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Velazquez
José López-Rey
Bibliothèque des Arts, 1981

Catalogue raisonné

French - 558 Pages - 22.8 x 28.6 cm - 3.1 Kg
ISBN: 2850470163

Portrait of Women, Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) Contemporary and Old Masters

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Portrait of Women, Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) Contemporary and Old Masters
Saskia de Bodt, Erwin Joos
BAI, 2006

Women played a prominent role in Eugeen Van Mieghem’s art. At first this was his mother and later on mainly his wife Augustine Pautre. But most prominent of all in his oeuvre is the working women in the port of Antwerp. Like his great role model Jean-François Millet, Van Mieghem gave these simple working women an air of respect and dignity. Millet painted them working on the land, while Van Mieghem portrayed them going about their daily lives in the port of Antwerp. This book also looks at the influence of Rembrandt, Steinlen and Edvard Munch on Van Mieghem.

English - 119 Pages - 23 cm x 22.5 cm - 0.7 Kg
ISBN: 9789085860266

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Konrad Witz
Bodo Brinkmann
Hatje Cantz, 2011

Perhaps the greatest painter of water there has ever been, the German Renaissance artist Konrad Witz (circa 1400 - 1446), was a contemporary of Jan Van Eyck and Uccello, and shared their fervor for perspective, bringing similarly magical dimensionality to his treatment of surface without aspiring to their extremes of realism. In his two famous paintings, "The Miraculous Draft of Fishes" (1444), and the earlier "Saint Christopher" (circa 1435), Witz is able to make water both serene and eerie, tangible and evanescent, all depth and surface simultaneously; "The Draft of Fishes," which uses Lake Geneva as a backdrop for a scene of Peter fishing, is also notable for being the first topographically accurate landscape in the history of German painting. Witz introduced Netherlandish influences into Germany and Switzerland (where he relocated in 1443), and while his own style shows its influence, echoes of a spookier and more enigmatic medievalism abound, distinguishing him from all of his contemporaries. Reproducing all of the artist's extant works across 120 color plates, this monograph is the first thorough examination of Witz's magnificent oeuvre.

English - 320 Pages - 25 cm x 4 cm x 31 cm - 2.5 Kg
ISBN: 9783775727617

Zao Wou-Ki, Oeuvres 1935-2010/ L'Homme des deux rives, collectionneur - 2 tomes

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Zao Wou-Ki, Oeuvres 1935-2010/ L'Homme des deux rives, collectionneur - 2 tomes
Collectif
Flammarion, 2016

Dès son arrivée à Paris en 1948, Zao Wou-ki (1920-2013) s'est entouré d'oeuvres d'art, reflets de ses goûts, de ses rencontres et de ses amitiés. Des bronzes chinois antiques aux dessins des grands maîtres Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso ou Max Ernst, des oeuvres des artistes installés à Paris après-guerre à celles des peintres de l'Ecole de New York dont il a été proche, cette collection exceptionnelle est l'illustration du compagnonnage intellectuel et amical de Zao Wou-ki et de ceux qui ont fait partie de sa famille artistique pendant près de cinquante ans. Les donations faites par son épouse au musée de l'Hospice Saint-Roch à Issoudun et au musée Cernuschi à Paris sont l'occasion de pénétrer dans son intimité et de montrer pour la première fois dans leur intégralité les oeuvres échangées avec ses amis ou acquises par Zao Wou-Ki, en regard d'oeuvres majeures de l'artiste reproduites dans cet ouvrage.

French - 296 Pages - 24.8 cm x 3 cm x 31.7 cm - 1 Kg
ISBN: 9782081387874

Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviert Art Put to the Test

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Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test
Collectif
Yale, 2017

Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, providing a new understanding of where art was presented, who saw it, and how the images incorporated and conveyed Soviet values. More than 350 works are grouped into areas of critical importance for the production, reception, and circulation of early Soviet art: battlegrounds, schools, the press, theaters, homes and storefronts, factories, festivals, and exhibitions. Bountifully illustrated, this book offers an unprecedented, cross-disciplinary analysis of two momentous decades of Soviet visual culture.

