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Rothko
An overview of the life and work of artist Mark Rothko, this volume exhibits his mythological content, simple flat shapes, and imagery inspired by primitive art.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
For forty years, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-and-wife team behind countless headline-grabbing art projects all over the world, have been challenging our view of the world - natural or man-made - by giving us wrapped creations of dizzying magnitude and daring beauty, such as 'Surrounded Islands', which consisted of enveloping eleven islands with seven square miles of hot pink material. This is the first fully authorised biography of these celebrated and controversial artists, illustrated with 50 b/w photos and one 16-page colour photo insert.
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall was a painter, poet and dreamer as well as being an outsider and artistic eccentric. His work fuses the opposing worlds of dreams and reality. This volume presents an overview of his body of work.
Menashe Kadishman
Traces the career of Menashe Kadishman, most renowned for his arresting sculpture "Falling Leaves", from his artistic studies and early exhibitions to his other works. This work draws attention to Kadishman's themes, which embrace history, warfare, the Bible and the Holocaust, while also placing him within the context of various other artists.
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Chagall
Marc Chagall, who died in 1985 at the age of 97, is regarded as one of the greatest artist in modern art. He used his great talent to create a unique world full of magic, poetry, enchantment and fantasy. His use of intense, glowing colours conjured up memories of his childhood and youth in Vitebsk, in today's Belarus. Rich in mythological and symbolic references, his paintings were influenced by Byzantine and Russian icons and folk art and often depicts couples floating blissfully through the air, seeming to defy the laws of gravity. The poetry and biblical inspiration of his paintings have always appealed to a broad public and his works are popular amongst collectors all over the world. Cha...
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Nach einer Einführung in Leben und Werk des Glaskünstlers zeigt der Band Lampen, Vasen und Fenster.
Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944
This volume presents Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). His earliest landscapes are rendered in an Impressionistic style but, possess the marked vertical and horizontal tendencies that foreshadow his mature paintings. Mondrian's work began to show the influences of Cubism, and in 1912, the artist moved to Paris where he continued to refine his style, continually exploring increasingly sophisticated compositions. In his paintings, Mondrian strove to achieve a universal form of expression by reducing form and color to their simplest components. The artist termed his work "Neo-Plasticism". Mondrian's most well-known works consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.
Willem de Kooning
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