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Examines the artist's life and works through detailed discussion of individual paintings as well as his techniques (including his preparatory oil sketches and his pioneering experimentation in painting en plen air

The fifth anthology of witty and enchanting sketches and cartoons by one of the world's best-loved illustrators

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In Boring Postcards USA wirft Parr seinen Blick auf die USA, auf die Un-Orte und Nichtereignisse im Nachkriegsamerika. Der Band, der nun als broschierte Ausgabe erscheint, ist ein pointierter Einblick in Amerikas gesellschaftliche, kulturelle und architektonische Werte.

A popular collection of superb landscape photographs taken over the last 50 years by Magnum photographers

With text and illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempé, Ralph Sprockett is a funny and charming story about friendship, honesty and competitive bicycle racing, where seizing the moment and being true to yourself turn out to be just as important as winning a stage of the Tour de France.

John Pawson (b.1949) is an architect and designer whose exceptional work combines an essential simplicity with a keen attention to the details of everyday life and human experience. In the last decade, the scope of his designs has broadened from objects and interiors to include houses, monasteries, pavilions and boats. This change in scale has given his office the opportunity to refine its minimalist aesthetic and further develop its ideas of ...

This building, which caused a sensation when first built, has become a classic of modern design. In 1990 it won the first RIBA Trustees' Medal as 'the finest work by a British designer anywhere in the world completed between 1965 and 1983'.

The Clore Gallery one is of London's most challenging new galleries, built to house the Tate's collection of paintings by J M W Turner. Its counterpart, the Tare in Liverpool, is a conversion of a magnificent 1845 dockside warehouse to a modern art gallery.

Presenting a new and original way of bringing art alive, this mini edition offers a gallery of 500 artists and their works plus a jargon-free Glossary of artistic terms and an international directory of museums and galleries. 500 color illustrations.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was one of the most original artists of the late nineteenth century. Flamboyant dandy and ebullient publicist, friend of Oscar Wilde, Whistler was also a meticulous craftsman dedicated to the perfection of his art. Whistler was born in America but trained in Paris. He began as a realist painter but gradually developed a startlingly original method of composition, refining his technique to the barest es...

The quality and quantity of design work devoted to a production depend on the script, the size and nature of the theatre company and its budget. This book explains fully the diverse functions and responsibilities of a designer. With a comprehensive glossary, an eclectic bibliography and even an up-to-the-minute list of suppliers and stockists, it can be used by amateurs and professionals alike as a guide and resource for arriving at imaginativ...

The experimental nature of the building's fabric forms an appropriate metaphor for the pioneering research work into oil and gas drilling procedures that takes place within.

This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Werner Bischof - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.

This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Chris Killip - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.

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Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was an extremely private figure and has remained an elusive subject despite her long-lasting influence. Known primarily for her highly original furniture and interior design, Gray realized nine buildings in her lifetime and recorded more than 45 architectural projects in her archive, although several of her built projects were attributed, until very recently, solely to her collaborator, Romanian arch...

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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69), the son of a well-to-do miller from the university town of Leiden, was by the age of 26 Holland's most celebrated painter and has remained an artist of universal appeal. Rembrandt made his name in Amsterdam, capital of the newly independent Dutch Republic and, as the centre of a global trade empire, a magnet for merchants, writers and artists. No one understood its possibilities better than Rembrandt, or captured ...

The art of self-taught artists - including visionaries, folk creators, spiritualists, recluses, the 'mad' and the socially marginalized - was once scorned by the art establishment. Among the first to value and collect such works was the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-85), who coined the term Art Brut, or 'raw art'. He saw Art Brut as the purest form of creation because it was 'uncooked' by culture, touched by a raw nerve and deriving direct...