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Designer Nina Farmer has made a name for herself with her classically beautiful interiors. From reimagining century-old homes to more modern dwellings, Farmer has a way of creating looks that celebrate the past and simultaneously live squarely—and stylishly—in the present. In these pages, Farmer introduces readers to the design solutions she has found for creating that special combination: a carefully curated mix of the classic and the contemporary that looks like it was collected over time rather than created all at once.

The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline transformed Paris into a crucible of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. Profiles of eighty-eight influential artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, and personalities—including Gabrielle Chanel, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Brassaï, Man Ray, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Walter Benjamin, Josephine Baker, Jean Renoir, Gertrude Stein, and more—highlight the boundless creative energy and optimism that permeated the City of Light at this key historical juncture. Richly illustrated alphabetical entries with cross-references to related topics are complemented by six thematic essays on cinema, fashion, graphic design, habitation, painting, and urban planning. A portfolio of original contemporary photographs—from the historic center to the suburbs of Paris—reveals traces of modernism in dozens of buildings and their interiors that are rarely open to the public. This catalog—published to accompany an exhibition at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai in summer 2023—sketches a panorama of human invention across the vast creative landscape of Paris from 1914 to 1945.

Una lectura obligada para todo aquel que se sienta hechizado con el arte excepcional. Un esclarecedor homenaje a 100 piezas artísticas que revelan qué es lo que las hace obras maestras. Chloë Ashby explica por qué cada pieza que presenta resulta tan vital. Incluye obras seleccionadas para ofrecer una yuxtaposición única de estilos, medios y escuelas artísticas, para que incluso los más expertos historiadores del arte se crucen con obras infravaloradas, fuera del canon tradicional, y para conocer a visionarios rebeldes que aún ejercen su influencia en artistas de vanguardia.

Guía de bolsillo de la historia, los materiales y el simbolismo de los colores a lo largo de los siglos y las culturas. A través de sesenta obras maestras, que van desde los pigmentos que adornaban las cuevas prehistóricas hasta las luces de neón de Dan Flavin, los monocromos de Yves Klein y las creaciones de Veronés, Van Gogh, Delaunay, Warhol y Rothko, se exploran la historia, los materiales y el simbolismo de los colores a lo largo de los siglos y las culturas. Accesible, conciso y profusamente ilustrado, se analiza el cuándo, el cómo y el porqué de la evolución de los colores.

Un viaje desde los primeros largometrajes hasta la actualidad, con 50 películas icónicas de las que explica el papel fundamental del color en su éxito. Piense en los intensos colores rosa chicle de The Grand Budapest Hotel de Wes Anderson, la psicodelia alucinógena de 2001: A Space Odyssey de Stanley Kubrik, o los suaves violetas y tonalidades pastel de The Virgin Suicides de Sofia Coppola: el color en una película puede ser tremendamente poderoso. La gama cromática tiene la capacidad de relatar una historia, despertar emociones, favorecer una narrativa, o simplemente saturar la pantalla con unos elementos visuales hermosos e imponentes.

A global shift from fright to endearment is happening, and the world is falling in love with sharks as risk of their endangerment increases. Mike Coots, who was nearly killed by a tiger shark as a teenager and has since dedicated his life to capturing and sharing sharks’ beauty and indispensable role in a healthy ocean, gets up close and very personal with the magnificent creatures, presenting his unique perspective through portraits exposing both their brawn and their brains. Traveling the world (Hawaii, Mexico, New Zealand, Bahamas, and Maldives), free diving and scuba diving, often with no cage, Coots has recorded Tigers, Great Hammerheads, rare Oceanic White Tips, Lemons, Silvertips, Caribbean Reef Sharks, and massive Great Whites, as big as fourteen feet in length.

The Rosenfelds’ photographs of competition sailboats, billowing spinnakers, and graceful motor yachts not only document the most glamorous era of sailing and boating but also celebrate and capture the power, drama, and beauty of the maritime experience. These beautifully reproduced prints will transport the reader to the decks of daysailers, sleek America’s Cup racing boats, vintage Chris-Craft runabouts, and elegant motor yachts from a bygone era.

Amor, compromiso, fe, amistad, entrega: ¿Cuántas formas puede asumir la devoción? 150 grandes fotografías de Steve McCurry explican las mil facetas de uno de los sentimientos más poderosos del mundo. Un libro para observar el mundo y la humanidad con otros ojos, que revela lo mejor del espíritu humano en diferentes partes del planeta y en las situaciones más insospechadas.

Con un enfoque transversal dividido por temas, ofrecemos una nueva perspectiva de comprensión en este volumen que presenta el arte del shunga como un fenómeno artístico, histórico y social. Como expresión de un período específico en la historia del arte japonés, los grabados eróticos continúan fascinando, quizás por su apariencia a veces sobrenatural, otras por su violencia, pero siempre por su sensualidad.

From street corners to corner offices, mixtapes made a huge impact on the music industry and hip-hop culture in New York City during the late ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s. Mixtapes helped dictate what rap songs were hot in the clubs, on the radio, and in the streets, and they influenced which artists would get signed to record deals. Mixtapes also showcased which DJs had the most skills and creativity, and who had the juice to pull the illest exclusives. Do Remember! combines the best elements of oral and pictorial histories to explore the evolution of mixtapes as a crucial component of New York City hip-hop culture. Featuring a comprehensive collection of rare mixtape cover art, never-before-seen images, vintage tracklists, and exclusive interviews with Kid Capri, Brucie B, Mister Cee, Ron G, S&S, Doo Wop, Green Lantern, Lord Finesse, Clark Kent, Bobbito, Cipha Sounds, Havoc of Mobb Deep, the late, great DJ Kay Slay, and many more, including a special foreword by Fab 5 Freddy, Do Remember! captures an era in New York City that went on to inspire future hip-hop generations all over the world.