A Frenchman in Tahiti: Gauguin s search for pristine originality and unadulterated natureAfter starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (1848 1903) turned...
These cute-as-can-be notecards give you the chance to spread happiness on every important occasion - birthday, thank you, congratulations, friendship, and just because!...
Keith Haring spent little more than a decade in the spotlight, but in his singular blend of street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon...
Hiroshige was one of the last great artists of ukiyo-e, the woodblock print genre that flourished between the 17th and 19th century and did much...
Meet 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...
Struggling artist turned icon of the modern, urban experience, Edward Hopper is most famed for his haunting nocturnal diner scene Nighthawks. This book introduces his...
With his enchanting roster of musicans, roosters, flowers, and floating lovers, Marc Chagall is celebrated to this day as one of the most readily identifiable...
Discover Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artist duo who were born on the same day, met in Paris, fell in love, and became a unique creative...
Throughout his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky transformed not only his own practice, but the course of art history itself. This essential guide traces Kandinsky's rich...
Bridging the gapExpressionist pioneer Ernst Ludwig Kirchner heralded a new perspective in 20th-century paintingErnst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) is regarded as one of the key figures...
The 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...
The creations of Jeff Koons (born 1955) are at once immediately accessible and eloquently art historical. From basketball tanks to flower puppies, his instantly recognizable...
Tamara de Lempicka (1896–1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled...
'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write....
`Kemp is a natural storyteller... This book leads you on a journey through the life, work and legacy of one of history's most intriguing figures.'...
The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary...
A style of his own: The colorful work of a truly avant-garde painterIn the course of his short life, German painter August Macke (1887 1914)...
From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption ",this is not a pipe",, René Magritte...
In Mars By 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through to the...
",Painting with scissors", is how Henri Matisse referred to his cut-outs. Produced towards the end of his life, when the artist was confined to a...
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