BELLAS ARTES

Los resultados del programa redefinieron el concepto de vivienda moderna, y su influencia no solo se expandió por Estados Unidos sino también por todo el mundo. Esta guía compacta de TASCHEN incluye todos los proyectos del Case Study House, ilustrado con más de 150 fotografías y planos, además de un mapa con su ubicación, incluso de aquellos ya desaparecidos.

Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence, Abstract Expressionism denotes the non-representational use of paint as a means of personal expression. It emerged in America in the 1940s, with lead protagonists including Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. Abstract Expressionism spawned many different stylistic tendencies but two particularly prominent sub-categories: action painting, exemplified by de Kooning and Pollock, and color field painting, made most famous by Rothko. Throughout, Abstract Expressionists strove to convey emotions and ideas through the making of marks, through forms, textures, shades, and the particular quality of brushstrokes. The movement favored large-scale canvases, and embraced the role of accident or chance. With featured works from 20 key Abstract Expressionist artists, this book introduces the movement which shifted the center of art gravity from Paris to New York and remains for many the golden moment of American art.

Step (or jitterbug) into the dazzling world of 1930s American advertising, where bold promises, slick design, and more than a touch of wishful thinking kept the country dreaming through the Great Depression. While wallets tightened, creativity soared―glossy magazine pages teemed with cheerful, colorful ads selling everything from beauty creams to Hawaiian vacations, all wrapped in an air of optimism that defied the hard times.

This is the first of Pentreath’s books to present his own output in its entirety—from his personal residences in Dorset, London, and Scotland that brought him international fame to many old and new houses that he has designed and some of the larger, town-scaled projects that make his practice unique in the world of traditional design. Although the results range from his colorful and romantic versions of the English country cottage to traditional splendor, there are underlying ideas that inform the breadth of his output—a sense of scale, proportion, craft, detail, sustainability, and appropriateness—that have a universal relevance today.

In this essential TASCHEN introduction to Tadao Ando we explore the hybrid of tradition, modernism, and function that allows his buildings to enchant architects, designers, fashion designers, and beyond. Through key projects including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces, we explore a uniquely monumental yet comforting aesthetic that draws as much on the calm restraint of Japanese tradition as the compelling modernist vocabularies of Bauhaus and Le Corbusier. With featured projects in Japan, France, Italy, Spain, and the United States, we see not only Ando’s global reach but also his refined sensitivity for the environs: the play of light through windows, and, in particular, the interaction of buildings with water. From the mesmerizing Church of the Light in Osaka to the luminous Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Center in Venice, this is a radiant tour through a distinctly contemporary form as much as a timeless appeal of light, elements, and equilibrium.

Quien mas quien menos se ha sentido atrapado en algun momento de su vida por alguna saga interminable repleta de señores oscuros, magos barbudos, espadas magicas, duendes, quimeras o elfos.El exito de dos nuevas superproducciones televisivas basadas en sagas literarias La casa del dragon, precuela de Juego de tronos, y Los anillos de poder, precuela de El señor de los anillos hacen de este un momento ideal para publicar un libro que de un repaso al genero narrativo que lleva un siglo arrasando.Historias apasionantes en las que el mal se enfrenta al bien encarnado en sus mas diferentes valores: la valentia, el honor o la honradez, aderezado siempre con un tono de epica. Y que el autor de este libro ha sintetizado con manos expertas y mucho conocimiento para hacer de ello un compendio de lo mas granado del mundo de la literatura, el cine, el comic o los videojuegos.Fantasia de leyenda: De Dragones y mazmorras a El ultimo unicornio.Un mundo de fantasia medieval de la mano de George R. R. Martin: Cancion de hielo y fuego.Fantasias para todos los gustos: De Willow a El priorato del naranjo.Fantasias camp: De Krull a La leyenda del buscador.Cronicas de la carcajada: de Mundodisco a Nimona.Una fantasia epica distinta: de la Saga de la Tumba Sellada a Step by Bloody Step.Videojuegos de fantasia: De World of Warcraft a Dragon Quest.