Prestel Verlag: 15 books

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After the Revolution

Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art

by Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013

"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" asked the prominent art historian Linda Nochlin in a provocative 1971 essay. Today her insightful critique serves as a benchmark against which the progress of women artists may be measured. In this book, four prominent critics and curators describe...
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by Hans Richter, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

In English for the first time: The pioneering Dadaist’s insights and remembrances of a lifetime working side-by-side with the leading modern artists of the twentieth century. Painter, filmmaker, writer, and teacher Hans Richter (1888–1976) was at the center of some of the most important...
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by Michael Findlay
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and instead trusting our own instincts, opinions, and...
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The Ultimate Trophy

How The Impressionist Painting Conquered The World

by Philip Hook
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012

In 1892 Degas' painting In the Café was sold for a mere 180 guineas at auction, with the public hissing as the hammer fell. Less than a century later another Impressionist work, Renoir's Moulin de la Galette, sold at Sotheby's for $78 million, accompanied by enthusiastic applause. In this history-cum-memoir...
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The Reckoning

Women Artists of the New Millennium

by Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

The authors of After the Revolution return with an incisive study of the work of contemporary women artists. In After the Revolution, the authors concluded that "The battles may not all have been won . . . but barricades are gradually coming down, and work proceeds on all fronts in glorious...
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Kehinde Wiley

A New Republic

by Eugenie Tsai, Connie H. Choi
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley’s bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist’s various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work—which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition.
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by Christopher Finch, Chuck Close
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012

This is the first book to tell the inspiring story of near tragedy and ultimate triumph behind the dazzling work of one of today's most respected and best-loved artists. Chuck Close is one of the most acclaimed American artists to emerge since Andy Warhol. His larger-than-life portraits look out from...
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The Big Picture

Contemporary Art in 10 Works by 10 Artists

by Matthew Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Discover the compelling story of the evolution of contemporary art, its state today, and where it’s headed, through a sample of ten artworks created by ten artists over a span of fifteen years. Written in an engaging, straightforward style by prominent art historian Matthew Israel, this book...
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Gustav Klimt

Die Lebensgeschichte

by Bettina Schümann
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2011

„Ich interessiere mich nicht für die eigene Person – eher für andere Menschen, weibliche ...“ Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt prägte als Künstler und als eigenwillige Persönlichkeit unser Bild von Wien um 1900 wie kaum ein zweiter. Die Autorin Bettina Schümann lässt die mondäne Gesellschaft,...
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Frida Kahlo

Die Lebensgeschichte

by Dagmar Feghelm
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2011

Fridas Leben leicht verständlich erzählt Bei kaum einer Künstlerin sind Leben und Werk so eng verknüpft wie bei der mexikanischen Malerin Frida Kahlo. Fast die Hälfte ihrer Bilder sind Selbstporträts, viele davon mit einem Spiegel im Krankenbett gemalt, an das Frida Jahre ihres Lebens...
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Leonardo da Vinci

Die Lebensgeschichte

by Silke Vry
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2011

Die Malerei war für ihn die Königin aller Wissenschaften, doch wie kaum ein anderer wirkte Leonardo da Vinci weit darüber hinaus. In seinem Werk verbinden sich Kunst, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften. Das Multi-Talent der italienischen Renaissance war, trotz aller Anfeindungen durch Skeptiker,...
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Paul Klee

Die Lebensgeschichte

by Christiane Weidemann
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2011

„Kein Tag ohne Linie.“ Paul Klee Das Leben von Paul Klee erzählt die Geschichte einer bewegten Epoche. Um 1900 kam er zum Kunststudium nach München, wo er sich mit der künstlerischen Avantgarde seiner Zeit anfreundete. Er prägte als Mitglied der Künstlervereinigung „Der Blaue Reiter”...
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Niki de Saint Phalle

Die Lebensgeschichte

by Bettina Schümann
Language: German
Release Date: October 24, 2011

Eine starke Frau, eine unkonventionelle Künstlerin, ein intensives Leben Die Figuren der Nanas sind fröhlich, rätselhaft, riesig, leuchtendbunt: mit ihnen wurde Niki de Saint Phalle berühmt. Ihr Leben war nicht immer so farbenfroh. Nach einem Zusammenbruch fand die junge Frau aus adligem...
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Pablo Picasso

Die Lebensgeschichte

by Dagmar Feghelm
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2011

Ein Leben der Leidenschaft Pablo Picasso begann mit sieben Jahren Kunstunterricht bei seinem Vater zu nehmen und hörte bis zu seinem Tod mit 91 Jahren nie mehr auf zu malen und zu gestalten. Wie kaum ein anderer hat er die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts geprägt. Zeit seines Lebens hat er sich...
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