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The prestigious Design Museum looks back at the most iconic shoes of recent history in this stylish and informative book Shoes hold a special place in the hearts of many people and their design can range from the humble and practical to the exquisite Whether mass produced or individually hand crafted designed for practicality or to make a bold fashion statement shoes never fail to exert a fascination on the popular imagination Here the Design Museum studies the top fifty shoe designs that have made an impact in the world of design today from the 1863 Frye boot worn by soldiers during the American Civil War to Manolo Blahnik s 1994 Campari Mary Janes and many in between Discover the social changes that affected the evolution of shoe design and the developments in technology that transformed the manufacture of footwear With stunning photography selected by the Design Museum Fifty Shoes That Changed the World is the perfect gift for fashionistas and design enthusiasts of all ages

What s so special about Dutch paintings of cheese When does Art Nouveau become Art Deco Why were the Pre Raphaelites obsessed with gingers Find out in one sentence with comedian and art historian Verity Babbs Heaps of fun and endlessly fascinating a must read for any history of art enthusiast Utterly brilliant Alice Loxton Verity Babbs journeys through 50 key art movements across history answering ten questions for each in just one sentence at a time Within these fascinating and sometimes hilarious nuggets of art wisdom Verity covers everything from who inspired the movement and its impact on history to the key artists and artworks for each Spanning 500 years from the Renaissance to the Young British Artists this wonderfully illustrated book is for anyone who wants to learn more about art and also have a laugh along the way It won t answer everything nor will you be a genius by the end of it but you will feel a little less lost next time you re in a gallery or museum and will most likely become a whole lot more helpful on your pub quiz team Equally amusing and enlightening this brilliant book offers an answer for every art question you ve wanted to ask plus those you re yet to think of while standing in a museum Ruth Millington

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Obras maestras explicadas es para aquellos que alguna vez se hayan detenido frente a una obra de arte y hayan sentido una profunda conexi?n emocional, una atracci?n inexplicable. Es para los curiosos, los esc?pticos, los so?adores, para cualquiera que quiera comprender los significados ocultos y las fascinantes historias que encierran algunas de las obras m?s ic?nicas del mundo. El arte es un di?logo a trav?s del tiempo y este libro es una invitaci?n a una conversaci?n atemporal.

A unique illustrated history of Tudor England told through its art and artefacts The Tudor dynasty 1485 1603 gave England five monarchs and an age of relentless power plays scandal and transformation Thanks to artists like Hans Holbein the Younger we feel we have a definite idea of the characters of these famous kings and queens the miserly Henry VII the six times married tyrant Henry VIII the boy king Edward VI the devout matriarch Mary I and the virgin queen Elizabeth I Yet iconic as they are when it comes to Tudor art portraits and rulers are far from the whole story In the sixteenth century images and objects took on powerful new roles as more people than ever before used them to shape their worlds Monarchs archbishops and courtiers continued to commission artworks in a variety of media to convey messages and create a record of themselves as office holders and individuals But in this period the middling sort professional men and women were also gaining status wealth and influence They wanted to promote themselves too and used art and a dazzling array of objects to do so In this unique and beautiful book Christina Faraday uses art paintings sculpture prints tapestries embroideries clothes jewels and household objects to

* El arte puede ser tan fascinante como frustrante. Una sola obra puede tener varios significados, y existen muchas formas de entenderla, interpretarla y apreciarla. Este libro claro y accesible des

Noves pràctiques artístiques amb la mística pròpia de l’univers brossià com a rerefons Agafant el títol del darrer poema que va escriure Joan Brossa, que es va publicar pòstumament i que ara recuper

This 12 month calendar includes a bonus planning spread for September December 2025 In addition to the beautiful art each monthly spread includes the previous and next month for reference major world holidays and observances phases of the moon and plenty of room to add your own reminders and special occasions Features include 12 x 12 12 x 24 open Cover design eliminates need for plastic packaging Printed on FSC certified paper with soy based ink Planning spread for September December 2025 Spans January December 2026 Generous grid space for notes appointments and reminders Official major world holidays and obeservances Moon phases based on Universal Time Full color images from the Disney Dreams Collection by Thomas Kinkade Studios Disney

The social movement popularized by CaShawn Thompson in 2013 Black Girl Magic has taken a life of its own empowering women of color all over the world In this 2026 calendar you ll celebrate the beauty power resilience and general amazingness of Black women Featuring 12 full color photographs of Black women young and old Includes 12 Black Girl Magic esque quotes to fulfill and empower you each month Bonus spread for September December 2025 Generous grids for adding appointments and reminders Includes major official world holidays Opens to 12 inches x 24 inches

El arte de la fantasía es un libro de consulta visual sobre todo lo fantástico: desde las bellas artes hasta la ilustración, y desde los surrealistas y simbolistas hasta los creativos que trabajan en territorios indefinidos. Si bien los artistas de nuestros libros de historia (Blake, Goya, Dali, Magritte, Ernst) fueron los primeros en llevar el arte fantastico a las galerias, fueron los artistas del siglo XX quienes lo llevaron a las masas. Es en este libro donde, por primera vez, estan unidos y tienen el mismo peso, presentando una fascinante y reflexiva seleccion de las mejores obras de arte de fantasia que existen.

