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100 Great Art Masterpieces by Michael Kerrigan
Category: Herron Books | Series: 100 Masterpieces S.
Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, 100 Great Art Masterpieces highlights the most popular art from the beginnings of the twelfth century to the Pop Art movement of the twentieth century. With a fresh and thoughtful introduction to the history of art, discussing the work of some of the mos ...Show more
Art Deco Masterpieces of Art by Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Focusing on Art Deco graphic art and illustration, this gorgeous new book features fascinating text on the movement in general, fashion and advertising, accompanied by beautiful reproductions of work by talents such as Barbier, Ert , Cassandre and Colin. Sympathetic examples of other forms of Art Deco a ...Show more
Art Deco Masterpieces of Art by Janet Tyson
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Focusing on Art Deco graphic art and illustration, this gorgeous new book features fascinating text on the movement in general, fashion and advertising, accompanied by beautiful reproductions of work by talents such as Barbier, Ert , Cassandre and Colin. Sympathetic examples of other forms of Art Deco a ...Show more
Art Nouveau Masterpieces of Art by Flame Tree Studio (Created by); Julian Beecroft
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Founded in the 1880s as a response to the art world's elitist obsession with painted and sculptural arts, 'New Art' quickly found ethusiastic support. Art Nouveau combined a desire for the complete reflection of art through craft and design, with the flowing lines of nature and Japonisme. It remains hug ...Show more
Berthe Morisot Masterpieces of Art by Ann Kay
Category: Art | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Regarded by her fellow impressionists as a 'virtuoso colourist', Berthe Morisot (1841-95) strove to be considered an equal among her male peers - an uphill struggle at a time when women were generally forbidden from taking formal artistic training. Nevertheless, she succeeded in forging a career, gainin ...Show more
Gauguin by Professor Paul Gauguin
Category: Art | Series: Masterpieces Collection S.
One of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists and a founding figure of modern art, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) incorporated the influences of many cultures into his work. He pioneered an appreciation of the simple and primitive, traveling to Martinique, Tahiti, and the Marquesas Islands for inspiration. T ...Show more
Glasgow Boys Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge
Category: Art | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Over 100 paintings by artists based in Scotland in the early 19th Century, many influenced by the ground-breaking masterworks of James McNeil Whistler. A group of primarily Scottish artists (mainly William York Macgregor, Joseph Crawhall, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Sir John Lavery and Art ...Show more
Gustav Dore - Masterpieces of Art by Dan Malan; Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
An artist who worked across many media, the multi-skilled Gustave Dor remains unequalled as a supremely talented illustrator, whose detailed and imaginative engravings for major works of literature - from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Dante's Divine Comedy, and even the Bible - have hugely influenced the w ...Show more
Gustav Klimt Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
New edition of Gustav Klimt in the popular Masterpieces of Art series. Gustav Klimt, well known for his sensual, arresting depictions of women (The Kiss, Fulfillment, The Tree of Life), was a founder of the Viennese Secession movement at the turn of the 20th century, Vienna's own Art Nouveau. His ex ...Show more
Gustave Dore Masterpieces of Art by Dan Malan
Category: Art Books | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
An artist who worked across many media, the multi-skilled Gustave Doré remains unequalled as a supremely talented illustrator, whose detailed and imaginative engravings for major works of literature - from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Dante's Divine Comedy, and even the Bible - have hugely influenced the ...Show more
Japanese Woodblocks: Masterpieces of Art by MICHAEL ROBINSON
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Quick introduction, and packed with illustration the Masterpieces of Art focuses on the popular work of Hiroshige and Hokusai whose visions of waves and Mount Fuji have dominated the popular imagination for over 200 years. Woodblock printing is a traditional artistic medium in Japan most renowned for it ...Show more