Throughout time, artists have maintained a close relationship with the animal world, which has proved to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration. First, they received inspiration directly from their environment. Next, animals were used in art for their status as domestic friends, symbols of an intimate and familial life, held in particularly high esteem during the Renaissance. Later, in Orientalism, animal art followed the discovery of exotic fauna which appealed to contemporary artists. The animal and its wild beauty are depicted here through works of art from Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel, Leonardo da Vinci, Katsushika Hokusai, Henri Rousseau, and Paul …

Capitale mythique entre toutes, Paris bénéficie d’une aura toute particulière. Certains la considèrent même comme la plus belle ville du monde, grâce à ces monuments qui ont fait sa renommée : la tour Eiffel, l’arc de triomphe ou encore le Sacré-Cœur. Après avoir retracé l’évolution historique de Paris, l’auteur nous convie à une balade dans les rues et quartiers de la capitale. S’arrêtant ça et là pour nous fournir des détails historiques sur les différents édifices, connus et moins connus, elle prend aussi le pouls de la vie pari-sienne et rend compte de ses menus délices : boire un thé …

Am Zeitraum zwischen Geburt und Tod der Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) streift die gesamte moderne Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten vorbei wie ein Hollywood-Film. Aus einer kleinen Stadt stammend, schafft sich Georgia O’Keeffe erst in New York einen Namen; jenes New York, das Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts Paris als Welthauptstadt der Kunst ablöst. Sie wurde vor allem durch ihre komplexen Naturbeschreibungen wie beispielsweise der Zartheit eines Herbstblattes, den subtilen Nuancen einer Blüte oder der Symmetrie eines Tierschädels bekannt. Heute assoziiert man Georgia O’Keeffe mit kraftvollen Farben und der wilden Schönheit der Wüste Neu Mexikos, wo sie bis zu ihrem Tod im Jahr …

Any Candel (1925-2025): 100 anys del naixement. Nova edició no censurada del seu assaig clàssic sobre la immigració.Francesc Candel (1925-2007), testimoni directe de la gent, dels ambients i de les inquietuds de la Catalunya suburbial, de la qual ell mateix va formar part, abordava en aquest llibre la qüestió de l'onada d'immigració que va rebre Catalunya durant els anys cinquanta i seixanta del segle XX. Els altres catalans va tenir un fort impacte social ja que per primera vegada es parlava obertament dels barris populars i de la situació dels immigrants; un assumpte recurrent que avui dia, amb un 21% …

Lo que llamamos Revolución Mexicana es una construcción cultural del régimen posrevolucionario creada durante el gobierno de Lázaro Cárdenas para legitimar un nuevo sistema político y por lo tanto sirvió como instrumento de cohesión social . En realidad, lo que sucedió en México a principios del siglo XX fue una guerra civil, desarticulada y anárquica, causada por el deterioro del régimen autoritario de un ya muy viejo Porfirio Díaz.«La mitología política retrata a los revolucionarios como la encarnación de lo nuevo. Por ello, no hay peor pesadilla para la gente revolucionaria que la idea de que ha quedado rezagada y …

Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century. Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City. Thanks to the Federal Art Project he quickly won acclaim, and after the Second World War became the biggest art celebrity in America. For De Kooning, Pollock was the “icebreaker”. For Max Ernst and Masson, Pollock was a fellow member of the European Surrealist movement. And for Motherwell, Pollock was a legitimate candidate for …

This book presents a selection of oceanic charts dating from the 13th to the 17th century. Though to us they may appear rudimentary, they bear excellent witness to the achievements of the early European navigators, and to their determination to explore the very ends of the Earth. What the charts may lack in geographical accuracy they undoubtedly make up for in charm. And of course they are priceless historical records. Recounting the epic voyages of maritime exploration, from Erik the Red to Robert Peary, author Donald Wigal leads us on an exciting journey from Terra Incognita to the World As …

In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles and attitudes of characters, his paintings expose the alienation of mass culture. Created using cold colours and inhabited by anonymous characters, Hopper’s paintings also symbolically reflect the Great Depression. Through a series of different reproductions (etchings, watercolours, and oil-on-canvas paintings), as well as thematic and artistic analysis, the author sheds new light on the enigmatic and tortured world of this outstanding figure.

Icon painting, the ultimate expression of Orthodox Christian art, reached its zenith in Ukraine between the 11th and 18th centuries. This book spans the entire period, showing the development of the style. The Ukrainian icon is a surprising synthesis of the traditions of Eastern Byzantine art and the stylistic characteristics of Russian icon painting. The introduction of this book explains the stages of development of icon-painting over five centuries in Ukraine’s major Centres of art - Kyiv, Chernihiv, Transcarpathia, Galicia, and Volhynia - and discusses the life and work of the masters of icon-painting. Despite the strict stylistic considerations imposed …

Una ciudad de la importancia simbólica de Granada, objeto y sujeto de tantos acontecimientos históricos relevantes, relacionados con el mundo de al-Ándalus, con el encuentro de América, con el pensamiento académico, la literatura, la música, las transformaciones políticas y agrarias… reclama una teoría. Con unos imponentes testigos materiales de la historia islámicos, renacentistas y barrocos, procuró infructuosamente, en el mayor de los secretos cómplices de sus ciudadanos, solucionar las contradicciones de su narración con la gran impostura de los libros plúmbeos del Sacromonte en los siglos XVI y XVII, y con las excavaciones fraudulentas del Albaicín en el siglo …