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Bosch by Walter Bosing
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
The pictorial world of Hieronymus Bosch If Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) remains an enigma today, it is little wonder. Even his contemporaries found the Netherlandish painter's work difficult to decipher--and it still presents riddles to contemporary art historians. Part of the problem in decoding his s ...Show more
Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A. T. Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Modernism to the masses: Pioneering designs for affordable postwar homesThe Case Study House program (1945-1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building boom with prototype modern hom ...Show more
Eames by Koenig Gloria ; Gssel Peter
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Visual impact: Nothing says modernist perfection like an Eames design The creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also forerunners in architecture, textile d ...Show more
Hopper by Rolf G. Renner
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered as one of the first important American painters in 20th century art. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity that since the 1950s has continually grown. In canvas after canvas he painted the loneliness of urban people. Many of Hopper ...Show more
Pop Art by Klaus Honnef
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Whaam When the kitschy, banal, and mass-market became art Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork.Focusing ...Show more
Rivera by Andrea Kettenmann
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
It was as a revolutionary and troublemaker that Picasso, Dali and Andre Breton described the husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, but he was also responsible for creating a public art that was both highly advanced and profoundly accessible. From 1910 Rivera lived in Europe where he absorbed the influen ...Show more
Self-Portraits by Ernst Rebel
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Me, myself, and IIs a self-portrait of an artist a medium of reflection--or is it merely a black void, the 'false mirror, ' as the surrealist Rene Magritte entitled his 1928 painting of an eye? Do self-portraits reveal how artists see themselves, or how they wish others would see them? From the 15th cen ...Show more
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