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The formation and career of the first major woman artist of the RenaissanceSofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1535-1625) was the daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house. She went on to serve as an instructor to (...)

Somos espectadores de pantalla. Consumidores virtuales de arte contemporáneo. Visitamos museos, galerías, bienales y ferias sin necesidad de desplazarnos, gracias a profesionales que retratan piezas, exposiciones, instalaciones, performances, incluso arte sonoro. Su mirada se traduce en imágenes (...)

Focusing on the 16th-century Chinese painter Qiu Ying, this book showcases the artist's influence and contributions to Ming dynasty painting.Celebrated for his masterful brushstrokes, depictions of nature, and use of translucent blue-green pigments, Qiu Ying is the least known of the four Ming (...)

An overview of Chinese culture, particularly visions of life and the afterlife, told through feast imagery from three historically transformative dynastiesFeasting was an important social and ritual activity in China beginning in the Bronze Age, and cuisine retains a strong cultural significance to (...)

Este segundo volumen de la edición de FAUSTO ilustrada por Miquel Barceló, corresponde a la segunda parte de la obra de Goethe e incluye 72 acuarelas de Miquel Barceló realizadas expresamente para este volumen. Con él culmina otra obra maestra del pintor mallorquín.

An elegantly produced double portrait of the affinities and differences between two of the 20th century's greatest artistsCoupling the works of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) produces a thought-provoking discourse on the artists' formal and iconographic links. Inspired (...)

En este texto, Burckhardt analiza al genial Rembrandt y, a través de su personalidad artística excesiva y marginal, el historiador deduce la esencia que define el arte moderno. Se vale de este pintor para definir el nuevo tipo de genio y analiza su extrema peculiaridad y el interés unilateral por (...)

En estos textos Marcel Proust (1871-1922) se vale de dos artistas para ilustrar lo que para él son los fines del arte: enseñar a mirar lo que nos rodea con frescura y admiración, sabiendo hallar su belleza oculta incluso entre los sencillos objetos, y el poder del genio para crear con sus pinturas (...)

Berlin-based artist Julius von Bismarck's (born 1983) latest works explore the destructive beauty of natural forces -lightning strikes, tornadoes and forest fires- and catastrophes caused by humans. A student of Ólafur Elíasson, von Bismarck explores the relationship between nature and human (...)