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Lucian Freud (Basic Art)

by Sebastian Smee

British artist, Lucian Freud is widely considered the most important figurative painter working today. Master portraitist and specialist in nudes, Freud uses impasto to create depth and intensity while restraining his color palate to mostly muted hues. His portraits may be physically unflattering to their subjects, but they are honest, frank, and unapologetic. "I paint people," Freud has said, "not because of what... (more)

Central body: The art of Guy Colwell, including work from the years 1964 to 1991Guy Colwell

Central body: The art of Guy Colwell, including work from the years 1964 to 1991

by Guy Colwell

Gregory Gillespie

by Gregory Gillespie

Hundertwasser (Temporis Collection)

by Pierre Restany

"The rigid, straight line is fundamentally alien to humanity, life and the whole of creation". Hundertwasser applied this philosophy not only to the famous Viennese buildings for which he was renowned, but all the media and art-forms he has experimented with during his wild career. Whether it be painting, sculpture, performance art or designing a kindergarten, Hundertwasser's works are multi-coloured, organic, and... (more)

Monograph on Shehnai Maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan

Monograph on Shehnai Maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan

by Neena Jha & Shivnath Jha

Methods of Intermediate Problems for Eigenvalues (Mathematics in science and engineering)Anatoli Torokhti, Phil Howlett

Methods of Intermediate Problems for Eigenvalues (Mathematics in science and engineering)

by Alexander Weinstein, William Stenger

In this book, we study theoretical and practical aspects of computing methods for mathematical modelling of nonlinear systems. A number of computing techniques are considered, such as methods of operator approximation with any given accuracy; operator interpolation techniques including a non-Lagrange interpolation; methods of system representation subject to constraints associated with concepts of causality,... (more)

Xo: A THEORY OF THE MORPHOLOGY-SYNTAX INTERACE.

Xo: A THEORY OF THE MORPHOLOGY-SYNTAX INTERACE.

by Yafei Li

This important monograph offers a resolution to the debate in theoretical linguistics over the role of syntactic head movement in word formation. It does so by synthesizing the syntactic and lexicalist approaches on the basis of the empirical data that support each side. In trying to determine how a morphologically complex word is formed in Universal Grammar, generative linguists have argued either that a... (more)

Where Does Binding Theory Apply? (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)

Where Does Binding Theory Apply? (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)

by David Lebeaux

This concise but wide-ranging monograph examines where the conditions of binding theory apply and in doing so considers the nature of phrase structure (in particular how case and theta roles apply) and the nature of the lexical/functional split. David Lebeaux begins with a revised formulation of binding theory. He reexamines Chomsky's conjecture that all conditions apply at the interfaces, in particular LF... (more)

Far Side Gallery 4

by Gary Larson

A new compilation of zany humor includes selected cartoons from three best-selling Far Side collections-- Wildlife Preserves, Wiener Dog Art, and Unnatural Selections --and features more than twenty pages in full color. Original.

HR Giger

by H R Giger, Stanislav Grof M.D. Ph.D.

Giger hand has fathered some of the most remarkable creatures in recent memory including the creatures in Ridley Scott's film Allen. This pocket-sized book highlights his best work.

Paul Klee : Tempel, Sta?dte, Pala?ste

by Christine Hopfengart, Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee

Between 1916 and 1925 Paul Klee (1879-1940) made some 50 hand puppets for his son, Felix, of which 30 are still in existence. For the heads, he used materials from his own household: beef bones and electrical outlets, bristle brushes, leftover bits of fur and nutshells. Soon he began to sew costumes. These characters and small works, do not pretend to be great art, but at the same time, they are superbly... (more)

Edward Hopper 1882-1967 : Transformation of the Real (Basic Series : Art)

Edward Hopper 1882-1967 : Transformation of the Real (Basic Series : Art)

by Rolf G Renner

Text: English (translation) Original Language: German

CHICO DA SILVA: EL RENÉIXER

by Gabi Serrano, Fina López

EXPOSICIÓCHICO DA SILVA: EL RENÉIXERDel 2 al 24 de febrer de 2008. Edifici Miramar StigesComissariat:Gabi SerranoCoodinació:Fina López

Prehistory of the Far Side

by Gary Larson

Welcome to the exhibit: a spectacular retrospective of more than 300 Far Side cartooons - in both black and white and color. The exhibit is not Larson's most popular cartoons; it is his own personal favorites. And indeed, this is the first glimpse Larson's millions of fans worldwide have ever had of the personal side of Gary Larson. As Larson says in his Foreword, "This may or may not be of particular interest... (more)

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Hieronymus Bosch

Between Heaven and Hell

by Walter Bosing

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Egon Schiele

The Midnight Soul of the Artist

by Reinhard A. Steiner

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings. Many contemporaries found his... (more)

Duchamp (Basic Art)

by Janis Mink, Marcel Duchamp, Jose Maria Faerna

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) is best-known for his "ready-mades" - such as the urinal, entitled "Fountain" and "signed" R. Mutt. This study tackles the enigma of this major 20th-century artist.

Pablo Picasso: The Sculptures

by Werner Spies, Pablo Picasso

For years Pablo Picasso's sculptural oeuvre was one of the best-kept secrets of 20th century art. It was only through retrospectives in Paris, London and New York during the 1960's that Picasso the sculptor became known to a larger public-who discovered a complexity and variety in his sculptures that easily rivals that of his paintings and drawings. Pablo Picasso: The Sculptures is catalogue raisonn of Picasso's... (more)

An Introduction to Morse Theory (Translations of Mathematical Monographs, Vol. 208) (Translations of Mathematical Monographs)

An Introduction to Morse Theory (Translations of Mathematical Monographs, Vol. 208) (Translations of Mathematical Monographs)

by Y. Matsumoto

In a very broad sense, "spaces" are objects of study in geometry, and "functions" are objects of study in analysis. There are, however, deep relations between functions defined on a space and the shape of the space, and the study of these relations is the main theme of Morse theory. In particular, its feature is to look at the critical points of a function, and to derive information on the shape of the space... (more)

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Eugene Delacroix

The Prince Of Romanticism

by Gilles Neret

At Delacroix' studio sale, held six months after his death in 1864, crowds and critics were astonished at both the abundance and the multi-disciplinary nature of the work on display, the life's vision of a man praised by Baudelaire for being the last great artist of the Renaissance period and the first of the Modern. But Delacroix himself was well aware of the position he wanted to occupy. Taking his cue from... (more)

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by Sebastian Smee

by Guy Colwell

by Gregory Gillespie

by Pierre Restany

by Neena Jha & Shivnath Jha

by Alexander Weinstein, William Stenger

by Yafei Li

by David Lebeaux

by Gary Larson

by H R Giger, Stanislav Grof M.D. Ph.D.

by Christine Hopfengart, Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee

by Rolf G Renner

by Gabi Serrano, Fina López

by Gary Larson

Between Heaven and Hell

by Walter Bosing

The Midnight Soul of the Artist

by Reinhard A. Steiner

by Janis Mink, Marcel Duchamp, Jose Maria Faerna

by Werner Spies, Pablo Picasso

by Y. Matsumoto

The Prince Of Romanticism

by Gilles Neret