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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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HOUSES NATURAL/ NATURAL HOUSES
Architects have sought more and more to integrate residences into their settings minimally disturbing nature, with houses that float on the water or up in the trees. This book reveals 51 designs that bring their residences into nature, even allowing the natural setting to enter the very walls, with priority given to sustainability and carbon footprint. Each of the book’s homes is carefully chosen for its innovative and seductive design, approachable scale, and stunning location, whether cocooned within the earth itself or soaring high amongst the treetops, surrounded by cooling waters, or resisting the desert heat.
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HOW THEY ENTERTAIN
Pierre Sauvage takes readers on a visual and culinary journey through the world’s most stylish gatherings.
Following the international triumph of Be My Guest, Sauvage delves deeper into the realms of imaginative entertainment with twenty vibrant global tastemakers. Open the doors to Rebecca de Ravenel’s breezy Portuguese sanctuary in Estoril, step into Remy Renzullo’s refined London abode, and wander through Isabelle de Borchgrave’s inspired artist’s studio in Belgium. Each locale springs to life with lush photography of lavish homes, innovative tablescapes, and imaginative flower arrangements.
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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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THE FLOWERS OF YVES SAINT LAURENT
Produced with the Yves Saint Laurent museums in Paris and Marrakech, this book examines how flowers served as the designer’s muse throughout his life and work.
Yves Saint Laurent’s passion for flowers and gardens was the source of endless inspiration. From a thousand and one rose buds to sprigs of lily of the valley, from an avalanche of bougainvillea to delicate poppy blooms, and from sheaves of wheat to majestic lilies, he metamorphosed nature in his creations. Employing flowers as a palette of patterns and techniques, he adorned women in floral appliqués, prints, and embroideries.
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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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FASHION FIRST
A fashion icon in her own right, Keaton amusingly revisits and reflects on some of her favorite and not-so-favorite fashion moments over the decades, from childhood homemade outfits to red carpet ensembles and street style experiments she tried from the 1960s until today.
Since she could remember, Keaton has been fascinated by clothing and style. As a little girl, she would pick out patterns and request that her mother make her custom outfits. This was the beginning of a love affair with clothes and looks, and sometimes, fashion. From the outset of her acting career in the 1970s, the legendary star has experimented and thought outside the lines of what a Hollywood icon should wear and still became lauded as a style icon by Vogue, W, The Hollywood Reporter, and countless fashion websites. Keaton’s style is at once timeless, experimental, bold, effortless, androgynous, quirky, and utterly and distinctly her own.
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CULLMAN & KRAVIS: INTERIORS
Ceaseless in its pursuit to create “an alchemy of old and new,” the highly esteemed firm of Cullman & Kravis is renowned for its ability to fashion modern, cohesive, richly layered homes rooted in tradition and the respect for function and decoration. Utilizing their decades of experience, they build out rooms from the finest classical foundations, then infuse bold, stylish, and modish elements, mixing exquisite antiques with contemporary art to create truly dynamic spaces conceived to stand the test of time.
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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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COMING HOME
A celebration of the innovative, artisanal, and sustainable living exemplified by contemporary Dutch interiors.
With a carefully curated collection of interiors, including historic canal houses, restored farms, and green homes, belonging to interior designers, product designers, architects, and artists, this book showcases creative and resourceful living. These properties have been created or renovated and brought into the twenty-first century with typical Dutch style and sensibility—environmentally friendly, imaginative uses of space filled with color and charm and never to be taken too seriously.
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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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CHATEAU DE HAROUE
A dazzling tour of Château de Haroué, the epitome of opulent French style and one of today’s must-see examples of vibrant eighteenth-century architecture and design.
Located in a remote village in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, the estate of Château de Haroué is an unrivaled treasure of Gallic culture and heritage. Built between 1720 and 1729 for Marc de Beauvau, Prince de Beauvau-Craon, constable of Lorraine and viceroy of Tuscany, his descendents have inhabited the castle and kept it going in high style ever since.
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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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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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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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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 ART OF GRACIE. HANDPAINTED WALLPAPER
The story of Gracie wallpaper, founded in 1898 and still family owned by the sixth generation, is one of the great untold stories of American interior design. Best known for their exquisitely detailed designs, Gracie papers have been installed at the White House and many of America’s most notable homes. They are a go-to resource for interior designers including Mark Sikes, Summer Thornton, Ellie Cullman, Brooke Giannetti, Suzanne Kasler, Michael S. Smith, Alexa Hampton, Alex Papachristidis, and Amanda Lindroth, and Gracie can be found in the homes of celebrities including Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, and Cameron Diaz.
