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Andy Warhol by Isabel Kuhl
Category: Art and Design | Series: Living Art Series
Looks at the world Warhol inhabited as a young man - a post-war America on the brink of mass commercialism and mass production - to examine his iconic paintings and prints. This book demonstrates how Warhol's fascination with pop culture meshed perfectly with a cultural mood, at once reflective and rebe ...Show more
Francis Bacon by Anna Maria Wieland
Category: Art and Design | Series: Living Art Series
This latest addition to Prestel's successful Living Art series offers a critical portrait of Francis Bacon, one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists, to reveal a conflicted man of prodigious talent.
Gustav Klimt by Nina Kransel
Category: Art and Design | Series: Living Art Series
Introduces readers to turn-of-the-century Vienna, a hotbed of cultural conflict and aesthetic awakening. This book shows how Klimt's volatile relationship with the Viennese art world, run-ins with the law, and irrepressible sensuality shaped the artist's career. It considers Klimt's innovative technique ...Show more
Hope by Stan van Hooft
Category: unmapped | Series: The Art of Living Series
From the now iconic Barack Obama 'Hope' poster of the 2008 presidential campaign to the pit-head 'Camp Hope' of the families of the trapped Chilean miners, the language of hope can be hugely powerful as it draws on resources that are uniquely human and universal. We are beings who hope. But what does th ...Show more
Jan Vermeer by Brad Finger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Living Art Series
Offers an opportunity to become acquainted with Jan Vermeer's paintings and with daily life in seventeenth-century Holland. In this work, readers will learn about the Golden Age of Dutch artistry, the culture and community of Delft, and how Vermeer revolutionized the style and content of portraits and s ...Show more
Paul Klee by Hajo Duchting
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Living Art Series
Offers a look at Paul Klee's life and art displays. Featuring photographs, quotations from the artist and reproductions of his colourful paintings, watercolours, and prints, this volume introduces readers to the various themes that occupied Klee throughout his life.
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