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During the 1870s and 1880s, a group of French artists, including Pissarro, Monet, and Renoir, adopted a style of painting and subjects that challenged the art of the Academie Francaise where "official" assumptions about the meaning of painting prevailed. This compact, well-priced survey of the movement features sixty reproductions of some of the most renowned works, and a highly readable introductory text.

A heightened form of illusionism, the art of trompe l'oeil flourished from the Renaissance onward. Both witty and serious, trompe l'oeil is a game artists play with spectators to raise questions about the nature of art and perception.

Among the pictorial genres, still life, which depicts in detail the common objects of domestic life, holds an important place. It is an art form which gives us valuable insights into changes of mentality and philosophy. This work features some sixty works since antiquity and analyzes the history and significance of each.

A revolutionary movement, founded in 1924 by Andre Breton, dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams. The surrealist circle was made up of many great artists, including Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Miro, Rene Magritte, and Salvador Dali.

The representation of the female body has inspired some of the finest works in art history. This volume, which aims to offer a fascinating visual survey of the nude, features nearly fifty paintings and sculptures--often celebrated masterpieces--spanning from classic to contemporary art.

Post-impressionism was the movement that represented both an extension of Impressionism, as well as a rejection of the limitation of it. The term "post-impressionism" was coined for the work of such painters as Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and several others.

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Taciturno, colto, meticoloso, Mondrian incarna nel Novecento l'opposto dell'artista bohémien. Ma nello spazio terso del suo studio, lontano dalle discussioni da café, nasce una delle rivoluzioni più autentiche dell'avanguardia. Mondrian è convinto che la pittura debba allontanarsi dai particolarismi - "Il problema 'che cosa è l'arte?' non può essere risolto illustrando le nostre concezioni personali" - per guidare gli uomini alla ricerca dell'...

6 febbraio 1963: ad appena trent'anni Piero Manzoni viene trovato morto nello studio di via Fiori Chiari, stroncato da un infarto. Da quel momento in poi è la sua fama di personaggio provocatore e scapestrato ad affermarsi, insieme all'opera più dissacrante, la "Merda d'artista", che entra nella leggenda e nell'immaginario collettivo. Ma cosa c'è in realtà prima, dopo e dietro quei trenta grammi di prodotto purissimo d'autore? È ciò che ricost...

Qual è l'itinerario che conduce dalla Venere paleolitica di Willendorf alle algide modelle di Vanessa Beecroft? Cosa accomuna la nuda veritas e le lascive odalische care all'Ottocento? Non la nudità fisica, con tutto quanto ciò comporta sul piano del pudore e dello sguardo, ma la concezione del nudo come fondamento stesso della raffigurazione artistica, come immagine per antonomasia in cui confluiscono umori metafisici - la raffigurazione del ...

Focuses on the historical evolution of the nude.

The myth of modernity told through the works of Balla, Depero, Boccioni and Prampolini. Paris, 20 February 1909. An article by the young Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti appears on the first page of the daily Le Figaro. It is the "Manifesto of Futurism", the artistic movement established in Milan in 1909 that expressed concepts of movement and speed through simultaneous visions and dynamic lines. Marinetti intends to challenge the Paris ...

This general catalogue, which represents years of work on the systematic cataloguing of Pomodoro's entire sculptural output, covers the full range of works produced by the artist between 1953 and 2003, supplemented with the first complete documentary research into the entire existing bibliography.

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Piero Manzoni was one of the most radically inventive artists of the twentieth century whose work continues to challenge the definitions of artistic sovereignty and virtuosity to this day. Immediately upon his death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Piero Manzoni's reputation as a provocateur and wild child preceded him, with his most subversive work, Artist's Shit, 1961, elevating him to cult status. But what actually came before, and lay behind ...

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