Basic Art
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Gropius
$23.33 Read moreWalter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Lupfer &. Paul Sigel, Gilbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 20 2017
- ISBN10: 3836544342
- Language: English
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Piano
$23.33 Add to cartWhile some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their di
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836536463
- Language: English
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Schiele
$23.33 Add to cartWith his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism and one of the most startling portrait pa
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Steiner, Reinhard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 3836504421
- Language: English
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Calatrava
$23.33 Add to cartSpanish visionary Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. Famed for bridges as much as buildings, he has made his name with neofutur
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 02 2016
- ISBN10: 3836535653
- Language: English
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Duchamp
$23.33 Read moreWhen is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist’s Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery, sent
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Mink, Janis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 11 2016
- ISBN10: 3836534320
- Language: English
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Futurism
$23.33 Add to cartWith motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carr?, and Gino Severini. W
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Martin, Sylvia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 30 2017
- ISBN10: 3836505835
- Language: English
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Modigliani
$23.33 Add to cartIn endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Krystof, Doris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836503670
- Language: English
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Bruegel
$23.33 Add to cartThe great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836553066
- Language: English
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Toulouse-Lautrec
$23.33 Add to cartIn our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, paintings, and drawings, the artist immortalized the cit
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Arnold, Matthias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 31 2016
- ISBN10: 3836534908
- Language: English
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Velázquez
$23.33 Add to cartCourt painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodr?guez de Silva y Vel?zquez (June 1599 – August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spanish Golden Age, but among the most celebrated masters
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Wolf, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 30 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532107
- Language: English
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Schindler
$23.33 Add to cartHailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los Angele
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Steele, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 16 2019
- ISBN10: 383656436X
- Language: English
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Van Eyck
$23.33 Add to cartOften imitated but never equaled, Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future realist painters. With its unprecedented precision and master
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Borchert, Till-Holger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 04 2020
- ISBN10: 3836545055
- Language: English
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de Lempicka
$23.33 Read moreTamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set abo
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532271
- Language: English
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Gauguin
$23.33 Add to cartPaul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 27 2017
- ISBN10: 3836532239
- Language: English
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GaudÃ
$23.33 Add to cartFrom the towering Sagrada Fam?lia to the shimmering, textured fa?ade of Casa Batll? and the enchanting landscape of Park G?ell, it’s easy to see why Antoni Gaud? (1852-1926) gained the epithet “God’s
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Crippa, Maria Antonietta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560283
- Language: English
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Manet
$23.33 Add to cartLampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter ﾉdouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered a crucial figure in the history of art, bridging the transition
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836535106
- Language: English
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Yves Klein
$23.33 Read moreIn the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928-1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful c
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Weitemeier, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 3836553139
- Language: English
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Friedrich
$23.33 Read moreThe beauty of nature and man’s loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small human figure in a broad landscape, as in his famous pai
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Wolf, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560712
- Language: English
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Raphael
$23.33 Read moreIn art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (1483-1520) is one such star. The man we call simply Raphae
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Thoenes, Christof
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 07 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532425
- Language: English
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Goya
$23.33 Read moreFrom court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jos? de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) made a mark as one of Spain’s most revered and controversial ar
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 16 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532689
- Language: English
