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CALATRAVA. COMPLETE WORKS (XL) (INT)
Santiago Calatrava is a world-renowned architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. From the Athens 2004 Olympic Sports Complex to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Manhattan, he exhibits a remarkable twin prowess for aesthetics and engineering, a simultaneous sensitivity to both the appearance and the anatomy of a structure.
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LIFE, HOLLYWOOD (XL) (GB)
In November 1936, publisher Henry R. Luce launched Life as a photo-led weekly news magazine with a clear purpose: “To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events.” Before readers’ attention was consumed by television, Life served as their window to the world, and by the late 1940s, it was being viewed by 1 in 3 Americans. Jean Harlow was the first movie star to appear on a Life cover in 1937, and from then until 1972 over 200 covers featured Hollywood-related subjects, illustrating the strength of the bond between Life and the film industry.
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SHIGERU BAN. COMPLETE WORKS 1985–TODAY
A valuable insight into the works and mind of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Author Philip Jodidio explores long anticipated completed buildings, new projects, and a future outlook of the studio Shigeru Ban after TASCHEN has followed his career from the beginning. This monograph is a journey through the years and evolution of an architect who made a name for himself with true architectural marvels that cannot be surpassed in innovation, elegance, and sensibility. Next to early buildings deploying paper tubes as structural elements, as well as houses that challenge as fundamental an idea as walls, like the Curtain Wall House in Tokyo and the Wall-Less House in Nagano’s countryside, we see plenty of recent versatile projects. View a two-story penthouse on top of a 140-year-old New York City landmark cast-iron house, the Swatch/Omega Campus in Switzerland, and the Seine Musicale, a concert hall inserted into an overall master plan conceived by Jean Nouvel for the island Île Seguin in France.
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LINDBERGH, DIOR (XL) (INT)
Peter Lindbergh photographed DIOR’s most exceptional muses, Marion Cotillard and Charlize Theron among them, and signed campaigns for Lady Dior and J'Adore with his inimitable style. Throughout his career, the photographer was one of the House’s closest collaborators. This final book was an original co-creation that was close to the artist’s heart—and to ours.
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THE BOOK OF COLOUR CONCEPTS (CL)(INT)
The earliest forms of human creativity – in carvings, markings, and cave paintings – bear witness to humanity’s engagement with color. Almost as old as these examples is the desire to assign structure, order, and meaning to this universal yet elusive concept, and it is this fascination that unites the works compiled in this expansive edition.
Gathering over 65 rare books and manuscripts from a wealth of institutions, including the most distinguished color collections worldwide, The Book of Colour Concepts takes the reader on a chromatic odyssey across four centuries and over 1,000 images of luscious wheels and globes, painstakingly collated charts, and meticulous diagrams, many of them newly photographed exclusively for this edition. Some of these concepts provide exhaustive taxonomies of color, while others reflect upon the relationship of color and music, or the affinities between color and human emotions.
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THE BOOK OF PRINTED FABRICS. (CL)(INT)
In the far east of France, close to the German and Swiss borders, lies the historic city of Mulhouse. During the early 19th century, it became one of the leading centres of textile manufacture in the country. Today it is home to the Musée de l’Impression sur Étoffes, a museum dedicated entirely to the history of fabric printing from the 17th century right up to the present day.
Few are the serious fashion designers who have not come to visit this astonishing temple to textiles. This book, however, gives you the key to those vaults, presenting on its broad pages perfectly captured images of its collections that span four different continents – recounting a fascinating artistic and technological adventure across the world, from its origins in India to the most contemporary creations.
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XL-HIROSHIGE/EISEN, KISOKAIDO-INT
The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country’s then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenance and lodging to weary travelers. In 1835, renowned woodblock print artist Keisai Eisen was commissioned to create a series of works to chart the Kisokaido journey. After producing 24 prints, Eisen was replaced by Utagawa Hiroshige, who completed the series of 70 prints in 1838.
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DAVID BAILEY. EIGHTIES
In the 1980, fashion wanted to make a statement and found in legendary British fashion photographer David Bailey its perfect chronicler. After Bailey shaped the style of the Swinging Sixties, fashion in the eighties posed a new challenge: brighter colours, higher glamour, statuesque models, extreme makeup, spandex, lycra, jumpsuits, power dressing, big hair, and as Grace Coddington puts it in her introduction, “jackets with padded shoulders over the shortest mini-skirts and dangerously high-heeled shoes.”
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STANLEY KUBRICK'S THE SHINING (INT)
Equally a study of the intricate mechanics of Kubrick’s genius as an in-depth look at the making of a visual masterpiece, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining gathers hundreds of hours of exclusive new interviews with the cast and crew in an unprecedented look at the 1980 cult classic. Slip in through the back door of The Overlook Hotel to witness Kubrick’s endless rounds of script rewrites, his revolutionary use of the Steadicam, the mechanics behind the infamous blood elevator, the mysterious mid-filming fire at Elstree Studios, and the countless takes needed to satisfy the meticulous force that was Kubrick.
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FRANCE 1900. A PORTRAIT IN COLOR (FP)
The turn of the 20th century was a golden era in France. It was an age of peace, prosperity, and progress after a series of bruising wars and turmoil within the French Republic, culminating in the Franco-Prussian War, which had ended in 1871. From the ruins of conflict, the Belle Époque brought joie de vivre flourish, a boom in art, design, industry, technology, gastronomy, education, travel, entertainment, and nightlife.
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JAPAN 1900. A PORTRAIT IN COLOR (INT)
The Golden Age of Travel neatly overlaps with the reign of the Emperor Meiji, which began in 1868 with the overthrow of a feudal order that had kept Japan secluded from the outside world for more than 200 years. In the ensuing four-and-a-half decades, Japan became a less remote and more attractive destination for the international traveler and a popular subject for photographers, both Japanese and foreign.
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MUSEO JUMEX. 10 YEARS
This volume celebrates the 10th anniversary of Museo Jumex, Mexico City’s most important contemporary art museum, and its unique collection.
Located in the vibrant Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, Museo Jumex opened its doors to the public in 2013 as a one-of-a-kind museum devoted to the production and discussion of contemporary art.
Founded by Eugenio López Alonso, a pioneer in the realm of contemporary art collecting in Mexico, and designed by Sir David Chipperfield, 2023 winner of the Pritzker Architecture award, Museo Jumex has achieved international recognition for its dual mission of bringing works of renowned international artists to Mexico for the first time and elevating the work of today’s Mexican and Latin American artists.
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LOS GRANDES COMPOSITORES
Los grandes compositores permite adentrarse en el sugerente mundo de la música clásica a través del camino que marcaron sus grandes protagonistas. El célebre Harold C. Schonberg, director de crítica musical del New York Times desde 1960 hasta 1980 y primer crítico musical en recibir el Premio Pulitzer por su trabajo, nos ofrece una narración de las apasionantes y extraordinarias vidas de los grandes compositores, y nos brinda la posibilidad de conocer no solo todo aquello que siempre quisimos saber sobre la música clásica, sino también los secretos de sus principales creadores, desde Monteverdi hasta finales del siglo xx, pasando por Bach, Händel, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Rossini, Verdi, Bizet, Wagner, Debussy, los Strauss, Puccini, Falla, Albéniz, Granados, Stravinski, Schoenberg o John Cage, entre otros muchos grandes maestros.
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EZEQUIEL FARCA
Farca looks to the work of the late design icon Luis Barragán for inspiration, blending tradition with modernity. He focuses on the importance of collaborating with indigenous artisans who work in age-old Mexican crafts, to create environmentally sustainable, indoor/outdoor spaces and furniture with a palette of natural materials, translated through a contemporary luxury lens. This lavish volume features sixteen of his newly built private residences in Mexico and California that show off his spectacular designs for seamless indoor and outdoor living.
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SALVATORE FERRAGAMO 1898-1960
A thorough exploration of Salvatore Ferragamo’s life and work: an inescapable opportunity to analyze the importance of his creativity and entrepreneurial instinct.
