BELLAS ARTES

Una aproximación al arte del montaje tanto de sonido como de imagen, a la creación, la técnica y los secretos que rodean ambos oficios. Michael Ondaatje y Walter Murch se conocieron en el rodaje de El paciente inglés. La película, basada en la novela homónima de Ondaatje ganadora del Premio Booker, consiguió nueve Oscar: el de mejor montaje y el de mejor sonido reconocían el talento de Murch. La curiosidad del escritor le llevó a acercarse a Walter Murch, alguien que trabajaba con un lenguaje en principio muy distinto al suyo. Aquel encuentro derivó en una amistad a la que hoy debemos uno de los mejores libros sobre cine.  Se trata de una mirada única sobre el trabajo de directores como Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Anthony Minghella, Philip Kaufman o Fred Zinneman pero, sobre todo, es una aproximación de la manos de un genio al arte del montaje tanto de sonido como de imagen. El interrogatorio de un gran amante del séptimo arte como Michael Ondaatje se convierte en una lección magistral de cine.

La historia del arte desde el Renacimiento como nunca se ha contado. ¿Cuántas mujeres artistas conoce? ¿Quién hace la historia del arte? ¿Hubo mujeres que trabajaron como artistas antes del siglo XX? ¿Cuáles fueron las pioneras que abrieron el camino para las creadoras actuales? ¿Cuántas mujeres forman parte de las colecciones permanentes de los grandes museos? En una apasionante historia del arte, Katy Hessel, historiadora del arte y fundadora del podcast @thegreatwomenartists, presenta, entre otros, los deslumbrantes cuadros de la pintora renacentista Sofonisba Anguissola, las radicales obras de Harriet Powers en el siglo XIX, o la historia de la fascinante baronesa Von Freytag-Loringhoven, que inventó el concepto de arte encontrado mucho antes que Duchamp. Viajaremos por la Edad de Oro holandesa, contemplaremos el asombroso trabajo de las artistas latinoamericanas de posguerra y conoceremos a las mujeres que están definiendo qué es el arte en la actualidad.

The first international monograph of one of the most exciting painters working in Brazil today, Marina Perez Simão. Marina Perez Simão (1981–) is an internationally recognized contemporary artist who uses a variety of techniques, such as collage, drawing, watercolor, and oil painting, as starting points to combine interior and exterior landscapes. She composes visual journeys that sometimes traverse the unknown, the abstract, and the nebulous, but which also include visions and memories.   Simão’s work is held in several public collections worldwide, including the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, in Saint-Étienne, France; the Ekard Collection in the Netherlands; the Samdani Art Foundation in Bangladesh; the Sifang Art Museum in China; the Speed Art Museum in Kentucky; and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others.

Longtime music icon John Mellencamp’s artistic expression has never been limited to song. The acclaimed singer-songwriter John Mellencamp has been an accomplished painter for more than four decades. This definitive survey—curated by Mellencamp himself—of his large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media assemblages documents America’s heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with an antiestablishment frown and a rich sense of narrative.   “Although we may primarily know Mellencamp as a rock star, one of the highest-selling of all time and a Hall of Famer, he is also a great painter, as this book shows. Not a musician who also paints... No, John legitimately belongs in the modern art pantheon,” says Bob Guccione Jr. in his essay that delineates the connection of Mellencamp’s music and art, both imbued with the earnest voice of America’s heartland.

Longtime creative collaborators Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard present an illustrated tribute to the costumes of legendary Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s iconic films. Retracing Pier Paolo Pasolini’s entire cinematography—which continues to fascinate audiences almost half a century after his passing—Embodying Pasolini explores the costumes that brought his films to life. From The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), The Canterbury Tales (1972), and Arabian Nights (1974) to Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), Pasolini’s movies are known for their provocative flair—making them staples of art cinema’s golden age. Styled by Danilo Donati, the costumes—garments, coats, and hats—enlivened the films with their rich textures, volume, color, and embellishments.

Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of “home” into a workable, constructed reality. This publication rounds up 100 of the world’s most interesting and pioneering homes designed in the past two decades, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson,Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating daily routines of eating, sleeping, and shelter, as well as offering the space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.