Lucie-Smith Edward Livres

Presents some of the most engaging life stories, eventful, intimate and poignant. This book evokes the lives of great personalities, from Picasso and Duchamp to Joseph Beuys and Louise Bourgeois, guiding the reader through the maze of different styles and movements.

Bottoms gives you a perspective on art that you may never have appreciated. Showing the fundamental aspects of well-known images, this cheeky book challenges you to identify the full picture behind the detail. Beautiful bottoms from the full spectrum of world art are shown in luscious close-up, uncluttered by text.

"Rich in information ... sharp in perception."-The Times Educational Supplement

Prismatic, dreamy landscapes from a protagonist of the Stuckist movement The enigmatic, colorful landscapes of "Stuckist" Czech painter Jirí Hauschka (born 1965) hark back to the Symbolism of turn-of-the-century painters such as Canadian painter Tom Thomson, German Expressionist Franz Marc, or, more recently, Daniel Richter and Peter Doig. This monograph surveys his engagement with these lineages of landscape painting.

Gathers paintings that feature animals, both real and mythological, and discusses the background of each work

What exactly is Neo-Expressionism? The part of a city known as the acropolis? Or the painting technique called gouache? In this authoritative and concise dictionary, more than 2000 entries and 375 illustrations embrace the vast vocabulary of painting and sculpture, architecture and photography, the decorative, applied and graphic arts. The geographical spread is global; the chronological range takes in both Helladic art from Bronze Age Greece and holography, one of the newest means of expression provided by modern technology. 375 illus.