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Una lectura absorbente que arroja luz sobre uno de los delitos más lucrativos y desconocidos del mundo: el robo de arte.Casi tan antiguos como la propia humanidad, los robos de arte se remontan hasta los origenes de los primeros grandes imperios. Desde entonces, nos fascinan y repelen por igual, pero, ¿que se esconde tras ellos? ¿Por que se roba el arte? ¿Que ocurre con las piezas robadas? ¿Existen realmente los robos por encargo? ¿Como funciona el mercado negro del arte? Encontraremos respuesta en este apasionante recorrido a traves de cincuenta robos y saqueos que han determinado el rumbo de la historia. Pero, sobre todo, intentaremos dar respuesta al mayor enigma de todos, ¿por que, a pesar de que la mayoria de nosotros nos encontramos del lado bueno de la historia, nos resultan tan fascinantes?

Un breve, delicioso e imprescindible tratado lleno de sugerentes ideas para comprender qué es el arte, qué utilidad puede tener para nosotros, cómo creamos, cómo el arte abre mundos y cómo puede transformarnos para imaginar un futuro diferente. ¿Que hace el arte por nosotros? ¿Y para que lo necesitamos?Podriamos decir que el arte es uno de los principales atributos del ser humano, como el lenguaje. Es facil entender por que el lenguaje es universal, pero no parece ser tan sencillo imaginar que el arte tambien lo es.En este libro, Brian Eno y Bette Adriaanse nos llevan de la mano mientras exploran esta vital cuestion a la vez que animan al resto del mundo a ser mas abiertos y atrevidos con el arte y con la vida.El arte es una forma de hacer que los sentimientos sucedan

Murales de Córdoba. Fotografías reúne una extensa documentación fotográfica y ensayística sobre el muralismo contemporáneo en la ciudad de Córdoba. El libro combina registro visual, reflexión crítica y testimonios de artistas para mostrar como el arte urbano se convirtio en un elemento central del paisaje cultural y politico de la ciudad. En los textos introductorios, Fernando Vanoli describe el mural como un lenguaje alternativo y un campo de batalla simbolico: las paredes hablan cuando la ciudad asfixia, son archivo vivo de luchas, memorias y sueños colectivos. El mural se diferencia del grafiti y otras formas de arte callejero por su caracter planificado y legitimado, aunque ambos conviven en los barrios como expresiones de resistencia y dialogo comunitario. Cordoba, declarada recientemente "Capital Provincial del Arte Urbano", ofrece un repertorio que va desde homenajes al cuarteto y al futbol hasta retratos de mujeres, infancias, naturaleza y pueblos originarios. Debora Majul aporta una mirada desde la antropologia visual y el urbanismo feminista. Analiza como los murales no son meras decoraciones, sino intervenciones politicas que disputan sentidos en el espacio publico. Subraya el giro de los ultimos años hacia representaciones de mujeres, disidencias y luchas sociales, visibilizando cuerpos e historias antes marginadas. Su recorrido por murales emblematicos (como el de las futbolistas de Belgrano, el homenaje a aviadoras, la "Barbijera" de la pandemia, las figuras afrodescendientes de Raices o el mural por Marita Veron) muestra como estas obras construyen memoria, identidad y resistencia. El libro se organiza en secciones tematicas y cada mural aparece acompañado por fotografias de alta calidad y por fragmentos de los propios artistas, que explican sus motivaciones esteticas y politicas. Las obras retratan desde iconos populares como la Mona Jimenez, Rodrigo y jugadores de la "Scaloneta", hasta escenas comunitarias, homenajes a victimas de la dictadura, feminismos y memorias migrantes. El testimonio de Pagliero funciona como hilo conductor. Desde su infancia marcada por la fotografia hasta sus recorridos por barrios y encuentros con muralistas, el autor explica como fue construyendo un archivo visual y afectivo. En colaboracion con la editorial Bosquemadura, organizo el material y obtuvo las autorizaciones de decenas de artistas, logrando asi un mosaico coral de voces e imagenes. En definitiva, Murales de Cordoba. Fotografias no es solo un catalogo de obras: es un ensayo visual y textual sobre la ciudad como territorio en disputa. Los murales aparecen como contra-monumentos que interpelan al transeunte, inscriben memorias colectivas, politizan lo cotidiano y abren posibilidades de imaginar otros modos de habitar lo urbano. El libro celebra al mural como arte vivo, efimero y comunitario, capaz de transformar muros grises en archivos abiertos de identidad, resistencia y esperanza.

