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Chagall by Gill Polonsky
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
The life and work of artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) are presented in this volume which includes a cross-section of his work in all media. He was influenced by the Cubists and influenced the Surrealists, but his style was an individual blend of imagination, symbolism, fantasy and colour.
Chardin by Gabriel Naughton
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) was arguably the most talented French painter of the eighteenth century, best known for his original still lifes. Composed of simple, everyday objects, these works glow with warmth and magic, from the dull iron of the kitchen pans, to the glaze of the green earthenware ju ...Show more
Constable by John Sunderland
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source informatio ...Show more
DEGAS by Keith Roberts
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Despite the popularity of his work, Edouard Degas has remained one of the most elusive of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. To his contemporaries he was always a very private man, rather aloof, self-absorbed and inclined to cynicism. However, few could fault his skill as an artist, and his acu ...Show more
Dali by Christopher Masters
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Salvador Dalí (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing images filled with references to violence, death, cannibalism and bizarre sexual practices, fro ...Show more
Durer by Martin Bailey
Category: No Category | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
An introduction to the work of Albrecht Dürer.Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was one of the greatest artists of the Northern Renaissance, remarkable for the range and versatility of his work. His woodcuts and engravings made him famous throughout Europe and he is still regarded as one of the most brilliant ...Show more
Dutch Painting by Christopher Brown
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
The 17th century was the golden age of Dutch painting, with artists such as Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer producing a large variety of work, from intimate portraits to dramatic seascapes. This book presents a selection of paintings that evoke the spirit of that age.
Egon Schiele by Christopher Short
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
As a precocious child talent, growing up in 1890s Vienna - the same that nurtured the psychoanlysis of Freud - Egon Schiele developed a distinctive personal style that matched his obsession with sex, life and death. Although he died young he produced a body of paintings, watercolours and drawings that r ...Show more
Fra Angelico by Christopher Lloyd; David White
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in artistory. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied byxtensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or blacknd white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed sourcenformation for th ...Show more
Gainsborough by Nicola Kalinsky
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most brilliant and original portrait painters of the 18th-century, surpassing his great rival Reynolds with his abilty to capture a likeness and his superb handling of the paint. He was also a talented and sensitive landscape painter and has been hailed as the father o ...Show more
Holbein by Helen Langdon
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497-1543) is renowned for his incisive portraits of Northern Europe's courtiers, thinkers and statesmen, but his output was fat more various, and included book illustration, large religious paintings and designs for jewellery and court fashions. This fine record of his caree ...Show more
Impressionism by Mark Powell-Jones
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
An introduction to the masters of the Impressionist movement.The Impressionists developed one of the most innovative movements in the history of Western art. Their revolutionary ideas about light and colour, expression, realism, the aim of painting and the role of the artist, all laid the foundations of ...Show more