Monografie

Na het succes van Mucha in 2004 en Toulouse-Lautrec in 2006 presenteert de Kunsthal opnieuw een groots overzicht van één van de meest geliefde kunstenaars uit de Belle Epoque: Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923).\nHet is voor het eerst dat er zo'n uitgebreide verzameling werk van Steinlen in Nederland te zien is. Het omvangrijke retrospectief van meer dan tweehonderd werken bestaat uit schilderijen, affiches (waaronder de wereldberoemde 'Chat Noir'), tekeningen en illustraties.

Monografie van de Nederlandse kunstenaar (1936), met een overzicht van zijn realistische, precieze potloodtekeningen.

Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacrilegious subject matter and use of lower class models were violently scorned. Michelangelo Mirisi de Caravaggio lived a life riddled with crime and scandal, producing a body of work that wouldn't be appreciated until centuries after his mysterious death. Though his body was never found, he is assumed to have been murdered by ruffians on a beach south of Rome-a fate strangely similar to that of controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini who was, like Caravaggio, a homosexual.

Caravaggio's reputation was decidedly poor during his lifetime; sometimes rich, sometimes penniless, when he wasn't in prison he was running away from the police or his enemies. Perhaps no other painter has suffered such injustice: his works were often attributed to more respected painters while he was given the credit for just about anything vulgar painted in the chiaroscuro style. Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and, quite posthumously, deemed a great master.

Traces the development of, and provides a good introduction to, the artist's work.

Inleiding tot het werk van de Britse kunstschilder (1922).

This volume is a biography and career retrospective of French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). It combines a reappraisal of Rodin's achievement with revealing account of his personality and his troubled private life. The most famous and influential sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he is also widely considered to be the successor to Michelangelo, whose genius was a lifelong inspiration to him. Though the lifelike quality of his sculptures was in defiance of current academic conventions, Rodin was spared the prolonged and bitter hostility meted out to the Impressionists who were his contemporaries, and in later life he became a famous and widely respected figure. The author discusses Rodin's great significance as an innovator in sculpture. For Rodin created an entirely new form -- the detail considered as finished work -- and in doing so exercised a lasting influence on future sculptors, who were profoundly affected by his emotional expressiveness, his power of characterization, and his subtle modeling. Witj 132 illustrations, 16 in colour.

The great master of the human form: The sweetness of sin arose from the roots of pain Auguste Rodin was the great master of the human form, in clay, bronze and marble. He hymned Woman, summoning all the passions, joys and vices of life. The poet Rilke wrote that the sweetness of sin arose from the roots of pain in Rodins figures. They captivate us still, their brilliance undimmed by the passage of time. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions.

Monografie over de Nederlandse schilder (1928-1923). Tweetalig NL, EN

Met 412 reprodukties in kleuren en zwart-wit.