Art

This volume covers art, architecture, dance, music, theatre and literature from pre-history to the present. Over 3000 entries explain all the major and many minor art-forms and their terminologies, list...

David Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong...

Seit dem Goldenen Zeitalter der Malerei in Danemark im fruhen 19. Jahrhundert hat der Realismus in der Kunst des Nordens stets eine besondere Rolle gespielt. Gemeinsam, zumeist im Freien und...

In this arresting volume the author discusses his paintings' frank eroticism and elaborate decorations against the background of Klimt's sensational life. She introduces readers to turn-of-the-century Vienna, a hotbed of...

Edward Hopper's passion was to portray "typical America". Hopper was one of the finest of the American scene painters in the Realist tradition. His city scenes and landscapes are vivid...

In this important new survey, Catherine Wood proposes performancenot as a genre of art separate from object-making but as an attitudethat has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art. Fromthe...

The charismatic Kat Von D, the star of LA Ink, with writer Anthony Bozza (author of best-sellers "Slash" and "Tommyland") opens the door to the world of contemporary tattooing, the...

The Hoerengracht (1983--88) is an installation artwork by Ed Kienholz (American, 1927--1994) and his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz. This tableau----a surprising site in the National Gallery----is a walk-through evocation of...

This volume is published to accompany a major European retrospective of the work of Andy Warhol, presenting him as the most significant chronicler of the second half of the 20th...

This series considers artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It...

Well-known contemporary artist Jean-Paul van Boxtel introduces many innovative techniques and applications for acrylic paint, whose physical composition makes it incredibly versatile. The book also deals in detail with the...

A complete guide to drawing and painting a wide range of topics from landscapes, figures and nudes to still life, flowers and portraits. All the traditional media are covered from...