Libros

Flower powerUn sensacional logro en la ilustración botánicaEl año 1799 fue testigo de la primera entrega de un trabajo que ha pasado a la historia como uno de los libros más destacados de ilustración botánica jamás publicado. Han pasado más de dos siglos desde la publicación de The Temple of Flora (...)

Through works of art, photographs, and writings, this volume explores Picasso's fascination with tribal art and the influences he repeatedly drew upon for his own oeuvre. African art? I don't know it. With this provocative tone, Picasso tried to deny his relationship with art from outside of (...)

The political phenomenon known as the Springtime of the Nations' swept through Europe in 1848, toppling thrones, forcing old autocratic regimes to grant constitutions to the people and bringing street fighting and large scale campaigns to cities and states across the continent. What is not (...)

In the mid-1950s faced with worrying advances in Soviet missile technology, the United States sought to develop an IRBM to act as a stop-gap until the Atlas ICBM became operational. Intense inter-service rivalry followed before the US Air Force gained the upper hand in deploying the missile. The (...)