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African Art by Stefan Eisenhofer
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Genre Series
With examples from every region of the continent, African Art demonstrates the wide variety of African art. The splendid art of the African peoples occupies an unusual place in the concert of world cultures. It is anything but 'primitive', being characterized rather by a highly developed sense of design ...Show more
Die Brucke by Ulrike Lorenz
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Genre Series
The "Brucke" (established in Dresden in 1905) is, together with the Blauer Reiter in Munich, the most important movement in German expressionism. Meaning "the bridge" in German, "Die Brucke" refers to Nietzsche's belief that humanity has the potential to make a bridge to a perfect future; more concretel ...Show more
Egypt Art by Hagen Dr Rainer
Category: General Fiction | Series: Basic Genre Ser.
The art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of these unknown masters no less than the works of later centuries, such as statues by Michelangelo or the paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. The present volume introduces a series of suc ...Show more
Icons by Eva Haustein-Bartsch
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Genre Series
This historical survey covers some one-and-a-half millennia of Christian imagery and includes descriptions of selected masterpieces.The icons in this book come from the Icon Museum in Recklinghausen, which possesses the most extensive and highest-quality icon collection outside the Orthodox world. Icons ...Show more
Landscape Painting- nett by ed
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Genre Series
The landscape has been, for many centuries, one of the most important genres in painting. This book examines the landscape from the late Middle Ages to modern times, comprising a synopsis of the genre and covering a selection of the most important landscapes in the history of art. From Titian to Warhol, ...Show more
Pre-Raphaelites by Heather Birchall
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Genre Series
'Genuine ideas to express'. Sometimes considered the first avant-garde art movement, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected their era's dominant artistic theories for what they saw as a more spiritual, naturalistic and intensely personal approach. Fascinated by the romantic aspects of medieval culture and the viv ...Show more
Romanticism by Norbert Wolf
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Genre Series
In a revolt against Rationalism, Romanticism was characterized by a return to nature and belief in the goodness of humanity, with the artist considered to be a profoundly individual creator. Beginning in the early 19th century, Romantic ideals developed largely in opposition to entrenchment in the tradi ...Show more
Taschen Greek Art by Michael Siebler
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Genre Series
The 18th century's Neoclassicist movement, with its white marble sculptures inspired by the art of the ancient world, has helped Greek art to remain vivid in our memories even today. But the reality of ancient art was entirely different, as surfaces were in fact much more brut. As author Michael Siebler ...Show more
Taschen Roman Art by Norbert Wolf
Category: Books | Series: Basic Genre Ser.
For a long time, Roman art was somewhat overshadowed by the art of ancient Greece. It was only in about 1900 that a search began for ancient Roman art and architecture. The foundations of Roman imagery were laid in the early days of the Empire under Emperor Augustus. The imperial court and the imperial ...Show more
Taschen Romanesque by Norbert Wolf
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Genre Series
Reaching its peak in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Romanesque movement was marked by a peculiar, vivid, and often monumental expressiveness in architecture and fine arts. The main centres were located in Italy, France, the German-language countries, Spain, and England, though the voices of Scandinavi ...Show more
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