The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspiring and sometimes terrifying stories of the artists who shaped one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity, the Dutch Golden Age.

As he explored the hidden wor...

Frida Kahlo transcended art history like no woman artist before her. She was a key figure of Mexican revolutionary modern art and a pioneer of the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism. This monograph combines Kahlo’s paintings with rare photos, diary pages, and an illustrated biography.

Now available again in an expanded edition and featuring a variety of work from artists both well-known and under the radar, this book reveals how women artists reclaimed control of the feminine image in everything from painting, to video, to performance art.

A pioneering artist who subverted conventions in her depictions of the nude, self-portraits, and still-lives. An iconoclast in her own time, Modersohn-Becker is today considered an icon of modernity.

Throughout her career, Paula Modersohn-Becker boldly experimented with styles while steadfastly pursuing the truth of everyday life and her own female experience. This monograph looks at the entire spectrum of her work-figure drawings, still-lifes, self-portraiture, landscape, nudes, a...

Het is voldoende in enkele woorden de inhoud en de grote betekenis van dit boek aan te duiden: meer dan vijftig jaar heeft het zijn aandeel geleverd in de discussie betreffende de beeldende kunst en ingrijpend daarop ingewerkt. Worringer schreef het als zijn eerste boek in 1908; het zou zijn dissertatie worden, die, in een klein aantal exemplaren gedrukt, zoals het vaak gaat, wel in de bibliotheken van de enige universiteiten en in de boekenkasten van vrienden en bekenden zou "begraven" worde...

Carel de Moor (1655–1738). His Life and Work, a monograph and œuvre catalogue, is the first scholarly study of one of the most important Dutch portrait painters of his time. The book includes a comprehensive biography, which explores Carel de Moor’s life and multi-faceted career within the context of the economic, political, and social history of the Dutch Republic.

As a result of the authors’ thorough investigation of De Moor’s client networks, several hitherto unknown sitters have...

De beroemde portretschilderes Louise Vigée-le Brun wordt op 16 april 1755 in Parijs geboren. Aan het eind van haar leven publiceert ze haar memoires: 'Souvenirs' (1835-1837).

Hierin beschrijft zij op levendige wijze haar jeugd, opvoeding, ontwikkeling en opleiding tot schilderes. Ze wordt de favoriete portretschilderes van koningin Marie-Antoinette. Ze is ook zeer populair bij de adel en aan het hof, ze heeft er velen geportretteerd en verdient enorme sommen geld. Zij organiseert voor deze...

Male bonds were omnipresent in nineteenth-century European artistic scenes, impacting the creation, presentation, and reception of art in decisive ways. Men’s lives and careers bore the marks of their relations with other men. Yet, such male bonds are seldom acknowledged for what they are: gendered and historically determined social constructs. This volume shines a critical light on male homosociality in the arts of the long nineteenth century by combining art history with the insights of g...