One hundred years have passed since Salvatore Ferragamo opened his first store, the Hollywood Boot Shop, opposite the recently built Grauman’s Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. This set the seal on the success he achieved in America, where he had emigrated in 1915. He was perfectly integrated in the film world of those years, as important directors entrusted him with the design and creation of shoes for the film stars. His customers were movie actresses and actors, producers, and directors, who could no longer do without the elegant and comfortable footwear of the “shoemaker to the stars,” as the young man from Irpinia was nicknamed. Furthermore, his persona had a certain standing in Hollywood: he sat on the city’s executive committees and lived on the same street as Charlie Chaplin. On May 4, 1923, Holly Leaves magazine pointed out just how much Ferragamo was doing for the city and its residents.
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PALEOART (FP) (GB)
In this unprecedented new book, writer Zoë Lescaze and artist Walton Ford present the astonishing history of paleoart from 1830 to 1990. These are not cave paintings produced thousands of years ago, but modern visions of prehistory: stunning paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, mosaics, and murals that mingle scientific fact with unbridled fantasy. The collection provides an in-depth look at this neglected niche of art history and shows how the artists charged with imagining extinct creatures often projected their own aesthetic whims onto prehistory, rendering the primordial past with dashes of Romanticism, Impressionism, Japonisme, Fauvism, and Art Nouveau, among other influences.
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MICHAEL S. SMITH CLASSIC BY DESIGN
One of the most original and respected talents in design, Smith is revered for his impeccable taste and style. Informed by a deep understanding of design history and the art world, Smith’s work is the ultimate in elegance and luxury, reflecting an uncommon sense of scale and drama and a deft use of craftsmanship and materials. His interiors have earned him enduring accolades throughout the industry, as well as a devoted following of notable clients, from Hollywood mega talents such as Shonda Rhimes to former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
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GUY BOURDIN FOR CHARLES JOURDAN
A giant of modern fashion photography, Bourdin lent his surrealist eye to the shoes and fashions of Charles Jourdan. Creating compositions full of movement, color, and sensuality, this pioneering collaboration between designer and photographer still exerts a profound influence on modern fashion photography.
The late 1960s saw some of the most dynamic periods in French fashion. And the union between Bourdin and Jourdan captured the spirit of the moment unlike any other creative partnership of the era. Jourdan, a polymath who occupied the office of both couturier and shoe designer, tapped Bourdin, a true surrealist among the fashion photographers of the age, and engaged in a creative dialogue through to Jourdan’s passing in 1976.
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BONACINA. THE BEAUTY OF RATTAN
Emblematic of Italian excellence since its founding in 1889, Bonacina is a family-owned design brand that has defined a unique and timeless style, embodying an artistic sensibility, attention to detail, and the superior workmanship of rattan—a natural raw material that grows in the Far East. The story begins in remote lands where the natural material grows before traveling to Italy and then, in the hands of some of the best interior designers, to stylish residences, gardens, hotels, and restaurants around the world.
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CAZU ZEGERS. ARCHITECTURE IN POETIC
This is the first major book on Zegers, who practices an intensely artistic and ecological form of architecture based on landscapes in which she builds. Working frequently in timber, Zegers reaches unique, sustainable, and recyclable solutions that combine and rescue the traditional work of Chilean carpenters with modern techniques. In an almost metaphysical journey, in which organic forms, curves, diagonals, and verticals are combined, Zegers affirms her rising presence as a force in ecologically minded architecture.
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CONTEMPORARY LIVING BY MCCLEAN DESIGN
McClean’s second Rizzoli book explores fifteen ultra-modern residences completed over the past five years. Rigorous, elegant, and impeccably detailed, McClean’s houses are the embodiment of livable modernism and set the stage for every aspect of California living. The residences range from a remodeled classical mansion in San Francisco, to waterfront houses and serene oases that seem to float above the flats of Los Angeles, with vistas extending from mountains to the ocean.
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PETER MOORE: SNEAKER LEGEND
A tribute to the visionary designer whose creative brilliance left an indelible mark on the world of sneakers, athletic wear and the sports industry, uniquely becoming one of the most influential and celebrated creative directors of both Adidas and Nike.
The book reveals for the first time the inside story behind the creation of the Air Jordan 1, the sneaker that lives at the heart of modern streetwear culture, the much loved ‘Wings’ and ‘Jumpman’ logos, the groundbreaking Adidas Equipment and Originals lines, and the iconic Adidas ‘Performance’ logo. Included in this book are Moore’s early designs, concept sketches, revolutionary advertising campaigns and personal artworks. His creative path from his early days as a graphic design student to eventually reshaping both Nike and Adidas is an inspirational guide for the trailblazers of modern streetwear culture. His unyielding genius and influence finally receiving their due recognition within the pages of this book.
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XAVIER VEILHAN CHANEL
The House of Chanel offers rare access behind the scenes to three haute couture runway shows designed in dialogue with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan.
Virginie Viard, artistic director for Chanel’s fashion collections, entrusted Xavier Veilhan with the set design for three consecutive haute couture shows: Spring‒Summer 2022, Fall‒Winter 2022/23, and Spring‒Summer 2023. This unusually long dialogue resulted in an original visual universe, blending Veilhan’s poetic imagination, his reinterpretation of the Chanel world, and the infinite delicacy of Virginie Viard’s haute couture creations.
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MARVIN E. NEWMAN (FO) (GB)
In 1952, after becoming one of the first-ever recipients of a Master of Science degree in Photography at Chicago’s Institute of Design, native New Yorker Marvin E. Newman returned to his hometown. Like many artists before, he set about chronicling the city. Unlike his predecessors, Newman chose color photography as the preeminent medium for capturing the people and energy of New York, and its emergence in the 1950s as the self-proclaimed “Greatest City in the World.”
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AVEDON 100
Avedon 100 celebrates Richard Avedon’s enduring influence on photography and makes clear his profound impression on visual culture worldwide.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Gagosian, New York, in 2023, this striking illustrated catalog celebrates the centenary of the iconic photographer’s birth. Over one hundred celebrated artists, designers, musicians, writers, curators, and figures from the world of fashion were asked to select a photograph by Avedon and elaborate on the ways in which both the image and artist have made an impact on their lives. Participants include Hilton Als, Naomi Campbell, Elton John, Spike Lee, Sally Mann, Polly Mellen, Kate Moss, Chloë Sevigny, Taryn Simon, Christy Turlington, and Jonas Wood.
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TIMELESS MODERN INTERIORS
The first book to feature the interior design of the stylish, award-winning firm RRP / Rees Roberts + Partners, led by Interior Design–hall of fame inductee Lucien Rees-Roberts.
As Pilar Viladas writes in her introduction, “Rees-Roberts does not have a signature style. Instead, the interiors designed by his New York firm … have style, period, and lots of it.”
Well-known for his subtle use of color, texture, and fabric, Rees-Roberts’s designs capture the essence of modern living. Descended from generations of painters, his love for art is an important source for his inspiration and indelibly marks the work. Functionally elegant designs are characterized by a deference to art as well as to light and the views provided by natural surroundings. Each designed home reflects the owner’s character as well as the needs of everyday life, incorporating custom furniture and unusual antiques. The book, bound in sumptuous cloth and wrapped in a jacket with French folds, reflects the firm’s ever-present attention to detail.
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TURN OF THE CENTURY
Henry Bourne’s photographs of the residences and workspaces of a who’s who of creative people open windows onto the groundbreaking design approaches and trends of the last three decades.
For nearly thirty years, Bourne has been photographing the residences and studios of, or those designed by, some of the world’s most important artists, architects, designers, and innovators. Culture and society are constantly evolving, and changes, both aesthetic and sociological, are reflected in our physical surroundings. Spaces and portraits in this volume range from the Upstate New York studio of artist Richard Prince, Vincent Van Duysen’s early apartment in Antwerp, and Marc Newson’s residences (his modern former bachelor pad as well as the more textured apartment he shares with Charlotte Stockdale today) to the joyfully chaotic London atelier of artist Paula Rego, the Villa Volpi by architect Tomaso Buzzi near Rome, the London studio of artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster—before and after its sleek renovation, designed by architect David Adjaye.
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VINCENT VAN DUYSEN
Over the past three decades, Vincent Van Duysen has become an important force in design through his expressive architecture and serene interiors. This book documents the source of his inspirations and ongoing laboratory: his own homes.
