À travers ses peintures élégantes et ses estampes sur bois sublimes, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) est devenu l'un des artistes japonais les plus reconnu au monde. D'un style simple, mettant en scène des courtisanes et des acteurs célèbres, Hokusai a transformé l'art ukiyo-e en un style élaboré dépeignant la beauté de la nature au travers des représentations de paysage et de faune. Son style et ses sujets ont évolué aussi souvent que...

Cuando parecía que la obra de Adolfo Couve había sido ya catalogada, la historiadora del arte Claudia Campaña saca a la luz imágenes inéditas del artista, documentándolas para aportar nuevos antecedentes sobre su creación gráfica, pictórica y literaria. El descubrimiento de una de las pinturas se transforma en el detonante para revivir y relatar un momento que resultará clave en la relación del artista con la autora momento que permite,...

Rex Ray celebrates life, work, and legacy of iconic San Francisco fine artist Rex Ray (1956—2015). This comprehensive volume features more than 100 of his works on canvas, wood, and paper-including never-before-seen pieces courtesy of the Rex Ray estate. His playful painted-paper-collages and organic, abstract forms have earned him comparisons to artists like Paul Klee and Henri Matisse. • Essays by celebrated writer Rebecca Solnit, art critic...

The fifteenth century artist Piero della Francesca produced works that are characterised by their serene, disciplined exploration, providing a major, though largely unrecognised contribution to the development of the Italian Renaissance. His fervent interest in the theoretical study of perspective and his contemplative approach are apparent in all of his extant paintings. Highlights of Piero's work include his masterful depiction of light and atmospheric...

The Portrait of an Artist series is an excellent introduction to art and its importance to our world. Claude Monet is one of the best loved artists of all time. Find out how this special young painter strove to capture light and feeling in his paintings and how together with a group of talented friends, he came to start the most famous art movement of all time, Impressionism. In his long life he experienced war and heartbreak, love and the joy of...

How a generation of women artists is transforming photography with analogue techniques.   Beginning in the 1990s, a series of major artists imagined the expansion of photography, intensifying its ideas and effects while abandoning many of its former medium constraints. Simultaneous with this development in contemporary art, however, photography was moving toward total digitalization.   Lateness and Longing presents the first account of a...

Artiste imprévisible et excentrique, le peintre américain Whistler est un véritable personnage de roman, admiré et très discuté. Moderniste avant l'heure, son œuvre se déroule en quatre périodes. Dans une première période de recherche, l'artiste est influencé par le réalisme de Courbet et par le japonisme. Puis Whistler trouve son originalité avec les Nocturnes et la série des Cremorne Gardens en s'opposant à l'académisme qui veut...

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works received heavy censure at the time, in later years they...

One of the most celebrated painters of his day, John Singer Sargent defines for many the style, optimism and opulence of turn-of-the-century America. Among his renowned portraits, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" stands alongside "Madame X" and "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw" as one of Sargent's immortal images. This painting depicts four young sisters in the spacious foyer of the family's Paris apartment, strangely dispersed across the murky tones and...

Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Jasper at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffer's own resonant themes-women and wilderness, travel and science-to ask new questions, tell new stories, and reassess the persona of Mary Schäffer imagined in more recent times. Public and...