Picasso

Arts & Photography

Hans Ludwig Cohn Jaffé

History & Criticism

Abradale/Abrams

Gathers photographs of the nineteenth century Middle East and its people, culture, and ruins, and offers brief profiles of early photographers

Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East (1839-1885)

Perez, Nissan N.

History

Charles M. Russell

Reference

Renner, Frederick G.

Catalogs & Directories

Hundreds of illustrations, many in full color, highlight a detailed look at the immense restoration work being done on Michelangelo's masterpiece, showing how the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes has revealed vivid colors that for years have been hidden.

The Sistine Chapel: A Glorious Restoration

Hirst, Michael

Colalucci, Gianluigi

Pietrangeli, Carlo

Flamboyant, egocentric, enigmatic - these qualities describe the extraordinary Spanish artist Salvador Dali (1904-1989), whose ingenious talent, layered with virtuosity and technical brilliance, was rivaled only by his unforgettable personality. This illustrated survey presents seventy-four brilliant, full-color reproductions of work from an astonishing career, beginning with canvases rarely seen - Dali's earliest paintings done while still in his teens. Although he worked in many styles - realist, abstract, Cubist - he is most often thought of as a leader in the Surrealist movement of the 1920s and '30s. Indeed, the words Surrealism and Dali are almost synonymous, despite his stormy split from the movement to launch his own style, portraying an imagined world of symbols projecting visions steeped in sexual and religious images. Organized under chapter headings that suggest the intriguing content of Dali's work - such as Ego and Memory, Painted Deliriums, Paradoxical Images, and Edible Beauty - this book offers concise comments on each colorplate, providing insights into the phantasmagoric world conjured up by the man who publicized his art as being of "myself - the great Dali!" In addition to his prodigious output of paintings, drawings, and graphics, Dali also created theater, opera, and ballet sets, was a pioneer in Surrealist filmmaking, illustrated numerous books, wrote an autobiography and a novel, and designed fashion and jewelry. Two magnificent, whimsical examples of the latter are included here.

Dali (Great Modern Masters)

Dalí, Salvador

Individual Artists

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was the great French painter of modern times. In the early years of the century he became the leader of a group of avant-garde artists called the Fauves ("wild beasts"), known for their use of brilliant, aggressive colors. His career spanned more than five decades and during that time he developed many other styles, from austere variations on Cubism to sensual interiors and figure paintings. Throughout his life, Matisse remained preoccupied by the subject of the female model; during the many years he spent on the Mediterranean coast he painted innumerable fantasies of women in exotic costumes. Late in life, in ill health and no longer able to sustain the exertion of painting, Matisse invented the technique of making pictures from pieces of colored paper cut out with scissors. He achieved in old age a final burst of creativity in his mural and stained glass designs for a chapel at Vence in the south of France, one of the most acclaimed ensembles of church decoration of the twentieth century. This book reproduces in color more than sixty of Matisse's most remarkable paintings from all periods of his life, among them portraits, still lifes, and figures, as well as several of his paper cutouts and his designs for the chapel at Vence.

Matisse (Great Modern Masters)

Henri Matisse

Featuring more than seventy illustrations of the artist's most important works, an expensive survey of Miro's career traces the development of his abstract, surrealist style and his monumental, public paintings of the forties and fifties.

Miro (Great Modern Masters)

Joan Miró

Pablo Picasso, undisputably one of the greatest masters of the twentieth century, is a perfect embodiment of the modern artist. Forfeiting a conventional career and scorning the artistic establishment - despite his academic training and exceptional natural talent - he fully embraced the bohemian lifestyle of the avant-garde throughout his long and productive life. In this illustrated survey of the artist's career, nearly seventy full-color plates reproduce masterpieces as well as lesser-known works, demonstrating the diversity and scope of Picasso's extraordinary artistic output. The son of a drawing teacher from Malaga, Spain, Picasso moved to Barcelona in 1895 and plunged into the cosmopolitan turn-of-the-century art scene of that city. By 1904 he was living in Paris in the legendary neighborhood of Montmartre. Over the next few years the artist became intrigued by Iberian sculpture and African masks, and incorporated their evocative imagery into his art, culminating in the famous 1907 painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Along with the painter Georges Braque, Picasso then embarked on the artistic revolution known as Cubism, an abstract style that completely altered the way the world was represented in art. As the century progressed, Picasso continued to test artistic boundaries, ultimately developing a highly personal expressionistic style. This is perhaps best represented by the well-known 1937 painting Guernica, the artist's reaction to a horrific episode of civilian slaughter during the Spanish Civil War. Following World War II, Picasso settled in the south of France where he continued to work until his death in 1973.

Picasso (Great Modern Masters)

PICASSO, Pablo

The Way West: Art of Frontier America

Hassrick, Peter

Dust Jacket in Very Good condition.

The Shell: Gift of the Sea

Stix, Hugh and Marguerite and R. Tucker Abbott

Science & Math

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