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Divine apples and pears: Cezanne's quest for a harmony parallel to Nature.  He was the founding father of modern art, the grandmaster who pointed painting forward on its way from Impressionism to the 20th century: Paul Cezanne (1839 - 190...

The painter as poet. A world of floating symbols For Marc Chagall (1887–1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual language carved out a unique early 20th-century niche, ofte...

Welcome to Communist Utopia. Mao’s starring role in Chinese propaganda art With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth o...

“All our work is about freedom.” The universe of Christo and Jeanne-Claude Discover Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artist duo who were born on the same day, met in Paris, fell in love, and became a unique creative partnership that took...

Temporary Projects, Eternal Impressions. The XXL exploration, now in a condensed handbook The works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are monuments of transience. Gigantic in scale, they are always temporary, created to exist only for a ...

Modern by Tradition. A survey of Japan’s contemporary architecture scene The contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer th...

The beauty of Soviet brutalism. A photographic record of 90 weird and wonderful buildings from the last decades of the USSR Photographer Frédéric Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express wh...

Bringing It All Back Home. The Dylan breakthrough portfolio Daniel Kramer’s classic Bob Dylan portfolio captures the artist’s transformative “big bang” year of 1964–65. Over the course of a year and a day, K...

Portrait of an Artist. A comprehensive chronicle of David Hockney’s life and work Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception — for six decades, David Hockney has b...

Pittura Metafisica. The brooding spaces of Giorgio de Chirico With his Pittura Metafisica, Greek-born Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico was a highly influential figure in the 20th-century avant-garde. Allied to the Surrealist movement, he develop...

The bible of 20th-century design. From Art Nouveau to minimalism and everything in between Poised at the start of the 21st century, we can see clearly that the previous century was marked by momentous changes in the field of design. Aesthetics ent...

Brilliant Plumage. An unsurpassed monument in the history of scientific illustration Edward Lear may be best known for his nonsense verse, but in his early years he excelled as an illustrator of birds and reptiles. This set of 42 hand-co...

Twisted Brilliance. Obsessive, radical, disturbing: Egon Schiele With his revolutionary and liberated view of the naked body and sexuality, Egon Schiele emphatically wrote himself into the history of art at the beginning of the last century. Even ...

Craft one of the most original artists of our time into 3D! Intricate patterns, elegant geometries, and mind-boggling graphics are trademarks of the magical visual world of Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972).   Mysterious and mathematica...

Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colours, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth-century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality.  Though particularly present in Germany and Austria...