Vincent Van Duysen has had an outsized influence on the world of architecture and design, from the rarefied echelons of interiors to highly successful collections for Zara Home and a nearly decade-long creative directorship of Molteni&C. Through his spare use of pure and tactile materials, Van Duysen employs a unique stylistic language that is both monastic and sensual, brutal and elegant, primal and refined. His commissions have included product design for numerous international brands, and commercial and large-scale architectural projects, among them high-end residences, a hotel, and retail spaces.
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THE BATTLE OF VERSAILLE
The first illustrated book to chronicle the dramatic 1973 face-off between French and American fashion designers, which left an indelible mark on the fashion industry, launched American designers as a global force, and challenged the cultural norms of the time.
Images from the archives of renowned fashion photojournalists Bill Cunningham and Jean-luce Huré—largely unseen until now—capture the behind-the-scenes drama, fabulous clothing, iconic models, and glamorous guests at this historic show.
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THE MODERN GARDEN
The treasures of mid-century American architecture have long been celebrated. Less appreciated has been the landscape design that provides the framing for these masterworks. But more than frame, landscape architecture is an art worthy of the spotlight, particularly at mid-century, when the notion that “gardens are outdoor spaces for people to live in” was championed and brought to the fore; now gardens and landscapes are not just external attributes to the house but a continuation of it and its living spaces in a relationship of symbiosis, with its pools and terraces, its winding lawns, and its partly enclosed room-like spaces flanked by brick or stone or plantings in a range of colors and forms.
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ZEYNEP FADILLIOGLU. LUXURY REDEFINED
A comprehensive look at Istanbul-based interior designer Zeynep Fadillioglu’s most striking projects, from a modern minimalist mosque to the city’s largest luxury hotel.
Renowned for her striking, multilayered projects that are rich in materials, arts, and crafts, Zeynep Fadillioglu’s interiors express a bold contemporary sophistication and modern understanding of traditional values.
Born and raised in Istanbul, Fadillioglu studied computer science and then art history and design at London’s Inchbald School of Design before setting up her design company in Istanbul. Today, having designed many notable landmarks, she is one of the most sought-after designers both at home and abroad. Her thoughtful, creative, and interdisciplinary approach to interior design bridges history, community, cities, climate, and culture with meticulous attention to detail and to storytelling.
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BLENHEIM. 300 YEARS OF LIFE IN A PALACE
Regarded as perhaps the greatest of the stately homes and the finest example of baroque architecture in Great Britain, Blenheim is a treasure of English heritage. In this stunning volume, Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, the twelfth generation of the family, takes us on a privileged tour of the palace.
Designed by John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor (a protégé of Christopher Wren) in the early 1700s; with stonework, furniture, and tapestries crafted by the best talents of the age; and art and statuary by such notable artists as John Singer Sargent and Joshua Reynolds, Blenheim is filled with artistic commissions that provide a window into the history of England.
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ASHE LEANDRO
For Ashe and Leandro, creativity is a way of life that is reflected in everything they design. They have built a star-studded portfolio (clients include Liev Schreiber, Seth Meyers, Naomi Watts, and Rashid Johnson) with their fresh approach to unfussy, high-design spaces. Their interiors favor a quiet beauty, based on simple shapes, asymmetrical details, and a fine patina.
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NICOLE HOLLIS: ARTISTRY OF HOME
Focusing on the profound effect that art, craft, and color can play in any interior, this book presents Hollis’s masterful new residential projects, in which the curation of art, objects, and custom furnishings are key to the character of the spaces.
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MADAME GRES COUTURE
The definitive monograph on iconic Parisian designer Madame Grès, seen by her peers as the tutelary genius of French haute couture.
Renowned for her signature draping and innovative asymmetrical dresses, Madame Grès (1903–1993) was one of the leading fashion designers of twentieth-century Paris. Formally trained as a sculptor, her complex yet delicate haute couture designs evoke ancient statuary and exude a timeless elegance.
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HOLLY HUNT. FEARLESS IN THE WORLD OF
Acclaimed for popularizing modernism with mainstream American homeowners, Hunt curated and created chic modern furniture that made high-end design accessible to audiences beyond New York and Los Angeles.
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THE IRISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Forgoing the criteria of stateliness and opulence, this book is an exploration of the most captivating and unusual interiors in Ireland. Whether in the transformation of a derelict estate, the preservation of an historic hunting lodge, or the re-creation of a Gothic fantasy, each of the homes in this extraordinary book reflects a renewed vitality in the contemporary approach to Irish country houses.
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HOMES FOR OUR TIME VOL.2 (XX) (INT)
In Sri Lanka, Palinda Kannangara created the Frame Holiday Structure on a budget of $ 40,000. Built from steel scaffolding, exposed brick, and wood floors, the house can be easily disassembled and moved, adapting to the reality of the nearby floodplain. Luciano Lerner Basso’s Fortunata House in Brazil accommodates the surrounding nature: it was built around a tree of an endangered species and sits upon stilts so as not to disturb the forest floor. Miller Hull’s Loom House near Seattle has been called “the world’s most environmentally ambitious home renovation” because of its reliance on recycled materials and its efficient energy use.
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ROBERT DOISNEAU. PARIS (FO) (INT)
As sensitive to human suffering as to the simple pleasures of life, Robert Doisneau is one of the most celebrated exponents of the Photographie humaniste that swept through the 1950s. Cherished in particular for his soulful portraits of Paris, Doisneau demonstrated a unique ability to find – and perfectly frame – charismatic characters, entertaining episodes, and fleeting moments of humor and affection.
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RESIDING WITH NATURE
A highly anticipated monograph of recent houses by a leading California architecture and landscape firm that celebrates sophisticated modern living and represents the pinnacle of the California Dream.
Residing with Nature features one-of-a-kind homes, crafted in sensuous materials and dramatically sited to enhance views, sunlight, and nature in California, Nevada, and Colorado. Grant Kirkpatrick and Duan Tran of KAA Design share their process for creating personal environments that are tailor-made to each client’s unique lifestyle and setting. All the designs inform a dynamic connection to nature that links indoors and outdoors, an extraordinary attention to craftsmanship, an enduring use of local materials, a striking balance between geometry and whimsy, and an exhilarating sense of levitation.
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AN ENGLISH VISION
This is the first of Pentreath’s books to present his own output in its entirety—from his personal residences in Dorset, London, and Scotland that brought him international fame to many old and new houses that he has designed and some of the larger, town-scaled projects that make his practice unique in the world of traditional design. Although the results range from his colorful and romantic versions of the English country cottage to traditional splendor, there are underlying ideas that inform the breadth of his output—a sense of scale, proportion, craft, detail, sustainability, and appropriateness—that have a universal relevance today.
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SHAPING THE WORLD AS A HOME
Evens has long been considered one of the country’s leading contemporary architects who aspires to create the complete living environment, in the same vein as Gil Schafer, Bobby McAlpine, Ray Booth, and Stanley Dixon. His inspiration is drawn from classical traditions and informed by contemporary indoor-outdoor life—in this case the indoor-outdoor life of California.
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THE PERFECT ROOM
Flanigan looks at the home on a room-by-room basis, identifying common design challenges, offering solutions on how to create rooms that are aesthetically pleasing and efficient. With examples chosen from her work, she shares seasoned wisdom and creative approaches to every decision ranging from building materials and architectural details to furnishings, color, textiles, accessories, and organization.
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HELMUT NEWTON. BERLIN, BERLIN (INT)
Born in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton trained as a teenager with legendary photographer Yva, following her lead into the enticing pastures of fashion, portraiture and nudes. Forced to flee the Nazis aged only 18, Newton never left Berlin behind. After his career exploded in Paris in the 1960s, he returned regularly to shoot for magazines like Constanze, Adam, Vogue, Condé Nast's Traveler, ZEITmagazin, Männer Vogue, Max and the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin as well as his own magazine Helmut Newton’s Illustrated.
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MARS. PHOTOGRAPHS FROM NASA (FO) (INT)
Early astronomers, drawn to Mars's fiery glow in the night sky, named the planet after their god of war. In the centuries since, Mars has captivated humankind as a source of endless speculation and a beacon of hope for its potential habitability. Through six decades of NASA’s pioneering research missions, the mysteries of the red planet have been gradually uncovered, revealing a world not so unlike our own that likely once supported life.
