Libros

El siglo que cambió el arte para siempreUna selección muy representativa del arte entre los años 1900 y 2000En la Nochevieja de 1899 ¿quién hubiera podido prever que, 100 años más tarde, la pintura y la escultura dejarían de ser requisitos esenciales para convertirse en dos opciones más? El término (...)

seña del editorThe life of America's most beloved artist, in his own words-back in print with restored text and drawings, new illustrations, and more The wit, humanity, and many-sided talent of Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) are on full display in his classic autobiography. Rockwell's New York City (...)

Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, this mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive. Today, we have slowly come to realize (...)

This book examines the RAF's ground attack capabilities, the threats it faced, and the weapons, technologies and aircraft developed to counter those threats from the end of World War II to the present day, moving from the era of the Hawker Typhoon to that of the Eurofighter Typhoon.Throughout the (...)

íEl Mediterráneo restaura el cuerpo, la mente y el alma! Descubra impresionantes destinos de ensueño en este libro actualizado y lujosamente ilustrado: desde las suites tipo cueva de Perivolas, en Santorini, ubicadas de forma majestuosa con las aguas del Egeo a sus pies, hasta el Hotel Le Corbusier (...)

This lavish book highlights a selection of the wonderful illustrations held in the archive of The Florilegium Society at Sheffield Botanical Gardens. Each illustration included in the book is accompanied by a plant profile, stating where the plant was found in the wild and explaining something of (...)

Le officine di statuaria lignea dipinta attive a Napoli nel corso del Seicento crebbero rapidamente di numero e importanza grazie all'incessante richiesta di manufatti da parte di ordini religiosi ed esponenti della corte reale, che ne decretarono il successo. I traffici commerciali lungo le rotte (...)

El boom de los 60 fue un momento clave para la fotografía de moda, con el inicio de las supermodelos y la llegada de la sensacional y radicalmente diferente Twiggy.El artista y restaurador Antoni Miralda presenta por primera vez su fotografía de moda de los años sesenta de París y Londres en un (...)

At the height of the Cold War it was Britain's V-Force and its Valiant, Vulcan and Victor bombers that carried the UK's nuclear deterrent from the mid Fifties until the end of the Sixties. Their nuclear arsenal included not just freefall bombs but far more advanced weapons such as the Blue Steel (...)

Escalfado, revuelto, hervido, batido en un cóctel, transformado en pintura o lanzado contra la casa de un enemigo. Como la más llamativa de las paradojas, el huevo existe en feliz suspensión entre el humilde ingrediente doméstico y la siempre poderosa fuente de vida. Es uno de los símbolos más (...)

The Book of Miracles first surfaced only a few years ago and is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-complete illustrated manuscript, created in Augsburg around 1550, is composed of 169 pages of large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolor, (...)