Con gran claridad y empatía, "Las hermanas Van Gogh" relata las discusiones íntimas de estas mujeres sobre arte, poesía, libros, ambiciones personales y empleo.
"Amigos, disfraces y comunas" indaga el colectivismo artístico moderno que sienta las bases para los colectivos artísticos de los siglos XX y XXI: son las llamadas hermandades de artistas, grupos cuya práctica ambiciona unir el proyecto vital y el creativo, ensayando otras formas de entender los afectos y la identidad como algo compartido.
En "Mi vida con Leonardo", Martin Kemp, uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en Leonardo da Vinci, nos explica mediante un estilo personal y muy entretenido, entrelazado con la más pertinente reflexión académica, su relación de cincuenta años con la figura y la obra de Leonardo da Vinci.
El estudio autónomo del objeto de arte se remonta al siglo XVIII europeo cuando quedó fijada la expresión "bellas artes", pero desde mediados del siglo xx ha sido progresivo el desplazamiento hacia el estudio del contexto.
En la década de los 70, la escena artística española (al tiempo que en Occidente se hablaba de "retorno de la pintura") contempló la aparición de un grupo de creadores y escritores de arte que defendían la necesidad de una pintura "culta y placentera, compleja y gozosa" al decir de uno de ellos.
La dimensión humorística del arte es un territorio enigmático y sorprendente, repleto de interesantes paradojas: la risa es efímera pero convive con la eternidad de la obra; puede ser un signo de alegría, pero también de sufrimiento; y encuentra su espacio incluso en los museos más solemnes, donde el humor parece estar proscrito.
Sabemos por su relato "El niño en la casa" (1878) que Walter Pater (1839-1894) llevó una vida retirada, más contemplativa que activa, pero de una "contemplación apasionada".
Una deslazada y ondulosa cabellera de mujer ha sido, secularmente, un elemento de enorme admiración y, asimismo, de capacidad turbadora en los mitos eróticos de la sociedad masculina, un agente fetichista incitador de secretas fantasías en su imaginación, que se manifiestan tanto en la literatura como en el arte.
Drawing with graphite and coloured pencils enables the artist to capture every detail of a plant, and to enjoy, study and celebrate their wonderful forms.
"En el presente libro, la tradicional separación entre naturaleza y cultura, construida en connivencia con la Historia del arte, se ve interpelada por la invocación de un mundo posnatural.
The landmark study of the first major woman painter of the Renaissancenow revised and expanded to include new discoveriesSince it was first published, Sofonisba's Lesson has ushered in a major reassessment of Sofonisba Anguissola (15321625), a remarkable painter who changed the image of women's education in Europe and transformed Western attitudes about who could be an artist.
The landmark study of the first major woman painter of the Renaissancenow revised and expanded to include new discoveriesSince it was first published, Sofonisba's Lesson has ushered in a major reassessment of Sofonisba Anguissola (15321625), a remarkable painter who changed the image of women's education in Europe and transformed Western attitudes about who could be an artist.
Longlisted for the American Library in Paris book award 2026A Shortlist 'Must Read' non-fiction bookA glorious fusion of history and art, A Vast Horizon tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited friends, including Lee Miller and Man Ray, in the tumultuous years around the Second World War.
'This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin' (Guardian)Utopia is not somewhere you can go.
This is a modern, stylish and practical guide to the traditional craft of bookbinding, written by the founders of the London Centre for Book Arts, a destination workshop space that attracts visitors from all over the world.
By the end of the eighteenth century, the arts had been surveyed by an unprecedented series of major works on literature, music, and painting of which the author or this book provides a rich and comprehensive analysis.
These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer.
These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer.
Kurt Weitzmann demonstrates that the postulated miniatures of the handbook that goes under the name of Apollodorus migrated into other texts, of which the commentary of Pseudo-Nonnus--attached to several homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus--and the Cynegetka of Pseudo-Oppian are the most important.
Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Murray Roston applies to a later period the same critical principle: that for each generation there exists a central complex of inherited ideas and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist and writer responds in his or her own way.
Blackjackal is a new three card game that takes quick analytic thinking from blackjack, table aggression and blluffing from hold 'em poker and transports the player to the hot savanna of a new and fierce gambling experience.
Estéticas del malestar explora las potencias críticas del arte contemporáneo en un presente atravesado por crisis sociales, políticas, ecológicas y afectivas.
"En este libro se aborda la relación entre el enorme, extraordinario y a veces desconcertante corpus de Goya y las cuestiones interconectadas de la Modernidad, la Ilustración y la crítica.
This is a vivid portrait of the French historical profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, concluding just before the emergence of the famous Annales school of historians.
In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that ornament, far from being a simple accessory, raises problems that are at the very heart of aesthetic experience: limits and their transgression, illusion and seduction, pleasure and tension, harmony and confusion, excess and marginality.
More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains.
In a major analysis of pictorial forms from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Christopher Braider argues that the painted image provides a metaphor and model for all other modes of expression in Western culture-particularly literature, philosophy, religion, and science.
Art and the Influence of Revolution explores the extraordinary cultural flourishing of 1925, a year that remains a high-water mark for international literature and cinema.
A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized practitioners and scholars for centuries.
