This paperback edition is superb value - a lavishly illustrated record of a popular exhibition but also an excellent, accessible introduction to the twentieth-century's ...
Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933) is one of Arte Povera's most significant protagonists. It is with the Mirror Paintings that Pistoletto's name is mostly closely ...
The delicate Postminimalist sculptures and drawings of the American artist Al Taylor (1948-1999) were for a long time better known in Europe than in ...
Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) employed an unusual variety of styles, techniques, and subjects, making him a particularly difficult artist to characterize. From his early days ...
This handsomely illustrated volume focuses on Dalí's work after 1940, presenting it as a multifaceted oeuvre that simultaneously drew inspiration from the Old Masters ...
Christen Købke (1819-1848) was arguably the greatest painter of Denmark's 'Golden Age,' the period of the nation's supreme artistic achievement. He had the remarkable ...
An American sculptor, painter, and installation artist, Paul Thek (1933--1988) is primarily known for hyper-realistic works of human body parts executed in fleshlike beeswax ...
Resulta difícil englobar bajo un solo epígrafe la obra artística desarrollada en la actualidad por miles de mujeres de todo el mundo. Al acercamiento ...
Xesús Vázquez (Ourense, 1946) es una de las figuras más importantes del panorama de la pintura contemporánea en España. Nieve negra supone el intento ...
In "Over Her Dead Body: Death Femininity and the Aesthetic", her much reviewed book published in 1992, Elisabeth Bronfen already wrote on society, literature, ...