PARKSTONE

(H/B) 1000 PAINTINGS OF GENIUS
Featuring 1,000 internationally recognised paintings, this collection spans the history of art from the 13th century to the present, from the early stirrings of the Renaissance movement in Italy to the boundary-pushing experiments of the Abstract Expressionists in post-World War II America. These cultural treasures are presented in historical context, along with extended captions and biographies of one hundred of the most influential artists. Each chapter reviews major events that had an impact on the art world, defines significant techniq...
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(H/B) HOKUSAI
Through his elegant brush paintings and masterful woodblocks, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) became one of Japan's most internationally-renowned artists. A master of ukiyo-e art, he single-handedly transformed the art form from a simple style focused on courtesans and famous actors into a grander style depicting the beauty of nature seen through landscapes and wildlife. His style of art and his subjects evolved as many times as he changed his name, but Hokusai's talent as an artist remained constant and his influential role in later art mo...
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(H/B) BOTTICELLI
The Medici court painter Botticelli is one of the most brilliant artists or the Italian Renaissance alongside Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. Favouring feminine portraits, Botticelli stands apart through the finesse of his lines and the unbridled sensuality of his paintings. Between religious and private commissions this Florentine artist introduced the profane into art through works of complex mythological subjects, such as the incontrovertibly masterful "Primavera" and "The Birth of Venus", and knew how to delight the erudit...
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(H/B) THE LIFE AND MASTERWORKS OF J.M.W. TURNER
J.M.W. Turner was arguably the greatest landscape and marine painter ever. His output was prodigious: some five hundred and fifty oil paintings, over two thousand highly detailed and finely finished watercolours, and almost twenty thousand sketches, studies and rough watercolours. He excelled in every branch of landscape and marine painting, from elaborate history pictures and idealised scenes in the classical tradition, to tiny, jewel-like watercolours of contemporary life on land and sea made for subsequent engraved reproduction. This bo...
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(H/B) COURBET

(H/B) HANS MEMLING

(H/B) 1000 SCULPTURES OF GENIUS
From the Antiquity to the twentieth century, this sculpture collection offers a truly original vision of western art. Here are the most sensual and harmonious masterworks to the most provocative and minimalist sculptures. Sculpture shapes the world and our concept of beauty, leaving everlasting silhouettes and always creating new intriguing ones. These masterworks are the mirror of an era, of an artist and his public and through this sculpture gallery, one visits not only the history of art, but history as a whole. Between the acclaimed id...
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(H/B) SURREALISM

(H/B) IN PRAISE OF THE BACKSIDE
Love's Body As we fragment the body, we make its parts the subject of a fetish. Each individual part can become a focus of erotic passion, an object of fetishist adoration. On the other hand, the body as a whole is still the sum of its parts. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) ART OF THE DEVIL

(H/B) GAUDI

(H/B) KLIMT (MEGA SQUARE COLLECTION)

(H/B) JASPER JOHNS

(H/B) JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT AND THE GRAFFITI ART

MALEVICH (H/B)

(H/B) UTAMARO

(H/B) IMPRESSIONS OF UKIYO-E

(H/B) 1000 EROTIC WORKS OF GENIUS

(H/B) IMPRESSIONISM AND POST IMPRESSIONISM

(H/B) EXPRESSIONISM