Founded as a backlash against abstract expressionism, minimalism was characterized by simplified, stripped-down forms and materials used to express ideas in a direct and impersonal manner. By presenting objects as...
Fellow painter Walter Erben spent countless hours conversing with his colleague Joan Miro at his house in Mallorca in preparation for this book. Over the course of these talks, Mir? gave Erben many interesting and...
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Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism
No other artist, apart from J.M.W.Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man C?zanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed...
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"Forget everything you think you know about this person," Elia Kazan cautioned, in his autobiography. The icon we cherish under the name Marilyn Monroe was in truth the inspired creation of a smart, voluptuous, star...
Moorish Architecture in Andalusia
Spain owes its special historical position in Europe very largely to his intensive encounter with the Orient. In the summer of 710, a small force under the command of a Berber named Tarif ibn Malik landed to the west...
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The stock market crash of 1929 had left the America-and the globe-in a devastating depression that would not begin to lift until World War II. With so many jobless, penniless, broken people singing the blues, is it...
From the first moving pictures (the Lumiere brothers` 1895 "L`arrivee d`un train"), early westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons all the way through the golden age of silent film in the 1920s, this book covers...
Born and raised in Vienna, Richard Neutra came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly...
Originally from Vienna, Richard Neutra came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited...
