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Anecdóticas reflexiones sobre la modernidad, el arte contemporáneo y la globalización de la cultura. ¿Se puede meter en un mismo saco la vida de una mujer de campo, alejada de todo lo que tiene que ver con el arte contemporáneo, las amarguras de un crítico de la plástica moderna, y la lectura de un filósofo sobre las novedades de la tecnología cibernética? Pues, aunque sea difícil semejante combinación, Miriam Martínez lo logra de manera exitosa y atractiva en estos Apuntes

En este clásico ensayo el filósofo Eugenio d´Ors realiza un recorrido por la que es considerada una de las pinacotecas más importantes del mundo, el Museo del Prado. A través de la visita por las diferentes salas del museo, d´Ors nos guía a través de una selección de obras y a través de ellas nos ofrece su particular visión sobre los fundamentos estéticos del arte dentro de la Historia.

Hemos querido presentar en esta serie las primeras obras que van a sentar las bases del Renacimiento y que, como es bien sabido, se produjeron en Italia a finales de la Baja Edad Media. Se trata de un pequeño grupo de genios que comprenden la profundidad de la transformación socioeconómica que está sufriendo el mundo por esta época. Y sobre todo que anuncian una verdadera revolución artística que se producirá unos años más tarde.

Suele denominarse así el siglo XV (o mil cuatrocientos), que representa el estallido de la inteligencia artística italiana puesta al servicio de la Iglesia y de la nobleza. Aunque durante mucho tiempo se conservaron las formas góticas, el nuevo estilo transforma radicalmente los elementos arquitectónicos y decorativos de este siglo. En esta breve colección hemos mostrado los mejores ejemplares de esta época que siguen valorarse entre los resultados artísticos más magníficos de toda la historia humana.

Pablo Picasso fue publicado por primera vez en español en 1946. Su núcleo originario, sin embargo, hay que buscarlo en la edición francesa de 1930, en la que Ors y Picasso trabajaron en estrecha colaboración, el primero preparando un texto que había de ser la realización efectiva, en el Picasso de esta época, de sus ideales estéticos? Ors quiso estudiar, en especial, lo que de clásico, italiano y anti impresionista había en sus cuadros?; el segundo, seleccionando y preparando las ilustraciones que habían de alumbrar las palabras del escritor.

El filósofo aplíca en Paul Cézanne un estudio clave, además de una intensa observación sobre el proceso creativo y el resultado artístico del mismo, todo esto en un vehemente recorrido por el arte moderno.

Primer episodio de la colección Primera Temporada. Un ensayo sobre el electrodoméstico favorito, escrito por una de las voces más influyentes y polémicas de nuestra época. El ojo de la casa nos vigila mientras descansamos o trabajamos. Su poder se extiende más allá de las cuatro paredes y traspasa fronteras, continentes. Tiene la capacidad de poner a generaciones enteras a hablar en torno a ella. La prendemos cuando deseamos, pero solo ella decide cuándo nos desconectaremos.

A palavra pressa é o particípio passado, em latim, do verbo premere (apertar). Assim, pode-se dizer que A História do Cinema para Quem Tem Pressa se propõe a contar uma das maiores sagas do século 20 (e deste início do 21) para quem precisa apertar o passo ou está apertado de tempo. E quem não está? Sabadin traça um panorama do cinema – linguagem que há mais de um século revoluciona nossa maneira de ver a vida –, desde a época em que seus inventores nem sabiam direito o que fazer com ele, até os dias de hoje, quando movimenta bilhões de dólares pelos cinco continentes.

Weaving together fragments of artists’ stories across time and place, Philip Hoare embarks on a Sebaldian exploration of the enduring legacy of William Blake. A poet, painter and printmaker who was unappreciated and considered mad in his own time, Blake was eventually lauded as a key pillar of the Romantic movement. His posthumous influence reverberates endlessly, from the films of Derek Jarman to our ongoing fear of technological advancement.

Did you know Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime, and that during the last three months of his life, he completed an average of one painting every day? Did you know that Michelangelo's David is covered in a dusting of human skin? Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Audio Lectures is an invitation to discover some of the world's most celebrated artists and works, while presenting the Gospel of Christ in a way that speaks to the struggles and longings common to the human experience.

What exactly is a work of art? Within the context of this guided trip inside the artist's psyche, Author traces the development of transcendent books, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and other forms of artistic expression. Together with the diary entries, napkin doodles, and sketches that were their tools, Moss lays down the work—the tortuous roads and creative decisions—that lead to outstanding art. He does this by weaving together conversations with some of the most renowned artists of our time.

In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode—information oriented less toward answers and resolvability than toward questions, irresolvability, and sustained difference. In this way, art constitutes information that remains in formation---a difference that makes a difference that keeps on differencing.

In Defence of Leisure presents Marion Milner as a writer for our times. In asking the simple question: how do I want to spend my free time? Milner developed a method for discovering her true likes and dislikes. As Singh follows Milner's approach - from keeping a diary to painting, building a home and travelling to the sea - she discovers the importance of rest, creativity and play in all of our lives, and how it can open the door to achieving what we truly desire.

In this concise and incredibly engaging short history, Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts journeys from the warrior societies of The Bronze Age all the way to the invention of democracy during the golden age of Athens, charting the incredible rise and fall of the Greek world and revealing just how much the Greeks influenced the world we live in today, from art and philosophy to architecture and politics.

In this concise and incredibly engaging short history, Dr Campbell Price takes us through every aspect of Ancient Egypt, from the incredible architectural marvels of the pyramids of Giza to the visually stunning and complex language of hieroglyphics all the way through to those at the top of society, pharaohs such as Tutankhamen and queens like Cleopatra.

Driven by different motives, Robert Moses and Francis Cardinal Spellman had the same vision: to display Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Pietà, in the Vatican's pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse—a fear of corruption or contamination through color—lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some foreign body—the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological—or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic.

Many people try to describe their experience when “in the zone” or “in the flow” during the creative process. Some claim that a Greater Power or Divine Guidance assisted them. But, what is this state of consciousness, and how do we replicate it? In search of answers, writer and painter Christopher J. Miller took the suggestion of one of his art mentors to watch and chronicle his creative process.

Responding to many recent calls for redress and restitution, Richardson summarises the historical and current situation and attributes its problematics to the fact that theorists and historians have taken the concept art as a generic that includes both design and craft - which are actually and validly distinguishable from art by application of the concept function/al-or else ignored the two entirely.

Padre del cubismo, insieme a Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso è stato uno dei protagonisti indiscussi della storia del Novecento. Con le sue sperimentazioni sulla scomposizione e rappresentazione della realtà da molteplici punti di vista, ha rivoluzionato l’arte moderna, ispirando le avanguardie d’inizio secolo. Militante comunista ed eroe pacifista, denunciò le atrocità del fascismo e la follia della guerra in quello che è universalmente riconosciuto come il suo struggente capolavoro: Guernica. Vizi Editore presenta la vita dei grandi artisti, raccontata con musiche e suoni.