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Product Description: Throughout Pablo Picassoâs career, members of his immediate family were portrayed in a variety of works and media, becoming recurrent motifs. This publication compiles a significant group of portraits from various museums and private collections...read more
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9788494024986 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, March 31, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Throughout Pablo Picassoâs career, members of his immediate family were portrayed in a variety of works and media, becoming recurrent motifs.
Product Description: One of the greatest living painters and portraitists, Lucian Freud (born 1922) brings a powerfully obsessive scrutiny to bear upon his subjects. "I want the painting to be flesh," Freud has avowed, and through this aspiration he achieves almost devastatingly unsentimental and revelatory portraits of his sitters, as he translates the act of scrutiny into strokes of paint...read more
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9783777426914 | 1 edition (Hirmer Verlag, May 31, 2010), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: One of the greatest living painters and portraitists, Lucian Freud (born 1922) brings a powerfully obsessive scrutiny to bear upon his subjects.
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9780192828286, titled "The First Men in the Moon" | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $6.95 | also contains The First Men in the Moon
Product Description: Antiquity as inspiration can be revealed in the works of Paul Delvaux as from the beginning of the 1930s and gets more important during World War II, for example with the theme of the tragic city. His interest in antiquity is characterized by antique sculpture and leads the artist to the elaboration of a theatralic human figure...read more
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9789085865414 | Exhibitions Intl, April 30, 2010, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Antiquity as inspiration can be revealed in the works of Paul Delvaux as from the beginning of the 1930s and gets more important during World War II, for example with the theme of the tragic city.
Product Description: The role of art in the rise of totalitarian ideologies is the focus of an international group of scholars and curators whose goal - unlike other publications on the period - is not to expose the ties between art and power, but to go to the heart of that power : biology...read more
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9780888848536 | Natl Gallery of Canada, June 4, 2008, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The role of art in the rise of totalitarian ideologies is the focus of an international group of scholars and curators whose goal - unlike other publications on the period - is not to expose the ties between art and power, but to go to the heart of that power : biology.
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9783775719223 | Hatje Cantz Pub, June 1, 2007, cover price $65.00
A richly illustrated retrospective of the critically acclaimed work of the master photographer honors the ninety-fifth birthday of Cartier-Bresson with a collection of some of his finest works, representing all periods of his life, along with a selection of drawings, paintings, film stills, and previously unpublished photographs. Reprint.
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9780500542675 | Reissue edition (Thames & Hudson, April 1, 2003), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: A richly illustrated retrospective of the critically acclaimed work of the master photographer honors the ninety-fifth birthday of Cartier-Bresson with a collection of some of his finest works, representing all periods of his life, along with a selection of drawings, paintings, film stills, and previously unpublished photographs.
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9780500286425, titled "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image and The World: A Retrospective" | Reprint edition (Thames & Hudson, November 7, 2006), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A richly illustrated retrospective of the critically acclaimed work of the master photographer honors the ninety-fifth birthday of Cartier-Bresson with a collection of some of his finest works, representing all periods of his life, along with a selection of drawings, paintings, film stills, and previously unpublished photographs.
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9780300103755 | Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $90.00
Book Description: This unprecedented volume presents one of the most significant but least investigated aspects of Picasso's art. It reveals the fascinating ties between Picasso's work and his experiences in Italy. There he began his second rose period and absorbed the powerful spirit of Renaissance, Classical, and Mannerist art, as well as Italian culture...read more
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9781577173304 | Thames & Hudson, February 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This unprecedented volume presents one of the most significant but least investigated aspects of Picasso's art.
Product Description: Balthazar Klossowski, known as Balthus, is largely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important painters-- as well as the most scandalous. His dreamlike canvases populated with pubescent girls in provocative poses garnered him both praise and scorn from artists and critics alike...read more
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9780847824106 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, December 1, 2001, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Balthazar Klossowski, known as Balthus, is largely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important painters-- as well as the most scandalous.
Amazon.com Review: The fact that this 500-page catalogue raisonné was approved by Balthus himself, the most mutable of authorities on his own life and oeuvre, will make it suspect for some historians. And the fact that the texts for the 2,100 black-and-white reproductions are in French (a long, earnest essay by Jean Clair is translated into English) will limit its usefulness for nonacademic readers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780810963948 | Harry N Abrams Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $225.00 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9783791320892 | Prestel Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: From Galileo to Yves Klein the cosmos has been the inspiration for generations of artists, architects and designers.
A volume accompanying the exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice collects the artist's personal notes, sketches, drawings, paintings, and set designs, as well as interpretive essays by ten art scholars
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9780847820962 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, July 1, 1998, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A volume accompanying the exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice collects the artist's personal notes, sketches, drawings, paintings, and set designs, as well as interpretive essays by ten art scholars
Hardcover:
9788434308190 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, December 1, 1997, cover price $50.00
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9782891921947 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, September 1, 1995, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: The catalogue of an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from June 8 to October 15, 1995.
Product Description: Some 15 years ago Cartier-Bresson decided to lay down the Leica and return to his first love painting and drawing to which he brings the same magic that infused his famous photographs. The foreword by John Russell (chief art critic, The New York Times ) and introduction by Jean Clair (curator of dr...read more
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9780500091906 | Thames & Hudson, May 1, 1989, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Some 15 years ago Cartier-Bresson decided to lay down the Leica and return to his first love painting and drawing to which he brings the same magic that infused his famous photographs.
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