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Gilbert's Living with Art, 6/e
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Art and Artists


Artists: Albrecht Durer

Durer's work reflects a wonderful blending of Renaissance scholarship, German craftsmanship and creative artistry. Two websites exist that describe his life and the relationship of his work to the times:

The brief biography of the artist at
(http://www.boglewood.com/cornaro/xdurer.html)

This website offers links to examples of his work, as well as a biography.

Albrecht Durer: Leben und Werk
(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/durer/)

Artists: Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai is the printmaker who produced the ubiquitous The Great Wave from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. His woodcuts were collected by the Impressionists, including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Webmuseum
(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hokusai/)

A biography of Katsushika Hokusai
(http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ukiyoe/raf_hokusai_intro.html)

Artchive
(http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hokusai.html)

Artists: Robert Rauschenberg

This hard-to-characterize boundary-breaker has worked with America's best-known avant-garde artists, musicians and choreographers, and is a very important cultural figure in post-WWII America. A fine article in the Christian Science Monitor describes his contributions and influences in greater detail:

Rauschenberg's Signature on the Century
(http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1997/11/28/feat/arts.1.html)









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