Libros

Entre 1860 et 1930, le littoral des Alpes-Maritimes est l'endroit où l'on réalise le plus grand nombre de jardins privés en Europe. Les plus grands paysagistes s'y succèdent pour créer des uvres exceptionnelles commandées par une clientèle aux moyens presque illimités. Dans le même temps, (...)

Gustav Klimt (1862 1918) and his younger protégé Egon Schiele (1890 1918) are considered two of the greatest figures of Austrian Modernism. Whether inspiring or competing with one another, together they reconfigured the way the human body was translated into art. Although both artists are primarily (...)

Over a career that now spans nearly seven decades, the American painter Alex Katz (b. 1927, New York) has devoted himself to the representation of the here and now and to the immediacy of human perception a commitment to what the artist has often described as painting in the present tense. Alex (...)

Ha sido llamado el acontecimiento histórico puntual más importante del siglo XX: el 20 de julio de 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin y Michael Collins hicieron realidad la promesa de John F. Kennedy de colocar una nave tripulada en la Luna a finales de la década de 1960. Diez años de pruebas y (...)

Since the late 1960s Bruce Nauman has established a completely new understanding of contemporary art and has been acknowledged asone of the most relevant artists of the twentieth century. Both the last modern artist and - because of his ceaseless experimental approachto new media - the very first (...)