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1) Claude Monet
Author
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life and work of Claude Monet, discussing his early years, life in London and various parts of France, and development as a painter.
6) Botticelli
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
North American edition, U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and work of the Italian painter of the early Renaissance, describing and giving examples of his art.
7) Marc Chagall
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
North American edition, U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and work of the Russian-born painter, describing and giving examples of his art.
8) Rembrandt
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
North American edition, U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life, works, and lasting influence of the Dutch artist.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Paul Gauguin created paintings whose radically simplified lines and colors echoed the unschooled art of the rustic and native cultures he loved. After his famously disastrous stay with Vincent van Gogh in southern France, Gauguin escaped European civilization for the Polynesian islands. Immersing himself in the culture, he produced a series of radiant canvases and powerful sculptures his last great works. From his childhood in Peru to his experiences...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Vincent van Gogh used art to express his intensely emotional response to the world around him. Enraptured by the beauty of nature and tormented by the sorrows of human existence, he produced in his tragically short life some of the most powerfully expressive paintings ever seen. Van Gogh famously sold only one painting during his life, but within a few years of his death he was recognized as one of the greatest modern painters. This visual biography...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kandinsky didn t pick up a brush until he was thirty years old. He was an academic who threw away his career to explore the arts. He was a Russian, yet he spent more than half of his life on the road and died in self-imposed exile in France. He is credited with history s first abstract painting, but it was his theories that had a profound impact on the way that people understand what art can achieve. Richly illustrated with specially commissioned...
15) Keith Haring
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for the people, creating an instantly recognisable repertoire of symbols - barking dogs, space-ships, crawling babies, clambering faceless people - which became synonymous with the volatile culture of 1980s. Like a careening, preening pinball, Keith Haring playfully slammed into all aspects of this decade - hip-hop, new-wave, graffiti, funk, art, style, gay culture - and brought them together.--Amazon.com...
16) Yayoi Kusama
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultural scene. In the early 1970s, she returned to Japan and by 1977 had checked herself in to a psychiatric hospital which has remained her home to this...
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