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Bacon by Luigi Ficacci
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Category: Art History | Series: Basic Art Series 2 | Reading Level: very good
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figurative, human-like forms that seem to evoke the raw emotions that bore them. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos ...Show more
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling
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Category: Art History | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Life lines: The 80s art star who put poverty, power, and racism on the wall An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO," before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted ba ...Show more
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling
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Category: Art History | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title is about one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27 ...Show more
Conceptual Art (Basic Art series) by Daniel Marzona
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Category: No Category | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This guide to conceptual art traces the issues and concerns of the first generation of artists involved in the foundation of the movement, with an essay exploring the historical basis of conceptual art, its relationship to the dominant aesthetics of the 1960s, namely the modernist theory of Clement Gree ...Show more
Kandinsky by Dchting Hajo
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Category: Art History | Series: Basic Art Ser.
The founder of abstract art The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting.Together with Fr ...Show more
Klimt by Gilles Néret
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Category: No Category | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him not only the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists but one of the best loved artists of all time. In his own time, Kilmt (1862-1918) was a highly successful ...Show more
Magritte by Marcel Paquet
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Category: Art History | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
The great Belgian Surrealist. A sense of the amazing, the surprising, and the ridiculous in Magritte's paintings. It is impossible to overlook the influence of Rene Magritte (1898-1967) on contemporary art. His surrealistic painting turns the usual order of things ironically on its head, thus restoring ...Show more
Wright by Pfeiffer Bruce Brooks ; Gossel Peter
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Category: Artwork | Series: Basic Art Ser.
That's Wright One of the greatest pioneers in the history of architecture Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and a ...Show more
Wright (Basic Architecture) by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
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Category: No Category | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Widely thought to be the greatest American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer, both artistically and technically. At a time when reinforced concrete and steel were considered industrial building materials, Wright boldly made use of them to build private homes. His prairie house ...Show more
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