With just 35 known works, Johannes Vermeer is credited with prompting a New York Times best seller, a film starring Scarlett Johansson, and record attendances at art institutions around the world. Discover the craftsman of one of the most important portfolios in art history, in which light, textures, and a sense of unspoken secrets dazzle in their realism and intrigue.

Considered a founding father of modern painting, Vincent van Gogh is also one of the most famed tragic figures in art history. This comprehensive introduction brings together a detailed account of the artist's life with a complete catalog of his 871 paintings.

With blockbuster exhibitions, record-breaking auctions, and packed museums, Impressionism remains a close contender for the world’s favorite period of painting. This comprehensive book covers the movement’s key innovations and pioneering artists, including oft-neglected practitioners such as Berthe Morisot, Lucien Pissarro, and Gustave Caillebotte.

A celebration of Japanese printmaking, birds and their habitats, and the pleasures of nature, this magnificent boxed set features more than sixty impeccably reproduced images from masters of the form.

Richard Serra began making prints as early as 1972. For the past five decades he has consistently pursued the myriad possibilities of printmaking and created a graphic oeuvre as concentrated as it is rich and diverse. Even if the relationship between Serra's prints and his sculptural works cannot be denied-the exploration of form, establishing and testing the tension between positive and negative space, the dialogue between two- and three-dimensionality-the prints are an autonomous form of ex...

Loes van Delft, een jonge Nederlandse kunstenaar, onderscheidt zich door haar herkenbare stijl. Met strakke lijnen, gedurfde vormen en levendige kleuren is haar werk doordrenkt van een speelse esthetiek. De kunstwerken zijn onderscheidend, onmiskenbaar en trekken direct de aandacht van de kijker.

Door het gebruik van verschillende artistieke media daagt Loes conventionele grenzen uit, waardoor haar werk veelzijdig is. In haar schilderijen is een combinatie van een onschuldige eigenzinnigheid...

NL — Het kunstenfestival The Crystal Ship ging in 2016 voor het eerst voor anker in Oostende en groeide intussen uit tot een van de belangrijkste streetartevenementen ter wereld. Belgische kunstenaars als Roa, Jaune en Strook, alsook internationaal gerenommeerde namen als Axel Void, Paola Delfín, Escif, Miss Van, Sebas Velasco, Elian en Wasted Rita zetten al voet aan wal in deze badstad. Hun indrukwekkende murals, opvallende sculpturen en adembenemende installaties maken van Oostende vanda...

The Art Book takes readers on a tour of the world's greatest artistic movements and works - from prehistoric cave painting to postmodern art - and the key ideas behind them. The second book in a new strand of DK's bestselling "Big Ideas" series that focuses on the visual and performing arts, The Art Book brings an innovative approach to the subject, with a strong graphic style and clear, readable text that helps to locate each artist within a broader cultural context.