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The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll “Tulip” chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) was one of the 20th century’s most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility across architecture and design.Among Saarinen’s greatest accomplishments are Washington D.C.’s Dulles International Airport, the very sculptural and fluid TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and the 630 ft. (192 m) high Gateway Arch of St. Louis, Missouri, each of them defining structures of postwar America. Catenary curves were present in many of his structural designs. During his long association with Knoll, Saarinen’s other famous furniture pieces included the “Grasshopper” lounge chair and the “Womb” settee.

From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe—but often remains misunderstood as an “exotic” artifact that helped inspire Western creativity.

This book brings together key Holbein paintings to explore his illustrious and international career as well as the courtly drama and radical religious change that informed his work. With rich illustration, we survey the masterful draftsmanship and almost supernatural ability to control details, from the textures of luxurious clothing to the ornament of a room, that secured Holbein’s place as one of the greatest portraitists in Western art history.

In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining “form-givers of the 20th century.” Today, Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, color, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth.In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer’s complete career through some of his most influential projects and ideas, from his landmark tubular furniture to the MoMA Research House to his innovation of “binuclear” housing, splitting living and sleeping areas into separate wings. Along the way, we follow Hungarian-born Breuer’s journey to international acclaim, with featured projects from Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and across the United States contributing to his global status as a modernist maestro.

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from religion to art theory to philosophy. His vast body of work includes altarpieces, portraits, self-portraits, watercolors, and books, but is most celebrated for its astonishing collection of woodcut prints, which transformed printmaking from an artisan practice into a whole new art form.

Conocido tanto por sus ideas políticas y activismo en las redes sociales como por su arte, basado en intervenciones sociales, su aproximación contemporánea al arte encontrado (ready-made) y su conocimiento de la artesanía tradicional china, la fama de Ai Weiwei se extiende más allá del mundo artístico. Esta monografía de Ai Weiwei explora todas...

Nos definimos como «seres pensantes» y nos guiamos por nuestros pensamientos o creencias sin sospechar que estos, a los ojos de la neurociencia, no son más que propuestas de nuestro cerebro. A partir de estas propuestas elegimos qué estudiar, discutimos, buscamos pareja, montamos una empresa, escogemos series en Netflix, nos divorciamos, tenemos hijos, los educamos… Lo que pensamos constituye ciertamente nuestra realidad. Pero ¿qué pasaría si aprendieras cómo tu cerebro da forma a los pensamientos, cuáles son sus manías y puntos débiles? ¿Qué ocurriría si te enseñaran a relacionarte con tus pensamientos de otra manera? ¿Cómo sería tu vida si pudieras ver a tus pensamientos como meras propuestas neuronales y fueras libre de usarlos o no? En este libro, el neurocientífico David del Rosario nos recuerda que «nuestro cerebro piensa con la misma naturalidad con la que nuestro corazón bombea sangre o los pulmones, aire» y nos invita a ponernos la bata de investigadores para cuestionarnos todo lo que creíamos saber acerca del cerebro humano y nuestra relación con él. Una aventura que te permitirá, de una vez por todas, aprender a relacionarte de forma pacífica con las cosas que piensa tu cerebro.

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Más de 80 000 traducciones · Más de 55 000 palabras y expresiones · Vocabulario esencial y palabras técnicas de uso común · Siglas, abreviaturas y nombres propios · Frases hechas y construcciones gramaticales · Abundantes ejemplos de uso · Transcripción fonética en ambas lenguas Incluye un suplemento bilingüe con numerales,pesos y medidas, fecha y hora, alfabeto, y un apéndice con la conjugación verbal en ambas lenguas.