When how where does a mark become a musical note What alchemy occurs to transform a symbol into sound a song a symphony a chorus Music is interwoven into the fabric of our lives We listen to it some of us play it but throughout history humans have also attempted to capture it visually from the musical images of Ancient Sumer to Frozen s Elsa standing on the side of a mountain her voice making crystals in the air In this startlingly original history of music Eleanor Chan takes us on a journey through sound that encompasses the 35 000 year old flute found in a German cave Kandinsky s kaleidoscopic paintings illuminated manuscripts and haute couture Classically trained musician and art historian Dr Eleanor Chan opens up a world of sound and vision exploring different ways to think about listening and seeing Ultimately this book asks the reader what it is and what it might mean to truly see music

This first biography of the Kettle s Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth century British art and explores a thrilling moment in the history of modernism Beautifully written A book I have always hoped someone would write Nigel SlaterJim Ede was a man of remarkable energy and vision a collector dealer fixer critic and above all friend to artists As Laura Freeman shows in this captivating biography the lives of Ede and the artists he championed represent a thrilling tipping point in twentieth century modernism a new guard a new way of making and seeing and a new way of living with art At Kettle s Yard in Cambridge he opened his home and his collection to all comers Art ca be found there wherever you look in a pebble feather or seedhead His approach has shown generations of visitors that learning to look can be a whole new way of life A beautiful original biography Freeman s writing has Ede s flair grace and insight Financial Times A cabinet of curiosities The story of a life and of a century London Review of Books

Este volumen es resultado del trabajo grupal del proyecto de investigación Circulación de la imagen en la Geografía artística del mundo hispánico en la Edad Moderna (CIRIMA), y particularmente atiende dicho transitar situando a America y lo americano en el centro, tanto geografica como tematicamente. Hemos tomado como detonante la pregunta de Keith Moxey & x0201C;¿puede la disciplina [de la Historia del arte], por ejemplo, aceptar que las apropiaciones no occidentales de estilos occidentales no son un mero atraso? ¿aceptaria que las historias subalternas no son repeticiones de las que son dominantes y que el "centro" no es simplemente imitado cuando aparece en los "margenes"?& x0201D; (El tiempo de lo visual. La imagen en la historia, 2013). Lo que aqui se refleja son respuestas que exploran el papel del arte en America, por mucho tiempo considerado al margen, dadas por un conjunto plural de investigadores internacionales. En sus 10 capitulos se exploran diversos conceptos como circulacion, apropiacion, adaptacion, originalidad, autenticidad, agencia o centralidad del arte en el enorme territorio americano. Con acercamientos teoricos recientes, propuestas metodologicas propias y analisis de casos puntuales, se busca ampliar las miradas, preguntarse por la recepcion artistica

Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts GUARDIAN Few can match Uglow s skill at conjuring up a scene or illuminating a character SUNDAY TIMES Uglow s style is supremely elegant and often amusingly bathetic her research exhaustive but lightly worn FINANCIAL TIMES In 1781 Gilbert White was a country curate living in the Hampshire village he had known all his life Fascinated by the fauna flora and people around him he kept journals for many years and at that time was halfway to completing his path breaking The Natural History of Selborne No one had written like this before with such close observation humour and sympathy his spellbinding book has remained in print ever since treasured by generations of readers Jenny Uglow illuminates this quirky warm hearted man the father of ecology by following a single year in his Naturalist s Journal As his diary jumps from topic to topic she accompanies Gilbert from frost to summer drought from the migration of birds to the sex lives of snails and the coming of harvest Fresh alive and original and packed with rich colour illustrations A Year with Gilbert White invites us to see the natural world anew with astonishment and wonder

