Книги з живопису

Розкішне поєднання чуттєвості, символізму та художньої винахідливості, цей чудовий набір у коробці містить приголомшливі кольорові репродукції найважливіших робіт Клімта у форматі акордеонового складання, що супроводжується окремим буклетом з тлом та описом кожної картини.

Світлі картини Густава Клімта особливо підходять для презентації у форматі акордеонового складання. Коли кожна картина розгортається в розкішну репродукцію, сліпучі кольори та складні візерунки Клімта оживають. Цей том містить кілька найяскравіших робіт Клімта, зокрема «Поцілунок», його портрети Аделі Блох-Бауер, «Дерево життя», «Даная» та «Смерть і життя». Приголомшливі репродукції дозволяють читачам зблизька відчути складні деталі та майстерне використання Клімтом сусального золота; символізм та емоційну силу його мистецтва; його декоративну естетику та чарівні пейзажі. Окремий буклет із пояснювальними підписами, що надають додаткову інформацію та історичний контекст, супроводжує основний том. Численні шанувальники Клімта оцінять це свіже, унікальне, надзвичайне оспівування позачасової блискучості та монументального таланту художника.

Art inflation. The king of blow-ups, puppies, and pop

The creations of Jeff Koons (born 1955) are at once immediately accessible and eloquently art historical. From basketball tanks to flower puppies, his instantly recognizable work frolics with banal imagery as much as it integrates cultural references such as Surrealism and Pop Art. 

Koons art revels in visual pleasure, but also in the power to affront. He has made his name as much for stainless-steel rabbits as he has with his sinister sculpture of Michael Jackson, or his sexually explicit photographic series with then-wife Cicciolina. The result is mega-artist status. An indisputable king of contemporary visual culture, Koons is lauded by collectors, institutions, and the public alike.

About the series:

Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features:

- a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
- a concise biography
- approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Enigmatic and ambiguous in its role as both setting and subject, the landscape has been one of the most important genres in painting for centuries. This dedicated survey spans the late Middle Ages to modern times to bring the evolution of the landscape genre to life through its most critical works, executed by groundbreaking artists as diverse as Titian and Warhol.

As a form, landscapes represent the topography of the natural world as much as our own; reflecting the diversity of earth’s vistas, but also keen indications of developments in representational aesthetics, religious and political history, notions of the sublime and the romantic, as well as the arrival of modernity and the vast changes wrought on the environment by industrialization and urbanization.

Opening this insightful volume is an introductory essay offering a meticulous overview of the genre and its most crucial developments. Luscious double-page spreads on each of the 34 featured artworks include a crisp painting reproduction and an extensive art historical analysis on the masters of the form — including such greats as Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, El Greco, John Constable, Claude Monet, and David Hockney.

About the series:

- Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre series features:
- approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions
- a detailed illustrated introduction plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, and social events that took place during that period
- a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist

Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of the Renaissance humanist ideal, a logical polymath of epic proportions who excelled and had interests not just in art but in invention, anatomy, architecture, engineering, literature, mathematics, music, science, astronomy and more. His oeuvre is astounding and he is rightly famed for his masterpieces of painting such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and his astonishingly technical and graceful drawings. The phenomenon that was Leonardo would not of course have flourished to such an extent had it not been for the patronage and sponsorship of the Medici family, who commissioned a large proportion of the art and architecture of the era and fostered a fertile climate for creativity.

This sumptuous new book offers a broader view of this master artist in the context of this environment, alongside the work of other key artists who benefited from the Medicis, from Brunelleschi through Donatello to Michelangelo and Raphael.

The Popstar: When art went Whaam!

American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art vocabulary for a new era.

With his groundbreaking use of industrial production techniques and trivial, quotidian imagery such as cartoons, comic strips, and advertising, Lichtenstein joined contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist to reflect and satirize American mass media and consumer culture. Works such as Look, Mickey! (1961), Drowning Girl (1963), and Whaam! (1963), deployed mass production techniques, particularly Ben-Day dots printing, to create a blow-up effect and pixelated dot style, with which Lichtenstein has become synonymous.

