Eggshells, flowers, onion peels, sponge cake, dried bread, breast milk, bacteria, living organisms'these are just a few of the biological materials that contemporary artists are using to make art. But ...

Created in 1911, Henri Matisse's The Red Studio would go on to become one of the most influential works in the history of modern art. The painting, which has hung ...

Paintings, drawings, prints, maps, jewels, gems, statuettes, medals, exotica, antiquities, dried animals, shells, corals, and scientific instruments. All these objects and more were on display in collectors cabinets in Early ...

Este volumen examina el coleccionismo de artes decorativas españolas entre 1850 y 1945, aproximadamente, desde la doble perspectiva británica y española. Se trata del periodo en el que distintos tipos ...

This lavishly illustrated retrospective traces the early and midcareer development of the preeminent Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), examining the emergence of his distinct figural style through works including a ...

As one of the founders of the post-Impressionist group the Nabis, French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) is frequently seen as a transitional figure between the Impressionists and modernists. This beautifully ...

Between 1862 and 1866 Gustave Courbet embarked on a series of sensuous landscape paintings that would later inspire the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cézanne. This series has long been ...

With a fractured geography and complex identity, The Philippines is an eclectic and unique mix of culture, environment, people and politics. Known mostly for natural disasters, migrant labour and dictatorial ...

La historia fue hasta mediados del siglo xx un instrumento para generar una conciencia ciudadana, por lo que no casualmente los libros de historia vinculaban los relatos conceptuales con los ...

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is celebrated today for her sculptures. Less known are the paintings she produced between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to three-dimensional media ...

Peter Rowe and Yun Fus second volume on the modernization of architecture in the Far East deals with Southeast Asia and Austronesia, including the 12 nation states of Vietnam, Cambodia, ...

This volume focuses on recent developments in the investigation of the role of microbes associated with historic materials. Contributions from world-renowned scientists describe the latest advancements in the role of ...

The papers in this volume were presented at the Icon Book & Paper Group Third Triennial Conference 2021 entitled Mod Cons: Modern Conservation. Modern Conveniences. Modern Constraints. Topics include: decolonisation; ...

Le catalogue de l'exposition aborde de nombreux champs artistiques : peinture, sculpture, mobilier, design, architecture et photographie, ainsi que de nombreuses références à la littérature, au théâtre, à la presse, ...

Las modistas de Auschwitz cuenta la historia de las veinticinco mujeres y adolescentes, la mayoría judías, que en medio del horror absoluto del campo de exterminio de Auschwitz-Birkenau fueron seleccionadas ...

The book is not a typical guidebook, nor a generic history tale and not even a disguised autobiography. It is a listing of select pairs of buildings that each articulates ...

In questo volume, che accompagna la mostra omonima allestita all'ADI Design Museum di Milano dal 7 marzo al 12 giugno 2022, sono presentate le prove della ferma determinazione di Marco ...

Trono de cristal, la saga superventas de Sarah J. Maas, alcanza nuevas alturas en su deslumbrante cuarta entrega.Toda la gente a la que Celaena Sardothien amaba le ha sido arrebatada. ...