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  • LINGERIE
    LINGERIE
    KLAUS CARL
    What do the thousands of images of bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines say about our society? Many women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet, since antiquity, women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus, lingerie must be more than erotic bait. Authors Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher hav...
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  • RENOIR
    RENOIR
    NATHALIA BRODSKAYA
    During each historical period, a new definition of female beauty reveals itself. Images of female beauty not only express the intimate desires of painters, but also reveal contemporary canons of beauty. A painter who loved women, Renoir revisioned the female body for the 19th century, endowing it with new appeal, primarily through the use of colour. In this voyage through the a...
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  • RIVERA
    RIVERA
    GERRY SOUTER
    Diego Rivera is celebrated by the author Gerry Souter as a virtuoso Mexican muralist, who brought to the medium his intense story-telling talent and ideological convictions to express legends and myths. His easel paintings and drawings, which constitute a large body of both his early and late work, are also represented in the book. Author of Kahlo, Souter overcomes his huge adm...
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  • ROSEN
    ROSEN
    VICTORIA CHARLES
    Das Mega Square-Buch Rosen präsentiert eine große Anzahl verschiedener Arten dieser einzigartigen Blume, die so viel Gefühl und kulturelle Bedeutung trägt. Durch seinen künstlerischen, aber auch botanischen Wert ist es wie gemacht für Kunstliebhaber und jeden, der die Schönheit und Vielseitigkeit von Rosen liebt. Jedes der farbenfrohen Bilder ist durch wertvolle botanische Info...
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  • ROSES
    ROSES
    VICTORIA CHARLES
    Mega Square Roses presents the large number of different species of this unique flower, which is charged with so many feelings and imbued with powerful cultural significance. Because of the rose s botanical as well as artistic value, this book features a popular subject for art lovers as well as for people who enjoy the beauty and versatility of flowers. Each of the colourful a...
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  • SHOES
    SHOES
    KLAUS CARL
    Mega Square Shoes focuses on the history of the shoe and elevates the shoe to the rank of a work of art. The author is a leading expert on the subject and curator of France s Shoe Museum, which holds the greatest shoe collection in the world, with 12,000 specimens. Mega Square Shoes will be the ideal gift, presenting an interesting and different subject in a small and practical...
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  • VIRGIN PORTRAITS
    VIRGIN PORTRAITS
    KLAUS CARL
    During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas, often rendering them more beautiful than they actually were. Over centuries in religious paintings, the Madonna has been presented as the clement and protective mother of God. However, with the passing of time, Mary gradually lost some of her spiritual characteristics and...
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  • CÉZANNE
    CÉZANNE
    Natalia Brodskaya
    Since his death 100 years ago, Cézanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century. He was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and the happiest period of his life was his early youth in Provence, in company with Emile Zolá, another Italian. Following Zolá s example, Cézanne went to Paris in his twenty-first year. During the Franco-Prussian war he deserted the ...
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  • DALÍ
    DALÍ
    VICTORIA CHARLES
    Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong c...
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  • GAUDÍ
    GAUDÍ
    VICTORIA CHARLES
    Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials and the introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal, Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art, the colou...
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  • GAUGUIN
    GAUGUIN
    JP. A. CALOSSE
    Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the painter s brush full time. Following the lead of Cézanne, Gauguin painted still-...
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  • HERBARIM
    HERBARIM
    KLAUS CARL
    Mega Square Herbarium is based on the work of Basilius Besler, the famous plant expert who, for the first time in history, described, painted and engraved over a thousand species of plants. His drawings are of great scientific as well as artistic value, and offer vivid insights into Europe s eclectic flora. ...
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  • IMPRESSIONISM
    IMPRESSIONISM
    Natalia Brodskaya
    Impressionism has always been one of the public s favourite styles of art and Impressionist works continue to enchant beholders with their amazing play of colours and forms. This book offers a well-chosen selection of the most impressive works of artists such as Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley. Mega Square Impressionism pays tribute to the subject s popularity. ...
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  • IN PRAISE OF THE BACKSIDE
    IN PRAISE OF THE BACKSIDE
    HANS-JURGEN DOPP
    Mega Square In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by Hans-Jürgen Döpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful eroticism and supple femininity, seducing famous artists from every genre. This title is sure to entice and delight a wide audience with its lively, provocative images. ...
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  • EIN LOB AUF DEN HINTERN
    EIN LOB AUF DEN HINTERN
    HANS-JURGEN DOPP
    Diese Mega Square Ausgabe würdigt den sinnlichsten Teil des weiblichen Körpers. Der aufschlussreiche Text des Experten Hans-Jürgen Döpp betrachtet den Hintern als Körperteil, der sowohl starke Erotik als auch weiche Weiblichkeit ausstrahlt. Künstler jeden Genres wurden bereits von seiner Anziehungskraft verführt. Dieser Titel lockt mit seinen lebendigen und provokativen Bildern...
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  • MONET
    MONET
    Natalia Brodskaya
    For Claude Monet the designation impressionist always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed many other opportunities that his enormous talent held out to him. Monet did...
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  • RAPHAEL
    RAPHAEL
    EUGÈNE MÜNTZ
    Discover the Renaissance through the lens of one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. Mega Square Raphael offers a wonderful introduction to the breadth of this artist's work, providing an array of his paintings, drawings and frescos for the reader's enjoyment. The portable size of this book makes it a perfect gift for art enthusiasts everywhere. ...
