"The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old...

It is often forgotten just how provocative and unsettling impressionist canvases seemed when they were first exhibited in 1874. Critics, professional artists, and gallery visitors alike were shocked to encounter the unorthodox paintings on display, with their seemingly unfinished surfaces and lack of any elements of traditional composition. The advocates of this new approach rejected nearly all the established principles and practices of oil painting...

Am 7. Mai 1915 torpedierte ein deutsches U-boot den Passagierdampfer "Lusitania", der von New York nach Liverpool unterwegs war. Binnen weniger Minuten versank das Schiff in den eisigen Fluten des Atlantiks und riss fast 1.200 Menschen in den Tod, darunter viele Kinder und Frauen. Mit dieser kaltblütig herbeigeführten Schiffskatastrophe bestätigten die Deutschen ihren Ruf als "Barbaren" und provozierten die USA zum Eintritt in den Ersten Weltkrieg....

296 architectural drawings, floor plans, and photographs illustrate 40 different kinds of "Mission-style" homes from The Craftsman (1901-16), voice of American style of simplicity and organic harmony. Thorough coverage of Craftsman idea in text and picture, now collector's item.

Accompanied by more than 250 illustrations, Halsted's environmentally sensitive manual was written with the farmer in mind--and during a time when a laborer earned a mere dollar a day. His barn-building theories extend to dog- and bird-houses, and are based upon qualities we still hold dear: light and air, space, cost, and beauty, as well as permanence, convenience, and workability. This facsimile edition of the 1881 book of plans and instructions...

La presente obra recrea el espacio como tema en la arquitectura y el arte contemporáneos, principalmente en el periodo que abarca desde los primeros años sesenta hasta finales de los ochenta, cuando la idea de espacio cobró un especial protagonismo. El análisis del papel del espacio en las artes se centra en la escultura y sus desbordamientos, de manera que se establece una especie de dialéctica entre el espacio arquitectónico y el escultórico,...

Un estudio sobre los nuevos medios que se emplean para eliminar la inseguridad en ámbito urbano Dos son los temores centrales que organizan los miedos que moldean la vida en la ciudad. El primero se refiere a la desigualdad económica, el segundo al desconocimiento de los otros y el temor a la pérdida de identidad personal. La incertidumbre y la confusión se han incrementado por la rapidez de los cambios de las últimas décadas, lo que ha provocado...

This handsomely illustrated book showcases outstanding examples of suburban and country houses of the 1920s-a great period for domestic architecture in the United States. Lovely photographs present exterior and interior views of 51 classic homes, primarily in the metropolitan area of New York City, as well as other suburbs on the east coast and in California. A variety of distinctive architectural styles are depicted, from a simple Long Island Dutch...

From the late nineteenth century to the early 1920s, the Arts and Crafts Movement spread with great popularity across America. With origins in Britain, the Craftsman style was a reaction against the excesses of the Victorian era. Craftsman bungalows were distinguished by their charming simplicity, cozy style, and storybook appeal. The name was derived from a popular magazine called The Craftsman, published by renowned furniture designer Gustav Stickley...

The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually and in collectives, but this history has been silenced over time. Their stories show that the city of Vienna was contradictory and cosmopolitan: despite...