Francis Bacon s work has a strength and vitality that has led to his position as one of the greatest twentieth century artists. The violent intensity with which his paintings give expression to the existential angst of his fellow human beings is virtually without parallel in the history of the art. Bacon s work (1909 -1992) undoubtedly includes some of the most extraordinary and powerful paintings in modern art, reflecting the isolation and terror of the human condition, conveyed by the distortion of features and the nude body.
As Profesor Hunter write in his key introductory essay what has become increasingly clear with the test of time, as Bacon enters his eighties, is the clarity, durability, and powerful authority of his visual discourse.
This concise monograph is an in depth survey on the whole career of the British artist.

 

Francis Bacon

Sam Hunter

96pp./ 20x28cm./ 74il./ Hardcover

ISBN:
9788434312036
9788434312029
Castellano
English

18.20€
 

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A charismatic figure of the international art scene,Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949) is revered today as one of the most influential artists of the early twentieth century to have emerged from Latin America.Though Torres-García was born in Montevideo,Uruguay,the artist spent most of his life in Spain,Italy, France,and the U.S.A.(New York) before returning to his native Uruguay in 1934 and settling in Montevideo.There he founded the “Taller Torres-García,” the most significant art educational community of its time (1944-1962),in the tradition of the Bauhaus and De Stijl,that promoted avant-garde experimentation and sought to blur the hierarchical distinctions between arts and crafts.
Celebrated for his work as a modernist painter,teacher,and theorician, Torres-García is also known for breaking new ground in the realm of wooden constructions.Beginning in the late 1920s in Paris,Torres-García adapted the language of Neo-Plasticism from his colleagues Mondrian and Van Doesburg into a new three-dimensional concept for grids and planes made of wood. These “maderas”informed his simultaneous experiments in children’s toys, which he promoted and sold as educational tools for young minds.

 

Joaquín Torres-García

Margit Rowell

96pp./ 20x28cm./ 85il./ Hardcover with jacket

ISBN:
9788434312326
9788434312319
Castellano
English

18.20€
 

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most important artists of the late nineteenth century, and one whose work was to have a profound influence on the development of art in the twentieth century. He began as an Impressionist ––he contributed with major works to five of the eight Impressionist exhibitions between 1879 and 1886––, but went on to develop a most richly-coloured style in his constant search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature.

Both David Sweetman and John Richardson ––his main biographers––remark that Gauguin's posthumous retrospective exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1903 and an even larger one in 1906 had a stunning and powerful influence on the French avant-garde and in particular on Pablo Picasso's paintings. “He was always loath to admit Gauguin's role in setting him on the road to primitivism”, Richardson said.

This concise monograph collects the most important works by Gauguin, not only of his best known paintings of Tahiti in which the artist attempted to reconstruct the perfect life which he had failed to find in reality, but also of many powerful works that reflect the artist’s contact with other seminal early modern masters like Van Gogh or Cézanne.

 

Paul Gauguin

Stephen F. Eisenman

96pp./ 20x28cm./ 85il./ hardcover with jacket

ISBN:
9788434312500
9788434312494
Castellano
English

18.20€
 

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