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ANDY WARHOL AND FRIENDS
In 1965, Steve Schapiro started documenting Andy Warhol for LIFE magazine: Warhol was cementing a reputation as an important Pop artist who drew his inspiration from popular culture and commercial objects. With his sunglasses, blond wig, and bland public utterances, Warhol was enigmatic, charismatic, intensely ambitious, and aware that to become a star, you needed the presence of people to document your ascent. Schapiro, also ambitious and hardworking, who in his own words “kept quiet and smiled a lot,” was an ideal witness to Warhol’s relentless rise from cult New York artist to 20th-century icon. Ironically, LIFE never published the story, so many of these images are seen here for the first time, scanned from negatives found deep in Schapiro’s archive.
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THE BREITLING BOOK OF SURFING
An illustrated journey through modern surf culture guided by the international surfers and communities that define its inclusive and passionate nature.
Epic photography brings the stories of a unique group of global communities, and the surfers that represent them, to life.
Told in their own words, some of the world’s most exciting professional and freestyle surfers—at different moments in their careers—introduce the influential figures, places, and waves that have shaped their lives, and their surfing.
From Ireland’s rugged and unforgiving west coast to the famous beaches of Oahu, Hawaii, making stops across six continents along the way, Breitling provides a unique and unexpected window on the modern surf experience.
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PASARELA. YVES SAINT LAURENT
El primer resumen completo de las magníficas colecciones de alta costura de Yves Saint Laurent, desde la inauguración en 1962 hasta su retirada en 2002, presentado a través de las fotografías originales de las pasarelas. Como homenaje al legendario diseñador, este libro es el registro de cuarenta años de creaciones icónicas de la alta costura, desde el radical «Le Smoking» (el primer traje de esmoquin para mujeres) de 1966 hasta las deslumbrantes creaciones inspiradas en el arte: vestidos «Mondrian», preciosos bordados «Van Gogh», capas «cubistas» y la famosa colección Ballets Russes, por nombrar algunos. * Incluye una introducción y una descripción sobre el perfil del diseñador a cargo de Suzy Menkes, así como los textos de las colecciones del Musée Yves Saint Laurent París. Un libro que ofrece una oportunidad única de mostrar las creaciones del diseñador que revolucionó el guardarropa de la mujer moderna. Con más de 1000 imágenes, este tesoro de inspiración es una referencia obligada para todos los profesionales de la moda y los seguidores de Yves Saint Laurent.
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DAVID HICKS. A LIFE OF DESIGN
Back in print for the first time in years, this classic of interior-design history showcases the masterful work of David Hicks (1929–1998), who is acknowledged as one of the most important designers of the late twentieth century, in the company of Billy Baldwin and Albert Hadley.
Known for his bold use of color, eclecticism, and geometric designs in carpets and textiles, Hicks turned English decorating on its head in the 1950s and ’60s. His trademark use of electrifying color combinations, and mixing antiques, modern furniture, and abstract paintings became the “in style” for the chic of the day, including Vidal Sassoon and Helena Rubinstein. By the 1970s, David Hicks was a brand; his company was making wallpaper, fabrics, and linens and had outposts in eight countries, including the United States where he worked with the young Mark Hampton, and where his wallpaper was used in the White House. “My greatest contribution as an interior designer has been to show people how to use bold color mixtures, how to use patterned carpets, how to light rooms, and how to mix old with new,” he stated in his 1968 work, David Hicks on Living—With Taste, the last authoritative book on his work. Written by his son, Ashley Hicks, with unprecedented access to Hicks’s archives, personal photographs, journals, and scrapbooks, this book is a vibrantly illustrated celebration of a half century of stunning interiors.
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A 1000 X BETTER. A REBEL BY DESIGN
Up-and-coming interior designer Kirsten Blazek, known for her focus on sustainability and mixing vintage with contemporary pieces, shares inspiration for creating an authentic and livable home.
Blazek’s company, A 1000 X Better, takes a holistic approach to design, prioritizing individuality while also emphasizing sustainability, from repurposing existing pieces and materials to sourcing eco-friendly products. Her interiors combine contemporary design elements with vintage pieces, resulting in a modern and warm sensibility.
In this book, Blazek breaks down her design philosophy into chapters that help us to articulate what we’re looking for and show us how we can create spaces that are comfortable, stylish, and personal: “Find Your Unique,” “A Reflection of You,” and “Every Home Wants to Be Heard.” Blazek reveals her favorite interiors while sharing her fundamental design elements: color theory, layering of texture and pattern, and the importance of art and personally meaningful objects.
The result is a range of interiors and styles, illustrating how these elements might be translated into our own spaces. Blazek’s blend of traditional and contemporary design along with personal and custom touches results in the type of inviting and livable spaces that we all aspire to.
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PARACHUTE
A chronicle of the pioneering and subversive brand Parachute and its influence on the evolution of fashion in the 1980s and beyond.
From its beginnings inspired by New Wave subculture to its position as an international fashion sensation, the Parachute brand from Montreal was recognized for its visionary, bold apparel and innovative concept stores.
Avant-garde in attitude and design, Parachute brought together high and low, the establishment and the underground. The clothing was defined by androgynous looks, oversized silhouettes, elevated essentials, and graphic references to past and future, from exaggerated trench coats to “space samurai kimonos.” Together with a considered retail presence, which combined an industrial aesthetic in the stores with exuberant photography campaigns, the brand created a vision for street fashion that is keenly relevant today.
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ARQUITECTURA ECOLOGICA. UN MANUAL
El libro propone un recorrido del exterior al interior: comienza por el emplazamiento y su entorno, sigue por las diversas envolventes del edificio y termina con el análisis de los aspectos ambientales de la iluminación, la calefacción y los sistemas de climatización. Un recorrido donde se exploran distintos temas transversales, como el ahorro de agua o materiales, la calidad ambiental interior o el uso de energías renovables. El conjunto ofrece una exploración completa y metódica de la arquitectura ecológica exponiendo los temas clave, un marco teórico básico y estrategias concretas para proyectar bajo el paradigma de la sostenibilidad.
Las ilustraciones que detallan estos principios y discusiones, realizadas por el maestro Francis D. K. Ching, conforman una magnífica guía visual para el proyecto y la construcción de edificios ecológicos, y hacen de este libro un manual único e ineludible en el ámbito de la arquitectura y la construcción sostenibles.
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SPIELBERG
Cómo un joven realizador que destacó en televisión por su estilo innovador y sentido del espectáculo ha llegado a convertirse en el gran rey del Cine y de la taquilla. * Un director que ha impuesto su dominio de la narración y su inventiva formal al mismo tiempo que ha revolucionado la industria con productos de extraordinario éxito, hasta el punto de que la simple mención de su nombre ya encarna la idea misma de espectáculo cinematográfico para varias generaciones de espectadores. * Compañero de viaje de George Lucas, ha creado escuela entre Robert Zemeckis, Joe Dante, M. Night Shyamalan... Sinopsis, génesis de sus proyectos, elección de actores y acogida de la crítica y del público: toda la filmografía de Steven Spielberg explicada al detalle hasta descifrar el aporte de genialidad que oculta cada una de sus obras. Largometrajes, episodios de series de televisión y telefilmes: desde los más populares hasta los más íntimos e incluso desconocidos. Con una rica iconografía: fotogramas, documentos gráficos del rodaje, carteles, material publicitario... Referencias a sus maestros, retratos de sus fieles colaboradores y profundización en las constantes de su obra: las obsesiones formales y temáticas. Incluye los secretos de rodaje, las anécdotas, los entresijos de la creación, análisis de planos y secuencias míticas.
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LOS 80. HISTORIA DE UNA DECADA
La década de los 80 fue una época de exploración audaz, creatividad deslumbrante, inspiración colectiva y un desafío en casi todos los aspectos de la sociedad: tecnología, medios de comunicación, roles de género, racismo, sexualidad, geopolítica, clima y cultura.
Este libro es una historia visual de los años 80 a través de sus momentos más importantes: del breakdance a Wall Street, de la cultura gay emergente a las consolas de videojuegos, de los trajes de Armani a la lucha contra el apartheid, pasando por momentos en la memoria de todos: la caída del muro de Berlín, el concierto Live Aid, el primer episodio de Los Simpson, la Perestroika soviética o la revolución de Almodóvar y de la Movida madrileña.
