Candice Breitz

A beautiful photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece in the British Museum – the Parthenon sculptures.

La animación, normalmente excluida de los grandes ejercicios historiográficos del audiovisual, ha tenido que construir sus propios relatos. Este trabajo responde a esa necesidad de descubrir la manera como se ha ido desarrollando en Colombia el ejercicio de crear la imagen animada, pero también al deseo de narrar ese proceso, que no se halla presente en los textos tradicionales de cine nacional más que como una enumeración de anécdotas que ilustran ciertos aspectos específicos de la producción y de la técnica, o de la constitución del cine y de la televisión como sectores...

This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from...

After the death of Charles I of England, Parliament put up his entire art collection of more than 1500 pieces for auction, thus setting off an arms race of sorts among various powerful members of the European royalty and nobility to see who could acquire the greatest number of masterpieces. In this study, based on the lectures he gave for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies at the National Gallery, Jonathan Brown describes the extraordinary collection that Philip IV of Spain amassed as a result of this fire sale, as well as the collecting habits of individuals such as Archduke Leopold Wilhelm...