Graphische Sammlung Albertina

Edvard Munch : theme and variation by Edvard Munch ( Book )
3 editions published in 2003 in English and German and held by 545 libraries worldwide
"Love, jealousy, loneliness, angst, and death - fundamental experiences of human life - are described with penetrating immediacy in the works of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), many of which have become icons of modern art. Presenting 70 paintings and 135 works on paper, accompanied by a collection of new essays by recognized Munch scholars, this book explores the origins, development, and interdependence of theme and variation in Munch's oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.

Brought to light : photography and the invisible, 1840-1900 ( Book )
3 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 535 libraries worldwide
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Explores nineteenth-century photography's impact on science and popular culture. Includes reproductions of nearly 200 vintage photographs and scholarly essays by exhibition curator Corey Keller, cultural historian Jennifer Tucker, and film historian Tom Gunning"--Provided by Publisher.

Dürer drawings in the Albertina by Graphische Sammlung Albertina ( Book )
5 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in German and English and held by 490 libraries worldwide

Italian drawings in the Albertina by Graphische Sammlung Albertina ( Book )
3 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and Italian and held by 432 libraries worldwide

Michelangelo : the drawings of a genius by Achim Gnann ( Book )
2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 360 libraries worldwide
Overview: Michelangelo's drawings endowed human physique with an expressive musculature that remains to be rivaled in its feeling for corporeal articulation. His drawings of male nudes in particular, fraught as they are with tempestuous longing, project both tension and pliancy, and a compelling sense of health in the exertions and torque of bodies; he was also readily able to bring contrary qualities of grace and swiftness to depictions of women and cherubim. With over 300 color plates and extensive contextualizing scholarship, Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius is the most complete treatment of this work ever published, and thus constitutes a publication of great importance. Masterpieces from the world's finest museums are gathered here, from the early studies for the "Battle of Cascina" and the studies for the Sistine Chapel frescoes, to the drawings for the tomb of Julius II, the Medici tombs, the drawings for Tommaso de' Cavalieri and the later crucifixion scenes; also addressed are those works whose authenticity has been subject to debate. Works by other artists, done after the master's sketches, further illuminate the enormous influence of Michelangelo's art. Painter, sculptor, poet, architect and engineer, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was both dauntingly prolific and relentlessly innovative in output. He sculpted two of his greatest works, the "Pieta" and "David," before he turned 30, and created two of the world's best-known paintings on the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel in Rome--the creation scenes from "Genesis" and "The Last Judgment." Giorgio Vasari proposed that Michelangelo represented the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a view that has survived to this day.

Oskar Kokoschka, works on paper : the early years, 1897-1917 : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 10-August 24, 1994 by Oskar Kokoschka ( Book )
3 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 342 libraries worldwide

Picasso : peace and freedom by Pablo Picasso ( Book )
5 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 339 libraries worldwide
This text presents an in-depth examination of Picasso as a politically and socially engaged artist, from the 1940s, when he defiantly remained in Paris during the Nazi occupation, throughout the subsequent Cold War period.

Ornamental posters of the Vienna secession by Horst-Herbert Kossatz ( Book )
1 edition published in 1974 in English and held by 310 libraries worldwide

Alfred Kubin by Alfred Kubin ( Book )
5 editions published between 1967 and 1969 in English and German and held by 302 libraries worldwide

Egon Schiele by Egon Schiele ( Book )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 278 libraries worldwide
"This book provides an overview of Egon Schiele's development from his earliest days at the Vienna Academy to his untimely death in 1918. Born in 1890, Schiele sloughed off the tradition of Viennese Art Nouveau and became the founder of Austrian Early Expressionism. Between 1910 and 1918 he created an oeuvre in which, for the first time in the history of art, the body in its explicit nakedness became the symbol of the human being's existential loneliness and homelessness. Nor, in his self-portraits, did Egon Schiele shy away from drastic uglification and obscene self-stigmatization."--BOOK JACKET.