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Todo arte visual es óptico. La luz, un símbolo tan potente en toda cultura humana, es también una de nuestras más importantes tecnologías. Para nuestros primeros antepasados, las únicas fuentes de luz eran el sol en el día y la bioluminiscencia en la noche. Incluso hasta el siglo XIX, nuestra única tecnología de luz era la llama.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was, above all, a painter of people, especially young women and rosy-cheeked children. In many ways, he is the most approachable Impressionist. Not for him were the grim realities of a hard life. Renoir painted people enjoying themselves: talking, flirting, laughing, often dancing,...

Caravage est l'un des peintres les plus suivis (au sens quasi médical du mot) par les historiens de l'art. Sans parler des livres de vulgarisation ni de l'énième récit romançant sa vie, pas une année ne passe qui n'apporte sa moisson de documents inédits et d'ouvrages ou d'articles érudits...

“Money, pretension, horrid behavior by cultured people” (New York) —John Anderson’s tale delivers it all in fabulously juicy detail. This is the story of how a fabled art foundation—the greatest collection of impressionist and postimpressionist art in America, including 69 Cézannes,...

Lively, scholarly, beautifully illustrated study of the 8 artists who brought a compelling new realism to American painting, 1870 to 1913. Henri, Glackens, Sloan, Luks, 4 more. 142 black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography. Introduction.

Handmade Holiday Cards shows how artists imagined the holidays through original watercolors, etchings, silk-screen prints, and drawings. Rarely seen beyond the eyes of their recipients, these cards confirm the irrepressible artistry of their senders. Handmade Holiday Cards offers personal insight...

More than 450 pages book of Modern Art written and edited by the artist Cesare Catania His paintings, his sculptures, his techniques and his life (written in ENG FRA ITA RU CHI).

A highly regarded impressionist-style artist, George Ames Aldrich drew on his years of experience living and studying in Europe to create beautiful landscape paintings. His life and work are explored in this gorgeous book. Many of the artist's finest creations, some representing French subjects and...

Jazz begins with the blues – not just the bent notes and field hollers, but the colors themselves. Blue is the primary visual motif of traditional Black music, from Ma Rainey and Leadbelly to Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and John Coltrane. Just think of the titles: Good Morning Blues. Mood Indigo....

A vivid excursion into London's nineteenth century art world, evoking the famed personalities, social changes, and technological advances that sparked a revolution in art commerce. Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence...

An insider's guide to buying, collecting, and selling art from an insider of Christie's Grounded in real-life stories, Art Collecting Today is the essential practical guide to today's art market. A lightly regulated industry with more than sixty billion dollars of annual sales, the art market is often...

Susan Crile si era già imbattuta, nel suo percorso artistico, con le conseguenze della guerra: i suoi apocalittici fires of war, realizzati dopo un viaggio di dieci giorni nelle zone del conflitto iracheno del 1991, restituivano panorami infuocati e sterili, allucinati, senza senso. Ora, di nuovo,...

German Expressionism was an extraordinarily vivid presence in the art of the early twentieth century, its violent colors and often distorted, stylized forms reflecting not only the rebellious spirit of its participants, but the revolutionary mood of the new century itself. One of the most popular...

The iconic graphic designer presents “a self-analysis of his creative process . . . [in] arguably his proudest accomplishment” (The Atlantic).   Milton Glaser is perhaps the most celebrated graphic designer in the world. As a young man, he read a phrase that stayed with him through his life:...