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(as well as their Chinese-built Chengdu and Shenyang variants) in sub-Saharan Africa, Volume 2 covers 11 additional air forces, from Madagascar to Zimbabwe. This encyclopaedic account is so far the only one of its kind to provide detailed analysis of aerial conflicts including those waged between (...)

Cai Guo-Qiang (Quanzhou, provincia de Fujian, China, 1957) es uno de los artistas de mayor renombre internacional, un atrevido creador de novedosas formas artísticas (pintura con pólvora, pirotecnia e instalaciones) que siguen ampliando el concepto de experiencia cultural. Cai Guo-Qiang ha (...)

A major collection of contemporary botanical illustration. Forty-one Australian and twenty-three overseas artists have contributed by invitation one or more works of significant plants in the three Sydney botanic gardens. This collection is published to celebrate the bicentenary this year of the (...)

Bronces Ibéricos. Una historia por contar nace como una puesta al día del estudio sobre los bronces figurados en las sociedades íberas (siglos IV al I a. n. e). A través de contribuciones diversas nos introducimos en espacios heterogéneos, que se complementan y enriquecen teniendo siempre a la (...)

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) is best known as a painter of still life subjects beautifully executed in tempera. Less well known are his haunting views of bomb-sites in London after World War II. This revealing, fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first survey exhibition on the artist since (...)

Une soixantaine d'oeuvres issues de collections publiques et privées, qui fait la part belle aux portraits bretons et polynésiens, aux autoportraits mais aussi aux effigies inanimées. L'artiste dote ses modèles d'attributs particuliers ou les intègre dans des mises en scène évocatrices, en leur (...)

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's (...)

Alan Moore (Watchmen) and Eddie Campbell (Bacchus), grandmasters of the comics medium, present a book often ranked among the greatest graphic novels of all time: From Hell.Two master storytellers. Five unsolved murders. A hundred years of mystery. One sprawling conspiracy, one metropolis on the (...)

Intelligente, curioso, irrequieto, vagabondo, il pittore veronese Giovan Francesco Caroto fu operoso a Mantova, alla corte dei Gonzaga, sotto l'egida di Mantegna; a Milano, al servizio di Antonio Maria Visconti; a Casale Monferrato, alla corte del marchese Guglielmo Paleologo. Conobbe e apprezzò la (...)

Esta monografía aborda, desde diversos ámbitos de conocimiento, epigrafía, autores clásicos, arqueología, un estudio sobre la figura de uno de los príncipes Julio Claudios más queridos por los contemporáneos de su tiempo, así como por la historiografía posterior, Germánico Julio César. Germánico (...)

Los trece capítulos recogidos en este libro reflexionan sobre los grados de asimilación, los intercambios y las particularidades presentes en el arte español, temas que centraron la investigación de Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza. Las obras analizadas documentan las intensas relaciones culturales y (...)