Una apasionante introducción a la pintura del Siglo de Oro holandés y una reflexión sobre el sentido último del arte.Cuando tenía veinticinco años, Benjamin Moser se trasladó a vivir a Holanda por amor. Una nueva vida, un nuevo pais, una nueva cultura. Empezo a visitar museos y descubrio la pintura del Siglo de Oro holandes: las obras de dos titanes del arte, Rembrandt y Vermeer, pero tambien las de Hals, Fabritius, Pieter de Hooch, Jan Steen, Metsu, Avercamp, Saenredam, Ruisdael, Paulus Potter, Rachel RuyschEl autor comenzo a explorar la vida y el legado pictorico de estos artistas del siglo XVII que pintaban retratos, interiores de casas e iglesias, paisajes, escenas biblicas, bodegones Y se puso a hacerse preguntas: ¿por que creamos arte y por que lo necesitamos? ¿Que significa tener talento y como podemos desarrollar el que se nos haya concedido? ¿Un artista puede conformarse con ser un mero seguidor de otros o tiene que aspirar a ser original? ¿Cual es el deber del artista para con los demas, la sociedad y el mismo? ¿Que es la belleza y como se relaciona con el gusto? ¿Como puede ayudarnos el arte a perfilarnos una imagen de nosotros mismos y como puede ayudarnos a perfilarnos una imagen de los demas?Profusamente ilustrado, este libro es una exploracion apasionada y profunda de uno de los momentos mas esplendorosos y fascinantes de la historia del arte y la humanidad. Un recorrido por las vidas y las obras de los pintores que lo hicieron posible y una indagacion sobre el sentido ultimo del arte y sobre como nos puede ayudar a entender mejor el mundo y nuestra propia vida.

Un viaje a través de la historia, el arte y la cultura de Occidente en 49 lecciones de la mano de la conocida cuenta de X @culturaltutor ¿Por qué es necesario el arte y qué nos dice de nosotros mismos?¿Cual es la diferencia entre impresionismo y postimpresionismo? ¿Que distingue la ciencia de la mitologia? ¿Por que la bandera argentina es azul y blanca?Con una cuenta de X con mas de 1,7 millones de seguidoresinternacionalmente, de los cuales mas de 40K estan en España, @culturaltutor nos ofrece un alegato a la bella educacion y un apasionante viaje a traves de la historia, el arte y la cultura occidentales, del que no se sale igual de como se ha entrado. Sheehan Quirke es un joven autodidacta de 25 años, con una curiosidad infinita, licenciado en derecho pero que nunca quiso ser abogado y que en la actualidad se ha convertido en uno de los divulgadores culturales mas importantes en redes del Reino Unido, seguido por personalidades mundialmente famosas de todo el espectro cultural y politico, desde Elon Musk a Jordan Peterson y desde JK Rowling a Trevor Noah.Para cualquiera que haya disfrutado con la cuenta de X de El Tutor Cultural, este libro supone mas del mismo deleite. Pepitas de conocimiento y sabiduria envueltas en la calidez e ingenio caracteristicos del autor. ALAIN DE BOTTON

Stunning watercolour title new in paperback. Leading watercolourist reveals the secrets behind his atmospheric, light-filled paintings. Watercolour is ideal for capturing the transient effects of light and, with compact and lightweight materials, is the perfect medium for plein-air painting. Leading watercolour painter David Curtis is a strong advocate of working on site, observing and capturing changing conditions and effects. In this beautifully illustrated book, he explains in detail his two main methods for working on location for quick, loose studies and for more controlled and detailed paintings. He also shows how to collect reference material on the spot and develop this into resolved paintings back at the studio. He provides helpful instruction on interpreting light effects, with strong guidance on choosing materials, exploring techniques, composition, tone and colour and associated topics. This invaluable advice is complemented by a wealth of sketches, finished works and step-by-step demonstration paintings to illustrate different points and inspire further ideas. Reference Light and Mood in Watercolour hardback (9780713489552) Leading watercolourist reveals the secrets behind his light-filled paintings How to work en plein air to capture the transient effects of light How to collect reference material on location but paint in the studio Bestselling title new in paperback

Where is Charles Simonds? Throughout the 1970s, his diminutive Dwellings, tiny architectural ruins of an imaginary civilization, could be found throughout the crumbling infrastructure of downtown New York. Preoccupied with the relationship between the grown and the built, the archaeological and the urban, Simonds shared friendship and ideas with Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. Like Lucy Lippard, with whom he lived during that decade, Simonds believed in combining art and activism, always preferring what he called the "real world" to the art world. Yet despite taking part in many of the seminal exhibitions and art events of 1970s New York, Simonds has left few traces on art history. In order to explain Simondss absence while simultaneously arguing for his central place within it, Jules Pelta Feldman reconsiders the decades self-conception, finding that Simonds exemplifies much of what has been ignored in 1970s artand much of what establishes it as a unique period of experimentation and possibility.

