Gilles Néret

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt's art thoroughly expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt 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. In particular, his drawings, which have been widely admired for their artistic excellence, are dominated by the erotic portrayal of women. Klimt saw the world "in female form". [site accessed 23/07/2012 - http://www.amazon.com/Gustav-Klimt-1862-1918-Basic-Art/dp/382285980X].

1862-1918

Salvador Dalí

Robert Descharnes

This publication presents in 2 volumes in a box the entire painted oeuvre of Salvadore Dali (1904-1989). After many years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret finally located all the paintings of this highly prolific artist. These two volumes represent a one time offer at 29.99 as a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Dali's birth. The set will have a sticker indicating the 100th anniversary,

The Paintings

Dali

Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919, the Painter of Happiness

Provides an introduction to the life and history of artist Gustav Klimt, along with some of his most important and influential works.

Klimt

Zum 25jährigen Bestehen von TASCHEN gibt es ein Reihe ausgewählter Klassiker zum Jubiläumspreis.

From Pompeii to Picasso

Erotica Universalis

The First of the Moderns (Taschen Basic Art)

Edouard Manet 1832-1883

Henri Matisse

Cut-Outs Album

1904 - 1989 (Taschen 25th Anniversary)

Peter Paul Rubens

The Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, born on June 28, 1577, died May 30, 1640 was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is now widely recognised as one of the foremost painters in Western art history. This title looks at his work.

Rubens

Collectif

Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)

France

France. Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte

Napoléon Bonaparte

Contains reproductions of the illustrations brought back from Napoleon's 1798 expedition to Egypt.

Publiee par les ordres de Napoleon Bonaparte. Dreisprachige Ausgabe französisch, englisch, deutsch.

Description de l' Egypte.

Works and analysis of the Spanish painter.

Dali, 1904-1989

" Une introduction agréable au travail de Matisse : l'abondance d'illustrations en fait un ouvrage de référence précieux et un complément à des volumes plus austère ".

"Original edition: c1994 Verlag GmbH"--T.p. verso.

Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989

The passion and the glory: The great Renaissance artist's devotion to beauty A tortured, suffering soul, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) funneled his God-fearing passion into the creation of some of the most revered and celebrated works in the history of art. Attempting to reconcile the apparently conflicting forces that inhabited him: earthly passions and fear of God. The edifice devoted to beauty, celestial and infernal alike, that Michelangelo raised to the glory of God has no equivalent. His predecessors aspired to Heaven through faith alone; Michelangelo sought to rise through the contemplative exaltation of beauty. His passions found expression in the human body as it emerged from the Creator's hand. And they did so even on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This exposed him to a chorus of derision from prudish critics, who accused him of exhibiting paganism in a place of religion, and who clothed his immodest Titans in painted "breeches." It was Michelangelo's curse to remain a colossus outside of and apart from his time. The spectacle of such glory was too much for his contemporaries. About the Series: 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

Michelangelo, 1475-1564

Tamara de Lempicka

De Lempicka stood at the center of the sophisticated Paris art world of the 1920s and 30s. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles, and the modern metropolis provided not only motifs for her pictures, but also influenced her artistic style. She pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and the changing aspects of femininity and masculinity.

Gilles Néret

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