NERET GILLES

(H/B) MICHELANGELO
Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever. Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of Renaissance achievement. His peers called him simply "Il Divino" ("the divine one"). This book provides the essential introduction to Michelangelo with all the ...
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(H/B) Manet
Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered a crucial figure in the history of art, bridging the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Manet's work combined a painterly technique with strikingly modern images of contemporary life, centered on the urban Paris experience. He recorded the city's parks, bars, and cabarets, often delighting in the frisson of underground or provocative content. The Paris salon rejected his Dejeuner sur l'herbe with its ...
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(H/B) DALI
"Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali..." Painter, sculptor, writer, film-maker, and all-round showman Salvador Dali (1904-1989)was one of the twentieth century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks of the surrealist enterprise, and of modernism in general. Dali freque...
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(H/B) EROTICA UNIVERSALIS
There is only one real antidote to the anguish engendered in humanity by its awareness of inevitable death: erotic joy. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) MATISSE CUT-OUTS
"For a painter, nothing is more difficult than to paint a rose, because in order to do so he must first forget every rose that has ever been painted". HENRI MATISSE (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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(H/B) MALEVICH
After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his metier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into pure, emotionally-charged abstraction. In 1915, he created what is widely lauded as the first and ultimate abstract artwork: Black Square (1915), a black rectangle on a white background, hailed as the "zero point of painting," a seminal moment for modern and abstract practice. In this book, we follow Malevich's key innovations and ideas and place his ground...
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(H/B) RENOIR
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's (1841-1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the personal history and motivation behind the legend. Though he began by painting landscapes in the Impressionist style, Renoir found his true affinity in portraits, after which he abandoned the Impressionists altogether. Though often misunderstood, Renoir remains one of history's mos...
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(H/B) CARAVAGGIO
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio's boundary-breaking naturalism which scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feet to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist allowed even sacred an...
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(H/B) KLIMT
The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created surfaces of ornate and jewel-like luminosity which show influence of both Egyptian and Japanese art. Through paintings, murals, and friezes, his work is defined by radiant color, fluid lines, floral elements, and mosaic-like patterning. With a number of subjects dealing with sensuality and ...
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(H/B) DE LEMPICKA
Tamara de Lempicka (1896-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental oeuvre remains one of the most vivid visual documents of 1920s Art Deco. De Lempicka's style deployed cool colors and tight post-cubist forms into an at once neoclassical and voluptuous figuration. Her subjects are often nude and always sensual, aloof, and powerful. Bedecked in seductive light...
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GUSTAV KLIMT 1862-1918
VIENNA BETWEEN REALITY AND ILLUSION SECESSIONIST SYMBOLISM AND FEMMES FATALES THE HYMN TO JOY AND THE BEETHOVEN FRIEZE THE EXOTIC MOSAICS OF THE VILLA STOCLET THE MAGIC KALEIDOSCOPE ALL ART IS EROTIC GUSTAV KLIMT 1862-1918: LIFE AND WORK LIST OF PLATES NOTES...
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ΓΚΟΥΣΤΑΦ ΚΛΙΜΤ 1862-1918
[...] Ολόκληρο το έργο του Κλιμτ αποδεικνύει την αλήθεια της πρώτης φάσης του δοκιμίου του Λόος («Κάθε μορφή τέχνης είναι ερωτική»), αλλά αναιρεί τη δεύτερη παρατήρησή του, ότι «το διακοσμητικό στοιχείο δεν μπορεί να αποτελεί έκφραση του πολιτισμού μας». Για τον Κλιμτ, ο διακοσμητικός πλούτος σήμαινε εμπλουτισμό της πραγματικότητας, μέσο που επέτρεπε στο υποσυνείδητο να διεισδύσει στη συνειδητή ζωή, όπως το φροϋδικό όνειρο που αργότερα θα αγαπούσαν τόσο οι Σουρεαλιστές. Η ομορφιά της γυναίκας, τονισμένη από τη χρυσή μεγαλοπρέπεια του αισθη...
