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de Lempicka (Hardcover)
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de Lempicka (Hardcover)
Series: Basic Art Series
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List price R508
Loot Price R401
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You Save R107 (21%)
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Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an
appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she
fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about
taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental oeuvre remains one
of the most vivid visual documents of 1920s Art Deco. De Lempicka's
style deployed cool colors and tight post-cubist forms into an at
once neoclassical and voluptuous figuration. Her subjects are often
nude and always sensual, aloof, and powerful. Bedecked in seductive
light and textures, they command our attention but typically avert
their gaze with an aspect of haughty grandeur. They include both
high-society patrons and progressive portraits of emancipated and
lesbian women, such as Women Bathing and Portrait of Suzy Solidor.
De Lempicka's notorious Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti,
meanwhile, was commissioned for the cover of German magazine Die
Dame and became an icon of speed, sophistication, and female
independence. Through some of de Lempicka's finest, most compelling
portraits, this introduction explores the artist's unique visual
language and its privileged place not only in the annals of
interwar art but also in the history of female artists and our
collective consciousness of the Roaring Twenties. About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the
best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in
TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological
summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her
cultural and historical importance a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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