Libros

Cloisonne , the art of applying enamel to objects, dates back to the early Byzantine Empire. It then spread rapidly to China, Southeast Asia, Russia, and eventually the whole of the European continent. It is in Japan, however, that the technique was perfected. One of the world's leading collections (...)

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 (...)

Una fascinante historia sobre la sexualidad de las plantas y sus hábitos de reproducción, con más de 150 fotografías en las que los granos de polen se muestran como obras de arte; el regalo perfecto para amantes de la naturaleza y las artes visuales.Este volumen es la primera entrega de una serie (...)

Políticamente indeseable es una mezcla de crónica sobre la decepción política, ensayo sobre las amenazas a la democracia y encantadores retazos de memoria familiar. En una epoca envilecida por el culto a los sentimientos, Cayetana Çlvarez de Toledo, la política española más libre y brillante de su (...)

Pettibon is known for his characteristically youthful aesthetic and sharply satirical critique of American culture. Though drenched in cynicism, his work empathizes with the dizzying madness of our own humanity as it engages both so-called high and low culture. Perhaps most poetic of the many (...)

The atom bombs dropped on Japan at the end of the Second World War opened the door to the nuclear age. Seeing the potential for developing nuclear energy for the US Navy, Captain Hyman Rickover initiated a research programme that culminated in the launch of USS Nautilus, the world's first (...)