Libros

More than one hundred years ago, discoveries from a German archaeological dig at Uruk, roughly two hundred miles south of present-day Baghdad, sent shock waves through the scholarly world. Founded at the end of the fifth millennium BCE, Uruk was the main force for urbanization in what has come to (...)

Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435 1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his spectacular sculptures and paintings to his work in goldsmithing, architecture, and engineering. His expressive, confident drawings provide a (...)

As of 1975, the decades long insurgency in Angola appeared to be short of its conclusion. However, with no less than three major insurgent movements fighting for supremacy, the war went on and then South Africa, USA, the Soviet Union, Zaire and Cuba became involved.Affairs like the CIA's efforts to (...)

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present.In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau-a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red-now traces the visual, (...)

A celebration of the achievements and transformative power of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's work that has inspired generations of artists and designers.In the final decades of the 19th century, the Glasgow Style introduced Art Nouveau in Britain and helped transform an industrial city into Scotland's (...)

Tercer volumen de una magna obra en cuatro volúmenes y cerca de 2.000 páginas que ofrece por vez primera la catalogación de toda la obra escultórica del gran artista vasco Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002).En una cuidada edición y bajo la dirección científica de los propietarios y conservadores del (...)

Published to accompany the first Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris for twenty years, this catalogue analyses Bacon's works from 1971 onwards in light of his relationship to literature. Bacon always vigorously opposed over-analysis of his paintings, preferring to interpret them in purely (...)

Fighter aircraft were developed by during World War I at an unprecedented rate, as nascent air forces sought to achieve and maintain air supremacy. German manufacturers innovated at top speed, while constantly scrutinizing the development of new enemy aircraft. The Germans also utilized the concept (...)

En 2016, Elvira Roca Barea publicó Imperiofobia y la leyenda negra, un ensayo que se proponía desmontar las bases de un antiespañolismo que desde hace siglos habría estado tergiversando la historia de nuestro país, dentro y fuera de nuestras fronteras. Con más de 100.000 ejemplares vendidos, y (...)