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Russian Painting
Peter Leek
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859959398
From the 18th century to the 20th, this book gives a panorama of Russian painting not equalled anywhere else. Russian culture developed in contact with the wider European influence, but retained strong native intonations. It is a culture between ...
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Pollock
Donald Wigal
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859959558
“At the beginning, the canvas is white, void; then the cautious start, then the running of the paint from the pot onto the white of the surface...” Hans Namuth.
Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream ...
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Michelangelo
Eugène Müntz
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859959404
The name Michelangelo instantly conjures up the Sistine Chapel, Apollo, Jupiter and countless other great works. In his novel,The Italian Painting, Stendhal remarked that, “Between Greek antiquity and Michelangelo, nothing exists except more or ......
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Lempicka
Patrick Bade
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859959039
The smoothly metallic portraits, nudes and still lifes of Tamara de Lempicka encapsulate the spirit of Art Deco and the Jazz Age, reflecting the elegant and hedonistic life-style of a wealthy, glamorous and privileged elite in Paris between the two ...
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Antoni Gaudí
Jeremy Roe
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859959244
The book undertakes a critical survey of the architecture of Antoni Gaudí, drawing on the latest academic research and accompanied by documentary illustrations and a photographic essay of his work.The opening two chapters provide an introduction ......
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Erotic Encyclopedia
Hans-Jürgen Döpp
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859958346
What happened to the insolence of the 18th-century libertines or to the carefree excesses of the Belle Époque and its legalized brothels? They have merely been inhibited and buried by the nowadays political correctness and the aggressive one-eyed ...
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The Art of Champa
Jean-François Hubert
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859959756
From 12 October 2005 to 9 January 2006, the Musee Guimet in Paris will play host to an exceptional exhibition: ‘Treasures of Vietnamese Art… Champa Sculpture’. This show will bring together for the first time, outstanding pieces from the Musée ...
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Bonnard and the Nabis
Albert Kostenevitch
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859950159
Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning ‘prophet’. Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel and Denis, the most distinguished of the Nabis, revolutionized the spirit of ...
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Warhol
Eric Shanes
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859959206
As well as being one of the leading figures in the American Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol was a painter, printmaker, occasional sculptor and filmmaker whose work carried on the tradition of Dadaism which questioned the very validity of art itself. ...
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