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"When reclusive, millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here is the true story of the artist's final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big business. "I'm an artist, not a business man," Robert Indiana said, refusing to copyright his iconic LOVE sculpture in 1965....
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Take a wonderful adventure into the world of handmade woodcarving!
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Born on December 22, 1962, in Romania, Florin Cristea studied Physics and Mathematics in Highschool, and worked as an economist for a while. After the violent events of 1989, he started paving a new path which brought him here, to the present day.
The artist has been working with wood since 1992 and he loves it. Most of his sculptures have their natural wood color....
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Alexander Calder was one of the most original artists of the twentieth century and a major figure in American art. Renowned for his mobiles and stabiles, he also created the beloved Calder Circus, an early performance piece now preserved at the Whitney Museum. He was a contemporary and friend of Marcel Duchamp and Joan Miró and collaborated with Martha Graham. His wife, Louisa, was a grandniece of Henry and William James, a liberal society girl from...
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The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in Giacometti: A Biography--a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt.
Almost twenty years after it first appeared, Giacometti has attained the status of a classic, one of the most candid and complete biographies of an artist in our time. In...
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Louise Nevelson, one of the most important American sculptors of the twentieth century, was a beautiful woman who lived so audacious a life that by the time of her death she was a legend both inside and outside the art world. Born Leah Berliawsky in Czarist Russia in 1899, she grew up in Maine, ostracized as a Jew and a foreigner. At twenty she escaped to Manhattan as Mrs. Charles Nevelson, eventually leaving her husband for a life devoted to art....
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Artist Frances Gage, born in 1924 in Windsor, experienced both artistic recognition and acute despair in her life, yet she flourished in her work and as part of the contemporary Toronto art scene. A friend of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, she developed a greater connection with the Group of Seven, working closely with Frederick Varley and producing reliefs of both him and A. Y. Jackson while working in Tom Thomson's shack Frances remained focused...
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Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.
This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, friends, teachers, and critics—to...
This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, friends, teachers, and critics—to...
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«Il est bien que nous soyons présents dans les œuvres pour rappeler au spectateur qu'il ne s'agit pas de simples œuvres d'art aussi ennuyeuses que les autres, d'expériences esthétiques. C'est nous qui nous adressons à eux.»...
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L'extraordinaire popularité de Rodin est due autant à la large diffusion de son œuvre qu'aux innombrables commentaires suscités par elle du vivant même de l'artiste, le tout renforcé par le rayonnement du musée Rodin. Ce dernier a son origine dans le legs, fait à la France par l'artiste...
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On attendait depuis longtemps en France une exposition consacrée au sculpteur américain David Smith (1906-1965): le Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges-Pompidou l'a finalement présentée du 14 juin au 21 août 2006...
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11) Auguste Rodin
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During the early 1900s, the great German poet lived and worked in Paris with Auguste Rodin. In a work as revealing of its author as it is of his famous subject, Rainer Maria Rilke examines Rodin's life and work, and explains the often elusive connection between the creative forces that drive timeless literature and great art. Rilke served for several years as Rodin's secretary - living in the sculptor's workshops, watching the shaping of his creations,...
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The first biography of George Rickey, one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century. His moving blades, squares, triangles, and circles can be, found in museums and public spaces around the world, from bucolic landscapes to the streets of New York City. Now, here is the story of his life, his times, and his vision of balance, that created something new, sculpture that is defined by movement.
Before his death in 2002, George Rickey created...
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Partez à la découverte de Jean Tinguely avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
Découpant le métal en parfait artisan, assemblant sans ordre apparent les objets les plus divers qui manifestent inlassablement leur tapageuse et bruyante existence, créant par d'incessantes combinaisons les formes animées de ses superbes machines en perpétuel devenir, et cela jusqu'à l'anéantissement, Jean Tinguely a élaboré une des œuvres de sculpteur les plus...
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This brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentieth-century French art-Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Léger, Dufy, Braque, Giacometti, Balthus, and Hélion-and the vital art world in which they thrived.
The ten interlocking essays in this important book include radical new evaluations of Derain, Léger, and Dufy, and penetrating studies of the final works of Picasso and Braque. Paris Without End, Jed Perl's...
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At the time of his death in 1945, Albert Power was the leading nationalist sculptor in the Irish Free State, yet within a few decades he was almost forgotten. This first major examination of his life and career tells of one artist's contribution to national identity before and after political independence. In sculpture, at that time, the emphasis was on creating a pantheon of 'new' Irish heroes by means of monumental and portrait commissions. Power's...
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Jean Hélion, the French painter who died at eighty-three in 1987, brought together in his copious and essential writing on art the theoretical authority of the intellectual and the fundamental insights of the craftsman in his studio. His writing extended throughout the five decades or more of his career.
Soon after the young painter's arrival in Paris from the provinces, he began a literary-art magazine; he wrote polemical articles as a leading...
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Erwin Rosenthal's Contemporary Art in the Light of History, originally published in 1971, is a small masterpiece of writing on the art of the twentieth century. A scholar of medieval art by training and a prominent antiquarian bookseller, Rosenthal, who died in l981, was equally entranced by modern art, particularly abstraction. His three linked essays in this book-"Contemporary Art in the Light of History," "Art and Technology," and "Art Theories...
19) Camille Claudel
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Camille Claudel (8 décembre 1864-19 octobre 1943), sœur de l'écrivain Paul Claudel, fut l'élève de Rodin avec qui elle eut une relation passionnelle et tumultueuse. Cet amour impossible la mena à la paranoïa et l'enfermement psychiatrique en 1913. Camille Claudel fut l'une des plus grandes sculpteuses de son temps, toujours en rivalité avec Rodin. De sa vie fut réalisé un film qui remit l'artiste dans la lumière de la postérité.
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