This masterly account of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world has long been recognized as the classic treatment of the Renaissance giant, offering unparalleled insight into Leonardo's...
This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life. "My Life...
The great Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) exhibited a lifelong fascinationsome might say obsession”with the work and personality of French artist Edgar Degas...
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Artists Pre-Raphaelitism Glass painting and staining Painters ...
After 32 Soup Cans, neither America nor the art world would ever be the same. Gary Indiana offers a witty and opinionated biography of a momentous work of art--and its deeply troubled creator. In...
David Hockney is one of Britain's best loved and most famous contemporary artists, a painter whose subject matter has often included his friends and everyday surroundings. In the 1980s, as a respite...
German Expressionism, one of the most significant movements of early European modernism, was an enormously powerful element in Germany's cultural life from the end of the Wilhelmine Empire to...