English - 324 Pages - 24.6 cm x 3.1 cm x 31 cm - 2.3 Kg
ISBN: 9780300225716

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Twentieth-Century American Painting
Gail Levin
Sotheby's, 2003

Spanning the range of important twentieth century American artists, the Thyssen Bornemisza Collection is unique in Europe. Although American contemporary artists beginning with the Abstract Expressionists and Pop Artists have been widely exhibited and collected in Europe, 20th century American painting before the Second World War was virtually unknown to Europeans until the last decade. In her introduction, Gail Levin has written a comprehensive overview of the history of twentieth century American painting. She examines the American fascination with both the European tradition and Avant-Garde, and the American artists search for a native style. She follows this essay with detailed analysis of the 127 paintings and drawings in the collection, all reproduced in color and accompanied by comparative illustrations. Brief biographies of the artists follow the catalog section, and the volume concludes with a general index.

English - 408 Pages - 26.7 cm x 5.6 cm x 37.1 cm - 4.1 Kg
ISBN: 856673323

Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925, How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art

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Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925, How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art
Matthew Affron, Leah Dickerman
Thames & Hudson, 2012

Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925 explores the development of abstraction from the moment of its declaration around 1912 to its establishment as the foundation of avant-garde practice in the mid-1920s. The book brings together many of the most influential works in abstraction's early history to draw a cross-media portrait of this watershed moment in which traditional art was reinvented in a wholesale way. Works are presented in groups that serve as case studies, each engaging a key topic in abstraction's first years: an artist, a movement, an exhibition or thematic concern. Key focal points include Vasily Kandinsky's ambitious Compositions V, VI and VII; a selection of Piet Mondrian's work that offers a distilled narrative of his trajectory to Neo-plasticism; and all the extant Suprematist pictures that Kazimir Malevich showed in the landmark '0.10' exhibition in 1915.

English - 376 Pages - 24.9 cm x 3.3 cm x 31.2 cm - 2.5 Kg
ISBN: 9780500239025

The Cubist Cosmos: From Picasso to Léger

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The Cubist Cosmos: From Picasso to Léger
Collectif
Hirmer, 2019

Widely considered the most influential art movement of the twentieth century, cubism revolutionized European painting and sculpture, challenging Renaissance depictions of space by depicting figures as dynamic arrangements of volumes and planes. Tracing the growth of cubism between 1908 and 1919, The Cubist Cosmos reveals the movement’s enormous stylistic range and its revolutionary potential for the art that would follow, as well as the way representatives of the avant-garde adopted and transformed its pictorial language. In chronologically and thematically devised chapters, The Cubist Cosmos demonstrates how the influence of folk art, archaic sculpture, and the works of Paul Cézanne became increasingly evident in the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The authors then follow this new pictorial language as it was taken up by artists like Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and Henri Le Fauconnier, who expanded and displayed it in large formats in the salon exhibitions of the Paris art world.

English - 320 Pages - 24.8 cm x 3.6 cm x 29.2 cm - 2.3 Kg
ISBN: 9783777432625

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Le symbolisme
Rodolphe Rapetti
Flammarion, 2005

Panorama du mouvement symboliste en Europe, de ses acteurs et de ses manifestations. Il marqua la littérature et les arts des années 1880 à 1914, et fut en réaction face au pragmatisme et positivisme de l'époque, marqué par la subjectivité, l'idéalisme, une vision particulière de la place de l'homme dans l'univers, du mythe, de l'irrationnel et une recherche de passages entre les arts.

