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.

San Francisco–based Orlando Diaz-Azcuy’s mastery of the home interior has made him one of America’s most renowned designers. Regarded by professionals as a “dean of interior design” and a pioneer of minimalist design since the early 1980s, Diaz-Azcuy has been a major influence in the worlds of interior architecture and design. Bringing soul to modernism is Diaz-Azcuy’s greatest legacy, as well as the subject of this book. Each residence featured in these pages is essentially simple, functional and beautiful, achieved with exactitude, attention to detail and craftsmanship.

Design darlings Cortney and Robert Novogratz tackle a long list of design dilemmas and offer scores of smart tips on how to solve them. Well known to their fans through their several reality TV shows (HGTV and Bravo), various home decor lines (with Amazon, WayFair, and now Home Goods), and their impressive social media following, designers Robert and Cortney Novogratz are beloved for their laid-back, chic, and family-friendly approach to home design. The couple has done it all: with over fifteen years of experience building and decorating houses for themselves and their exacting clients, they have faced every possible design challenge. In this volume, they offer up in-depth advice and tips for a multitude of design and decorating situations using over a dozen projects as examples: how to restore an old home and bring it back to life; how to turn a generic rental into a personality-filled space; how to use bold color to transform your home; how to decorate for small spaces; how to create spaces for kids, from bedrooms to playrooms; how to incorporate art in your home; and how to turn your house into an attractive Airbnb rental, among many other design-dilemma topics.

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.