"Gilles Néret, Auguste Rodin ... 1994 Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH
Hohenzollernring 53, D-50672 Koln Text and layout: Gilles Neret, Paris English
translation: Chris Miller, Oxford Printed in Portugal If truth is to die, my Balzac will
be torn."
""I went on by to the kitchen, and was served by Fritz with what do you think? Corn fritters . . . with bacon and homemade blackberry jam they were ambrosia." The speaker is Archie Goodwin; the Fritz in question is Nero Wolfe's estimable chef; the recipe for corn fritters is just one of hundreds put together by a team of dedicated (and hungry) editors at Viking Press in this paperback edition of a book that belongs on every mystery ..."
"De tous temps les artistes, écrivains ou illustrateurs ont défié la censure et montré que la sexualité était chose naturelle. Aujourd'hui que la censure a perdu de son utilité, il n'est plus possible d'ignorer un secteur important de la littérature et de l'art que les tabous n'avaient cessé d'occulter. C'est chose faite avec ce second volume d'Erotica universalis consacré pour l'essentiel à l'image. Les choix iconographiques vont du XV ..."
"De tous temps les artistes, écrivains ou illustrateurs ont défié la censure et montré que la sexualité était chose naturelle. Aujourd'hui que la censure a perdu de son utilité, il n'est plus possible d'ignorer un secteur important de la littérature et de l'art que les tabous n'avaient cessé d'occulter. C'est chose faite avec ce second volume d'Erotica universalis consacré pour l'essentiel à l'image. Les choix iconographiques vont du XV ..."
Tamara De Lempicka(1st Edition) 1898-1980 by GillesNeret Hardcover, Published 2007 by Taschen ISBN-13: 978-1-4351-1862-1, ISBN: 1-4351-1862-6
"As the Goddess of the Automobile Age, Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) stood at the center of the sophisticated Paris art world of the Twenties and Thirties. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles and the modern metropolis provided not only motifs for her pictures, but also influenced her artistic style.
Simultaneously with her career as artist, Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new ..."
Salvador Dali 1904-1989 by GillesNeret Hardcover, Published 1999 by Taschen ISBN-13: 978-0-681-40600-1, ISBN: 0-681-40600-3
"Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century-a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure.
The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found-or hoped to find-in beauty was constantly overshadowed by death. And death therefore plays an important role in Klimt's art. Klimt's fame, however, rests on ..."
Lempicka Tamara de Lempicka (Basic Art) by GillesNeret Published 1994 by Taschen ISBN-13: 978-0-00-014071-5, ISBN: 0-00-014071-6
"In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte launched an expedition of 35,000 soldiers to conquer Egypt. The campaign was a military and political disaster but nonetheless it had a profound and lasting impact, by revealing the splendour of a mysterious and forgotten civilization. For Napoleon's ships also carried some 500 scholars, scientists and artists whose task it was to study the country and its customs. Traversing a country at war under the stifli ..."
"A box set of four books of erotic illustrations edited by Gilles Neret comprising: "Erotica 17th-18th Century"; "Erotica 19th Century"; "Erotica 20th Century Volume I"; "Erotica 20th Century Volume II""
"The extraordinary significance of the painter and sculptor Henri Matisse in the history of modern art, but also his influence, was no less decisive than that of his main rival, Pablo Picasso. In fact, Matisse's stylistic liberation actually goes one step further in the pursuit of his own personal goal - the perfect synthesis of line and color - by which he sought revolutionary approaches to the great tradition of French painting by draw ..."
"De tous temps les artistes, écrivains ou illustrateurs ont défié la censure et montré que la sexualité était chose naturelle. Aujourd'hui que la censure a perdu de son utilité, il n'est plus possible d'ignorer un secteur important de la littérature et de l'art que les tabous n'avaient cessé d'occulter. C'est chose faite avec ce second volume d'Erotica universalis consacré pour l'essentiel à l'image. Les choix iconographiques vont du XV ..."
"De tous temps les artistes, écrivains ou illustrateurs ont défié la censure et montré que la sexualité était chose naturelle. Aujourd'hui que la censure a perdu de son utilité, il n'est plus possible d'ignorer un secteur important de la littérature et de l'art que les tabous n'avaient cessé d'occulter. C'est chose faite avec ce second volume d'Erotica universalis consacré pour l'essentiel à l'image. Les choix iconographiques vont du XV ..."
"In 1798, Napoleon conquered Egypt with a force of 50,000 troops. With him were 150 scientists and scholars who described the country and the people in detail, recording their findings on copper engravings. This volume features 6 posters displaying the artwork completed on this expedition."
"In 1798, Napoleon conquered Egypt with a force of 50,000 troops. With him were 150 scientists and scholars who described the country and the people in detail, recording their findings on copper engravings. This volume features 30 postcards displaying work from this expedition."