Libros

Los textos reunidos en este volumen se ocupan de las formas y las funciones culturales de la producción artística, tal como la caracterizaron las personas a las que se dirigía, y teniendo también en cuenta los comportamientos que se generaban a la hora de enfrentarse a ella. Así, se aborda el (...)

In June 1944 the Allies opened the long-awaited second front against Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, and this was to be the start of a long struggle throughout Western Europe for the Allied forces in the face of stiff German resistance.The European Theater was where the bulk of the Allied (...)

In occasione della mostra "I Farnese. Architettura, Arte, Potere" (Parma, Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta, 18 marzo - 31 luglio 2022) Electa pubblica un catalogo che rispecchia, per numero di contributi e imponenza dell'apparato iconografico, la monumentalità della mostra. Una selezione di (...)

This fully illustrated catalog, with essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field of Picasso studies, tells the remarkable story of Pablo Picasso's breakthrough year 1901 as an artist. It brings together an extraordinary group of paintings to explore his rapid artistic development during (...)

Pilier de la joaillerie moderne dans les années 20, Paul Brandt a exercé aux côtés des plus grands noms tels que Fouquet, Templier ou encore Sandoz. Né à la Chaux-de-Fonds en Suisse, il s'installe très jeune à Paris où il poursuit une formation éclectique (joaillier, peintre, sculpteur, graveur en (...)

This is the most comprehensive volume probing the life and work of the modern art icon Giorgio de Chirico.Giorgio de Chirico was one of the most controversial and consequential artists of the twentieth century a key member of the Paris avant-garde, he was a major influence on other artists, (...)