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Un magnífico homenaje a todo lo relacionado con los equinos: en un extraordinario volumen, combina datos históricos, culturales y de cría, salud y cuidados. Este libro exhaustivo presenta más de 150 razas y tipos de caballos y ponis, incluyendo todos los reconocidos por las sociedades ecuestres nacionales. Se acompaña de maravillosas fotografías y resúmenes concisos sobre cada raza. Además, analiza la evolución de este increíble animal, su anatomía, su historia y nuestra relación con él (también representada en el arte y en la cultura). Visualmente espectacular y escrito por expertos, esta es la guía definitiva para todos los amantes del caballo.

1961, three years after meeting Jeanne-Claude in Paris, Christo made a study of a mammoth project that would wrap one of the city’s most emblematic monuments. 60 years, 25,000 square meters of recyclable fabric, and 3,000 meters of rope later, the artists' vision finally came true. Discover their posthumous installation with this book gathering photography, drawings, and a history of the project's making. Like most of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work, L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped is temporary and runs for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. Carried out in close collaboration with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, the historic structure is wrapped in recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue and recyclable red rope.

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: “To every age its art — to every art its freedom;” and tremors warned of looming political disintegration when the Austrian capital passed into a new century. Across economics, science, art, and music, Vienna blossomed into a “laboratory of modernity,” one which nurtured some of the greatest artistic innovators—from Egon Schiele’s unflinching nude portraits to Gustav Klimt’s decadent Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, from the ornamental seams and glass floors of Otto Wagner to Ditha Moser’s calendars adorned in golden deities.

A flâneur and photographer at once, Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acting, the native of Libourne turned to photography and moved to Paris. He supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers, but became enraptured by what he called “documents” of the city and its environs. His scenes rarely included people, but rather the architecture, landscape, and artifacts that made up the societal and cultural stage.

While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement, the expression of the body, chance effects, and the incomplete fragment. It was these elements that gave shape, and the impression of life, to such famous works as The Kiss and The Thinker.

This book brings together key Holbein paintings to explore his illustrious and international career as well as the courtly drama and radical religious change that informed his work. With rich illustration, we survey the masterful draftsmanship and almost supernatural ability to control details, from the textures of luxurious clothing to the ornament of a room, that secured Holbein’s place as one of the greatest portraitists in Western art history.

In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining “form-givers of the 20th century.” Today, Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, color, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth.In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer’s complete career through some of his most influential projects and ideas, from his landmark tubular furniture to the MoMA Research House to his innovation of “binuclear” housing, splitting living and sleeping areas into separate wings. Along the way, we follow Hungarian-born Breuer’s journey to international acclaim, with featured projects from Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and across the United States contributing to his global status as a modernist maestro.

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.

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