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Gustav Klimt is the superstar of the Vienna Secession. He made a mark on the movement like no other painter. His symbolist, allegorical depictions and erotically decadent portraits of women have come to embody the fin de siècle. Discover all of Klimt's paintings as well as excellent detail shots of the famous Stoclet Frieze.

Explore Ernst Haeckel, the 19th-century artist-biologist who found beauty in the most unlikely creatures. This collection features 300 prints from his most important publications, including the majestic Kunstformen der Natur and his catalogues of marine life. These exquisite images are a scientific, artistic and environmental masterwork.

This title features numerous large-scale details of Rivera's murals, allowing their various components and subtleties to be closely examined.

Burton Holmes (1870-1958) travelled the grand boulevards of Paris to China's Great Wall, from the construction of the Panama canal to the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Holmes delighted in finding "the beautiful way around the world" and made a career of sharing his stories, colorful photographs, and films with audiences across America. As a young man, Holmes was mentored by John L. Stoddard, a pioneer of the U.S. travelecture circuit, who passed on his well-established mantle when he retired. Holmes roamed the globe throughout the summer and traversed the United States all winter, transforming the staid lecture tradition into an entertaining show.

Uwe Ommer, a sought-after commercial photographer based in New York and Paris, has made a name for himself with his own uncommissioned works, as this book eloquently attests. For the aesthete Uwe Ommer, the bodies of black women represent the epitome of beauty. His photographs are exactly what they show, no more and no less than a homage to female beauty. And of course that homage is paid in the perfect setting, the stunning landscape of Africa.

Discover the artist who put soup cans in MoMA and movie stars in the Met. This introduction to Andy Warhol presents his prolific and radical oeuvre and its relentless interrogation of consumerism, materialism, and the role of the artist. The title includes more than 100 images of Warhol's work in top-quality reproductions that retain all of the originals' pop.

"This most extraordinary edition celebrates Michelangelo's graphic work with a selection of his most masterful and mesmerizing of drawings" Graphic beauty Breathtaking drawings Few artists can claim such tenacious fame across continents and centuries as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475�'1564). His achievements as a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect remain unrivalled and unique. This fresh edition celebrates the artist's graphic work, with a selection of his most masterful and mesmerizing drawings. Gathered from some of the world's most prestigious collections, these works show the full ambition and reach of Michelangelo's practice, spanning architectural elements, facial expressions, and countless, meticulous anatomical drawings. Whether finely tuned or left unfinished, each and every drawing testifies to the artist's dedicated scrutiny of the world around him and his compelling mastery of line, form, and detail. There is an intimacy in these works, too. As differ