French - 320 Pages - 22.5 cm x 3 cm x 29.5 cm - 2 Kg
ISBN: 9782080113429

Traverser la lumière : Bazaine, Bissière, Elvire Jan Le Moal, Manessier, Singier

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Traverser la lumière : Bazaine, Bissière, Elvire Jan Le Moal, Manessier, Singier
Florian Rodari
5 Continents, 2018

Les six peintres réunis dans cet ouvrage qui accompagne l'exposition Traverser la lumière n'ont jamais formé un groupe au sens que l'on donne à ce mot en parlant des futuristes ou des surréalistes. Liés par l'amitié, ils travaillaient volontiers ensemble, un peu comme les fauves, dans les mêmes lieux et traitant des mêmes sujets. Fascinés par les phénomènes de la nature, sensibles à ses incessantes transformations, ils eurent le souci de trouver une voie médiane entre représentation objective et l'abstraction. Face au paysage, ils s'efforcèrent de faire surgir sous leurs pinceaux des réalités encore inexprimées, révélations d'un univers quasi non figurable qu'en ces mêmes années les physiciens de l'atome et du cosmos commençaient à divulguer auprès du public. Et comme le rappelle Jean Bazaine, ils substituèrent peu à peu au monde des formes qui leur étaient données depuis toujours, un monde de forces invisibles, qui en constituent la secrète énergie ainsi, le mouvement incessant de la mer et du ciel, la présence obsédante du vent ; ainsi, donnés à l'état originel et jamais figés, absolus, l'espace et la lumière...

French - 284 Pages - 22 cm x 3 cm x 28 cm - 1.5 Kg
ISBN: 9788874398454

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La nature morte espagnole
BOZAR
Bozar Books/ Shoeck, 2018

Les natures mortes dans la peinture : un exercice d'imitation pour peintres manquant d'ambition ? Plus depuis que les artistes avant-gardistes se sont intéressés au genre pour introduire des changements radicaux dans le domaine de la peinture. Cette rétrospective dresse, pour la première fois, le portrait de quatre siècles de natures mortes et vous propose de découvrir les plus belles pièces : des premiers bodegónes du XVIIe siècle aux expérimentations formelles de Picasso, Dalí, Miró ou autres oeuvres plus récentes d'artistes espagnols en passant par les interprétations personnelles de Velázquez et de Goya.

French - 240 Pages - 24.8 cm x 2.7 cm x 29.7 cm - 1.6 Kg
ISBN: 9789461614483

The Dream of Fluxus, Georges Maciunas: an Artist's Biogrpahy

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The Dream of Fluxus, Georges Maciunas: an Artist's Biography
Thomas Kellein
Editions Hansjörg Mayer, 2007

A biography of this leading member of the Fluxus movement. George Maciunas (1931-1978) established strangely radical modes of presentation in the name of Fluxus. In his view, the bulk of the conventional art business - museums, theaters, concert halls, opera houses, and publishers - should cease to exist. Traditional works of art were to be replaced by Fluxus. Art was to be so uncomplicated that it could be realized by anyone, anywhere. New pieces would have their copyrights protected and would be available for the price of a paperback. Maciunas was a staunch opponent of personal enrichment and came up with spartan solutions for almost every life situation. Despite his tireless efforts, he never achieved his ultimate goal, and he died impoverished and in miserable circumstances. 100 duotone illustrations.

English - 172 Pages - 22.9 cm x 2.8 cm x 25.2 cm - 1.1 Kg
ISBN: 97805009766544

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Max Beckmann - Acuarelas y pasteles
Max Beckmann
Guggenheim Bilbao, 2006

Exposición del 27 de junio –17 de septiembre de 2006. Max Beckmann es uno de los artistas alemanes más relevantes del siglo XX. Los pasteles y acuarelas de Beckmann, creados principalmente en las décadas de 1930 y 1940, constituyen un corpus revelador.

