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Edició bilingüe: castellano/inglés.Durante casi medio siglo una artista exquisita ha tomado como tema preferente de su obra la ciudad de Barcelona. El resultado son más de cien dibujos de extraordina

Esta biografía de Miguel Ángel Buonarroti formó parte de un vasto proyecto: Las Vidas de los más ilustres arquitectos, pintores y escultores italianos, desde Cimbaue hasta nuestros tiempos, libro que elevo a Vasari a la consideracionde padre de la historia del arte. En su Miguel Angel, con estilo ameno y profundo, Vasari no solo da noticia directa del hombre que para el culminaba los ideales renacentistas, sino tambien de la ajetreada existencia del artista y de las circunstancias complejas que acompañaron el proceso de creacion de algunas de las mas notables obras maestras del arte occidental. La presente traduccion toma como punto de partida la primera redaccion del texto, que Vasari publico en 1550 y que, aun antes de la muerte de Miguel Angel, consagro la fortuna de este como genio mitico.

Catálogo de la exposición de Picasso en el Museo nacional de Arte de Cataluña. Depósito temporal de 8 obras correspondientes a la etapa de madurez del artista.

Leonardo se sumergió en la personalidad humana y se convirtió, sobre todo, en un pintor de retratos; rostros de un modelado más hábil de lo que antes se había visto, encarnados en una realidad que casi llega a la ilusion, en el aire oscuro. Tomar a un personaje como era y fondear delicadamente en sus detenimientos le venia bien a alguien tan curioso en la observacion y tan preciso en la invencion.Curiosidad que entraba en conflicto con el deseo por la belleza; esto tendria a que fuera mas alla de la superficie de las cosas en las que realmente empieza y termina. Esta lucha entre la razon, sus ideas, los sentidos y el deseo por la belleza, es la clave para conocer la vida de Leonardo.

Rudy ChiappiniThis exhibition catalog is a long-awaited monograph on one of the most important contemporary artists working today. Barcelo's artistic journey is explored through the themes that have marked his work over a period of more than twenty years. His subjects are first and foremost intentionally autobiographical: Barcelo depicts himself as he paints, alluding to the role of the demiurge incarnated as artist. Different artistic techniques enable him to represent the reality of the world, essentially exposing the constant flux of life and death. The book is divided into two parts: six introductory essays that describe Miquel Barcelo chronology in terms of his stylistic and technical development, and a catalog of about 60 works.

Collected for the first time in a new translation: here''s two of the most important and far-reaching biographies of an artist ever written, and our principal sources for the life of Velazquez. Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) is for many the greatest painter ever to have lived. His astonishing naturalism had an immediate and lasting impact on his contemporaries, inspiring both awe and fierce debate. Most of what we know about Velazquez'' life and incomparably successful career comes from these two biographies. Francisco Pacheco, a second rank painter, was Velazquez'' teacher and eventually father in law - possibly the closest relationship betwen a painter and his biographer in all art. This Life , part of Pacheco''s theoretical work, the Art of Painting , has never been translated before, and it reveals the scale of the challenge to traditional painting presented by Velazquez'' insurmountable talent. Antonio Palomino, the Spanish Vasari, was born just after Velazquez died, but knew many of the painter''s friends and colleagues. His biography, precise and detailed, is an incomparable source, but like Pacheco''s text, also tackles the aesthetic debate engendered by Velazquez'' choice of subject matter and style. Together, these biographies give an excitingly close insight into the mind and world of a great painter. The introduction by Michael Jacobs situates these biographies in the context of Spain''s Golden Age, and the intellectual ferment in painting and in the theatre that lie behind Velazquez'' magic. The translations are by Nina Ayala Mallory, the leading scholar of Spanish artistic biographies. The volume is richly illustrated with 30 plates illustrating the full gamut of Velazquez'' work.

El pintor Carlos Merida describió a Germán Cueto como caso único en la escultura moderna de Mexico: un artista sin precedentes. El polifacetico escultor participó en el movimiento estridentista que surgio de la Revolucion Mexicana, pero tambien encontro su lugar dentro de las vanguardias europeas, al lado de figuras como Zadkine y Lipschitz. Abundantes fotografias en color de las esculturas y pinturas de Cueto se acompañan en este libro con un ensayo pormenorizado y muy bien informado de Serge Fachereau, junto con una seleccion de textos sobre el artista escritos por sus contemporaneos y singulares obras de teatro del propio escultor.

Richard Estes is internationally known as one of the founders of hyperrealism and one of the key figures of contemporary American painting. Born in Kewanee, Illinois, on May 4, 1932, he is a poet of the American metropolis, a subtle investigator into the evolution of the urban landscapea narrative that can easily be followed in his work (included are his paintings of Venice, Florence, Barcelona, Cordova, and Hiroshima). He also explores landscapes where an uncontaminated nature seems to flex its muscles defiantly (the imposing Machu Picchu or the luminous vibrations of the sea seen from a ferry off the coast of Maine). This dual-language volumeEnglish and Spanishincludes six essays by leading hyperrealism specialists: Guillermo Solana, Fred Licht, John Arthur, Raffaele Crovi, Nico Rengo, and John Updike.