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Taschen Basic Genre

by Ernst Rebel, Norbert Wolf (Editor)

This work in the Basic Genre series features more than 35 photographs, descriptions, and interpretations of the featured works, and a brief biography of the artists.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Professor of Art History at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Reviews

[Zacary Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the editorial/analysis/essay content wanders off-topic, but there's some great color prints and descriptions.

[Alejandro Teruel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excelente idea, con una selección interesante, aunque euro-centrica de artistas. Los único artistas no-europeos representados son Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo y sólo aparecen dos mujeres Frida Kahlo y Rosalba Carriero.

El autor deliberadamente ha escogido una fascinante variedad de contextos en que aparecen autorretratos del artista. Por ejemplo, Miguel Angel, anticipándose a Francis Bacon, se autorretrata en una escena del Juicio Final, en la piel despellejada de San Bartolomé, el Maestro Gerlachus en un detalle de un vitral, Caravaggio es la cabeza decapitada de Goliat, James Ensor se pinta entre máscaras, Munch entre candilejas, Parmigianino en un espejo concavo...

En resumen, muy recomendable.

[S. · Rating 3 out of 5]

İçeriğini (açıklamaları) sevmedim. Olmasını umduğum sayıda çalışma da yok.

[Marzia_Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent! So many fantastic descriptions!

[Komal Patel-Gibson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Analysis quite dry, and but pictures are all in colour and of good quality

[Bouchra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I need to buy more art books

[Lukas Bravo Nicolas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es un libro que cumple lo que promete y sirve de inicio para este tema

[Luciana Nery · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent choices. My favorites, among the self-portraits that were new to me, were Munch, Bailly, Dalí, Oehlen. And then old favorites, like Michelangelo as St. Bartholomew, Van Gogh and the missing ear, and decapitated Caravaggio.

Text good as always - this collection has very consistent quality throughout. Any book of this series is an honest primer on an artist. Then, if you like the artist, buy a more complete book.

[Filipe Russo · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pictures could have been bigger and the way you need to go backtracking or jumping forward to see the images the text talks about is just bad design. The self-portraits and their contextualization are nice though.