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Botero: Women
Fernando Botero
Rizzoli
Rizzoli
Since the age of nineteen-the year of his first solo exhibition-Fernando Botero has delighted his audience with the joyfully rotund figures that populate his canvases. Like any great artist, he was compelled to paint the female form. More than 100...
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Botero: Abu Ghraib
David Ebony
Prestel Publishing
Prestel Publishing
The world was shocked in 2003 by photographs revealing abuse of prisoners by U.S. guards at the notorius Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. In response, the reowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero created a series of riveting paintings and drawings...
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The Baroque World of Fernando Botero
John Sillevis
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Colombian-born Fernando Botero (b. 1932) is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman renowned for his extravagantly rounded figures combining the polish and excess of Spanish colonial baroque with the social realism of the Mexican muralists. Their...
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Fernando Botero (Taschen Art Album)
Mariana Hanstein
Taschen
Taschen
Famed for his modern art and rendering of human, animal and still life compositions, this is a celebration of the works of Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero.
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Botero: Sculptures
Jean-Clarence Lambert, Fernando Botero
Villegas Editores
Villegas Editores
The work of contemporary Colombian artist Fernando Botero is well known throughout the world. His exaggerated rendering of fleshy human, animal, and still-life figures has become an unmistakable characteristic of his style. This beautifully...
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Botero: In the Museo Nacional de Colombia/New Donation 2004
Beatriz Gonzalez, Santiago Londono-Velez
Villegas Editores
Villegas Editores
I am not going turn Colombia's suffering into a business, declared Ferdinand Botero, and so he donated these powerful paintings to the National Museum of Colombia in Bogota rather than sell them. Botero created these intensely personal pieces in...
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Fernando Botero: Paintings and Drawings (Art & Design)
Fernando Botero
Prestel Publishing
Prestel Publishing
This book is partly based on the German edition published by Prestel in 1986 in conjunction with an exhibition held in Germany. The introductory essay discusses Botero's (b.1932, Colombia) unique and strongly-held vision (and why it has been...
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