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Au Moyen Âge, la navigation reposait sur un délicat équilibre entre art et science. Tout en respectant les usages et la prudence de leurs aïeux, les marins devaient compter sur leurs connaissances des étoiles, des vents, des courants et même des vols migratoires. Ils se servaient aussi de cartes...

L’Ukiyo-e (« images du monde flottant ») est un courant artistique japonais qui naquit pendant la période prospère de l’Edo (1615-1868). Caractéristiques de cette période, les estampes sont l’œuvre collective d’un artiste, d’un graveur et d’un imprimeur. Développées en raison...

L’opium, cette substance autrefois utilisée à des fins rituelles contre la douleur et offrant l’accès à un univers artificiel, fut longtemps idéalisée par les artistes et les écrivains. baudelaire, malraux, cocteau, tous s’inspirèrent des nuages de la fée bleue pour créer. drogue sacrée...

Just as there is a fundamental difference in the use of the words “naked” and “nude”, the unclothed body can evoke a feeling of delight or shame, serving as a symbol of contradictory concepts – beauty and indecency. This book is devoted to representations of the nude by great artists from...

Islamic art is not the art of a nation or of a people, but that of a religion: Islam. Spreading from the Arabian Peninsula, the proselyte believers conquered, in a few centuries, a territory spreading from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Multicultural and multi-ethnical, this polymorphic and highly...

“Y a conocía a Diego Rivera, el muralista mexicano, mucho antes de encontrarme con los otros “Diego Rivera” que circulaban por el mundo entre principios del siglo XX y finales de la década de los 50. (…) Mientras que sus pinturas de caballete constituyen un amplio corpus dentro de su obra...

Goya es tal vez el pintor más accesible. Su arte, al igual que su vida, es un libro abierto. Nada ocultó a sus contemporáneos y les ofreció su obra con la misma franqueza. La puerta a su mundo no está oculta detrás de grandes dificultades técnicas. Fue la prueba de que si un hombre tiene la...

Mega Square In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by Hans-Jürgen Döpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful eroticism and supple femininity, seducing famous artists from every genre. This title is sure to entice and delight a wide audience with its lively, provocative images.

What happened to the insolence of the 18th-century libertines or to the carefree excesses of the Belle Époque and its legalized brothels? They have merely been inhibited and buried by the nowadays political correctness and the aggressive one-eyed morality. This book disregards conventional thinking...

Music is not only a pleasure for the ear, it is the echo of the heartbeat, breath and desire. Professor Döpp revisits music as the catalyst for dance, love and sex. From the music sheet to dance and through instruments, music is the expression of our profound desires and most violent passions. The...

Mega Square Roses presents the large number of different species of this unique flower, which is charged with so many feelings and imbued with powerful cultural significance. Because of the rose’s botanical as well as artistic value, this book features a popular subject for art lovers as well as...