Libros

Flower powerUn sensacional logro en la ilustración botánicaEl año 1799 fue testigo de la primera entrega de un trabajo que ha pasado a la historia como uno de los libros más destacados de ilustración botánica jamás publicado. Han pasado más de dos siglos desde la publicación de The Temple of Flora (...)

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travelsThomas Cole (1801 1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with (...)

Eighteenth-century portraitist and landscape artist Thomas Gainsborough's most recent retrospective reaffirms for a new generation his sturdy place in the mainstream of British art history. Born in Sudbury in 1727, Gainsborough went to London to study (first as a silversmith), where he ran with the (...)

Using beautiful illustrations, this new book explores the life and work of Thomas Chippendale, the most famous furniture designer and manufacturer of the eighteenth century.For at least 150 years, Thomas Chippendale has been synonymous with beautifully made eighteenth-century furniture in a variety (...)

Hardcover. This comprehensive monograph brings together over 100 works spanning five decades of Thomas Schuette's career and examines his artistic production across multiple disciplines.The Duesseldorf-based sculptor, draftsman, model maker, and sometime architect Thomas Schuette works in scales (...)

In the mid-1950s faced with worrying advances in Soviet missile technology, the United States sought to develop an IRBM to act as a stop-gap until the Atlas ICBM became operational. Intense inter-service rivalry followed before the US Air Force gained the upper hand in deploying the missile. The (...)