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Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the 20th century's greatest
exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply
the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in
particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the
soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks of the
surrealist enterprise, and of modernism in general. Dali frequently
described his paintings as "hand-painted dream photographs." Their
tantalizing tension and interest resides in the precise rendering
of bizarre elements and incongruous arrangements. As Dali himself
explained, he painted with "the most imperialist fury of
precision," but only "to systematize confusion and thus to help
discredit completely the world of reality." Revolutionizing the
role of the artist, the mustache-twirling Dali also had the
intuition to parade a controversial persona in the public arena
and, through printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and film,
to create work that could be consumed and not just contemplated on
a gallery wall. This book explores both the painting and the
personality of Dali, introducing his technical skill as well as his
provocative compositions and challenging themes of death, decay,
and eroticism. 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
Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)
was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance
man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture,
architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and
God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever.
Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of
Renaissance achievement. His peers called him simply "Il Divino"
("the divine one"). This book provides the essential introduction
to Michelangelo with all the awe-inspiring masterpieces and none of
the queues and crowds. With vivid illustration and accessible
texts, we explore the artist's extraordinary figuration and
celebrated style of terribilita (momentous grandeur), which allowed
human and biblical drama to exist in compelling scale and fervor.
Through the power hubs of Renaissance Italy, we take in his major
commissions and phenomenal capacity for compositional schemes,
whether the famous Medici library in Florence, or the extraordinary
500-square-meter ceiling (1508-1512) in the Vatican's Sistine
Chapel. From the towering David to the aching grief and faith of
The Pieta and the vivid drama of the Sistine Chapel's Last
Judgment, this is a succinct, dependable reference to a true giant
of art history and to some of the most famous artworks in the
world. 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
This book deals with the seminal surrealist. It explores Dali's
grandiose and grotesque oeuvre. Picasso called Dali "an outboard
motor that's always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a
right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter,
sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one
of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was
rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of
the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis
to the art of painting, approaching the subconscious with
extraordinary sensitivity and imagination. This publication
presents the entire painted oeuvre of Salvador Dali. After many
years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret finally
located all the paintings of this highly prolific artist. Many of
the works had been inaccessible for years - in fact so many that
almost half the illustrations in this book had rarely been seen.
Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and
lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and
use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was
almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of "carving into
color," creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by
some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these
gouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a
revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the
age-old conflict between color and line. This edition of the first
volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough
historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to
his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years
in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare
images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau,
with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Teriade, the poets Louis
Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law
Georges Duthuit. In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs
achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist
abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of
artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale,
these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and
innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.
About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as
cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with
accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate
their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an
unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books
by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new
editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact,
friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to
impeccable production.
From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of
every age-whether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of
Antiquity, or more recent famous names such as Rembrandt, Courbet,
Degas, or Picasso-have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions,
and libido and produced erotic works that the censors have taken
good care to keep from the public. For Erotica Universalis, we
surface from the subterranean realms of the museums to enter those
of our national and private libraries. Here we discover that not
only most of our famous writers, such as Ovid, Aretino, Voltaire,
Verlaine, or Maupassant, wrote erotic texts that bordered on
indecency, but also that great artists like Boucher, Fragonard,
Dali, or Matisse were inspired to provide suitable illustrations
for these naughty books. For this new hardcover edition of the
classic 1995 best seller, we have culled highlights from our
Erotica Universalis collection. About the series Bibliotheca
Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic
TASCHEN universe!
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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Caravaggio (Hardcover)
Gilles Lambert; Edited by Gilles Neret
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was always a name to
be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the
artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper,
precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run.
Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it
was above all Caravaggio's boundary-breaking naturalism which
scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied
soles of feet to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist
allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with a startling,
often visceral humanity. This vivid pictorial world was accompanied
by an equally intense personal biography, scored by gambling,
debts, drunken brawls, and even a murder charge. This book brings
together more than 50 of Caravaggio's most famous and revolutionary
works to explore how and why this artist is now considered the most
important painter of the early Baroque period and one of the
defining influences of art history, without whom Ribera, Vermeer,
Rembrandt, Delacroix, Courbet, and Manet could never have painted
the way they did. 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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Manet (Hardcover)
Gilles Neret
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Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject
matter, French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered
a crucial figure in the history of art, bridging the transition
from Realism to Impressionism. Manet's work combined a painterly
technique with strikingly modern images of contemporary life,
centered on the urban Paris experience. He recorded the city's
parks, bars, and cabarets, often delighting in the frisson of
underground or provocative content. The Paris salon rejected his
Dejeuner sur l'herbe with its juxtaposition of fully dressed men
and a nude woman, while the steady gaze and unabashed pose of the
prostitute Olympia, a very modern reworking of Titian's Venus of
Urbino, caused a society scandal. This richly illustrated book
introduces Manet's work and his uniquely influential combination of
Realism, Impressionism, and reworked Old Masters that would become
paradigms of a brave new world for generations of modernists to
come. 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
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's (1841-1919) timelessly charming paintings
still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived
from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective
of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the
personal history and motivation behind the legend. Though he began
by painting landscapes in the Impressionist style, Renoir found his
true affinity in portraits, after which he abandoned the
Impressionists altogether. Though often misunderstood, Renoir
remains one of history's most well-loved painters-undoubtedly
because his works exude such warmth, tenderness, and good spirit.
In an incisive text tracing the artist's career and stylistic
evolution, Gilles Neret shows how Renoir reinvented the painted
female form, with his everyday goddesses and their plump contours,
rounded hips and breasts. Renoir's later phase, marked by his
return to the simple pleasure of the female nude in his Bathers
series, was his most innovative and stylistically influential, and
would inspire such masters as Matisse and Picasso. With a complete
chronology, bibliography, photos, sketches, and brilliant
reproductions, this is the essential work of reference on this
enduring master artist. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we
started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has
become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms
around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and
aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of
incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40
series presents new editions of some of the stars of our
program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized
with the same commitment to impeccable production.
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Klimt (Hardcover)
Gilles Neret
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Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of
Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th
century - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic
awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt
(1862-1918) and his contemporaries found - or hoped to find - in
beauty was constantly overshadowed by death. And death therefore
plays an important role in Klimt's art. Klimt's fame, however,
rests on his reputation as one of the greatest erotic painters and
graphic artists of his times. His drawings in particular, which
have been widely admired for their artistic excellence, are
dominated by the sensual portrayal of women.
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer
diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a
wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to
make art. With what he called une seconde vie, a second life, he
embarked on a remarkable collage period, cutting and pasting pieces
of colored paper into gouaches decoupees of birds, plants, flowers,
and the female form. Emphasizing color and contrast, the cut-out
technique generated both striking lines and vivid juxtapositions.
In works such as Icarus (1943), The Blue Nude (1952), The Snail
(1953), and The Sheaf (1953), clean forms and elemental structures
power a compositional force that belies the work's decorative
appeal, at once tightly organized and infectious with joie de
vivre. As his work progressed, Matisse's excitement with his
results fueled ever-larger pieces, advancing from small works to
vast wall-sized murals. As his final years approached, Matisse
reveled in the simplicity and brilliance of these pieces, avowing,
"Only what I created after the illness constitutes my real self:
free, liberated..." In this essential introductory book, we revisit
this joyful final chapter of Matisse's long and prodigious career,
examining how the cut-outs encapsulated the artist's many years
exploring the possibilities of composition, form, and color. 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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Rubens (Hardcover)
Gilles Neret
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There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens
(1577-1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama,
movement, and sensuality. This essential introduction takes in the
most important works from this astonishingly prolific oeuvre to
explore Rubens's influences and innovations, and his remarkable
visual, and art historical, impact. The richly illustrated survey
takes in Rubens's portraits, landscapes, and historical paintings,
as well as his famed and bountiful nudes. Along the way, we examine
the artist's astonishing technique and his deft ability to depict
narrative in a compelling and legible visual form, whether an
erotic mythological scene or a tender biblical story. This
remarkable artistic bravura is placed in context both within
Rubens's long art historical legacy through Van Dyck, Velazquez,
and beyond, and his other talents as a classical scholar, diplomat,
and knight. 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
At the age of six, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) wanted to be a cook.