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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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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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EL ARTE DE LA ADAPTACION
Linda Seger explica con claridad cómo adaptar al cine una novela, una obra de teatro o una historia real, y da solución a los problemas más comunes.
Las adaptaciones cinematográficas son, desde hace mucho tiempo, el principal soporte de la industria de Hollywood y de las cadenas de televisión norteamericanas. Además, la mayoría de las cintas que han ganado el Oscar a la mejor película han sido adaptaciones de novelas, obras de teatro o historias reales. Linda Seger, autora de varios libros ya clásicos sobre escritura de guiones, ofrece ahora un manual valioso y completo para guionistas, productores y realizadores que quieran adaptar obras y acontecimientos a la pantalla.
Junto a cómo analizar este material y evaluar su potencial como película, Seger proporciona un método práctico para trasladar al cine la historia, los personajes, los temas y el estilo. La última parte aborda también las cuestiones legales de toda adaptación, las posibilidades de opción sobre una obra y la protección de los derechos como guionista o productor.
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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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DISEÑO DE PROCESOS CREATIVOS
Trabajar en equipo es algo enormemente gratificante, pero también enormemente complejo. Tras muchos años de experiencia en la facilitación de procesos de creación en grupo, el autor ha sintetizado en este libro una eficaz metodología que sirve de guía para evitar los habituales puntos ciegos, errores, desequilibrios y amenazas que pueden obstruir el proceso y bloquear al equipo.
¿Qué debemos saber para co-crear con eficacia y disfrute? ¿Qué figuras o fases de ideación en equipo se dan en un proyecto? ¿Cómo evitar problemas habituales como las actitudes muy críticas, el recelo hacia las nuevas ideas, el conformismo o la falta de motivación del equipo?
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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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DAR FORMA A LO COTIDIANO
“Las cuestiones de la conciencia de la forma, la belleza y la armonía no me interesan tanto a nivel abstracto como en la medida que afectan a la vida cotidiana y en relación con el arte de vivir. La vida cotidiana, si nos fijamos en las teorías orientales del arte, es un aspecto central del camino del artista.” Como en el arte o en el diseño, carecer de forma implica dispersión y pérdida de referencias, quedar expuesto a los fenómenos externos sin ritmo ni control. Dar forma a lo cotidiano es una invitación a poner en valor nuestra realidad tangible y manejable, a trabajar la atención plena sobre las cuestiones básicas que rigen nuestra cotidianidad ―la alimentación, el amor, los medios de comunicación, la vestimenta y nuestras posesiones― y conectar con ellas de forma consciente, limitando sus contornos y encontrando su lugar en la red que conforma nuestro fundamento vital.
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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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PELICULERO
Un viaje emocional por el cine y la televisión que han definido a toda una generación
Hace menos de tres años parecía que el cine estaba muerto, que nadie volvería nunca a las salas, que las grandes estrellas no existían y que solo las películas de superhéroes eran viables económicamente. Y entonces llegó Barbie.
Este es un recorrido personal tan personal que es casi universal por la historia más reciente del cine, y en particular del cine palomitero, ese cine comercial, orgulloso de serlo, que ha moldeado nuestro imaginario colectivo. Un mundo de dinosaurios, naves galácticas, agentes secretos y sirenas que Alberto empezó viendo primero desde el sofá de casa para poco a poco adentrarse en él profesionalmente. El libro se inmiscuye en rodajes de series y películas, en junkets de prensa, fiestas y premios que, junto a las mismas películas que luego vemos en la sala, configuran un universo que mezcla ficción y realidad y del que ningún peliculero podrá escapar nunca.
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GEORGE LUCAS
George Lucas es uno de los cineastas más reconocidos y admirados de todos los tiempos. En este libro, David M. Buisán nos descubre la fascinante historia de su vida y obra. A través de sus vibrantes ilustraciones, podremos revivir escenas icónicas de las películas de Lucas, además de conocer detalles y curiosidades sobre la producción y realización de sus grandes trabajos y de otras obras menos conocidas.
