Quick view Abstract Art by Dietmar Elger - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of conventional representational i… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ando - Taschen Basic Architecture Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: Get to know Tadao Ando, the only architect to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. This succinct introduction explores Ando’s u… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Bauhaus - Taschen Basic Architecture Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Bosch by Walter Bosing - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their intricate, allegorical, and often startling content has captivated not only ar… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Bruegel by Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well as religious subjects, both no… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Caravaggio - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: 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 creativ… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Cezanne - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), busily plied his brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of modern art. With compact, intense… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Chagall by Rainer Metzger & Ingo F. Walther - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: 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 ex… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Cubism by Anne Gantefuhrer-Trier - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitioners deconstructed European co… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Dali - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: 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 … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view de Lempicka by Gilles Neret Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: 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 … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Degas by Bernd Growe - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in fact defied easy categorization and instead developed a unique style, strongly influenced by Old Masters, … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Duchamp by Janis Mink - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist's Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery, sent shock waves through the art w… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Eames - Taschen Basic Architecture Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: The creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also forerunners in architecture, texti… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Expressionism by Dietmar Elger - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality. Though particularly present in Germany a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view F.L. Wright by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and ap… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Fontana by Barbara Hess - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: Debuting in Milan, Fontana settled in Paris in the mid 1930s, where he joined the Abstraction-Creation group and created expressionist sculptures in ceramic and bronze. He later moved to Argentina, where he developed his highly in… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Freud - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory s… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Frida Kahlo by Andrea Kettenmann - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Friedrich by Norbert Wolf - Taschen Basic Art Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: The beauty of nature and man's loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small human figure in a broad landscape, as in his famous paintings Monk by the Sea and The… Add to Cart The item has been added