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Robert Storr
Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency, the inaturali evolution of individual artistic sensibility, the spontaneous component of creativity, and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many of his peers, he has explored these issues through the medium of painting, challenging it to meet the demands posed by new forms of conceptual art.
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Gian Carlo Calza
Katsushika Hokusai(1769-1849) was one of the greatest of the Japanese printmakers, painters and book illustrators. This richly illustrated monograph provides an overview of the master's life and works. Comprising introductory essays, seven chapters embracing Hokusai's entire career and some 700 illustrations, it presents and analyses a large selection of Hokusai's finest works in all media, covering his whole career and giving a scholarly and up-to-date interpretation of the artist and his significance.
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Jeff Koons
The man who enshrined a Hoover vacuum cleaner, who suspended a basketball in a fish tank half filled with water, who created a life-size polychromed wooden replica of Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles, who transferred his sex life with his then-wife, Italian porn star Ilona Staller (aka Cicciolina), onto canvas, and who made a monumental topiary sculpture in the shape of a puppy, is here given a mini-retrospective in the form of a book. Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 focuses primarily on the formation and development of Koons's paintings, but, given that he considers his early sculptures to be "three-dimensional paintings," this limit need hardly be considered medium-restrictive.
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Klaus Albrecht Schroder
This opulently illustrated volume, featuring brilliant reproductions and illuminating commentary, spans Schiele’s earliest adolescent studies, through his time at the Vienna Academy, to his early death in 1918. The works are presented in large color plates which allow readers to study closely the extraordinary quality of the artist’s portraits, nudes and landscapes. This beautiful volume ffers revelatory insights into the nature of Schiele’s genius, while clarifying his vision and artistic impulses.
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Irving Sandler
Stephen Antonakos has been a pioneer in the use of neon in fine art since 1960. His work includes sculpture and environments; large-scale architectural commissions; pictorial wall pieces with neon, paint, and metal leaf; and meditation rooms and chapels. Antonakos "draws" with light, and uses it to define space, but also sees it as a source of poetry, attempting in his works to evoke spirituality. This stunning book, illustrated with 257 color plates, covers his neon works, which were often temporary outdoor installations on city buildings, and also work in other mediums, including drawings, found-object constructions, and artists' books.
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Jeremy Roe
Celebrating the work of Catalan master architect Antonio Gaudí, this volume is illustrated with an outstanding selection of some 300 color photographs, many showing details of the Casa Milà and the castle, park, and crypt for Eusebio Güell that are rarely seen in lesser treatments. Here too are descriptions and images of buildings like the Episcopal Palace of Astorga and the fantastic El Capricho, which are often overlooked altogether. Gaudí's masterwork, the Sagrada Familia, is seen in at least 23 views, many of them closely examining the enormous church's stonework and sculpture.
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Charles C. Eldredge
This magnificent book examines O'Keeffe's life and work, focusing on the quintessential American qualities of her art and her idiosyncratic way of seeing. Eldredge discovers for example, O'Keeffe's connection to the Transcendentalist tradition in American thought, and her relationship to America's awakening enthusiasm for Freudian theorizing and feminine self-revelation. He also describes O'Keeffe's modernity, her innovative readiness to push her art toward abstraction and serial art.
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Paul Cezanne
Cezanne and the Dawn of Modern Art presents selected paintings by Paul Cezanne alongside works by younger artists that reveal the powerful influence of the man hailed as the founder of modern painting. The driving forces in the reception of Cezanne's art were not art critics, art historians, or even the artist himself, but rather other artists--primarily the Fauves led by Matisse, de Vlaminck, and Derain; and the Cubists including Picasso, Braque, and Lager--all of whom absorbed and elaborated on Cezanne's revolutionary ideas about color and composition. Against this background of Cezannisme, the book presents key works by Cezanne and younger artists in revealing juxtapositions.
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Top Books Tagged 'Art' on LibraryThing
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards
- The Art Book, Phaidon Press
- History of Art, H.W. Janson
- Ways of Seeing, John Berger
- Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Helen Gardner
- The Graphic Work of M. C. Escher, M.C. Escher
- The Methods of Construction of Celtic Art, George Bain
- The Story of Art , E.H. Gombrich
- The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes
- The 20th Century Art Book, Phaidon Press
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