A-Z Great Modern Artists
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- 3,99 €
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- 3,99 €
Publisher Description
A most striking, design-led reference book, A to Z Great Modern Artists features artist and graphic designer Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 key modern artists, rendered in each artist's own characteristic style - including Aleksandr Rodchenko in his constructivist poster style, Andy Warhol as a classic repeat print, and Barbara Hepworth illustrated to resemble one of her distinctive bronze and rod sculptures.
With expert text by art historian Christopher Masters, each artist's entry includes a summary of the essential things you need to know about the artist; their biographical details, why they're so significant, where you can find their works today, and a surprising fact about them plus reproductions of key works.
Whether you're already an art expert, or looking for a helpful cheat to navigating around a gallery, you'll love this stunning and intelligent guide to global artists of the modern age.
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Graphic designer Tuohy and art historian Masters introduce readers to the work of 52 modernists whom they deem to have had "a profound and lasting impact on the art world." The book's sleek design features pop art-inspired portraits of each artist with bright colors and crisp lines, often with a nod to the individual's artistic style. Tuohy's Basquiat is a boxy take on the artist's famous self-portrait; Giacometti is depicted with the same "slender, attenuated proportions" of his sculptural subjects; and Pollock is drawn with a paint can for a head. Masters provides brief commentary, noting the artists' biographies, influences, affiliations, methods, and major works, with accompanying fun facts like Duchamp's penchant for chess and Klee's early career as a violinist. The authors mostly cover heavy hitters like Chagall, Dal , Hopper, and Kahlo, occasionally widening the spectrum globally with artists such as Lebanese painter and sculptor Saloua Raouda Choucair, Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi, and the "Pablo Picasso of ," Maqbool Fida Husain. This is a quick and fun primer of Modernism's greats, though light on the art itself, with only one or two small prints of each artist's work; and of the 52 artists represented, there are only six women.
