Edición actualizada y ampliada con 100 nuevas entradas del clásico de Phaidon.
Este libro es una guía alfabética de los más grandes pintores, fotógrafos y escultores desde la época medieval hasta nuestros días. Sólo aquí podrás mirar frente a frente a Carracci con Cartier-Bresson, Duccio y Duchamp, Mondrian y Monet, Warhol y Waterhouse.
Las entradas incorporan un completo sistema de referencias cruzadas y al final se incluye un glosario de términos técnicos, movimientos artísticos y un directorio internacional de museos y galerías. Cada artista está representado por una reproducción a color de una obra característica; con datos sobre la imagen y su creador.
El ABC del Arte es un libro de referencia visual sin precedentes que constituye un homenaje a nuestra rica y polifacética cultura.

El ABC del Arte (The Art Book) (Spanish Edition)

Editors, Phaidon

Arts & Photography

Phaidon Press

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, The Art Book has been an outstanding success and has become a well&amp;hyphen;known landmark in the art book world. Now published in over 20 different languages and in mini, midi and hardback formats, it has received rave reviews from numerous newspapers and magazines and has made many appearances on the bestseller lists. Complemented by The 20th Century Art Book and The American Art Book, its unique approach brings art alive. An A–Z guide to the greatest painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times, it debunks art&amp;hyphen;historical classifications by throwing together brilliant examples of all periods, schools, visions and techniques. Each artist is represented by a full&amp;hyphen;page color plate of a definitive work, accompanied by explanatory and illuminating information on the image and its creator. Glossaries of artistic movements and technical terms are included, making this a valuable work of reference as well as a feast for the eyes. By breaking with traditional classifications, The Art Book represents a fresh and original approach to art: an unparalleled visual sourcebook and a celebration of our rich and multi&amp;hyphen;faceted culture.

The Art Book: Mini Format

History & Criticism

300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves.
Map: Exploring the World brings together more than 300 fascinating maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge digital maps of the twenty-fist century. The book's unique arrangement, with the maps organized in complimentary or contrasting pairs, reveals how the history of our attempts to make flat representations of the world has been full of beauty, ingenuity and innovation.
Selected by an international panel of curators, academics and collectors, the maps reflect the many reasons people make maps, such as to find their way, to assert ownership, to record human activity, to establish control, to encourage settlement, to plan military campaigns or to show political power. The selection includes the greatest names in cartography, such as James Cook, Gerard Mercator, Matthew Fontaine Maury and Phyllis Pearsall, as well as maps from indigenous cultures around the world, rarely seen maps from lesser'known cartographers, and maps of outstanding beauty and surprising individuality from the current generation of map makers.

Map: Exploring The World

History

World

300 mapas de todo el mundo y de cualquier época que nos muestran lo que los mapas revelan sobre su historia y sobre nosotros mismos. 
Seleccionados por un panel de cartógrafos, académicos, coleccionistas y anticuarios, estos mapas representan más de 5.000 años de innovación cartográfica en diversas culturas. 
Incluye una amplia variedad de mapas, desde mapas de navegación, realizados por satélites, ó digitales a mapas inspirados en la cartografía tradicional realizados por artistas contemporáneos ó literarios (i.e. el mapa en el que R.L Stevenson se inspiró para realizar La isla del Tesoro) ordenados por parejas que subrayan su significado. 
Mapas de Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Phyllis Pearson, Heinrich Berann, Bill Rakin, Ordnance Survey o Google Earth. 
Contiene una línea temporal ilustrada con la historia de la cartografía, biografías de los cartógrafos más importantes y un glosario de términos.

