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Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Outsider art is work created by self-taught isolates, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, folk artists, psychiatric patients, prisoners, and others beyond the imposed margins of society and the art market. Coined by Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English equivalent for Jean Dubuffet's category of 'art brut' - literally 'raw art' - and originally regarded as defining a distinctly western phenomenon, the term has come to encompass a wide variety of...
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"An essential visual overview for students and readers with an interest in Sienese art, history and Renaissance culture. For two centuries, the city-republic of Siena was home to a brilliant succession of painters who created some of the greatest masterpieces of all time; an imagery unmatched in colouristic intensity and spatial experimentation. This overview, now revised and updated, is an essential introduction to this extraordinary artistic tradition....
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Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The Impressionists -- Monet, Manet, Degas, Pissaro, Cassatt, Renoir, Morisot, Cézanne, and others -- are probably the most popular of all artistic schools. Their struggle to impose a new vision is one of the most absorbing in the whole history of art. Art historian Bernard Denvir brings Impressionism into focus with imagination and insight, through the words of the artists themselves and their contemporaries, against the background of their time....
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Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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This new concise history of modern painting offers an indispensable reference to the complexities and characteristics of this medium, which now exists alongside many other contemporary practices that embrace radically expanded ideas about art. --from Amazon.
6) Vel�azquez
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Publisher
Thames and Hudson, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Diego Vel�azquez (1599-1660) was one of the towering figures of Western painting and Baroque art, a technical master renowned for his focus on realism and startling veracity. Everything he painted was treated as a portrait, from Spanish royalty and Pope Innocent X to a mortar and pestle. In this comprehensive introduction to Vel�azquez's life and art by Richard Verdi, the artist's major works are discussed along with most of his surviving output...
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