One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school. For the young artists collectively known as the Nabis, Gauguin's personal version of Symbolism became the canonical route to modern art. The book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemsiza, reveals this double facet of the artist and his legacy through a series of successive encounters between Gauguin and his masters, his contemporaries and his pupils.

Gauguin and the Origins of Symbolism

Arts & Photography

Shiff, Richard

Cogeval, Guy

Solana, Guillermo

Blanco, Mary Dolores Jiménez-Blanco

History & Criticism

Philip Wilson Publishers

Antonio López--also known as Antonio López García--is hyper-realism’s greatest living exponent, and one of the finest painters of the past hundred years. Published on the occasion of the artist’s landmark exhibition at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, this generous overview constitutes a self-portrait of a genuine icon of contemporary painting. It spans the years from 1953 to the present, placing an emphasis on works made after 1993 (the year of the artist’s last retrospective exhibition in Spain, at the Reina Sofia Museum). These more recent pieces include masterworks such as “View of Madrid from the Vallecas Fire Tower” (1990–2006) and the monumental heads “Day,” “Night” and “Woman, Coslada” (2010). The artist himself has selected the works and structured their presentation here into eight thematic groupings: “Memory,” “Surroundings,” “Madrid,” “Gran Vía,” “Tree,” “Nude,” “Characters” and “Interiors.” Full-color reproductions are complemented by a wealth of archival documentary photographs of the artist at work. Antonio López García was born in Tomelloso, in the heart of Spain, a few months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. He studied at the School of Art in Madrid in the early 1950s, where he soon proved himself a brilliant student, and quickly became part of a nucleus of realist painters, such as Francisco López Hernández, Amalia Avia and Isabel Quintanilla. López García was the subject of Víctor Erice’s 1992 film El Sol del Membrillo (The Quince Tree of the Sun), which closely chronicles the artist’s attempts to paint a quince tree.

Antonio López (FUNDACION COLEC)

López Moreno, Maria

Viar, Javier

López-García, Antonio

Individual Artists

Fundación Colección-Thyssen Bornemisza

Realistas de Madrid (Spanish Edition)

Calvo Serraller, Francisco

Schilling, Jürgen

De Cos Martín, Leticia

Painting

IMPRESIONISMO, EL

Anaya Editorial

A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire. In Spanish.

La casa de la pradera / Little House on the Prairie

Children's Books

WILDER, LAURA INGALLS

Literature & Fiction

Noguer Y Caralt Editores

Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo. In Spanish.

La danza de los esclavos/ The Dance of the Slaves (The Slave Dancer) (Spanish Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

FOX, Paula

Historical Fiction

Two youngsters' determination to own a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction.

Misty de chincoteague/ Misty of Chincoteague (Cuatro Vientos, 103) (Spanish Edition)

HENRY, Marguerite

Pete Breakfast joins the Union Army, where he experiences the dangers of the American Civil War before landing in a Confederate prison camp.

Azules Contra Grises (Barco De Vapor) (Spanish Edition)

Camus, William

Ediciones SM

Julio González at the IVAM collection (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Palacios y Museos

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