LLOYD CHRISTOPHER

(H/B) THE DRAWINGS OF VINCENT VAN GOGH
A compelling and authoritative overview of the drawings of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most celebrated and intriguing figures in the history of art. Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) drawings are some of the most familiar and expressive in the history of art. Van Gogh believed that drawing was the 'root of everything', and this was reflected in his remarkable output of over 1,000 works during his short and tragic life; many of them personal, often lonely explorations of the emerging modern world. This book is the first comprehensive account ...
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ΖΩΑ ΣΑΝ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΙ
Ήξερες ότι... - οι αρουραίοι γαργαλιούνται και ξεκαρδίζονται στα γέλια; - οι μέλισσες ψηφίζουν για να αποφασίσουν πού θα στήσουν τις φωλιές τους; - οι ελέφαντες πενθούν τους αγαπημένους τους; - τα κοράκια χρησιμοποιούν τα αυτοκίνητα για να σπάσουν καρύδια; Συναρπαστικό και μοναδικά εικονογραφημένο, το Ζώα σαν Άνθρωποι εξερευνά τις καταπληκτικές ανάμεσα στα ζώα και τους ανθρώπους, με πολλές ιστορίες και παραδείγματα, και μας εξηγεί ότι οι άνθρωποι και τα ζώα δεν ζουν απλώς στον ίδιο πλανήτη, αλλά μοιράζονται και τις ίδιες συμπεριφορές, κάνο...
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(H/B) IMPRESSIONIST AND POST-IMPRESSIONIST DRAWINGS
Manet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. This book sets drawings by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists in the context of late nineteenth-century France and explains why these particular works are as important as their paintings in the representation of modernity. A new approach to materials and a wholly inclusive attitude to exhibitions gave drawings a more elevated status in this period than ever before, which avant-garde artis...
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(P/B) FRA ANGELICO
Fra Angelico (c. 1400-55) is one of the most popular artists of the early Italian Renaissance. In his own lifetime churches and cathedrals competed for his work, and the style he evolved has come to be regarded as the natural language of religious painting. For more than a century the popular image of an angel has been that of an angel by Fra Angelico. Perhaps his best known work is the series of fresco decorations in the convent of San Marco in Florence, where Angelico was a friar. These paintings tell the story of the life of Christ as v...
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(H/B) PAUL CEZANNE
Lloyd sets the drawings and watercolours in the context of Cezanne's life and overall artistic development. The result is a greater understanding of the process that led to some of the most absorbing art ever produced. This book is arranged thematically covering the whole range of Cezanne's oeuvre: works after the Old Masters such as Michelangelo and Rubens; his period as one of the Impressionists; his exploration of both portraiture and the human figure, including the magnificent bathers; his interaction with landscape, particularly in hi...
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(H/B) EDGAR DEGAS
Degas said: 'I don't want a funeral oration.' Then, 'Yes, Forain, you will give one, you will say, "He greatly loved drawing!"' Edgar Degas was described as 'the most intelligent, the most demanding, the most merciless draughtsman in the world' by the poet and critic Paul Val?ry and today Degas is considered one of the outstanding draughtsmen of the late nineteenth century. His powerful drawings and the pastels, which he himself characterized as 'orgies of colour', are some of the most compelling works in western art. Drawing was not on...
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ENCHANTING THE EYE (P/B)

(P/B) PISSARRO
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was not only a central figure in the Impressionist movement but a major influence on the development of modern art. He was the only artist to exhibit at all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions between 1874 and 1886, and his letters are a fascinating and invaluable source of information on the theoretical and practical implication of Impressionism. Pissarro’s career touched that of an extraordinary number of contemporaries, to whom he was often a teacher and always a friend. In his early years he worked with ...
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