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88 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 highlights art history decorative arts 89 poligrafa poligrafa hatje cantz hatje cantz exhibitions international exhibitions international velázquez text by santiago alcolea like his dutch contemporary vermeer diego velázquez 1599-1660 had little reputation outside of his native land until the nineteenth century when the spanish royal painting collections became state property and were installed in the prado museum in madrid the year was in 1819 and several private and official collections in london and paris also benefited unlike vermeer however velázquez had a fairly large oeuvre waiting to be rediscovered and rediscovered it was with great rapidity and enthusiasm goya and manet are almost inconceivable without the precedent of velázquez s portraiture and in fact manet even called the spaniard the painter of painters his impact on french impressionism was colossal and two of the twentieth century s most famous artists painted direct homages picasso made a version of las meninas in 1957 and francis bacon s screaming popes are based on velázquez s 1650 portrait of pope innocent x from goya until today velázquez s work has been recognized not only as the essential forerunner to modern painting but also as the greatest exponent of seventeenth-century spanish art velázquez 84-343-1136-4 978-84-343-1136-7 hardcover 8.5 x 11 in 128 pgs 100 color u.s $34.00 cdn $41.00 july/art el greco text by santiago alcolea el greco born domenicos theotocopoulos 15411614 was born on the greek island of crete then a venetian colony and went as a youth to venice where he began by painting icons in the byzantine style for the greek community there he soon succumbed to the powerful influences of titian tintoretto and later michelangelo in 1576 el greco went to spain settling in toledo where he spent the rest of his life producing the depictions of the toledan landscape that are justly among his best-loved works el greco s art aimed to arouse religious fervor in its viewers consequently his brushwork is ecstatically free color is used expressively and figures are elongated to maximum tension by their emphatic gestures his work brings a great age of christian art to its close with 108 full-color illustrations including all of his bestknown and most characteristic works this volume offers the reader a wide overview of the work of one of the world s most innovative painters el greco 84-343-0966-1 978-84-343-0966-1 hardcover 8.5 x 11 in 128 pgs 108 color u.s $34.00 cdn $41.00 july/art rembrandt drawings from the berlin kupferstichkabinett text by holm bevers the dutch master rembrandt van rijn 16061669 was one of the greatest draftsman of all time even small and quick sketches reveal his incomparable skill in capturing compositions figures groups human gestures facial expressions and landscapes with just a few strokes although some of rembrandt s drawings served as preparatory studies for paintings and etchings most are conceptual works in which he investigated motifs of movement and expression recording ideas for his own works and those produced by pupils in his studio encompassing works from rembrandt s entire career this compact and exquisitely produced monograph presents the full spectrum of the genres and materials used in the drawings in addition recent scholarship has revealed that many drawings once attributed to rembrandt were in fact done by his pupils of the 126 drawings in the important berlin collection from which this volume draws its illustrations only 55 are still considered original works by the master each of these is presented here within a scholarly text by holm bevers as well a selection of 25 drawings by rembrandt s pupils is examined in light of the most recent research rembrandt drawings from the berlin kupferstichkabinett 3-7757-1924-5 978-3-7757-1924-7 hardcover 7.75 x 10.5 in 144 pgs 89 color u.s $40.00 cdn $48.00 june/art angelica kauffmann a woman of immense talent edited and with text by tobias g natter angelica kauffman 1741-1807 was a star a portrait painter history painter printmaker and designer known in her lifetime as one of the wealthiest bourgeois women of her era she was called perhaps the most cultivated woman in europe by the german philosopher j g herder history painting might have been the way to prestige but it was kauffmann s portraits that opened avenues to an international aristocratic and intellectual social world this volume gathers approximately 150 works and is the first publication to rigorously connect them to her personal history and to london and rome where she lived kauffmann settled permanently in rome in 1782 and made her home a welcome meeting place for artists and writers goethe a regular called her a woman of immense talent and his assessment is borne out more than 200 years later by this study of her work angelica kauffmann a woman of immense talent 3-7757-1984-9 978-3-7757-1984-1 hardcover 10 x 12 in 272 pgs 200 color u.s $55.00 cdn $66.00 september/art théo van rysselberghe text by khadija jlaidi olivier bertrand patricia vander elst-alexandre véronique jago-antoine claire maingon dominique lostein et al the belgian painter théo van rysselberghe 18621926 is one of the most emblematic figures of the neo-impressionist movement together with georges seurat and paul signac with his delicate touch refined chromatic sense and great elegance above all in his portraits he produced some of the finest works of divisionism yet van rysselberghe s oeuvre is not limited to his bestknown works of his neo-impressionist period 1888-96 distancing himself from the strict division of colors he subsequently moved towards a more fluid style that nevertheless retained his signature luminosity his portraits and female nudes the landscapes he brought back from his numerous trips to morocco france italy spain and the netherlands all reveal an insatiable curiosity and an immense talent coupled with a rare sensibility this generous new catalogue presents many works that have never been published before théo van rysselberghe retrospective 90-5779-080-7 978-90-5779-080-5 hardcover 9.75 x 11.75 in 256 pgs 200 color u.s $80.00 cdn $96.00 july/art paul delvaux this monograph investigates the work of the belgian surrealist painter paul delvaux a colleague of rene magritte s whose best-known works feature odd groupings of female nudes who stare into space transfixed while making enigmatic gestures in surreally mismatched settings for example while walking down an empty street reclining in a train station or gathering in a complex of classical buildings sometimes these haunting muses wander through space accompanied by a skeletons other times they sit silently in long and sombre puritanical dresses as if serving out a penance paul delvaux was born in antheit belgium in 1897 as a young man he studied music greek latin and literature and was profoundly influenced by all of these investigations also finding interest in astronomy and geology in the 1920s he was influenced by the work of giorgio de chirico and in the 1930s he found much in common with his compatriot rene magritte all of these influences can be found in his mature work delvaux had a long and illustrious career as a showing artist exhibiting internationally for decades and was named director of the royal academy of the fine arts of belgium in 1965 he died in veurne in 1994 paul delvaux 90-858640-7-0 978-90-858640-7-3 paperback 10.75 x 8.5 in 204 pgs 200 color u.s $55.00 cdn $66.00 july/art

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