Rainer Metzger Livres

Les années 20, à Berlin, sous la République de Weimar, hantées par la catastrophe qui se prépare, sont synonymes d'invention plastique et littéraire en même temps qu'elles explorent avec une intuition extraordinaire tous les moyens d'expression populaire, radios, cinémas, affiches et publications lumineuses, cabaret, comédie musicale, lunapark qui vont constituer les moyens de communication de masse, des totalitarismes à venir et de la société de consommation d’après guerre. ... Il suffit d'aligner quelques noms, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartield, Hannah Höch pour l'aventure Dada ; Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, Karl Blossfeldt pour le cinéma et la photographie ; Mies van der Rohe, Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky pour les grandes conquêtes utopistes ou fonctionnelles de l'architecture, du design et de l'œuvre d'art totale pour prendre la mesure de ces années de révolutions et de créations tous azimuts. ... Cet ouvrage les passe en revue, en décrit les apports, explique leur retentissements dans la société du XXe siècle et son avant-garde. ...

Associe une monographie détaillée de l'artiste et un catalogue complet de son oeuvre en 871 tableaux.

Présentation de la vie et de la production artistique de l'artiste Van Gogh.

The complete van Gogh Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. He lived an unhappy and difficult life during which his work received almost no appreciation—finally killing himself by a bullet to the chest, so great was his despair—and is now widely considered one of the most important painters of all time, his works fetching record prices of tens of millions of dollars at auction. This comprehensive study of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) represents a rarity in art a detailed monograph on his life and art combined with a complete catalogue of his 871 paintings. This volume also reproduces most of van Gogh's paintings in color for the first time.

Vincent van Gogh lived an unhappy and difficult life during which his work received almost no appreciation, and is now widely considered one of the most important painters of all time. This is a detailed monograph of his life and art combined with a complete catalogue of his 871 paintings.

Van Gogh, who took up a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This richly illustrated and expert study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his homeland, through his bright and colorful Parisian period, to the work of his final years, spent under a southern sun in Arles.

A selection of some of the master draftsman's most significant drawings and watercolors includes several of his rarely reproduced erotic works to present a more balanced representation of his oeuvre, in a volume that offers insight into his creative process and motivation.

Berlin in the 1920s was home to some of the most extraordinary minds of modern times, and was a vigorous melting pot of radical new ideas and concepts in every field. Comprising essays on the key movements and figures of the era, this book presents a portrait of this cultural ferment and its most important protagonists

Examines the life and art of nineteenth-century Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, and features color reproductions of his complete catalogue of 871 paintings, as well as an illustrated chronology of his life from 1853 to 1890