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Fernando Botero es un artista con estilo propio. Durante más de seis décadas, la técnica del boterismo colombiano ha fascinado a coleccionistas, instituciones y espacios públicos de todo el mundo por su visión exagerada, rolliza y singular del cuerpo humano. A través de sus corpulentas creaciones. Botero se ha convertido en uno de los artistas más reconocidos de Latinoamérica, y sus obras se han expuesto en algunos de los lugares más emblemáticos de todo el mundo, como la Parle Avenue de Nueva York y los Campos Elíseos de París. Esta edición ofrece una introducción esencial a esta destacada figura del arte contemporáneo. El libro, que recorre la obra de Botero desde sus primeras caricaturas de animales hasta las últimas esculturas en bronce a gran escala, analiza las diversas influencias del artista, de Paolo Uccello al expresionismo abstracto, y rinde homenaje al ingenio, la ironía, la perspicacia y la agudeza crítica que se ocultan tras las proporciones absurdas de sus composiciones.

Desde comienzos de la década de 1970, Bruce Springsteen canta a Estados Unidos, a su clase trabajadora, a los trotamundos y a los corazones rotos. Canta a las alegrías y frustraciones de su infancia en Nueva Jersey, al amor, a las mujeres hermosas y a los coches, a la velocidad, a los grandes espacios, a la libertad… Son los protagonistas de "Born to Run", "Thunder Road", "Born In The USA", "The River" o "Streets Of Philadelphia". Con cien millones de discos vendidos en todo el mundo, Springsteen ha entrado en el círculo de los mejores cantantes de todos los tiempos. Y nadie mejor que él merece ser considerado "el Boss" del rock.

The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30–1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba’s brutal rule as governor of the Netherlands, and the palpable effects of the Inquisition. To this day, the Flemish artist remains shrouded in mystery. We know neither where nor exactly when he was born. But while early scholarship emphasized the vernacular character of his painting and graphic work, modern research has attached greater importance to its humanistic content. Starting out as a print designer for publisher Hieronymus Cock, Bruegel produced numerous print series that were distributed throughout Europe. These depicted vices and virtues alongside jolly peasant festivals and sweeping landscape panoramas. He then increasingly turned to painting, working for the cultural elite of Antwerp and Brussels. Rather than idealizing reality, he bravely confronted the issues of his day, addressing the horrors of religious warfare and taking a critical stand against the institution of the Church. To this end, Bruegel developed his own pictorial language of dissidence, lacing innocuous everyday scenes with subliminal statements in order to escape repercussions.

This is Bunny Williams’ most ambitious book to date. Inviting us into her impressive grounds with charming personal anecdotes, expert advice, and hundreds of stunning photographs–printed on two different speciality stocks–Bunny Williams illustrates every aspect of the gardens surrounding her eighteenth-century manor house in Northwestern Connecticut in different lights and seasons. A popular stop on the Garden Conservancy circuit, Williams’ property boasts a parterre garden,year-round conservatory, extensive vegetable garden, orchard, woodlands, an aviary with exotic fowl, and a rustic poolside Greek Revival–style folly. Each section of the garden is accompanied by adirectory of featured plants—from native ferns and succulents to a wide variety of flowering specimens.

Celebrating 10 years of publishing the finest interior design and decorative arts, Cabana Anthology: The Anniversary Edition is a stunning showcase of the most impressive and influential styles featured in the cult interiors magazine in its first decade. This sublime book delves into the stories behind a multitude of stunning interiors, offering insights from the designers, collectors, and artists who have contributed to Cabana’s legacy of true artistry and craftsmanship. Founded by editor-in-chief Martina Mondadori along with designer Christoph Radl and publisher Gianluca Reina in 2014, Cabana aims to inspire a new generation of globetrotters, taking them on a journey through sophistication, obsessive collecting, colors, and fabrics. This stunning volume features the very best photography, interviews, profiles, and features from the publication, with contributions from Carlos Mota, Marco Mansi, and Marian McEvoy, and photographers Miguel Flores-Vianna, Guido Taroni, Mark Luscombe Whyte, Tim Walker, and Joanna MacLennan, among many others.

The Wunderkammer, or “cabinet of curiosities,” saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and intellectual endeavor, in an ambitious attempt to encompass all of humankind’s knowledge in a single room. From the Grand Duke Francesco I de’ Medici and Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to Archduke Ferdinand II of Habsburg, these aristocratic virtuosos acquired, selected, and displayed the objects in real-life catalogues that represented the entire world―spanning architecture, interior design, painting, sculpture, gemology, geology, botany, biology and taxonomy, astrology, alchemy, anthropology, ethnography, and history. Marvel at the unicorn horns (narwhal tusks), gems, rare coral growths, Murano glasswork, paintings and peculiar mechanical automata. Browse through illustrations of exotic and mythical creatures and discover the famed “Coburg ivories,” an astounding collection of crafted artifacts. These collections are nothing short of a journey through time, from the Renaissance and Age of Discovery, the Mannerist and Baroque periods, up to the present day. Although many of these cabinets of curiosities no longer exist, others have been meticulously reconstructed, and new ones born.