Meet Sir Peter Paul Rubens, master painter and polymath There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality. This essential introduction takes in the most important works from this astonishingly prolific oeuvre to explore Rubens’s influences and innovations, and his remarkable visual, and art historical, impact. The richly illustrated survey takes in Rubens’s portraits, landscapes, and historical paintings, as well as his famed and bountiful nudes. Along the way, we examine the artist’s astonishing technique and his deft ability to depict narrative in a compelling and legible visual form, whether an erotic mythological scene or a tender biblical story. This remarkable artistic bravura is placed in context both within Rubens’s long art historical legacy through Van Dyck, Velazquez, and beyond, and his other talents as a classical scholar, diplomat, and knight.

Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of "carving into color," creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these gouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the age-old conflict between color and line. This edition of the first volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau, with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Teriade, the poets Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law Georges Duthuit. In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale, these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's (1841-1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the personal history and motivation behind the legend. Though he began by painting landscapes in the Impressionist style, Renoir found his true affinity in portraits, after which he abandoned the Impressionists altogether. Though often misunderstood, Renoir remains one of history's most well-loved painters-undoubtedly because his works exude such warmth, tenderness, and good spirit. In an incisive text tracing the artist's career and stylistic evolution, Gilles Neret shows how Renoir reinvented the painted female form, with his everyday goddesses and their plump forms, rounded hips and breasts. Renoir's later phase, marked by his return to the simple pleasure of the female nude in his baigneuses series, was his most innovative and stylistically influential, and would inspire such masters as Matisse and Picasso. With a complete chronology, bibliography, photos, sketches, and brilliant reproductions, this is the essential work of reference on this enduring master artist.

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever. Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of Renaissance achievement. His peers called him simply "Il Divino" ("the divine one"). This book provides the essential introduction to Michelangelo with all the awe-inspiring masterpieces and none of the queues and crowds. With vivid illustration and accessible texts, we explore the artist's extraordinary figuration and celebrated style of terribilita (momentous grandeur), which allowed human and biblical drama to exist in compelling scale and fervor. Through the power hubs of Renaissance Italy, we take in his major commissions and phenomenal capacity for compositional schemes, whether the famous Medici library in Florence, or the extraordinary 500-square-meter ceiling (1508-1512) in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. From the towering David to the aching grief and faith of The Pieta and the vivid drama of the Sistine Chapel's Last Judgment, this is a succinct, dependable reference to a true giant of art history and to some of the most famous artworks in the world.

The most comprehensive retrospective of Renoir’s work Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s (1841–1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the personal history and motivation behind the legend. Though he began by painting landscapes in the Impressionist style, Renoir found his true affinity in portraits, after which he abandoned the Impressionists altogether. Though often misunderstood, Renoir remains one of history’s most well-loved painters—undoubtedly because his works exude such warmth, tenderness, and good spirit. In an incisive text tracing the artist’s career and stylistic evolution, Gilles Neret shows how Renoir reinvented the painted female form, with his everyday goddesses and their plump contours, rounded hips and breasts. Renoir’s later phase, marked by his return to the simple pleasure of the female nude in his Bathers series, was his most innovative and stylistically influential, and would inspire such masters as Matisse and Picasso. With a complete chronology, bibliography, photos, sketches, and brilliant reproductions, this is the essential work of reference on this enduring master artist.

