The most famous and popular book on art ever published, this quintessential "introduction to art" has been a worldwide bestseller for over four decades. In this completely redesigned 16th edition, Gombrich, a true master, combines knowledge and wisdom with a unique gift for communicating his deep love of the subject. 440 illustrations, 376 in color.

"The jewelry by contemporary artists Diane Venetpossessestoday forms a unique reference collection.Reading like a who's whoof modern artists, thecatalog of her pieces here retells thehistory of20th-century art." Adrien Goetz This book presents over 200 pieces of jewelry designed bythe greatest artists of the 20th and 21 st century includingAlexander Calder, Max Ernst,Salvador Dall, Niki de Saint-Phalle,Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons. The essays by .Adrien Goetz, French writer and arthistorian, and Barbara Rose, famous art historian and critic,provide a literary and historical perspective.

Melbourne is a city of nearly four milion people,lively and culturally .its richex includes an amazing sub-culture of street art ,of such vigour theat is variety and power with the graffiti capitals of london and new yourk ,and with those of paris ,berlin ,buenos aries and rio de janeiro. Although street art is essentially a subterranean activity ,the topography of melbourne,with its radiating railways running through walled canyons and a tight -knit inner city of walls and laneways ,gives even the most conservative citizen a chance to observe the outporuings of the street art even the most conservative citizen a cross-over with fashion,design,graphics and advertising. The artistic parade presentedin street art uncut explores all genres of the trae -including throwups,stencils,murals ,stickers,posters,piaues and sculpturds. Matthew lunn`s knowledge of the artists themselves and their stories,and this understanging of the methodologies and the psychology of street art make thei both an absorbing

This solo piano edition of Tchaikovsky's masterful Christmas ballet offers pianists a chance to enjoy favorites such as "The Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy" and "The Waltz of the Flowers." Entirely faithful to Tchaikovsky's brilliant orchestral score, this delightful arrangement by Sergey Taneyev and the com- poser himself renders the complete ballet in a style both idiomatic to the piano and specially designed to be relatively easy to play. Here are all the movements of the beloved Suite, along with the rest of this hol-iday favorite, in which a brave and loyal little girl's toy is transformed into aprince who accompanies her into a magical world. Suitable for performers,rehearsal pianists, and all admirers of Tchaikovsky's art, this inexpensive edi-tion of a perennial favorite will enchant players and listeners alike. Dover (2005) unabridged republication of the edition published byP. Jurgenson, Moscow, 1892. viii+168pp. 9×12. Paperbound.

This book gives a new analysis of the intersections betweengraffiti art and the work of Basquiat. Not only are there fewexistent writings on the subject, but the book will also appeal toa very large public.

There is no doubt about Gustav Klimt's greatness as a draftsman.Remarkable above all is the intensely sensual mood that heestablishes in his limpid, fluid drawings and watercolors: thepencil or crayon line with which his subjects are describedexplores and caresses as though the act of drawing was itself aseduction. Klimt's drawings are often highly erotic and explicit,many to such an extent that they have rarely been reproduced. Thishas made for an unbalanced representation of his work as adraftsman, and a comprehensive survey of his graphic output is longoverdue. Rainer Metzger, a notedart historian, has brought together hundreds of Klimt's drawingsand watercolors in a way that enriches our knowledge of the artistand enhances the visual impact of his oeuvre. Klimt's drawings andstudies, and his elegantly direct and dangerously intoxicatingpreparatory sketches, reveal the underlying impetus for andstructure of his elaborate canvases. 307 color illustrations.

This book will help you to master the key elements in illustrating the human body and the shapes of clothes so that you can visualize your own fashion designs. Who lenows, they might end up on the catwal]e or in a store window. Among the areas explored in this book are the anatomical proportions, the displacement of body weight with various movements, and the most appropriate angles of view for highlighting particular Features oJ: clothing——atl of these being key elements of the language of fashion skeetches.

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universallyacclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flockto his retrospectives. His work shows art at its mostlight-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anythingugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action. "I like pictureswhich make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape,"he said, "or pass my hand over breast or back if it's a woman."Renoir's entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women.Again and again he painted "these faunesses with their poutinglips" (Mallarme) and invented a new image of feminity.

