Product Description: One of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Alex Katz has been painting mainly portraits for more than 50 years. In his work, Katz records small incidents, momentary excerpts from reality. The people depicted seem melancholy, awash in an always flawless beauty which lends them a coolness verging on lifeless...read more

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Traces the life and career of the controversial American artist and discusses the themes and techniques used in his paintings

Product Description: Born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, Alex Katz is one of the most important and respected living American artists. He began exhibiting in the 1950s, at a time when Abstract Expressionism was still the dominant force in American art...read more

Shows still lifes, nudes, and portraits by the contemporary Spanish artist and discusses Castillo's place in modern art

Describes the Nashville-born artist's life and career, shows his paintings and sculpture, and discusses his use of caricature

Product Description: Book by Ratcliff, Carter

Product Description: The painter and printmaker Pat Steir is a draftswoman of letters, signs and symbolic marks, drips and spills. Her pictorial universe has been divided by critics into many different styles, epochs and categories. In this monograph, the German art historian Doris von Drathen, currently a Professor at Cornell University, detects a consistent project throughout Steir's painting oeuvre, rich and diversified as it is: for von Drathen the paintings are linked by a persistent philosophical investigation into "what is and what you think is," relentlessly analyzing the philosophical illusion of reality and its perception...read more

The artists describe their work, and its themes of sexuality, death, faith, and emotions, and shows a variety of their photo-montages

Product Description: Book by Ratcliff, Carter

Product Description: Book by Ratcliff, Carter

Discusses the art, styles, and techniques of two Soviet dissident artists

Portrays the life of the distinguished artist, discusses the development of his painting, and analyzes his murals, society portraits, and watercolor paintings

The artists describe their work, and its themes of sexuality, death, faith, and emotions, and shows a variety of their photo-montages

Product Description: Book by Ratcliff, Carter

Product Description: Bernar Venet (b. 1941, France) is a master of contemporary conceptual art who has worked in all media, from painting and sculpture to film, music and ballet. In his early work, Venet sought to distill art, to strip it of aesthetic or expressive content, and to reestablish it as purely “conceptual...read more

Explores the history of modern American painting through the career and influence of Jackson Pollock (view table of contents)