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Andy Warhol 1928-1987 - Commerce into Art by Klaus Honnef
$15.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: very good
Part of the Taschen Basic Art Series, this book profiles Andy Warhol and his work in the Pop Art style he excelled in.
Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
$12.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: very good
The Case Study House program (1945-1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences ...Show more
Edvard Munch 1863-1944 Images of Life and Death by Ulrich Bischoff
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: near fine
For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, "The Scream" (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known-a ...Show more
Edward Hopper 1882-1967 Transformation of the Real by Rolf Gunter Renner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: near fine
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered the first important American painter in 20th century. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity that since the 1950s has continually grown. In canvas after canvas he painted the loneliness of urban people. Many of Hopper's pictures rep ...Show more
Francis Bacon 1909-1992 Deep beneath the surfaces of things by Luigi Ficacci
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: near fine
Subliminal creatures: Dreamworlds beneath the surface 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. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of ...Show more
Henri Rousseau 1844-1910 by Cornelia Stabenow
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: very good
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) emerged from humble circumstances - reflected in his nickname, "the customs official". This book covers Rousseau's development into an artist whose work depicts a mixture of primitive idyll and flight from civilization, holding a secure place in the history of art.
Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450-1516 Between Heaven and Hell by Walter Bosing
$29.99 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: good
This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! It presents the pictorial world of Hieronymus Bosch. If Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) remains an enigma today, it is little wonder. Even his contemporaries found the Dutch painter's work difficult to decipher - and it still presents riddles to contemporary ar ...Show more
James Ensor 1860-1949 - Masks, Death and the Sea by Ulrike Becks-Malorny
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: very good
An Expressionist before the term was coined, James Ensor (1860-1949) was the classic insider-outsider enigma. He knew all the right art-world figures but loathed most of them. His style lurched from the Gothic fantastical to the Christian visionary. He was a cosmopolitan trailblazer of modernism, but li ...Show more
Pieter Bruegel the Elder c1525-1569 - Peasants, Fools and Demons by Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen
$8.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: good
At a time when artists were still primarily occupied with religious or mythological subject matter, the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525-1569) turned his eye on the everyday. Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life i ...Show more
Salvador Dali 1904-1989 by Gilles Neret
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: near fine
"Every morning when I awake," wrote the painter of the soft watches and burning giraffes, "the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali..."
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