In the mid- to late 1960s, a group of young artists on both sides of the Atlantic turned away from the enclosed space of the gallery, and went out into the landscape, to make a new type of art. Land Art, or as it has been alternatively described, Earth Art, Earthworks or Environmental Art, while it encompasses a wide range of practices,

Wydawnictwo: Tate Gallery Publications

From birth to death and beyond This book depicts people at some of the most emotional moments of their lives. For more than seven years Anders Ryman traveled the world documenting life cycle rituals. The result is a book that in intimate and stunning pictures portrays more than thirty rituals from all parts of the globe. The rites range from the blessing of the newborn in a small village in Spain to a girl's initiation into womanhood among the Apaches of Arizona; from the Xhosa male initiatio

Wydawnictwo: taschen

This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative. It analyses their contrasting aesthetic strategies and their innovative forms of artistic production.

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

Stephenson: Paint with the Watercolour Masters

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson

Stephenson: Paint with the Impressionists

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson

This book brings together, catalogues and illustrates over 70 Northern European paintings and altarpieces still to be found in English churches and colleges, and hitherto hardly known.

Wydawnictwo: Harvey Miler Publishers

The Evolution of Rubens?s Judgement of Paris; The Design Practices of the Dutch Architectural Painter Bartholomeus van Bassen; Mazo?s Queen Mariana of Spain in Mourning; Investigation of Pigment-Medium Interaction Processes in Oil Paint containing Degraded Smalt; The Technology of Red Lake Pigment Manufacture through Study of the Dyestuff Substrate; Analysis of Paint Media: New Studies of Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.

Wydawnictwo: Yale University Press

Davies: National Gallery

Wydawnictwo: Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques

Venice was truly a laboratory of perception in the nineteenth century, with its beguiling interplay of light, water, land and architecture. Of course, its fame as a muse for great artists goes further back, but the optical preoccupations of Impressionist and Neoimpressionist painters like Claude Monet and Paul Signac were especially suited to its singular virtues.

Wydawnictwo: HATJE CANTZ

This beautifully illustrated volume examines the lines of influence leading from Monet to the great modern exponents of Abstract Expressionism. The book emphasizes the innovative aspects of Monet 's late works, including his famous water lily paintings and Rouen Cathedral series. His paintings are juxtaposed with those of 25 modern artists, including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Ellsworth Kelly.

Wydawnictwo: PRESTEL

Das berühmteste Gemälde der Welt, Leonardos Mona Lisa, gibt der Menschheit seit seiner Entstehung, vermutlich zwischen 1503 und 1506, Rätsel auf. Wer ist sie wirklich? Was hat es mit dem Lächeln auf sich? Ist eine Partie der Landschaft tatsächlich unvollendet geblieben oder eine besondere Raffinesse des "Sfumato"?

Wydawnictwo: SCHIRMER/MOSEL

Stroo: Mayer Van den Bergh Museum Antwerp

Wydawnictwo: Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques

Patnode: Maya bundle

Wydawnictwo: FOCAL PRESS

Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe describes the life and popularity of this famous early twentieth-century American artist. This beautifully illustrated catalogue includes all types of Parrish's work, from his sumptuous murals to his fun and lively works based on Mother Goose's fairytales.

Wydawnictwo: Philip Wilson Publishers

Cassatt's art explores a New Woman's perspective on the spaces of modernity: at the theatre, in the drawing-room and garden, in the studio. Admired by Degas - who invited her to show with the impressionists in 1877 - Cassatt's work reveals her profound study of Old Masters and keen responses to contemporary French and Spanish painters.

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson

This volume is about Netherlandish workshop practice from the late fifteenth century to the 1560s. Some articles present the results of new technical studies that are comprehensive in nature, revealing the inter-relationship between prints and painting practices, modes of collaboration, shifts in procedure, the development and use of shop models, and the impact of international commerce.

Wydawnictwo: Brepols N.V.

Leonardo da Vinci--painter, engineer, inventory, mathematician, and architect--he was a Renaissance man in the fullest sense. Over 150 color illustrations--some well known, some obscure--offer glimpses into the inner world of the man who was four centuries ahead of his time.

Wydawnictwo: Terrail

Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is one of the few Modernist artists that can be said to have anticipated both American Abstraction and American Pop, and to have made a deliberate relationship with American culture: He visited the U.S. several times, and during the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, he lived in exile in New York.

Wydawnictwo: HATJE CANTZ

Dutch-American painter Willem de Kooning was a first generation Abstract Expressionist. Starting as an "angry young man" in the 1930s, he is best known for his Women series—a subject he pursued from the beginning to the end of his career. In the 1970s he began to make sculptures.

Wydawnictwo: SCHIRMER/MOSEL