Product Description: Chinese-born, French-based painter Yan Pei-Ming (born 1961) transforms contemporary media imagery and events into large-scale oil paintings and watercolors. This volume is published on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.

Product Description: Korean inventor, entrepreneur, and artist Ahae took one million photographs over a two-year period, through one window in his house in South Korea. The result is a vast body of work of profound intimacy and infinite richness, capturing the subtle changes of the natural environment through the circle of the seasons...read more

Product Description: Almost twenty years after the creation of the Musee d’Orsay, the 19th century seems more than ever to be the “Golden Age” of French art. It boasts names such as Ingres and Delacroix, Manet and Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Eiffel and Charles Garnier...read more

Product Description: The architectural history of the Louvre stretches back to the early 13th century. A comparatively modest royal fortress, it became the royal residence under François I, friend and patron of Leonardo da Vinci. Louis XIV turned the Louvre into a splendid castle...read more

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Product Description: Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916), whose work is frequently compared to Vermeer's, has been overlooked for nearly a century. The catalogue for an exhibition that received wide acclaim at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, and that opens at the Solomon R...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A lavishly illustrated catalog of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores the special relationships between the Impressionist painters, discusses the paintings themselves, and includes bibliographies of two hundred works.

Product Description: "I would like to be famous and unknown" said Edgar Degas. His sublime paintings of ballet dancers, striking views of horseraces and intimate scenes of women bathing made him famous. Yet he remains unknown, for the fame of these pictures has obscured both the rest of his work - historical subjects, portraits, landscapes - and his private life...read more

An illustrated look at the life and work of the great impressionist painter presents reproductions of his work and discusses his influence on the art world, his personal life, his love of opera, and his famous friends. Original.