Life is life, and art is art. ""It is my wish to come very close, strikinglyclose, to the times in which we live, without submitting toartistic dogma...I need the connection to the world of senses, thecourage to portray ugliness, life as it comes."" - Otto Dix In the 1920s, Otto Dix was the artist ofNeue Sachlichkeit, the New Objectivity, par excellence. Painting ina very realistic, almost photographic style, he chose as subjectsthe poverty, violence, death, and war that he experienced as asoldier in World War I. After this terrible experience, he paintedthe famous triptych "The War." Dix staged the world as a play, a grotesquefarce. But the form he chose to do so was based on the classicalcanon of beauty. Dix lived his life and served art, for he adheredto the age-old rule that the American painter Ad Reinhardt put in anutshell: "Life is life, and art is art."

This definitive monograph, written by Miró’sclose friend and contemporary, offers personal insight into thelife and work of the artist. Rigorously academic, Dupin’s analysisgoes much further than a traditional study of the artist’s work: herecounts Miró’s artistic exploration, from sculpture, throughgraphic work, to costume design. Dupin’s privileged relationshipwith the Miró family allowed him exclusive access to invaluableinformation about the artist as well as many documents, such asvarious projects, sketch pads, and correspondence that were onlydiscovered after Miró’s death. Extensive notes are included at theback of the volume as well as a condensed chronology and a list ofMiró’s exhibitions and catalogs.

The proof is in the package No other book on the market explores global contemporary packaging to the extent and detail that Package Design Now! does. Practically everything you buy comes in some sort of package?some are just functional, while others strive to be as innovative, elegant, and eye-catching as possible. This encyclopedic resource, divided into chapters by type (such as cosmetics, household products, food, beverage, electronics, industrial, and clothing) explores the work of top design and branding offices from all around the world. Also included are chapters on material and processes, giving readers a peek at the way packaging is made and designed. This unique tome is indispensable for design and marketing professionals, as well as anyone who wants to know more about what makes a great package. The editor: Julius Wiedemann was born and raised in Brazil. After studying graphic design and marketing, he moved to Japan, where he worked in Tokyo as art editor for digital and design magazines. Si

Somewhere between jewelry and bodyadornment, the necklaceoffers perhaps the mostexciting decorative possibilities of anyarticle ofpersonal display. What is worn around the neckcannot beignored - unlike the more discreet charms of ear and fingerdecoration - and the necklace as an emblem of wealth, status andproclivity has been shaped and reshaped through the centuries bysuccessive fashions, techniques and materials, from the Egyptianbroad collar and the Celtic gold torc, to the diamond sautoirs ofthe I92OS and the exuberant creations of the liberatedsixties. The major part of this book is devoted to the necklace in the19th and 2oth centuries, as these are the most accessible to thepotential buyer and collector. There are, however, substantialsections on the earlier history of the necklace form: thefigurative pectorals of Egypt, Greek and Roman chains andmedallions, the ornamental inspiration of Renaissance art, theadvent of the pearl necklace in the 17th century. The I9th century then saw th

Beethoven's symphonies are among his greatest works--in the opinion of many, the greatest orchestral compositions in the history of music. Perfect in their fusion of emotion and form, filled with drama and great beauty, they are among the best- known and best-loved works in all classical music. Now Dover makes available the full orchestral scores for all nine symphonies in three consecutive wolumes. This volume contains the scores for Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 19.5 The eighth is full of beauty and innocent merriment, while the ninth is Beethoven'slast and greatest symphony, a dazzling end to his symphonic works. Also includedhere is a translation of the passages from Sehiller's ode "To Joy" set in its lastmovement. The scores have been painstakingly reproduced from the authoritative Litolff edition. Printed with large dear noteheads and wide margins, and far less expensive than comparable full-score editions, this volume belongs in the library of any

The Spanish artist Antonio Lopez Garcia is revered worldwidenot only for the extreme realism he brings to his paintings anddrawings, but because he conveys through this extreme realism awonderful sensitivity to light, color and space, enabling each tobreathe with a tranquility that allows for the encroachments ofeveryday life. Interior scenes of dining tables, bathroom sinks,toilets, dressers are depicted in sober light that recall Chardinor the intimisme of Vuillard--though Lopez Garcia surpasses eventhese masters in his ability to make unforgivingly prosaic subjectmatter, such as a brick wall or a refrigerator, sparkle and throbwith mood. The artist's statement that "you work until the wholesurface has an expressive intensity equivalent to what you havebefore you, converted into a pictorial reality" conveys somethingof the labor he brings to his works: Lopez Garcia is not a prolificartist, and as a result shows rarely (his 2008 exhibition at theMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, consolidated his already st

