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18 produkter
Mondrian
His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Inbunden, 2024
378 kr
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more—from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber "As fastidiously …
Anni Albers
A Life
Inbunden, 2026
307 kr
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The first major biography on Anni Albers traces the complex personality and influential artistic career of the groundbreaking modern artist “Brilliant anecdotes. . . . The first comprehensive biography of this fascinating artist, an indelible figure of not just textile art but modernism …
Le Corbusier
E-bok, 2008
271 kr
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From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints —the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a …
Bauhaus Group
E-bok, 2009
263 kr
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Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their …
Clarks of Cooperstown
E-bok, 2009
273 kr
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Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (“Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment”—Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review ) and Balthus (“The authoritative account of his life and work”—Michael Ravitch, Newsday ), gives us now the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and Stephen …
Balthus
A Biography
E-bok, 2013
262 kr
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The first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time -- the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola -- whose brilliantly rendered, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art. The …
iBauhaus
The iPhone as the Embodiment of Bauhaus Ideals and Design
E-bok, 2020
262 kr
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A rich, wide-ranging meditation on the iPhone as direct descendant of the 1930s Bauhaus, one of the twentieth century''s most influential schools of art and design (summed up in Mies van der Rohe''s dictum, "less is more") whose principle aim was to connect art and industry. From one of the leading …
Patron Saints
Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art 1928-1943
E-bok, 2014
245 kr
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This lively work of cultural history tells the stories of five young art patrons who, in the last 1920s and 1930s, were instrumental in bringing modern painting, sculpture, and dance to America. A combination of wealth, Harvard education privilege, and family connections enabled Lincoln Kirstein, …
Wayne Thiebaud
Updated Edition
Av Kenneth Baker, Nicholas Fox Weber
Inbunden, 2022
479 kr
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In remembrance of revered American artist Wayne Thiebaud who passed away in 2021 at the age of 101, the definitive monograph of Wayne Thiebaud’s work is now available in a reformatted, accessibly priced edition, including his last paintings.This is the most comprehensive monograph to date on Wayne …
Anni & Josef Albers
Equal and Unequal
Inbunden, 2020
1371 kr
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A spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and designJosef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and printmaker - are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first …
Freud's Trip to Orvieto
The Great Doctor's Unresolved Confrontation with Antisemitism, Death, and Homoeroticism; His Passion for Paintings; and the Writer in His Footsteps
Inbunden, 2017
330 kr
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"[An] unusual meditation on sex, death, art, and Jewishness. . . . Weber weaves in musings on his own sexual and religious experiences, creating a freewheeling psychoanalytic document whose approach would surely delight the doctor, even if its conclusions might surprise him." —New Yorker"Freud's …
Toshiko Mori Architect
Observations
Av Landon Brown, Charles Burke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
939 kr
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Selected research projects and architecture exploring the role of design within complex social, political and environmental conditionsToshiko Mori is a New York-based architect and Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for many years. As a …
Josef Albers
Spiritualità e rigore/Spirituality and Rigor
Av Nicholas Fox Weber, Fabio De Chirico
Inbunden, 2018
384 kr
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Josef Albers (1888-1976) believed firmly in art's spiritual dimension. Among his several aphorisms on the topic, none reflects the humble, ascetic character of his spiritual disposition better than the following: 'Easy to know that diamonds are precious. Good to know that rubies have depth. But …
Window on the World
From Dürer to Mondrian and Beyond
Av Giovanni Iovane, Francesca Bernasconi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
386 kr
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Through more than 200 works, the representation and pictorial meaning of the window in the Western Art Since the Renaissance, the window has been both a metaphor and an essential conceptual tool in Western painting. A Window on the World seeks to thoroughly analyze the gradual changes which have …
Balthus
A Biography
Häftad, 2014
266 kr
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This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time: the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola, whose brilliant, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art.Balthus’s …