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EL PEQUEÑO LIBRO DE LA HISTORIA DEL ARTE
El pequeño libro de la historia del arte es una obra sencilla, muy práctica y accesible, que te llevará de la mano a través de las distintas corrientes y épocas artísticas de la historia, y que te ayudará a entender a la primera las diferencias entre el Rococó y el Manierismo o entre el Modernismo y el Impresionismo, por ejemplo. Gracias a El pequeño libro de la historia del arte aprenderás de una vez la diferencia entre los órdenes arquitectónicos clásicos (dórico, jónico y corintio), y podrás disfrutar de las mejores obras artísticas de la historia de la humanidad a la vez que aprendes a situarlas en su contexto histórico y etapa artística. Descubre cómo la evolución de la historia del arte ha esculpido la sensibilidad artística actual y la forma en la que entendemos hoy el arte. En este pequeño gran libro hallarás información relacionada con: • Las primeras obras de arte de la historia de la humanidad, como las pinturas rupestres de las cuevas de Lascaux o piezas como la Venus de Willendorf. • Las maravillas del arte antiguo, como la tumba de Tutankamón, el Partenón o el palacio de Sargón II en Khorsabad. • Los tesoros del arte bizantino, islámico, románico y gótico durante la Edad Media. • Las mejores pinturas y obras de ingeniería del arte contemporáneo y sus autores, de Van Gogh a Andy Wharhol, de Gustave Eiffel a Frank Gehry.
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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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SOSTENER LA NOTA
Desde el debut de Leonard Cohen, cuando su miedo escenico le impedía terminar "Suzanne", hasta la icónica caída del abrigo de visón de ArethaFranklin en el Kennedy Center mientras Barack y Michelle Obama aplaudían efusivamente. En Sostener la nota, el legendario director de la revista The New Yorker, David Remnick, reúne sus escritos sobre algunos de los músicos, compositores e interpretes más famosos del mundo con vocación de entender cómo han pervivido en el tempo y en el tiempo las mayores y más populares voces del último siglo en Estados Unidos.
Ganador de un premio Pulitzer por La tumba de Lenin, Remnick toma como hilo conductor las fulgurantes y longevas carreras de los mayores iconos musicales del planeta (Patti Smith, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Buddy Guy…) para entregar una reflexión magistral sobre el exito, el fracaso, el estrellato, el relevo generacional y el ocaso profesional. Este bestseller, que recoge con gracia
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FREE JAZZ
En 1959 tres álbumes fundamentales de Miles Davis, John Coltrane y Ornette Coleman llevaron a sus últimas posibilidades el jazz de su época, frente al que surgiría el free jazz.
Este nuevo estilo musical exacerbaba la negritud, rescataba las raíces africanas, explotaba la ancestral polirritmia y al mismo tiempo conectaba con las vanguardias artísticas de su tiempo, generando un tipo de improvisación nunca oído hasta entonces. Era un jazz más radical, tanto en lo musical como en lo político. Los músicos que lo abrazaron eran exploradores de nuevas sonoridades, que podían resultar ásperas y violentas. Era el sonido de la libertad.
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50 PELICULAS CON LAS QUE HACERSE MAYOR
Un libro que hará que los jóvenes descubran y se enamoren de toda la maravilla del cine, de la mano de uno de los más grandes maestros de la cinematografía.
«Si todavía existiera un yo de doce años y si tuviese a alguien que me diera una lista de 50 películas para ver, me parecería el mejor regalo del mundo.» (Giuseppe Tornatore)
¿Cuáles son las películas que hay que ver para hacerse mayor? ¿Las que conmueven, las que hacen reír, pensar y aquellas que todo niño o joven debería ver para aprenderlo todo sobre el cine y, por qué no, sobre la vida?
Este es un libro dirigido y editado por el director Giuseppe Tornatore que relata las 50 películas imprescindibles, desde la saga de Harry Potter para vivir una gran aventura y descubrir el valor de la amistad hasta El instante fugaz, para comprender lo importante que es afrontar la vida siendo fiel a uno mismo.