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LITTLE BLACK DRESS
A selectively curated overview of the little black dress in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, organized by Vogue contributing editor and fashion force André Leon Talley and published on the occasion of an exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah College of Art and Design), André Leon Talley Gallery. Featuring an impeccably selected group of about sixty dresses from many of the most eminent fashion houses, the book is a celebratory tribute to the iconic little black dress and its deeply resonant cultural and social significance in the modern era.
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BOLSOS
«Cuando la mujer elige un bolso, le otorga un poder mágico…». * Balenciaga, Balmain, Bulgari, Chanel, Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Issey Miyake, Miu Miu, Saint Laurent, Schiaparelli… El bolso es un objeto deseado, atemporal o de absoluta tendencia, y la estrella de este libro. Desde los modelos icónicos que han hecho historia hasta los it bags que han marcado una época, esta selección excepcional le ofrece cientos de creaciones firmadas por más de sesenta grandes nombres de la moda. * La colección de bolsos de sus sueños: tanto si siente adicción por este accesorio como si venera el estilo. «El bolso de mano es a la vez la fantasía de la mujer y el reflejo de su realidad. Es el deseo de la mujer sublime, el sueño de la niña y una compra habitualmente irreflexiva. A menudo, la mujer se ve en la obligación de justificarse, con razones prácticas para ella, pero desconcertantes para su pareja, que contempla con estupor tantos otros bolsos olvidados como cuerpos marchitos en el armario.
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CHRISTIAN SIRIANO
The popular American fashion designer takes us on an exhilarating journey with today’s biggest stars wearing his statement-making designs on the world’s most exciting red carpets.
This highly anticipated sequel to Dresses to Dream About (2017), delves into Siriano’s continued evolution as a visionary, from his groundbreaking fashion that celebrate diversity, inclusion, and body positivity to the meticulous craftsmanship behind each creation. This inspiring tome explores the intersection of fashion, art, and celebrity culture, offering a front-row seat to the dazzling spectacle of Siriano’s bold designs worn by glamorous actors, top models, pop culture legends, LGBTQIA+ icons, and first ladies.
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DAVID LACHAPELLE. GOOD NEWS (FO) (GB)
Good News follows David LaChapelle’s creative renaissance as he surrenders to contemplations of mortality, moving beyond the material world in a quest for paradise. Featuring a monumental curation of images, it is a sublime and arresting new body of work that attempts to photograph that which can’t be photographed. It represents the final chapter to LaChapelle’s narrative in a collection of books that have captivated a generation of viewers across the globe.
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DAVID LACHAPELLE. LOST + FOUND (FO) (GB)
Lost + Found is a visual recording of the times we live in and the issues we face, expressed through David LaChapelle’s unique and distinctive vision. Featuring a monumental curation of images that have never before been published in book form, it chronicles LaChapelle’s strongest images as a visionary to date while encapsulating our time in history.
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HISTORIA CRITICA DE LA ARQUITECTURA
Desde su primera edición en 1980, la Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna de Kenneth Frampton se ha convertido en un clásico imprescindible dentro de la bibliografía académica sobre historia de la arquitectura moderna. En esta quinta edición ampliamente revisada y actualizada, el autor ha añadido una nueva y extensa sección que explora al detalle la evolución del Movimiento Moderno en la arquitectura en todo el mundo a finales del siglo xx y principios del xxi. En ella, se examinan las diversas formas en que los arquitectos no solo responden a los contextos geográficos, climáticos, materiales y culturales, sino que siguen también distintas líneas de enfoque en relación a la topografía, la morfología, la sostenibilidad y la forma cívica.
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MIRROR MIRROR
The world’s most important contemporary designers showcase their work within the historic setting of Chatsworth House to shine light and spark conversation on the intriguing juxtaposition of the old and the new, the past and the future, and the evolution of design histories and practices.
Chatsworth is an extraordinary environment to experience design: a repository for great works of fine and decorative art commissioned by generations of the Cavendish family for over four centuries. Expanding on the eponymous 2023 exhibition at Chatsworth, Mirror Mirror features the works of sixteen contemporary artists through captivating in-situ photography with accompanying artist biographies and essays that unearth how historic artifacts and environments inform and inspire modern artists' practices today. This diverse group of artists includes Michael Anastassiades, Ini Archibong, Wendell Castle, Andile Dyalvane, Ndidi Ekubia, Najla El Zein, Formafantasma, Joris Laarman, Max Lamb, Fernando Laposse, Jae Sae Jung Oh, Samuel Ross, Chris Schanck, Ettore Sottsass, Faye Toogood, and Joseph Walsh. From lithe, LED lighting structures illuminating the halls of the Chatsworth library to a seating sculpture hand-carved in Iranian travertine in the grand estate’s formal Rose Garden, these modern works create unexpected and timeless connections with the house’s architecture, interiors, furniture, and ceramics.
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JAMIE WYETH. UNSETTLED
A major monograph of the American realist artist, descendant of one of America’s most revered artistic families, and painter of dark and uneasy subjects.
This book traces a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting, imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), famous for his hyperrealist paintings of farm animals and Maine lighthouses. The focus in this volume is on the chilling thread that runs through his work, present but not overwhelming, and ever-evolving with his style and subjects. Whether he is introducing curious characters or surveying strange landscapes, Wyeth is at home with uneasy subjects and a master of the unsettled mood
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THE COLORADO RIVER
In Association with Grand Canyon Conservancy and National Audubon Society.
Through photography and essays, this book is a celebration of one of America’s most valuable and iconic rivers and a warning demonstrating the river is a bellwether of overuse and climate change.
America’s Western water crisis is now newsworthy on a global level, and the Colorado River is in the crosshairs. The Colorado River is the most comprehensive look at this challenged resource that supplies drinking water to forty million Americans and supports five percent of the country’s GDP.
While acclaimed photographer Pete McBride has covered water worldwide and been dubbed a “freshwater hero” by National Geographic, he now brings us home to his deepest passion: saving his backyard river, the Colorado. For two decades, McBride has documented the Colorado River, from source to sea and always with a camera in hand.
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COLECCION PERSONAL
Relojes mecánicos, cronógrafos, de buceo y de cuarzo: un recorrido por la historia de la relojería a través de 90 modelos emblemáticos. * Desde los primeros relojes de pulsera hasta los relojes de cuarzo, todos tienen un interés histórico, mecánico o meramente estético. * Un viaje a través de las épocas y las diferentes complicaciones de la relojería. Siglos, incluso milenios, de innovación técnica han llevado a la creación de los relojes tal y como los conocemos hoy. Complejos y estéticos, son obra de artesanos muy cualificados y con un saber hacer excepcional. Pero ¿qué sentido tienen los relojes mecánicos en la era de los smartwatches? ¿Por qué nos fascinan? Tal vez sea porque, junto con la ropa, son los objetos más íntimos de nuestras vidas. Quizá también sea porque algunos han protagonizado extraordinarias aventuras humanas. Acaso porque otros nunca habrían visto la luz sin la perseverancia y la imaginación de grandes personalidades. ¿Somos realmente los dueños de un reloj o nos limitamos a transmitírselo a las generaciones venideras? Pese a las cicatrices que el tiempo les haya dejado, la mayoría de los modelos que figuran en este libro nos sobrevivirán. De hecho, la mayoría de ellos son relojes antiguos, con pátina, oxidados, imperfectos, simplemente vividos.
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LA IMPRESION COMO ARTE
Este libro pretende ser tanto una fuente de aliento como una exploración de la vida y la obra de los artistas que sienten fascinación por el proceso de la impresión artística y por el desarrollo de sus imágenes personales a través de la creación de impresiones originales. Los testimonios de destacados artistas invitan a explorar infinitas posibilidades de los diversos métodos de trabajo. Los capítulos se distribuyen según las distintas técnicas de impresión. A las completas explicaciones de cada uno de los medios les sigue un detallado análisis de los métodos disponibles, ilustrados con fotos paso a paso. Al final se incluye una completa sección de información útil con una lista de proveedores, talleres y estudios.
