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Abstract Expressionism by Barbara Hess
$20.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
"Abstract expressionism" refers to the non-representational use of form and color as a means of expression that emerged in America in the 1940s, largely thanks to the innovative work of Arshile Gorky. Interestingly, abstract expressionism is considered to be the first movement originating in America to ...Show more
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling
$35.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title is about one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27 ...Show more
Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: very good
The Case Study House program (1945-1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences ...Show more
Escher by Ulrike Becks-Malorny
$25.00 NZD
Category: Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental ...Show more
Expressionism (Basic Art series) by Norbert Wolf & Uta Grosenick (eds)
$20.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to expressthe inner state of the artist. The movement is also associated with Germany in particular, and was influenced by such emotionally-charged styles as Symbol ...Show more
Jasper Johns by Barbara Hess
$25.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Though his work is often categorized as Pop Art for its use of popular iconography and household objects, Jasper Johns can also be described as a Neo-Dadaist. Using wax-based paint, plaster relief, collage, and even commonplace objects such as brooms and rulers in his paintings, Johns achieves a sculptu ...Show more
Kahn by Joseph Rosa
$25.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Though Louis Isidore Kahn (1901-1974) started his career late in his life, the few projects he was able to undertake were realized to perfection. With the Jonas Salk Institute in La Jolla, California (1959-1965) Kahn created a workspace with superb functional and aesthetic qualities; the institute's Min ...Show more
Le Corbusier by Jean-Louis Cohen
$25.00 NZD
Category: Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L
Miro Basic Art by Janis Mink
$30.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Assassinator of painting. The artist who upset the establishment. Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the twentieth century. His early work clearly shows the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. The Catalan landscape also shapes the themes and treatment of these initial ...Show more
Neutra (Basic Art) by Barbara Lamprecht
$25.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
The quintessential California Modernist "The continual refinement of human knowledge of the body and soul came to be one and the same thing for me, and the architecture of human living space its most necessary application and valuation." - Richard Neutra Born and raised in Vienna, Richard Neutra (1872-1 ...Show more
Raphael by Christoph Thoenes
$20.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Influenced by his contemporaries Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael Santi (1483-1520) became, in his own right, one of the most important artists of the High Renaissance. Though Raphael painted many important works in his Florence period, including his famous Madonnas, it was his mature work in Rome tha ...Show more
Saarinen by Pierluigi Serraino
$25.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century's great visionaries, both in the fields of furniture design (he created the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, for example) and in architecture. Among his greatest accomplishments are monuments that shaped architecture in postwar America and ...Show more