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 (...)

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 (...)