Marie Antoinette the very name conjures up a vibrant pastel coloured world of excess filled with satin shoes rustling silks gravity defying hairstyles decadent macarons delicious intrigue and then of course bloody Revolution This ground breaking volume first reconstructs the life and style of the captivating yet tragic Marie Antoinette married at 14 queen at 18 and guillotined at 37 from the intimate apartments she lived in to the scent she wore the trends she led and the complexities of French court life The authors draw on contemporary accounts interiors letters portraits and the tantalisingly few personal possessions that remain her shoes and fans and fragments of cloth from her dresses But Marie Antoinette has remained influential long beyond her death in 1793 The book uncovers how the ill fated Queen of France has provided a constant source of inspiration to the worlds of design fashion film and decorative arts from nineteenth century fancy dress balls to Art Deco illustration to the couture of John Galliano for Dior and the sumptuous movie by Sofia Coppola It considers afresh the legacy of a complex and mis understood figure whose style youth and notoriety have contributed to her timeless appeal

Durante el siglo XVIII se empezó a forjar un nuevo y creciente interés sobre las bellas artes que estimuló su conocimiento y estudio. En toda Europa se crearon instituciones como las academias y los museos, que pretendieron cuidar el desarrollo de las artes y salvaguardar sus mas distinguidas creaciones, un legado patrimonial que conformo irremisiblemente la identidad cultural de los distintos paises del continente. El estudio de su pasado, su desarrollo y su historia, se convirtio, poco a poco, en una nueva disciplina humanistica. Este libro estudia este proceso tal y como se produjo en España, desde los estudios eruditos del siglo XVIII hasta su llegada a la universidad a comienzos del XX. A el han contribuido, con sus novedosas investigaciones, una serie de distinguidos especialistas que debatieron recientemente sobre esta tematica en el Museo Nacional del Prado.Joaquin Alvarez Barrientos, Luis Arciniega, Beatriz Blasco Esquivias, Adrian Fernandez Almoguera, David Garcia Lopez, Javier Gonzalez Santos, Hilary Macartney, Concepcion Lomba Serrano, Jonatan Jair Lopez Muñoz, Jesus Pedro Lorente Lorente, Jorge Maier Allende, Carlos Sambricio, Carmen de Tena.

EL COMIC QUE ELS RETORNA A LES DONES ARTISTES UN ESPAI PROTAGONISTA A LA HISTORIA DE L'ART!Als museus trobem moltes dones representades en obres d'art, pero molt poques dones artistes. Pero n'hi ha moltes, i sempre n'hi ha hagut. Per que se les ha oblidat? Perque la historia de l'art ha estat escrita per homes, per a homes i s'han atorgat el paper protagonista.Ha arribat lhora que les dones artistes tornin a ser el centre datencio. Des del Renaixement a Europa fins als nostres dies a tot el mon, totes aquestes creadores, sovint avantguardistes, han contribuit a la historia de l'art amb genialitat.Com a artistes visuals, pintores, escultores, fotografes i realitzadores de video, han creat obres que donen testimoni de la nostra humanitat.Aquest comic mostra les artistes treballant el mes a prop possible de la creacio de les seves obres. Perque tant a la historia, com a les arts, com mes visibles siguin les dones, mes es reduira la desigualtat.

¡EL CÓMIC QUE LES DEVUELVE A LAS MUJERES ARTISTAS UN ESPACIO PROTAGONISTA EN LA HISTORIA DEL ARTE!En los museos nos encontramos a muchas mujeres representadas en obras de arte, pero muy pocas mujeres artistas. Pero hay muchas, y siempre las ha habido. ¿Por que se las ha olvidado? Porque la historia del arte ha sido escrita por hombres, para hombres, y ellos se han otorgado el papel protagonista.Ha llegado la hora de que las mujeres artistas vuelvan a ser el centro de atencion. Desde el Renacimiento en Europa hasta nuestros dias en todo el mundo, todas estas creadoras, a menudo vanguardistas, han contribuido a la historia del arte con genialidad.Como artistas visuales, pintoras, escultoras, fotografas y realizadoras de video, han creado obras que dan testimonio de nuestra humanidad.Este comic muestra a las artistas trabajando lo mas cerca posible de la creacion de sus obras. Porque tanto en la historia, como en las artes, cuanto mas visibles sean las mujeres, mas se reducira la desigualdad.

* La naturaleza nunca ha sido tan vibrante. Contemple la belleza y el poder del mundo natural, desde volcanes y mares tempestuosos hasta bosques resplandecientes y estrellas fugaces. * Esta observacion guiada de la naturaleza ofrece una forma totalmente nueva de contemplar el mundo. * Un increible compendio de la historia del mundo que nos rodea, contada a traves de pinturas, dibujos, esculturas, textiles y artes decorativas. Este libro, que ofrece una refrescante perspectiva de analisis visual de la tierra, el agua y el cielo, destaca los motivos, colores y temas que se repiten y que han cautivado a los artistas a lo largo de la historia.Ver lleva tiempo, igual que tener un amigo, tambien lleva tiempo. Georgia OKeeffe