Libros

The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, decisively opened Japan to the outside world and the monarchy embraced modernization, including the creation of a new Westernized army. However, this modernization process was resisted by the (...)

La obra de Jesús de la Sota, conocido fundamentalmente por sus diseños de muebles, que a menudo complementaban los edificios de reconocidos arquitectos (como Alejandro de la Sota, su hermano mayor), constituye un caso singular dentro del diseño español del siglo XX. Destacó siempre por su elegante (...)

Published to accompany a major international exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life features Hockney's drawings from the 1950s to the present day, and focuses on his depictions of himself and a small group of sitters close to him: his muse, Celia Birtwell; his mother, Laura Hockney; and his (...)

Born Dora Kallmus (1881-1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer who went by the moniker Madame d'Ora was the most acclaimed portraitist of fin de siècle Vienna. After relocating to Paris in the 1920s, she opened one of the most stylish Art Deco portrait studios where her models (...)

"The inspiration of nearly all his work comes from his daily life," the acclaimed Picasso biographer John Richardson wrote of the artist in 1962. This was nowhere more true than in Picasso's portraits of women. This volume traces the artist's depictions of eight women who played a prominent role in (...)

La potenciación del transporte ferroviario de mercancías ha sido uno de los grandes anhelos de la industria y las instituciones catalanas que, actualmente, tratan de aprovechar las sinergias generadas por los grandes proyectos diseñados desde Europa. El funcionamiento de las cadenas logísticas solo (...)