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László Moholy-Nagy by Hans-Michael Koetzle
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Great Masters of Art Ser.
L szl Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a painter, photographer, Bauhaus teacher, and founder of the New Bauhaus and the School of Design in Chicago--one of the most important artistic figures of the twentieth century. As one of the first artists to work across such a wide range of media--including painting, ...Show more
Magritte - Masters of Art by Alexander Adams
Category: Art | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
This revelatory examination of the Surrealist master updates prevailing theories about Magritte's life and beliefs, and offers a surprising new assessment of an artist who strived for anonymity rather than fame. Throughout his career, Magritte subverted expectations about artists in the world by dis ...Show more
Magritte: This Is Not a Biography by Vincent Zabus; Thomas Campi (Illustrator)
Category: Biography | Series: Art Masters Ser.
Intoxicated by the promise of a promotion, Charles Singular for once allows himself a small extravagance: he buys a bowler hat. But there's a problem: this is no ordinary hat. This one once belonged to the surrealist painter Rene Magritte, and by donning it Charles has unwittingly stepped into the artis ...Show more
Matisse: Masters of Art by ECKHARD HOLLMANN
Category: Colouring Books | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Learn about Henri Matisse, one of 20th century's most beloved artists, and his artistic legacy. From his earliest pointillist-influenced paintings to this mature and playful paper cut-outs; from enormous, ebullient murals to reverent stained glass - Henri Matisse was renowned for his dramatic use of col ...Show more
Monet: Masters of Art by Simona Bartolena
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Monet's dazzling depictions of flowers, sunsets, fields, and oceans, in which line and shape are suggested through pure colour, changed the way we perceive our natural surroundings. His numerous series, in which he depicts the same object at varying times of the day and in different seasons, pushed the ...Show more
Munch by Steffen Kverneland
Category: Art | Series: Art Masters Ser.
In Munch, writer and artist Steffen Kverneland brings the story of one of the world's most influential painters to vivid life. This extraordinary, inventive graphic novel uses text drawn exclusively from the quotes of Edvard Munch and his contemporaries. Filled with authenticity and life, Munch debunks ...Show more
Pablo by Julie Birmant; Clement Oubrerie (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Art Masters Ser.
This award-winning graphic biography of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) captures the prolific and eventful life of one of the world's best-loved artists. Pablo explores Picasso's early life among the bohemians of Montmartre, his turbulent relationship with artist/model Fernande Olivier, and how his art develo ...Show more
Pablo Picasso: Masters of Art by Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Discover the motifs, masterpieces, and driving forces behind the artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades--and included thousands of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, prints, and tapest ...Show more
Paul Cézanne by Christoph Wagner
Category: Art and Design | Series: Great Masters in Art Ser.
His paintbrush set everything in motion: the landscape of Provence, the colourful still lifes, his portraits and the picturesque coast of southern France. More than any other artist, Paul Cézanne, the "Father of Modernism", captured the light and the play of colours of the South in his pictures and lent ...Show more
Paula Modersohn-Becker by Frank Laukötter
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Great Masters in Art Ser.
When Paula Modersohn-Becker's artist friends examined her extensive estate a few weeks after her death in 1907, they were overwhelmed. Only gradually did they realize that in the painter, dead at thirty-one, they had had an outstanding artist in their midst. Today Modersohn-Becker is regarded as one of ...Show more
Rubens - Masters of Art by Michael Robinson
Category: Art | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Arguably the greatest artist of the Baroque period, Peter Paul Rubens was an accomplished painter and draftsman, as well as a valued diplomat. This accessible examination of his life and work looks at every aspect of Rubens's oeuvre; from his commissioned portraits of royalty and the nobility to his mag ...Show more
Toulouse Lautrec by Douglas Cooper
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
The forty stunning colorplates in this volume are brilliant demonstrations of Toulose-Lautrec's virtuosity. The text, liberally illustrated with both reproductions of his works and documentary photographs, gives a graphic and sensitive account of the artists's life and work.