Andreas Beyer Knihy

Gender interventions and formal innovations in female portraiture, through works by Kahlo, Sherman, Neel, Dumas, Peyton and more This superbly conceived publication looks at nine women artists whose careers were devoted primarily to portraiture, analyzing both the work they produced and the unique ways in which each artist captured her subjects’ likenesses and the spaces they inhabited.These artists represent the development of modernist art since 1870; each has made significant contributions to art history as they complicate long-held notions of the gaze and explore the relationship between the self, the subject and the artist.Close-Up examines women painters and photographers who are known primarily for self-portraiture, such as Paula Modersohn-Becker, Frida Kahlo and Cindy Sherman; it also looks at female artists who depicted the daily lives of women and children in a creative environment that was largely disinterested in such subjects, such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Lotte Laserstein. Still other women―Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas and Elizabeth Peyton―embrace familiarity completely and depict friends and family as well as famous figures in their paintings.In essays by nine different authors, these artists and their subjects are considered individually and as part of a chronology of modern portraiture, with an emphasis on the dynamics of gender.

From the Fourth ECB Central Banking Conference, 9-10 November, 2006. Published in glossy pictorial boards without dust jacket.

Enth. u.a. (S. 326-333): Paul Klees botanische Metamorphosen und Garten-Phantasien / Barbara Eschenburg. - Betr. ferner u.a. Werke von Ferdinand Hodler und weitere Werke von Paul Klee.

The four books of Architecture offers a compendium of Palladio's art and of the ancient Roman structures which inspired him. The First Book is devoted to building materials and techniques and the five orders of architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. Palladio indicates the characteristic features of each order and supplies illustrations of various architectural details. The Second Book deals with private houses and mansions, almost all of Palladio's own design. Shown and described are many of his villas in and near Venice and Vicenza (including the famous Villa Capra, or "The Rotunda," the Tiene Palace, and the Valmarana Palace). Each plate gives a front view drawing of the building and the general floor plan. The Third Book is concerned with streets, bridges, piazzas, and basilicas, most of which are of ancient Roman origin. In the Fourth Book, Palladio reproduces the designs of a numer of ancient Roman temples. Plates 51 - 60 are plans and architectural sketches of the Pantheon

Die Biografie beleuchtet das faszinierende Leben und die künstlerischen Meisterwerke von Benvenuto Cellini, einem der bedeutendsten Künstler der Renaissance. Der Autor, ein ausgewiesener Kenner der Epoche, kombiniert rauschhafte Drastik mit filigraner Perfektion, um Cellinis Schaffen und seine bedeutendsten Werke wie den »Perseus« und die »Saliera« eindrucksvoll zu präsentieren. Diese umfassende Darstellung bietet tiefgehende Einblicke in die Kunst und das Leben eines außergewöhnlichen Genies.