At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. "Since then," he
later said, "my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania
with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dali, I have no greater
wish." Throughout his life, Dali was out to become Dali: that is,
one of the most significant artists and eccentrics of the 20th
century. This weighty volume is the most complete study of Dali's
painted works ever published. After years of research, Robert
Descharnes and Gilles Neret located painted works by the master
that had been inaccessible for years-so many, in fact, that almost
half the featured illustrations appear in public for the first time
in this book. More than a catalogue raisonne, this book
contextualizes Dali's oeuvre and its meanings by examining
contemporary documents, from writings and drawings to material from
other facets of his work, including ballet, cinema, fashion,
advertising, and objets d'art. Without these crutches to support
analysis, the paintings would simply be a series of many images.
The study is divided into two parts: the first examines Dali's
beginnings as an unknown artist. We witness how the young Dali
deployed all the isms-Impressionism, Pointillism, Cubism, Fauvism,
Purism and Futurism-with playful mastery, and how he would borrow
from prevailing trends before ridiculing and abandoning them. The
second part unveils the conclusions of Dali's lifelong inquiries,
as well as the great legacy he left in works such as Tuna Fishing
(1966/67) or Hallucinogenic Toreador (1970). It includes previously
unpublished homages to Velazquez or Michelangelo, painted to the
same end as the variations on past masters done by his
contemporary, Picasso. We discover how, motivated by the desire to
tease out the secrets of great works and become a Velazquez of the
mid-20th century, Dali became Dali.
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Malevich (Hardcover)
Gilles Neret
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After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism,
Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his metier in
dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into
pure emotionally-charged abstraction. In 1915, he created what is
widely lauded as the first and ultimate abstract artwork: Black
Square, a black rectangle on a white background, hailed as the
"zero point of painting," a seminal moment for modern and abstract
practice. In this book, we follow Malevich's key innovations and
ideas and place his groundbreaking achievements within the context
of both the Russian and global avant-garde. Through rich
illustrations of his work, we explore the artist's theory of
Suprematism, based on severe geometric abstraction and "the
supremacy of pure feeling in creative art"; his leading role in the
development of Constructivism; as well as his interests in
philosophy, literature, Russian folk art, and the fourth dimension.
Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and
lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and
use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life--he was
almost 80 years of age--he developed the technique of "carving into
color," creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by
some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these
gouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a
revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the
age-old conflict between color and line. This edition of the first
volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough
historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to
his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years
in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare
images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau,
with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Teriade, the poets Louis
Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law
Georges Duthuit. In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs
achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist
abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of
artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale,
these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and
innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.
About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as
cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with
accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate
their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an
unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books
by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new
editions of some of the stars of our program--now more compact,
friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to
impeccable production.
La popularite toujours vivace de Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
s'explique non seulement par l'attrait particulier qu'exercent ses
toiles luxuriantes mais aussi par les themes universaux sur
lesquels il travailla: l'amour, la beaute feminine, le
vieillissement et la mort. Fils d'un orfevre, Klimt composait des
surfaces delicatement decoratives d'une luminosite precieuse, qui
montrent la double influence des arts egyptien et japonais. Toiles,
fresques ou frises, ses oeuvres se distinguent par des couleurs
radieuses, des lignes fluides, des elements floraux et des motifs
rappelant la mosaique. Parce qu'il traite souvent de sujets en
rapport avec la sensualite et le desir, ou l'anxiete et le
desespoir, tout ce chatoiement est aussi charge de sentiment. Les
nombreuses figures feminines peintes par Klimt, reconnaissables
entre mille par leurs formes voluptueuses, leur chair tendre, leurs
levres rouges et leurs joues rosies, etaient particulierement
chargees de passion, a une epoque ou un erotisme d'une telle
franchise etait encore tabou dans la bonne societe viennoise. Ce
livre presente une selection d'oeuvres de Klimt, son univers
pictural ou le decoratif sert le desir, ainsi que son influence sur
les generations suivantes d'artistes. A propos de la collection
Chaque volume de la Basic Art Series de TASCHEN contient: une
chronologique detaillee de la vie et de l'oeuvre de l'artiste qui
rend compte de son importance culturelle et artistique une
biographie concise une centaine d'illustrations couleur
accompagnees de legendes explicatives
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