Kunst / Bouwkunst

Beknopte geschiedenis van de architectuur - van het oude Egypte tot het begin van de negentiende eeuw - aan de hand van bouwstijlen en architectonische details.

Un panorama des arts plastiques en Europe dans les années 30.

Design van (202) schoenen, 1927-1960

A study of non-heterosexuality in art over the last five decades, Examines the work of approximately 140 artists from Europe. 50 years ago, in 1969, non-heterosexual residents of Amsterdam and New York took to the streets to campaign for their sexual, social, and legal rights. That year marked the start of the development of gay rights all over the world, which in many countries has now culminated in the introduction of same-sex marriage. Since the 1960s, artists all over the world have regularly taken homosexuality as the subject of their work, in a range of different ways. Queer in Art is the first book to place the development of this art in a broad European context. The book focuses on male homosexuality and queer performances, and offers a chronological look at the past five decades. Text in English and Dutch.

Waar moet je op letten, als je een kunstwerk koopt? Hedendaagse beeldende kunst is vaak nog niet in kunsthistorische termen te vatten, maar er valt veel te zeggen over gebruikte materialen en technieken. Praktische tips, waarbij het vooral gaat om veel te zien, veel galeries te bezoeken, en vooral af te gaan op je eigen intuïtie over wat je aanspreekt. Vijfendertig jonge kunstenaars tonen in dit boek hun werk en vertellen over hun inspiratiebronnen. Ook komen tien kunstkopers aan het woord.

Beschouwingen over de relatie tussen het welbevinden van de mens en zijn omgeving (de architectuur) vanuit kunsthistorisch perspectief.

Uitzonderlijke portretten door een uitzonderlijke kunstenares

De tentoonstelling Russia XXI toont een overzicht van de moderne en hedendaagse beeldhouwkunst uit Rusland. In samenwerking met het National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) te Moskou, is een keuze van 37 kunstenaars, duo's en groepen gemaakt, die hun werk o.a. op het Lange Voorhout te Den Haag en in museum Beelden aan Zee zullen tonen. Het leeuwendeel van het werk is afkomstig uit Moskou. De tentoonstelling bevat werk uit de tumultueuze periode van na 1989 en toont de ontwikkelingen van de beeldhouwkunst tot nu toe. De Russische beeldhouwkunst houdt zich bezig met de eigen maatschappij, de wisseling van politieke en economische systemen, en het tegelijk beroemde en beruchte kunsthistorische verleden. Exhibition: Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands (28.05.-27.10.2013).

The first major exhibition to explore the influence of the Symbolist movement on Australian art at the turn of the 19th century. Rather than representing the real world, Symbolist artists sought to suggest altered realities as conjured by the mind. To evoke ideas, dreams and sensations, they envisaged poetic landscapes, femmes fatales, and figures drawn from spiritual and mythological terrains. The movement had an enormous impact across Europe in the late 1800s. While Australian painting from the period is best known for landscapes, figures of fantasy and mythology were an increasing presence. Australian Symbolism: the art of dreams brings together some 70 paintings, sculptures, photographs and decorative arts objects by expatriate Australians working in Europe and by artists here who used Symbolist themes to define Australian conditions. The exhibition features works by some of the era's most admired artists, including Charles Conder, Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts, Rupert Bunny, Bertram Mackennal and George Lambert - some rarely seen. It also investigates the crossover between Symbolist subjects and art nouveau style in Australia, including two seminal works by Sydney Long, the country's best-known exponent of art nouveau painting.--www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au.

Painter of the loneliness of big-city people Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered the first important American painter in twentieth-century art. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity that since the 1950s has continually grown.

In canvas after canvas he painted the loneliness of big-city people. Many of Hopper's pictures represent views of streets and roads, rooftops, and abandoned houses, depicted in a brilliant light that strangely belies the melancholy mood of the scenes.

