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Christopher Wool
In-your-face, achingly simple, deceptively frank, the work of Christopher Wool is so very New York. Though he owes a debt to abstract expressionism and pop art, Christopher Wool completely transcends—even demolishes—these genres. Whether it’s a text-based painting or an abstract spray-painted piece, his work is immediately engaging. Christopher Wool questions painting, like
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Circus
The greatest show on earth!
The history and legacy of the circus
During its heyday one hundred years ago, the American circus was the largest show-biz industry the world had ever seen. From the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling American circuses performed for audiences of up to 14,000 per show, employed as many as 1,600 men and women, and crisscrossed the country on
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David Dancey-Wood
David Dancey-Wood is one of the leading pencil artists in the United Kingdom, specialising mainly in wildlife subject matter. He was born in Bristol and studied at the Bournemouth and Poole Faculty of Art and Design for four years before launching into a career to develop his own unique artistic talents, alongside raising awareness of conservation issues around the
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David LaChapelle
Not yet out of high school, LaChapelle was offered his first professional job by Andy Warhol to shoot for Interview magazine. His photography has been showcased in numerous galleries and museums, including Staley-Wise; Tony Shafrazi Gallery and Deitch Projects in New York; the Fahey-Klein Gallery in California; Goss Gallery in Dallas; and internationally at Artmosphere in
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Diego Rivera
A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist—along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo—Diego Rivera (1886–1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded himself with other artists and embraced the Cubist movement, Diego Rivera returned to Mexico and began to paint the large-scale
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Donald Hamilton Fraser
Donald Hamilton Fraser has exhibited his highly acclaimed work in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Zurich and many other cities around the world. The list of galleries that own, or have exhibited his work is phenomenal. Donald has participated in many of the most significant exhibitions of British work, including the Royal Academy's 25 Years of British Painting, where he is also a
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Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold was born in 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to immigrant Russian-Jewish parents. Her interest in photography began in 1946 when she worked for a photo-finishing plant in New York City. She briefly learned photographic skills in 1948 from Harper's Bazaar art director, Alexei Brodovitch. In 1955 Eve Arnold's fresh quality had been noted by Robert Capa and she
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Fabian Perez
Fabian Perez is Argentinean, and was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. He was raised by his father, who led a rather eccentric and nonconformist existence, running illegal nightclubs and bordellos. Fabian Perez was exposed to a large number of fascinating individuals, and as he grew up, he began to capture these people in portraits. His abilities were evident from this very young
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Fletcher Sibthorp
Since graduating with an honours degree from Kingston University, Fletcher Sibthorp's career has flourished with commissions for major artworks from such prestigious companies as BP, British Airways, British Telecom and Sony Records. His work has twice appeared on the cover of The Evening Standard and The Royal Shakespeare Company has commissioned him on a number of occasions.
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Gordon King
Gordon King was born in 1939 and as a child his talent came to the fore early on, winning several major art competitions. After leaving school Gordon King concentrated on figurative illustration, undergoing training at Carlton Studios in London whilst studying life drawing and painting at Reading University.
Gordon King worked as an illustrator in his early 20s for major
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Govinder Nazran
Govinder Nazran 1964 - 2008.
Sadly Govinder passed away on the 30th December 2008 after an accident which left him with severe head injuries. As one of the country's greatest contemporary artists he will be greatly missed.
After studying Graphic Design from 1980-1983 Govinder Nazran went on to study for a Higher Diploma in Graphic Design at Lincoln Art College.
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Ingmar Bergman
An in-depth exploration of Bergman’s complete works
The complete works of Ingmar Bergman: an homage to one of the most esteemed film and theater artists of all time, began in cooperation with Bergman himself and made with full access to his archives
Since 1957, when he released The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman has been one of the leading figures in
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Josef Heinrich Darchinger
It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The bombs of World War II had reduced the country's major cities to deserts of rubble. Yet his pictures show scarcely any signs of the downfall of a civilization. Not that the photographer was
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Julius Shulman
A resident of Los Angeles since 1920, Julius Shulman has been documenting modernist architecture in Southern California and across the globe for nearly eight decades. His images of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House No. 22 (1960) in Los Angeles and Richard J. Neutra's Kaufmann House (1947) in Palm Springs are among the most recognizable and iconic architectural photographs of
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Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl was born in Berlin in 1902. She studied painting and started her artistic career as a dancer.
