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El Diccionario Visual de Star Wars. Los últimos Jedi presenta a todos los personajes, criaturas, droides, localizaciones y tecnología de la película. Con más de un centenar de imágenes e información de la mano de Pablo Hidalgo, creador de contenidos de Star WarsTM, es un libro imprescindible para todos aquellos fans que quieren ir más allá de la experiencia cinematográfica.

Un proyecto como este es algo excepcional, sin equivalentes antes ni despues: una pareja casada de fotógrafos publican autorretratos muy personales, incluso íntimos, y retratos mutuos tomados durante decadas, y complementa esas fotografías privadas con imágenes de personajes y celebridades de la jet-set. En 1998, Helmut y June Newton publicaron su legendario proyecto conjunto Us and Them en forma de libro y tambien en exposiciones complementarias. La primera parte de Us and Them, una historia incomparable de cincuenta y cinco años de convivencia y amor, nos ofrece una visión de la vida privada de los fotógrafos.Es una especie de diario fotográfico que documenta la vida que compartieron Helmut y June Newton por medio de las instantáneas que tomaron el uno del otro.

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and drawings beyond, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through paint, pencil, charcoal, or chalk. Yet as he was deploying the lurid colors, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms that would subsequently make his name, van Gogh battled not only the disinterest of his contemporary audience but also devastating bouts of mental illness. His episodes of depression and anxiety would eventually claim his life, when, in 1890, he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday. This richly illustrated introduction follows Vincent van Gogh’s story from his earliest pictures of peasants and rural workers, through his bright Parisian period, to his final, feverish burst of creative energy in the South of France during the last two and a half years of his life.

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a mastermind and innovator who anticipated some of the greatest discoveries of human progress, sometimes centuries before their material realization. From the smallest arteries in the human heart to the far-flung constellations of the universe, Leonardo saw nature and science as being unequivocally connected. His points of inquiry and invention spanned philosophy, anatomy, geology, and mathematics, from the laws of optics, gravitation, heat, and light to the building of a flying machine. In his painting, Leonardo steered art out of the Middle Ages with works such as The Last Supper and the world-famous La Gioconda or Mona Lisa depicting not only physical appearances, but a compelling psychological intrigue and depth which continues to draw crowds of mesmerized visitors to masterpieces in Paris, Milan, Washington, London, and Rome. This book brings together some of Leonardo’s most outstanding work to introduce a figure of infinite curiosity, feverish imagination, and sublime artistic ability, often described as having “not enough worlds for to conquer, and not enough lives for to live” (Alan Woods).