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Through works of art, photographs, and writings, this volume explores Picasso's fascination with tribal art and the influences he repeatedly drew upon for his own oeuvre. African art? I don't know it. With this provocative tone, Picasso tried to deny his relationship with art from outside of (...)

Per secoli Bononi, come del resto l'intero Seicento ferrarese, è rimasto in ombra, offuscato dal ricordo della magica stagione rinascimentale della Ferrara degli Este. Una lenta operazione di recupero critico ha progressivamente messo a fuoco la figura di un artista unico che seppe interpretare in (...)

This comprehensive volume examines the little-known relationship both artistic and personal between two of the greatest avant-garde artists of the twentieth century.Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti, each in their own way, deeply disrupted existing artistic codes and pushed the barriers of (...)

How do women paint or photograph each other? How do they represent each other in performance or sculpture? As mothers or heroines? With tenderness, aggression or respect? Madam & Eve explores the female gaze as it focuses on other women.The authors an artist and a curator investigate the work of (...)

El artista italiano Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) es, sin duda, el gran pionero de la escultura moderna. A pesar de la ceguera historiográfica que persistió durante décadas, su importancia ha sido reconocida por los artistas de su tiempo y por las principales figuras del arte del siglo XX. Degas, (...)

The Japanese Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura (born 1951) first caused a stir in the early 1980s with expressive and confrontational paintings that associated her with the Neue Wilde. In the late 1980s Ikemura developed a novel visual vocabulary that ultimately led her to a fusion of body and landscape (...)

Si bien es reconocido mundialmente como uno de los grandes novelistas del género histórico, y especialmente marítimo, Patrick O'Brian fue, en realidad, un gran contador de historias.Publicada por primera vez en 1976, es ésta una biografía completa, exhaustiva, pero a la vez profundamente personal (...)