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Roger Fry (1866-1934) is best known as a champion of Post-Impressionism and a pioneer of Modernist art criticism. But his fi rst love was early Italian painting, on which he became a recognized authority, publishing a monograph on Giovanni Bellini in 1899.
This publication is a highly visual celebration of the massively popular, but now largely forgotten, Britain Can Make It exhibition. Organized by the Council of Industrial Design, it was held in empty ground-floor galleries of the Victoria & Albert Museum, from September to December 1946.
A tribute to the poilus, the French First World War infantry whose nickname came from their often unkempt hair, bushy beards, and moustaches, and a general fascination with the greatest military conflict before the Second World War.
The book takes children back to the genesis of the artist's work, through water colours, sketches and preparatory drawings that he or she can extend or alter with coloured pencils or paint.
Tradition vs. modernization, chaos vs. order, eternity vs. a single moment, Japanese aesthetics are the art of co-existence and shared vitality.
This publication, the third in an important multi-volume catalogue raisonné of works by the French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953), includes paintings and selected drawings dating from mid-1927 through 1939.
Arts visuels, design et architecture, créations d'artistes installés à Bruxelles et spectacles vivants se mêlent dans cette publication et invitent à une expérience artistique hors contexte. > Book preview
European fashion was profoundly influenced in the early decades of the 20th century by the style, textiles, patterns and colour combinations of Asian clothing.
Although overshadowed by their male colleagues, many important women artists carved out successful careers in early 20th-century Vienna. They exhibited across Europe, and their work was acquired by royal, state, and private collectors.
Bien avant d'autres institutions publiques, les conservateurs de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique se passionnent pour l'oeuvre de Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) et veulent l'intégrer dans leurs collections. > Book preview
Cet ouvrage marque les 25 ans de carrière de l’artiste français Fabien Chalon avec une rétrospective d’œuvres de ses débuts jusqu’à ses créations les plus récentes. > Book preview
The first woman Commandeur of the Legion of Honour and a recipient of the Grand Prix de Littérature de l’Académie Française, Anna de Noailles (1876–1933) held a high-profile position in the literary world of Paris from the Belle Epoque to the interwar years.
The book presents the quality and diversity of the works of Russian artists who came on pilgrimage to Paris between 1905 and 1955.
Influencé aussi bien par Pablo Picasso que par la musique métal, l'art de Damien Deroubaix apparaît à première vue comme sombre et révolté. En y regardant de plus près, on saisit pourtant une multitude d'autres références, de nuances et de subtilité.
Exhibition Prehistory. A modern enigma, presented at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (6 May - 16 September 2019). > See exhibition details
From March 3, 2019, the Collection Lambert in Avignon devotes a major exhibition to the Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli.
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) renewed the way we look at art. By exploring figurative as well as abstract themes, the catalogue Calder-Picasso will study the use of “empty space” in the artworks of these two artists, in their similarities and differences. > See exhibition details
Artist, humanist, architect and philosopher, Marino di Teana is part of a generation of prospective artists in the 1960s who questioned the relationship between art, architecture and space.
Pieter Bruegel is often seen as the embodiment of Flemish identity. Why has that been so since the revival of his work around 1900? How has he grown to become an icon, an inexhaustible source of inspiration and a huge cliché?
Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso – two of the most seminal figures of twentieth-century art – innovated entirely new ways to perceive grand themes. > See exhibition details
Can Street art be classified as contemporary art ? Urban art has now acquired a major place, today, this artistic movement enters the museum. An event that might seem normal to some, surprising to others, and which represents above all a true victory.
First Parisian retrospective of the leading and unclassifiable German artist Thomas Schütte (b. 1954 and living in Düsseldorf). A student of Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf until the 1980s, he is now recognized as one of the principal reinventors of sculpture. > See exhibition details
The Crusades Rooms played a little-known role in Louis-Philippe's political aim to transform the Château de Versailles into a museum.
L'ouvrage est composé d'une préface d'Alain Jouffroy, d'une monographie de Lydia Harambourg et agrémente de textes de différents auteurs : Jean- François Roudillon, Valérie Da Costa, Malika Vinot, Patrick Amine, Henri François Debailleux. Il s'organise en plusieurs sections : Sculptures, mobilier d'art, dessins et bijoux.
The exhibition seeks to explore the fruitful and at times paradoxical dialogue between a father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and a son, Jean Renoir, between two artists, and between painting and cinema.
Abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky. Completely independently from each other, Georgiana Houghton (1814 - 1884) in England, Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944) in Sweden and Emma Kunz (1892 - 1963) in Switzerland each developed an individual abstract pictorial language.
In seno alle arti decorative del Rinascimento italiano, i rami smaltati costituiscono una produzione tanto rara quanto preziosa, tradizionalmente attribuita a Venezia, riflesso del gusto di una ricca committenza della fine del XV e della prima metà del XVI secolo.
The Courtauld Collection : A Vision for Impressionism accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris exploring Samuel Courtauld's role as one of the great collectors of the twentieth century.
This book is a tribute by a leading contemporary graphic artist, Erik Desmazières, to his intaglio printer, René Tazé.
The Pompidou Center hosts a monographic exhibition on Brazilian sculptor Erika Verzutti. This is an opportunity to reveal his work to the European public by bringing in many works from private collections in Latin America and North America.
For this new photographic event, the MNAAG invites Jean-Baptiste Huynh and his unique view of Asia. In a refined and timeless scenography, conceived by the artist himself, there is an ordered, intimate and introspective work through portraits, nudes, the mineral and vegetable universe, or the emblematic spiritual symbols of the countries with which he has...
The Institut Giacometti presents the unreleased photographs of Alberto Giacometti’s works taken by Peter Lindbergh, one of the most important photographers of his generation.
With Vasarely, the sharing of forms, the Center Pompidou presents the first French retrospective devoted to the father of optical art for more than 50 years.
The photocollages of French artist JR (born 1983) have populated streets and skylines all over the world. But he decided to outdo himself at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio by creating what he called "his craziest work ever": the Giants series.
Jean-Michel Coulon painted in the greatest secrecy until his death at the end of 2014; he did not let anyone enter his studio and he never showed his painting, even to his relatives.
A detailed and highly personal account of the life and works of one of the most influential female Impressionist painters: Berthe Morisot.
Daniel Dezeuze, Drawings, 1960-2018, a monograph dedicated to the artist’s different drawing periods.
Art Brut from Japan, Another Look features works by twenty-four Art Brut creators who are working in Japan today. It comes as a follow-up to Art Brut from Japan, the first-ever exhibition of this kind of art outside Japan
The majlis - cultures in dialogue is comprised of objects that tell stories. Stories about a long history of exchanges and dialogue in the arabian peninsula and beyond.
Julian Schnabel inaugurates a new series of exhibitions at the Musée d'Orsay, aiming to rediscover the collections through the eyes of contemporary artists.
Le peintre Pano Parini, auteur de la série de dix-sept tableaux que nous présentons ici, souhaitait publier son oeuvre sous forme de livre. Il a sollicité son ami Moreno Berva, afin qu'il écrive quelques textes pour accompagner ce travail.
This sumptuously illustrated hard cover book explores Pierre Bonnard’s transition from great colourist to modernist master, and emphasises his place in the story of twentieth-century art.
Exhibition Catalogue Picasso. The Sculpture, shown at the Galleria Borghese, Rome (24 oct. 2018 - 3 feb. 2019)
The Giacometti Institute offers a "carte blanche" to Annette Messager.
Playful and phantasmagorical, Michel Tyszblat’s painting wends its way through the second half of the 20th century with a remarquable singularity.