Frank Whitford

Reissued to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, this book explores one of the most important art schools of the last hundred years.

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Bauhaus

The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing developments to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933. This was the Bauhaus, which has left an indelible mark on art education throughout the world. Setting everything firmly against a backdrop of the times, Frank Whitford traces the cultural ideas behind its conception and thoroughly describes its teaching methods. He examines the activities of the teachers--artists as eminent as Klee and Kandinsky--and the daily lives of the students. Everything is described with the aid, wherever possible, of the words of those who were there at the time. 154 illus., 16 in color.

World of Art Series Bauhaus

Abstract paintings are discussed both from the point of the creator and from the point of view of the spectator.

Understanding Abstract Art

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt's work brilliantly negotiates the borders between the traditional and the modern, the figurative and non-figurative. His subtly erotic portraits, richly patterned landscapes and enigmatic allegorical compositions are at once sensuous and refined, while his extravagant, ornamental style verges on abstraction. Obliged to go his own way when he was denied public commissions, Klimt became the leader of the modernists in Vienna, perhaps the greatest portraitist of his age, a landscape painter of dazzling originality and, above all, the creator of extraordinary decorative schemes. Frank Whitford examines the artist's work against the background of his time - the tragic final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the light shed by political and cultural history, Klimt's paintings and personality emerge with new clarity.

Klimt

These portraits give prominence to those of the artists themselves, but also explores the relationships between the artists and their other sitters. It includes artists, actors, musicians, journalists, scholars, and dealers.

Expressionist Portraits

Traces the life of the Austrian artist, describes how he escaped Nazi Germany, and assesses his place in modern art

Oskar Kokoschka, a Life

Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during the last years of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family, hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his art a deep and bewildering loneliness and an obsession with sexuality, death and decay. He was only twenty-eight when he died, yet he left behind him a body of work that sustains a huge public reputation--and a myth. This book sets out to examine both. 151 illus., 20 in color.

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Egon Schiele

Ron Van der Meer

Introduces young people to the world of art with colorful 3-D models, pop-ups, and lift-the-flaps that expose the techniques behind several masterpieces and includes project suggestions and interactive tools.

A Hands-on Exploration of Art for the Whole Family

The Kids' Art Pack

Ron Van Der Meer

"60 art masterpieces--25 of them with lift-the-flaps--and all of them illustrating something about the process of making and appreciating art"--Back cover.

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