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 (...)

En el verano de 2004, Eloísa Gómez-Lucena se aventuró a realizar un viaje de reconstrucción del itinerario de Cabeza de Vaca por el sur de Estados Unidos y el norte de México. Tuvo su dosis alícuota de calamidades, si bien nada semejantes a las del explorador jerezano. Ni descalza ni desnuda anduvo (...)

En esta extraordinaria novela histórica Luis María Cazorla se adentra en un periodo crucial de la historia de España: el primer año y medio de vida de la Segunda República. Durante ese tiempo la resistencia activa de las fuerzas reaccionarias a las reformas impulsadas por Manuel Azaña fue el caldo (...)

This groundbreaking book reveals the complex origins of African wax print textiles. In beautifully illustrated chapters, Anne Grosfilley traces the process of printing and dying the fabric, involving wax or indigo, to its West Indian roots. She also explores the differences of mass-produced and (...)

All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships, and their surroundings in the most intimate of ways and features breathtaking works by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon alongside rarely seen pieces by contemporaries such as Frank Auerbach (...)

The women in Man Ray's life, as well as his reverence for the female form more broadly, were reflected in his jewellery. He kept the wearer in mind with each piece; never impractical or obtrusive, his jewels played with illusion, language and form as he employed the medium to further explore the (...)

Charles I: King and Collector explores the origins of this extraordinary collection, the way it was assembled and what it came to represent. Authoritative essays provide a revealing historical context for the formation of the King's taste. They analyze key areas of the collection, such as Italian (...)

Covers the complete career of one of the greatest colourists of the twentieth century, from atmospheric paintings of immense landscapes to intensely colour works dating from the Third Reich. Published to accompany a touring exhibition.

The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew (1606-7) marks a crucial turning point in the life and artistic development of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). One of seven Caravaggio paintings in US collections, and the only altarpiece, it exemplifies the influential tenebristic style the artist (...)

It's a kind of magic. An everyday kind of magic, but wondrous nonetheless. Interior styling means putting objects and furniture and colours together in such a way that they stop simply being things. You position a chair on this side, exchange a few pillows on that side; add a tiny, but (...)