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The Short Story of Art explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to sections on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allows the student or art enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key periods, artists and styles. It simplifies and explains the most important and influential concepts in art, and shows how they are linked. The book explains how, why and when art changed, who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and whether they matter. It demystifies artistic...

Aquest és el primer volum d’una nova catalogació del fons de manuscrits orientals de la Biblioteca de l’Abadia de Montserrat, la qual conjuga el resultat de la investigació actual sobre manuscrits hebreus amb la voluntat d’oferir amb claredat la màxima informació d’interès per al lector especialitzat.

An astonishing monographic of the work of internationally acclaimed artist Sergio Mora. Sergio Mora (Barcelona, 1975), also known as MAGICOMORA, is an internationally acclaimed painter, illustrator and draftsman. Among many other amazing achievements, he has received a Grammy award, collaborated with designer Philippe Starck, or designed for Gucci. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited all around the world, from Barcelona to New York, passing through Dubai or China. Moraland is the biggest monographic of his works ever published.

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...