Henk Schiffmacher
Whether you’re thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to check out.

1000 Tattoos explores the history of the art worldwide via designs and photos—from 19th-century engravings to tribal body art, from circus ladies of the ’20s to classic biker designs.

Este libro es fruto de una extensa investigación, constituye una suerte de diccionario de la arquitectura mexicana del siglo XX. Alejado de todo historicismo, su peculiaridad estriba en proponer una lectura desde el siglo XXI, trazando líneas temporales y conexiones dinámicas entre las tendencias, los hechos y los protagonistas de la modernidad arquitectónica en México.

Argentinian photographer Marcelo Brodsky (born 1954) compiles archival photographs of political movements from Paris to Mexico City in 1968, highlighting details through the addition of color, text and drawing.

Vices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts. In this lush compendium of advertisements, we explore how depictions of these commodities spanned from the elegant to the offbeat, revealing how manufacturers prodded their customers throughout the 20th century to imbibe and inhale.Each era’s alcohol and tobacco trends are exuberantly captured page after page, with brand images woven into American popular culture so effectively that almost anyone could identify such icons as the Marlboro Man or Spuds MacKenzie, figures so familiar they could appear in ads without the product itself. Other advertisers devised clever and subliminal approaches to selling their wares, as the wildly successful Absolut campaign confirmed. Even doctors contributed to a perverse version of propaganda, testifying that smoking could calm your nerves and soothe your throat, while hailing liquor as an elixir capable of bringing social success.Whether you savor these visual delights, or enjoy inhaling and wallowing in forbidden pleasures, you will certainly be thrilled by this exploration of a decidedly vibrant—and sometimes controversial—chapter of advertising history.

La historia de la fotografía comenzó hace unos i8o años, pero hace relativamente poco que ha sido reconocida como un género artístico por derecho propio. El Museum Ludwig de Colonia fue el primer museo de arte contemporáneo en dedicar una sección considerable a la fotografía internacional. La colección L. Fritz Gruber, a partir de la cual se ha confeccionado este libro, es una de las más importantes de Alemania y una de las más representativas del mundo. Este volumen ofrece una fascinante mirada a la rica diversidad de la colección. Desde el arte conceptual a la abstracción o el reportaje, recorre los principales movimientos y géneros a través de una amplia selección de los fotógrafos más destacados del siglo XX. De Ansel Adams a Piet Zwart, alrededor de 850 obras presentadas en orden alfabético por fotógrafo, con textos descriptivos y detalles biográficos de los autores, nos muestran una panorámica global e indispensable de la fotografía del siglo XX. Ver menosDetalles

The 20th century saw fashion evolve from an exclusive Parisian salon business catering for the wealthy elite into a global industry employing millions, with new trends whisked into stores before the last model has even left the catwalk.

Along the way, the signature silhouettes of each era evolved beyond recognition. For women, House of Worth crinolines gave way to Vionnet’s bias-cut gowns, Dior’s New Look to Quant’s Chelsea Look, Halston’s white suit to Frankie B.’s low-rise jeans. In menswear, ready-made suits signaled the demise of bespoke tailoring, long before Hawaiian shirts or skinny jeans entered the game.

20th-Century Fashion offers a retrospective of the last hundred years of style via 400 fashion advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection. The images trace not only the changing trends but also the evolution in their marketing and audience, as fashion was adopted into popular culture and the mass market, decade by decade. An in-depth introduction and illustrated timeline detail the style-makers and trendsetters, and how historic events, design houses, retailers, films, magazines, and celebrities shaped the way we dressed—then and now.

John Powner

"Nueva edición mejorada del clásico de Phaidon. La mejor introducción posible a la historia del arte con una mirada actual y global, desde la prehistoria a nuestros días considerando todos los continentes.

Esta edición actualizada contiene 25 entradas nuevas referentes a las obras más importantes realizadas en el siglo XXI.

El libro contiene 600 de las mejores obras de arte en cualquier disciplina (pintura, escultura, textil, metal o cerámica), desde obras maestras icónicas a obras menos conocidas. Las obras aparecen en orden cronológico y las parejas nos muestran un mismo punto temporal y un distinto lugar geográfico."

Phaidon Press

"Nueva edición mejorada del clásico de Phaidon. La mejor introducción posible a la historia del arte con una mirada actual y global, desde la prehistoria a nuestros días considerando todos los continentes.

El libro contiene 600 de las mejores obras de arte en cualquier disciplina (pintura, escultura, textil, metal o cerámica), desde obras maestras icónicas a obras menos conocidas. Las obras aparecen en orden cronológico y las parejas nos muestran un mismo punto temporal y un distinto lugar geográfico."

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.

Heikki Aalto-Alanen

"A visual biography of Aino and Alvar Aalto, who designed some of the most iconic objects of the twentieth century

Aino and Alvar Aalto together founded Artek and created some of the most celebrated objects and buildings of the twentieth century. Through letters, documents, drawings, and family photographs, Alvar and Aino’s grandson tells the stories of their life together, in Finland and abroad, drawing on many of the never-before-published letters they sent to each other and to family, friends, and colleagues, until Aino’s death in 1949. "