Libros

El pintor floral francés Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) se dedicó en cuerpo y alma a las artes botánicas y plasmó la diversidad de las plantas con flores en acuarelas que se publicaron como grabados punteados, con cuidadas descripciones. Adorado y admirado por la alta sociedad parisiense, contó (...)

New strategies in painting: A personal survey of Albert Oehlen's art "Freedom for me means playing. It does not mean to be in a void and make crazy moves, it means to play with your own rules. " --Albert Oehlen The paintings of Albert Oehlen (born 1954) live by audacious strategies, the subversion (...)

The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man's personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body.

The first-ever exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself, shortly before his untimely death, Untold Stories at the Dusseldorf Kunstpalast served as a blank canvas for the photographer's unrestrained vision and creativity. Given total artistic freedom, Lindbergh curated an uncomprimising (...)

Ampliamente considerado como uno de los fotógrafos de moda y retratistas más influyentes, Mario Testino es responsable de la creación de imágenes emblemáticas capaces de transmitir emoción y energía de una manera abierta e íntima. A lo largo de su carrera de cuatro décadas, Testino se ha embarcado (...)

Desde que TASCHEN publicase por primera vez The Great American Pin-up, el interés por una modalidad artística tan intrínsecamente americana ha aumentado de manera exponencial. Las imágenes creadas por artistas destacados como Alberto Vargas, George Petty y Gil Elvgren que en 1996 podían adquirirse (...)

"You may have the universe," composer Giuseppe Verdi once said, "if I can have Italy." Back in the mid-19th century, Verdi's emotive language appealed to the patriotic sentiments of an emergent nation state. After decades of struggle and bloodshed, the movement known as Risorgimento triumphed with (...)

French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including (...)

En el Nueva York de la decada de 1950, antes de convertirse en uno de los nombres más celebres del siglo XX, Andy Warhol era ya un hábil y exitoso artista comercial. Durante esa epoca, como parte de su estrategia para atraer a clientes y forjar amistades, creó siete libros promocionales hechos a (...)