An injury of the knee put an end to her sensational career. After that, she became famous as an actress, a film director, a film producer and a film reporter.
As a photographer, she soon gained the world's elite after the war. Photo reportages about her stay with
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Lorenzo Quinn
Lorenzo Quinn started out as a painter Starting out as a painter in 1982, he soon discovered that a dimension was missing from his works and that he could not offer anything that had not already been offered by other artists before him. Turning to sculpture because of a deep-rooted need to create, he found this medium allowed him to convey his innermost feelings to the viewer.
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Mackenzie Thorpe
Mackenzie Thorpe, an internationally renowed artist, was born in 1956 and raised in Middlesbrough during a period of economic hardship. Struggling with dyslexia early in his life, Mackenzie Thorpe found salvation in painting and drawing.
Mackenzie Thorpe's work expresses an entire range of human emotion, from the special bond of love and friendship, to the importance of
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali originally Cassius (Marcellus) Clay, Jr was born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. As an amateur boxer (1954–60), winning 100 of 108 matches, he became the 1960 Olympic light-heavyweight champion. Financed by a group of Louisville businessmen, he turned professional, and by 1963 had won his first 19 fights. Muhammad Ali won the world heavyweight title in 1964,
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Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer was one of the 20th century's greatest and most influential writers, as well as one of America's most renowned and controversial literary figures. The best-selling author of a dozen novels and 20 works of nonfiction, he also wrote stage plays, screenplays, television miniseries, hundreds of essays, two books of poetry, and a collection of short stories. A
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Ralph Gibson
The Infinite Beauty Of The Female Form
Limited to 1,000 copies, each numbered and signed by the photographer. Also available in two exclusive Art Editions, each limited to 100 copies, including one of two signed photographic prints.
A decade after his first TASCHEN book, Deux ex Machina, master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes,
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Royo
Born in 1945 in Valencia, Royo was taught drawing, painting & sculpture from the age of 9 by private tutors, entering the San Carlos Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia at the age of 14. He continued his studies at 18 years of age, study under the personal tuition of Aldolfo Ferrer Amblat, Chairman of Art Studies at the San Carlos Academy.
In 1968 he began to exhibit his
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Sarah Jane Szikora
As a child, Sarah Jane Szikora kept herself amused by drawing & painting. She frequently visited her father's native Hungary where the larger than life people she encountered became an early influence for the characters she painted. After school Sarah Jane Szikora went on to study at Cleveland College of Art, leaving with an HND (Distinction). In 1991 Sarah Jane Szikora set up
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Valentino Garavani
Valentino Garavani was born in Voghera, Milan in 1932. While attending high school he shows a precocious artistic temperament and soon becomes interested in fashion. He takes courses in fashion design and studies French to prepare himself to move to Paris. He is 17 years old when he arrives in the then world capital of fashion and couture. After a few years’ apprenticeship in
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Walton Ford
Walton Ford grew up in Westchester County, New York, in a family of gifted storytellers. As a child he was an amateur naturalist—collecting animals, hiking, fishing, and devoting much of his free time to examining and drawing the dioramas and specimens at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Walton Ford completed his studies in filmmaking at the Rhode
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William Claxton
William Claxton was born in Pasadena, California and began taking photographs as a hobby. Whilst studying psychology at UCLA he would haunt local jazz clubs armed with his camera. His photographic heroes were Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Irving Penn.
In 1952 William Claxton met Dick Bock whilst shooting Chet Baker at the Haig in Los Angeles. Bock invited him to
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