Libros

This second, expanded and fully revised edition of the groundbreaking book African MiGs examines the role and deployment history of MiG- and Sukhoi-designed fighters as well as their Chinese derivatives in no fewer than 23 air forces in Sub-Saharan Africa. This first volume, covering 12 air arms (...)

(as well as their Chinese-built Chengdu and Shenyang variants) in sub-Saharan Africa, Volume 2 covers 11 additional air forces, from Madagascar to Zimbabwe. This encyclopaedic account is so far the only one of its kind to provide detailed analysis of aerial conflicts including those waged between (...)

A major collection of contemporary botanical illustration. Forty-one Australian and twenty-three overseas artists have contributed by invitation one or more works of significant plants in the three Sydney botanic gardens. This collection is published to celebrate the bicentenary this year of the (...)

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) is best known as a painter of still life subjects beautifully executed in tempera. Less well known are his haunting views of bomb-sites in London after World War II. This revealing, fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first survey exhibition on the artist since (...)

The painter Carl Haag (1820-1915) gained acclaim for his colorful scenes of the Orient and true-to-life portraits, in which Nubian slaves, Arabian camel drivers or Egyptian snake charmers enliven the visual topography. After attending art school in Nuremberg, the son of a baker advanced to become a (...)

Une soixantaine d'oeuvres issues de collections publiques et privées, qui fait la part belle aux portraits bretons et polynésiens, aux autoportraits mais aussi aux effigies inanimées. L'artiste dote ses modèles d'attributs particuliers ou les intègre dans des mises en scène évocatrices, en leur (...)

For the first time, Chanel and Jean-Paul Goude reveal the unseen drawings, collages and sketches that have inspired Goude's iconic advertising campaigns for Chanel's world famous fragrances, from 'Egoiste' and 'Coco' to 'Chanel No. 5' and the recently launched 'Chance'.Inspired by a small gold (...)

Tras Frutas y Ópera, he querido rendir homenaje a mi madre, quien me decía que una sencilla flor podía conquistar el mundo. Para mí, no hay nada más elegante que montar una flor con una manga pastelera. Montar una crema, una ganache o un merengue te permite darun equilibrio estético y suculento a (...)

Luxurious objects are celebrated for their exoticism, rarity and style, but also disparaged as indulgent, extravagant and corrupt. The ancient origins of these attitudes emerged at the boundary between the imperial Persian and democratic Athenian Greek worlds. Luxury was at the centre of the royal (...)

Se trata del primer compendio enfocado al territorio murciano sobre la cerámica bajomedieval, analizada y tratada a partir del registro arqueológico. Tiene como objeto principal de estudio el castillo de Lorca, una de las principales fortificaciones de la Región de Murcia durante el periodo (...)

"Mattia Preti: un giovane nella Roma dopo Caravaggio" è la mostra che il Comitato per il IV centenario della nascita di Mattia Preti, presieduto da Vittorio Sgarbi, ha proposto per la galleria nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Corsini di Roma. Nata da un'idea di Vittorio Sgarbi e Giorgio Leone e (...)