Books

Children's book in Greek that accompanied the exhibition P. Tetsis, Thalassa held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 25 June to 24 September 2006.

Texts: Giolanta Hatzi

*Edition in Greek

Why can't we get up close to the works of art?
What is a collection?
What is a work of art used for?

More than 100 questions finally find their answers in this book dedicated to the Collection of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, and to museums in general as well!

Here's to curiosity, the most wonderful quality of all!

*Edition in Greek

The first volume featuring the Collection of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation is dedicated to modern art from 1870 to 1945.

Spanning some 600 pages the catalogue presents works of art by El Greco, Picasso, van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet, Cézanne, Degas, Rodin, Miró, Braque, Toulouse-Lautrec, Modigliani, Bonnard, Kandinsky, Klee, Léger, Hélion, Claudel, Giacometti, de Chirico, Brauner, van Dongen, Vlaminck, Vuillard and Forain.

*Edition in Greek

The second volume featuring the Collection of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation is dedicated to post-war and contemporary art, from 1946 to the present.

Spanning some 600 pages the catalogue presents more than 100 works of art by Bacon, Pollock, Giacometti, Chagall, Lichtenstein, Picasso, Ernst, César, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Matisse, Miró, Braque, Derain, Balthus, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, de Chirico, Hepworth, Nicholson, Arp, de Saint Phalle, Tinguely, Poliakoff, Fautrier, Soulages, Kiefer, Baselitz, Ruscha, Léger, Botero, Penck, Dubuffet, Rauschenberg, Rouan, Krushenick, Hundertwasser, Schnabel, Richier, Clemente, Mitoraj, Appel, Foujita and Michaux.

*Edition in Greek