Where is Charles Simonds? Throughout the 1970s, his diminutive Dwellings, tiny architectural ruins of an imaginary civilization, could be found throughout the crumbling infrastructure of downtown New York. Preoccupied with the relationship between the grown and the built, the archaeological and the urban, Simonds shared friendship and ideas with Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. Like Lucy Lippard, with whom he lived during that decade, Simonds believed in combining art and activism, always preferring what he called the "real world" to the art world. Yet despite taking part in many of the seminal exhibitions and art events of 1970s New York, Simonds has left few traces on art history. In order to explain Simondss absence while simultaneously arguing for his central place within it, Jules Pelta Feldman reconsiders the decades self-conception, finding that Simonds exemplifies much of what has been ignored in 1970s artand much of what establishes it as a unique period of experimentation and possibility.

When Abdul Rahman Munif embarked on the first extensive study in Arabic about Marwan Kassab Bachi, he mailed the artist asking about how his art emerged, its contextual influences, and timely interpretations. Marwan recorded his answers on seven audio tapes and sent them to Munif, but also started writing his memoirs in Arabic. This book is an anthology of the letters exchanged between two friends, Marwan in Berlin and Munif in Damascus, from 1990 to 2004.

When Abdul Rahman Munif embarked on the first extensive study in Arabic about Marwan Kassab Bachi, he mailed the artist asking about how his art emerged, its contextual influences, and timely interpretations. Marwan recorded his answers on seven audio tapes and sent them to Munif, but also started writing his memoirs in Arabic. This book is an anthology of the letters exchanged between two friends, Marwan in Berlin and Munif in Damascus, from 1990 to 2004.

Many of us are drawn to a life in the arts but daunted by how to balance that ambition with the very real need to pay rent and put food on the table. It is impossible to become an accomplished painter, composer, or novelist without spending time experimenting, making false starts, absorbing criticism, reading, talking, and moping about the house. All this time must be purchased, one way or another. Is the history of art and ideas just a history of rich kids?The answer, of course, is no. William Carlos Williams was a family doctor. Franz Kafka was an insurance man, as were Charles Ives and Wallace Stevens. Grace Hartigan temped. James Joyce mooched off his brother; Christopher Isherwood ingratiated himself with a wealthy uncle. Virginia Woolf and Louisa May Alcott were determined to make their writing pay no matter what. And their material circumstances had an impact on all of their creative outputs.From family money to jobs to colorful schemes, Mason Currey, author of the acclaimed Daily Rituals, explores both the well-worn and unlikely paths forward for the up-and-coming artist. Making Art and Making a Living is an entertaining and thought-provoking examination of the collision of creative ambitions with real-world necessities and of the messy, glorious, torturous compromises that gifted individuals have patched together when facing the eternal dilemma of an artistic life.

Por anos, eu me questionava por que algo que eu considerava extraordinário estava despercebido pelos outros. A resposta não estava no que eu fazia — mas em como eu me posicionava. Foi quando descobri

This book is the first major study of Edita Schuberts art published outside Croatia. Edita Schuberts body of work is strikingly diverse, spanning pioneering explorations of natural ecology in the 1970s to bold paintings in the spirit of the transavantgarde in the 1980s. She also created performance art on the streets of Dubrovnik and created installations that invited viewers into her world. Her later worksself-portraits of various kindsoffer profound meditations on memory, identity, and mortal- ity. Working in her studio in the Institute of Anatomy in Zagreb, she once compared her art with the practice of dissection, a precise and purposeful science which reveals the hidden territories of the human body. Often her subject was herself. The breadth of her artistic output seems to anticipate the "post-medium" condition of contemporary art. Yet when viewed together, strong lines of connection and continuity emerge, revealing a deeply intimate and single-minded vision of art.Edita Schubert (19472001) was an exceptionally prolific and inventive artist, active from the early 1970s until her untimely death at the age of 54 in 2001. A significant figure in Croatian and Yugoslav art, she exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Biennale of Sydney and in galleries in Austria and the US, as well as frequently throughout Yugoslavia. Yet today, her art remains relatively little known.

