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Monografía de una selección de obras profusamente ilustradas con una breve selección bibliográfica.

Selected Biography/ The formative years/ Social realism/ The realism of light/ Images of intimacy/ Visions of Spain/Sorolla´s portraits/List of works

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Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is the most prestigious Finnish architect of the last century, and the father of Nordic Modernism. He once said, "God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper." In the U.S. Aalto's critical reception began with his design for the Finnish Pavilion at...

As a young man, Jean Prouve (1901-1984) longed to become an engineer, but as his family could not afford the requisite training, at 15 he was apprenticed to a master blacksmith in Paris. Prouve opened his own smithy in Nancy in 1923, and shortly thereafter produced his first furniture made from thin sheet steel. Right away, Prouve's sparse, geo...

With the new By Architects series, Ediciones Poligrafa launches an innovative project dedicated to showcasing furniture and objects designed by some of the most important architects of the twentieth century. Three titles open this series: Alvar Aalto, Jean Prouve and Ray and Charles Eames. Best known for their contributions to architecture, furn...

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Simultaneously drawing on both Arte Povera and the Baroque, Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias (born 1956) belongs to a generation of sculptors who have pushed sculpture beyond the model of the discrete object, merging it with its architectural environment. Iglesias' works mimic parts of buildings--roofs, walls, corners--and deploy bas-relief, ta...

Located in Athens?s historic area of Makryianni, the new Acropolis Museum stands less than 1,000 feet southeast of the Parthenon, at the entrance of a network of pedestrian walkways that link the key archaeological sites and monuments of the Acropolis.

Situado en el histórico barrio de Makryianni, el Acropolis Museum se levanta a 300 metros al sudeste del Partenón, en la entrada de un entramado de calles peatonales que unen los diversos sitios arqueológicos con los monumentos de la Acrópolis.