BELLAS ARTES

Las frases célebres del legendario diseñador Yves Saint Laurent sobre alta costura, mujer, estilo y elegancia, en un precioso formato. Fundada por Yves Saint Laurent y Pierre Bergé en 1962, poco después de que el joven modista dejara su puesto al frente de Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent se convirtió en una de las casas de alta costura más exitosas e influyentes de París. Con Le Smoking, el primer traje de esmoquin para mujer, de 1966, Saint Laurent también presentó creaciones icónicas inspiradas en el arte, desde vestidos de Mondrian hasta preciosos bordados de Van Gogh y la famosa colección Ballets Rusos.

Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, and Martin Munkácsi, they made Frida Kahlo an iconic image of 20th century art.After an accident in her early youth, Frida became a painter of her own free will. Her marriage to Diego Rivera in 1929 placed her at the forefront of an artistic scene not only in the cultural Renaissance of Mexico, but also in the United States. Her work garnered praise from the poet André Breton, who added the Mexican painter to the ranks of international surrealism and exhibited her work in Paris in 1939 to the admiration of Picasso, Kandinsky, and Duchamp.We access the intimacy of Frida’s affections and passions through a selection of drawings, pages from her personal diary, and an extensive illustrated biography featuring photos of Frida, Diego, and the Casa Azul, Frida’s home and the center of her universe.This book allows readers to admire Frida Kahlo’s paintings like never before, including unprecedented detail shots and famous photographs. It presents pieces in private collections and reproduces works that were previously lost or have not been exhibited for more than 80 years.

Un viaje a través de la historia mediante 80 obras de arte y sus gamas cromáticas cuidadosamente seleccionadas. El color permite a los artistas narrar historias, expresar su individualidad, evocar una atmósfera y plasmar mensajes subliminales, y los artistas más grandes han cargado sus pigmentos con referencias sociales, políticas y religiosas. Desde tierra a piedras semipreciosas e insectos machacados, se examinan los inesperados materiales utilizados para crear pigmentos y hasta qué extremos han llegado los artistas para conseguirlos.

Una lectura obligada para todo aquel que se sienta hechizado con el arte excepcional. Un esclarecedor homenaje a 100 piezas artísticas que revelan qué es lo que las hace obras maestras. Chloë Ashby explica por qué cada pieza que presenta resulta tan vital. Incluye obras seleccionadas para ofrecer una yuxtaposición única de estilos, medios y escuelas artísticas, para que incluso los más expertos historiadores del arte se crucen con obras infravaloradas, fuera del canon tradicional, y para conocer a visionarios rebeldes que aún ejercen su influencia en artistas de vanguardia.

This beautiful volume celebrates a dreamy vacation-and-escape destination, showcasing the most exclusive homes in the Caribbean tropical paradise of Punta Cana. This book takes us on a tropical adventure through Punta Cana Resort & Club’s most exclusive seaside homes. The stunning homes featured in this beautiful volume are set in exotic locations, with endless turquoise sea and sand views, on sweeping terraces with glimmering pools and dramatic sunsets. Breathtaking interiors with colorful tiles, earth-toned walls, thatched roofs, and natural wood finishes bring serenity and joy.

Adobe residences from the Spanish and Mexican eras were the original California houses. Architects, designers, builders, and homeowners today, as in the past, look to their simple, utilitarian features—such as plain, whitewashed walls, beamed ceilings, and intimate open-air courtyards—and try to emulate their forms to capture the charm of a romanticized past. Leading architects of style movements such as the Spanish Colonial Revival traveled to California and studied its extensive eighteenth and nineteenth century adobes firsthand as the foundation of their education in California architecture. Made of earth and organic matter, such as straw, adobe is among the oldest of building materials and has been used throughout the world. From the 1770s to the present, adobe buildings such as churches, forts (presidios), mills, residences, warehouses, and stores have been a most important and informative part of California’s architectural heritage. Adobe Houses presents twenty-three homes, made from adobe, showing interiors and gardens from these often quiet masterworks, ranging from Casa Boronda of 1817 in Monterey to Casa del Oso, a contemporary manifestation, built in Santa Barbara in 2000 that reveals the intriguing range of possibilities available to us when building in this traditional form today.