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Georges Seurat 1859-1891 : The Master of Pointillism by Hajo Duchting
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901 - The Theatre of Life by Matthias Arnold
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Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Parmi ceux à qui l'on doit notre représentation fantasmée de Paris le peintre et graphiste Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) n'est pas des moindres. À travers ses gravures, affiches, peintures et dessins, l'artiste a immortalisé la vie nocturne parisienne à la Belle Époque et a fait figurer le quart ...Show more
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
J. M. W. Turner by M. Bockemuhl
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Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
James Ensor 1860-1949 - Masks, Death and the Sea by Ulrike Becks-Malorny
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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
Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 : Art as Anti-Art by Janis Mink
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Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
Readymade man Changing the course of 20th-century art When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist's Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery, sent shock waves through the art world establishment t ...Show more
Miro - 1893-1983 by Janis Mink
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Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Mondrian by Susanne Deicher
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Category: Art | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: good
Abstract pioneer: Harmonies in red, yellow, and blue A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonate to this day. Coining the term "Neo-plasticism', he pursued a style of painting composed ...Show more
Otto Wagner 1841-1918 by August Sarnitz
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Category: Architecture | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The pioneer of Viennese Modernism One of Austria's most influential architects, Otto Wagner (1841-1918) played a key role in modernizing urban architecture. Forming an approach described as structural rationalism, Wagner pioneered use of materials such as glass, steel, and especially aluminum. He was as ...Show more
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 : Genius of the Century by Ingo F. Walther
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Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Pieter Bruegel the Elder c1525-1569 - Peasants, Fools and Demons by Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen
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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