Spanish - 375 Pages - 29 cm x 23 cm - 2 Kg
ISBN: 8495216507

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Jacques-Emile Blanche
Jane Roberts
Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2012

Cette monographie, la première consacrée au peintre, est attendue depuis longtemps, aussi bien par les collectionneurs que les institutions qui possèdent des oeuvres de l'artiste. Il était, de son vivant, un peintre de renom, mais aussi un pianiste de niveau professionnel, pouvant déchiffrer les partitions les plus difficiles, un écrivain ayant publié plus de quarante livres, ou encore un commentateur prolifique de la presse parisienne. C'est pourtant, dès 1880, à l'âge de dix-neuf ans, que Blanche avait résolument choisi la peinture comme son véritable « métier » : les mille cinq cent oeuvres répertoriées témoignent d'un travail sans relâche et de la passion dévorante de toute une vie. Abondamment documenté l'ouvrage de Jane Roberts redonne à Jacques-Émile Blanche la place prééminente parmi les grands peintres de la « Belle Epoque » et de l'entre-deux guerres, au même titre qu'un Helleu ou un Boldini.

French - 215 Pages - 22.2 cm x 2.49 cm x 28.7 cm - 1.42 Kg
ISBN: 9782353401284

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Yuri Kuper, Selected Works
Yuri Kuper
Patrick Cramer, 2017

This book covers the work of Yuri Kuper, with a preface by Mikhaïl Guerman, followed by 10 chapters: paintings, sculptures, ceramics, engravings and lithographs, tapestry, jewelry, architecture, theater models, theater scenography and illustrated books.

English - 504 Pages - 30.5 cm x 24 cm - 3 Kg
ISBN: 9782839921046

Johannes Itten, catalogue raisonné, Paintings, Watercolors, Draings 1907-1938

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Johannes Itten, catalogue raisonné, Paintings, Watercolors, Draings 1907-1938
Christoph Wagner
Hirmer, 2019

The Swiss artist Johannes Itten (1888–1967) was a pioneering art theorist and a prominent teacher at the Bauhaus, and he left behind an extensive and wide-ranging oeuvre. Creating paintings and graphic works to sculptures, textiles, and furniture, Itten was an unusually versatile artist who also produced one of the most important works on the theory of colors in the twentieth century. His art is examined here in depth for the first time through an analysis built on more than one hundred thousand biographical documents and sources. Published to coincide with the Bauhaus centenary, this is the first in a three-volume series that will explore the latest provenance research, compile an index of exhibitions and literature, and provide for the first time a complete overview of the artistic cosmos of Johannes Itten.

English - 496 Pages - 26.67 cm x 3.81 cm x 31.75 cm - 3.4 Kg
ISBN: 9783777431673

James Ensor, From the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and Swiss Collection

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James Ensor, From the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and Swiss Collection
Herwig Todts, Anne-Brigitte Fonsmark, Nina Zimmer
Hatje Cantz, 2014

Phantoms, skulls, skeletons and other macabre figures populate the paintings, drawings and prints of James Ensor. His works are bizarre, ironic, occasionally belligerent and provocative, but always buoyed by a keen sense of humor, and his nightmarish motifs reveal the absurd and grotesque about everyday life. Ensor's interests were wide-ranging; he was as enthusiastic about Rembrandt's prints as he was about the Belgian Carnival festival and Japanese masks. In turn, early twentieth-century artists such as Alfred Kubin, Paul Klee and the German Expressionists Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were inspired by his creative power and radical rejection of traditional European ideals of beauty. This volume presents nearly 60 paintings and an equal number of drawings, which are published here for the first time.

English - 136 Pages - 20.96 cm x 31.75 cm x 31.75 cm - 0.41 Kg
ISBN: 9783775737227

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The Monotypes of Sam Francis
Garner Tullis, Pontus Hulton, Karl Gunnar Vougt Pontus Hultén, Sam Francis
Daco, 1996

This beautiful copy is the 1076 hand-numbered copy out of an edition of 1500. Includes an extensive biographical chronology, a fifteen-page essay, "The Way to Perfection", by Garner Tullis, and a five-page foreword by Pontus Hulten. Gorgeous full-page color illustrations complete this impressive volume.

GermanL/English/French - 346 Pages - 30.48 cm x 5.72 cm x 32.39 cm - 3.77 Kg
ISBN: 3871350133