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The Incubator - Art at the Library
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on recently discovered archival material and treating Durer's own writing in terms of its sources and prototypes, the author reveals the reasons for Durer's extraordinarily rapid rise to fame and his profound concern for the education of future generations of German artists.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Albert and the Whale explores the work of this remarkable man through a personal lens. Drawing on Philip's experience of the natural world, and of the elements that shape our contemporary lives, from suburbia to the wide open sea, Philip will enter Dürer's time machine. Seeking his own Leviathan, Hoare help us better understand the interplay between art and our world in this sublimely seductive book.
Author
Series
Publisher
TASCHEN GmbH
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880--1938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged, intensely colored paintings and disseminated his ideas through Die Brücke art movement and the MUIM-Institut school of modernist painting, both of which he cofounded. Kirchner's work reconciled past and present through an Expressionist prism, reflecting the...
6) Paul Klee
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the artist Paul Klee. Includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events.
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to the deepest ocean. A vociferous supporter and developer of Darwin's theories of evolution, he denounced religious dogma, authored philosophical treatises, gained a doctorate in zoology, and coined scientific terms which have passed into common usage, including...
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