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Born in the late nineteenth century, Symbolism was not a movement, but a state of mind and a constellation of artists who for over two decades would set Europe ablaze.
Wohl kein Genre spiegelt die Geschichte der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen von 1870 bis heute so anschaulich wider wie die Satirezeichnung.
Laure Albin Guillot (Paris, 1879–1962), a “resounding name that should become famous”, one could read just after World War II. Indeed, the French photographic scene in the middle of the century was particularly marked by the signature and aura of this artist.
Adored or hated, Marie-Antoinette continues to fascinate us. She was the first queen to really occupy Versailles, where she discovered constraints, boredom, luxury, pleasures, scandals and the premises of the French Revolution.
"André Le Nôtre and the Gardens at Chantilly in the 17th and 18th centuries" re-creates the splendours of the gardens at Chantilly, inviting the reader on a majestic tour of its allées and parterres, pools and fountains.
Alexandre Hollan was born in Hungary in 1933. His prolific work is viewed today as one of the most singular in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Référence absolue en art précolombien, la collection Barbier-Mueller est réunie pour la première fois sous la forme d'un coffret contenant deux ouvrages magnifiquement illustrés et commentés par les plus grands spécialistes mondiaux en la matière.
This publication will be the only available English-language monograph to date on sixteenth-century sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (c. 1455-1528), who earned the nickname 'Antico' with his highly refined reductions of Greco-Roman antiquities.
The Centre Pompidou retrospective of Alina Szapocznikow’s graphic work features a selection of over one hundred works on paper, along with a series of nine sculptures. > See exhibition details
In 1971, Picasso decided to offer the city 57 drawings. They represent a painter’s diary, transporting us to the heart of Picasso’s work, and can be divided into three themes : The Arlequin, The Painter and his model, and The Musketeer, the painter’s final self portrait as a kind of Spanish soldier-bullfighter.
Depuis bientôt cinquante ans, Carolyn Carlson occupe une place prééminente dans le monde de la danse contemporaine française dont elle fut, dès la fin des années 1960, l'une des rénovatrices.
In December 2012, after 10 years closure for restoration, the Kunstkammer (literally 'chamber of art and wonders') in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, has reopened. Kunstkammer, Vienna is being published for the opening.
The discovery of magnificent ancient bronze sculptures that spent millennia on the seabed and emerged unscathed is just one factor to have fed the continued fascination with this prized artistic medium.
Au début du 20e siècle, le fauvisme est à la mode à Paris. Sous l'impulsion de Henri Matisse, Vlaminck, Braque et d'autres encore, des artistes hongrois reprennent l'utilisation de larges aplats de couleurs vives.
The Marmottan Monet museum pays tribute to Marie Laurencin, one of the most famous female painters of the 20th century, and presents ob=ver 70 paintings and 20 drawings.
In the final years of his life, the style of the celebrated Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) took a crucial turn, resulting in some of his most significant and moving masterpieces.
A retrospective catalogue of the work of Philippe Cognée, French painter.
Focusing on a particularly fertile period in Holbeins career, this book features paintings, drawings and sketches that the artist completed in Basle, Switzerland.
The exhibition features a selection of forty-one paintings from the ‘Golden Age’ of the former Southern Netherlands, and covers all the important areas in which the artists from this region excelled: history painting, portraiture, genre painting, still life and landscapes.
The Croatian painter and designer, Boris Bućan, will be exhibiting his work at the Lieu du Design in Paris (November 9, 2012 - January 9, 2013).
More than a one man retrospective for Edouard Manet (1832-1883), the exhibition Manet, the Man who Invented Modern Art explores and highlights the historical situation around him.
The Fondation Cartier for Art will present the first major European exhibition dedicated to the Chinese artist Yue Minjun, a unique opportunity to discover the work of an artist who, in spite of his international renown, continues to maintain a relatively low profile.
The Centre Pompidou pays tribute to one of the most complex and prolific great figures in 20th century art, Salvador Dalí, more than thirty years after the retrospective that the institution devoted to him in 1979-1980.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Edward Hopper, Grand Palais, 10th october 2012 - 28th january 2013.
The paintings of the artists of the Central Desert, the Kimberley and Arnhem's Land maintain an unbroken link with millenary Aboriginal culture, combining an immense accumulation of tribal knowledge with personal artistic research and reflection.
Depuis plusieurs années, Annette Messager crayonne, écrit un mot, reporte des photographies ou dessine sur de petites rondelles de papier qu'elle fait ensuite passer dans une machine à badges.
2011 Marcel Duchamp Prize winner Mircea Cantor is on show at the Centre Pompidou, Espace 315, Paris (October 3, 2012 to January 7, 2013).
Combining rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-nineteenth-century art world and were effectively Britain's first modern art movement.
Paintings, Writings, Remembrances by Arne Glimcher, the first and only complete career retrospective of the visionary painter, Agnes Martin.
The Department of Islamic Art is the newest department in the Musée du Louvre. Created in 2003, its refurbishment has been underway since 2008. In September 2012 it has reopened in a completely new, restyled setting, which provides its collections with a space befitting their prominence within the museum.
Émile Savitry, peintre puis photographe, a côtoyé tout ce que le Paris des années trente abritait d’artistes, d’écrivains, d’intellectuels du monde entier. Ce catalogue monographique est le premier consacré à ce photographe humaniste. Son oeuvre méconnue et foisonnante mérite aujourd’hui d’être mise en lumière.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Edward Hopper, Grand Palais, 10th october 2012 - 28th january 2013.
The ceramist and art historian, Kristin McKirdy is the subject of a retrospective exhibition, which is an overview of 20 years of her research and work drawn from the national collections of ceramics and production workshops.
An exhibition devoted to the career of Alix Aymé (French, 1894–1989), an influential participant in the promotion of Paris-born modernism in the era between the world wars.
Exhibition album "Bertrand Lavier, since 1969" at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (September 26, 2012 - January 7, 2013).
The exhibition shows the historic Paris of silent film, the sophisticated Paris of romantic comedies, the apogee of French Cancan with its crazy and expensive films, and the period when Hollywood shot films in Paris, through film excerpts, photographs, set models, costumes and posters...
The Musée de Montmartre presents, from September 13 to June 2, 2013, an unique exhibition about one of the most mythical places in Montmartre, the Chat Noir cabaret.
Le numéro est entièrement consacré à Rembrandt et à son entourage immédiat.
Born in Mali in 1960, Cheick Diallo resuscitates humble materials found in his homeland – scrap metal, plastic, packaging paper, cloth, wood and earth – to create functional and decorative objects and furniture of an uncompromisingly contemporary character. Exhibition details
Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, first held in 1989, will be holding the 24th Festival this year, twenty seven exhibitions will be presented.
Between December 2010 and April 2011 Anselm Kiefer, the first visual artist to be appointed to the Chair of Artistic Creation at the Collège de France in Paris, gave eight lectures followed by seminars. These classes are collected in the present volume, together with Kiefer's widely attended inaugural lecture.
Provocative, sometimes shocking, Newton's work tried to capture the beauty, eroticism, humour - and sometimes violence - that he sensed in the social interaction within the familiar worlds of fashion, luxury, money and power.
The presence of works of art, the bond created with famous people from varied intellectual, political and artistic backgrounds in the capital and also the emotional impact of the historical scenes are what make this history museum so original and contribute to the unique atmosphere which it conveys of the City of Light down the centuries.
This collection presents a state of international research in the history of construction, like a palace organized through 240 independently constituted elements.
Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists. Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, the Americas