Libros

Célébré en son temps, Théodore van Loon est aujourd'hui méconnu du grand public. Peintre foncièrement original, au tempérament artistique très différent de Rubens, il forge son langage essentiellement à partir de son expérience à Rome, où il se rend à plusieurs reprises au cours de sa carrière. (...)

In 1918 the Belvedere Museum in Vienna became the first Austrian museum to acquire an oil painting by Egon Schiele during his lifetime. Now, a century later, the museum owns one of the top collections of paintings from the artist's final decade of works.This volume presents the highlights of the (...)

Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld both trained and worked as lawyers before studying garden design. Henrietta went on to work with landscape and garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith and then started her own garden design business. Bridget went on to study horticulture in London before spending (...)

This visually stunning volume offers perceptive examinations of several renowned German and Austrian Expressionist artists who redefined modern self-portraiture.The self-portrait has been a vital aspect of artistic expression throughout history. Neo-Classical painters such as El Greco and Rembrandt (...)

Of all the threats faced by the Royal Navy during the first years of the twentieth century, the one which stood out was the risk to Britain's sea lines of communication posed by France's armoured cruisers. Fast, well-armed and well-protected, these ships could have evaded any attempted blockade of (...)

The sculptor Antony Gormley has become a household name, thanks to prominent public installations and major solo shows. Awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, he was knighted in 2014. From The Angel of the North (1998) to the hundred cast-iron life-size human figures that populate Crosby Beach in (...)

Este libro está dedicado a la obra del escultor Mariano Benlliure (Valencia, 1862-Madrid, 1947) en Estados Unidos, conservada principalmente en la ciudad de Nueva York, en la colección de la Hispanic Society of America. Sus primeros clientes neoyorquinos fueron el magnate, coleccionista y mecenas (...)

This lavish catalogue presents sketches made en plein air between the end of the eighteenth century and late nineteenth century. It accompanies a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (USA), the Fondation Custodia (France) and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK).In the (...)

The Japanese Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura (born 1951) first caused a stir in the early 1980s with expressive and confrontational paintings that associated her with the Neue Wilde. In the late 1980s Ikemura developed a novel visual vocabulary that ultimately led her to a fusion of body and landscape (...)

Louis Cartier (1875-1942), the grandson of Cartier founder Louis-Francois, was an impassioned collector and lover of the arts. He was particularly entranced by Islamic arts, especially Persian book arts, geometric shapes and colour combinations, and its motifs and exotic colour palette are apparent (...)

La dernière grande manifestation autour de "La nature morte de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle" fut organisée en 1952 à Paris par Charles Sterling. "Les Choses" rend hommage à ce grand historien de l'art, en actualisant le point de vue et en intégrant tout ce qui a renouvelé nos perspectives, tant en (...)

El filósofo francés Georges Didi-Huberman, comisario del proyecto expositivo y editorial 'En el aire conmovido?', traza una antropología política de la emoción entendida en clave poética y como categoría estética: un movimiento, una conmoción que se transmite a la colectividad a través de un cuerpo (...)

This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkien's enduring popularity.Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images of his manuscripts, drawings, maps and letters, the book traces the creative process behind his most famous literary works and reproduces personal (...)