This book is the first major study of Edita Schuberts art published outside Croatia. Edita Schuberts body of work is strikingly diverse, spanning pioneering explorations of natural ecology in the 1970s to bold paintings in the spirit of the transavantgarde in the 1980s. She also created performance art on the streets of Dubrovnik and created installations that invited viewers into her world. Her later worksself-portraits of various kindsoffer profound meditations on memory, identity, and mortal- ity. Working in her studio in the Institute of Anatomy in Zagreb, she once compared her art with the practice of dissection, a precise and purposeful science which reveals the hidden territories of the human body. Often her subject was herself. The breadth of her artistic output seems to anticipate the "post-medium" condition of contemporary art. Yet when viewed together, strong lines of connection and continuity emerge, revealing a deeply intimate and single-minded vision of art.Edita Schubert (19472001) was an exceptionally prolific and inventive artist, active from the early 1970s until her untimely death at the age of 54 in 2001. A significant figure in Croatian and Yugoslav art, she exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Biennale of Sydney and in galleries in Austria and the US, as well as frequently throughout Yugoslavia. Yet today, her art remains relatively little known.

Conflict does more than destroy physical spaces. It extinguishes lives, erases histories and disrupts the collective memory of entire communities. In Gaza, where genocide has wrought catastrophic loss, the destruction of heritage adds another dimension of devastation. Yet amid the rubble, acts of archiving, art-making and storytelling persist.Archiving Gaza in the Present brings together voices from Palestine and beyond to document the cultural erasure and to explore how creative and archival practices resist it. Contributions from curators, architects, artists, journalists, lawyers and scholars capture Gazas once-vibrant cultural life historic buildings, art centres, universities and museums that existed before October 2023 now turned to rubble.Featuring rich visual material from fragmented WhatsApp testimonies to forensic documentation and including artworks, maps and photographs, Archiving Gaza in the Present is both a living archive and a call to action. It is a vital resource for understanding Gazas cultural survival amid destruction.In partnership with the Arab British Centre.Contributors include Selma Dabbagh, Salman Abu Sitta, Shareef Sarhan, Hazem Harb, Malak Mattar, Marc-Andre Haldimann, Nadia Yaqub, Omar Al-Qattan, Kegham Djeghalian, Caitlin Procter, Atef Alshaer, Shatha Safi, Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzar.

To mark the 200th anniversary of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), its history is being told through 100 selected objects. Proposals from the entire institute were submitted in response to a "Call for Objects." The curators Klaus Nippert and Andrea Stengel provide historical classifications of the objects with regard to their role in research, teaching, and development. The catalogue shows numerous new images of the objects, photographed by Jonas Zilius and Amadeus Bramsiepe, and mediates between their current appearance and the historical perspectives raised. In the design, Christoph Engel interweaves text and image in a special form that invites you to take a visual stroll.Klaus Nippert studied history and philology, and has a doctorate in early modernism. In 2002, he became head of the University Archive Karlsruhe, since 2009 the KIT Archive. He has published in the fields of archival, historical, and literary studies.

To mark the 200th anniversary of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), its history is being told through 100 selected objects. Proposals from the entire institute were submitted in response to a "Call for Objects." The curators Klaus Nippert and Andrea Stengel provide historical classifications of the objects with regard to their role in research, teaching, and development. The catalogue shows numerous new images of the objects, photographed by Jonas Zilius and Amadeus Bramsiepe, and mediates between their current appearance and the historical perspectives raised. In the design, Christoph Engel interweaves text and image in a special form that invites you to take a visual stroll.Klaus Nippert studied history and philology, and has a doctorate in early modernism. In 2002, he became head of the University Archive Karlsruhe, since 2009 the KIT Archive. He has published in the fields of archival, historical, and literary studies.

Over the past two decades, Lisa Oppenheim has developed a critically acclaimed practice that is deeply rooted in the field of photography while also constantly exploring its margins. She often focuses on the unexplored potential of the mediums artistic, technological, and sociopolitical histories. Combining material experimentation with archival research, Oppenheim transforms or, in her words, "reprocesses"images and ideas both recent and historical by employing creative mechanisms ranging from a host of photographic processes to other media such as textiles, film and video, and, most recently, sculpture. Published in conjunction with her exhibition Monsieur Steichen at MUDAM Luxembourg, this richly illustrated catalogue surveys Oppenheims works from the past dozen years, and includes new texts by Darsie Alexander, Christophe Gallois, Jacob Proctor, and Bettina Steinbrugge, as well as a conversation between Lisa Oppenheim and artist Liz Deschenes.Lisa Oppenheim (*1975, New York) lives and works in New York City and holds degrees from Brown University, Bard College, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. She is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York and Los Angeles and The Approach in London.

