Klaus H. Carl Boeken

Captain Cook sighted Sydney's harbour in 1770 and named it Port Jackson. 18 years later Captain Arthur Phillip arrived with 11 ships carrying convicts from Britain. He named the settlement Sydney Cove, in honor of Lord Sydney, the British Home Secretary. Sydney has grown rapidly to become a glamorous international city boasting some of the best the world has to offer. The city now embraces a rich multicultural community that totals almost four million people. With its spectacular harbor and vibrant culture, Sydney is a world class city offering something for everyone. The Olympic Games of the year 2000 are taking place in Sydney.

From the thousand-year-old statues celebrating fertility to the odalisques of the modern painters, erotic art has always held a prominent place in society, whatever their morals or cultural references.This work has assembled one thousand images of erotic artworks, from all times and all continents, to illustrate how the representation of these pleasures of the flesh testifies to the evolution of different civilisations and their histories. While eroticism and sexuality are at the forefront of today’s advertising and media, this book offers an exceptional view into the archives of erotic imagery and emphasises the artistic value of these magnificently sinful illustrations.

Universally celebrated for the intricacy of his pointillist canvases, Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was a painter whose stunning union of art and science produced uniquely compelling results. Seurat's intricate paintings could take years to complete, with the magnificent results impressing the viewer with both their scientific complexity and visual impact. His Un Dimanche Après-Midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte (Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte) has held its place among the most treasured and distinguished pieces of 20th-century art. Klaus H. Carl offers readers an intriguing glimpse into the detailed scientific technique behind Seurat's pointillist masterpieces.

"A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire. Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and Josef Hoffmann) was not an anonymous artistic revolution. Defining itself as a "total art", without any political or commercial constraint, the Viennese Secession represented the ideological turmoil that affected craftsmen, architects, graphic artists, and designers from this period."--P.4 of dust jacket.

Now available in paperback, this overview of a brief but brilliant career focuses on the symbolic poignancy of Franz Marc’s paintings and his underlying vision of a world populated largely by animals. Before his tragic death at Verdun in 1916, Franz Marc made an enormous contribution to German Expressionist painting. A co-founder with Wassily Kandinsky of the Blue Rider Group, Marc and his fellow artists sought to make sense of the destruction around them through symbolism and abstraction. The curator of America’s first exhibition of Marc’s paintings, Marc Rosenthal offers penetrating insight into the artist’s transcendent paintings, in which feelings of despair and exaltation are brought to life through images of animals, landscapes, and pure abstraction. Seventy-one full-color plates demonstrate the brilliant tones and bold style that characterize Marc’s work. The accompanying text provides an important biographical perspective and critical appraisal of one of the most significant artists to emerge amid the chaos of early twentieth century Europe.

Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), der unkonventionelle und umstrittene Maler aus Weißrussland, vereint Einflüsse der klassischen europäischen Malerei mit denen des Post-Impressionismus und des Expressionismus. Als Mitglied der Künstler aus Weißrussland, einer Gruppe innerhalb der École de Paris, schuf er ein Werk, das hauptsächlich aus Landschaften, Stillleben und Porträts besteht. Sein individueller Stil, der sich durch Humor und Trauer und den Gebrauch von leuchtenden Farben auszeichnet, machen ihn zu einem modernen Meister, der immer noch wenig verstanden ist. Klaus H. Carl, Schriftsteller, Professor und Fotograf, ist der Autor zahlreicher Bücher und Artikel. Er widmet sich gerade dem Bildband Weltgeschichte der 180000 v. Chr. -- 2000 n. Chr.