzo Piano ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Like a movie director doing a love story, a Western, or a murder mystery, a new world confronts an architect with each project. This explains
Nicolas Poussin: 1594-1665 ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Poussin was highly prolific and was considered by his contemporaries to be the greatest living painter, a man whose work embodied the ideal of French
Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: Pictures as Drama ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 An overview of the life and work of artist Mark Rothko, this volume exhibits his mythological content, simple flat shapes, and imagery inspired by primitive
Egon Schiele 1890-1918 ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough
Japanese Prints ♡ 20 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 The introductory essay, Ukiyo-e - Origins and History, by the Curator of the Riccar Art Museum, Mitsunobu Sato, familiarizes the reader with the history of
Francis Bacon: 1909-1992 ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992) POSSESSED THE RARE ABILITY TO TRANSFORM UNCONSCIOUS COMPULSIONS INTO FIGURATIVE, HUMAN-LIKE FORMS THAT SEEM TO EVOKE THE RAW EMOTIONS THAT BORE THEM.
Bosch : C. 1450 1516 Between Heaven and Hell ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Even his date of birth can only be guessed at, and that based on a drawing assumed to be a self-portrait, made shortly before his
Fernando Botero ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Famed for his modern art and rendering of human, animal and still life compositions, this is a celebration of the works of Colombian painter and
Bruegel: The Complete Paintings ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town
Santiago Calatrava: 1951: Architect, Engineer, Artist ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Winner of the 2005 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal as well as numerous other prestigious awards, Calatrava is one of the greatest and most
Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906: Pioneer of Modernism ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 He was the founding father of modern art, the grand master who pointed painting forward on its way from Impressionism to the 20th century: Paul
Salvador Dali: 1904-1989 ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others
Giger (Basic Art) ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 H.R. Giger is a painter, Oscar award winner and cult figure for the international artistic community for which his aesthetics of the apocalypse represent inspiration
Hiroshige ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese
Edward Hopper: 1882-1967 Transformation of the Real ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Hopper's paintings are marked by striking juxtapositions of colour, and by the clear contours with which the figures are demarcated from their surroundings. His extremely
Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956: In the Realm of Beauty ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Before being rediscovered in the 1980s by the Post-Modernists, his work was nearly forgotten now his importance is unquestioned. As a designer he was one
Jasper Johns: The Business of the Eye ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 He is arguably most known for his flag paintings of the 1950s (the Museum of Modern Art in New York recently paid over $20 million
Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Pain and Passion ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was 18, a bus accident put her in hospital for a year with a
Henri Matisse, 1869-1954: Master of Colour ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Henri Matisse's adventures in color and light constitute a landmark in the history of modern art. From his apprenticeship in the studio of Gustave Moreau
Mies Van Der Rohe: 1886-1969 ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Though the extreme reduction of form and material in his work garnered some criticism, over the years many have tried?mostly unsuccessfully?to copy his original and
Joan Miro: 1893-1983 ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 From the mid-twenties onward, Miro strove to leave direct objective references behind and developed the pictograms that typify his style. The pictures of this period,
Edvard Munch: 1863-1944 ♡ 6 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 This is a book of 18 postcards featuring the paintings of Edvard Munch a Norwegian painter who had a major influence on Expressionism. The pack
Bruegel: The Complete Paintings ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965: The Lyricism of Architecture in the Machine Age ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Basic Architecture features: Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory essays explore the architect's life and work, touching
Pop Art ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Pop artists of the 1960s, heralded by the Great Andy Warhol, commented on everything from mainstream media to consumer society to advertising to product packaging
Pre-Raphaelites ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the original Pre-Raphaelites were joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson,
Auguste Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 This volume examines the sculptures and drawings of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917
Redon (Back to Visual Basics) ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 In his studio, Redon would dedicate his energies, like an alchemist, to the creation of his black pictures, those barely tangible charcoal drawings teeming with
Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640: The Homer of Painting ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Combining typical Flemish realism with classical themes influenced by the Renaissance, Rubens caught the attention of all of Europe and helped put his native Antwerp
Shigeru Ban ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 This survey traces his entire career to date, showing clearly why he is one of the world's most innovative and significant architects. Unlike many of his