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  • RODIN
    RODIN
    RAINER MARIA RILKE
    With text by the great Bohemian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and a wealth of beautiful images, this book explores the creative power of one of history s greatest sculptors. Mega Square Rodin features the best-known masterpieces of this genius of bronze and marble, who immortalised his revolutionary approach to sculptural subjects and the human body in figures that seem ready to come...
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  • RODIN
    RODIN
    RAINER MARIA RILKE
    Dieses Buch erkundet die künstlerische Kreativität eines der größten Bildhauer der Geschichte mithilfe eines Textes des Schriftstellers Rainer Maria Rilke und einer Fülle beeindruckender Bilder. Es enthält die bekanntesten Meisterwerke Rodins, dieses Bronze- und Marmor-Genies, das seinen revolutionären künstlerischen Ansatz zur Skulptur und zum menschlichen Körper in einer Form...
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  • VAN GOGH
    VAN GOGH
    VINCENT VAN GOGH
    Beyond the sunflowers, irises and portrait of Doctor Gachet, there is the man Van Gogh, signified by his fragility and talent. From his birth in 1853 to his death in 1890, the Post-Impressionist Van Gogh shaped 19th-century concepts of painting over the course of several years with his creativity and technique. He became a forerunner of the Expressionists, the Fauves and modern...
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  • KLEE
    KLEE
    DONALD WIGAL
    An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the end of the 1930s and throughout his teaching years at the Bauhaus, he attempted to capture the organic and harmonic nature of painting by alluding to other artistic mediums such as p...
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  • LOVE
    LOVE
    JP. A. CALOSSE
    A timeless theme that cannot be ignored, love has always fascinated artists. Painters, sculptors and even architects have drawn inspiration from and illustrated it. Ever new, love has led artists to create the masterworks of their life. From Titian s Sacred and Profane Love to Brancusi s The Kiss, the treatment of love has changed along with time and style, but remains, in the...
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  • NATURAL CURIOSITIES
    NATURAL CURIOSITIES
    ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
    Reflecting their owner s taste and serving as an impressive exhibition space for visitors, cabinets of curiosities were a place of interest in the houses of the wealthy in the 16th an 17th centuries. Displaying rare vegetable and animal species and fossils, these cabinets were always dedicated to science and knowledge. By collecting uncommon and beautiful objects in nature, ric...
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  • TIFFANY
    TIFFANY
    VICTORIA CHARLES
    A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany spearheaded the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in perpetual growth, Tiffany succeeded in elevating the decorative to the rank of fine art. Tiffany s workshops specialized in glass, where they developed groundbreaking techniques that resulted in beautiful effe...
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  • KLEE
    KLEE
    DONALD WIGAL
    Paul Klee gehört zu den Künstlern, die sich nur schwerlich einer bestimmten kunstgeschichtlichen Bewegung zuordnen lassen. In engem Kontakt mit Wassily Kandinsky und Franz Marc gehörte er wie diese der expressionistischen Künstlergruppe Der Blaue Reiter an. Später knüpfte er Verbindungen zum Bauhaus und unterrichtete sogar Malerei an der Dessauer Schule. Seiner Ansicht nach gin...
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  • TURNER
    TURNER
    ERIC SHANES
    Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) ließ nach seinem Tod 19.000 Kunstwerke zurück und schon die Bildauswahl für dieses Buch war eine wahre Mammutaufgabe. Turner war ein Romantiker der Landschaftsmalerei mit einem unvergleichlichen Gespür für das Meer und ein Pionier neuer Techniken, mit denen er innovative Farbtöne und nuancen schuf, stark beeinflusst von Goethes Farbenl...
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  • KLIMT
    KLIMT
    PATRICK BADE / JANE ROGOYSKA
    I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women... Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt s paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisure, which seems aeons away from the harsh, post-modern environment we live in now. The subjects he treats allegories, portraits, landscapes and erotic figures contain virtually ...
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  • HOKUSAI
    HOKUSAI
    EDMOND DE GONCOURT
    Katsushika Hokusai ist ohne Zweifel der seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts im Westen berühmteste Künstler Japans. Die Werke Hokusais spiegeln die künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen einer isolierten Kultur wider. Gleichzeitig war er einer der ersten japanischen Künstler, der in Europa Bekanntheit erlangte und großen Einfluss auf impressionistische und postimpressionistische ...
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  • MUCHA
    MUCHA
    PATRICK BADE
    Alfons Mucha ist der ungekrönte König der Jugendstil-Illustration. Für viele Menschen sind Muchas überirdisch schöne, von floralen Ornamentgeflechten umgegebene Frauen, die erste Assoziation mit der beliebten Kunstrichtung der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Muchas Kunst, die sich über die Jahrzehnte immer wieder neuer Beliebtheit erfreuen durfte, ist vor allem seit den 1960er Jahre...
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  • TIFFANY
    TIFFANY
    VICTORIA CHARLES
    Ein Juwelier mit weltweitem Renommée war der Vorreiter der Art Nouveau-Bewegung in den USA - Louis Comfort Tiffany. In einer Zeit und einem Land in beständigem Wachstum gelang es Tiffany das Dekorative zu einer eigenen Kunstform zu erheben. Tiffany s Werkstätten hatten besondere Expertise in der Glaskunst und entwickelten bahnbrechende Herstellungstechniken, die einzigartige Gl...
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