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This beautiful and authoritative book brings together a number of exceptional works of art whose audacity disrupted the course of art history at the beginning of the 20th century. Major artists including Monet, Mondrian, Malevich, Rothko, Bonnard, Picasso, Munch, Giacometti, Bacon, Leger, Picabia, Matisse, Kupka, and Kandinsky are each represented by a key piece from their oeuvre. The text comprises 20 essays on the individual artists by a team of internationally renowned experts. Additional essays grapple with important questions and current debates within the art world, such as which...

For six summers my husband and I have spent two weeks in a cottage on Great Wass Island off the coast of "Downeast" Maine. We have come to know and admire the cottage owners, a hard-working family who visibly love, support and enjoy each other. Joan, the daughter, a handsome, tall, lean brunette with hazel eyes and a welcoming smile works as hard as any man in the stern of her father's lobster boat. She lives in the home where she grew up, a gray shingled Cape overlooking their wharf and lobster pound. Enchanted by her Downeast accent, spectacular gardens, musical talent and love of animals,...

Through a detailed look at twelve contemporary Chinese artists, this fascinating book offers a fresh assessment of the creative forces at work in a country whose economic, political, and cultural climates are of widespread and enduring interest. Viewed together, the featured artists, Cao Fei, Hao Liang, Hu Xiangqian, Liu Chang, Liu Shiyuan, Liu Wei, Liu Xiaodong, Qiu Zhijie, Tao Hui, Xu Qu, Xu Zhen, and Yang Fudong, reveal the complexities of their society. Their works, using a wide variety of techniques and media and drawn from local tradition and culture, highlight the current state of...