Libros

100 Japanese Gardens is an ambitious attempt to profile the finest gardens in Japan, while also highlighting lesser known, but equally accomplished landscapes in less-visited parts of the country. A celebration of Japanese landscape design, this book features gardens from Kyoto and Tokyo, as well (...)

This book celebrates the reunion-- for the first time in twenty-four years and only the second time in their history--of two masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos during his tenure as prior of the Charterhouse of Bruges in the 1440s: The Frick (...)

La obra pública de Eduardo Chillida, presente en numerosas ciudades del mundo, figuran entre las más intensas y sugestivas creaciones de la escultura contemporánea a escala monumental. En este volumen se recogen, además, una amplia selección de los escritos del artista vasco que nos acercan a su (...)

En la obra De la Luz y de las Sombras: G.O.Y.A. su autor, Daniel José Carrasco de Jaime nos embarca en una investigación en la que se nos plantea una forma distinta de entender el arte. Como experto en Goya, estas páginas constituyen un verdadero y nuevo corpus ilustrado, que desarrolla la teoría (...)

Alexandra and Michael Misczynski, the wife-and-husband team behind the Los Angeles-based AD100 design firm Atelier AM, are standard-bearers for the concepts of quality and connoisseurship. In an image-driven culture, where novelty and extravagance so often masquerade as virtues, the Misczynskis (...)

La mañana del 28 de junio de 1914, cuando el archiduque de Austria, Francisco Fernando, y su esposa, Sofía Chotek, llegaron a la estación de tren de Sarajevo, en Europa reinaba la paz. Treinta y siete días después, el continente estaba en guerra. La contienda tendría como resultado veinte millones (...)

"Melian's descriptions of the steamy rise of sexual attraction on a fashion shoot are matched only by her exquisite, enchanted descriptions of a dark and secret Paris unknown to visitors." Joan Juliet Buck, Author of The Price of Illusion and editor in chief of French Vogue 1994-2001 The loss of (...)

Firmly established as one of the premier histories of women in the fine arts, Nancy G. Heller's "Women Artists returns in an expanded fourth edition. With coverage of the 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium, nearly half the volume is now devoted to the remarkable period from 1960 to the (...)