Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sketchbooks, journals and writings, this essential guide to John Brett (1831-1902) investigates the painter who was seen as ...
The first major book on this leading African American artist, Mark Bradford: You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You) features essays by distinguished authors who ...
In this lucid and insightful essay, renowned linguist Roy Harris reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of “art for art’s sake.” This was attacked ...
The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once ...
Edvard Munch's images of love, alienation, jealousy, and death - universal human experiences but filtered through events in his own life - are explored ...
La concezione cubista dello spazio ha fornito spunti diversi sia nell'ambito delle arti figurative che in quello dell'architettura. Il libro analizza le influenze che ...
Painter, printmaker and teacher Sir Terry Frost RA (1915-2003) was a key figure in the development of British twentieth-century abstract art. He was also ...
Aptly described as 'an artist's artist', Peter Kinley (1926-1988) was a well-respected painter who achieved great early success and commanded much attention during his ...
Controversias, polémicas, incluso debates virulentos, oponen a defensores y detractores de la creación artística de nuestros días.Interrogarse con respecto a las normas de evaluación ...
El Diálogo de la pintura, publicado en 1557, es un texto de elaborada teoría pictórica concebido en programática defensa de Tiziano Vecellio, cuya presencia ...
John Constable (1776-1837), maestro de la pintura paisajista británica, fue unode los artistas más influyentes del siglo XIX. Esta monografía amena e ilustrativa sitúa ...
The Group began the twentieth century with a desire to challenge what they felt were the religious, artistic, social and sexual taboos of Victorian ...
