The livre d'artiste, or 'artist's book', is among the most prized in rare book collections. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the greatest artists to work in this genre, creating ...

Largely self-taught as an architect, John Yeon (1910-1994) designed some of the most beautiful and influential structures in the Pacific Northwest, among them the Watzek House of 1937 which received ...

The Neoplatonism in the books by Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola became widely acknowledged for its lasting influence on art. It thus became common knowledge that Renaissance artists ...

Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately-funded forms of aid that operate on the margins ...

In recent years, Dietmar Eberle's architectural practice has successfully continued its international trajectory. Between 2008 and 2018, numerous buildings were handed over to their clients, including housing, a hospital, company ...

Following his seminal book Wood and Wood Joints, an essential reference on solid timber constructions for more than two decades, now in its third edition, Klaus Zwerger presents a study ...

Internationally renowned, Peter Richs career represents a lifelong attempt to find a contemporary, yet uniquely African mode of design. This book follows the chronology of his work which emerges from ...

Following his seminal book Wood and Wood Joints, an essential reference on solid timber constructions for more than two decades, now in its third edition, Klaus Zwerger presents a study ...

Courtyards have long played an important function in residential design, regulating light, shade and the use of space. With thousands of years of tradition as inspiration, contemporary architects are realizing ...

Alcune rilevanti novità sono apparse sulla vita e sullarte del Correggio (1489-1534) negli ultimi anni, a partire dalla memorabile antologica parmense e dal Convegno di Studi del 2008. I dati ...

In the times when the Ukrainian art sphere was regulated by the Soviet institutions, local monumental and decorative arts existed at the frontier of the Partys propaganda and the artistic ...

The German-American architect Dirk Lohan began to record his conversations with his grandfather Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the summer of 1969. The tapes, recorded during the final weeks ...

Cest en 1955 que le premier secrétaire du PCUS Nikita Khrouchtchev lance une campagne pour une production en masse d'habitations. À ce moment-là, la préfabrication des bâtiments en usine est ...

This monograph presents the results of theoretical and experi­mental studies as well as the design and construction ­features of structural systems with rational parameters. It starts by outlining issues around ...

Le style Chanel et son évolution de 1910 à 1971 sont décodés à travers diverses thématiques, chacune introduite par un court texte et illustrée de photographies emblématiques. L'ensemble, qui permet ...

Los procesos de limpieza sobre superficies pictóricas se incluyen entre las intervenciones de restauración más significativas, en la medida en que permiten recuperar la apreciación y comprensión de la imagen ...

Lucia, conservato nella chiesa di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro a Siracusa, è lo spunto per riflettere sulla contemporaneità dellarte di Michelangelo Merisi, tema a cui è dedicato questo volume. In ...

Ni baroque ni néoclassique, la production artistique en Italie de la première moitié du 18e a été pour partie occultée par les courants artistiques qui lencadrent ; lorsque cette période ...

This book argues that court festivals within the early modern Holy Roman Empire provided a flexible rhetoric of identity, grounded in the performance of virtue, even though who legitimately possessed ...

If the fifteenth century in Italy has been seen as the moment when the constellation of disciplines known as 'the humanities' begins to take shape, it was also a time ...