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LUZ Y SOMBRAS
Presentamos íntegras por primera vez las anotaciones del diario del gran cronista Victor Klemperer sobre sus experiencias cinematográficas en los inicios de la era del cine sonoro. Desde el principio, el cinefilo es testigo de cómo la innovación tecnica se abre paso en la Alemania de 1929, y aunque inicialmente fue crítico con las películas sonoras, pronto cayó rendido ante las posibilidades de este nuevo formato. No era raro que viera varios filmes por semana. Sin embargo, los nacionalsocialistas se fueron apoderando del medio, y Klemperer acabará por quedar excluido de las salas de cine cuando en 1938 se prohíbe la entrada a los 'no arios'. Afortunadamente, ni siquiera eso pudo mantenerlo alejado de su gran pasión. Obligado a una existencia en la sombra, Klemperer experimentó momentos de luz ante la gran pantalla: 'Tanta música, humor, arte interpretativo y todo.
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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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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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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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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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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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VIENNA 1900 (BA-ART) (GB)
Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: “To every age its art — to every art its freedom;” and tremors warned of looming political disintegration when the Austrian capital passed into a new century.
Across economics, science, art, and music, Vienna blossomed into a “laboratory of modernity,” one which nurtured some of the greatest artistic innovators—from Egon Schiele’s unflinching nude portraits to Gustav Klimt’s decadent Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, from the ornamental seams and glass floors of Otto Wagner to Ditha Moser’s calendars adorned in golden deities.
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EUGENE ATGET, PARIS (BU) (INT)
A flâneur and photographer at once, Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acting, the native of Libourne turned to photography and moved to Paris. He supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers, but became enraptured by what he called “documents” of the city and its environs. His scenes rarely included people, but rather the architecture, landscape, and artifacts that made up the societal and cultural stage.
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RODIN (BA-ART) (GB)
While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement, the expression of the body, chance effects, and the incomplete fragment. It was these elements that gave shape, and the impression of life, to such famous works as The Kiss and The Thinker.
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SAARINEN (BA-ART) (GB)
The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll “Tulip” chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) was one of the 20th century’s most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility across architecture and design.Among Saarinen’s greatest accomplishments are Washington D.C.’s Dulles International Airport, the very sculptural and fluid TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and the 630 ft. (192 m) high Gateway Arch of St. Louis, Missouri, each of them defining structures of postwar America. Catenary curves were present in many of his structural designs. During his long association with Knoll, Saarinen’s other famous furniture pieces included the “Grasshopper” lounge chair and the “Womb” settee.
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HOLBEIN (BA-ART) (GB)
This book brings together key Holbein paintings to explore his illustrious and international career as well as the courtly drama and radical religious change that informed his work. With rich illustration, we survey the masterful draftsmanship and almost supernatural ability to control details, from the textures of luxurious clothing to the ornament of a room, that secured Holbein’s place as one of the greatest portraitists in Western art history.
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BREUER. ARNT COBBERS (BA-ART) (GB)
In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining “form-givers of the 20th century.” Today, Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, color, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth.In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer’s complete career through some of his most influential projects and ideas, from his landmark tubular furniture to the MoMA Research House to his innovation of “binuclear” housing, splitting living and sleeping areas into separate wings. Along the way, we follow Hungarian-born Breuer’s journey to international acclaim, with featured projects from Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and across the United States contributing to his global status as a modernist maestro.
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DURER (BA-ART) (GB)
A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from religion to art theory to philosophy. His vast body of work includes altarpieces, portraits, self-portraits, watercolors, and books, but is most celebrated for its astonishing collection of woodcut prints, which transformed printmaking from an artisan practice into a whole new art form.
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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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EL CINE DE FIN DE MILENIO
Comentarios sobre las películas españolas y extranjeras más relevantes de ese período, con sus fichas técnico-artísticas.
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EL TIGRE Y LA GUITARRA
El tigre y la guitarra es la historia de Yoichiro Yamada, un japonés que vino a España para ser guitarrista flamenco y jamás regresó a su país. Terminó abducido por dos mundos idílicos y en principio opuestos: el del flamenco que amaba y el de los samuráis de los que era descendiente. En su deriva no supo encontrar la salida a su propio laberinto. «¡Vuelve a casa!», le pedían sus amigos. Pero se negaba: no podía regresar porque no se había convertido en el guitarrista que soñó. El tigre y la guitarra nos habla del choque de universos paralelos, de pasiones y de obsesiones, pero también de hasta dónde nos arrastran nuestros pensamientos, del fracaso y de cómo los sueños que perseguimos pueden acabar persiguiéndonos.
