Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession’s greatest proponentGustav Klimt’s ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him not only the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists but one of the best loved artists of all time. In his own time, Kilmt (1862-1918) was a highly successful painter, draftsman, muralist, and graphic artist; in the intervening years, iconic works such as The Kiss have been elevated to nothing less than cult status. Klimt’s unfading popularity attests to the appeal of not only his aesthetic sensibilities but also that of the recurrent universal themes in his work: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. He once wrote, "I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night...Who ever wants to know something about me...ought to look carefully at my pictures." With this overview of Klimt’s work, readers will delight in taking up that challenge.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

Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918

Arts & Photography

Gilles Néret

History & Criticism

Barnes&Noble

Salvador Dali: The Paintings 1904-1946

ROBERT DESCHARNES

Barnes&Noble Books

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.

Michelangelo

Individual Artists

Taschen America, LLC

Explores the social, political, economic, and cultural atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties and its impact on the development and character of the arts

The Arts of the Twenties

Rizzoli

As the Goddess of the Automobile Age, Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) stood at the center of the sophisticated Paris art world of the Twenties and Thirties. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles and the modern metropolis provided not only motifs for her pictures, but also influenced her artistic style.Simultaneously with her career as artist, Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and the changing aspects of femininity and masculinity. The same sense of style was reflected in a futuristic cult of speed, domestic design forms promulgated by the Bauhaus, and the dandyism of George Brummell. Tamara de Lempicka's best-known painting, "Self-Portrait," or "Tamara in a Green Bugatti," presents the artist as a female dandy brimming with cool elegance. Whether as an Art-Deco artist, a post-Cubist or a Neoclasissist, de Lempicka struck the taste of a cosmopolitan (and wealthy) public that found its own image reflected in her work.This book traces Tamara de Lempicka's idiosyncratic career, while the numerous full-color illustrations document the most important periods in her lengthy life in art.

Tamara De Lempicka: 1898-1980

Taschen

Collection of some of best of Salvador Dali's works.

Salvador Dali: Conquest of the Irrational

Koln: Taschen

Henri De Toulouse-lautrec (1864 - 1901)

The artist Henri Matisse at eighty, master of painting and sculpture, used color as a sculptor uses stone. His unique venture took the art world by storm. The improvisations in color and rhythm, created with gouached paper and scissors, marked the culmination of his artistic ambition--a perfect synthesis of color and line.

Henri Matisse Cut-outs

120 Illustrations in full colour, plus 56 black and white. The Impressionsit school - which includes painters now accorded the highest adulation and acclaim - was originally greeted with derision and hostility. Their work, in the years 1860 to 1880, was met with such contemptuous critiques as "Painting will be finished under them..it will be the end of the country, the end of France." This volume includes superb reproductions of Monet's - Women in the Garden, Pissarro's - Young Girl with a Stick, Renoir's - The Greath Bathers, Van Gogh's - Sunflowers, Degas' - Dancers Backstage and Cezanne's - Onions and Bottle to mention but a few.

The Impressionists

Tiger Books Intl.

Physical description: 185, [7] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm. Notes: Includes bibliography and list of photographers. Subject: Erotic painting -- Themes, motives. Nude in art. Malerei. Erotische Kunst. Geschichte. Erotic painting -- Themes, motives. Nude in art. Genre: Illustrated, text.

L'érotisme en peinture (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Paris : Nathan

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