The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
The Art of Champa
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95From 12 October 2005 to 9 January 2006, the Musee Guimet in Paris will play host to an exceptional exhibition: ?Treasures of Vietnamese Art? Champa Sculpture?. This show will bring together for the first time, outstanding pieces from the Musée Guimet, the National Museums of France and the national Vietnamese museums of Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh (formerly... more...
The Nabis
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 8.95Pierre Bonnard was the leader of the group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves ?the Nabis,? based on the Hebrew word for ?prophet?. Influenced by Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, popular imagery and Japanese woodblock printing, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton and Denis (to name the most prominent) revolutionised the spirit of decorative... more...
Caravaggio
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95It took a mid-twentieth century art show in Milan to rediscover this Italian artist, emblematic of the Baroque period, who lived during the second half of the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. Michelangelo Merisi was born to a family of modest means in 1571 near Milan. At the age of thirteen, he became an apprentice of the painter Simone Peterzano,... more...
Toulouse-Lautrec
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 3.50Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, (24 November 1864 ? 9 September 1901) was a French, post-impressionist painter, famous for his paintings and prints of actors, dancers and prostitutes in the Montmartre area of Paris. Despite his noble origins, he painted scenes which shocked the ?polite society? in Paris. In his short career, he had an impressive output,... more...
Amedeo Modigliani
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 7.00Modigliani (1884-1920) era un artista que no encontró mucha felicidad en su Italia natal, y en la tierra adoptiva de Francia sólo encontró tristeza. De esta infelicidad nació una extraordinaria y original producción de obras, influenciada por el arte africano, el movimiento cubista y las noches de alcohol de Montparnasse. Sus desnudos femeninos, con... more...
Andy Warhol
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 7.00As well as one of the leading figures in the American Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol was a painter, printmaker, occasional sculptor and filmmaker, whose work carried on the tradition of Dadaism which questioned the very validity of art itself. He used images, objects and their means of production to draw parallels with cultural processes. By means of... more...
Anthonis van Dyck
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 7.00Van Dyck, Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts, hatte eine ebenso kurze wie glanzvolle Karriere. Als ein Schüler Rubens wird er sehr schnell zum Protegé der Prinzen und Könige und avanciert zu einem der beliebtesten Portraitisten der großen und wichtigen Familien Englands. Mit Hilfe einer äußerst präzisen Farbkomposition verleiht er seinen Modellen Würde und... more...
Antoine van Dyck
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 7.00Peintre flamand du XVIIe siècle, Van Dyck eut une carrière aussi courte qu?éblouissante. Élève de Rubens, il devint vite le protégé des princes et des rois et fut le portraitiste attitré des plus grandes familles italiennes et anglaises. Au travers d?une composition rigoureuse, il confère à ses modèles dignité, grandeur et spiritualité. Dames fières,... more...
Claude Monet
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 7.00Para Monet, el acto de creación siempre fue una dolorosa lucha. Su obsesión por expresar emociones y transmitir el efecto de la luz sobre la naturaleza fue mucho más intensa que la de sus contemporáneos. En sus palabras: ?Las técnicas vienen y van... el arte siempre es el mismo: una transposición de la naturaleza que requiere tanto de la voluntad como... more...
Egon Schiele
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 7.00Egon Schiele (1890-1918) est un artiste incontournable de l?Expressionnisme. Influencé par Klimt et la Sécession viennoise, il rompt très jeune avec l?art officiel autrichien. Nerveux, ses nombreux nus et autoportraits restent fidèles à l?image de cet artiste majeur : érotiques, sensuels et torturés. Grâce à son texte et aux ?uvres qui l?illustrent,... more...









