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William Kentridge William Kentridge Jane Taylor,Maria-Christina Villasenor,William Kentridge,Carolyn Christov Bakargiev,William Kentridge "William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg) has always addressed the more challenging and intimate aspects of contemporary life and of South Africa, both during Apartheid and in the post-Apartheid per… OL11636684W
Edvard Munch Edvard Munch Gerd Woll,Carla Lathe,Reinhold Heller,Dieter Buchhart,Frank Hoifodt,Iris Müller-Westermann,Albrecht Schröder,Albertina Wien,Christoph Asendorf,Edvard Munch,Arne Eggum,Marian Bisanz-Prakken,Antonia Hoerschelmann Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und exp… OL136192W
Picasso Picasso Pierre Daix,Jean-Louis Andral,Pablo Picasso In 1946, when Picasso received the offer to use one of the great rooms in the castle at Antibes as a studio, he exclaimed enthusiastically: “I'm not only going to paint, I'll decorate the museum too.… OL145191W
Alexis Rockman Alexis Rockman Robert Kennedy,Alexis Rockman,Jonathan Crary,Stephen Jay Gould,Arnold Lehman,David Quammen,Portland Art Museum (Or.) 62 pages : 23 x 27 cm OL1652346W
Botero: La corrida Botero: La corrida Fernando Botero,Erica Jong,Rudy Chiappini "Catalog of artist's most recent exhibition at MACCSI, including a donation of 15 sculptures, five works already in the collection of the museum, and 20 new color drawings on canvas. Beautifully illu… OL1744402W
Mark Manders Mark Manders Mark Manders,Laura Hoptman,James Rondeau,Loretta Yarlow,Dieter Roelstraet,Roland Van De Sompel,Penelope Curtis Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Collezione Maramotti centring on the installation piece "Isolated Bathroom / Composition with Four Colors" by Dutch artist Mark Manders, this book compri… OL2080449W
Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman Neal Benezra,Bruce Nauman,Anna Dezeuze,Paul Schimmel,Johanna Drucker,Dörte Zbikowski,Ellen Heider,Retro Krüger,Götz Adriani,Kathy Halbreich "One of America's most important artists, Bruce Nauman has worked in a dazzling variety of media since the mid-1960s: sculpture, photography, performance, installation art, sound, holography, film, a… OL2144697W
Going forth by day Going forth by day Richard Hamilton,Bill Viola,John G. Hanhardt Widely recognised as the leading video artist of our time, Bill Viola employs sophisticated state-of-the-art technologies to create installations that envelop the viewer in image and sound. This is a… OL2574400W
Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918 Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918 Gustav Klimt,Gilles Néret Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness… OL2637120W
Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe Richard D. Marshall,Yvonne Scott,Georgia O'Keeffe,Achille Bonito Oliva "Starting in the '20s - when Georgia was recognized as one of the most important protagonists of modernism in America - until his death, the artist and his works have attracted a great interest in th… OL2910811W
Odd Nerdrum Odd Nerdrum Richard Vine,Li Bj0rn,Odd Nerdrum "Nerdrum's idea of making painting great again means reintroducing a quality concept. Again, one should be allowed to say, 'I've made something wonderful, and I'm proud of it.' It is no coincidence t… OL3064697W
Albert Marquet Albert Marquet Laurent le Bon,Didier Schulmann,Albert Marquet "De son enfance bordelaise, Albert Marquet conserva toute sa vie une attirance pour l'eau. Quand, dans les premières années du XXe siècle, des galeries le prennent sous contrat, il se lance dans d'in… OL3690194W
Kenneth Callahan Kenneth Callahan Kenneth Callahan,Thomas Orton,Patricia Grieve Watkinson "Kenneth Callahan's life spanned most of the twentieth century, and during that time he made many contributions to the art of the Pacific Northwest and the nation. Although Callahan traveled widely, … OL471292W
Terra Terra Chico Buarque De Hollanda,Sebastião Salgado,Chico Buarque "Salgado's stunning photographs of Brazil's landless rural population (estimated at nearly five million) includes an impassioned and biting preface by Saramago, three poems by Chico Buarque, and exte… OL520237W
Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg Billy Kluver,Lewis Kachur,Robert Rauscehnberg,Catherine Craft,Robert Rauschenberg In the early 1970s, Rauschenberg moved his permanent studio from New York City to Captiva Island, off the Gulf coast of Florida (Today, this site is in use as the artists' residency program of the Ro… OL58498W
Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968 Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968 Janis Mink,Marcel Duchamp Features a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covers his cultural and historical importance, and contains approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions an… OL6248012W
Cézanne Cézanne Andre . Leclerc This book presents the life and works of the artist Paul Cézanne within the cultural, social, and political context of his time. One part is devoted to the life and works of the artist, the second pa… OL755883W
The sculpture of Maurice Lambert The sculpture of Maurice Lambert Vanessa Nicolson,Klio K. Panourgias,Maurice Lambert "The sculpture of Maurice Lambert (1901-1964) can be linked stylistically with the movements of his time - Surrealism and Art Deco - but is also highly eclectic. Lambert worked prolifically in his st… OL8650198W
Chihuly Chihuly Donald B. Kuspit,Kathryn Kanjo,Mark McDonnell,Ill.) Garfield Park Conservatory (Chicago,Lisa C. Roberts,Dale Chihuly,Barbara Rose Al meer dan vijftig jaar maakt de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Dale Chihuly betoverende, spectaculaire en expressieve creaties van glas. Zijn stijl is herkenbaar door het gebruik van organische vormen, lev… OL894602W
Mathias Poledna Mathias Poledna Alexander Alberro,Tom Holert,Mathias Poledna Austrian-born, Los Angeles-based conceptualist Mathias Poledna deconstructs and reconstructs pop, political and media history. The film "Western Recording" (2003, 11 min.) takes as its starting point… OL9103478W
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