Lucian Freud ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 I paint people, Freud has said, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they
Philip Jodidio ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said
Hundertwasser: The Painter-King with the 5 Skins: The Power of Art ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 However, Hundertwasser's art has always contained a political shade. He has consistently rebelled against rationalist or determinist ideas, promoted ecological awareness, and mantained a passionate
Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918 ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found - or hoped to find - in beauty was constantly overshadowed by death. And death therefore
Land Art ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 One distinguishing feature of Land Art is its critical preoccupation with the tradition of sculpture. Sculpture can now be an earthwork excavation, a field of
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519 ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 If he seems so modern, it is perhaps because of his non-speciality, his magpie mind and curiosity, and his thousands of notes and sketches. In
Franz Marc, 1880-1916 ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Seeing Marc merely as a painter of animals proves, however, premature. Marc, co-founder of the 'Blauer Reiter' group of Expressionist artists, was deeply dissatisfied with
Henri Matisse: Cut-Outs Album ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Aged 75, Matisse felt he had said all he had to say in the medium of paint, and embarked on his next period in his
Mendelsohn ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 He became famous with the Einsteinturm in Potsdam (the supreme masterpiece of architectural expressionism, one of the most heretical and revolutionary works in history), the
Alfons Mucha, 1860-1939: Master of Art Nouveau ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 A kind of sketchbook and personal visual diary, this record of captured moments from the mid-1880s until the end of the artist's life illuminates both
Henry Moore: 1898-1986 ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Available in over 20 languages, Taschen's Basic Art Series offers budget-minded readers quality books on the greatest artists of all time. The neat, slick format
Oscar Niemeyer ♡ 5 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 To this day, over seven decades since one of his first projects—a 1936 collaboration with Lucio Costa and Le Corbusier—Oscar Niemeyer is still practicing. A
Richard Neutra, 1892-1970 ♡ 4 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 Richard Neutra Born and raised in Vienna, Richard Neutra (1872-1970) came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture
Jean Nouvel ♡ 3 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 His first widely acclaimed project was the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (1981–87). Since then he has completed the Lyon Opera House, the Euralille
Marc Chagall, 1887-1985: Painting as Poetry ♡ 3 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 The memories and yearning they evoke recall his native Vitebsk, and the great events that mark the life of ordinary people: birth, love, marriage and
J.M.W. Turner, 1775-1851: The World of Light and Colour ♡ 3 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 J.M.W. Turner, 1775-1851: The World of Light and Colour
Landscape Painting ♡ 3 38 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 From Titian to Warhol, readers will discover the evolution of this popular genre.Artists featured (in chronological order)include: Jean, Paul und Herman von Limburg, Titian, Joachim
Goya ♡ 22 52 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 Coming at the tail end of the Old Masters period, Goya, with his audacious, subversie, and highly influential works, can be considered the first painter
Bosch: The Complete Paintings ♡ 20 52 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 Even his date of birth can only be guessed at, and that based on a drawing assumed to be a self-portrait, made shortly before his
Klimt ♡ 20 50 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.87/5 Klimt a revolutionat pictura. Picturile sale decorate cu ornamente de aur fac parte in zilele noastre dintre cele mai scumpe din lume. Portretele sale deosebite
Dali ♡ 12 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.87/5 Dali brought extraordinary sensitivity, imagination and concern for precision to bear upon submerged levels of consciousness.This lively biography presents the infamous Surrealist Dali in full
Vermeer: The Complete Paintings ♡ 11 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.87/5 Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreamsLittle is known of Vermeer's early life and training, though we can be certain that he never knew great success
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality (Basic Art) ♡ 7 45 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.87/5 Les portfolios TASCHEN proposent des impressions de grande qualite qui ne demandent qu'a etre encadrees. Chaque portfolio contient 14 reproductions en grand format, chacune decrite
de Lempicka ♡ 11 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.87/5 Simultaneously with her career as artist, Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and
Brassai, Paris ♡ 20 55 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.87/5 With this book, priced very reasonably, the finest work of one of photography's giant figures is all yours
Gauguin ♡ 11 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.87/5 The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. In pictures devoid of any attempt at romantically disguising the
Living in Greece ♡ 10 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.86/5 Go island hopping with the Stoelties and discover the best of Greece's hidden treats, such as the hilltop vacation house of Robert Browning, descendent of
Man Ray ♡ 10 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.86/5 Born under the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he
Caravaggio ♡ 10 48 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.86/5 Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and,