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Rococo
Victoria Charles
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Klaus Carl
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844847402
Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term ‘Rococo’. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. ...
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Post-Impressionism
Nathalia Brodskaya
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844847464
Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown ...
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Impressionism
Nathalia Brodskaya
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844847433
“I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.” What other words than these of Édouard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best define the Impressionist movement? Without a doubt, this singularity ...
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Cubism
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Dorothea Eimert
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844847495
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso ...
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The Nabis
Albert Kostenevitch
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846238
Pierre Bonnard was the leader of the group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves “the Nabis”, from the Hebrew word for “prophet”. Influenced by Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, popular imagery, and Japanese woodblock printing, ...
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Byzantine Art
Charles Bayet
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846207
For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 CE until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was a cradle of artistic effervescence that is only beginning to be rediscovered. Endowed with the rich heritage of Roman, Eastern, and Christian ...
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The Arts & Crafts Movement
Oscar Lovell Triggs
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846221
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in ...
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Symbolism
Nathalia Brodskaya
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844844449
Symbolism appeared in France and Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the 20th century. The Symbolists, fascinated with ancient mythology, attempted to escape the reign of rational thought imposed by science. They wished to transcend the ...
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Russian Avant-Garde
Evgueny Kovtun
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844844432
The Russian Avant-garde was born at the turn of the 20th century in pre-revolutionary Russia.The intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertile soil for the formation of the movement. For many artists influenced by ......
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Renaissance Art
Victoria Charles
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844845224
The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century.The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the ......
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