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Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 : The Genius of the German Renaissance by Norbert Wolf
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
Germany's greatest Renaissance artist Though most famous for his engravings, Albrecht D rer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. D rer's importance in the German High Renaissance was such that he can be considered to embody the movement ent ...Show more
Bacon by Luigi Ficacci
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Series 2
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figurative, human-like forms that seem to evoke the raw emotions that bore them. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos ...Show more
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title is about one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27 ...Show more
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Life lines: The 80s art star who put poverty, power, and racism on the wall An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO," before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted ba ...Show more
Bosch by Walter Bosing
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
The pictorial world of Hieronymus Bosch: The joys of heaven and the cruelly imaginative tortures of hell. Even his contemporaries found the work of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) difficult to 'decode'- and it still presents riddles to art historians today. Although rooted in the Old Dutc ...Show more
Botticelli: Basic Art Album by Barbara Deimling
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Ser.
Florence's golden child: The Early Renaissance master During Sandro Botticelli's lifetime (1444/45-1510), the influence of his art scarcely reached beyond his native Florence, and following his death he was soon forgotten, to be rediscovered only in the 19th century by the Pre-Raphaelites. Since then, B ...Show more
Caravaggio by Gilles Neret
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacr ...Show more
Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
The Case Study House program (1945-1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences ...Show more
Cezanne by Ulrike Becks-Malorny
Category: General Biography | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
He was the founding father of modern art, the grand master who pointed painting forward on its way from Impressionism to the 20th century: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). In Paris, but above all in Provence, Cezanne quested tirelessly for "a harmony parallel to Nature"-discovering it in still lives of apples, ...Show more
Chagall by Rainer Metzger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Colourful dreams and tales. Chagall's world full of everyday miracles. The Belarusian painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomizing the "painter as poet". The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the century. Chagall's paintings, steeped in mytholo ...Show more
Christo and Jeanne-Claude by Jacob Baal-Teshuva & Wolfgang Volz
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Wrapping historic structures in silvery fabric and blue cable - a famous tradition for Christo and Jeanne-Claude In the summer of 1995, the Reichstag building in Berlin was transformed into an immense sculptural experience by Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude along with a team of hundreds. Wrappi ...Show more
Dadaism by Dietmar Elger
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Anti-meaning: Absurdity against the establishment Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid 1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York posed a radical assault against ...Show more