This book provides an essential overview of Lichtenstein s career, tracing his earliest Pop statements through to later brushstroke retorts to Abstract Expressionism and reinterpretations of modern masterpieces. We look at his leading position in mid-century modernism, and the ways in which his works both critique and chronicle 20th-century America.

About the series:

Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. 

Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
- a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
- a concise biography
- approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

A major new survey that offers fresh insights on Pablo Picasso's artworks, written by a leading authority on the master.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. This important new monograph, released to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the artist's death, presents Picasso's unparalleled achievements in all media: painting, sculpture, drawing and prints. Art historian and curator Pepe Karmel offers fresh analysis of this great master for a 21st-century audience, considering Picasso's work through the lens of art rather than biography. He demonstrates how Picasso's style, evolving over the course of seven decades, introduced visual languages and narratives that transformed modern art.

Arranged chronologically by themes and movements, Looking at Picasso is profusely illustrated with renowned paintings, such as the provocative Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and his monumental Guernica, protesting the horror of war; these are accompanied by numerous lesser-known works, including Picasso's daring sculptures and his animated reinterpretation of Velazquez's 17th-century masterpiece Las Meninas.

Numerous exhibitions planned for 2023 will bring Picasso to the forefront. This engaging book will appeal to museum-goers curious to learn more about Picasso's career and anyone interested in modern art.

About the Author:

Pepe Karmel is Associate Professor at the department of Art History, New York University. He is the author of Picasso and the Invention of Cubism (2003) and Abstract Art: A Global History (2020), and has written widely on art for museum catalogues, as well as the New York Times, Art in America and other publications. He has also curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions, including 'Jackson Pollock' (MoMA, 1998) and 'Dialogues with Picasso' (Museo Picasso Malaga, 2020). Karmel is the Associate Curator of Museo Picasso Malaga.

Художник-принц епохи Відродження

Лукас Кранах Старший створив близько 500 робіт за своє життя. Зі своїми портретами Мартіна Лютера та Філіпа Меланхтона, а також як придворний художник Фрідріха Мудрого, він став одним із найпопулярніших художників Реформації. Водночас Кранах був першим, хто переніс традицію італійського Відродження — оголеної оголеної жінки в натуральну величину — у мистецтво на північ від Альп; його розпусне, ледь завуальоване зображення Венери, богині кохання, свідчить про це. З нагоди великої виставки Кранаха в Музеї історії мистецтв у Відні австрійська письменниця Тереза ​​Преауер досліджує творчість цього зайнятого принца художників від А до Я. Вона зосереджується не лише на мистецтві Кранаха, але й на суспільстві, яке його оточувало, сюжетах, які він малював, та подіях, що сформували його розвиток.

Лукас Кранах Старший (1472–1553) був одним із найплідніших художників, графіків та друкарів німецького Відродження. Придворний художник при дворі курфюрста Саксонії з 1505 року, він присвятив себе не лише релігійним творам, а й міфологічним темам та численним портретам.

Письменниця Тереза ​​Преауер (*1979) вивчала німецьку літературу в Зальцбурзі та Берліні, а також мистецтво в Зальцбурзькому Моцартеумі. Вона пише романи, есе та колонки. У своєму трагікомічному художньому романі «Джонні та Жан» (Вальштайн, 2016) художник Кранах відіграв вирішальну роль.

Значна публікація оригінальних творів про Люсьєна Фрейда, включаючи інтерв'ю з провідними сучасними художниками, до 100-річчя від дня його народження

Люсьєн Фрейд (1922–2011) був одним із найвидатніших художників-фігуративістів ХХ століття. З непохитним поглядом та безкомпромісною відданістю своїй роботі він створив шедеври, які продовжують надихати сучасних художників і донині.