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HISTORIA DE LAS BANDAS SONORAS
En el imaginario del cine, la banda sonora a menudo había sido considerada un arte mayúsculo, pero secundario. Hoy, en cambio, es un género musical que levanta pasiones. No obstante, su historia sigue siendo muy poco conocida. * Desde las películas de la edad de oro de Hollywood hasta el cine más premiado o el más innovador de nuestros días, compositores como Bernard Herrmann, John Barry, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, Alberto Iglesias, Alexandre Desplat o Jonny Greenwood han sabido entender a Hitchcock, Fellini, Godard, Almodóvar, Tarantino o Jane Campion y ofrecerles la banda sonora de sus sueños. Apoyada en algunos documentos gráficos de sus películas, esta es la historia de una música que nos encanta. "A menudo uso las mismas armonías que la música pop porque la complejidad de lo que hago está en otra parte. La música necesita una sala para respirar".
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ATLAS MUNDIAL DEL STREET ART
Este histórico estudio del street art internacional se sitúa en el punto en el que confluyen el arte y el atlas. Organizado por continentes y ciudades (desde Nueva York, Los Ángeles y Montreal, en Angloamérica, pasando por Ciudad de México y Buenos Aires, en Iberoamérica, hasta Londres, Berlín y Madrid, en Europa, así como Sídney y Tokio, en el Pacífico), se presentan los perfiles de más de cien de los artistas más importantes de la actualidad y más de setecientas asombrosas obras de arte. Un testimonio de cómo este variado movimiento artístico contemporáneo se ha convertido en un auténtico fenómeno global: se narra la evolución del arte urbano en cada región y se proporciona un contexto histórico esencial. Desde su génesis en la Costa Este de Estados Unidos a finales de la década de 1960, el street art y el grafiti han viajado a casi todos los rincones del planeta y han dado lugar a nuevos estilos muy floridos y dinámicos. Al exponer sus obras en la galería más grande y abierta del mundo, los grafiteros y artistas urbanos muestran sus creaciones a un público que no puede evitarlas, con lo que desafían las ideas convencionales sobre el lugar del arte en la vida cotidiana. Desde Steve Powers (ESPO), en Nueva York, hasta Ian Strange, en Australia, pasando por el Londres de Eine, el París transfigurado por Honet y OX, y los gigantescos murales de los brasileños Os Gêmeos, esta es la primera historia genuinamente geográfica de esta forma de arte.
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PLANOS DE GRANDES CIUDADES. CARTOGRAFIA
Conozca el desarrollo de distintas ciudades a lo largo del tiempo a través de una progresión de estilos cartográficos para obtener una visión sorprendente de nuestra propia evolución humana como seres sociales colectivos. Al reunir planos de varias culturas dispares, incluidas las de Asia Oriental y Oriente Medio, sigue el desarrollo de la urbe desde los centros europeos hasta las ciudades coloniales, y desde las capitales del Viejo Mundo, construidas orgánicamente, hasta las metrópolis del Nuevo Mundo, planificadas de una forma rígida. Cada plano va acompañado de una descripción que lo ubica en su contexto histórico, político, social y económico. Al igual que todos los aspectos de la sociedad humana, los planos de las ciudades han cambiado y evolucionado a lo largo del tiempo. Partiendo de los inicios de la Edad Moderna, este libro rastrea la conjunción de la planificación urbana y la cartografía hasta mediados del siglo xx. Al reunir planos de varias culturas dispares, incluidas las de Asia Oriental y Oriente Medio, sigue el desarrollo de la urbe desde los centros europeos hasta las ciudades coloniales, y desde las capitales del Viejo Mundo, construidas orgánicamente, hasta las metrópolis del Nuevo Mundo, planificadas de una forma rígida.
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ATLAS DE LUGARES IMAGINADOS
Una impresionante recopilación de geografía y topografía ficticias, extraídas de los libros, películas y producciones televisivas favoritos del público. Un caleidoscopio de edificios inventados, pueblos, países, bosques, montañas, ríos y océanos, naufragios y ciudades sumergidas que cobra vida en estos hermosos mapas ilustrados. Descubra los paisajes legendarios de la Atlántida o El Dorado, atraviese las tundras heladas de Arendelle o dese un (rápido) chapuzón en las cálidas aguas de Amity Island. Pasee por las calles de Metropolis, Erinsborough, Walford o Springfield, y deténgase a admirar los imponentes chapiteles de Downton Abbey y Hogwarts por el camino.
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JOVENES ARQUITECTOS
113 arquitectos que determinarán el estilo de nuestras ciudades durante los próximos 30 años. Tendencias docentes, teóricas y estéticas del ejercicio profesional de la arquitectura en todo el mundo. Con este libro podrá valorar lo buenas que son en realidad estas jóvenes estrellas. Son profesionales para quienes las antiguas categorías ya no son válidas, y para los que la modernidad ya no es la ortodoxia. Debido a que el papel que desempeñan los arquitectos en las ciudades está en continuo cambio, esta hornada de jóvenes arquitectos ejerce trabajos muy variados, de ahí que entre ellos haya escritores, críticos, comisarios de exposiciones, diseñadores de moda, programadores informáticos, promotores inmobiliarios y constructores. La obra de cada arquitecto, escogida y descrita desde una perspectiva crítica, se examina en detalle para revelar los enfoques que cristalizarán en los próximos años y décadas.
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BARBIE. CELEBRACION DE UN ICONO
La obra más completa sobre la muñeca más famosa del mundo.
La primera historia oficial de un icono amado en todo el mundo: Barbie, mucho más que una muñeca.
Barbie es Moda. Barbie es Arte. Barbie es el símbolo de la mujer emancipada de todas las culturas y países, cada vez más inclusiva y atenta a cuestiones sociales y globales, en consonancia con su lema: "Se lo que quieras ser", que resuena cada vez más actual. Nacida en 1959, hace 65 años, pero siempre joven y moderna gracias a sus múltiples cambios de estilo y de fisonomía, Barbie es una criatura caleidoscópica y un verdadero icono pop: creadora de tendencias, top model y musa inspiradora de innumerables artistas. Este libro te ofrece la obra completa sobre la muñeca más famosa del mundo.
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STEVEN SPIELBERG
Las películas de Spielberg son célebres y han cautivado a millones de espectadores por la forma en que combinan el aspecto comercial con la profundidad creativa del director. A menudo sus filmes ocultan un cierto trasfondo oscuro que se complementa con su maestría para entrelazar historias extraordinarias con los aspectos más mundanos de la vida. Y es
que hasta Indiana Jones tiene un lado vulnerable y humano.
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SCANDINAVIAN DESIGN (40TH ANNIVERSARY E)
Scandinavia is world famous for its inimitable, democratic designs which bridge the gap between crafts and industrial production, organic forms and everyday functionality. This all-you-need guide includes a detailed look at Scandinavian furniture, glass, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, metalware, and industrial design from 1900 to the present day, with in depth entries on 125 designers and design led companies.
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THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF. FRANK FRAZETTA.
Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the years since his death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he’s long overdue for this ultimate monograph.Born to a Sicilian immigrant family in Brooklyn, 1928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal and serial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. He claimed to only make art when there was nothing better to do – he preferred playing baseball - yet began his professional career in comics at age 16. Strip work led him to the infamous EC Comics, then to oils for Tarzan and Conan pulp covers. Both characters were interpreted by many before him, but as he explained in the 1970s, “I’m very physical minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys just like him,” and he used this first-hand knowledge of muscle and macho to redefine fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing, more testosterone-fueled than anything seen before. As counterbalance he created a new breed of women, nude as censorship allowed, with pixie faces and multiparous bodies: thick thighed, heavy buttocked, breasts cantilevered out to there, yet still, with their soft bellies and hints of cellulite, believably real. Add in the action, the creatures, the twilit worlds of haunting shadow and Frazetta’s art is addictive as potato chips.
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LEONARDO: THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS 40TH ED
One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this book is a compact catalogue raisonné of all of the artist’s masterful paintings.
