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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

La guía de campo definitiva de todos los tiburones, rayas y quimeras del Mediterráneo y del Atlántico europeo En esta guía de campo innovadora, completa y fácil de usar se describen las 146 especies que se encuentran en las aguas del Mediterráneo y del Atlántico europeo hasta Islandia y las costas (...)

For several years, acclaimed photographer Maura McEvoy and art director Basha Burwell traveled the length and breadth of Maine in search of houses that capture the state's singular character. These are not designer houses; they are homes created by the people who live in them, from artists to (...)

The couturiere Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was a key figure in Paris fashion between the two World Wars. Following in the footsteps of her mentor Paul Poiret, she designed her first knitwear collection in January 1927 announcing the arrival of a major new designer. Decorated with trompe-l'oeil (...)

Libro de referencia esencial para todos los interesados en el coleccionismo, esta obra recoge gran cantidad de información acerca de antigüedades y coleccionables. Con 600 páginas y más de 2000 fotografías en color, ofrece una amplia información de cada objeto con exhaustivo detalle. Esta obra (...)

Cuando el Expresionismo Abstracto se propagó más allá de Nueva York y la costa Oeste de Estados Unidos tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el mundo del arte cambió para siempre. Aunque al principio despertó indignación, la cautivadora belleza de los lienzos de Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark (...)

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the (...)

Jasper Johns (b.1930) is regarded as one of the most influential American artists of the last sixty years. When he broke onto the New York art scene in the 1950s, Johns and his lover Robert Rauschenberg established a decisive new direction in an art world that had been dominated by the Abstract (...)

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 (...)