BELLAS ARTES

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.

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.

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.

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.

Los vestigios de Abjasia, un país que no existe, una fábrica abandonada transformada en decorados para Hollywood, la Línea Verde de Chipre, la ciudad fantasma que dejó la catástrofe de Chernóbil, un cine modernista en Bruselas, insólitas fortificaciones del siglo XVIII en Italia, la ciudad de Tskaltubo y sus “aguas de la inmortalidad”, una de las termas más antiguas de Rumanía… Roman Robroek es un fotógrafo del sur de los Países Bajos fascinado por la arquitectura urbana. Sus espectaculares fotografías de lugares olvidados en el mundo entero han ganado múltiples premios. ¿Cuál es la historia de estos edificios? ¿Quiénes vivían en ellos? ¿Para qué servían esos objetos y por qué los abandonaron? Su insaciable curiosidad por estos temas le llevó a ser fotógrafo urbano. Patrimonio abandonado es el resultado de diez años explorando lugares fantasmales en busca de respuestas.

Una Guía Práctica Para Descubrir El Jazz Moderno, Sus Compositores, Intérpretes Y Obras Más Representativas Con Selección Discográfica.