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Janis Joplin ha pasado a la historia como un alma impulsiva y apasionada, un ser con un destino sentenciado por el dolor que generaba una de las voces más extraordinarias que ha dado la historia del rock. La célebre autora y biógrafa Holly George-Warren fue elegida expresamente por el Janis Joplin Estate para escribir el libro definitivo sobre su vida y su música, un complejo retrato revelador y profundo de una artista extraordinaria. Así, los hermanos de Joplin, Laura y Michael Joplin, proporcionaron a George-Warren acceso exclusivo y privilegiado a miles de archivos, documentos, incluidas transcripciones, correspondencias, fotografías, entrevistas perdidas y recuerdos, así como el acceso directo a la familia, compañeros de banda y amigos de la cantante.

In 1924, English-born biographer and writer Iris Origo (1902–1988) and her husband, Antonio, purchased La Foce, a sprawling estate centered around a half-ruined fifteenth-century villa with a dream that was as ambitious as it was audacious. Guided by a deep-seated desire to make a difference, the Origos dedicated their lives to transforming an impoverished terrain into a thriving landscape of wheat fields, olive groves, and vineyards. With English architect Cecil Pinsent, they refurbished the house and designed an elegant terraced garden with box hedges, a rose garden, fountains, and a wisteria-covered pergola.

Este libro pretende ser tanto una fuente de aliento como una exploración de la vida y la obra de los artistas que sienten fascinación por el proceso de la impresión artística y por el desarrollo de sus imágenes personales a través de la creación de impresiones originales. Los testimonios de destacados artistas invitan a explorar infinitas posibilidades de los diversos métodos de trabajo. Los capítulos se distribuyen según las distintas técnicas de impresión. A las completas explicaciones de cada uno de los medios les sigue un detallado análisis de los métodos disponibles, ilustrados con fotos paso a paso. Al final se incluye una completa sección de información útil con una lista de proveedores, talleres y estudios.

One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this book is a compact catalogue raisonné of all of the artist’s masterful paintings. Drawn from our best-selling XXL edition, the book traces the artist’s life and work across 10 chapters, presenting all known paintings and drawing on his letters, contracts, diary entries, and writings to explore the man behind such groundbreaking artworks. From Virgin of the Rocks to Virgin and Child with St. Anne to the ever-beguiling Mona Lisa, you’ll find some of the finest treasures of the Louvre, Prado, and National Gallery, London here, as well as Leonardo works lost to time, but no less startling in their precision and poise.

Lichtenstein Remembered accompanies a 2023 exhibition, curated by Irving Blum on the centennial of the artist’s birth, of twenty-two sculptures and twenty-eight works on paper at Gagosian New York. The sculptures, of some of Lichtenstein’s most iconic images—including explosions, mobiles, mirrors, lamps, glasses, and profiles—were made between 1965 and 1996, spanning all periods of his career. They are shown together with the drawings, studies, sketches, and collages created in preparation for and alongside them, testifying to the remarkable depth and medium-subverting wit of Lichtenstein’s practice.

A selectively curated overview of the little black dress in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, organized by Vogue contributing editor and fashion force André Leon Talley and published on the occasion of an exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah College of Art and Design), André Leon Talley Gallery. Featuring an impeccably selected group of about sixty dresses from many of the most eminent fashion houses, the book is a celebratory tribute to the iconic little black dress and its deeply resonant cultural and social significance in the modern era.

Zen, soothing, mystical, meditative—words cannot do justice to Asia’s most beautiful interiors. Whether it’s a gilded Tibetan monastery, a plantation in Sri Lanka, or a private villa in Thailand, each of the havens featured in this book are remarkable not only in aesthetic, but also in spirit. This showcase features about 40 exceptional locations across Tibet, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Highlights include traditional Burmese stilt houses; the breathtaking Shiv Niwas Palace in India, visited by James Bond in Octopussy; Cambodian temples; a rice barge-turned houseboat in Thailand; the “Blue Mansion”, an magnificient, indigo-painted courtyard house featured in the film Indochine; a breathtaking garden designed by Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa; and many, many more.

Los 90 fueron una época caótica, descarnada y tremendamente mágica para la música. Grandes estrellas, nuevas maneras de crear, estilos diversos: del grunge al hiphop, del suntuoso rythm and blues al disonante ska, de Britney Spears a Radiohead, de las Spice Girls a Sinéad O'Connor o de Blur a Nirvana. Mezclando los ritmos como si nos lanzase a una enorme pista de baile, en Los 90 en 90 canciones (o más) el periodista musical Rob Harvilla revisita los empalagosos, pegadizos e icónicos hits de la generación X, en un relato que combina la solidez narrativa y el análisis agudo a un ritmo vertiginoso.

The definitive monograph on iconic Parisian designer Madame Grès, seen by her peers as the tutelary genius of French haute couture. Renowned for her signature draping and innovative asymmetrical dresses, Madame Grès (1903–1993) was one of the leading fashion designers of twentieth-century Paris. Formally trained as a sculptor, her complex yet delicate haute couture designs evoke ancient statuary and exude a timeless elegance.

In 1952, after becoming one of the first-ever recipients of a Master of Science degree in Photography at Chicago’s Institute of Design, native New Yorker Marvin E. Newman returned to his hometown. Like many artists before, he set about chronicling the city. Unlike his predecessors, Newman chose color photography as the preeminent medium for capturing the people and energy of New York, and its emergence in the 1950s as the self-proclaimed “Greatest City in the World.”