Libros de PAÍSES: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

LOST CHICAGO

The City of Big Shoulders has always been our most quintessentially American'and world-class'architectural metropolis. In the wake of the Great Fire of 1871, a ...

LISSONI: PIERO LISSONI. RECENT ARCHITECTURE

The products conceived by Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni (*1956) are all objects of desire: he has designed a series of timeless, modern ...

BASQUIAT: JEAN- MICHEL BASQUIAT

The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once ...

MODERN BRITISH POSTERS. GRAPHIC DESIGN AND COMMUNICATION 1918- 1979

Modern British Posters explores the interaction between modern art and graphic design in Britain throughout the twentieth century. A distinctive characteristic of modern society ...

GREGOTTI & ASSOCIATI. L' ARCHITETTURA DEL DISEGNO URBANO

A partire dagli anni Cinquanta lo studio fondato da Vittorio Gregotti ha affrontato tutti gli ambiti progettuali dell'architettura. Questa nuova monografia presenta il ricco ...

LAR / ROMERO: SIMPLEXITY. FERNANDO ROMERO 2000 -2010

This publications contains selected projects that provide an overview of Romero's visions, designs and buildings, documenting the office's accomplishments during its first ten years.

THIRD CITY. CHICAGO AND AMERICAN URBANISM

Our traditional image of Chicago - as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends ...

AMERICAN DEPARTMENT STORE. TRANSFORMED, 1920- 1960

After attaining classic stature with palaces erected in the early 20th century, the American department store continued to evolve in ways that were influenced ...

A HISTORY OF THE SQUARES AND PALACES OF LONDON 2 VOLS

The squares of London are amongst its most famous and best loved features. Berkeley Square, Eaton Square, St James' Square - the names are ...

FROST: TERRY FROST PRINTS. A CATALOGUE RAISONNE

Painter, printmaker and teacher Sir Terry Frost RA (1915-2003) was a key figure in the development of British twentieth-century abstract art. He was also ...

KINLEY: PETER KINLEY

Aptly described as 'an artist's artist', Peter Kinley (1926-1988) was a well-respected painter who achieved great early success and commanded much attention during his ...

OBJECTS AS HISTORY IN TWENTIETH- CENTURY GERMAN ART. BECKMANN TO BEUYS

This book provides a stimulating overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works by Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hannah ...

BRITISH DESIGN

Great Britian was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the epicenter of the development of modern industrial design. This book - the fourth ...

MOORE: THE DRAWINGS OF HENRY MOORE

Henry Moore's Shelter Drawings are universally recognised as a key element of his oeuvre. However, these drawings should not be seen in isolation: this ...

WYNTER: BRYAN WYNTER

work, from his early studies at the Slade and interest in Surrealism, through his move to Cornwall after the second World War and his ...

LONDON INTERIORS. FROM THE ARCHIVES OF COUNTRY LIFE

London's historic houses and domestic interiors have suffered greater loss and change than most of their provincial counterparts due to political and social change, ...

BRUNELESCHI'S EGG. NATURE, ART, AND GENDER IN RENAISSANCE ITALY

Feminist historians of science and philosophy have shown that during the Italian Renaissance, the profound shift in the concept of nature--from an organic worldview ...

WEESE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF HARRY WEESE

This study tells the story of one of Americas most gifted architects of the postwar years. During a career that spanned half a century ...

REALISM OF BERENICE ABBOTT. DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL ACTION

The Realisms of Berenice Abbott provides the first in-depth consideration of the work of photographer Berenice Abbott. Though best known for her 1930s documentary ...

ANSELMI: ALESSANDRO ANSELMI