A. M. Hammacher Bücher

A. M. Hammacher, ehemaliger Direktor des Kröller-Müller Museums in den Niederlanden und Experte für Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, untersucht Magrittes Interesse an der Sprache im Verhältnis zu Bildern sowie seine literarischen Einflüsse, insbesondere seine Faszination für die Themen von Edgard Allan Poe. Er beschreibt Magrittes Arbeitsmethoden und erläutert sorgfältig vierzig Werke, die in Farbe reproduziert sind. Dabei versucht er, den Leser in die Ideen und Obsessionen des Künstlers einzuführen, ohne diesen bildlichen Rätseln und eindringlichen Szenen ihre geheimnisvollen Qualitäten zu nehmen.

The fantastic, hallucinatory, obsessive in art; 330 reproductions, 80 color.

A collection of paintings by the Belgian painter is accompanied by a description of his life and analyses of his artistic style.

Born in Yorkshire in 1903, Barbara Hepworth was determined to become a sculptor despite the misgivings of her parents and the common attitude at the time that a woman studying sculpture was not to be taken seriously. She was part of the generation of British artists that included Henry Moore (with whom she studied in Leeds) and Ben Nicholson (whom she married), and her sculpture explored the forms of life -- especially human life -- as well as those of mathematics.From the beginning, her work displayed a monumental power, and after World War II it received far wider recognition and acclaim. Hepworth later experimented in new substances such as sheet metal, wire, and bronze, but her work always maintained its nobility, subtlety, and flawless rendering of surface. She died in 1975, after a long illness that did not prevent her from completing the work many consider to be her masterpiece: The Family of Man.