Libros

It is no exaggeration to say that John Brookes transformed twentieth-century garden design, not only in his native Britain but throughout the world. He fundamentally changed the way people think about their gardens. In his first book, Room Outside, in 1969, he wrote, "A garden is essentially a (...)

How do women paint or photograph each other? How do they represent each other in performance or sculpture? As mothers or heroines? With tenderness, aggression or respect? Madam & Eve explores the female gaze as it focuses on other women.The authors an artist and a curator investigate the work of (...)

This book presents a little-known aspect of America's aircraft development of World War II in emphasizing unique and non-production aircraft or modifications for the purpose of research and experimentation in support of aircraft development, advancing technology, or meeting narrow combat needs. It (...)

La presencia de pintura italiana en la ciudad de Granada y su provincia es un componente de su patrimonio artístico conocido solo de forma fragmentaria. El presente volumen aborda por primera vez el estudio de tal acervo de manera integral, desde la llegada de obras italianas a la Capilla Real con (...)

An overview of Chinese culture, particularly visions of life and the afterlife, told through feast imagery from three historically transformative dynastiesFeasting was an important social and ritual activity in China beginning in the Bronze Age, and cuisine retains a strong cultural significance to (...)

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 (...)

Sin palabras. Obsesos. EI sexo vende. Siempre de moda. Literatura erótica. Muebles amorosos. Corazón corazón.Crear en pareja.Falografías y otras anatomías. Lo más duro. Con textos de Marcel Benedito, Juli Capella, Márius Carol, Ángels Manzano, Álvaro Sobrino, Oscar Tusquets, Jaume Vidal y Anatxu (...)

Cosmos: Una guía de campo que da forma al vertiginoso panorama celeste explorándolo paso por paso e ilustra los planetas, lunas, estrellas, nebulosas, enanas blancas, agujerosnegros y otros cuerpos exóticos que pueblan los cielos con alrededor de 450 de las fotografías e ilustraciones más (...)

Opera is traditionally regarded as an elitist art form, far removed from reality with its fantastical plots and melodramatic divas. This lush new book shows that beneath all the opulent sets and sumptuous costumes, opera like all the arts draws on essential human emotions, creating an experience (...)

An exploration of the innovative, quintessentially Brazilian painter who merged modernism with the brilliant energy and culture of her homeland Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) was a central figure at the genesis of modern art in her native Brazil, and her influence reverberates throughout 20th- and (...)