501 Great Artists: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of the Art World - Tapa dura

An illustrated compendium of biographical profiles sheds new light on the lives and careers of more than five hundred of the world's great artists, spanning in time from classical antiquity to the modern era, accompanied an analysis of each artist's work and cultural influence, as well as reproductions of some of their best-known works.

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Includes: Josef Albers · Francis Bacon · Giacomo Balla · Joseph Beuys · Sandro Botticelli · Georges Braque · Caravaggio · Mary Stevenson Cassatt · Paul Cézanne · Marc Chagall · Chuck Close · Gustave Courbet · Salvador Dalí · Leonardo da Vinci · Edgar Degas · Robert Delaunay · Otto Dix · Jean Dubuffet · Thomas Eakins · El Greco · Max Ernst · Jan van Eyck · Lucio Fontana · Fra Angelico · Lucian Freud · Thomas Gainsborough · Paul Gauguin · Alberto Giacometti · Giotto · Vincent van Gogh · Andy Goldsworth · Francisco Goya · George Grosz · Frans Hals · Barbara Hepworth · Ando Tokitaro Hiroshige · Damien Hirst · Katsushika Hokusai · Winslow Homer · Edward Hopper · Frida Kahlo · Yves Klein · Carl Larsson · René Magritte · Kasmir Malevich · Edouard Manet · Henri Matisse · Amedeo Modigliani · Michelangelo · Piet Mondrian · Claude Monet · Berthe Morisot · Edvard Munch · Paul Nash · Georgia O’Keeffe · Chris Ofili · Pablo Picasso · Piero della Francesca · Jackson Pollock · Raphael · Paula Rego · Rembrandt van Rijn · Pierre-Auguste Renoir · Diego Rivera · Auguste Rodin · Mark Rothko · Peter Paul Rubens · Cindy Sherman · Frank Stella · Giovanni Tiepolo · Titian · J. M.W. Turner · Diego Velázquez · Andy Warhol · James McNeill Whistler · Rachel Whiteread · Anders Zorn

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This enthralling, in-depth guide to 501 outstanding painters, sculptors, mixed media artists, photomontage artists, and installation artists spans the centuries as it describes artists from all around the world. 501 Great Artists presents an informal illustrated history of art in the form of concise, fact-filled artistsÂ’ biographies. Each biographical entry includes an assessment of the artistÂ’s creative innovations and cultural impact.

Entertaining and thoroughly researched, this information-filled volume covers the history of art from Renaissance muralists to Impressionist painters, and from Cubist mixed media artists to postmodern video artists. An illustration accompanying each biographical entry presents a portrait of the artist, and a supplementary list directs readers to the galleries and museums that exhibit the artistÂ’s most famous works. An illuminating quotation by the artist or an art critic offers additional insights into the artistÂ’s psyche and body of work.

Compiled by the well-known English author and art teacher Professor Stephen Farthing, and written by an international team of art critics, art historians, and artists, 501 Great Artists provides readers with a truly comprehensive guide to the art worldÂ’s most important men and women. Included are superb reproductions of many of the masterpieces discussed in the text, as well as illustrations of the artists at work in their studios. Art lovers and museum visitors looking for a reliable reference source, will turn to this book time and time again for information about the individuals behind the worldÂ’s great art masterpieces.

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Stephen Farthing is a painter and the Rootstein Hopkins Research Professor in Drawing at the University of the Arts, London. In 1990 he was elected Master of Ruskin School of Drawing at the University of Oxford, and a Professional Fellow at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1998 he was elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. He originally studied at St. MartinÂ’s School of Art, London, gaining an M.A. in painting from the Royal College of Art, London. He has been teaching fine art since 1977. His paintings are exhibited in galleries throughout the world, in particular, in the U.K., Japan, and South America.