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El volumen de Mega Square Herbario está basado en la obra de Basilius Besler, el famoso experto en plantas que, por primera vez en la historia, describió, pintó y grabó más de mil especies de plantas. Sus dibujos son de gran valor tanto científico como artístico y constituyen un vívido testimonio de la ecléctica flora europea. Esta edición de Mega Square, que presenta un tema interesa…
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Vincent Van Gogh - El pintor de girasoles
La vida y obra de Van Gogh se hallan tan entrelazadas, que es casi imposible apreciar sus pinturas sin ver reflejada en ellas la historia de su vida: una vida de la que se habló tanto, que ya se ha convertido en leyenda. Van Gogh es la encarnación del sufrimiento, un mártir incomprendido del arte moderno, el emblema del artista como un extraño.
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Die Kunst Sibiriens
Die in den geheimen Archiven des Museums für Völkerkunde in Sankt Petersburg entdeckten Dokumente, die hier erstmalig veröffentlicht werden, sind ein einzigartiges Zeugnis der bisher wenig beachteten Kultur der Völker des hohen Nordens. Gegenstände der Kunst und Bilder aus dem Alltagsleben, die zu Beginn des letzten Jahrhunderts gemacht wurden, sind Zeugnisse eines reichen und vollendeten …
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Romanik
Der Begriff Romanische Kunst bezeichnet in der Kunstgeschichte die Epoche vom 11. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert. Diese Epoche wies eine große Vielfalt an regionalen Schulen auf, die alle spezifische Merkmale hatten. Sowohl in der Architektur als auch in der Bildhauerei wird die Romanische Kunst durch ihre rauen Formen charakterisiert. Dieses Buch lässt den Leser durch den faszinierenden Text und se…
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Michelangelo's Puzzle
For fans of art crime, art history, astronomy, and puzzles, Michelangelo's Puzzle expands on Rebecca's article published in Journal of Art Crime (2019), in which she argued that the Vatican's Laocoön Group was created by Michelangelo as a forged antiquity. Drawing on the traditional link between Laocoön and the constellation of Ophiuchus, Michelangelo was able to depict the famous sculpture w…
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Frank O’Hara and MoMANew York Poet, Global Curator
This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and abroad. Upon his premature death, the New York Times obituary ran with the headline: 'Frank O'Hara, 40, Museum Curator / Exhibitions Aide at Modern Art Dies – Also a Poet'. However, in the half a century since, O'Hara's fascina…
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Cubism and RealityBraque, Picasso, Gris
What was Cubism? How did this strange new way of making paintings and sculptures enable artists so decisively to change the trajectory of 'Modern Art'? In responding to these questions, distinguished art historian Christopher Green presents a bold new interpretation of the movement and three of its key protagonists. Stemming from a critical re-evaluation of the author's own first responses to …
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Color100 Key Concepts for Understanding, A…
This version ofUniversal Principles of Color presents 100 core concepts and guidelines that are critical to the successful use of color. Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, this comprehensive, cross-disciplinary overview of color is organized alphabetically so that principles can be easily and quickly referenced. The book pairs clear explanations of every topic with visual examples of it …
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Art From The Sacred To The Profane: East
This edition of renowned philosopher Frithjof Schuon's writings on the subject of art, selected and edited by his wife Catherine Schuon, contains over 270 photographs-200 color and 70 black and white. Keith Critchlow writes, "This beautiful book … has the broadest coverage of any of the books on art that this writer has seen in forty years of teaching art and architecture." Frithjof Schuon, t…
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Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?The Traditional View of Art, Revised …
This new edition of Coomaraswamy's classic book, considered his most important work on the philosophy of art, includes all of the revisions Coomaraswamy had wanted to add to the original edition.
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