Edvard Munchs radikale Modernität der Malerei forderte die Zeitgenoss:innen heraus. Das gilt insbesondere für die Berliner Kunstszene um 1900, auf die der norwegische Symbolist großen Einfluss nahm, wo er aber auch Förderung erfuhr und sein Werk weiterentwickelte. Der Band erzählt bildreich und fundiert die Geschichte von Munch und Berlin.1892 lud der Verein Berliner Künstler den noch unbekannten Edvard Munch (1863-1944) zu einer Ausstellung ein. Die Öffentlichkeit war geschockt von de...

Die Kunst früherer Zeiten bildet in Los Angeles einen Schatz, der nur darauf wartet, endlich gehoben zu werden. Vor aller Augen und doch verborgen, findet man dort unkonventionelle und lyrische Werke einer ethnisch bunt gemischten Phalanx von Künstler*innen, die in den 1960er-Jahren fernab vom Mainstream in der Ceeje Gallery ausstellten - dem Wirklichkeit gewordenen Traum des schwulen Paares Cecil Hedrick und Jerry Jerome.Die Kunstszene von Los Angeles umfasste in den 1960er-Jahren bei weit...

This unique and utterly fascinatingappreciation of Gustav Klimt’s oeuvre revealssome of his most famous works in theiroriginal settings and offers valuable historicinsight into his artistic vision. Published in association withthe Neue Galerie New York.

This introduction to the work of the 16th-century master portraitist Hans Holbein reveals the impressive and surprising scope of his career.

Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. A century after his death, the Viennese artist still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. Master of 19th-century Viennese art and pioneer of the Secessionist movement, Klimt built up a shimmering legacy of lustrous tones and gold leaf textures, including...

A work of aesthetics. This book focuses on the quality which is distinguished as 'the sublime' - an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it.

The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting.

A new, compact edition of David Hockney and Martin Gayford’s brilliantly original book, with a revised final chapter and three entirely new Hockney artworks

An updated edition of this classic survey, a thorough overview of Paul Cézanne's life and work.

For Picasso he was ?like our father'; for Matisse, ?a god of painting'. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is widely regarded as the father of modern art. In this authoritative and accessible study, Richard Verdi traces the evolution of Cézanne's landscape, still-life and figure compositions, from the turbulently romantic creations of his youth to the visionary masterpieces of his final years. ...