Beginning with archival materials and his own photographs and drawings, German artist Heribert C. Ottersbach paints subjects--often architectural--that allow him to reevaluate Modernism. He calls his paintings abstract, geometric figurations of a society disciplined by 'education.'
About Bridget Riley
by Nadia Chalbi, Eric de Chassey, Lynne Cooke, Jonathan Crary, John Elderfield, Lucius Grisebach, Martin Hentschel, Dave Hickey, and Robert Kudielka
Livres de Coloriage Pour Adultes Celebrer Les Morts (Livres de Coloriage Pour Adultes, #4)
by Chiquita Publishing
This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Richard Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that at...
Philip IV of Spain (ruled 1621 - 1665) was known as the 'Planet King', shining as brightly in the sphere of the arts as would Louis XIV the Sun King after him. The Buen Retiro Palace (though how largely destroyed) was a model for Versailles, but surpassed any palace ever built in Europe for the collection of paintings it contained, especially those commissioned in the 1630s from the finest painters in Europe at the time. These included the court painters Velazquez and Zurbaran (Spanish), the hon...
Sexual Morals in Words and Pictures - Love and Sensuality
by D Ph Van Vloten Elderinck
Le Déjeuner Sur l'Herbe de Manet Et Les Enfants de Vénus, Une Allégorie de l'Art Du Peintre
by Norbert-Bertrand Barbe
Picasso was an extremely prolific artist, but there remain many rarely seen works that are held in private collctions. This book presents 250 such paintings, which were all shown in an exhibition at Milan's Palazzo Reale in Autumn, 2001, to open up the artist's personal legacy to a greater section of the public. The exhibition did not tour, so the book now offers a way to see these masterworks. They include oil paintings, aquatints, prints, sculpture and terracottas, as well as textiles such as...
Otto Mueller. Catalogue Raisonné
by Dr Tanja Pirsig-Marshall and Mario-Andreas Dr Von Luttichau