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The term minimalism has not always been used correctly, and even today it continues to cause confusion when it is used to define artistic trends, schools of thought or creative movements. The term began to be bandied about in the 1960s, when artists ...

Fellow painter Walter Erben spent countless hours conversing with his colleague Joan Miró (1893-1983) at his house in Mallorca in preparation for this book. Over the course of these talks, Miró gave Erben many interesting and invaluable insights into...

Assassinator of painting. The artist who upset the establishment Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the twentieth century. The themes and treatments of his early work were shaped by the Catalan landscap...

The A-Z of modern architecture. An unprecedented architecture encyclopedia "The book provides a splendid record of architecture from the nineteenth century to the present day." - Architectural Review, London Unlike most architecture e...

Space Shapers. An encyclopedia of modern architecture With more than 280 entries, this architectural A–Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. Fr...

Masters that matter in Modern Art A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking works in Modernism The story of Modern Art began roughly 150 years ago in Paris, where a circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, shook up the established art...

Modern matters. A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures wit...

Modern Matters. A blow-by-blow account of Modernism This indispensable overview traces the restless energy of modern art with a year-by-year succession of the groundbreaking artworks that shook standards and broke down barriers. Featuring hundreds...

Modigliani - Sensitive paintings and sculptures that speak in tongues To contemporaries, Amedeo Modigliani was the very definition of Parisian Bohemia, the controversial darling and target of the popular press and the model on which many a novel, ...

The controversial darling and target of the popular press. Scandalous Amedeo Modigliani To contemporaries, Amedeo Modigliani was the very definition of Parisian Bohemia, the controversial darling and target of the popular press and the model on wh...

The quest for "universal harmony" Less is often more - such is Piet Mondrian’s approach to art. His main pictorial elements are horizontals and verticals, his preferred colours yellow, red and blue. Throughout his life, Mondrian...

Abstract pioneer. Harmonies in red, yellow, and blue Less was more for Piet Mondrian. With his strictly limited pictorial elements — the colours red, yellow, and blue, black lines, white space — he sought a ‘universal harmony&rsq...

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was both the most typical and the most individual painter associated with the Impressionist movement. His long life and extraordinary work were dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in part...

Lasting impressions of nature. The most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the...

Prince of the Impressionists. Capturing the ever-changing face of reality Hailed the Prince of the Impressionists, Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet di...