BELLAS ARTES

La exitosa monografía en formato XXL, ahora disponible en una edición compacta. Las exquisitas reproducciones de las pinturas, dibujos y esbozos más destacados, acompañadas de los textos del editor Hans Werner Holzwarth y de Eleanor Nairne, comisaria e historiadora del arte, nos acercan al artista que simboliza el Nueva York de la década de 1980. La leyenda de Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) continúa intacta. Símbolo del Nueva York de la década de 1980, el artista inició su carrera a finales de la década de 1970 bajo el seudónimo SAMO llenando las paredes de la ciudad con pintadas que contenían mensajes mordaces y fragmentos de poemas. Formó parte de una escena underground en pleno auge formada por todo tipo de artistas, que se dedicaron a las artes plásticas, el gratifi, el hip-hop, el post-punk y el cine amateur. Basquiat, pintor con una potente voz personal, no tardó en triunfar en entornos más convencionales y expuso en galerías de todo el mundo. El estilo expresivo de Basquiat se basaba en figuras rudimentarias a las que añadía palabras y frases. Su obra inspiró a todo un elenco de celebridades del jazz, el boxeo y el baloncesto, con referencias esotéricas y a la vida callejera.

Guía de bolsillo de la historia, los materiales y el simbolismo de los colores a lo largo de los siglos y las culturas. A través de sesenta obras maestras, que van desde los pigmentos que adornaban las cuevas prehistóricas hasta las luces de neón de Dan Flavin, los monocromos de Yves Klein y las creaciones de Veronés, Van Gogh, Delaunay, Warhol y Rothko, se exploran la historia, los materiales y el simbolismo de los colores a lo largo de los siglos y las culturas. Accesible, conciso y profusamente ilustrado, se analiza el cuándo, el cómo y el porqué de la evolución de los colores.

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.

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.

Este libro de TASCHEN ofrece la introducción perfecta a la obra de Tadao Ando y explora el híbrido de tradición, modernidad y función de unos edificios que fascinan a arquitectos, diseñadores y diseñadores de moda, entre otros. A través de obras clave como viviendas particulares, iglesias, museos, complejos de apartamentos y espacios culturales, analizamos una estética única, monumental y acogedora, basada tanto en la tradicional serenidad japonesa como en los vocabularios decididamente modernos de la Bauhaus y Le Corbusier.