EGON SCHIELE "DRAWING THE WORLD"

Gerhard Richter's oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most ...

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Islamic artists channeled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly termed the "decorative arts" or even "the ...

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A selection of twelve previously published papers by Ernst Grube which examine specific materials used in Islamic decorative arts. Six papers examine pottery and tiles, one considers Ilkhanis stucco work as represented in the mausoleum ...

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This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world. Susan Rather examines the status of artists from different ...

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«A los doce años yo dibujaba como Rafael», sentenció Picasso en 1946. Ese genio precoz explotó en A Coruña, la ciudad en la que reconoció que se despertaron sus sentidos. Es en Galicia donde inicia ...

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Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War is a history of art during wartime that analyzes images in various media that circulated widely and were encountered daily by Spaniards on city walls, in print, ...

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This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history. * A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction ...

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This superb book is dedicated to Edvard Munch's vast and fascinating oeuvre of works on paper. Featured in beautiful colour reproductions are key images related to well-known prints and drawings, as well as lesser known ...

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On account of a technological and material deployment beyond all human scope, the First World War ranks as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century but the worlds that collapsed in 1914 had already become ...

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For centuries, America's permutations of climate and landscape and its tantalizing suggestion of unlimited possibilities have inspired some of history's greatest minds to embark on both literal and imaginary journeys of exploration, none more so ...

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For decades after he joined the French Communist Party in 1944, Picasso produced works that connected directly-if in complex and varied ways-to his left-wing political beliefs. Picasso and the Politics of Visual Representation brings together ...

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Nikolai Khardzhiev, a Russian literary scholar, was a friend and admirer of the modern painters of his time. He collected work by masters such as Kazimir Malevich, Olga Rozanova, El Lissitzky, Mikhail Matyushin and Vladimir ...

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Félix Vallotton (1865-1925), peintre d'origine suisse naturalisé français en 1900, est un artiste à cheval sur deux siècles, deux pays et plusieurs tendances esthétiques, des Nabis à la Neue Sachlichkeit (La Nouvelle Objectivité, 1918-1930), courant ...

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The digitalization of the world seems to require manual compensation. Everywhere, people are crocheting, embroidering, knitting, and weaving. The boundary between arts and crafts appears to be blurring. As early as 1878, Gottfried Semper referred ...

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Ce coffret présente l'oeuvre de six artistes majeurs qui ont révolutionné l'art du XXe siècle : Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso et Vincent Van Gogh. Chaque livre guide le lecteur ...

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Durant des siècles et dans des régions aussi diverses que le Bassin méditerranéen, le Moyen- Orient ou l'Asie centrale, des artistes ont perpétué la tradition des motifs géométriques islamiques. Armés d'une règle et d'un compas, ...

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Over the seven decades of Pablo Picasso's artistic career, there were subjects to which he returned again and again. These include women, bulls, and the Old Masters as well as political and literary themes, circus ...

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Con motivo de la exposición retrospectiva de Braque en Grand Palais, septiembre 2013 - 13 enero 2014, se ha reeditado, segunda edición limitada, de este "libro de artista" con 18 ilustraciones, grabados de Braque. Ce ...

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Exploring the aristocratic villas and court culture of Córdoba, during its 'golden age' under the reign of the Umayyad dynasty (r. 756-1031 AD), this study illuminates a key facet of the secular architecture of the ...

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A comprehensive study of a wide range of Andalusian ivory artefacts from the Middle Ages. As well as examining the Late Roman background to Hispano-Muslim ivory working, the book gives weight to the full chronological ...

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Taxing systems, conceived as institutionalized means of extraction of goods and services from the population, are a key part in the analysis of the social and territorial fabrics of our history. This volume analyses those ...

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This multifaceted book reviews the vast range of types of printmaking that flourished in France during the 19th century. Studies of this period's printmaking tend to be confined to histories of individual processes, such as ...

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Le Romantisme, mouvement d'idées et de culture, imposa un changement radical dans la vision de l'homme et de la réalité, dans le goût et dans les arts, et fut à l'origine d'une révolution dans la ...

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Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of ...

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Throughout History, the Indian Ocean has been a zone of interaction between far-flung civilizations served by ports, and connected with the Mediterranean by the Gulf and Red Sea. The dhows that were the vehicles of ...

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The ceiling paintings in the Hall of Justice of the Alhambra have not received serious scholarly attention for the past thirty years, perhaps due to their difficult incorporation into a discrete program of Christian vs. ...

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