야수파화려한 색상, 단순한 형태, 그리고 표현의 순수함은 마티스 작업의 주요 특징이다앙리 마티스(1869-1954)는 20세기 프랑스 화가 가운데 가장 중요한 한 사람이자, 야수파를 주창하고 이끌어간 인물로도 잘 알려져 있다. 그의 작업은 순수하고 찬연한 색상과 단순한 형태의 표현적인 힘에의 탐색 과정을 보여주며, 결...

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make art. With what he called une seconde vie, a second life, he embarked on a remarkable collage period,...

“Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way.” ? Jack DelanoAmid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to address the country’s rural poverty. Its e...

A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved.First published in 1613, the 367 copperplate engravings by Basilius Besler (1561?1629) capture the spectacu...

From the towering Sagrada Familia to the shimmering, textured facade of Casa Batllo and the enchanting landscape of Park Guell, it’s easy to see why Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) gained the epithet “God’s architect”. With fluid forms and mathematical precision, his work extols the wonder of natural c...

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology to be applied across painting, scu...

All About Art! 디자인 예술 서적 전문관 (14.09.25 ~ 한정 수량)

* TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Special bestseller price!“A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, ‘Madame, if that’s the way you see it, s...

In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: “It’s not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience… I tried to create a visual experience, one that directly penetrates the subconscious wi...

한 개념으로서 그림bstract action: The splattered oeuvre of a cultural iconThe rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he ...

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853?1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and drawings beyond, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through p...

Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary Europe...

히말라야 도처에 위치한 소수의 수도원에서 여러 군데에 위치한 요가 스튜디오까지 요가 여행은 수천 년의 세월을 보냈다. 갠지스 강에서 경건한 사내가 목욕을 하거나 “om”을 외치며 수 천 명이 목소리를 내기도 한다. 사진작가 마이클 오닐(Michael O’Neill)은 자신의 삶 속에서 세계의 요가를 경험하고 기록하기로 결...

“인상주의의 왕자”로 불리는 클로드 모네 (1840-1926)는 그림에 갖고 있던 종전의 기대들을 철저히 바꿔놓았다. 수 세기의 전례에 불응하며, 실제를 찾기 위함이 아닌 자각적 행위 자체를 묘사하고자 했다. 빠르고 충동적인 붓 터치로 야외사생(plein-air)에 집중하며, 색조, 패턴, 윤곽과 눈에 띄는 시각적 인상주의를 ...

Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist’s consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, first formed in New York City, Rothko rejected the label and insisted inst...

쾌락의 응접실Araki's tour of an erotic underworld에로틱한 퇴폐적 세계를 도는 아라키의 여정이는 1978년 교토 근처의 일반 커피숍에서 시작되었다. 미니스커트에 치마를 입지 않은 종업원이 서빙한다는 소문은 전국적으로 유사 업체가 생겨나게 했다. 남자들은 일반 커피숍의 세 배에 달하는 금액을 내고도 팬티를 입지...

All About Art! 디자인 예술 서적 전문관 (14.09.25 ~ 한정 수량)

* TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Large-format hardcover edition at a new low priceThe works of Rene Magritte (1898 ? 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the “mystery” in which thing...

새로운 조명 아래서 클림트의 그림을 보다: 기존의 틀을 깬 모노그래프A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt’s major works alongside authoritati...

Mario Testino’s Undressed removes various layers. Coinciding with an exhibition conceived exclusively for the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, this intimate series explores the notion of undressing in photography as much as it lays Testino’s archive bare, probing beyond the photographer’s esta...

Over the course of his short life, Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918) blazed a turbulent Expressionist trail. A child prodigy, young rebel, and chronic provocateur, he caused uproar among the establishment with his contorted lines, distorted bodies, and explicit eroticism and continues to star...