In an intimate talk with his protégé, the great sculptor offers candid, wide-ranging comments on a diverse range of topics: the meaning of art; other famed artists; the relationship of sculpture to poetry, painting, and music; his philosophy of life; and much more. Seventy-six black-and-white illustrations of Rodin's sculptures, drawings, and prints are included. Reprint of the Philosophical Library, New York, 1957 edition.
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Painters on Painting by Eric Protter Artists such as da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rubens, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Manet, Degas, Cézanne, van Gogh, Matisse, Pollock, Johns, and many others comment on their artistic techniques, objectives, other artists, and more. 68 illustrations.
Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria Rilke In essays as revealing of their author as they are of their subject, Rilke examines Rodin's life and work, and explains the often elusive connection between the creative forces that drive great literature and art.
Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal by Paul Gauguin Impressions from two years in Tahiti. Compelling autobiographical fragment. 24 black-and-white illustrations.
Graphic Works of Max Klinger by Max Klinger Reproduced directly from original portfolio editions, these 74 etchings by a precursor of the Surrealist movement portray fantasies about love and death, sexual psychoses, fetish obsessions, and bizarre nightmares.
Toulouse-Lautrec's The Circus: Thirty-Nine Crayon Drawings in Color by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Masterpieces of composition and movement include "The Rearing Horse," "The Jockey," and "The Animal-trainer." The reproductions, by a noted lithographer, Fernand Mourlot, recapture the color and spirit of the originals.
Great Drawings of Women: From the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century by Carol Belanger Grafton Superb art by da Vinci, Rubens, Dürer, Raphael, Watteau, Degas, Renoir, Corot, Manet, Sargent, Whistler, Hopper, Picasso, and other old and modern masters. 102 illustrations, 16 in full color. Captions.
A Toulouse-Lautrec Sketchbook by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Toulouse-Lautrec produced art of striking originality and power. This little-known volume includes 85 of his most striking early efforts, the majority of them studies of horses.
Great Drawings of Nudes: 45 Works by Carol Belanger Grafton An impressive sampling of life drawings by 45 of the art world's greatest masters, from Dürer and Michelangelo to Modigliani and Derain. Other artists include Raphael, Rubens, Gauguin, Matisse, Rodin, and others.
Great Self-Portraits by Carol Belanger Grafton Unique volume of 45 splendid self-portraits encompasses pen, ink, and charcoal renderings as well as etchings and engravings. Includes works by da Vinci, Dürer, Whistler, Rodin, van Gogh, Beardsley, and many more.
Modern Artists on Art: Second Enlarged Edition by Robert L. Herbert 16 of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators talk forcefully about their work: Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Henry Moore, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, El Lissitzky, Fernand Léger, and more.
Gauguin’s Intimate Journals by Paul Gauguin Revealing documents, reprinted from rare limited edition, illuminate painter's inner life, relationship with van Gogh, evaluations of Degas, Monet, other artists; life in the Marquesas Islands, more. 27 illustrations by Gauguin.
A Cézanne Sketchbook: Figures, Portraits, Landscapes and Still Lifes by Paul Cézanne Great artist experiments with tonal effects, light, mass, other qualities in over 100 drawings. A revealing view of developing master painter, precursor of Cubism. 102 black-and-white illustrations.
Degas' Drawings by H. G. E. Degas Carefully reproduced from a rare 1923 limited edition, most of these magnificent drawings are unavailable elsewhere in published form. Dancers, nudes, portraits, travel scenes, and more. 100 drawings, including 8 in full color.
150 Masterpieces of Drawing by Anthony Toney Full-page reproductions of drawings from the early 15th century to the end of the 18th century, all beautifully reproduced: Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Dürer, Fragonard, Urs Graf, Wouwerman, many others.
