Libros

How do women paint or photograph each other? How do they represent each other in performance or sculpture? As mothers or heroines? With tenderness, aggression or respect? Madam & Eve explores the female gaze as it focuses on other women.The authors an artist and a curator investigate the work of (...)

1932 was an extraordinary year for Picasso, even by his own standards. His paintings reached a new level of sensuality and he cemented his status as the most influential artist of the time. Over the course of this year he created some of his best-loved works, from colour-saturated portraits to (...)

Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1500 1543), one of Raphael's most influential and distinctive followers, has not been well treated by time. His significant early frescoes, which graced exterior palace facades in Rome, have perished almost without exception. A rare few are preserved but most are known (...)

Secret Houses of the Cotswolds is a private tour of 20 of the most beguiling castles, estates, palaces and manor houses in this much-loved region including Stanway, Sudeley Castle and Hilles House.

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 (...)

Descubre la emocionante historia de la aviación: los primeros intentos, los grandes fracasos... y la genialidad y valentía de los pioneros de la navegación aérea. Conoce todos los detalles sobre los aviones más grandes, veloces y modernos, y déjate sorprender por los datos más impactantes y un (...)

Un libro único con testimonios reales de supervivientes del Holocausto que protagonizaron las historias de amor más impactantes surgidas en los campos de concentración nazis.La autora refleja cómo sus protagonistas sobrevivieron a la enfermedad, las vejaciones y al hambre gracias a su valentía, (...)

Pintor, escultor, escritor, cineasta y un auténtico showman, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) fue uno de los personajes más exhibicionistas y excéntricos del siglo xx. Pionero en introducir en el arte las ideas del psicoanálisis freudiano, es célebre en particular por sus prácticas surrealistas, con ideas (...)