The second book in the ‘Beyond Borders’ trilogy by artist Isabel Miquel Arqués examines Virginia Woolf’s influence on her own life and practice. Since first reading Woolf at the age of sixteen, the English modernist writer’s unconventional manner of thinking and groundbreaking style has continued to fascinate her. The book is divided into nine “waves”, a reference to Woolf’s most experimental novel, ‘The Waves’, in which each wave represents a different chapter in the write...

Pieter Bruegel invites us to study and to admire his work down to the tiniest element. He was a trained and experienced miniaturist, draughtsman, and print designer: skills that combined with his brilliant painting technique enable us to read every image and every detail. Bruegel created a world of unprecedented visual richness: it is impossible to take in everything at once, as there is so much to see. Alongside this rich viewing experience, Bruegel always offers layers of visual and intelle...

The Surrealists made abundant use of photography, and some even devoted themselves to it entirely. But Magritte never considered himself a 'photographer' - he reserved this practice for special moments and specific uses: family photos, models for paintings and advertising work, photos of paintings in progress, and scenes improvised with friends. Nevertheless, Magritte's photographs and films are closely related to his paintings and demonstrate a similar methos in their grasp on reality.

Leonardo da Vinci is the archetypal universal man, a multi-talented genius who left an indelible mark on all the realms of art and knowledge he ventured into – painting, drawing and architecture, natural science, anatomy, mathematics, engineering and astronomy. His genius as a painter was reinforced by an analytical understanding of not only the human body but also nature and the physical laws of light. On the five-hundredth anniversary of Leonardo’s death in 1519, this book celebrates th...

Leonardo da Vinci is the archetypal universal man, a multi-talented genius who left an indelible mark on all the realms of art and knowledge he ventured into – painting, drawing and architecture, natural science, anatomy, mathematics, engineering and astronomy. His genius as a painter was reinforced by an analytical understanding of not only the human body but also nature and the physical laws of light. On the five-hundredth anniversary of Leonardo’s death in 1519, this book celebrates th...

100 years after the publication of André Breton’s Manifeste du Surréalisme, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium celebrate a century of international surrealism with the extraordinary exhibition IMAGINE! From Giorgio de Chirico to Jackson Pollock, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Dorothea Tanning, Man Ray and Leonor Fini: the exhibition and accompanying book offer an immersion in surrealist poetry, dream, the labyrinth, metamorphosis, the unknown and the subconscious, led ...