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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 (...)

A principios del siglo XVII surgieron en Europa las cartillas de dibujo, unos materiales pedagógicos que revolucionaron la metodología tradicional de la enseñanza de esta disciplina, permitiendo a artistas, aficionados y particulares progresar sin la presencia de un maestro, sobre todo en la (...)

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 (...)

This is a book series for the fith edition of Lisbon Architecture Triennale. A unique and limited collection edited by the curatorial team of The Poetics of Reason: a sparkling intellectual reflection from a three-year investigation on architectural rationality. With stunning visual references, (...)

Desde sus primeras manifestaciones en las catacumbas de Roma y hasta nuestros días, los relatos evangélicos han sido una de las principales fuentes de inspiración para la historia del arte occidental y su conocimiento es indispensable para entender dos milenios de arte, incluyendo gran parte del (...)

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 (...)