Editore: Laurence King April 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1780674783 ISBN 13: 9781780674780
Da: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: UNSPECIFIED. Vale, Patrick (illustratore). Paul Cezanne challenged convention, and proposed new possibilities for modern art. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint everyday places, people, and things in ways that revealed the multiplicity and beauty of vision, while also unveiling the deep, cohesive structures of the visible world. But the intellectual and emotional difficulties of his achievements were considerable. Mainly self-taught, most of his career was plagued by rejection. The critics, and the public, disliked his paintings and, in 1884, Cezanne declared that Paris, the center of the nineteenth-century art world, had defeated him. Repeatedly, he retreated into self-doubt and bad temper. This book follows Cezanne on his extraordinary artistic journey, focusing on his formative discoveries, made not in the flashy, fashionable metropolis but in provincial and rural France and often in isolation.
Editore: Laurence King April 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1780674813 ISBN 13: 9781780674810
Da: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: NEW. A must for letterpress enthusiasts and graphic designers, this is a covetable showcase of Alan Kitching's font collection. Each page has been carefully created by Alan Kitching in collaboration with Angus Hyland, making this book a work of art in its own right. Presented as an A to Z, each letter is interspersed with complete alphabets giving the reader access to a large range of fonts to reference in their own work. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!!.
Editore: Laurence King April 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1780674805 ISBN 13: 9781780674803
Da: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: NEW. Harasymowicz, Slawa (illustratore). Vincent van Gogh used art to express his intensely emotional response to the world around him. Enraptured by the beauty of nature and tormented by the sorrows of human existence, he produced in his tragically short life some of the most powerfully expressive paintings ever seen. Many have made the mistake of thinking him mad, and he did suffer throughout his life periods of mental anguish. But Van Gogh's paintings are not the works of a madman. Van Gogh famously sold only one painting during his life, but within a few years of his death he was recognized as one of the greatest modern painters.