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From Millet to Leger From Millet to Leger Herbert, Robert L. "A pre-eminent scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French art, Robert L. Herbert has written extensively on aspects of this subject during his long career. This book brings together some of … OL15211013W
Art & Max Art & Max David Wiesner Arthur knows how to paint. He’s ready to share his wisdom with Max, who has a lot to learn but can‘t wait to dive right in. Their story begins here. Is it about creating a work of art? Or about an… OL15376677W
50 Modern Artists You Should Know 50 Modern Artists You Should Know Christiane Weidemann A century and a half of masterpieces is covered in this chronologically arranged volume that captures the development of art in a new age. Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with … OL16324474W
Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer,Gabriele Wimmer,John Sailer Seine in den 1950er Jahren entwickelten Überarbeitungen machten den 1929 in Baden bei Wien geborenen Künstler Arnulf Rainer weltweit bekannt. In Kooperation mit der Albertina in Wien würdigt das Muse… OL1738893W
Renaissance Renaissance Christopher Masters A study of fifteenth-and sixteenth-century art in Italy and Europe. Features works by major artists such as Donatello and Botticelli. OL17903469W
America collects eighteenth-century French painting America collects eighteenth-century French painting Joseph Baillio,Joseph J. Rishel,Melissa Lee Hyde,Pierre Rosenberg,Robert Schindler,Christophe Leribault,Jack Hinton,Yuriko Jackall,Philippe Bordes,Susan Earle,D. Dodge Thompson "Authors use sixty-eight 18th-century French paintings from American museum collections to present a fascinating American social history through the lens of taste and collecting practices. Depictions… OL19720356W
Painting the modern garden Painting the modern garden Clare A. P. Willsdon,Monty Don,William H. Robinson,Heather Lemonedes,James Priest,Lucy I. Zimmerman,Ann Dumas "While depictions of gardens are found throughout history, the impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their color and form rather than using them as a … OL20019032W
Vermeer Vermeer Marcel Brion The majority of seventeenth-century Dutch artists specialized in certain types of painting. Only Rembrandt and Vermeer seem truly universal in the sense that they ventured into every aesthetic and sp… OL20542409W
Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley "This volume includes a selection of 22 new portrait paintings from Kehinde Wiley's multinational World Stage series, which has included Africa, China and India in the past and now moves on to Brazil… OL20546801W
Picasso's Demoiselles, the untold origins of a modern masterpiece Picasso's Demoiselles, the untold origins of a modern masterpiece Suzanne Preston Blier In 'Picasso's Demoiselles', eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon', one of the twentieth century's most imp… OL20637638W
Paintings that changed the world Paintings that changed the world Bernhard Graf,Klaus Reichold Profiles ninety of the world's most renowned paintings, presenting color reproductions and brief essays on the artists, the development of each work, and responses to the works through the ages. OL20984227W
Altniederländische Malerei im 15. [fünfzehnten] Jahrhundert Altniederländische Malerei im 15. [fünfzehnten] Jahrhundert János Végh Farbild- und Textband über die Malerei eines Jahrhunderts... OL24247730W
Nineteenth-century painters and painting Nineteenth-century painters and painting Geraldine Norman 240 pages : 28 cm OL2726689W
Japanese modern art Japanese modern art Ingrid M¿ssinger,Hellmut Seemann,Fuji Hiroaki,Sakai Tadayasu A comprehensive survey of the development of an independent modernism in Japanese art from the first abstract works at the beginning of the century to artistic approaches in the post-war period. Feat… OL27734129W
Fetting Fetting Rainer Fetting Summary: Bekannt wird Rainer Fetting mit einem Kreis von Maler-Kollegen, die 1977 gemeinsam in Berlin die Künstlergalerie am Moritzplatz gründen und bald unter dem Namen "Moritzboys" firmieren. Fetti… OL3818611W
Art Art Rosenthal,Frederick Hartt With authority and insight, gained from over 50 years as a teacher and scholar, Professor Hartt traces the course of western art from the Old Stone Age to the present. Coverage of the 20th century ha… OL3900754W
Fifty old master paintings from the Walters Art Gallery Fifty old master paintings from the Walters Art Gallery Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.) The holdings in the old master painting collection were developed almost entirely by Henry Walters, although they have been supplemented in recent years by superb gifts and excellent, if infrequent, … OL4125906W
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
Leonardo Leonardo Carlo Pedretti,Kunster,Erfinder,Wissenschaftler,Michael Desmond,Leonardo da Vinci Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific observations and theories in 1994 from the estate of Armand Hammer for $30.8 million. Last year Gates loaned the wor… OL695408W
Vision and Art Vision and Art Margaret S. Livingstone "In Vision and Art, Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone demonstrates that how we see art depends ultimately on the cells in our eyes and our brains. She begins by offering a comprehensive acc… OL8481890W
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