Now in flexi-cover, this visually stunning collection of Klimt's landscape paintings brings to light a lesser-known aspect of the Viennese painter's uvre. While Klimt is largely revered for his opulen
This volume, which includes a number of Haeckel's drawings and watercolours which have never been published before, is the first detailed overview of the scientist and artist's vast output and provide
Abundantly documented with hundreds of Hartung's creations, knowlegeable and handy, this book introduces the countless challenges involved in this work, essential for the comprehension of the history
A meditation on the dilemmas and desires for home that combines the writings of art critic and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit with painter Stefan Kurten's lush images of domestic interiors, buildin
Anselm Kiefer is best known for his brooding forests and somber fields encrusted with debris, and for his haunted monuments reeking of the Nazi past. This series of delicately executed watercolorsland
Adam Elsheimer is first recorded in 1600 and by 1610 he was dead. But Elsheimer was influential on the coming century to a degree out of all proportion to his brief career and small output. Above all,
The remarkable collection of top-notch German and Netherlandish paintings held by the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City receives substantial treatment in the lengthy essays on each of the selected p
Exploring the paintings of the key artists of the Secessionist Movement within the context of Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, this book, which comprises over 200 colour images, pays special at
One of the greatest artists of sixteenth-century Europe, Han Holbein the Younger earned high acclaim for his work both in the city of Basel and in England for Henry VIII and other patrons. This book i
This collection extends and deepens understanding of the political, social, and cultural contexts through which the meanings of Dürer's works can be perceived, and focuses on images which provide insights into his rich cultural milieu. Expanding views of nature and landscape, cultural strategies of collecting, the construction of national cultural identity, the humanist concern for a moral life, the transgressions of sexual order, and the gendered rituals of courtship are just some of the contemporary discourses and practices to which Dürer's works are linked. Also discussed is the manner in which images were viewed in the early-sixteenth century, and the powers and dangers with which they were associated, and the collection concludes with an appreciation of the changing historical role which Dürer himself has had within the European cultural tradition.
At the height of his fame, Caspar David Friedrich's spooky, dreamy work was bought by the Prussian royal family and the Russian tsar. But his radical political sympathies affected his reputation, and
This thorough and beautifully illustrated monograph provides a history of the late medieval painter that includes substantial analysis of his painted altarpieces, manuscripts, and goldsmith work; evid
- This book is the catalogue for an exhibition held recently at the Dallas Museum of Art, which travels to Tate Modern in October 2003.- Published in association with the Dallas Museum of Art
Adolph Menzel was one of the most important German artists of the nineteenth century, yet he is scarcely known outside his native land. In this book a leading art historian contends that Menzel deserv
Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-Portrait as Soldier (1915) is one of the best-known self-portraits of the modern classical period. With its sharp foreground focus on the uniformed a
This study brings together leading scholars from Europe and the United States to consider the art of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98 1543) from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Generously
During the first half of the nineteenth century, Danish and German artists studying in Paris and Rome brought back the concept of "plein air" painting and began to paint out-of-doors on their native s
Looks at the career of the Renaissance artist and describes the artistic and cultural influences that affected his works and the friendships he developed with leading humanists of the time period.
