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Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
The Case Study House program (1945-1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences ...Show more
Cezanne by Ulrike Becks-Malorny
Category: General Biography | Series: Basic Art Album S.
He was the founding father of modern art, the grand master who pointed painting forward on its way from Impressionism to the 20th century: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). In Paris, but above all in Provence, he quested tirelessly for "a harmony parallel to nature" - discovering it in still lifes of apples, in ...Show more
Cezanne by Ulrike Becks-Malorny
Category: General Biography | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
He was the founding father of modern art, the grand master who pointed painting forward on its way from Impressionism to the 20th century: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). In Paris, but above all in Provence, Cezanne quested tirelessly for "a harmony parallel to Nature"-discovering it in still lives of apples, ...Show more
Chagall by Rainer Metzger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Colourful dreams and tales. Chagall's world full of everyday miracles. The Belarusian painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomizing the "painter as poet". The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the century. Chagall's paintings, steeped in mytholo ...Show more
Christo and Jeanne-Claude by Jacob Baal-Teshuva & Wolfgang Volz
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Wrapping historic structures in silvery fabric and blue cable - a famous tradition for Christo and Jeanne-Claude In the summer of 1995, the Reichstag building in Berlin was transformed into an immense sculptural experience by Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude along with a team of hundreds. Wrappi ...Show more
Dadaism by Dietmar Elger
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Anti-meaning: Absurdity against the establishment Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid 1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York posed a radical assault against ...Show more
De Lempicka by Gilles Neret
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title deals with Tamara de Lempicka's beautiful women, elegant automobiles and the modern metropolis. Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) stood at the center of the sophisticated Paris art world of the 1920s and 30s. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles, and the modern metropolis provided n ...Show more
Durer by Norbert Wolf
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! This title focuses on one of the Germany's greatest Renaissance artist. Though most famous for his engravings, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. Durer's importance in the Germa ...Show more
Eames by Koenig Gloria ; Gssel Peter
Category: Interior Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Visual impact: Nothing says modernist perfection like an Eames design The creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also forerunners in architecture, textile d ...Show more
Edouard Manet 1832-1883 - The First of the Moderns by Gilles Néret
Category: Learning | Series: Basic Art
The inventor of modernity Violently criticized during his lifetime for his supposedly provocative paintings, French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered a master of inestimable importance in the history of painting. His 1863 painting "Dejeuner sur l'herbe" depicting two clothed men picnic ...Show more
Edvard Munch 1863-1944 Images of Life and Death by Ulrich Bischoff
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, "The Scream" (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known-a ...Show more
Egypt Art by Rose-Marie Hagen; Rainer Hagen
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Series
From the Land of the PharaohsThe finest treasures of ancient EgyptThe 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 b ...Show more