In her most recent work, published here for the first time (alongside other select projects), the important Finnish video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila challenges traditional explanations for Northern European melancholy--instead questioning the concept of "normality" and examining existential, abstract themes such as co-existence and exclusion, childhood and violence, life and death.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Arts & Photography

DURAND, Régis

Bronfen, Elisabeth

Krystof, Doris

Individual Artists

Hatje Cantz

Pablo Picasso's images of children show him at his most affectionate and sensitive. Ranging from individual and family portraits to groups of a genre-like character, these images encompass various moods, from fragile happiness to a helpless sorrow. This text is a selection of depictions of children, placed in the context of the artist's life and work. The narrative tone of Picasso's early images of children was superseded in the 1920s by portraits of his own offspring. Later, in the 1940s and 1950s, the focus shifted to the existential problems of childhood. Many depictions consciously invoke historical precedents to capture the charm traditionally associated with images of children, while others break entirely with convention to shatter notions of the well-protected seclusion of the child's world. First published in German to accompany an exhibition shown at the Kunstammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, this volume has been updated and includes examples of oils, gouaches, sculptures, prints, drawings and a number of previously unpublished photographs. It contains contributions by Maya Picasso, Sigrid Metken and Doris Krystof.

Picasso's World of Children

PICASSO, Pablo

Metken, Sigrid

Picasso, Maya

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Prestel Pub

Modigliani Hc Album Remainders

Benedikt Taschen Verlag

A member of the Bohemian circle that included artists such as Picasso, Brancusi, Juan Gris, Utrillo and many writers, Modigliani is best known for his portraits of women, which contain elongated necks, almond-shaped eyes, and serene facial expressions. Few artists before or since have created works of such classical beauty.

Modigliani (Spanish Edition)

TASCHEN ESPAÑA, S.A.U.

The controversial darling and target of the popular press: Scandalous Amedeo Modigliani To contemporaries, Amedeo Modigliani was the very definition of Parisian Bohemia, the controversial darling and target of the popular press and the model on which many a novel, play and film was based. As an artist, the scandalous Modigliani made his name chiefly with his celebrated pictures of women, with almond eyes and long necks and bodies. His style had ancient roots that lay deep in classical antiquity or Africa. But his portraits of intellectual giants of the age, friends such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau or Diego Rivera, were inimitable also. In Doris Krystof’s study, the scene Modigliani was the hero of comes alive, and his sensitive paintings and sculptures speak in tongues. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:<ul>
<li>a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance</li> <li>a concise biography</li> <li>approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions</li> </ul>

Modigliani (Basic Art)

History & Criticism

Taschen

Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) made his name chiefly with his celebrated elongated women and luxuriant nudes, but his portraits of the legends of the age, friends such as Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera, are equally memorable. This book features Modigliani’s best work in painting and sculpture and the bohemian scene in which he worked.

Amedeo Modigliani

Taschen America, LLC

Pontormo (Masters of Italian Art Series)

Konemann

Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) a tracé des odes infinies aux formes féminines, inscrivant ses corps allongés, ses yeux en amande et son propre nom dans l'histoire de l'art. Ses personnages féminins alanguis au longs cous, surprenants et sensuels, se reconnaissent au premier coup d'oeil. Le style unique de Modigliani correspondait à son idéal de beauté personnel, mais s'inspirait d'une riche variété d'influences visuelles, dont le cubisme, les gravures africaines, les sculptures cambodgiennes et la peinture du XIIIe siècle de son Italie natale. S'il est surtout connu pour ses nus de femmes, Modigliani a usé de techniques similaires pour ses portraits d'artistes contemporains, comme Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau et Chaïm Soutine. À travers des oeuvres clé de sa palette très personnelle, ce livre introduit la carrière aussi brève que glorieuse de Modigliani au coeur du foyer moderniste de Paris. À propos de la collection Chaque volume de la Basic Art Series de TASCHEN contient: une chronologique détaillée de la vie et de l'oeuvre de l'artiste qui rend compte de son importance culturelle et artistique une biographie concise une centaine d'illustrations couleur accompagnées de légendes explicatives

Modigliani (Basic Art) (French Edition)

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as they are startling, sensual, and swan-necked.
Modigliani's unique figuration corresponded to his own personal idea of beauty, but drew upon a rich variety of visual influences, including contemporary Cubism, African carvings, Cambodian sculptures, and 13th-century painting from his native Italy. Although most renowned for his nude females, he applied similar stylistic techniques to portraits of male artistic contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Chaïm Soutine.
With key works from his highly individualistic repertoire, this book introduces Modigliani's brief but revered career at the heart of Paris’s early modernist hotbed.

Modigliani (Basic Art Series)

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