Mapas: Explorando el Mundo (Map: Exploring The World) (Spanish Edition)

Europe

The Fashion Book takes a fresh look at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it.
Spanning almost 200 years, the entire industry is represented; from clothing and footwear designers, to photographers, stylists, icons and retailers, including the new category of educational institutions that have been fundamental in the careers of many of the creative individuals.
Marking the significant changes on the fashion landscape since the first edition, this revision includes updates on existing entries as well as important new names who have fundamentally shaped the way we see fashion, from designers such as Nicholas Ghesquière, Gareth Pugh and Phoebe Philo, influential image makers Mert and Marcus and Mario Sorrenti, and contemporary icons Lady Gaga and Tilda Swinton, representing just a few of the many exciting new figures. New faces rub shoulders with the fashion pioneers of the original edition; such as Coco Chanel, Issey Miyake, Yves Saint Laurent, Kate Moss and Helmut Newton. In keeping in the reference style of the first edition, this new edition reflects a comprehensive view of the fashion industry today.
Easy to use and filled with inspirational images, The Fashion Book is organized as an A-Z guide of names, listing 576 entries across the categories of clothing and accessory designers, photographers, institutions, models and those iconic individuals who instigated or symbolize a whole fashion movement. Cutting through the usual classifications, and organized alphabetically, the book creates unexpected juxtapositions that make fascinating and unlikely partnerships: the powerful Anna Wintour sits opposite the pioneer of modern fashion, Charles Worth while Terry Richardson rubs shoulders with Herb Ritts, and digital print wunderkind Mary Katranzou meets Rei Kawakubo.
Each entry is illustrated with a photograph or drawing from the most important creative talents in the industry - showing a quintessential aspect of their work. An accompanying text describes where they fit into the fashion story and includes essential biographical information about the subject. In addition, The Fashion Book uses a comprehensive cross-referencing system and glossary which explain the many collaborations and techniques used in fashion, that singular business which lives somewhere between art and commerce.

The Fashion Book

Kinneberg, Caroline

Gardner, Laura

Graphic Design

At last - the next instalment in the popular Vitamin series - the world's hottest painters, selected by international experts
Since the publication of the first Vitamin P in 2002, painting has continued to evolve and excite, with new generations responding to its historic importance and taking it in unexpected directions. A central pillar of artistic practice, painting also has enduring appeal, dominating the art market. Vitamin P3 takes the conversation forward, spotlighting more than 100 outstanding artists who are engaging with - and pushing the boundaries of - the medium of paint.
Artists include: Etel Adnan, Michael Armitage, Matt Connors, Genieve Figgis, Helen Johnson, Sanya Kantarovsky, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Oscar Murillo, Imran Qureshi, Nicolas Party, Mary Ramsden, Rosie Wylie.
International experts include: Iwona Blazwick, Benjamin Buchloh, Marlene Dumas, Laura Hoptman, Geeta Kapur, Alex Katz, Tim Marlow, Sarah McCrory, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, Nancy Spector.

Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting

The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever
Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map: Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, this stunning compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.

Plant: Exploring the Botanical World

Photography & Video

Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest artists - exclusively researched for this new book
Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by artists through the ages and across the globe, this exquisite keepsake is the ideal book for artists, collectors, and armchair enthusiasts. As painters, sculptors, photographers, and other visual artists see and experience the world through a unique lens, Art Is the Highest Form of Hope &amp; Other Quotes by Artists shows that their life lessons, private revelations, and frank, often irreverent, opinions can guide us all.
This unique and carefully curated book, packed with totally original research, is a go-to resource for revealing thoughts and personal advice on subjects as diverse as beauty, colour, light, sex, chance, discipline, money troubles, originality, fear of failure, danger of success, the creative process, and more – all messages transmitted from the artistic trenches.

Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists

Plantas: Una exploración del Mundo Botánic (Plant: Exploring the Botanical World) (Spanish Edition)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

60 stunning works of contemporary architecture, all of which have a special relationship with the natural landscape
Elemental Living presents 60 works of architecture from across the 20th and 21st centuries that have a special relationship with the natural world. The book includes a visually breathtaking selection of architect-created houses that have been designed to create unparalleled views of a wide variety of natural landscapes; designed to be almost indistinguishable from the natural landscape; or designed using materials and forms found in the natural landscape. Each house demonstrates a deep concern with the creation of unique living spaces that connect their inhabitants with the forests, mountains, lakes, deserts, and oceans that have attracted humanity for millennia.

Elemental Living: Contemporary Houses in Nature

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

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