Frida Kahlo Big Art

This work is Taschen's 25th anniversary - special edition! Frida Kahlo - painter of pictures expressing the burdens that weighed upon her soul. The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the...

Indispensable Scales, Exercises & Etudes

Technical exercises applicable to intermediate literature. Sets the foundation for more difficult daily study routines. Practice of these scale exercises helps one acquire agility and evenness in play...

After Modern Art 1945-2000

Modern and contemporary art can be both baffling and beautiful; it can also be innovative, political, and disturbing. This book sets out to provide the first concise interpretation of the period as a...

Through the Mirror

The authors of this book are from various countries and have diverse educational backgrounds but they are united by one common thing; their love of Andrei Tarkovsky's films. Tarkovsky is one of the gr...

The Word made Visible in the Painted Image

This book explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ. W...

Insula of the Menander at Pompeii-The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Volume IV: The Silver Treasure

The Casa del Menando hoard was found by Professor Amedeo Maiuri in 1930, in the course of the excavation of the Insula of the Menander. There has been no study of it as a whole since Maiuri's publicat...

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Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion

Alexander Calder is one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. This book focuses on Calder's works in which the sculptor experimented with wildly different artistic direction...