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CONVERSACIONES CON WOODY ALLEN
Durante más de tres décadas, Eric Lax ha mantenido largas y distendidas conversaciones con el gran cineasta neoyorquino, además de haber tenido acceso privilegiado a sus rodajes y al proceso de elaboración de sus películas. El resultado de todo ello ha sido este libro, una verdadera autobiografía artística en directo.
Allen aborda todas las facetas de su trabajo y nos abre las puertas de su intimidad creativa. Su labor como director, actor, guionista o compositor se analiza y se comenta detalladamente con lucidez y rigor pero también a través de anécdotas e historias inolvidables, sin dejar nunca de lado su genuino e inconfundible sentido del humor. En definitiva, este libro, profusamente ilustrado, es probablemente el mejor compendio acerca de Woody Allen que jamás se haya publicado, las confesiones de un genio de nuestro tiempo.
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HADID (40TH ) (INT)
Zaha Hadid (1950 - 2016) was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build. Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a new and unique architectural language to cities and structures such as the Port House in Antwerp, the Al Janoub Stadium near Doha, Qatar, and the spectacular new airport terminal in Beijing.
By her untimely death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among architecture’s finest elite, working on projects in Europe, China, the Middle East, and the United States. She was the first female architect to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the prestigious RIBA Royal Gold Medal, with her long-time Partner Patrik Schumacher now the leader of Zaha Hadid Architects and in charge of many new projects.
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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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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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HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN (40TH) (INT)
Through the turbulent passage of time, graphic design—with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea—has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist packaging to colorful adverts, smart environmental graphics to sleek interfaces: graphic design is as much about transmitting information as it is about reflecting society’s cultural aspirations and values.
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MANET (BASIC ART EDITION) (INT)
Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (1832–1883) is now considered a crucial figure in the history of art, bridging the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Manet’s work combined a painterly technique with strikingly modern images of contemporary life, centered on the urban Paris experience. He recorded the city’s parks, bars, and cabarets, often delighting in the frisson of underground or provocative content. The Paris salon rejected his Déjeuner sur l’herbe with its juxtaposition of fully dressed men and a nude woman, while the steady gaze and unabashed pose of the prostitute Olympia, a very modern reworking of Titian’s Venus of Urbino, caused a society scandal.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY AT HOME
From Susan Sully comes this book of inspirations for those who are enamored with the ever-enchanting Southern way of living.
The words "Southern hospitality" conjure up a wealth of welcoming images, from breezy porches with white colonnades and the seductive scent of magnolia blossoms cut from the yard to fill heirloom vases to tables laden with fine china on embroidered linens, illuminated by candles. Southern Hospitality at Home showcases the special qualities of graciousness and charm that define the American South's way of living. Learn from Southern style experts how to make your home an inviting place for sharing with family and friends--from designing welcoming entrance halls and inviting living rooms to comfortable kitchens, pretty guest rooms, and shady garden rooms--and weave your spell of hospitality.
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STUDIO ASHBY
The highly anticipated debut from one of today’s most influential tastemakers in contemporary interior design, published on the occasion of her studio’s tenth anniversary.
Growing up, interior designer Sophie Ashby cultivated a passion for modern art, fine antiques, and bold color. After studying art history and interior design, she launched her London-based design studio in 2014 at the age of twenty-five with just one client—and has been cementing her status as a tour de force ever since.
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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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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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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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COUNTRY HOUSE LIVING
Following her success with Nora Murphy’s Country House Style, Murphy celebrates a selection of homes and their homeowners, each exemplifying a different style.
For Nora Murphy, a country house isn’t so much a place as it is a state of mind. A country house is warm, welcoming—at once down to earth, yet elegant. A country house has genuine character, tells a story, and is truly, wonderfully lived in. Here Murphy explores the tenets of country house style, as illustrated by her own “new” country house, and the many other striking homes she has curated for the book. Each one of these homeowners has embraced country house style—but each implements it in their own unique way. There is a pastoral 1732 center-chimney colonial in Connecticut nestled in spectacular gardens, a cozy cottage on the coast of Maine rich with local details, and an 1840s Greek Revival in the Hudson Valley filled with romantic Victorian ephemera. Common threads weave through the stories: the thrill of the antiques hunt, the role of history, and the priority of comfort.