Drawn from our best-selling XXL edition, the book traces the artist’s life and work across 10 chapters, presenting all known paintings and drawing on his letters, contracts, diary entries, and writings to explore the man behind such groundbreaking artworks. From Virgin of the Rocks to Virgin and Child with St. Anne to the ever-beguiling Mona Lisa, you’ll find some of the finest treasures of the Louvre, Prado, and National Gallery, London here, as well as Leonardo works lost to time, but no less startling in their precision and poise.
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DIOR LINDBERGH 40TH ED. (INT)
Peter Lindbergh photographed Dior’s most exceptional muses, Marion Cotillard and Charlize Theron among them, and signed campaigns for Lady Dior and J'Adore with his inimitable style. Throughout his career, the photographer was one of the house’s closest collaborators. This final book was an original cocreation that was close to the artist’s heart―and to ours.
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LIVING IN ASIA. 40TH ED. (INT)
Zen, soothing, mystical, meditative—words cannot do justice to Asia’s most beautiful interiors. Whether it’s a gilded Tibetan monastery, a plantation in Sri Lanka, or a private villa in Thailand, each of the havens featured in this book are remarkable not only in aesthetic, but also in spirit.
This showcase features about 40 exceptional locations across Tibet, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Highlights include traditional Burmese stilt houses; the breathtaking Shiv Niwas Palace in India, visited by James Bond in Octopussy; Cambodian temples; a rice barge-turned houseboat in Thailand; the “Blue Mansion”, an magnificient, indigo-painted courtyard house featured in the film Indochine; a breathtaking garden designed by Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa; and many, many more.
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SCANDINAVIAN DESIGN 40TH ED. (E)
Scandinavia is world famous for its inimitable, democratic designs which bridge the gap between crafts and industrial production, organic forms and everyday functionality. This all-you-need guide includes a detailed look at Scandinavian furniture, glass, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, metalware, and industrial design from 1900 to the present day, with in-depth entries on 125 designers and design-led companies.
Featured designers and designer-led companies include Verner Panton, Arne Jacobsen, Alvar Aalto, Timo Sarpaneva, Hans Wegner, Tapio Wirkkala, Stig Lindberg, Finn Juhl, Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Arnold Madsen, Barbro Nilsson, Fritz Hansen, Artek, Le Klint, Gustavsberg, Iittala, Fiskars, Orrefors, Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard, Arabia, Marimekko, and Georg Jensen.
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GEORGE HARRISON
Pese a ser aclamado como uno de los mejores guitarristas de su época y de la historia, George Harrison luchó contra sentimientos de inferioridad, especialmente en sus primeras décadas. A menudo era el blanco de las bromas de sus compañeros de banda debido a su origen de clase baja y, por lo general, no se le permitía contribuir más que con una o dos canciones por álbum de las decenas que escribía.
Ahora, el aclamado biógrafo de los Beatles, Philip Norman, examina a Harrison a través de la lente de sus numerosas contradicciones. Comparado con las enormes luminarias compositoras Lennon y McCartney, se le consideraba un talento menor; sin embargo, compuso obras maestras como «While My Guitar Gently Weeps» o «Here Comes the Sun», y su triple álbum de debut en solitario All Things Must Pass consiguió un inmenso éxito, apareciendo en muchas listas de los 100 mejores álbumes de rock de todos los tiempos. Los críticos de música moderna lo sitúan en el panteón de los dioses de la guitarra de los años sesenta, junto a Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards y Jimmy Page.
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT 40TH ED. (GB)
A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) is at once unmistakably individual and evocative of an entire era. Notable for their exceptional harmony with their environment, as well as for their use of steel and glass to revolutionize the interface of indoor and outdoor, Wright’s designs helped announce the age of modernity, as much as they secured his place in the annals of architectural genius.
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GARDEN EDEN (40TH) (INT)
In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This new edition of a TASCHEN classic celebrates the botanical tradition and talents with a selection of outstanding works from the National Library of Vienna, including many new images.
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AI WEIWEI (40TH) (INT)
Conocido tanto por sus ideas políticas y activismo en las redes sociales como por su arte, basado en intervenciones sociales, su aproximación contemporánea al arte encontrado (ready-made) y su conocimiento de la artesanía tradicional china, la fama de Ai Weiwei se extiende más allá del mundo artístico. Esta monografía de Ai Weiwei explora todas...
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DISEÑO. LA HISTORIA VISUAL DEFINITIVA
Con más de 1200 imágenes, este libro es una mirada excepcional a los principales movimientos, mostrando cómo comenzaron y explicando su filosofía y estilo, desde 1850 hasta la actualidad.
Organizado cronológicamente, este libro rastrea la evolución del diseño, desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad, desde las primeras sillas, cerámica y accesorios para el hogar hasta automóviles, diseño gráfico y artículos de diseño.
Descubre a todos los diseñadores, fabricantes y objetos clave, conoce cómo y por qué surgieron y se hicieron populares.
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100 MANGA ARTISTS. 40TH ED. (INT)
Through an A–Z directory, we discover the superstars—both human and fictional—of what is now a vast global industry, inspiring advertisers, filmmakers, creative professionals, millions of avid fans, not to mention an entire cosplay lifestyle, in which manga devotees in elaborate costume meet to celebrate the existence of their characters at huge conventions from Los Angeles to Leipzig.
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TREE HOUSES. 40TH ED. (INT)
From romantic to contemporary, from famed architects to little-known craftsmen, you’ll scale the heights to visit all manner of treetop structures, from a teahouse, restaurant, hotel, and children’s playhouse to simple perches from which to contemplate life, enjoy the view, and discover that tree houses take as many forms as the imagination can offer. With an abundance of gorgeous photographs and illustrations, this is an ode to alternative living, where playful imagination meets eco-sensitive finesse.
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HOKUSAI MANGA 2
La obra maestra de Hokusai, el artista japonés más universal. ¡Descubre la colosal obra que supone la semilla de lo que hoy conocemos como manga! Por primera vez en edición completa y comentada, presentamos en dos grandes tomos los quince volúmenes de esta obra excepcional con más de 4000 imágenes: gran variedad de personajes, figuras en movimiento, animales, peces, árboles, plantas, flores, objetos de la vida cotidiana, arquitectura, paisajes, escenas humorísticas, el mundo sobrenatural y criaturas fabulosas. El Hokusai Manga es una enciclopedia visual del Japón de su tiempo imprescindible para conocer la cultura nipona. A lo largo de esta espectacular obra del artista japonés más célebre de todos los tiempos se representa todo tipo de personajes, seres vivos, objetos e incluso fantasmas y monstruos. No hay nada que no esté aquí dibujado. El Hokusai Manga gozó de gran popularidad en Japón y su éxito se extendió también a Europa, donde causó un gran impacto en artistas como Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, entre otros, y su influencia aún se deja sentir en la actualidad.
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LARC DE TRIOMPHE, WRAPPED (VA) (INT)
1961, three years after meeting Jeanne-Claude in Paris, Christo made a study of a mammoth project that would wrap one of the city’s most emblematic monuments. 60 years, 25,000 square meters of recyclable fabric, and 3,000 meters of rope later, the artists' vision finally came true. Discover their posthumous installation with this book gathering photography, drawings, and a history of the project's making.
Like most of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work, L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped is temporary and runs for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. Carried out in close collaboration with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, the historic structure is wrapped in recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue and recyclable red rope.
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BOSCH (40TH) (GB)
Only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) but in their fantastical visions they have secured his place as one of the most cult artists in history. 500 years on from his death, his works continue to inspire scholars, artists, designers, and musicians, death metal band names and designer dresses.
This edition offers the complete and haunting Bosch world in one compact format. Through full spreads and carefully curated details, we explore the full reach and compelling inventions of the artist’s genius as well as disturbing imagination. We encounter his hybrid creatures, his nightmarish scenarios, his religious and moral framework, and his pictorial versions of contemporary proverbs and idioms. Along the way, art historian and Bosch expert Stefan Fischer reveals the most important themes and influences in these cryptic, mesmerizing masterpieces.
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LUNCHEONS ON THE GRASS
Thirty-five contemporary artists create their own version of Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe.
Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry slide in art history lectures about modernism, the work remains among the “most audacious painting[s] ever seen in France,” as Ross King described it in The Judgement of Paris (2006).
