Six thematic chapters range over subjects like The Outdoors, Capturing The Moment, Representing Things as They Are, Finding New Subjects, Looking Beyond Nature, to conclude with a chapter on the...
Even before the advent of haute couture, Paris was a great centre of fashion. During the second half of the nineteenth century, when the capital was transformed by an ambitious...
One of the most influential filmmakers of the late 20th century, Derek Jarman directed cult feature films such as Jubilee (1977) and Caravaggio (1986), as well as music videos for...
Louis XIV enjoyed visiting his fruit and vegetable gardens. Enriched with exotic plants by the numerous botanical expeditions that took place during the seventeenth century, the king's gardens were a...
This book features a literary introduction and thoroughly researched essay followed by a section devoted to a detailed description of a selection of the artist's masterpieces. An extensive chronology of...
Russian artist and theoretician Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a significant figure in 20th-century abstraction. His masterwork Painting with White Border (1913; Guggenheim Museum), inspired by his native Moscow, emerged during...
John Everett Millais (1829-96) is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of his generation. He was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and was later president...
Born in 1892 near Saint Petersburg, Ivan Puni is regarded as one of the founders and leading lights of the Russian avant-garde, alongside Kazimir Malevich and others. He was an...
Remarkably, there has been only one biography of Ford Madox Brown in the past century and none at all of the four women in his life, his two wives, Elisabeth...
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, one of the most important pupils of David, at first compiled with his master's Neoclassicism but soon distinguished himself for his eclecticism and entered the front ranks of...
How did artists of the twentieth century use their work to respond to their unique personal experiences and moment in history? This provocative question is explored in this engaging new...
Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a printmaker and sculptor, but is best known as a...
All manner of creatures from the animal kingdom, as portrayed by famed masters, fill the pages of this unique collection. From Rembrandt's monumental elephant and Toulouse Lautrecs prancing circus steed...
A fascinating analysis of Georges de La Tour's styles, techniques and subjects that introduces the master of the Nocturnes to a general audience. Georges de La Tour is one of...
This title is published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, February - March 2007, which centred on the new, large work Nachtessen in...
Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating...
On a cold winter morning in Paris in 1893, Marie, a farmer's daughter from the Midi is helped across a bustling street by a diffident young artist named Pierre Bonnard....
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound. Pound's celebrated haiku powerfully evokes the situation of the individual in the metropolis: personalities...
Originally created to accompany the 2007 exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Essential Modernism brings into focus the foundation and...
This generously illustrated book presents highlights from the National Gallerys display of Italian Renaissance painting, one of the richest collections of its kind in the world. Duccio to Leonardo focuses...
