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 | | Auguste Rodin: Drawings & Watercolors | \"I have drawn all my life. I began withdrawing: I have never stopped drawing.\"—Auguste Rodin
From the \"black\" drawings contemporaneous with the Gates of Hell to his great watercolor nudes, this book reproduces hundreds of Auguste Rodin's most beautiful graphic works held in the c... |
 | | Rosemarie Trockel: Post-Menopause | | This collection of Rosemarie Trockel's work from 1980 to the present is full of video, drawings, wool, everyday objects, sculptures, and all the media with which she has advanced what Artforum describes as a \"long-running effort to expand and challenge the terms of dialogue between artist and audie... |
 | | Paul Kane: Artist (Following Historic Trails) | | Follow Paul Kane, Canada's first and most outstanding illustrator of North American Indians, on his expedition through the Rocky Mountains in 1846-48 – a journey which began at Fort Carlton near present day Saskatoon, and led him to Fort Edmonton, Rocky Mountain House, Athabasca Pass, and Jasper. ... |
 | | Parmigianino | | Parmigianino (1503–1540) was one of the Italian Renaissance’s great geniuses. Characterized by a distinctive and elegant style and exquisite draftsmanship, he was also one of the first painter-etchers, engraving his own work and disseminating it throughout Italy and northern Europe. This beautif... |
 | | Diego Rivera, The Complete Murals | | Diego in detail: The most comprehensive study of Rivera's work ever made A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist - along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo - Diego Rivera (1886-1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Eur... |
 | | Tamara de Lempicka: The Artist, The Woman, The Legend | | A femme fatale to equal Greta Garbo and Mae West, and a fashion icon in her own lifetime, this exhibition catalog is dedicated to the artist as well as the concept of the modern woman she represented. Born in 1898 in Warsaw, Lempicka fled during the Bolshevik Revolution, arriving in Paris in 1918 w... |
 | | A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 | | The long-awaited third volume of John Richardson’s definitive biography of Pablo Picasso combines the critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and stunning narrative that made the first two volumes an art-historical breakthrough as well as a pleasure to read.
The Triumphant Years... |
 | | Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Vol 2 | | The private art collection of Mrs. Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza is considered one of the most important in the world. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has published these two volumes to accompany the permanent exhibition of the International Collection, which includes 345 works of art by Brueghel, de Hooc... |
 | | La Escuela de Platon (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Narrativas Hispanicas) | | Entre el ensayo y la ficción, este libro inclasificable gira en torno a un cuadro titulado La Escuela de Platón, donde a semejanza de Cristo, se ve a Platon con doce discipulos. Fue pintado en 1898 por un simbolista belga no muy conocido, Jean Deville, fanatico del idealismo en la representación ... |
 | | Drawing From The Modern | | Many of the key achievements in art of the last 125 years have been worked out on paper. From pictorial investigations that expanded the possibilities of vision to the invention of entirely new kinds of media, drawing has been the perfect laboratory for avant-garde experimentation. Drawing from the ... |
 | | Fractured Figure | | A culture's body-image, as refracted through its art, will usually provide a more telling account of its preoccupations than the most explicit political art; it seems that cultural symptoms leak more readily into depictions of the body than into more overt statements. This is especially true in peri... |
 | | William Kentridge: Tapestries (Philadelphia Museum of Art) | South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediums—drawings, animations, sculptures, theater and stage design—all of which trace the fraught political and cultural history of South Africa. This book is the first to explore Kent... |
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