Over the past two decades, Lisa Oppenheim has developed a critically acclaimed practice that is deeply rooted in the field of photography while also constantly exploring its margins. She often focuses on the unexplored potential of the mediums artistic, technological, and sociopolitical histories. Combining material experimentation with archival research, Oppenheim transforms or, in her words, "reprocesses"images and ideas both recent and historical by employing creative mechanisms ranging from a host of photographic processes to other media such as textiles, film and video, and, most recently, sculpture. Published in conjunction with her exhibition Monsieur Steichen at MUDAM Luxembourg, this richly illustrated catalogue surveys Oppenheims works from the past dozen years, and includes new texts by Darsie Alexander, Christophe Gallois, Jacob Proctor, and Bettina Steinbrugge, as well as a conversation between Lisa Oppenheim and artist Liz Deschenes.Lisa Oppenheim (*1975, New York) lives and works in New York City and holds degrees from Brown University, Bard College, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. She is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York and Los Angeles and The Approach in London.

Este livro imprime reexes provocadoras. Fala dos livros, dos objetos, fala do olhar bonito para as coisas (do mundo). Fala sobre transcendencia. Entrega. Transformaço. E poesia. Observa objetos e coisas a partir de um mergulho inspirador pelos estudos da cultura material, traduzindo conceitos e algumas divergencias. Passeia vivamente pelo mundo da arte e suas proposiçes. Reunindo teorias ainda pouco difundidas no Brasil, traz provocaçes e fontes singulares para aqueles que se interessam pela perspectiva das coisas. Propondo experimentar os materiais antes dos signicados culturais, e os objetos livres das convençes, este livro e um convite ao no automatismo das coisas, a quebra de regras e formalismos, na ciencia e na vida. Este livro e para todos que, como a autora, desejam experimentar perspectivas outras, com coragem e disciplina, mas sem perder a poesia. Um (re)encontro com a vida a partir das imprevisibilidades. Pensamentos que escorrem pelas mos."Eis aqui um livro-tese, com todos os rigores academicos. Mas tambem, e ai a magia, um livro-aventura pelos bosques da cultura material. Um livro-tese e, igualmente, um livro-passeio pela relva da arte e suas ramas exuberantes. Um livro-amostra do talento de Joana Beleza e de sua surpreendente investigaço cientica. Nestas paginas, o lado artista da pesquisadora-autora tambem se desvela em uma instalaço. Heidegger, Didi-Huberman, Tim Ingold, Ferreira Gullar e outros astros lhe so guia. Em suma: voce tem em mos um livro-encanto sobre a coisa-livro." (Joo Anzanello Carrascoza, escritor)"No se trata de conceito, caso no se pense com o coraço. Trata-se, sim, de exercitar coreograas de deslocamento com a musculatura da alma. Guardo em minha memoria, e como um momento de grande beleza na historia da Ocina 3D, o processo dessa imerso escrita em agua, puro movimento-livro, pautado em experiencias multissensoriais de artistas contemporaneos como Cildo Meireles, Lygia Pape e Lygia Clark. Aqui, o processo cumpre seu ciclo generoso, enriquecido com as valiosas reexes registradas neste "livro-letras" que nos convida a pensar a arte contemporanea (e os objetos do mundo) como atravessamentos, engajamentos e sensibilidades." (Marcos Duarte_Artista e Coordenador da Ocina 3D_Parque Lage)"Nada em Joana Beleza e usual, comum ou previsivel. Partindo de teoricos que entendem que as materialidades no so meras supercialidades e que atuam, junto as pessoas, para a construço do mundo social onde vivemos, a autora embrenha-se no universo da Arte Contemporanea para trazer a luz, ela mesma, um livro que fosse somente coisa, sem o peso da signicaço. [...]. Uma ciencia viva, [...], o resultado mais original que ja vi, ate o momento, dentro dos muros do campo dos estudos da Comunicaço. A autora e uma pesquisadora-teorica-escritora que so sabe fazer as coisas, literalmente, com paixo. Portanto, retire deste livro saberes, mas tambem fazeres; teoria, mas tambem poesia; ciencia, mas tambem arte. Retire deste livro, ate mesmo, somente a sua materialidade." (Claudia Pereira_ Antropologa)