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Una cita con el destino El arte de la astrología, desde la ciencia antigua hasta la práctica moderna Desde el comienzo de la historia humana, personas de todas las culturas y sistemas de creencias han mirado al cielo en busca de sentido. El movimiento de los cuerpos celestes y su relación con nuestras vidas humanas ha sido el principal objeto de estudio de la astrología durante miles de años. La práctica ha inspirado admiración y devoción, y nos ha permitido profundizar en nuestro propio conocimiento y en el del mundo que nos rodea.

Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life—he was almost 80 years of age—he developed the technique of “carving into color,” creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these gouaches decoupées (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the age-old conflict between color and line.This edition of the first volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough historical context to Matisse’s cut-outs, tracing their roots to his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau, with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Tériade, the poets Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse’s son-in-law Georges Duthuit.In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale, these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse’s lifetime.

Rozados por la luz Descubra la vida y obra de cinco artistas impresionistas emblemáticos Esta inspiradora colección cubre el trabajo, las vidas y el impacto duradero de cinco impresionistas clave en un volumen que es una introducción y una celebración del género artístico probablemente más popular de todos los tiempos. Cada uno de estos artistas rompió barreras de diferentes maneras y asombró a la sociedad de finales del siglo XIX con la audacia de su planteamiento y de su técnica.