18 books like Max Ernst
Picasso
Text describes several works from Picasso's Blue and Rose periods. Ten color plates, including one on the front cover, are included.
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Alberto Giacometti
One of the great masters of 20th-century art, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti captured the existential loneliness of modern humanity with his spindly, attenuated figures whose life-like gazes pierce the vastness of space. Uniting more than 250 sculptures, paintings, drawings and graphic works, this extensive monograph is an exemplary overview of his oeuvre.
The book underscores the…
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Edvard Munch
Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und expressiveren Stil. In dieser Zeit entsteht das Meisterwerk Alpha und Omega, eine grafische Mappe bestehend aus 22 lithographischen Blättern und einem gedruckten Prosagedicht. Zusammen ergeben sie eine…
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Andy Warhol
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Lyonel Feininger
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Max Beckmann
"This panoramic presentation of Max Beckmann's painted oeuvre sheds new light on central themes such as the world of cabaret, music, and the theater, dreams and reality, staged sensuality, and the role of the female muse, as well as the artist's unusual ways of employing romanticizing visual motifs in landscapes and urban contexts."--BOOK JACKET
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
237 p. : 29 cm
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Vincent van Gogh
This book contains 658 paintings by Vincent Van Gogh.
Vincent Van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert in the southern Netherlands, the son of a pastor. In 1869, he took his first job, working in the Hague branch of an international art dealing firm. He began to write to his younger brother Theo, a correspondence which continued for the rest of Van Gogh's life.
Van Gogh's job took him to…
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Joan Miró
"This book takes the reader on a journey through Joan Miro's world of images. It includes work from all phases of the artist's career, from the early paintings in the style of poetic realism, via the playfully lyrical pictures of the 1920s and 1930s, to the colourful works of his later years. Stages in the journey are marked by photographs taken at the time by Miro's fellow Catalan Joaquim Gomis,…
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Paul Klee
An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the end of the 1930s and throughout his teaching years at the Bauhaus, he attempted to capture the organic and harmonic nature of painting by alluding to other artistic mediums such as poetry, literature,…
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Jenny Holzer
Holzer has been at the forefront of American art since her work first came to prominence in the early 1980s. She is known for text based works which may appear as spectacular electronic signs, T shirts or carved marble benches.
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The Library of American Biography
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Two Sisters
Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.”
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Marse Henry : An Autobiography
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A history of autobiography in antiquity
A history of autobiography in antiquity
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Missing Persons
Missing Persons
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Mr. Nice
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Autobiography
Autobiography
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