Протягом майже 70 років кар'єра Фрейда часто була затьмарена його біографією та славою. Ця книга переосмислює його картини через широкий спектр оригінальних підходів. Тексти різноманітних письменників, як молодих, так і відомих міжнародних авторів, досліджують теми, починаючи від композиційних відлунь картин старих майстрів у творах Фрейда і закінчуючи контекстуалізацією його практики в класовій боротьбі Британії 1980-х років. Протягом усієї книги провідні сучасні художники, такі як Трейсі Емін та Шанталь Джоффе, дають проникливі свідчення про актуальність Фрейда сьогодні.

З нагоди 100-річчя з дня народження Фрейда, ця публікація супроводжує першу велику виставку його робіт за 10 років. Представляючи свіжі погляди на його картини, вона знайомить Фрейда з новим поколінням науковців та ентузіастів, демонструючи його незмінне міжнародне значення.

Видано National Gallery Global/Розповсюджується Yale University Press

Розклад виставки:

Національна галерея, Лондон
1 жовтня 2022 р. – 22 січня 2023 р.

Музей Тіссен-Борнеміса, Мадрид
14 лютого – 18 червня 2023 р.

Про автора:

Даніель Ф. Геррманн – куратор сучасних проектів у Національній галереї, Лондон.

This Is Not a Book. Everyday enigma from Belgium's leading Surrealist

Meet the Belgian Surrealist forever on the hunt for magic and mystery. This introduction to Magritte presents key works from the artist's vast repertoire of visual humour, paradox, and surprise which makes us look and look again, not only at the painting but at our sense of self and the world.

From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", René Magritte (1898–1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation.

Like other Surrealist works, Magritte’s paintings combine a precise, mimetic technique with abnormal, alienating configurations which defy the laws of scale, logic, and science: a comb the size of a wardrobe, rocks that float in the sky, clouds that drift through an open door. The result is a direct yet disorientating realm, often witty, often unsettling, and always prompting us to look beyond the visible, to “what is hidden by what we see.”

This introductory book explores Magritte's vast repertoire of visual humour, paradox, and surprise which to this day makes us look and look again, not only at the painting but at our sense of self and the world.

About the author:

Marcel Paquet (1947–2014) obtained his doctorate in 1978 from the Free University of Brussels with a thesis entitled La différence des penseés de Kant et de Hegel dans la question de l’essence de l’art. He published a number of books on such subjects as Paul Delvaux, Fernando Botero, and Hans Bellmer.

About the series:

Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:

- a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
- a concise biography
- approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Menil Collection, Houston, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 focuses on the breakthrough surrealist years of René Magritte, creator of some of the 20th century's most extraordinary images. 

Bringing together nearly 80 paintings, periodicals and early commercial work, it offers fresh insight into Magritte's identity as a revolutionary painter and surrealist artist. Beginning in 1926, when Magritte first aimed to create paintings that would, in his words, challenge the real world and concluding in 1938 a historically and biographically significant moment just before the outbreak of World War II the publication traces central strategies and themes from this seminal period, particularly those of displacement, transformation, metamorphosis, the misnaming of objects, and the representation of visions seen in half-waking states. 

The publication also presents new conservation research on Magritte's materials and techniques, and an illustrated chronology outlining significant moments in the artist's life during this significant period, including travel, connections with other surrealist artists and writers, contributions to journals, and important exhibitions and reviews.

Christian Rex van Minnen’s art is challenging, intriguing, and disturbing. His provocative paintings depict the dynamic attraction and repulsion of mankind, often leaving the viewer deep in contemplative euphoria. Since his first solo exhibition in 2009, his work has been shown extensively around the world, garnering a cult following of admirers who are deeply moved by his honest paintings, that often reflect the artist’s own thoughts about the fragile male ego and what it means to identify as a white American man.

