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Cover of The 1-Hour Van Gogh Book

The 1-Hour Van Gogh Book

Complete Van Gogh Biography for Beginners

by Liesbeth Heenk
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2019

An excellent introduction to Van Gogh's fascinating Life and Work Everyone is familiar with paintings such as "The Sunflowers” and “Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh. The intense vibrant colours and wavy brushworks will almost tell you immediately that the work is by the master....
Cover of William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism (Routledge Revivals)
by George P. Landow
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015

In this study, first published in 1979, Landow contends that Hunt’s version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system of painterly symbolism rather than with a photographic realism as has been usually supposed. Like Ruskin, Hunt believed that a symbolism based on scriptural...
Cover of Three Tunisian Women Artists

Three Tunisian Women Artists

Nicène Kossentini, Mouna Karray, Moufida Fedhila

by Michèle Cohen Hadria
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

Michèle Cohen Hadria interviews artists Nicène Kossentini, Mouna Karray and Moufida Fedhila from Tunisia. Each interview discusses the work of each artist since the revolution and against the political backdrop of contemporary Tunisia alongside photographs of the artists’ works.
Cover of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

And they are like wild beasts. Is This What You Were Born For?

by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes by Heinz Duthel Qué hai que hacer mas? English: What more can one do? El si pronuncian y la mano alargan, Al primero que llega And they are like wild beasts Is This What You Were Born For? Goya was born on March 30, 1746 in the locality of Fuendetodos...
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Selling Andrew Jackson

Ralph E. W. Earl and the Politics of Portraiture

by Rachel Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018

Selling Andrew Jackson is the first book-length study of the American portrait painter Ralph E. W. Earl, who worked as Andrew Jackson’s personal artist from 1817 until Earl’s death in 1838. During this period Jackson held Earl in close council, even providing him residence at the Hermitage, Jackson’s...
Cover of Heart of Asia
by Nicholas Roerich
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017

Nicholas Roerich was fond of saying, "Blessed be the obstacles--through them we grow." He was well qualified to know, for obstacles were a constant in his life. A superficial glance at his life would reveal only creativity and adventure, far more than is generally allotted to any one person...
Cover of Tate Introductions: Warhol
by Stephanie Straine
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014

A central figure in pop art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the most significant and influential artists of the later twentieth century. In the 1960s he began to explore the growing interplay between mass culture and the visual arts, and his constant experimentation with new processes for the...
Cover of At Large

At Large

Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz

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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015

Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's most newsworthy figures, noted for both his groundbreaking work and his outspoken stance on human rights, which ultimately resulted in his controversial 2011 detainment. In an astonishing new large-scale project,...
Cover of The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major
by Clarence Major
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

In the first volume to collect the paintings and drawings of Clarence Major, readers are offered six decades of unique, colorful, and compelling canvases and works on paper—works of singular beauty and social relevance. These works represent Major’s personal painterly journey of passionate commitment...
Cover of A Flower Blooms: My Journey in a Landscape of Art
by JoEl Vogt
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018

What is the good life? JoEl Vogt has been exploring that question ever since her first childhood discoveries of seemingly vast, untamed land stirred a longing for a wild sanctuary of her own. In this memoir, the painter, art therapist, and grandmother traces her lifelong relationship with nature and...
Cover of Growing Up with the Impressionists

Growing Up with the Impressionists

The Diary of Julie Manet

by Julie Manet
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017

Julie Manet, the niece of Eugène Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, was born in Paris on 14th November 1878 into a wealthy and cultured milieu at the height of the Impressionist era. Many young girls still confide their inner thoughts to diaries and it is hardly...
Cover of Munch
by Patrick Bade
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Edvard Munch, born in 1863, was Norway's most popular artist. His brooding and anguished paintings, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of Expressionism. During his childhood, the death of his parents, his brother and sister, and the mental illness of another...
Cover of Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

Art, Human Rights, and the Power of Writing a Letter

by Ai Weiwei, Cheryl Haines, David Spalding
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018

Renowned artist Ai Weiwei engaged nearly 900,000 visitors in a conversation about human rights with his art installation @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz. In one participatory piece, Yours Truly, visitors sent 92,829 postcards to prisoners of conscience around the world. This book delves into those postcards'...
Cover of Roberto Grilli in Arte
by Roberto Grilli
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2016

Art Book dell' Artista Roberto Grilli Traditional Artist
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