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Jasper Johns by Barbara Hess
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Though his work is often categorized as Pop Art for its use of popular iconography and household objects, Jasper Johns can also be described as a Neo-Dadaist. Using wax-based paint, plaster relief, collage, and even commonplace objects such as brooms and rulers in his paintings, Johns achieves a sculptu ...Show more
Kahlo by Kettenmann Andrea
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Suffering and the female experience The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state.Kahlo was one of the daughter ...Show more
Kahn by Joseph Rosa
Category: Architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Though Louis Isidore Kahn (1901-1974) started his career late in his life, the few projects he was able to undertake were realized to perfection. With the Jonas Salk Institute in La Jolla, California (1959-1965) Kahn created a workspace with superb functional and aesthetic qualities; the institute's Min ...Show more
Kandinsky by Hajo Duchting
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Painting outside the box. The founder of abstract art. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type o ...Show more
Kandinsky by Dchting Hajo
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Ser.
The founder of abstract art The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting.Together with Fr ...Show more
Klimt by Gilles Néret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him not only the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists but one of the best loved artists of all time. In his own time, Kilmt (1862-1918) was a highly successful ...Show more
Klimt by Gilles Neret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Album S.
Klimt is my favorite artist and yet it is so difficult to find quality reproductions of his works; usually the color is faded or the gold leaf comes out a sickly yellow!! This book has beautiful reproductions and concise and informative explanations next to each painting as well as an interesting biogra ...Show more
Land Art by Michael Lailach
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
In the mid-60s, artists in the USA and Europe began planning works for sites outside the narrow boundaries of galleries and museums. It began with ephemeral enhancements or traces left in deserted landscapes, in the deserts of America, or in the moors of Scotland. Following this were spectacular earthen ...Show more
Le Corbusier by Jean-Louis Cohen
Category: Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L
Lempicka by Gilles Neret
Category: Infant | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Tamara de Lempicka and the changing aspects of femininity and masculinity. As the "Goddess of the Automobile Age", Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) stood at the centre of the sophisticated Paris art world of the Twenties and Thirties. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles and the modern met ...Show more
Leonardo: Basic Art Album by Frank Zöllner
Category: Art | Series: Basic Art Album Ser.
The genius non-specialist: From key points in anatomy to plans for vehicles, planes, helicopters and submarines One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous painting, scientist, philosopher, bui ...Show more
Leonardo Big Art by Frank Zollner
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! It covers Leonardo: from art and anatomy to helicopters and submarines. One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous painting, this scientist, artist, phi ...Show more