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Van Gogh: Masters of Art by RAPELLI ANNA PAOLA
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Tracing the arc of van Gogh's career, this volume presents his portraits and self-portraits, landscapes, and haunting interiors. Readers will learn details of van Gogh's complicated personal life including his struggles with mental illness and his close but difficult relationship with his brother, Th ...Show more
Velazquez by Richard Verdi
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) was one of the towering figures of Western painting and Baroque art, a technical master renowned for his focus on realism and startling veracity. Everything he painted was treated as a portrait, from Spanish royalty and Pope Innocent X to a mortar and pestle. In this comprehe ...Show more
Vermeer: Masters of Art by Maurizia Tazartes
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
A seventeenth century Dutch painter who lived his entire life in Delft, Vermeer is renowned for his masterly use of light. Only a very small number of Vermeer's paintings are known to exist. Overflowing with impeccably reproduced images, this book offers full page spreads of masterpieces as well as high ...Show more
Vermeer: Masters of Art by ALEXANDER ADAMS
Category: Art | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Filled with brilliant reproductions and engaging texts and reflecting the latest scholarship, this portable and attractively priced volume is the perfect introduction to the most celebrated painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Highlighted by domestic scenes and witty allegories that fuse the ordinary with ...Show more
Viking Art by James Graham-Campbell
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
The Viking Age in Europe lasted from the time of the first major Viking expeditions in 800 CE to the widespread adoption of Christianity in Scandinavia some 300 years later. During that time, Viking art and culture spread across continental Europe and into the world beyond. Written by a leading authorit ...Show more
Vincent Van Gogh Masterpieces of Art by Stephanie Cotela Tanner
Category: Adult Activity Books | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
New edition of Van Gogh in the popular Masterpieces of Art series. Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Van Gogh Masterpieces of Art features all of the best-known works of one of the most famous artists in the world, preceded by a fresh and thoughtful introduction providing lively comm ...Show more
Walking Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art by Tom Jeffreys (Editor)
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Documents of Contemporary Art Ser.
Walking surveys the proliferation of pedestrian practices across contemporary art, taking an avowedly political stance on where and how the three practices of art, walking and writing intersect.Across the world, walking remains a vital way to assert one's presence in public space and discourse. Foregrou ...Show more
Wayfinder: the Art of Gretel Lusky by 3dtotal Publishing (Editor); Gretel Lusky
Category: Low Brow | Series: Art Of Ser.
Popular artist Gretel Lusky welcomes readers into her fantastical world in this high-quality art book. This is an artist who loves fantasy and all things magical: fairies, mermaids, mythical creatures, knights, and more. She creates characters that are colorful yet mysterious and places that feel other ...Show more
Willem de Kooning by Corinna Thierolf
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Great Masters of Art Ser.
In 1926, a young Willem de Kooning (1904-97) travelled from the Netherlands to the United States on a British freighter, hiding in the machine room without papers. The young art student eked out a living painting houses, signs, and facades before he was able to eventually dedicate himself entirely to pa ...Show more
William Blake by Kathleen Raine
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Prophet, poet, painter and engraver -- William Blake was an artist of uniquely powerful imagination and far-reaching creative gifts. His work expresses the spiritual drama of the English national being, integrating poetry and visual art in a sustained work of visionary creativity unparalleled in English ...Show more
William Blake by Kathleen Raine
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Prophet, poet, painter, engraver - William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist of uniquely powerful imagination and far-reaching creative gifts. His work expresses the spiritual drama of the English national being, integrating poetry and visual art in a sustained work of visionary creativity unparalleled in ...Show more
William Blake: Masterpieces of Art by Flame Tree Studio (Created by); Michael Kerrigan
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Rich and delicate, ethereal and muscular, the art of William Blake is as fascinating as the philosophies threading through his poetry and prophetic works. His vivid paintings and gently weaving illustrations are imprinted in the consciousness of Romantic art but their impact on Gothic literature remains ...Show more