As Manet did with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, the most provocative painters today collapse the historical and the contemporary onto one plane. Jeffrey Deitch invited a group of these influential artists to create their own versions, combined here with historical responses to Manet’s painting. The slim volume features these often biting and satirical works alongside essays discussing Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe’s enduring influence on contemporary figurative painting.
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KAHLO, PAINTINGS (40TH) (GB)
Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, and Martin Munkácsi, they made Frida Kahlo an iconic image of 20th century art.After an accident in her early youth, Frida became a painter of her own free will. Her marriage to Diego Rivera in 1929 placed her at the forefront of an artistic scene not only in the cultural Renaissance of Mexico, but also in the United States. Her work garnered praise from the poet André Breton, who added the Mexican painter to the ranks of international surrealism and exhibited her work in Paris in 1939 to the admiration of Picasso, Kandinsky, and Duchamp.We access the intimacy of Frida’s affections and passions through a selection of drawings, pages from her personal diary, and an extensive illustrated biography featuring photos of Frida, Diego, and the Casa Azul, Frida’s home and the center of her universe.This book allows readers to admire Frida Kahlo’s paintings like never before, including unprecedented detail shots and famous photographs. It presents pieces in private collections and reproduces works that were previously lost or have not been exhibited for more than 80 years.
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EL GENIO DE EISENSTEIN
Tras los libros de Paulino Viota sobre Ford y Godard, aparecidos en esta misma colección, ha llegado el momento de homenajear al autor y hombre de cine en su faceta de profesor, un docente carismático, divertido, profundo, que penetra junto a sus alumnos en la historia del cine como en un refugio cotidiano desde el que contemplar el mundo y afilar la imaginación. Se transcriben aquí (salvando, en la medida de lo posible, la singularidad de la palabra y la teatralidad de los gestos de aquel contexto privilegiado) las cinco clases de un curso de 2012 sobre la teoría del cine de Eisenstein impartido en la Filmoteca de Santander, en las que asistimos a la paulatina clarificación del complejo pensamiento de uno de los mayores cineastas que han existido, a su vez principal teórico del montaje desde sus posibilidades rítmicas, plásticas y orgánicas, a sus capacidades relacionales, afectivas e intelectuales. Pero El genio de Eisenstein es mucho más que el trazo de un curso o la memoria compartida de la enseñanza de un experto, ya que Viota, para paliar la ausencia de las proyecciones de fragmentos fílmicos que interrumpían el flujo de las explicaciones, ha completado un exigente apartado de análisis y descripciones (que diseccionan los momentos álgidos de la obra del director de El acorazado Potemkin o las secuencias de otras películas traídas a colación, como el inolvidable «camino hasta el beso» de Recuerda de Hitchcock), lo que supone su mayor aportación hasta la fecha a la obra del venerado artista soviético.
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JEAN-LUC GODARD
Casi las mismas decadas de insumisión y rebeldía que ha protagonizado Godard con su vida y obra lleva Paulino Viota estudiando ambas, desde el apasionamiento cinefilo y la devoción inteligente que siente por "el cineasta con mayor riqueza estructural de la historial del cine". Dividido en dos grandes bloques, este ensayo magistral y ya definitivo tras la reciente desaparición del cineasta pone en perspectiva todas las etapas de su mítica carrera, que arranca con la irreverente modernidad de los años 60, atraviesa la militancia política y el utópico deseo de fusión en lo colectivo, y desemboca, rayando el nuevo milenio y como colofón a una duradera y profunda reflexión sobre la mediación tecnológica, en ese estilo inimitable donde lo poetico acontece como posibilidad de una simultaneidad inedita entre imágenes y sonidos, materiales ya convertidos en "formas que piensan" la historia del cine y la del siglo XX, como ejemplifica a la perfección una de sus cimas, "Histoire(s) du cinema".
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MUY DE LA CASA. LOS ACTORES DE MI VIDA
Puede que la mayor tragedia en el campo del cine de la inveterada costumbre española de vivir de espaldas a Portugal haya sido el escaso interés por una de las personalidades más destacadas de la cinefilia del siglo XX, João Bénard da Costa, quien desde la Gulbenkian primero y, especialmente luego, como factótum de la Cinemateca transformaría para siempre la cultura cinematográfica de su país, en sintonía con la revolución moderna de Langlois en Francia. Así, como su maestro, pensó la programación de cine como una bella arte, en parte juego intelectual, en parte fuente de iluminaciones y transmisión de conocimiento: la puesta en contigüidad de películas e ideas que establecen linajes, dialécticas o extravíos rizomáticos donde se abolen las jerarquías entre alta y baja cultura. Para contagiar el entusiasmo por el cine, además de amarlo hubo que defenderlo, y nadie como Bénard da Costa lo hizo, con cientos de textos, hojas de espectador, libros y artículos en periódicos como estos que publicara en O Independente entre 1989 y 1990 y que conforman la base de Muy de la casa, exquisita colección de mini-biografías de actores y actrices considerados como de la familia.
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ESPAÑA ABANDONADA
Barren red deserts dotted with post-colonial ghost towns, dilapidated inner city factories, discarded country homesteads and a succession of dormant, soot-filled power stations are just a handful of the desolate, yet visually rich narratives that form part of the abandoned Australia landscape.
Digging beneath the sun-baked soil, Shane Thoms uncovers the modern ruins scattered over this arid continent and reveals a series of beautifully broken abodes hiding in the crevices of the Great Southern Land.
Whispering of both long-gone happy family moments and human darkness, of working lives and the everyday pursuits of living, these atmospheric scenes allow us to reconstruct the stories of the past. Prompting conversations about a growing, diverse country with a complicated history, these abandoned places both connect as well as contrast the past and the present and chronicle the hidden remnants of the evolving Australian story.
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PATRIMONIO ABANDONADO
Los vestigios de Abjasia, un país que no existe, una fábrica abandonada transformada en decorados para Hollywood, la Línea Verde de Chipre, la ciudad fantasma que dejó la catástrofe de Chernóbil, un cine modernista en Bruselas, insólitas fortificaciones del siglo XVIII en Italia, la ciudad de Tskaltubo y sus “aguas de la inmortalidad”, una de las termas más antiguas de Rumanía…
Roman Robroek es un fotógrafo del sur de los Países Bajos fascinado por la arquitectura urbana. Sus espectaculares fotografías de lugares olvidados en el mundo entero han ganado múltiples premios. ¿Cuál es la historia de estos edificios? ¿Quiénes vivían en ellos? ¿Para qué servían esos objetos y por qué los abandonaron? Su insaciable curiosidad por estos temas le llevó a ser fotógrafo urbano. Patrimonio abandonado es el resultado de diez años explorando lugares fantasmales en busca de respuestas.
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PINTURAS PECULIARES, ESCULTURAS EXTRAVAG
El enigma de la Mona Lisa desnuda, El artista que pintó el fondo marino, Los ángeles mosqueteros del Nuevo Mundo, Los misteriosos retratos de hombres en llamas o La legión de hombres lobo del Ejército romano: una estrafalaria exploración de la vertiente más curiosa del arte, con pinturas, esculturas, dibujos y otras rarezas artísticas extrañas. Una exposición única que reúne más de cien obras magníficas, elegidas por su sorprendente belleza, su rareza y la cautivadora historia que hay detrás de su creación. Tesoros oscuros y olvidados conviven con obras maestras muy conocidas, y todos tienen historias secretas que contar. Las páginas de este libro acogen frescos medievales sobre el Juicio Final, esculturas que gritan, manuscritos mágicos, arquitectura imposible, santos con cabeza de perro y el primer retrato de un caníbal. Arte robado, arte marginal, arte fantasma, arte de venganza y arte pintado en el fondo del mar junto a muestras de arte escandaloso, falsificaciones y engaños, arte de sueños y pesadillas, y pinturas crípticas todavía por descifrar.
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BOOK OF BIBLES (40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITI)
In the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages were kings, princes, and high-ranking religious members whose wealth and influence produced illustrated bibles of extraordinary craftsmanship.
This edition brings together 50 of the finest medieval bible manuscripts from the Austrian National Library. With examples from every epoch of the Middle Ages, the collection explores visualizations of the bible in various theological and historical contexts. In impeccable reproduction quality, these stunning images may be appreciated as much as art historical treasures as they are important religious artifacts.
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