Van Minnen’s first foray into showcasing his delightfully complex work, Massa Confusa: The Art of Christian Rex van Minnen is a deluxe art book filled with beautiful paintings that raise questions around our identity while also bringing out the grotesque from within all of us.

Цей щедро ілюстрований том про творчість Боттічеллі робить найбільше мистецтво світу доступним для читачів будь-якого рівня оцінки.

Флорентійський художник Боттічеллі уособлює золотий вік раннього Відродження. Найвідоміший за «Народженням Венери» та «Примаверою», Боттічеллі писав із виразною поетичністю, яка уникала формального реалізму. Він використовував лінії та колір для чудового ефекту, створюючи одні з найулюбленіших і найвідоміших образів усіх часів. Переповнена бездоганно відтвореними зображеннями, ця книга пропонує повносторінкові розвороти шедеврів, а також виділення дрібніших деталей, що дозволяє глядачеві оцінити кожен аспект техніки та творчості художника. Розташована в хронологічному порядку, книга охоплює важливі біографічні та історичні події, які відображають новітню науку. Додаткова інформація містить перелік творів, хронологію та пропозиції щодо подальшого читання.

Про автора:

Федеріко Полетті спеціалізується на мистецтвознавчих предметах.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Monet makes the world’s greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation.

Monet’s dazzling depictions of flowers, sunsets, fields, and oceans, in which line and shape are suggested through pure color, changed the way we perceive our natural surroundings. His numerous series, in which he depicts the same object at varying times of the day and in different seasons, pushed the limits of representational art. His final series of water lilies are considered to have ushered in the abstract movement of the twentieth century. Overflowing with images, this book offers full-page spreads of masterpieces as well as highlights of smaller details, allowing every aspect of the artist’s technique and oeuvre to be appreciated. Chronologically arranged, the book covers important biographical and historic events that reflect the latest scholarship. Additional information includes a list of works, timeline, and suggestions for further reading.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Jan van Eyck makes the world’s greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation

As a 15th-century Flemish painter who spent most of his life in Bruges, Van Eyck was revered for his innovative manipulation of oil paint. Overflowing with impeccably reproduced images, this book offers full-page spreads of masterpieces as well as highlights of smaller details, allowing the viewer to appreciate every aspect of the artist’s technique and oeuvre.

Like Dreamers Do. The lyrical mark-making of a modern maestro

Explore the lyrical seven-decade career of Catalan-born Joan Miró, a towering figure of 20th-century art, whose highly individual style reflected Surrealist, Dadaist, and abstract elements in dazzling colors and unique symbolic narratives. From automated drawing to sculptures made of gas, this modernist legend abandoned categorization and approval in favor of his own dreamlike worlds.

With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (1893–1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and embracing ideologies as varied as Fauvism, Surrealism, Dada, Magic Realism, Cubism, and abstraction.

Over the course of his prodigious output, Miró evolved constantly, seeking to eschew categorization and the approval of “bourgeois” art critics as much as he pursued his own dreamlike worlds. Emerging into the public spotlight in the early 1920s, he first experimented with Fauvism and Cubism before developing a distinctive style of symbols and pictograms, arranged in elusive visual narratives, with frequent reference to Catalan life. As his career progressed, Miró moved towards Surrealism, and, despite never fully identifying with the movement, emerged as one of its most celebrated practitioners with techniques including automated drawing, Lyrical Abstraction, and Color Field painting. In later years, he diversified his media further, working with ceramics, textiles, and even proposing sculptures made of gas.

Through his vivid colors, dreamlike fantasies, and enigmatic symbols, this book brings together the numerous strands of Miró’s kaleidoscopic oeuvre to introduce his fascinating career, its interaction with major modernist movements, and how it made him into a modernist legend.

The author:

Janis Mink studied art history at Smith College and gained her doctorate in Hamburg under Martin Warnke. She is presently a writer and curator.

About the series:

Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features:

- a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
- a concise biography
- approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions