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The genius of Italian painting, symbol of grace and beauty, Raphael is considered one of the greatest and most popular artists of all time. This title gives an introduction to the life of the artist. It includes his masterpieces.

What is art? What is its function? What is the importance of using colour? What is the meaning of using different materials? What is the relationship between art and reality? Is art information or communication? These are just some of the questions Achille Bonito Oliva directed to 65 of the greatest and most controversial artists of our time, such as Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Gilbert&George, Robert Ryman, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Giulio Paolini, Alighiero Boetti, Jimmy Durham, Marina Abramoviˇc, Mimmo Paladino, William Kentridge, and Dennis Oppenheim.

Gurholt, born 1965 in Oslo where he lives and works, studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Art and at the New York University/Film School SCE. Gurholt is renowned for his Live Photos, site-specific photography projects that challenge the boundaries between fiction and reality.

Analyzes the design and production of museum complexes all over the world over the years, and gives a critical interpretation of one of the most challenging subjects in architectural panorama.

In the heyday on neo-conceptualism in the middle of the 90's Bjarne Melgaard entered the Norwegian art scene with expressionistic and chaotic paintings, sculptures and installations. This book is also the catalogue of a mid carrier retrospective exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2010).

Artists play a fundamental role as mirror of society and can, in particular, give expression to specific corners of the world in our global economy. This title presents Francois Pinault Collection at the Melnikov Garage.

Historically, in the old architecture of Qatar, the urban development of cities and villages was based on the creation of agglomerations of housing units. These agglomerations were the essence of traditional Qatari architecture. This book examines the geographical, historical, and functional aspects of architecture in Qatar.

Norwegian artists are acknowledged as being part of a larger artistic milieu a milieu in which they have become more visible and active participants. This book features a survey of works by the younger generation of Norwegian artists.

The first publication focused on this collection, it includes paintings by Pierre Bonnard, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Sam Francis, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Joan Miro, and Antonio Tàpies, among others.

A catalog of the exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum for T2 - the second Torino Triennale. It brings together works by fifty young international artists and presents two special projects by Paul Chan and Olafur Eliasson.

Post-Impressionism is a movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that styles inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of late 19th-century painters. Most of these painters began as Impressionists.

Presents a fully-fledged Skira Architecture house organ which presents the Skiras point of view on world architecture. This Yearbook includes: Wall paper; Editorial; Projects; Tools: Index of the Index; and, Work in progress.

Trompe-l'oeil, a French term meaning to trick, the eye, describes a painting that deceives the spectator into thinking that the objects in it are real, not merely represented. To successfully fool the eye of the viewer, trompe-l'oeil artists choose objects, situations and compositional devices using as little depth as possible.

Surrealism is an art movement, dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention. Surrealism inherited its anti-rationalist sensibility from Dada, but was lighter in spirit than that movement. Like Dada, it was shaped by theories on our perception of reality.

Covers the fundamental events and pivotal works of international art in the 20th century. This book relates how artists reacted to the greatest tragedy of the 20th century and responded to the advent of the society of mass communication and consumption, to the moulding of the world.

Victor Burgin, an artist and sophisticated theoretician of the image was born in Sheffield, England, in 1941. He established himself on the international art scene in the late sixties, as one of the fathers of Conceptual Art. This is a compendium of the history of contemporary American art and a testimony of a sincere and active protagonist.

Art and Nature in Melissa Moore's work Land Ends, a selection of photographs taken on the Hornby Island, Canada, where she retired for several times over 13 years

This series offers a complete, up-to-date survey of the phenomena of the 1900s and the first years of the new millennium through an original, transversal and interdisciplinary analysis of artistic culture in the twentieth century. The second volume analyses and presents the hugely diverse world of artistic production between the two world wars, taking into consideration not only the environment that took shape in the immediate wake of the First World War, from the so-called "return to order" to the re-emergence of a figurative approach (The New Objectivity, Novecento Italiano, Magic Realism) that was profoundly anti-avant-garde yet imbued with strong plastic and semantic values, but also the evolution of an avant-garde that was now historicised, with its second-generation artists (Aerial Painting, the second generation of Futurism). Also considered are the codification of certain phenomena, such as Surrealism, changes in taste (from Art Deco to Novecentismo), as well as art as the expression of the totalitarian regimes, and the outbreak of the Second World War, with the embracing of environments outside Europe, particularly the USA. The chronological boundaries are marked by the birth of the Dadaist experience in Germany and the establishment of Metaphysics in Italy (1917- 1920) on one side and by the birth of the great season of U.S. Abstract Expressionism (1943-1945) on the other.

400 plus miles of electronic fencing combined with 5-8 meter high concrete wall slabs make up the wall that separates Palestinians and Israelis. This book covers that wall.

Featuring poetic photographs of landscapes, cityscapes, monuments and ruins together, this title offers the reader a compelling insight into this fascinating country.

The art South African artist Candice Breitz draws on contemporary mass culture, devising new systems for understanding reality. This book documents Breitz's work "Mother + Father". She employs darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions as presented and accepted in the media and popular culture.

Features an array of Eric Owen Moss' works in over 250 illustrations including the Wedgewood Holly Complex, the Beehive and the Box. This monograph includes an interview with the architect and a bio-bibliography.

Simple, direct, and penetrating, the celebrated photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders portrays his subjects like a painter from another age. Thanks to his 11x14 Fulmer & Schwing, an old wooden box dated 1905, which he uses as if he were using a palette and brush, he produces portraits that are rich in detail without being overly psychological.