Discover anew the herstory of art that Publishers Weekly calls "illuminating" and Foreword Reviews calls "spirited" for an enlightening art history read. How many female artists can you name? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marina Abramovic? How about female artists who lived prior to the Modern era? Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi and then… even a regular museum-goer might run out of steam. What …
The ultimate guide to learning how to draw detailed works of art in gorgeous ink. Ink pen artist and educator Giovana Vescovi invites you on an inspiring journey into the mesmerizing world of ink pen drawing. This comprehensive guide was designed for both beginners and experienced artists, offering a roadmap to unlock your creative potential and master the art of ink pen illustration. Reade…
This book is the first to tell the stories of Norman Rockwell's models and their time in his studio. In 1940, America's favorite illustrator Norman Rockwell, his wife Mary and their three sons moved to the picturesque rural village of West Arlington, Vermont. The artist discovered a treasure trove of models. Norman Rockwell's Models: In and out of the Studio is the first to detail these models'…
Pierre Bonnard était le chef d'un groupe de peintres post-impressionnistes. Ils se nommèrent eux-mêmes les Nabis, du mot hébreux signifiant 'prophète'. Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, Denis, les plus illustres des Nabis, ont révolutionné l'esprit des techniques décoratives durant l'une des époques les plus riches de la peinture française. Influencés par Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, …
Violet Oakley: An Artist's Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (1874–1961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, portraitist and author. There is much human interest here: a pampered and spoiled young woman who suddenly finds herself in near poverty, forced to make a living in …
Avant le XVIIe siècle, l'école française n'occupait qu'une modeste place dans la peinture européenne. C'est seulement à partir de cette date que les peintres anonymes cédèrent la place à toute une pléiade de noms devenus célèbres : Nicolas Poussin, Georges de la Tour, Claude Le Lorrain, les frères Le Nain...Aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, la peinture française est à son apogée. Les …
Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as women's limited access to professional art education, but also to bring to light the considerable artistic accomplishments of women occluded by historians for over a century. A similar effort at historical revision has been under way for …
L'equilibrio vita – lavoro è un inganno, sintomo di una patologica necessità di avere tutto sotto controllo. Abbiamo bisogno, invece, di creare armonia tra tutte le nostre sfere personali, compresa quella lavorativa, per valorizzare al massimo le risorse che abbiamo, in maniera coerente con ciò che siamo. Per accompagnarci in questa evoluzione, Debora De Nuzzo delinea un percorso di consap…
This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term avant-garde represents a twenty-first century evaluation of certain nineteenth-century artists working in a variety of advanced styles, rather than a phrase the artists applied to themselves. Chapters are on individual…
eDossier è una nuova collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile, portatile e accessibile. Un dossier dedicato al Manierismo. Nel sommario: Genesi e modelli della Maniera; La prima stagione manierista; Firenze e Roma: la seconda stagione manierista.