Guy Bourdin's fashion photography placed him at the vanguardof fashion photography in the second half of the twentieth century;today he is hailed as one of the finest fashion photographers ofthe twentieth century. From his first provocative editorial featurein 1955, which pictured haute couture alongside butchered cowheads, Bourdin pushed fashion photography into then-unchartedterritory with his volatile mixture of violence, sex andsurrealism. In Between delves into Bourdin's career,charting the course of his artistic development from the 1950s tothe 1980s via over 200 superbly printed black-and-white and colorimages. It also reassembles many original editorial layouts as theywere first published, in magazines such as French Vogue , British Vogue and Harper's Bazaar , offering a newcritical contexts for approaching his work-for Bourdin tailored hiscompositions to the constraints of the printed page, bothconceptually and graphically, and the mirror motif famously centralto his work finds its formal

"America The Beautiful" has been stirring hearts forgenerations, and now Wendell Minor provides a spectacular visualaccompaniment for the classic poem and song. Sing along to thefamiliar lyrics, turning each page as the musical tribute istransformed into a visual feast that spans the entire nation, fromNew York City to the Oregon coast, and encompasses multiple eras,from the Pilgrims to the Wright brothers to NASA. Wendell Minor’sstunning paintings of American landscapes and historical momentscelebrate our nation—from sea to shining sea.

"Girl before a Mirror" (1932), one of severalstandouts in MoMA's vast collection of Pablo Picasso's work, takesthe traditional artistic theme of a woman before her mirror andreinvents it in radically modern terms. The girl's profile andblonde hair identify her as Marie-Thérèse Walter, the artist'slover, muse and a profoundly transformative presence in both hislife and art, but the painting is far from a conventional portrait.Its dazzling jewel-like colors, boldly contoured shapes and surfacepatterning transform the girl and her shadowy reflection into adeeply mysterious image that is both captivating and strange. Inher essay, MoMA's Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Paintingand Sculpture, Anne Umland, explores this work in depth anddescribes the circumstances of its creation: the artist's privatelife, his practice as a sculptor, his rivalry with other artistsboth living and dead and his concern, at the age of 51, about hiscontemporary relevance and artistic legacy.

Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano began his career with exceptional design work on fan-favorite anime such as Gatchaman/G-Force and Time Bokan and popular graphic novels Sandman: The Dream Hunters and Wolverine & Elektra: The Redeemer, but it wasn't until he turned his attention to the medium of printmaking that his artistic genius began to flower. Drawing from influences as diverse as Art Nouveau and Art Deco traditions, American comics, Japanese ukiyo-e, and traditional fantasy illustration, Amano's prints capture a breathtaking world -- sometimes whimsical, sometimes luxurious, and sometimes terrifying.

Anne Leurquin, art historian, graduated from the UniversitéLibre in Brussels, and is now a professor of art history andethnology. Her various publications and contributions toexhibitions chiefly concern Africa.

Vincent van Gogh's paintings and his tempestuous life story continue to command enormous popular interest, inspiring numerous blockbuster exhibitions and biographies. This compact collection returns to what started it all--the paintings themselves. With a hand-held size, this volume manages to be affordable and comprehensive--a veritable dictionary of the artist's work. Included are all genres and periods of his work-from his gorgeous irises to his striking night skies and portraiture. Introducing the paintings is an intriguing essay by celebrated art critic Robert Hughes. This book provides an essential resource for students as well as for all art lovers. And it represents an extraordinary value. No other book on the artist offers as many images at this price.

Caravaggio - A genius beyond his time Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Thoughhis name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habituallydetested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatricalrealism unfashionable in his time, but his sacrilegious subjectmatter and use of lower class models were violently scorned. Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries ofdisrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he wasrediscovered and, quite posthumously, deemed a great master. He is now considered the most important painter of the early Baroqueperiod ; without him there would have been no Ribera, Zurbarán,Velázquez, Vermeer or Georges de la Tour. Franz Hals, Rembrandt,Delacroix, and Manet would have been different. In this anniversary edition you'll find over 50 ofCaravaggio's best paintings; we think you'll agree that he was agenius beyond his time.