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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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BUNNY WILLIAMS: LIFE IN THE GARDEN
This is Bunny Williams’ most ambitious book to date.
Inviting us into her impressive grounds with charming personal anecdotes, expert advice, and hundreds of stunning photographs–printed on two different speciality stocks–Bunny Williams illustrates every aspect of the gardens surrounding her eighteenth-century manor house in Northwestern Connecticut in different lights and seasons.
A popular stop on the Garden Conservancy circuit, Williams’ property boasts a parterre garden,year-round conservatory, extensive vegetable garden, orchard, woodlands, an aviary with exotic fowl, and a rustic poolside Greek Revival–style folly. Each section of the garden is accompanied by adirectory of featured plants—from native ferns and succulents to a wide variety of flowering specimens.
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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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BRYAN OSULLIVAN.A NEW GLAMOUR
New York and London–based interior designer Bryan O’Sullivan creates spaces that mix modern and historical influences, resulting in luxuriously chic interiors that are both glamourous and welcoming. This book, the designer’s first, showcases the groundbreaking work of a remarkable and rising talent.
Old-school Hollywood glamour with a contemporary touch is the hallmark of interior designer Bryan O’Sullivan’s repertoire, on full display in his commissions for the Red Room at the Connaught Hotel, the much-admired Berkeley Bar & Terrace, and the art deco Painter’s Room at Claridges, all some of London’s most fabulous and plush spaces. With expertise in both architecture and interiors, O’Sullivan’s broader vision is reflected as well in selected residential projects, which range from a family house for a prominent restaurateur, a Fifth Avenue apartment in New York, and a historic early 1900s hôtel particulier in Paris’s 16th arrondissement.
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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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AT THE LOUVRE.
An exclusive look into the preparations behind the Naples in Paris exhibition at the Louvre, beautifully captured by the renowned photographer Robert Polidori.
From June 2023 to January 2024, the Musée du Louvre in Paris welcomed sixty major masterpieces from the Museo di Capodimonte, on loan for the exhibition Naples in Paris: The Louvre Hosts the Museo di Capodimonte. The former Italian royal palace, which once served as a hunting lodge for Bourbon monarchs, is now one of the largest museums in Italy holding one of the continent’s most important collections of Italian paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Among the artworks featured are the famously enigmatic Antea by Parmigianino, a poignant painting of the Crucifixion by Masaccio, The Transfiguration of Christ by Giovanni Bellini, and preparatory cartoons by Raphael and Michelangelo.
On the occasion of this historic artistic exchange, acclaimed photographer Robert Polidori was granted exclusive access to the preparations of the exhibition in the Louvre’s prestigious Grand Galerie. Known for his unique images of architecture and interiors, Polidori exquisitely captures the process and inner workings of the arrival, set-up, and display of the artworks. Part photography monograph, part art history book, this unique publication reveals the hidden workings behind one of the most significant collaborative efforts among major museums in recent years.
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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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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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GARDEN EDEN (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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CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE (40TH
apan's contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than eight Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize.
Since Osaka World Expo ’70 highlighted contemporary forms, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Tadao Ando's geometry put Japanese building on the map, bridging East and West. After his concrete buildings, figures like Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, and Kazuyo Sejima pioneered a more sustainable approach. Younger generations have taken new directions, in harmony with nature, traditional building, and an endless search for forms.
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TROPICAL LIVING:DREAM HOUSES PUNTA CANA
This beautiful volume celebrates a dreamy vacation-and-escape destination, showcasing the most exclusive homes in the Caribbean tropical paradise of Punta Cana.
This book takes us on a tropical adventure through Punta Cana Resort & Club’s most exclusive seaside homes.
The stunning homes featured in this beautiful volume are set in exotic locations, with endless turquoise sea and sand views, on sweeping terraces with glimmering pools and dramatic sunsets. Breathtaking interiors with colorful tiles, earth-toned walls, thatched roofs, and natural wood finishes bring serenity and joy.
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CONVERSACIONES CON GRANDES FIGURAS DE LA
De música, por supuesto sus inicios, referencias y maestros, sus trabajos, pero también de otros asuntos más personales sus miedos y sueños y universales amor, drogas, política, religión, muerte es de lo que el autor de este libro, reconocido periodista cultural con varias biografías de estrellas de la canción española en su haber, ha conversado a lo largo de tres décadas con los 40 grandes músicos e intérpretes que lo protagonizan.
