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Découvrez la véritable histoire culturelle du tarot et séparez enfin les mythes ésotériques des faits historiques. Idéal pour stimuler votre esprit pendant vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif remonte aux origines italiennes du quinzième siècle. Oubliez les légendes sans fondement...

Explorez l'Égypte antique pour décrypter les énigmes archéologiques du plus fascinant monument de l'Ancien Empire. Entre certitudes historiques et mythes tenaces, cette immersion narrative retrace la naissance d'un colosse de pierre hybride qui défie les ravages du temps. Laissez-vous...

Découvrez l'enquête historique ultime sur le plus grand mystère de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : un chef-d'œuvre perdu. Parfait pour vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif vous transporte des ateliers prussiens aux fastueux palais des tsars russes. Laissez-vous captiver par l'atmosphère...

Comprenez comment un modeste portrait de la Renaissance est devenu l'icône absolue de l'histoire de l'art mondiale. Que ce soit pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien ou nourrir votre curiosité, cette enquête immersive retrace le destin inouï d'une toile fascinante. Laissez-vous transporter...

Javier Sierra regresa con una novela muy emocionante que nos habla de los «maestros instructores» y del arte como motor de la civilización. La esperadísima vuelta a las librerías del maestro del misterio. En 1990, Javier Sierra fue abordado por un sujeto singular en el Museo del Prado. Este...

In Art, painter, critic, and modern-art advocate Walter Pach examines the uneasy state of American visual culture in the early twentieth century. Pach argues that wealthy collectors and museums too often treat art as a prestige commodity, pouring money into established European masterpieces...

Mitos, cuentos y leyendas de América Latina recoge y actualiza historias extraídas del folclor y las tradiciones de los diversos pueblos de América del Sur. Humor e imaginación no faltan a los textos que presentamos, los cuales suponen un viaje cautivador por el continente americano y su enorme riqueza cultural.

Mitos, cuentos y leyendas del antiguo Egipto hace un breve recorrido por el universo fantástico de uno de los países más influyentes en la historia de la humanidad. El libro está bellamente ilustrado y presenta las figuras más importantes de la mitología del país de los faraones, con sus distintivos y características, el lenguaje jeroglífico y muchos otros elementos gráficos que te ayudarán a comprender el pensamiento de los antiguos egipcios, los creadores de una de las civilizaciones más prósperas de la historia humana.

Por las páginas de este libro desfilan personajes importantes de la mitología greco-romana tales como Prometeo, Deucalión, Pirra, Faetón, Europa, Perseo, Dédalo, Ícaro, Meleagro, Tántalo, Pélope, Níobe, los argonautas, Heracles, Teseo… Estos relatos, basados en las fuentes clásicas y ya imprescindibles para el conocimiento de la mitología, los debemos al erudito, poeta y escritor alemán Gustav Schwab (Stuttgart, [redacted-phone-number]), quien resultó un entusiasta divulgador de la cultura clásica y recopiló las sagas y leyendas de su país en la colección titulada Die schönsten Geschichten und

Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, Renoir, Gauguin, and Picasso have long been considered essential figures in the history of modern art. But these six men were also unrepentant misogynists. In The Misogynists, art historian and professor Allison Leigh delves deep into the lives of these figures to show...

Barbara Kruger once defined art as "the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be alive." Testing that claim, How It Feels to Be Alive braids criticism with personal narrative to consider art's intimate effects and how it might help us find clarity in an...

The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by the author of The Mirror and the Palette. It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism...

A dazzlingly original and ambitious audiobook on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West...

The Hague, 1882, a howling winter's night. Sien and her daughter are on the brink of surrendering to the bitter cold, their exhaustion, their hunger, when a good Samaritan appears. Vincent van Gogh, a struggling artist, provides them with warmth and shelter for the night. Fascinated by Sien -...

When art dealer Catherine Sergeant meets John Brigham, her view of the world has been shattered. Left by her husband Robert without explanation, she expects little from life. Apparently reclusive, John lives alone in a beautiful Arts and Crafts house on the edge of Dorset woodland, and has contacted Catherine's firm so that he may sell unwanted items. But when the two discover a mutual love of the haunting Victorian faerie artist Richard Dadd, their friendship rapidly deepens.

From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic images that have passed into our national imagination. WINNER of the National Biography Award...

Bloomsbury presents Mad Enchantment by Ross King, read by Mark Meadows Claude Monet’s water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The...

The summer of 1957 pressed down on the Choctaw communities like a hand over a mouth, suffocating and relentless. In the pine-shadowed hollows of Neshoba County, Mississippi, the heat rose from red clay roads in shimmering waves, distorting the view of weathered houses that leaned like tired...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil, and co-host of the Whale Hunting podcast, comes a dazzling true story of how a lost masterpiece came home and of the remarkable, flawed man who made it happen. British art dealer Oliver Hoare had spent his life...

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of...