The first book to celebrate great artists who died before their time.

With his posters, illustrations, television animations and his many exhibitions the world over, Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005) marked the global imaginary during the last third of the 20th century. He was a humanist who left behind him a figurative and poetic body of that, anchored in traditional techniques, were quite atypical in the artistic landscape of his era.

Sculpture knocked like a challenge that Folon threw himself into headlong in the second part of his career. Throughout the 1990s, ...

A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander - Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.

This lovely gift book presents some of the most beautiful, transformative, and amusing expressions of spring pulled from the renowned collections of Tate, London. Divided into key themes--"Blossom and Blooms," "Into the Landscape," "In the Garden," "Agriculture," "Rebirth," and "Uprising"--this book considers how the traditional season of growth and rebirth has influenced artists over centuries. Paintings, drawings, sculptures, illustrations, and installations are accompanied by brief caption...

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), schilder, graficus en theoreticus, is een van de belangrijkste en invloedrijkste kunstenaars van de noordelijke renaissance. Hij kende alle grote Italiaanse kunstenaars van zijn tijd: Rafaël, Bellini, Leonardo da Vinci... Op tekengebied was Dürer een wonderkind. Vanaf 1512 genoot Dürer de bijzondere bescherming van keizer Maximiliaan I. Gravures, altaarstukken, (zelf)portretten, aquarellen en boeken volgden elkaar in snel tempo op. De close-ups in dit boe...