New. No dust jacket. In the late 1970s, with only her Hasselblad and a telephoto lens, Veretta visited many of New York City's infamous nightclubs and captured the erotic energy of the peak disco era. Culled from over one thousand images, this collection of black and white photos is an entertaining, often breathtaking documentary of a unique moment in our history.
New. No dust jacket. This book is not a panegyric of homosexuality. It is a scientific study led by Professor James Smalls who teaches art history at the prestigious University of Maryland in Baltimore. his work examines the process of creation and allows one to comprehend the contribution of homosexuality to the evolution of emotional perception. In a time when all barriers have been overcome, this analysis offers a new understanding of our civilisation's masterpieces.
New. No dust jacket. In art history, the term Romanesque art distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th-century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work reclaims the importance of this art which is today often overshadowed by the later Gothic style.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Parkstone International
Date published: 01/03/2020
ISBN-13:9781646991730ISBN:1646991737
Description: New. No dust jacket. In a country only unified since 1871, the German culture and art derived from ancient tradition. Studying German painting requires viewing it on a different scale, larger than the current geographical frontiers. From the early Renaissance through the Expressionism of the 20th century, we introduce you to the German artists who have marked history: Albrecht Dürer, the Romantic Caspar David Friedrich, and the Expressionist Otto Dix. German painting, original in its themes, ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Parkstone International
Date published: 11/27/2019
ISBN-13:9781646991471ISBN:1646991478
Description: New. No dust jacket. The French painter Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) revolutionised the use of colour in art. Influenced by the French master Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), close friends with the French poet Apollinaire (1880-1918) and admired by the German painter Paul Klee (1879-1940), he founded the Orphism art movement together with his wife Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) in the early 1910s. Geometric shapes and bright colours marked his way to a unique form of Abstractionism that earned him a place ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Parkstone International
Date published: 11/27/2019
ISBN-13:9781646991464ISBN:164699146X
Description: New. No dust jacket. Johannes Vemeer, a 17th-century artist, is recognised primarily for his genre scenes. Through meticulous precision in his paintings and drawings he achieves perfection and maximum impact. Unlike his predecessors, Vermeer used a camera obscura to bring even more perspective to his art in the most delicate of manners. He revolutionised the way in which we use and make paint and his colour application techniques predate some of those used by the impressionists nearly two ... Read More
Language: German
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Parkstone International
Date published: 11/27/2019
ISBN-13:9781646991662ISBN:1646991664
Description: New. No dust jacket. Der sexuelle Akt verleiht dem Gesichtsausdruck einen Ausdruck von besonderer Intensität und eine schwer zu beschreibende Unergründlichkeit. Der Augenblick des absoluten Glücks spiegelt sich sowohl bei der Frau wie auch beim Mann in den Augen, den Lippen und der Gesichtsmuskulatur. Wenn die Gewalt der Sinne ihren Höhepunkt erreicht, erscheint im Blick des andern eine ganz neue, bisher unbekannte Person. Anhand von alten erotischen Gravuren ergründet Hans-Jürgen Döpp das ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Parkstone International
Date published: 02/21/2020
ISBN-13:9781646991808ISBN:164699180X
Description: New. No dust jacket. Katsushika Hokusai is without a doubt the most famous Japanese artist known in the Western world since the middle of the nineteenth century. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai, one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe, greatly influenced the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists painters, such as Vincent van Gogh. Considered during his life as a living Ukiyo-e master, Hokusai fascinates us with the variety and ... Read More
Language: French
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Parkstone International
Date published: 11/27/2019
ISBN-13:9781646991655ISBN:1646991656
Description: New. No dust jacket. L'acte d'amour fige le visage en une expression indéfinissable, d'une exceptionnelle intensité. Chaque femme, chaque homme connaît alors un instant de bonheur absolu, qui s'inscrit dans ses yeux, sur ses lèvres. Une onde de plaisir vient ponctuer la transformation du désir en orgasme. Dans ces moments, où la violence des sens s'exprime, une personne nouvelle apparaît au regard de l'autre. A l'aide de gravures anciennes, l'auteur, Hans-Jürgen Döpp traque l'explication du ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Parkstone International
Date published: 11/27/2019
ISBN-13:9781683259138ISBN:1683259130
Description: New. No dust jacket. The Art Deco movement emerged from the remnants of a world that had been torn apart after World War I. This aesthetic movement came to embody dreams of industry and prosperity. In the whirl of the Jazz Age and frenzy of the "Roaring Twenties", the streamlined silhouette of the flapper girl was reflected in the architectural aesthetic of Art Deco-the rounded curve was conquered by the androgynous straight line. Architecture, painting, furniture, and sculpture evolved into ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Parkstone International
Date published: 11/27/2019
ISBN-13:9781683259398ISBN:1683259394
Description: New. No dust jacket. Symbolism appeared in France and Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the 20th-century. The Symbolists, fascinated with ancient mythology, attempted to escape the reign of rational thought imposed by science. They wished to transcend the world of the visible and the rational in order to attain the world of pure thought, constantly flirting with the limits of the unconscious. The French Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, the Belgians Fernand Khnopff and Félicien Rops, ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Parkstone International
Date published: 01/16/2020
ISBN-13:9781646991792ISBN:1646991796
Description: New. No dust jacket. If the lovely 'Land of the Rising Sun' should, during one of those volcanic throes which threaten her extinction, sink forever beneath the depths of ocean, she would still live for us through the magic brush of Hiroshige. Gazing at his landscapes, our imagination takes us to a land of rain showers and sunsets-a fairy scene, where the rainbow falls to earth, shattered into a thousand prisms-where water softly flows towards the horizon. Considered as the last Ukiyo-e master, ... Read More