Hopper's paintings are marked by striking juxtapositions of color, and by the clear contours with which the figures are demarcated from their surroundings. His extremely precise focus on the theme of modern men and women in the natural and man-made environment sometimes lends his pictures a mood of eerie disquiet. On the other hand, Hopper's renderings of rocky landscapes in warm brown hues, or his depictions of the seacoast, exude an unusual tranquillity that reveals another, more optimistic side of his character. 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

Leven en werk van de Franse kunstschilder.

Title was originally announced as a WBOOKS publication (9789040007828). 'In de schaduw van morgen' is de reconstructie van de spraakmakende tentoonstelling 'De bange jaren dertig' die in de beginjaren van de Koude Oorlog in het toenmalige Gemeentemuseum Arnhem (nu MMKA) werd gehouden. Bijzonder aan deze tentoonstelling was dat het wereldgebeuren van de jaren dertig als uitgangspunt werd genomen voor een exposé over een op dat moment - ten tijde van COBRA - omstreden stroming uit de Nederlandse kunstgeschiedenis. Het boek verschijnt ter gelegenheid van de reconstructie van de tentoonstelling in het Museum van Moderne Kunst Arnhem. Alle oorspronkelijk geselecteerde werken worden in In de schaduw van morgenafgebeeld en besproken, waaronder werk van Schuhmacher, Ket, Willink, Koch en de schilderijen die destijds niet in bruikleen konden worden verkregen. 0Exhibition: Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands (18.11.2012-17.2.2013).

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Balthus’s lifelong curiosity with the ambiguities and dark side of childhood resulted in his best-known and most iconic works. In these pictures, Balthus (1908-2001) mingles intuition into his young sitters’ psyches with overt erotic desire and forbidding austerity, making them among the most powerful depictions of childhood and adolescence ever committed to canvas. Often included in these scenes are enigmatic cats, possible stand-ins for the artist himself.

Balthus: Cats and Girls is the first book devoted to this subject, focusing on the early decades of the artist’s career from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the artist’s life and work, as well as on interviews with Balthus and the models themselves, Sabine Rewald explores the origins and permutations of Balthus’s obsessions with adolescents and felines. She addresses the crucial influence of such key figures as poet Rainer Maria Rilke, his mother’s lover, who acted as Balthus’s surrogate father, but also includes the previously unknown voices of the girl models: their recollections and comments provide a unique perspective on some of the best known and most controversial paintings of the 20th century.

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Looks at how photographer Alfred Stieglitz and the critics drew on early twentieth-century discourses on sex and the psyche, particularly theories of Sigmund Freud and Havelock Ellis, to characterize the artwork in Stieglitz's circle.

with 26 b-w illustrations

met CD

Alfons Mucha is known largely for having originated Art Nouveau, when his poster of the actress Sarah Bernhardt became a legendary icon of the movement. Mucha went on to design hundreds of pieces in the decorative arts field, but later distanced himself from the style he pioneered, devoting his time and energy to painting. This book presents the full array of Mucha's artistic contributions-not only his posters and jewelry designs but also his design for the pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1900 World's Fair. The book also includes his works on canvas, which include pastels and frescoes, and his magnum opus, The Slavic Epic, a series of 20 paintings depicting the history of his native people. A stunning selection of 700 color illustrations is accompanied with essays that explore Mucha's style and inspirations, his transition away from the decorative arts, and his forays into photography. Fans of Art Nouveau will treasure this dazzling and unique study of the artist and his contributions to design and illustration.

Algemene informatie in woord en beeld over verschillende soorten vaste en beweegbare bruggen, met daarnaast aandacht voor de mechanica en het materiaalgebruik

Hans den Hartog de Jager en Pieter Steinz gingen op zoek naar de kunstwerken die Nederland definiëren. Hoe schilderde een protestantse kunstenaar de Tachtigjarige Oorlog en hoe zag de Opstand eruit door een katholieke bril? Hoe is onze geschiedenis verbeeld? Dit boek is een Nederlandse geschiedenis en kunstgeschiedenis in één.