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 (...)

The dazzling splendors of the court of Napoleon I (1769 1821) reflected the grandeur and ambitions of the greatest empire of the day. This luxurious volume re-creates the ambiance and captures the spirit that prevailed in the French court during the Empire through the material manifestations of the (...)

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 (...)

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, (...)

In the mid-1950s faced with worrying advances in Soviet missile technology, the United States sought to develop an IRBM to act as a stop-gap until the Atlas ICBM became operational. Intense inter-service rivalry followed before the US Air Force gained the upper hand in deploying the missile. The (...)