2,801円 A dazzling collection of “remarkably elegant essays” (Newsday) on artーand the companion volume to the celebrated Just Looking and Still Lookingーfrom one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century. In this book, readers are treated to a collection in which “the psychological co...

1,867円 He claimed to be “the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn’t a single thing I’ve done, or experienced,” said Grant Wood, “that’s been even the least bit exciting.” Wood was one of America’s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving America itself. ...

2,643円 Want to paint more like Manet and less like Jackson Pollock? Students of art hailed Classical Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides’s first book, as a dynamic return to the atelier educational model. Ateliers, popular in the nineteenth century, teach emerging artists by pairing them with a master a...

2,334円 A comprehensive and practical guide to watercolor painting from sought-after instructor and acclaimed artist Leslie Frontz that answers the two most common questions students at all levels want to know: What am I doing wrong? and How do I decide what to do instead? In the tradition of the eminent...

1,294円 Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; inst...

1,088円 In the tradition of The Artist’s Way, an exciting program that introduces painting as a jumping-off point for realizing one’s full creative potential in all areas of life. Based on author Barbara Diane Barry’s popular course Art for Self-Discovery and supported by research in psychology and the s...

1,617円 Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his fi...

12,038円 Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves. Born in Tomelloso in 1936 and still living in the Spanish capital today, Antonio López has long cultivated a reputation for impressive urba...

1,500円 Décryptez l'art de Gustave Courbet en moins d'une heure ! Figure par excellence de l'artiste insoumis, Gustave Courbet voit le jour au début du XIXe siècle, au cœur d'une époque marquée par des bouleversements sociaux et politiques sans précédent. Révolté dans l'âme, il entreprend de représenter ...

1,500円 Décryptez l'art d'Albrecht Dürer en moins d'une heure ! Premier artiste à connaître, de son vivant, une réputation comparable à celle des plus grands maîtres italiens de son temps, Albrecht Dürer élabore, dans une Allemagne cultivée qui découvre à peine l'humanisme, une œuvre artistique unique. C...

1,500円 Décryptez l'art de Rubens en moins d'une heure ! Chantre par excellence du baroque flamand, Rubens déploie un art flamboyant où courbes sensuelles, mouvements tumultueux et couleurs chatoyantes se marient à merveille. Auteur d'une œuvre colossale où se devine l'empreinte des maîtres italiens, Rub...

1,500円 Décryptez l'art d'Holbein le Jeune en moins d'une heure ! Dans l’Allemagne du XVIe siècle, déchirée par les tensions entre catholiques et protestants, Holbein le Jeune comprend très tôt la nécessité de s’exiler pour pouvoir vivre de son art. C’est donc en Angleterre qu’il construit sa carrière. L...