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It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant
book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering
psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene
Dietrich's rising star in theater and silent film. Between the
paroxysms of two world wars, Berlin in the 1920s was a carpe diem
cultural heyday, replete with groundbreaking art, invention, and
thought. This book immerses readers in the freewheeling spirit of
Berlin's Weimar age. Through exemplary works in painting,
sculpture, architecture, graphic design, photography, and film, we
uncover the innovations, ideas, and precious dreams that
characterized this unique cultural window. We take in the jazz bars
and dance halls; the crowded kinos and flapper fashion; the
advances in technology and transport; the radio towers and rumbling
trams and trains; the soaring buildings; the cinematic masterworks;
and the newly independent women who smoked cigarettes, wore their
hair short, and earned their own money. Featured works in this
vivid cultural portrait include Hannah Hoech's The Journalists;
Lotte Jacobi's Hands on Typewriter; Otto Dix's Portrait of the
Journalist Sylvia von Harden; Peter Behrens's project of
theAlexanderplatz; and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel,
starring Dietrich as cabaret performer Lola Lola. Along the way, we
explore both the utopian yearnings and the more ominous economic
and political realities which fueled the era's escapist,
idealistic, or reactionary masterworks. Behind the bright lights
and glitter dresses, we see the inflation, factory labor, and
fragile political consensus that lurked beneath this golden era and
would eventually spell its savage end with the rise of National
Socialism. 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 History series
features: approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory
captions a detailed, illustrated introduction a selection of the
most important works of the epoch, each presented on a two-page
spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as
well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist
Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history.
Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important
painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted
museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dollars at
auction. Yet as he was painting the canvases that would
subsequently become these sell-out modern masterpieces, van Gogh
was battling not only the disinterest of his contemporary audiences
but also devastating bouts of mental illness, with episodes of
depression and paralyzing anxiety which would eventually claim his
life in 1890, when he committed suicide shortly after his 37th
birthday. This comprehensive study of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
pairs a detailed monograph on his life and art with a complete
catalogue of his 871 paintings. About the series Bibliotheca
Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic
TASCHEN universe!
The best of Klimt's drawings and watercolors, beautifully
reproduced in full color.
There is no doubt about Gustav Klimt's greatness as a draftsman.
Remarkable above all is the intensely sensual mood that he
establishes in his limpid, fluid drawings and watercolors: the
pencil or crayon line with which his subjects are described
explores and caresses as though the act of drawing was itself a
seduction. Klimt's drawings are often highly erotic and explicit,
many to such an extent that they have rarely been reproduced. This
has made for an unbalanced representation of his work as a
draftsman, and a comprehensive survey of his graphic output is long
overdue.
Rainer Metzger, a noted art historian, has brought together
hundreds of Klimt's drawings and watercolors in a way that enriches
our knowledge of the artist and enhances the visual impact of his
oeuvre. Klimt's drawings and studies, and his elegantly direct and
dangerously intoxicating preparatory sketches, reveal the
underlying impetus for and structure of his elaborate canvases. 307
color illustrations.
For Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of
dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual
language carved out a unique early 20th-century niche, often
identified as one of the earliest expressions of psychic
experience. Chagall's canvases are characterized by loose
brushwork, deep colors, a particular fondness for blue, and a
repertoire of recurring tropes including musicians, roosters,
rooftops, flowers, and floating lovers. For all their ethereal
charms, his compositions were often rich and complex in their
references. They wove together not only colors and forms, but also
his Jewish roots with his present encounters in Paris, markers of
faith with gestures of love and symbols of hope with testimonies of
trauma. Across scenes of birth, love, marriage, and death, this
dependable artist introduction explores the many versions of
Chagall's rich vocabulary. From visions of his native Vitebsk in
modern-day Belarus to images of the Eiffel Tower, we explore the
unique aesthetic of one of the most readily identifiable modern
masters and one of the most influential Jewish artists of all time.
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
Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses,
young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual
liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna
Secession preached: "To every age its art - to every art its
freedom;" and tremors warned of looming political disintegration
when the Austrian capital passed into a new century. Across
economics, science, art, and music, Vienna blossomed into a
"laboratory of modernity," one which nurtured some of the greatest
artistic innovators-from Egon Schiele's unflinching nude portraits
to Gustav Klimt's decadent Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, from
the ornamental seams and glass floors of Otto Wagner to Ditha
Moser's calendars adorned in golden deities. Discover the
zeitgeist, the scandals, and the extraordinary protagonists in this
introduction to a transformative epoch. Across painting, sculpture,
architecture, and design, we explore all the movers and shakers
through insightful profiles and crisp double-page reproductions.
Marking the centenary of the deaths of some of its brightest
talents, this collection joins Vienna in its 2018 celebration of
Modernism. 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 History series
features: approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory
captions a detailed, illustrated introduction a selection of the
most important works of the epoch, each presented on a two-page
spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as
well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist
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Vienna 1900 Complete (Hardcover)
Christian Brandstatter, Rainer Metzger, Daniela Gregori
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At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna became an epicentre for new
thought. A multi-disciplinary environment emerged where music,
writing and intellectual thought all flourished, often brought
together in the capital's famous coffee houses. This was the time
of Freud and Wittgenstein, of Mahler and Schoenberg, and of the
Secession (1897-1905), the modern movement led by Klimt, Josef
Hoffmann and Koloman Moser that aimed to bring different arts
together in a `Gesamtkunstwerk', a total work of art; of
Jugendstil, Vienna's Art Nouveau; and of the Wiener Werkstatte, the
workshop founded in 1903 by Moser and Hoffmann that revolutionized
the decorative and graphic arts. There have been many exhibitions
and publications devoted to this efflorescence, and even more
monographs devoted to its key players. None, however, brings
together a selection of visual material from across the different
artistic disciplines as significant as this current volume, curated
and authored by three leading scholars of the period. The book
covers all areas of production: painting and drawing; decorative
arts and crafts; applied art and book design; fashion, photography
and architecture. In each section the illustrations take the lead,
creating an invaluable visual reference point for all those eager
to identify a given category of the arts within this period,
particularly in the field of the decorative arts, from ceramics to
glass, silverwork, furniture, jewelry; and graphic arts, from book
design to posters and postcards. There are also many less familiar
works in the field of fashion and photography, and a particular
focus is given to the role of women in all disciplines of the time.
Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most
well known and celebrated in the world. In paintings such as
Sunflowers, The Starry Night, and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear,
we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the representation of
texture and mood, light and place. Yet in his lifetime, van Gogh
battled not only the disinterest of his contemporary audience but
also devastating bouts of mental illness. His episodes of
depression and anxiety would eventually claim his life, when, in
1890, he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday. This
comprehensive study of Vincent van Gogh offers a complete catalogue
of his 871 paintings, alongside writings and essays, charting the
life and work of a master who continues to tower over art to this
day.
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Painting Forever! 5 pb (Paperback)
Thomas Koehler, Rainer Metzger, Eva Sharrer, Anna-catharina Gebbers, Raimar Stange
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R951
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This four-part publication, bound into a single volume with binding
screws, catalogues a four-part exhibition at the Berlinische
Galerie, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, KW Institute for Contemporary
Art and Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. It includes work by Martin
Eder, Anselm Reyle, Thomas Scheibitz, Franz Ackermann, Jeanne
Mammen and many others.
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