Libros

The formation of the American Watercolor Society in 1866 by a small, dedicated group of painters transformed the perception of what had long been considered a marginal medium. Artists of all ages, styles, and backgrounds took up watercolor in the 1870s, inspiring younger generations of (...)

Conceived and developed as a civilian airliner during the 1930s, the elegant four-engined Focke-Wulf Fw200 Condor soon became one of the Luftwaffe's most immediately recognizable and potent maritime armed reconnaissance aircraft.Following its introduction into service in 1939, the Condor took part (...)

Respetuosa con la historia y el genius loci, pero radicalmente contemporánea; basada en un lenguaje de depurada geometría, pero esencialmente material; arquitectura de firma, pero al servicio de la comunidad. Así podría describirse la trayectoria profesional del británico David Chipperfield, cuyo (...)

Piedra angular de la literatura universal, las Mil y una noches han inspirado a numerosos autores, desde Charles Dickens y Edgar Allan Poe a Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector o Angela Carter. En esta lujosa edición ilustrada y anotada, el historiador literario Paulo Lemos Horta y la poeta y (...)