Individual Artist category: 1922 books

Diego Velázquez, uno de los representantes principales del barroco del siglo XVII, está considerado como uno de los mayores pintores de la historia del arte español. Este artista, que va subiendo en la jerarquía social gracias a su talento, moderniza el género pictórico del retrato al plasmar...

Il libro descrive e illustra la fotografia d'arte di Paolo Grassi. Il percorso fotografico dell'artista, iniziato alla fine degli anni '70 del Novecento, abbraccia vari temi che vanno dalla ricerca grafica, allo studio del corpo in movimento, alla lettura del paesaggio e delle forme architettoniche...

Incluye audio del autor. En este libro, homenaje al grabador mexicano José Guadalupe Posada, reproducimos un breve texto en el que Diego Rivera describe emocionado, la influencia del litógrafo y caricaturista en su obra. Prologado con gran sensibilidad por su hija, Lupe Rivera Marín, este libro...

以水墨奔馬著稱的中國畫家徐悲鴻 (一八九五-一九五三年) 開創了中西結合的繪畫, 培養了幾代中國美術家。《奔騰的駿馬》描述了他的家人和他的藝術事業如何經受了毛澤東變化莫測的政治風暴而倖存, 毛澤東不斷變化的政策決定了從一九四九年開始,...

From a cinematic grand master, “one of the most readable books of movie criticism, and one of the most instructive” (American Film Institute).   An icon. A rebel. A legend. The films of François Truffaut defined an exhilarating new form of cinema for moviegoers the world over. But before Truffaut...

Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal...

A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for love and his involvement in humanitarian causes.

Joseph Mallord William Turner is arguably Britain's greatest and most mysterious painter, whose range of work encompasses seascape and landscape, immensely powerful oil paintings and intimate watercolours. His friend and colleague C.R. Leslie remembered him thus: 'Turner was short and stout, and had...

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's signature style and revolutionary approach to design changed women's fashion forever. Featuring handwritten text paired with sweet illustrations this ebook sheds new light on the woman behind some of the last century's most iconic designs—from her impoverished...

Da Federico stupor mundi a Telesio Interlandi, improbabile cantore del razzismo mussoliniano con tanto di prezzario degli aggettivi; da Ettore Majorana, convinto estimatore del nazismo, a Giuseppe Peri, oscuro vicequestore angariato; dai fratelli Lanza di Trabia, saltellanti fra i Ciano, Eisenhower...

Discover twenty true stories of royal intrigue, power, and passion, brought to life through the gorgeous illustrations of Jennifer Orkin Lewis and the witty words of Shweta Jha. From Cleopatra to Empress Wu Zetian, Marie Antoinette to Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, these extraordinary female monarchs...

". . . author Sarah Andersen uses hilarious (and adorable) comics to illustrate the very specific growing pains that occur on your way to becoming a mature, put-together grownup. Andersen’s spot-on illustrations also show how to navigate this newfound adulthood once you arrive, since maturity...

From the author of the widely acclaimed graphic novel Here, awarded the 2016 Prix D'or for best graphic album at Angoulême, a new graphic work that celebrates another aspect of his incomparable genius. Sequential Drawings gathers together more than a decade of McGuire's witty and endlessly...

After an accident on an industrial farm unhinges two young brothers from reality, they are guided through a weird and wonderful journey by Xolo, the Aztec's mythological protector of souls. Follow the brothers through a typical day, from their arrival at an industrial tobacco farm bussed in with others...