UID:
kobvindex_INT0001714
Format:
360 pages
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illustrations (some colour)
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31 x 26.5 cm
Edition:
1st American edition
ISBN:
9780241226186
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9781465463289
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024122618X
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1465463283
Content:
"A stunning exploration of over 80 famous artists and their fascinating lives, from Leonardo da Vinci to Frida Kahlo. Artists: Their Lives and Works tells the inspiring stories behind the world's most famous masterpieces and their creators, including their influences, development, friendships, loves, and rivalries. Discover the often tumultuous lives of iconic artists including Raphael, Hogarth, van Gogh, O'Keeffe, Magritte, Warhol, and Kiefer. Uncover the unconventional tales of the artists' lives, including Holbein's matchmaking portraits for Henry VIII, Caravaggio's thuggish reactions to a badly-cooked artichoke, and the many romantic affairs of Picasso. Lavishly illustrated biographies for every artist reveal these visionaries at work in their studios, as well as the unique techniques, artworks, and personalities that made them into legends. Featuring a foreword by Andrew Graham-Dixon, Artists: Their Lives and Works is the ideal gift for art lovers old and young, and a uniquely fascinating look at the lives of these creators."
Content:
"Presents brief profiles of over eighty major artists throughout history, providing the historical context in which each artist worked, their influences, and legacies."
Note:
INDEX NOTE: includes indexes.
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Foreword -- Before 1500 : Giotto ; Jan van Eyck ; Donatello ; Masaccio ; Piero della Francesca ; Giovanni Bellini ; Sandro Botticelli ; Hieronymus Bosch -- 16th Century : Leonardo da Vinci ; Wen Zhengming ; Albrecht Durer ; Michelangelo ; Titian ; Raphael ; Hans Holbein ; Pieter Bruegel the Elder ; El Greco -- 17th Century : Caravaggio ; Peter Paul Rubens ; Artemisia Gentileschi ; Nicolas Poussin ; Gianlorenzo Bernini ; Anthony van Dyck ; Diego Velazquez ; Kano Tan'yu ; Rembrandt ; Jan Vermeer ; Wang Hui -- 18th Century : Jeong Seon ; Jean-Antoine Watteau ; Giambattista Tiepolo ; Canaletto ; William Hogarth ; Jean-Simeon Chardin ; Ito Jakuchu ; Thomas Gainsborough ; Jean-Honore Fragonard ; John Singleton Copley ; Franciso de Goya ; Jacques-Louis David ; Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun ; Antonio Canova -- 19th Century : Katsushika Hokusai ; Caspar David Friedrich ; J M W Turner ; John Constable ; Eugene Delacroix ; Gustave Courbet ; Dante Gabriel Rossetti ; Edouard Manet ; James McNeill Whistler ; Edgar Degas ; Paul Cezanne ; Auguste Rodin ; Claude Monet ; Henri Rousseau ; Ilya Repin ; Paul Gauguin ; Vincent van Gogh -- Early 20th Century : Gustav Klimt ; Edvard Munch ; Wassily Kandinsky ; Henri Matisse ; Piet Mondrian ; Constantin Brancusi ; Paul Klee ; Pablo Picasso ; Edward Hopper ; Amedeo Modigliani ; Marc Chagall ; Georgia O'Keeffe ; Rene Magritte ; Henry Moore -- 1945 to present : Alberto Giacometti ; Mark Rothko ; Salvador Dali ; Frida Kahlo ; Francis Bacon ; Jackson Pollock ; Bernard Buffet ; Andy Warhol ; Anish Kapoor ; Takashi Murakami -- Index of artworks -- General index -- Acknowledgments
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biographies
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Encyclopaedias
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