Individual Artist category: 1922 books
Toulouse-Lautrec's The Circus
Thirty-Nine Crayon Drawings in Color
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
A bareback rider's skirt ripples in the breeze, an acrobat bends his muscular limbs into a handstand, and a poodle obeys a clown brandishing a whip. The circus is in town! These kaleidoscopic visions from under the big top offer audiences a series of post-Impressionistic sideshows, courtesy of thirty-nine...
Worlds of Enchantment
The Art of Maxfield Parrish
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Maxfield Parrish enjoyed tremendous popularity throughout the early decades of the twentieth century. Bruce Watson, writing in Smithsonian magazine, deemed Parrish the "comman man's Rembrandt." It's said that during the Depression, a Parrish illustration was displayed on the walls of one...
China Days
A Visual Journal from China's Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The nation of China is a constant source of fascination, yet we rarely glimpse life beyond its urban centers. Far west of Beijing and Shanghai, in the remote Chinese province of Yunnan, pioneering artist Henrik Drescher settled over a decade ago. While residing in his adopted home, Drescher records...
Peter Lanyon
Modernism and the Land
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
British painter Peter Lanyon transformed the art of landscape, rescuing it from picturesque depictions of the English countryside and resituating it as an art form capable of expressing radical ideas. The old European tradition of landscape—mostly concerned with ownership and leisure and not the...
Disturbing Art Lessons
A Memoir of Questionable Ideas and Equivocal Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Some art lessons can inspire. Others are useless or even harmful. Eli Levin has written an amusing recollection of his art-student years and subsequent development. We witness his struggles to overcome the clichés and bombast so prevalent in the art world from 1950 to 1990. From every lesson the...
by Maurizio Cattelan, Nancy Spector
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art--most notoriously with The Ninth Hour,” his 1999 sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. Cattelan's...
Drawing on the Dream
Finding My Way by Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
How does a twenty-first-century woman living in rural southern Oregon enter the spiritual realm of the Dreamtime and what impact does it have on her life? Denise Kester is an artist and art teacher whose inner dream life is populated by a host of profound characters (brown bears, black crows, blue...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A new original graphic novel by DAVE McKEAN!
Best known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean defied expectations with his stunning debut as writerand artist in Cages, winner of multiple awards for Best Graphic Album. Dark Horse proudly presents a new original graphic novel by the legendary...
Thomas Hirschhorn
A New Political Understanding of Art?
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Thomas Hirschhorn, a leading installation artist whose work is owned and exhibited by modern art museums throughout Europe and the United States, is known for compelling, often site-specific and interactive environments tackling issues of critical theory, global politics, and consumerism. His work...
by Roy Kass
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Color the Masterpieces is the start of series of coloring books for people who love to color but who can’t, or don’t have the time to sketch. The pilot book, Issue 1, contains a general collection of 36 masterpieces. Thereafter, we will go artist by artist, covering as many as we can.The book...
Life on the Press
The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) is renowned for the oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel drawings he created as an acclaimed member of the artists' collective known as the Ashcan School. His professional development came, however, from his apprenticeship as a newspaper and magazine artist. Luks...
Chila Kumari Burman
Shakti, Sexuality and Bindi girls
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A monograph on the artist, Chila Kumari Burman, which looks at her work in terms of her South Asian identity, her contribution to the black arts movement and Stuart Hall’s definitions of “new ethnicities” in contemporary Britain. Rina Arya examines a wide range of works made by the artist from...
Rosa-rame
Salvator Rosa incisore nelle collezioni dellIstituto nazionale per la Grafica - Etchings by Salvator Rosa in the collections of the Istituto nazionale per la Grafica
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Catalogo della mostra presso Museo dell'Istituto nazionale per la Grafica, Roma 10 aprile – 29 giugno 2014 L'Istituto nazionale per la Grafica dedica una mostra a Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) esponendo il patrimonio di stampe, disegni e matrici dalle sue collezioni, in vista delle celebrazioni per...
by Harpal Sodhi
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings
By: Dr. Harpal Sodhi
The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to...