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A beautiful overview of fascinating paintings of the classical world and the Holy Land by a beloved American artist Frederic Church (1826-1900), one of the leading painters of 19th-century America and the Hudson River School, also journeyed around the globe to find fresh inspiration for his highly (...)

The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics.Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and (...)

Cai Guo-Qiang (Quanzhou, provincia de Fujian, China, 1957) es uno de los artistas de mayor renombre internacional, un atrevido creador de novedosas formas artísticas (pintura con pólvora, pirotecnia e instalaciones) que siguen ampliando el concepto de experiencia cultural. Cai Guo-Qiang ha (...)

La obra pública de Eduardo Chillida, presente en numerosas ciudades del mundo, figuran entre las más intensas y sugestivas creaciones de la escultura contemporánea a escala monumental. En este volumen se recogen, además, una amplia selección de los escritos del artista vasco que nos acercan a su (...)

In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834 1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolor. At the time, excellence in watercolor was most often associated with British artists, and most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775 1851). Whistler's embrace of watercolor allowed the (...)

Fernando Botero ha affrontato, e affronta tuttora da protagonista e forte di una propria assoluta autonomia, l'intricata scena artistica del nostro tempo. Saldo nelle sue convinzioni non ha mai ceduto alla tentazione di spacciare il vuoto o il silenzio delle forme per arcani della sua (...)