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

By Stephen Farthing (editor) format: hardcover publication: October 2008 ISBN: 9780764161339

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A concise yet comprehensive reference guide for art lovers and art students, this illustrated volume profiles major artists from classical antiquity to the modern era. All 501 artists featured in this book receive at least a one-page entry that summarizes their life, their work, and their influence. The most influential artists are discussed in entries of up to four pages. Entries are illustrated with portraits of the artists and reproductions of some of their best-known works. Included here are painters, sculptors, photographers, and performance and video artists. Among them are Renaissance artists Raphael and Michelangelo, northern European artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn, English landscape painters Turner and Constable, French impressionists such as Degas and Renoir, Japanese artists Sesshu and Hishikawa Moronobu, American abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, twentieth-century European giants such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and modern sculptors Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, and many others. Important women in the arts are also included, among them, sculptor Louise Nevelson, painters Georgia O’Keeffe and Helen Frankenthaler, American impressionist in France Mary Cassatt, and many others. This informative and entertaining compendium of biographical sketches is supplemented with more than 670 illustrations, most of them in color.

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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