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Yayoi Kusama
Av Robert Shore
Inbunden, 2021
165 kr
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'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland' Yayoi KusamaNonagenarian 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 …
Auguste Rodin
Häftad, 2006
171 kr
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was already an old man when the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke went to interview him for the first time. Rilke stayed on to work as Rodin's secretary. Intensely sensitive to art, and in particular to the irreducible power of objects, and yet able to express this awareness …
Lives of the Artists
Häftad, 1987
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
160 kr
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Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his …
Lives of Caspar David Friedrich
Av J. W. von Goethe, Carl Gustav Carus m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
171 kr
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), one of the great visionaries of European art, spent all his life in Northern Germany, apart from four years studying in Copenhagen, and his output appears to consist almost entirely of German landscapes. But far from being parochial, he was, in the words of the …
Lives of the Artists
Häftad, 1987
159 kr
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In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect.Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio …
Looking At Manet
Av Émile Zola, Robert Lethbridge
Häftad, 2018
150 kr
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"I recall the long hours I sat for him... From time to time, as I posed, half-asleep, I looked at the artist standing at his easel, with features drawn, clear-eyed, engrossed in his work. He had forgotten me, he no longer knew I was there, he simply copied me, as if I were some kind of human beast, …
Frida Kahlo
Av Hettie Judah
Inbunden, 2020
142 kr
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Step into the world of Frida Kahlo: behind the portraits and the surrealist art discover the fascinating woman who has transfixed the world.Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's book character, textile print, phone …
Lives of the Artists
E-bok, 2003
108 kr
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Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his …
Artemisia Gentileschi
Inbunden, 2020
142 kr
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Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day.As a young woman Artemisia was raped by her tutor, and then had …
Keith Haring
Av Simon Doonan
Inbunden, 2021
142 kr
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Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational story.Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist …
Lives of Adam Elsheimer
Av Carel van Mander, Claire Pace
Häftad, 2007
133 kr
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Although Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610) painted on an almost miniature scale and died very young from, it was said, the overwork that resulted from the intensity of his methods, his paintings remain some of the most strangely poetical in the history of Western art. They were also extremely influential: …
Lives of Rubens
Av Giovanni Baglione, Joachim von Sandrart m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
133 kr
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The brilliance of Peter Paul Rubens' career changed forever the perceptions of painting and painters. Here was a man whose astonishing gifts were allied to a personality so cosmopolitan, engaging, and virtuous that he could mingle as easily with kings as with fellow painters. Rubens' character and …
Millais
A Sketch by M. H. Spielmann, Preceded by the Artist's Thoughts on our Art of Today
Av John Everett Millais, Marion Harry Spielmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
133 kr
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Reprinted for the first time since 1889, this is the first biography and considered appraisal of one of England's most prodigiously talented painters. Sir John Everett Millais, P. R. A. (1829-1896) was the most precociously talented artist England has ever produced. His astonishing facility gained …
Noa Noa
Av Paul Gauguin, Jonathan Griffin
Häftad, 2010
129 kr
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Gauguin's great diary from Tahiti almost never saw the light of day in its original form. The manuscript was sent by the artist from his island refuge to his friend Charles Morice in Paris, and published in 1901 with immediate success, under the two names of Paul Gauguin and Charles Morice. Morice, …
Lives of Veronese
Av Giorgio Vasari, Raffaello Borghini m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
146 kr
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"Never was a painter more nobly joyous, never did an artist take a greater delight in life, seeing it all as a kind of breezy festival and feeling it through the medium of perpetual success... He was the happiest of painters." - Henry James on Veronese, 1909Collected here for the first time, these …
Lives of Rembrandt
Av Filippo Baldinucci, Joachim von Sandrart m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
137 kr
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (c.1606-1669) was the most talked-about painter of the 17th-century - and quite possibly of the following centuries too. His prodigious talent, extraordinary emotional truth, and reckless disregard of artistic convention astonished, delighted and often dismayed his …
Lives of Giovanni Bellini
Av Giorgio Vasari, Carlo Ridolfi m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
133 kr
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Scion of an artistic dynasty, Giovanni Bellini is arguably the greatest Venetian painter of the early Renaissance. His astonishing naturalism revolutionised altarpiece painting and is still a source of wonder, as any visit to Frari in Venice will confirm. Most of what we know about this great …
