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Profoundly influenced by the welded sculptures of Julio González and of Picasso, David Smith devoted himself entirely to metal sculptures, constructing compositions from steel and scrap material. Almost single-handedly, Smith changed the nature of sculpture in America, giving it a passion, a seriousness and an identity it did not previously possess.


David Smith

Works, writings, interviews
Sarah Hamill
160pp./ 120il./ 28 x 21.5 cm./ Hardcover with jacket


ISBN:
9788434312616  Castellano
9788434312609  English

35.00€




 

Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement and the most influential American painter of the twentieth century. Although he died at the age of 44, he left an unsurpassed body of work.


Jackson Pollock

Works, writings, interviews
Nancy Jachet
160pp./ 120il./ 28 x 21.5 cm./ Hardcover with jacket


ISBN:
9788434312593  Castellano
9788434312586  English

35.00€




 

Son of Fred Klein and Marie Raymond,both painters,Yves Klein took the  European art scene by storm in a brief career that lasted just eight years,from  1954 to 1962.“For color!


Yves Klein

Works, writings, interviews
Klaus Ottmann
160pp./ 110il./ 28 x 21.5 cm./ Hardcover with jacket


ISBN:
9788434312098  Castellano
9788434312104  English

35.00€




 

Born on the shores of Lake Van (Armenia) and emigrated to the United States  in 1920,Arshile Gorky (c.1902-1948) was one of the greatest American  painters of the twentieth century and a seminal figure in the Abstract  Expressionist movement.


Arshile Gorky

Robert S. Mattison
160pp./ 110il./ 28 x 21.5 cm./ Hardcover with jacket


ISBN:
9788434312227  Castellano
9788434312210  English

35.00€




 

Footmarks and handprints, sand, wood, earth, rope, words and letters: Tàpies, repertoire is infinite. Miró encouraged him to use forms and materials of every kind, all the more so in an environment devoid of meaning-Spain in the post-war years-in which official reality bore no relation to the situation as it really was. Imperceptibly, true reality asserted its pre-eminence and the expressiveness of increasingly organic materials, endowing his painting with greater materiality than signification.


Antoni Tàpies

Youssef Ishaghpour
160pp./ 130il./ 28 x 21.5 cm./ Hardcover with jacket


ISBN:
9788434311251  Castellano
9788434311244  English

35.00€




 

Installed in France since the forty s of the last century, Zao Wou-Ki has joined, like no other artist, the knowledge of Chinese painting and calligraphy with the individualist and subjective experience of the western abstract art. Impressed by Paul Klee s paintings and impeled by Henry Michaux and Andre Malraux, two of the most active French intellectuals of the second post war, Zao Wou-Ki has kept deepening in his particular introspective journey for over five decades. All his work seems to restore an immense inner landscape, no exempt of dissonances and shadows.


Zao Wou-Ki

José Freches
160pp./ 130il./ 28 x 21.5 cm./ Hardcover with jacket


ISBN:
9788434311626  Castellano
9788434311633  English

35.00€




 

A leasing figure in the emergence of abstract expressionist painting in New York, Willem de Kooning arrived in the United States in 1926 as a twenty two years old stowaway from Holland.


Willem de Kooning

Sally Yard
160pp./ 130il./ 28 x 21.5 cm./ Hardcover with jacket


ISBN:
9788434311374  Castellano
9788434311381  English

35.00€




 

Giorgio Morandi s lifelong pursuit of his poetic vision in still-life and landscape paintings as well as engravings and etchings has given him a deeply revered position in the history of modern art. This volume presents the work of this private and enigmatic twentieth century Bolognese artist. Influenced by the work of Giotto, as well as Cézanne, the metaphysical painters, and the cubists, Morandi s work defies any label.


Giorgio Morandi

Karen Wilkin
160pp./ 130il./ 28 x 21.5 cm./ Hardcover with jacket


ISBN:
9788434311398  Castellano
9788434311404  English

35.00€




 

A central figure in twentieth century art, the influence of Marcel duchamp 1887-1968 was a crucial to the development of Surrealism, Dada and Conceptual Art. Brother of the artist Raymond Duchamp Villon and half brother of the painter Jacques Villon, Duchamp began to paint in 1908. In 1912, he painted the definitive version of Nude Descending a Staircase, this was shown at the Salon de la Section de Or of that


Marcel Duchamp

Gloria Moure
160pp./ 123il./ 28 x 21.5 cm./ Hardcover with jacket


ISBN:
9788434311992  Castellano
9788434311985  English

35.00€




 

As this book explains Giacometti spent his life, exorcising this existential and formal void through a return to the human figure. The question that dominated his work was how to restore in art the sense of the presence of the being in space. Giacometti sought tirelessly to establish his contingent volume, which became increasingly slender and threadlike, and to seize its finiteness in a reality, however banal it might be. He began to develop heads and nudes modeled in the void, in that experience of nothingness that opposed his quest for the absolute, a metaphor of the human condition.


Alberto Giacometti

Ángel González
160pp./ 140il./ 28 x 21.5 cm./ Hardcover with jacket


ISBN:
9788434309258  Castellano
9788434309500  English

35.00€