Libros

Cai Guo-Qiang (Quanzhou, provincia de Fujian, China, 1957) es uno de los artistas de mayor renombre internacional, un atrevido creador de novedosas formas artísticas (pintura con pólvora, pirotecnia e instalaciones) que siguen ampliando el concepto de experiencia cultural. Cai Guo-Qiang ha (...)

Prólogo, por Ignacio Morgado Bernal. 1. Las comidas, el comer y los trastornos del comportamiento alimentario. A modo de introducción. ¿Qué es la anorexia nerviosa ¿Qué es la bulimia nerviosa 2. De la -anorexia santa- a la anorexia nerviosa. La anorexia santa. Las doncellas milagrosas. Las (...)

El desastre que el Ejército español sufrió en Annual 1921 ha sido objeto de diversos estudios que, con mayor o menor fortuna, han tratado de explicar los sucesos. Ahora ALMENA EDICIONES ofrece la fuente original: las conclusiones a las que llegó el general Picasso tras finalizar su investigación.En (...)

Biografía de Francesc Viñals, piloto de la aviación republicana durante la Guerra Civil y último jefe de la segunda escuadrilla del grupo 26 de Polikarpov I-15 Chato.

La Puerta del Sol es el corazón de Madrid. Así, al menos, lo cree el autor del libro que nos brinda la ocasión de conocer el pasado de este enclave madrileno, sus edificios, sus personajes, sus leyendas y tradiciones, y a recorrer su perímetro y su entorno conociendo los pormenores de sus historias (...)

With a background in painting billboards, James Rosenquist had a unique perspective on the dual effects of imagery and scale on the viewing experience. His colossal pieces are immersive- they surround the viewer and dominate most gallery spaces. In this volume readers can examine his process of (...)

El más completo compendio sobre la caligrafía más admirada.Con este sencillo manual y alguna práctica, los calígrafoslograrán crear piezas de caligrafía Copperplate con el ritmo, laelegancia y la facilidad de los grandes maestros de la escritura.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder is considered the greatest Dutch draughtsman of the sixteenth century. Even during his lifetime his drawings were highly valued and many ended up being widely disseminated in the for m of copperplate prints. Drawing on the pictorial tradition of previous artist generations, (...)

The Xiu Hai Lou Collection is one of the most extensive private collections of ink art in Singapore. This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Rediscovering Treasures: Ink Art from the Xiu Hai Lou Collection', and captures the stunning breadth of the Collection.Full-colour (...)

Initially developed by Savoia-Marchetti as a transport, the aircraft had evolved into a dedicated medium bomber by the time the S.79-I made its combat debut in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. During World War 2, it became Italy's most successful bomber, and the most produced, with around 1370 built (...)

After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than German troops in the task of hunting down and (...)

In the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discredited T-72 designation in favour of the T-90 Vladimir. The T-90 was in fact a further evolution of the T-72 family, but the name change represented an important (...)

Accompanying an exhibition of spectacular drawings by great giants of Flemish Baroque art from the superlative collection of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, Power and Grace demonstrates the crucial but very different roles played by drawings in oeuvres of Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens, (...)