Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world", ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese …
Mount Fuji has long been a centerpiece of Japanese cultural imagination, and nothing captures this with more virtuosity than the landmark woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of …
Combining fact and fiction in a way typical of propaganda art, posters of Mao Zedong exuded positive vibes and seemed to suggest that Mao was an omnipresent force that would …
Covering a vast range of cutting-edge graphics, with politically charged anti-commercial work placed in the same context as Nike's latest ads, this book presents highlights of …
Pop artists of the 1960s, heralded by the Great Andy Warhol, commented on everything from mainstream media to consumer society to advertising to product packaging with colorful and …
If you found our volume Piranesi: The Complete Etchings overwhelming in its scope and magnitude, you'll appreciate this new, abbreviated version. Faithfully summarizing his entire …
Influenced by the innovative use of color in Bauhaus art, Hungarian painter Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) developed his own abstract- geometric visual language, exploring the …
Albrecht Dürer Germany’s greatest Renaissance artist Though he is most famous for his engravings, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work …
“This luxurious Japanese-bound, boxed publication transcends the coffee table cliché by combining beauty with information.” —ARTnews Magazine, New York Literally meaning “pictures …