Memoir of Vincent van Gogh
Av Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Martin Gayford
Häftad, 2018
189 kr
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Vincent van Gogh's short, passionate life was driven by an almost unimaginable creative energy that eventually overwhelmed him. The outlines of his story - the early strivings in Holland and Paris, the revelatory impact of the move to Provence, the attacks of madness that led ineluctably to his …
Life of Michelangelo
Av Giorgio Vasari, David Hemsoll
Häftad, 2018
192 kr
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Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) is perhaps the greatest artist in the entire Western tradition. In painting, sculpture and architecture he created works that went beyond anything imagined before. The David - miraculously created, as Vasari describes, out of a piece of marble botched by another …
Recollections of Henri Rousseau
Häftad, 2018
141 kr
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Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), known as Le Douanier (the Customs Officer) after his day job, was the first outsider or naïve artist in the history of Western art to be recognised at his true worth. His astonishing paintings, particularly of jungles, have now entered popular consciousness to such an …
Lives of Gainsborough
Av Philip Thicknesse, William Jackson m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
154 kr
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One of the best-loved painters in English history, Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was also one of the most personally engaging, charming sitters and friends alike. His personality comes to life in two memoirs written by two very different friends. Philip Thicknesse, one of the most eccentric …
Lives of Titian
Av Giorgio Vasari, Sperone Speroni m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
197 kr
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Titian (c. 1488-1576) was recognised very early on as the leading painter of his generation in Venice. Starting in the studio of the aged Giovanni Bellini, Titian, with his contemporary Giorgione, almost immediately started to expand the range of what was possible in painting, converting Bellini's …
Lives of Tintoretto
Av Giorgio Vasari, Pietro Aretino m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
189 kr
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The most exhilarating painter of the Renaissance and arguably of the whole of western art, Tintoretto was known as 'Il Furioso' because of the attack and energy of his style. His vaunting ambition is recorded in the inscription he placed in his studio: l disegno di Michelangelo ed il colorito di …
Memories of Degas
Av George Moore, Walter Sickert m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
141 kr
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Degas was a celebrity in Britain in his lifetime, thanks originally to George Moore's pioneering essay, The Painter of Modern Life. When Degas died Moore reprised the essay with some further recollections, in part as a riposte to the memoir published by Degas's great admirer and follower, Walter …
Lives of Blake
Av Henry Crabb Robinson, John Thomas Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
158 kr
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William Blake (1757-1827), hailed as 'the glorious luminary' by William Rossetti, is one of the great mystics in the history of Western art. His hallucinatory paintings, watercolours and, in particular, the illustrations he made for his books of poetry are instantly recognisable, and have inspired …
Anecdotes of William Hogarth
Written by Himself
Av William Hogarth, Martin Myrone
Häftad, 2020
158 kr
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One of the most visible, popular, and significant artists of his generation, William Hogarth (1697–1764) is best known for his acerbic, strongly moralising works, which were mass-produced and widely disseminated as prints during his lifetime. This volume is a fascinating look into the notorious …
Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi
By Herself and Others
Av Artemisia Gentilesch, Orazio Gentileschi m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
189 kr
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Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi presents a fascinating look at the famous Baroque artist. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) was an Italian painter known for the naturalism with which she depicted the female body and her use of rich colours and chiaroscuro. Born in Rome, she was trained by her …
Memoir of Samuel Palmer
Av A. H. Palmer, F. G. Stephens
Häftad, 2020
137 kr
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Samuel Palmer was one of the most original artists Britain has produced. Still a teen when he was plucked from "the pit of modern art," he embarked on an intensely personal journey that led to an astonishing outpouring of mystical drawings and later to England's first artistic colony, "The …
Julia Margaret Cameron
Av Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
180 kr
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At the age of 48, when she moved to the Isle of Wight, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was given a camera by her daughter: "It might amuse you, Mother, to try to photograph during your solitude at Freshwater." The gift was to begin Cameron’s short but prolific career as one of photography’s …
Picasso
Häftad, 2027
189 kr
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One of the classic texts on Picasso, republished with full illustration as originally conceived. Gertrude Stein was not only one of Picasso's earliest patrons, she was also one of the seminal writers of the 20th century, attempting to make a revolution in prose to rival Picasso's in painting.
