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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Este libro muestra todos los sucesos de la guerra resumidos día a día y apoyados en completos recuadros que explican los escenarios, las batallas, los protagonistas y las estrategias militares. Quizá es la manera más eficaz de comprender tanto la historia como la actualidad política española, pero (...)