Die luxuriose Welt des Wiener Symbolisten Die ungebrochene Popularitat von Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) ist nicht nur der sinnlich-luxuriosen Ausstrahlung und dekorativen Qualitat seiner Bilder geschuldet, sondern auch den universellen Themen, mit denen er sich befasste: Liebe, weibliche Schonheit, Alter und Tod. Der Sohn eines Goldschmieds erschuf Oberflachen, die wie Edelsteine funkelten und von agyptischer und japanischer Kunst beeinflusst waren. Ob Gemalde, Wandmalereien oder Friese: Klimts Werk zeichnen brillante Farben, flie?ende Linien, florale Elemente und mosaikartige Muster aus. All diese schimmernde Leuchtkraft ist jedoch auch mit Emotionen durchtrankt, mit Sinnlichkeit und Verlangen sowie auch Angst und Verzweiflung. Die von Klimt portratierten Frauen mit ihren uppigen Formen, roten Lippen, gerotete Wangen und ihrer zarten Haut strahlten Leidenschaft aus in einer Zeit, als eine solch offene Erotik im Wiener Burgertum noch tabu war. Dieses Buch prasentiert eine Auswahl an Klimts Werken, stellt seine Welt der Sehnsucht und Ornamentik vor und erkundet seinen Einfluss auf spatere Kunstler.

Des peintures au tournant de la modernite Vilipende sa vie durant pour son style comme pour le sujet de ses ?uvres, le peintre francais Edouard Manet (1832–1883) est aujourd’hui reconnu comme une figure incontournable de l’histoire de l’art, ayant fait le lien entre realisme et impressionnisme. Dans son ?uvre, Manet utilisa la peinture pour representer des scenes etonnamment modernes, inspirees du monde qui l’entourait, notamment de la vie urbaine parisienne. Il sut capter les jardins de la ville, ses parcs et ses cabarets, souvent attire par le frisson des bas-fonds ou se delectant d’un sujet provocant. A Paris, le Salon rejeta son Dejeuner sur l’herbe mettant en scene une femme nue entouree d’hommes habilles, tandis que la pose ouvertement decomplexee et le regard plein de defiance de la prostituee dans Olympia, reinvention eminemment moderne de la Venus d’Urbin du Titien, fit scandale. A travers de magnifiques illustrations, ce livre presente l’?uvre de Manet et son style unique, associant realisme, impressionnisme et references aux grands maitres de la peinture, ce style qui ouvrira un nouveau champ plein d’audace pour les generations modernistes a venir.

La retrospective la plus complete jamais consacree a l’?uvre de Renoir Les tableaux de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) au charme intemporel n’evoquent qu’amour, bonheur et beaute. Issu de notre edition grand format, qui formait la retrospective la plus complete jamais consacree a l’?uvre du peintre, cet ouvrage analyse de pres l’histoire et la passion cachees derriere la legende. Bien qu’il ait commence sa carriere par des paysages de style impressionniste, Renoir n’a vraiment developpe son propre style qu’apres avoir commence a peindre des portraits qui l’ont conduit a se detacher completement de l’impressionnisme. On l’a souvent mal compris ou critique, et pourtant Renoir demeure l’un des peintres les plus aimes de l’Histoire grace a la chaleur et a la joie de vivre qui emanent de ses tableaux. Dans son texte eclairant qui revient sur l’integralite de la carriere de l’artiste en retracant son evolution artistique, Gilles Neret montre comment Renoir a reinvente la femme en peinture, a travers ses deesses de la vie quotidienne bien rondes, a la poitrine et aux hanches genereuses. Cette derniere phase de l’?uvre de Renoir, au cours de laquelle il en est revenu au plaisir simple de peindre des nus feminins dans sa serie consacree aux baigneuses, est sans doute de loin la plus novatrice, celle qui a le plus inspire d’autres artistes comme Matisse et Picasso. Avec sa chronologie et sa bibliographie, ses superbes reproductions couleur, ainsi que des photos et des croquis illustrant la vie et l’?uvre de Renoir, ce livre est l’un des ouvrages de reference incontournables sur ce grand maitre de la peinture.

There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality. This essential introduction takes in the most important works from this astonishingly prolific oeuvre to explore Rubens's influences and innovations, and his remarkable visual, and art historical, impact.The richly illustrated survey takes in Rubens's portraits, landscapes, historical paintings, as well as his famed and bountiful nudes. Along the way, we examine the artist's astonishing technique and his deft ability to depict narrative in a compelling and legible visual form, whether an erotic mythologial scene or a tender biblical story. This remarkable artistic bravura is placed in context both with Rubens's long art historical legacy through van Dyck, Velázquez, and beyond, and his other talents as a classical scholar, diplomat, and knight.

