Harry Rand Libros

Colores vivos, formas orgánicas y una aversión hacia las líneas rectas caracterizan las obras de Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000). Como pintor, arquitecto y activista ecológico, fue un héroe no conformista que dejó una huella de fantasía e ideas en edificios, pinturas y manifiestos. Su obra más conocida, el Hundertwasserhaus en Viena, encarna la vitalidad y singularidad de su creación. Hundertwasser veía el sufrimiento humano como consecuencia de la construcción racional y monótona, y abogaba por un boicot al paradigma modernista. En lugar de ello, promovía la libertad creativa y el compromiso ecológico en la arquitectura. Rechazaba las líneas rectas, que consideraba "demoníacas e inmorales", y las contraponía a espirales y las formas de los secesionistas como Klimt y Schiele. Este libro ilustrado explora el estilo y la visión de Hundertwasser, que trascendieron edificios individuales y afectaron a la sociedad en su conjunto, ofreciendo una visión cautivadora del pensamiento de un innovador del siglo XX.

Documents the unfamiliar and distant history of one of the world’s most well- known holiday songs. The surprising history of the ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ is inextricably linked to the earliest celebrations of Christmas, a festival that was suppressed by the Church itself.

Art, history, and political drama all meld together in this one dramatic story about one dramatic sculpture. The nation's first federally-commissioned monument, Horatio Greenough's huge marble statue of George Washington, sits near the entrance of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Meant to be the symbolic focus of the whole continent--at the very center of the US Capitol--the monument instead seems a sadly curious relic. 0This book tells the tale of its demotion from stardom to obscurity: the story is stranger than fiction, including an attempted murder; fights in the USA, Britain, and Italy; and political maneuvering. 'Horatio Greenough and the Form Majestic: The Biography of the Nation's First Washington Monument' presents new research into the complicated tale. It translates and explains the monument's Latin inscription and offers the story of how the work was brought to America by a sea captain subsequently immortalized by Herman Melville. The book also untangles and decodes the monument's symbolism for the average spectator and art lovers alike. 0This is the story of the commissioning, conception, execution, transportation, installation and re-location, the public's bemused and often fond reception, subsequently frequent re-positionings, and so much more of the nation's first monument to George Washington. Horatio Greenough's statue rests at the heart of an amazing tale, never told before this book

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