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Eames by Koenig Gloria ; Gssel Peter
Category: Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Visual impact: Nothing says modernist perfection like an Eames design The creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also forerunners in architecture, textile d ...Show more
Hokusai by Rhiannon Paget
Category: Art | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
The Old Man Mad about PaintingHokusai, the master who unleashed a tsunami on the art worldMeet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of ...Show more
Kahlo by Kettenmann Andrea
Category: Art | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Suffering and the female experience The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state.Kahlo was one of the daughter ...Show more
Pop Art by Klaus Honnef
Category: Art | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Whaam When the kitschy, banal, and mass-market became art Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork.Focusing ...Show more
Rivera by Andrea Kettenmann
Category: Art | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
It was as a revolutionary and troublemaker that Picasso, Dali and Andre Breton described the husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, but he was also responsible for creating a public art that was both highly advanced and profoundly accessible. From 1910 Rivera lived in Europe where he absorbed the influen ...Show more
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