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James Abbott McNeill Whistler (10 July 1834 -- 17 July 1903) was an American-born painter, who spent most of his life in Great Britain. He was a great advocate of the art for art's sake philosophy and he was one of the leaders of the Aesthetic Movement. Many influences can be fo…

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) exprime avec poésie la solitude de l'homme face à cet american way of life qui se développe dans les années 1920. S'inspirant du cinéma par les prises de vue ou les attitudes des personnages, ses peintures reflètent et dénoncent l'aliénation de la cultu…

In 2004, artist Zak Smith blew away New York's art world at the Whitney Biennial with his visual interpretation of Gravity's Rainbow, a wall-size installation consisting of over 750 illustrations of Thomas Pynchon's famous novel. Five years later, Smith brings us We Did Porn, a …

Follows Zak Smith (or Zak Sabbath) from the New York art scene to Los Angeles's seedy, yet colorful, underbell--the world of alt porn. Smith narrates his own foray into pornography and gives his readers a new understanding of the industry, its players, and its audience. Blends m…

Georgia O'Keeffe, the most famous woman artist of American modernism in the twentieth century and a pioneer in shaping abstract art, created an unprecedented, fiercely independent and intense world, focused as much on the grandeur of the high desert mesas and cliffs as on the sm…