"Dieses Buch ist genau das, wonach ich mein Leben lang gesucht habe und wird mich auf meine einsame Insel begleiten." - Fetish Times, UK Contents: Introduction: The Venus Fly-trap. Lingerie through the Ages. Lingerie in Film. Lingerie in Advertising. Издание на английском языке.

After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his metier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into pure emotionally-charged abstraction. In 1915, he created what is widely lauded as the first and ultimate abstract artwork: Black Square, a black rectangle on a white background, hailed as the "zero point of painting," a seminal moment for modern and abstract practice. In this book, we follow Malevich's key innovations and ideas and place his groundbreaking achievements within the context of both the Russian and global avant-garde. Through rich illustrations of his work, we explore the artist's theory of Suprematism, based on severe geometric abstraction and "the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art"; his leading role in the development of Constructivism; as well as his interests in philosophy, literature, Russian folk art, and the fourth dimension.

Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the 20th century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks of the surrealist enterprise, and of modernism in general. Dali frequently described his paintings as "hand-painted dream photographs." Their tantalizing tension and interest resides in the precise rendering of bizarre elements and incongruous arrangements. As Dali himself explained, he painted with "the most imperialist fury of precision," but only "to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality. "Revolutionizing the role of the artist, the mustache-twirling Dali also had the intuition to parade a controversial persona in the public arena and, through printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and film, to create work that could be consumed and not just contemplated on a gallery wall. This book explores both the painting and the personality of Dali, introducing his technical skill as well as his provocative compositions and challenging themes of death, decay, and eroticism.

Discover the shimmering and sensual oeuvre of Gustav Klimt, the Austrian symbolist painter who polarized the art world by combining decorative finesse with erotic thrill. From landscape paintings to glistening renderings of the female body, the founding member of the Vienna Secession continues to fascinate with his works of mosaic-like patterns, curvaceous forms, and radiant color.

Discover the artist who applied paint according to the world around him and bridged the transition from Realism to Impressionism. This richly illustrated introduction to Edouard Manet presents his trailblazing panorama of contemporary life, from well-heeled classes in genteel city parks to the unabashed pose of the languid prostitute, Olympia.

«Renoir. 40th Ed.» - самая полная ретроспектива творчества Ренуара.   Очаровательные картины Пьера-Огюста Ренуара (1841–1919) до сих пор отражают наши идеалы счастья, любви и красоты. Это компактное издание, созданное на основе крупноформатного сборника, наиболее полной ретроспективы работ великого художника, опубликованной на сегодняшний день, исследует личную историю и мотивы легенды.    Хотя он начал с пейзажей в импрессионистском стиле, Ренуар нашел свою истинную близость в портретах, после чего полностью отказался от импрессионизма. Хотя Ренуара часто неправильно понимают, он остается одним из самых любимых художников в истории — несомненно, потому, что его работы источают такую теплоту, нежность и хорошее настроение.   В проницательном тексте сборника, прослеживающем карьеру художника и его стилистическую эволюцию, Жиль Нере показывает, как Ренуар заново изобретал нарисованные женские формы с его повседневными богинями и их пухлыми очертаниями, округлыми бедрами и грудью. Более поздняя фаза Ренуара, отмеченная его возвращением к простому удовольствию от обнаженной женщины в его серии «Купальщицы», была его самой новаторской и стилистически влиятельной серией работ и вдохновила таких мастеров, как Матисс и Пикассо.   С полной хронологией, библиографией, фотографиями, эскизами и блестящими репродукциями, это основной справочный сборник о непревзойденном мастере-художнике Пьере-Огюсте Ренуаре. ISBN: 9783836592093

История и культура Египта в иллюстрациях. Издание на французском, английском, немецком и японском языках.