Libros

Dos ensayos con ilustrativas y 115 reproducciones a color de las obras de la exposición. Textos por parte de los comisarios: Paloma Alarcó, Conservadora Jefe de Arte moderno en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza; Francisco Calvo Serraller, Crítico de arte y profesor.Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) y (...)

From the salon to the boudoir: the world of Casanova as seen through the art of his eraIn 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of revolution, the shapeshifting libertine Giacomo Casanova seduced his way (...)

This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cezanne's portraiture practice, including his creation of complementary pairs and multiple versions of the same subject . The chronological development of the artist's portraiture is also (...)

En este libro encontrará más de 50 técnicas de dibujo diferentes. Bellas fotografías ilustran con detalle las instrucciones paso a paso. Para mostrar tan amplio abanico de técnicas en contexto y para inspirarle, el libro incluye una extensa galería con algunos de los mejores dibujos de diferentes (...)

Spanning over 60 years of Jasper Johns's (b. 1930) prolific career, this spectacular publication is the most comprehensive and definitive study of the artist's work to date. Written by noted Johns expert Roberta Bernstein, the book explores the synergy between continuity and change in the (...)

Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had (...)

This first thorough survey of Bourgeois' prints and books orients these works within her broader practiceLouise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait explores the prints and books of the celebrated sculptor. This little-known body of work is vast in scope?numbering some 1,200 individual compositions?and (...)

In 1842, Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (1434) was acquired by the National Gallery in London. It quickly exerted an influence on British artists, none more so than the young painters of the nascent Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who were drawn to van Eyck's luminous palette, attention to detail, (...)

From high-society balls and fashion shoots to portraits of artists and scenes from urban life in France, this handsome volume which features an open spine binding so that it lays flat to show off the photographs to their best advantage showcases Doisneau's best photographs for Vogue (...)

Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete with engaging anecdotes about owners and (...)

The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney, who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone traces those connections from the beginning of the artist's career in the early 1960s (...)

The life and works of Giacomo Balla, from his apprenticeship in Turin to the great futurist moment.In the beginning, Giacomo Balla learned his trade in Turin and entered the cruel, painful reality of society's underclass with a penetrating, human eye. Parallel to the themes of suffering and (...)

Gerhard Richter is an exceptional personality not only because his pictures are world famous, but also because he has demonstrated a new approach to painting. His pictures neither cultivate a modest interplay of colors and forms nor deliver an intact picture of reality, but rather move between (...)