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(P/B) MICHELANGELO
Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever. Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of Renaissance achievement. His peers called him simply "Il Divino" ("the divine one"). This book provides the essential introduction to Michelangelo with all the ...
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MICHELLANGELO (H/B)

ΜΠΑΛΤΥΣ
"Πραγματική απογοήτευση! Τα πάντα είναι σχηματικά!" Η πρώτη ατομική έκθεση του Μπαλτύς (στην γκαλερί Pierre, στο Παρίσι) πρέπει να προκάλεσε πραγματικό σοκ στους επισκέπτες της. Το 1934, η Αφηρημένη τέχνη και ο Σουρεαλισμός είχαν φτάσει στο αποκορύφωμά τους και, μέσα σε αυτό το πλαίσιο, η απόπειρα του Μπαλτύς να "ενσαρκώσει τη ζωγραφική" (σύμφωνα με τον ποιητή Πιέρ-Ζαν Ζουβ), τον κατέστησε εξαρχής περιθωριακή φιγούρα. Στα 26 του χρόνια, ο Μπαλτύς πήγαινε αντίθετα στο ρεύμα. Η τέχνη του βασιζόταν με τρόπο εύγλωττο εξίσου στη φαντασία και σ'...
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(H/B-25) TAMARA DE LEMPICKA 1898-1980
Ambiguous, for sure. Free, without a doubt. A legend, quite certainly. Tamara de Lempicka, la belle Polonaise, the star of the interwar years, had all that it took to symbolize her era. The elite of her era, to be sure, those who frequented the Ritz in Paris or the Grand Hotel in Monte Carlo, what today we should call the jet-set. As recently as 1978, The New York Times was still calling her the "steely-eyed goddess of the automobile age". And indeed, her most famous painting, a self-portrait entitled Autoportrait or Tamara in the Green Bu...
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SALVADOR DALI 1904-1989
«The only difference between the Surrealists and me is that I am a surrealist.» SALVADOR DALI (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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(H/B) DALI
Picasso called Dali "an outboard motor that's always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting, approaching the subconscious with extraordinary sensitivity and imagination. This publi...
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ΜΙΧΑΗΛ ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ 1475-1564
[...] Αφιερώνοντας τον εαυτό του στη «δόξα του Θεού», ο Μιχαήλ Άγγελος ανέλαβε και μια σειρά από έργα που αποτέλεσαν καμπή στην αρχιτεκτονική του δεύτερου μισού του 16ου αιώνα. Για μια ακόμη φορά, το επίτευγμά του στηριζόταν λιγότερο σε αφηρημένα συστήματα αναλογιών, και περισσότερο στην τέλεια γνώση της ανθρώπινης ανατομίας και μια δυναμική όσο και εκφραστική σύλληψη του σώματος σε κίνηση: «Είναι βέβαιο», έγραφε, «ότι τα στοιχεία που απαρτίζουν το σκελετό του κτηρίου μοιάζουν με τα άκρα του σώματος. Μόνο ένας άνθρωπος που μπορεί να αναπα...
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ΤΑΜΑΡΑ ΝΤΕ ΛΕΜΠΙΤΣΚΑ 1898-1980 (ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ TASCHEN)
Αμφιλεγόμενη, σίγουρα. Ελεύθερη, χωρίς αμφιβολία. Αναμφισβήτητα ένας θρύλος. Η Ταμάρα ντε Λέμπιτσκα, η όμορφη Πολωνέζα, η σταρ του Μεσοπολέμου, είχε όλα όσα απαιτούνταν για να σημαδέψει την εποχή της. Η ελίτ της κοινωνίας ήταν αυτοί που τότε σύχναζαν στο "Ritz" του Παρισιού ή στο "Grand Hotel" του Μόντε Κάρλο με άλλα λόγια, αυτό που σήμερα θα αποκαλούσαμε τζετ-σετ. Σχετικά πρόσφατα, το 1978, οι New York Times την αποκαλούσαν "η θεά της εποχής του αυτοκινήτου με το ατσαλένιο βλέμμα". Πράγματι, το πιο διάσημο έργο της, η Αυτοπροσωπογραφία (...
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