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Bosch by Walter Bosing
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The pictorial world of Hieronymus Bosch If Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) remains an enigma today, it is little wonder. Even his contemporaries found the Netherlandish painter's work difficult to decipher--and it still presents riddles to contemporary art historians. Part of the problem in decoding his s ...Show more
Eames by Koenig Gloria ; Gssel Peter
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Visual impact: Nothing says modernist perfection like an Eames design The creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also forerunners in architecture, textile d ...Show more
Helmut Newton
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Enter a world of dark, brooding landscapes, of high-voltage sexual energy, and of glamorous, powerful women. With an unfailing eye for impact, Helmut Newton revolutionized the art of photography. The Berlin-born master becomes the first photographer to grace our Basic Art series in this collection explo ...Show more
Hokusai by Rhiannon Paget
Category: Art | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
The Old Man Mad about PaintingHokusai, the master who unleashed a tsunami on the art worldMeet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of ...Show more
Hopper by Rolf G. Renner
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Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered as one of the first important American painters in 20th century art. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity that since the 1950s has continually grown. In canvas after canvas he painted the loneliness of urban people. Many of Hopper ...Show more
Kahlo by Kettenmann Andrea
Category: Art | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Suffering and the female experience The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state.Kahlo was one of the daughter ...Show more
O'Keefe by Britta Benke
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Mighty nature: The pioneering forms of Georgia O'KeeffeGeorgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting art styles and trends, but rather with her own unique vision, based on finding essential and abstra ...Show more
Rivera by Andrea Kettenmann
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It was as a revolutionary and troublemaker that Picasso, Dali and Andre Breton described the husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, but he was also responsible for creating a public art that was both highly advanced and profoundly accessible. From 1910 Rivera lived in Europe where he absorbed the influen ...Show more
Self-Portraits by Ernst Rebel
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Me, myself, and IIs a self-portrait of an artist a medium of reflection--or is it merely a black void, the 'false mirror, ' as the surrealist Rene Magritte entitled his 1928 painting of an eye? Do self-portraits reveal how artists see themselves, or how they wish others would see them? From the 15th cen ...Show more
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