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An unprecedented event in architecture history, the Case Study Houses program gave America new models for residential living. This comprehensive account of the project presents each of the 36 prototype homes through floor plans, sketches, and photographs, and explores how architects like Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen...

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumerism, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Epitomized by Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources and products as well as the banal...

Meet the artist whose majestic wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai, master artist and printmaker, is not only one of the giants of Japanese art but a father figure to Western modernism, inspiring a whole new notion of space for artists from Monet to Morisot, Cassatt to Klimt. Spanning erotic books, historical novels, and album prints,...

William Morris was a polymath designer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, associated with England's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as well as Arts and Crafts movement. His prolific design work included tiles, embroidery, tapestries, wallpaper, and carpets and championed handcraftsmanship, natural dyes, "art for all", and beautiful patterns of...

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 modern masters and one of the most influential Jewish artists of all time. This dependable artist introduction explores the dreams, tales, colors, and cultural traditions that made up...

A study that follows Van Gogh from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his homeland, through his bright and colourful Parisian period, to the work of his final years, spent under a southern sun in Arles. Here, at last, he found the light that produced the unmistakable Van Gogh style.

Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the twentieth century. His early work clearly shows the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. The Catalan landscape also shapes the themes and treatment of these initial works. This title features a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work.

Features an introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the several important events (political, cultural, and, scientific).

A leading artist in the High Renaissance, Tiziano Vecelli (1488-1576) was the Venetian school's greatest painter and is one of the best-loved Italian artists. This book examines Titian's evolution, from his early years training under Giovanni Bellini to his later mature work, giving a perspective on the life's work of this legendary painter.

Discover turn-of-the-century Vienna in this exploration of its most important protagonists, complete with sumptuous double-page reproductions across painting, sculpture, architecture, and design, as well as an essay by Rainer Metzger. Marking the centenary of the deaths of masters Klimt, Schiele, Wagner, and Moser, this collection joins the...

Architect, artist, ecological visionary, Friedensreich Hundertwasser left a thrilling trail of imagination and activism in buildings, paintings, manifestos, and more. From naked addresses and tree planting campaigns to the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Hundertwasser refused the straight line in every sense. His vision was as much for society at...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is universally acclaimed and celebrated: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. This book features a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work.

It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, the Bauhaus total work of art, drag balls, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich. From cutting-edge kino to crowded jazz bars, come and roam the daring, freewheeling spirit of 1920s Berlin with this vivid cultural portrait of the age through painting, design, fashion, film, and more.

Der japanische Holzschnitt zeigt atemberaubenden Landschaften, erotischen Szenen sowie Geister und Dämonen. Aus Sumo-Ringern, Kabuki-Schauspielern und Kurtisanen machte er Popstars. Diese Ausgabe präsentiert die außergewöhnlichsten Meisterwerke von 1710 bis 1925, deren beste Drucke aus Museen und Sammlungen weltweit zusammengetragen wurden.

Mit seinem zeichnerischen Stil, seinen verzerrten Figuren und seiner Ablehnung konventioneller Schönheitsvorstellungen war Egon Schiele (1890-1918) ein Vorreiter des Wiener Expressionismus und einer der beeindruckendsten Porträtmaler des 20. Jahrhunderts.Schiele, dessen Mentor Gustav Klimt war, versuchte sich zunächst am glitzernden Jugendstil, bevor er seine eigene raue und provokante Ästhetik der harten Linien, grellen Farben und ausgezehrten Figuren entwickelte. Seine Porträts und Selbstporträts schockierten die Wiener Gesellschaft mit ihren erotischen Posen und einer bis dato beispiellosen psychologischen und sexuellen Intensität. So kauern er oder seine Modelle, die manchmal klapperdürr und kränklich, manchmal aber auch stark und sinnlich waren, oft mit gespreizten Beinen und deutlich sichtbaren Genitalien am Boden und starren den Betrachter an.Viele Zeitgenossen empfanden Schieles Bilder nicht nur als hässlich, sondern auch als moralisch verwerflich, was sogar dazu führte, dass der Maler für kurze Zeit wegen "Verbreitung unsittlicher Zeichnungen" inhaftiert wurde. Heutzutage wird er für seine revolutionäre Darstellung des Menschen und seinen unverkennbaren, direkten, beinahe fieberhaften Zeichenstil gefeiert. Dieses Buch führt anhand ausgewählter Werke in Schieles kurze, aber intensive Karriere ein und beleuchtet seinen enormen Einfluss auf die Kunst der Moderne, die sich auch im Werk zeitgenössischer Künstler wie Tracey Emin und Jenny Saville spiegelt.

Der große flämische Maler Pieter Bruegel der Ältere (ca. 1526/31-1569) war ein äußerst fantasievoller Maler und Zeichner. Seine wunderschönen, symbolträchtigen Landschaften sowie seine religiösen Bilder sind berühmt für ihre Volkstümlichkeit und ihren Blick auf das Alltagsleben der damaligen Zeit.Besonders intensiv widmete Bruegel sich dem Leben der Landbevölkerung, was ihm den Spitznamen "Bauernbruegel" einbrachte. Ob Jäger im Schnee oder ein ausgelassener Jahrmarkt: Bruegel erhob Landarbeit, Dorffeste und Bauernspiele zum Thema der Kunst. Doch auch seine imposanten Bilder mit religiöser und moralischer Thematik, darunter Triumph des Todes und Turmbau zu Babel, beeindrucken heute noch genauso wie im 16. Jahrhundert und haben, von den Schlachtszenen in den Herr der Ringe-Filmen bis hin zu Don DeLillos Roman Unterwelt, die zeitgenössische Kultur inspiriert.Von Bauern bei der Ernte bis zur Bekehrung des Saulus, von fröhlichen Hochzeitsprozessionen bis hin zum Kreuzweg Christi: Dieser Band deckt Bruegels gesamtes Schaffensspektrum ab und präsentiert sowohl seine biblischen als auch seine irdischen Tableaus.

Influenced by his contemporaries Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael Santi (1483-1520) became, in his own right, one of the most important artists of the High Renaissance. This overview traces the life's work of this Renaissance master whose influential work paved the way for the Mannerist and Baroque movements.

This illustrated work takes a look at the wonderful world of post-impressionism through the eyes of Manet (1832-1883), painter and graphic artist.

Meet Gerhard Richter, the German artist who redefined painting. Between abstract works and photography-based paintings, Richter pushes the medium's boundaries and reminds us of its urgency and importance in a world overwhelmed by digital images. This introduction to one of the greatest artists of our time explores his entire career.

At once a realist and a visionary, an architect and a builder, Otto Wagner innovated a new era in building-making. Born in Vienna, the visionary architect made his presence felt-he pioneered the use of materials like glass, steel, and aluminum, in a ceaseless experimentation with form that would come to redefine Viennese structural identity,...

Discover some of the finest masterpieces of Ancient Egypt. This catalogue gathers sarcophagi, statues, murals, and other timeless treasures by unknown masters from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period.

Meet Fernando Botero, the world-renowned elder statesman of Colombian art, famed for his voluptuous figurative style. This essential artist introduction takes in all the critical insight, irony, and curvaceous flesh that round out "Boterismo."

Travel from Osaka, Japan, to Bern, Switzerland, and through many cities, structures, and islands in between, to explore the staggering scope of the Renzo Piano repertoire. From the "inside-out" Pompidou to the airy shells of the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noumea, New Caledonia, this essential architect introduction reveals a restless visionary,...