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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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VIAJE DEL ARTISTA (TD)
Siga los pasos de algunos de los artistas más famosos del mundo: algunas obras de arte realmente excepcionales han sido inspiradas por artistas lejos de su entorno habitual. * Desde interesantes viajes por mar y arduas caminatas por territorios remotos hasta rutas culturales y vacaciones veraniegas: 30 treinta influyentes viajes realizados por artistas célebres. * Se analizan y revelan las repercusiones que han tenido esos viajes en las vidas personales de los artistas y en el panorama cultural en general. Un atlas que constituye una especie de nomenclátor de viajes y lugares visitados por artistas de diversa índole y en diferentes etapas de sus vidas.
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PEQUEÑO LIBRO DE CHANEL POR LAGERFELD
Una guía cuidadosamente ilustrada de los años que Lagerfeld trabajó en Chanel, desde su alta costura elaborada con gran exquisitez a los impresionantes e irreverentes desfiles que han hecho de Chanel la marca más ilustre del mundo. * La Casa Chanel no es sinónimo de un diseñador emblemático, sino de dos. Primero fue Gabrielle y luego Karl. * Sin embargo, Karl Lagerfeld no se limitó a continuar el legado de Gabrielle Chanel, sino que lo reinventó. Los productos icónicos de la Casa Chanel -el vestidito negro, el traje de tweed, la bisutería y la fragancia- se actualizaron con ingenio para la mujer moderna, mientras que los deseados accesorios estampados con el logotipo de la doble "C", reconocibles al instante, se convirtieron en símbolos universales de una elegancia lúdica. "Los jóvenes creadores que quieren seguir mis pasos, tienen que correr".
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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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LA GUERRA Y LA MUSICA
Esta ambiciosa obra es una revisión fundamental de la música clásica compuesta en el siglo XX. Su autor afirma que fueron las tres grandes guerras que tuvieron lugar en él las que conformaron su historia. Desde esta perspectiva, Mauceri indaga en los motivos por los que se han añadido tan escasas obras al canon musical desde 1930, examinando las diferentes trayectorias de los grandes compositores que, tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, desarrollaron una voz tan única como versátil, pero con una vocación más popular. Asimismo, defiende que el destino de los compositores durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial estuvo inextricablemente unido a los propósitos políticos de sus respectivos gobiernos. Ello derivó en acontecimientos tan significativos como la desaparición de la música experimental en Alemania, Italia y Rusia; el éxodo de numerosos compositores a Estados Unidos y la repentina recuperación de la música experimental lo que Mauceri llama «la vanguardia institucional», entendida como la lengua franca de la música clásica occidental durante la Guerra Fría.
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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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SIMETRIAS. LOS 5 ACTOS DE JOHN FORD
De una incomparable familiaridad con el legado clásico y moderno del cine, del estudio exhaustivo de sus películas y de los rasgos de estilo de sus cineastas, nace el Paulino Viota teórico, ese sabio que ha plantado en artículos, libros, conferencias y cursos la fructífera semilla de su apasionamiento, marcando a varias generaciones de cinéfilos mediante la finura del análisis, la argumentación audaz y la iluminación arrebatadora. Fue, como bien se ha dicho, la opción elegida para seguir siendo creativo, para hacer cine de otra manera, cuando su carrera de cineasta se vio desgraciadamente truncada. En "Simetrías. Los cinco actos en las películas de John Ford", catorce títulos del director de Fort Apache o The Searchers son desmenuzados para hacer comparecer a su cineasta-constructor, demiurgo tras las apariencias que apuntala la narración y gestiona su memoria esa guía afectiva del espectador atento a partir de cinco actos, unidades de sentido de raigambre mítica relacionadas entre sí por simetrías y correspondencias que explican la pregnancia del cine fordiano. Así, Paulino Viota, con una clarividencia que se impone a la hybris, nos faculta a comprender y sentir la parte sumergida que sustenta la punta visible de ese imponente iceberg llamado John Ford; y mientras, el lector, en justa proporción, celebra el trabajo minucioso y callado, la tramoya de diagramas y esquemas que el analista ha ido desarrollando durante años para poder arribar a sus emocionantes conclusiones, aquí donadas con la generosidad que todos conocemos y admiramos en él.
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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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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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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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