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An updated edition of the acclaimed monograph, celebrating one of the most iconic and revolutionary artists of our time."Yayoi Kusama transcended the art world to become a fixture of popular culture, in a league with Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Keith Haring." The New York TimesKusama is (...)

This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the Guide to Imagery series, the goal of this volume is to help (...)

Un alegato contra la fealdad imperante en la sociedad moderna y en favor del goce de la belleza mediante la promoción del trabajo artesanal frente la producción industrial. William Morris dedicó su vida a la recuperación de las artes y los oficios medievales

From antiquity to the Enlightenment, astrology, magic, and alchemy have always been considered important tools in unravelling the mysteries of nature and human destiny. As a result of the West's exposure to the astrological beliefs of Arab philosophers and the mystical writings of late antiquity, (...)

Big bang alude a una explosión, a un movimiento expansivo que une ámbitos y materiales muy diversos. Su autor, Óscar Mariné Brandi, es un incansable fabricante de imágenes educado al ritmo de la música de los años sesenta y setenta, que conoce y emplea las estrategias visuales del cine, el cómic, (...)

Los textos responden a una pregunta muy sencilla. ¿Qué tiene un coleccionista de arte contemporáneo en la cabeza?

As one of the unavoidable realities of human existence, death is also one of the oldest and most common themes in the history of art. From Egyptian tomb paintings and battle scenes on Greek vases by anonymous artists, to depictions of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus by the great (...)

Malaguzzi's work describes the significance of food and feasts through the ages and discusses how artists have created allegories of gluttony and odes to the sense of taste, using, for example, artfully positioned fruits and vegetables in the still-life genre in painting.

Pablo Palazuelo (Madrid 1915-Galapagar 2007) fue uno de los artistas más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en España. Conocido fundamentalmente como pintor, también destacó en el campo de la escultura y la obra gráfica. Sus formas abstractas son más el fruto de un proceso de indagación y (...)

Gods and Heroes in Art aims to help museum patrons and art lovers recognize the legendary characters of classical antiquity in art. The characters are each described in entries summarizing their distinctive stories, their special attributes, and the ways in which artists have depicted them. Each (...)

In this richly illustrated volume Rosa Giorgi argues that because much of Western art depicts key events, leaders, and practices in the history of the Christian Church, knowledge of that history is critical to an appreciation of many of our great masterpieces. Giorgi begins by analyzing artistic (...)

What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? These terms--and more than 100 others--are explained and illustrated in Looking at Paintings.First published in 1992, Looking at Paintings--now thoroughly revised and expanded--presents concise and readable explanations of the technical terms (...)

This is a magnificently illustrated and enlightening journey through the visual portrayal of love and sexuality in Western art. Even in the modern world where explicit imagery is manifest, an erotic painting from half a millennia ago can still manage to create a sensation. This new addition to the (...)

This is the latest volume in the acclaimed series that depicts medicine as depicted in art throughout history. This sumptuously illustrated volume offers a visual history of the depiction of illness and healing in Western culture, ranging from Egyptian wall carvings to medieval manuscripts and from (...)

Nature and Its Symbols is the fifth volume in the series A Guide to Imagery, reference guides whose goal is to explain the symbols used in art. This volume includes chapters on plants, flowers, fruits, and animals of the earth, air, and water, as well as fantastical creatures such as centaurs, (...)

Throughout the Middle Ages, sacred Christian art had two objectives: to express veneration for God and to provide illustrative lessons on the Christian faith to a largely illiterate population. Continuing in the spirit of the other books in this series, Old Testament Figures in Art compiles entries (...)

Martinez wrote the Discourses toward the end of his life as a well-travelled professional artist who had studied and worked in Italy and the major artistic and literary centres of Spain; his ideas were especially enriched by his participation in the elevated cultural life of his native Aragonese (...)

Presented in very clear and accessible language, "Roman Art" offers new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. Traditional studies of Roman art have sought to identify an indigenous style distinct from Greek art and in the process have neglected the (...)

From Agatha to Zeno, Francis of Assisi to Mary Magdalene, Saints in Arti presents the characteristic features of more than one hundred saints often encountered in sacred Western art. Each saint is introduced by a practical list of his or her unique attributes. Entries also include notes on the (...)

From antiquity, when the gods and goddesses were commonly featured in works of art, through to the twentieth century, when Surrealists drew on archetypes from the unconscious, artists have embedded symbols in their works. As with previous volumes in the Guide to Imagery series, the goal of this (...)

This handsome volume is the first in English devoted to Michel Sittow (c. 1469 1525), an artist from Estonia who trained in the tradition of early Netherlandish painting. Sittow worked for many high-profile patrons, including Isabella of Castile in Spain, and specialized in beautiful small (...)

Accompanying an exhibition of spectacular drawings by great giants of Flemish Baroque art from the superlative collection of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, Power and Grace demonstrates the crucial but very different roles played by drawings in oeuvres of Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens, (...)

El objetivo de esta publicación es tratar de indagar los comportamientos de la comunidad monástica entendida como una célula social, como una familia, que comparte un espacio que se supone funcional y jerarquizado dentro del cual los miembros de aquélla, igualmente jerarquizados, establecen (...)

Preguntando a los géneros clásicos de la pintura, este ensayo propone un camino de entendimiento de la experiencia artística como crítica propia de la visualidad y su historia. Recuperar la experiencia artística como utopía sensorial puede ser cuestión, tal vez, de mirar con un ojo cerrado, (...)

Con motivo del primer aniversario de la apertura del Espacio Miró, Fundación MAPFRE ha querido reunir en un amplio volumen el conjunto de sesenta y cinco obras de Joan Miró y las cuatro esculturas y el óleo de Alexander Calder que conforman hoy en día la primera Colección permanente que mostramos (...)

'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist (...)

Tenemos entre las manos la correspondencia entre dos artistas: Antonio Marco y Rossana Zaera, unas cartas que hablan sobre exposiciones, críticos, proyectos, su entorno, su vida cotidiana, amistad y amor, pero ademas son cartas que incorporan bocetos, fotografías, cuentos, pinturas, (...)