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The Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin holds the most important collection on the Bauhaus today. Documents, workshop products from all areas of design, studies sketches in the classroom, and architectural plans and models are all part of its comprehensive inventory. The Bauhaus Archiv is dedicated to the study and presentation of the history of the Bauhaus, including the new Bauhaus in Chicago and the Hochschule fur Gestaltung (Institute of Design) in Ulm. This book, drawn from the Archiv's extensive collection, traces this monumental movement in art and architecture via the work of its most important proponents, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee.

Wassily Kandinsky was undoubtedly one of the most exciting artists of the twentieth century. He brought an equal passion and commitment to his work as a painter, a theoretician and a teacher of art. After conventional beginnings in Munich, he devoted his intellectual and artistic energies to pioneering new dimensions of expression in art. He ultimately arrived at an abstract style of painting based on the inner properties of colour and form. Although Kandinsky may not be the first truly abstract artist, he was nevertheless the first to experiment with non-representational forms in a logical manner and to develop out of them a homogeneous style. His writings on art, including his ground-breaking work On the Spiritual in Art, have lost none of their significance, and the Compositions which caused such a furore at the first Blaue Reiter exhibition in 1911 are still full and dazzling today.

Catálogo de exposición de La Pedrera, del 14 de octubre al 5 de enero de 2009, comisariada por Jean-Claude Marcadé y Evgenia Petrova, "Ródchenko. La construcción del futuro" ofrece una amplia panorámica de la trayectoria artistica de este polifacetico artista ruso, reuniendo alrededor de 250 obras que representan las distintas vertientes de su investigacion plastica, desde la pintura a la fotografia, pasando por el diseño, el dibujo, el fotomontaje, el fotocollage o las construcciones espaciales.

Un espejo circular y cóncavo de 2,40 metros de diámetro y de aproximadamente 80 kilos de peso, dan forma a este Islamic Mirror. Un emplazamiento escultórico cuya “perfecta articulación alude al tráns

"Pearls is a photographic record of Simryn Gill''s ongoing bead-making project, that was begun in 1999, in which she makes books into bead necklaces. This book brings together over sixty sets of beads, each one unique and particular to the specific volume from which it has been created. Titles as far-ranging as Gandhi''s autobiography, Sylvia Plath''s The Bell Jar, The Beano Book and Che Guevara''s Bolivian Diaries form a selection of the printed matter used by the artist to create a rich and stirring collection of objects. With the inclusion of two short pieces of writing by the artist, this beautifully considered book underlines Gill''s subtle brilliance as an artist of outstanding breadth and imagination."--

Un libro sobre el Arte del siglo XX, casi al cabo de una década del final del denominado “siglo corto” – que para las artes, a decir verdad, no fue corto en lo más mínimo – tiene el valor de un balan

Luisa Ortinez "Reflections of Contemporary India" shows the work of four Indian artists, focussed on analysing the world around them. Their work marks a meeting point between the contemporary languages of art and the inward gaze, in the dissonance where religious and cultural traditions and modernity occupy the same space.

Los años de convivencia de Francisco Egaña con el protagonista de este libro, Joaquín Vaquero Palacios, hacen de él un privilegiado conocedor de su obra. En su penetrante análisis sobre la paisajística de este importante creador asturiano, su autor deja constancia no solo de su conocimiento del archivo de Vaquero, aportando datos ineditos o poco conocidos, sino de la personalidad artistica y humana de Vaquero Palacios. Partiendo del testimonio del propio artista y dialogando con los criticos e historiadores del arte que se han ocupado de su pintura, Francisco Egaña reconstruye el ideario estetico y paisajistico de Vaquero para abordar su obra no solo desde la pintura, sino desde el interior de su proceso creador. El hecho de que el ultimo estudio monografico dedicado a la obra pictorica de Vaquero, debido al celebre critico de arte Vicente Aguilera Cerni, datara de 1980 hacia necesaria esta publicacion. Porque este estudio es el primero que considera la trayectoria pictorica completa de Vaquero Palacios, analizando tambien el intenso trabajo desarrollado con pasion a largo de la ultima decada de su vida. Un libro, por lo demas, cuya publicacion coincide con el decimo aniversario de la desaparicion de este artista asturiano que consagro una existencia casi centenaria a la creacion en todos los campos posibles.Egaña Casriego, Francisco