Arte

El objetivo de este libro es reflexionar sobre el arte y los artistas. En Japón, el arte El Libro del Té ofrece, en esencia, una reflexión sobre el arte y los artistas, analizados desde la perspectiva oriental, que su autor, Kakuzo Okakura, escribió en inglés para los lectores europeos en 1906. En (...)

El pintor floral francés Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) se dedicó en cuerpo y alma a las artes botánicas y plasmó la diversidad de las plantas con flores en acuarelas que se publicaron como grabados punteados, con cuidadas descripciones. Adorado y admirado por la alta sociedad parisiense, contó (...)

All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships, and their surroundings in the most intimate of ways and features breathtaking works by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon alongside rarely seen pieces by contemporaries such as Frank Auerbach (...)

Charles I: King and Collector explores the origins of this extraordinary collection, the way it was assembled and what it came to represent. Authoritative essays provide a revealing historical context for the formation of the King's taste. They analyze key areas of the collection, such as Italian (...)

Covers the complete career of one of the greatest colourists of the twentieth century, from atmospheric paintings of immense landscapes to intensely colour works dating from the Third Reich. Published to accompany a touring exhibition.

The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew (1606-7) marks a crucial turning point in the life and artistic development of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). One of seven Caravaggio paintings in US collections, and the only altarpiece, it exemplifies the influential tenebristic style the artist (...)

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 (...)

1932 was an extraordinary year for Picasso, even by his own standards. His paintings reached a new level of sensuality and he cemented his status as the most influential artist of the time. Over the course of this year he created some of his best-loved works, from colour-saturated portraits to (...)

Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1500 1543), one of Raphael's most influential and distinctive followers, has not been well treated by time. His significant early frescoes, which graced exterior palace facades in Rome, have perished almost without exception. A rare few are preserved but most are known (...)

Desde hace ya décadas se han ido desarrollando en diferentes países algunas experiencias educativas que han procurado acercar el patrimonio arqueológico y la arqueología a las aulas. Las características propias de esta disciplina facilitan la introducción de determinados elementos clave para el (...)

Expressing one of many Luba sub-styles, the tall, standing male figures created by master carvers of the Hemba culture in southeastern Congo since at least the mid-1800s arguably rank among the noblest sculptural depictions of the human figure in sub-Saharan Africa. With their serene gaze and (...)

The first book to focus on Monet's work through his representation of architecture In an innovative approach, Richard Thomson considers Claude Monet's paintings of buildings in their environment, offering a reappraisal of an artist more often associated with landscapes, seascapes, and gardens. (...)

Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. British artists including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable raised (...)

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how these pictures provided citizens with an (...)

This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid water, wine, milk, oil, or honey was poured from a vessel such as a jug or a bowl onto the (...)

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travelsThomas Cole (1801 1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with (...)

Las matemáticas son un lenguaje universal, este libro nos acerca a 100 hitos de las matemáticas de una forma curiosa,divertida, amena e instructiva. Un libro de matemáticas para todos los públicos. Sergio Castro, más conocido como el "profesor10demates", que en su canal de youtube cuenta con más de (...)