Quick view Dali - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 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 Degas by Bernd Growe - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 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: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 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 Durer by Norbert Wolf - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 Was: A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from religion to art theory to philosophy. His vast body of work includes altarpieces, po… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Eames - Taschen Basic Architecture Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 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 Egyptian Art by Rose-Marie Hagen - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 Was: From the Land of the Pharaohs. The finest treasures from Ancient Egypt. The art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of these unknown masters no less than … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view El Greco by Michael Scholz-Hansel - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 Was: To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541 -1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Throughout his career, as he progress… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Expressionism by Dietmar Elger - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 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: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 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: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 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: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 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: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 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: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 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
Quick view Futurism by Sylvia Martin - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 Was: Inspired by the development of Cubism, the Futurist movement was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla. Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Gino Severini. The school, which celebrated techn… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Gaudi by Maria Antonietta Crippa - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 Was: From the towering Sagrada Familia to the shimmering, textured facade of Casa Batllo and the enchanting landscape of Park Guell, it's easy to see why Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) gained the epithet "God's architect." With fluid forms a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Gauguin by Ingo F. Walther - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 Was: Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his spare time in 1873 and in 1876… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Giger by HR Giger - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 Was: Swiss artist HR Giger (1940-2014) is most famous for his creation of the space monster in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi film Alien, which earned him an Oscar. In retrospect, this was just one of the most popular expressions of… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Gio Ponti by Graziella Roccella - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 Was: Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre remains one of the most diverse and groundbreaking in design history. Trained in… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Goya - Taschen Basic Art Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 Was: From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) made a mark as one of Spain's most revered and controversial artists. A master of form and li… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Gropius - Taschen Basic Architecture Now: £12.84 MSRP: £16.06 Was: Walter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a bold new hybrid of light, geom… Add to Cart The item has been added