How do we even describe the alienated beauty of Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Ichabod Crane in "Sleepy Hollow", Donnie Brasco, Don Juan DeMarco, Captain Jack Sparrow and Sweeney Todd, apart from the prodigious gift of...
A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock took influences from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Though his name inevitably conjures up...
Exploding with eye-popping originality and freshness, today`s best Japanese graphics have been gathered together to make this must-have guide to contemporary aesthetics in Japan. With their unique perspective, the...
Exploring the work of the greatest Japanese filmmakers. Beyond Kurosawa: exploring the work of the greatest Japanese filmmakers. Until very recently, the western world has viewed Japanese cinema through a very...
This volume reproduces 139 Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century. The originals are in the Riccar Art Museum in Tokyo, the world`s largest...
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"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again". Jean Renoir Jean Renoir was, like his father Auguste, a virtuoso in his field. From early films such as La Fille de...
From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at...
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One quarter of the world`s most famous group, one half of the most successful songwriting team of all time and one voice for world peace - all achieved in one tragically shortened career. John Lennon`s remarkable...
Josef Heinrich Darchinger: Wirtschaftswund
It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The bombs of World War II had...
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The buildings burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of fifties and sixties architectural design, were those whose pictures were widely published in magazines and books; but what about those that got...
From birth, Katharine Hepburn seemed destined to become a symbol of the modern woman on stage, on screen, and in the world. Fiercely competitive, private, and independent, Hepburn was one part Olympic athlete Babe...
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Though Louis Isidore Kahn started his career late in his life, the few projects he was able to undertake were realized to perfection. With the Jonas Salk Institute in La Jolla, California Kahn created a workspace with...
