An accessible and irreverent introduction to the art and art world of today, written by two curators at the heart of the contemporary art scene.

Discover the remarkable NASA spacecraft that have captured our imaginations for decades.

Erwin Osen hat als charismatischer Künstlerfreund Egon Schieles die Schlüsseljahre des Wiener Frühexpressionismus mitgeprägt. Seine facettenreiche Beziehung zu Schiele erreichte eine Intensität, die das radikale Schaffen Egon Schieles beflügelt hat. Hauptwerke der österreichischen Kunst waren die Folge. Erwin Osen geriet in Vergessenheit und kann heute neu entdeckt werden.Der Impulsgeber und Begleiter Egon Schieles wird als charismatischer Universalkünstler greifbar. Erwin Osen (1891-...

Discover the scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color that transformed the history of art. This overview of Impressionism explores the artists, subjects, and techniques that first brought the easel out of the studio and shifted artistic attention from history, religion, or portraiture to the evanescent ebb and flow of modernity.

The book is composed of nine chapters, accompanied by practical exercises and images that will turn the reader into a learner and a flamenco enthusiastic, providing the theoretical basis and practical elements for an understanding that combines reason and emotion.

Flamenco is the synthesis of a process of gestation that began in the first third of the 19th century and that continues to increase its entire range of artistic variables, whether in guitar playing, dancing, singing or percussion, ...

Moving from meetings with artists to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev, skipping between exhibitions, continents and centuries, the author argues that curation is far from a static practice.

A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from the cave paintings of the earliest humans to the ?photograph' of a black hole in deep space.

Since the beginning of our time as humans, we have never stopped making images and inventing channels for visual communication. From the cave dweller creating paintings on a wall at the dawn of civilized time to Instagram influencers today, technology may keep changing, but our need to reach one another, to m...

The ultimate death compendium, featuring the world’s most extraordinary artistic and ethnographic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors.