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100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architect ...Show more
Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945 - Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke by Lord Alanbrooke; Alex Danchev (Editor)
Category: Biography Memoir
'These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about the British high command in World War II' DAILY MAIL'Superb' SPECTATOR'A fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the greatest war in history by one of the key decision makers' SUNDAY TIMESAlanbrooke was CIGS - Chief of the Imperial ...Show more
Cezanne: A Life by Alex Danchev
Category: Art and Design
This is a remarkable new biography of a cultural icon. Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing on a vast range of primary sources, Alex Danchev tells the story of an artist who was never a ...Show more
Cezanne - A Life by Alex Danchev
Category: Art and Design
This is a remarkable new biography of a cultural icon. Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing or a vast range of primary sources, Alex Danchev tells the story of an artist who was never a ...Show more
Georges Braque : A Life by Alex Danchev
Category: Biography Memoir
Three men made art modern: Henry Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. And yet while Picasso and Matisse have been justly celebrated, Braque has remained eclipsed and elusive, rarely recognised fully for his contribution not only to twentieth-century art but also how we see the world. Alex Danchev' ...Show more
Georges Braque: A Life by Professor of International Relations Alex Danchev (University of Keele)
Category: Biography Memoir
Together with Picasso and Matisse, Georges Braque is unquestionably one of the three great pillars of twentieth-century art. Here is the first full-length biography of this remarkable figure. A pioneer of modern art and founder of Cubism, Georges Braque was a creative genius and tireless innovator, cons ...Show more
Magritte - A Life by Alex Danchev
Category: Art
The first major biography for our time, from the celebrated biographer of Cezanne
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev
Category: Art and Design
The first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist and iconoclast whose inspiration can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé--by the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and Braque In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898‒1967), Alex Danchev ma ...Show more
The Letters of Paul Cezanne by Alex Danchev
Category: Art and Design
Here is the long-awaited and much needed new translation of the correspondence of Paul Cezanne, known as the father of modern art. The existing collection in English, produced in the 1930s, is dated, inaccurate and incomplete; for this book, Alex Danchev has gone back to the original manuscript letters, ...Show more
The Letters of Paul Cézanne by Alex Danchev
Category: Art and Design
Book of the Year, Apollo Magazine, 2013 Revered and misunderstood by his peers and lauded by later generations as the father of modern art, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) has long been a subject of fascination for artists and art lovers, writers, poets, and philosophers. His life was a ceaseless artistic q ...Show more
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