Libros

El objetivo de este libro es reflexionar sobre el arte y los artistas. En Japón, el arte El Libro del Té ofrece, en esencia, una reflexión sobre el arte y los artistas, analizados desde la perspectiva oriental, que su autor, Kakuzo Okakura, escribió en inglés para los lectores europeos en 1906. En (...)

Descubre los expedientes secretos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.Más de setenta años después del fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial quedan muchas preguntas sin responder sobre lo que sucedió entonces. La guerra secreta que se libró lejos del frente por oficiales de los servicios secretos, agentes (...)

No todas las victorias que obtuvo el III Reich costaron sangre y fuego a las tropas alemanas. En El Sarre y Renania, más adelante en Austria y finalmente en Memel, los alemanes fueron recibidos como auténticos salvadores. Esta es la historia de esos acontecimientos que fueron el inicio de una (...)

Avalada por el favor continuado del público, la vigencia de la obra de Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) viene dada por unas convicciones y una forma de enfrentarse al mundo moderno dominadas por una sensibilidad ética, una preocupación estética, una inagotable curiosidad y una fe irreductible en la (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)