Michael Hulse Boeken

Leven en werk van de Nederlandse kunstenaar Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890).

Leven en werk van de Russisch-joodse beeldend kunstenaar (1887-1985).

In pursuit of pleasure in the belle époque Today, the painter and graphic artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) is considered as one of the most inspired portrayers of human figures. This physically handicapped scion of the old French nobility was fascinated by life around Montmartre, whose cafes, cabarets, dance halls, and bordellos presented him with the "theatre of life." More than any other artist, Toulouse-Lautrec captured the belle époque's pursuit of fleeting pleasure: directly and without flattery, his paintings, lithographs, and posters offer a masterly and timeless image of the age.

""Hindering the artist is a crime,"" wrote Egon Schiele in 1912. At the time he was in prison for disseminating immoral drawings. Throughout his work the note of defiance, provocation, and rebellion was sounded. Schiele's favorite subjects were female nudes and self-portraits, and he worked at his art with furious commitment, though it was not until shortly before his early death that he began to win real recognition. Today, with Oskar Kokoschka, he is seen as the most important of the Austrian artists who came after Klimt. This study examines the life and work of Egon Schiele through all the major oil paintings and many of his erotic drawings.

The creations of Jeff Koons (born 1955) are at once immediately accessible and eloquently art historical. From basketball tanks to flower puppies, his instantly recognizable work frolics with banal imagery as much as it integrates cultural references such as Surrealism and Pop Art. Koons’ art revels in visual pleasure, but also in the power to affront. He has made his name as much for stainless-steel rabbits as he has with his sinister sculpture of Michael Jackson, or his sexually explicit photographic series with then-wife Cicciolina. The result is mega-artist status. An indisputable king of contemporary visual culture, Koons is lauded by collectors, institutions, and the public alike. With landmark works and concise texts by Katy Siegel, Hans Werner Holzwarth, and Eckhard Schneider, this book offers the complete Koons at a glance, introducing an art world giant from his early inflatable flowers through to today. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

“Isto é brutalidade contra uma pessoa indefesa, e, por isso, desnecessária, diz Sophie, e puxa pelos cabelos do homem, que jazia no chão em desalinho, com tanta força que lhos arranca. O desnecessário é precisamente o melhor, diz Rainer, que ainda quer lutar. Foi assim que combinámos.” Viena, final dos anos 50. Um homem está a dar um passeio num parque. Ele vai ser espancado por um grupo de adolescentes, não por causa do seu dinheiro – ele até tem algum –, não por causa de algo que possa ter feito, mas porque os jovens assim o decidiram; eles são arrogantes e violentos, e são-no por prazer. Esta arrogância é a forma que eles encontraram para reagir perante o cadáver em putrefacção que é a Áustria, onde toda a gente tem um esqueleto no armário recheado de antecedentes nazis, perversões sexuais e ódio aos estrangeiros.

Het opus magnum van de woordmagier, een mijlpaal in de moderne prozaïsche kunst, is qua musicaliteit en gedachtevorming gelijkwaardig aan Rilkes lyrische oeuvre. Een Deense aristocraat, vroeg wees geworden, dwaalt door het Parijs van het begin van de 20e eeuw: een stad van glans, maar ook van gruwel. Rilkes protagonist stelt zich onverbiddelijk bloot aan de veelzijdige indrukken en sluit zijn ogen niet voor het leed van de daklozen of prostituees. De Moloch van de grote stad wordt een katalysator voor een nieuwe waarneming, die zelfs het afschuwelijke een esthetische aantrekkingskracht verleent. Maltes notities zijn als een hoge school van het zien, een oefening in pure, onpartijdige wereldbeschouwing. Sinds een eeuw oefent dit 'wonderwerk' van de moderne literatuur een betoverende fascinatie uit op alle lezers.

"The definitive introduction to the scope and range of Picasso's work." The Times, London "I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso," declared Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in an apt survey of a triumphant career. He had good grounds for the confidence palpable in his statement, for in the history of 20th century art, his name stands out over all the others. In Picasso's paintings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics, and sculptures, he was tirelessly inventive and innovative, exhibiting an aesthetic bravado that kept him one step ahead of his contemporaries. From subject matter to new forms and techniques to new media, Picasso got there first. The Spanish artist's enormous output, from the eight-year-old's beginnings to the late work of a man of ninety-one, is surely one of the most diverse and creatively energetic in the whole history of art, and it is no exaggeration to see him as the genius of the century. Carsten-Peter Warncke's study is a thorough review of Picasso's entire oeuvre, from the early Blue and Rose Periods, through the analytic and synthetic cubism and classicist phase all the way up to the art of the old savage Picasso. Our study of Picasso, the most exhaustive record of his work to date, contains almost 1500 illustrations, from his earliest drawings to the master's very last painting. Extensive bibliography section as well as illustrated section about Picasso's life and work Index of Names