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The Old Man Mad about PaintingHokusai, the master who unleashed a tsunami on the art world Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is
A duty to beauty: Building landmarks for Berlin and beyondWith an eye for detail as much as expanse, Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) made his name as an architect and urban planner, a painter, and
Home Sweet Home A remarkable photographic exploration of life on earthIn the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of
Behind the Mask The intrigue, drama, and covert messages hidden in the faces of powerful men and women Byzantine empresses, French revolutionaries, and Spanish generals: history’s most impr
Brutalist Beauties Architectural remnants of the USSR Elected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Frédé
A tongue-in-cheek reference to the paradox of our desire to find a universal truth and the impossibility of doing so. This book brings together from evocative nude studies to astronomical views of pla
The painter as poet: Chagall’s world full of everyday miracles Musicians, roosters and rooftops. Floating lovers, flowers, and a wide-eyed goat. For Belarusian painter Marc Chagall(1887
The first of the moderns: Paving the way from Realism to Impressionism Violently criticized during his lifetime for his supposedly provocative paintings, French painter Edouard Manet&nb
