Product Description: From the classical ideal to contemporary icons, the male body is a symbol of perfection in art. This pocket-size volume, which offers a fascinating visual survey of the nude, features nearly sixty paintings, sculptures, and photographs spanning classic to contemporary art.

Product Description: Paris, February 1909. An article by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Martinetti appears in Le Figaro. It is the ‘Manifesto of Futurism,’ the movement that expressed concepts of movement and speed through simultaneous visions and dynamic lines and interpreted in an all-embracing way the new collective myth of modernity...read more

Product Description: Still life is an art form which gives us valuable insights into changes of mentality and philosophy. Each still life is emblematic of a specific time and place and of a certain metaphysical perspective. This overview features sixty works from antiquity to the present and analyzes the history and significance of each...read more

Product Description: The Bauhaus Arts and Crafts Institute was founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius in 1919. Avant-garde artists from every part of Europe joined, including Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. On the occasion of its ninetieth anniversary, fifty extraordinary works produced by the Bauhaus come back to life in the ninety-six pages of this unmissable "little" monograph...read more

Product Description: During the 1870s and 1880s, a group of French artists, including Pissarro, Monet, and Renoir, adopted a style of painting and subjects that challenged the art of the Academie Francaise where "official" assumptions about the meaning of painting prevailed...read more

Product Description: Mass culture, popular taste, and kitsch were the inspiration for and provocative themes of pop art, a movement that enjoyed great prominence in the late 1950s and 1960s. This super-condensed book shows the development of pop art, from its roots to its rise in popularity as an art form that celebrated the glamour and hedonism of the newly commercialized Western world...read more

Product Description: This book on the art of the twentieth century is published almost ten years after the end of the so-called "short century"—which, in terms of art, was anything but short—and is a valuable tool for reflection. The author has placed a series of works in sequence, accompanied by easy to understand critical commentary...read more

Product Description: Post-impressionism was the movement that represented both an extension of Impressionism, as well as a rejection of the limitation of it. The term "post-impressionism" was coined for the work of such painters as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and several others...read more

Product Description: The representation of the female body has inspired some of the finest works in art history. This volume, which aims to offer a fascinating visual survey of the nude, features nearly fifty paintings and sculptures—often celebrated masterpieces—spanning from classic to contemporary art...read more

Product Description: This general catalogue, which represents years of work on the systematic cataloguing of Pomodoros entire sculptural output, covers the full range of works produced by the artist between 1953 and 2003, supplemented with the first complete documentary research into the entire existing bibliography...read more

Product Description: At the tenth anniversary of Carmelo Cappello's passing (1912-1996), this celebration of his limpid, luminous abstract sculpture finds it ensconced in the collections of major international museums, and on view in public spaces all over Europe.

Product Description: Book by Gualdoni, Flaminio, Cadena, Josep M.