Francesc Torres (Barcelona, 1948) is, without doubt, one of the most important European artist of his generation.

The title of the piece I am writing about comes from a sentence in Arthur Koestler’s Darkness At Noon, and it conveys in a nutshell the overwhelming disregard that History has, in its Hegelian sense, for the individual human being.

During the Spanish Civil War a contingent of 3,500 Americans –– known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade–– joined the International Brigades. Half of them didn’t return.

This book ––and the homonymous exhibition–– explores the work of artists who attempted to keep alive the expanded possibilities opened up for the arts of painting and sculpture by what was called Cubism in Paris between 1911 and 1914.  This little community of artists refused to accept that recording the war or producing propaganda was their duty.  They refused to forget the excitement of 1911-14, and kept faith in their independence as individuals as this war of machines threatened to rob every front-line soldier of his humanity and to draw even foreigners in France into “total w

Louise Bourgeois was an immensely influential sculptor and one of the iconic figures of twentieth and early twenty-first century art. She died in May 2010, aged ninety-eight. In the last year of her life, she invited the artist Alex van Gelder to stay at her New York town house and take photographs of her. More than purely a portrait project, she considered the collaboration to be an extension of her work, allowing her person to be viewed as a segment of her art.

A key figure in 20th-century art, Joan Miró has left us a definitive oeuvre which continues to reach an increasingly wide public. This book is a partial recompilation of the analyses contained in the author’s first far-reaching study on Joan Miró, which appeared in 1961, now considerably reworked and enriched.

Francis Bacon's works has a strength and vitality that has led to his position as one of the greatest twentieth century artist. The violent intensity with which his paintings give expression to the existential angst of his felow human beings is virtually without parallel in the history of the art. Bacon s work (1909-1992) undoubtedly includes some of the most extraordinary and powerful paintings in modern art, reflecting the isolation and terror of the human condition, conveyed by the distortion of features and the nude body.

Considered one of the great artists of the 20th century, Miró has bequeathed us a definitive body of work whose influence has continued to grow over the years. This book not only details his pictorial output but also looks at the artist's incursion into areas as diverse as graphic work, ceramics, sculpture, tapestry and theatre.