The elements and their inhabitants.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.15x21,5, pp.60, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Supreme among the wonders of antiquity, unrivaled by the achievements of later architects and builders, the Great Pyramid of Gizeh bears mute witness to an unknown civilization which, having completed its predestined span, passed into oblivion. Eloquent in its silence, inspiring in its majesty, divine in its simplicity, the Great Pyramid is indeed a sermon in stone. Its magnitude overwhelms the puny sensibilities of man. Among the shifting sands of time it stands as a fitting emblem of eternity itself. Who were the illumined mathematicians who planned its parts and dimensions, the master craftsmen who supervised its construction, the skilled artisans who trued its blocks of stone? The essay by Manly Palmer Hall that our publishing house is now proposing to modern readers,The Initiation of the Pyramid, was one of the most interesting chapters of his monumental workThe Secret Teachings of All Ages, published in San Francisco in 1928.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.15x21,5, pp.58, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.64, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.56, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese The North American Indian is by nature a symbolist, a mystic, and a philosopher. Like most aboriginal peoples, his soul was en rapport with the cosmic agencies manifesting about him. Not only did his Manidos control creation from their exalted seats above the clouds, but they also descended into the world of men and mingled with their red children. The gray clouds hanging over the horizon were the smoke from the calumets of the Gods, who could build fires of petrified wood and use a comet for a flame. The American Indian peopled the forests, rivers, and sky with myriads of superphysical and invisible beings. There are legends of entire tribes who lived in lake bottoms; of races who were never seen in the daytime but who, coming forth from their hidden caves, roamed the earth at night and waylaid unwary travelers; also of Bat Indians, with human bodies and wings, who lived in gloomy forests and inaccessible cliffs and who slept hanging head downward from outcroppings of rock. The red man's philosophy of elemental creatures is apparently the outcome of his intimate contact with Nature, whose inexplicable wonders become the generating cause of such metaphysical speculations.

Milano, Rizzoli Ed. 1977, cm.11x19, pp.388, legatura ed.cofanetto. Coll.Gli Italiani.Collana storica diretta da Indro Montanelli.

Milano, Walter Padovani 2001, cm.17x24, pp.47,alcune tavole a colori nel testo. brossura con bandelle e copertina figurata.

Berlin Benedikt Taschen 2000, cm.23x30, pp.252, illustrato bn. legatura editoriale cartonata sopracoperta figurata. Text in german, english and french. Man Ray (1890-1976) remains a legendary figure in the history of 20th century visual art, Born Emmanuel Rudnitsky (which he abbreviated as his career took off) in Philadelphia, Ray was one of the first modern graphic artists. Bursting with ideas, he restlessly moved between media, constantly experimenting with the technological and scientific processes of constructing the image. In Ray's compositions bodies and objects are made strange and unfamiliar -- erotic, playful and sometimes sinister. Ray was a charismatic figure with a knack for creating and energising artistic movements, influencing and befriending many leading lights of the European Avant-Garde, from Dadaists to Surrealists and including Duchamp, Picasso, Satie, Cocteau and Breton. Ray's vast photographic oeuvre is often considered to be his most important and ground-breaking body of work. As well as consistently creating unusual and beautiful images, he also developed a number of new photographic techniques, most Famously photograms (or ""Rayographs,"" as he preferred to call them), and the solarization process which, as he himself claimed, he ""discovered"" by accident with his muse, assistant and model Lee Miller. This volume brings together the finest photographs from collections and archives around the world, representing the singular vision of Man Ray at his most dynamic and beautiful.

Modena, Panini Comics 2022, cm.17x26, pp.232, illustrazioni. legatura editoriale cartonata copertina figurata a colori. Collana DC Comics. La prima storica collaborazione tra Jeph Loeb e Tim Sale, antecedente anche a Batman: Cavaliere maledetto. Gli Esploratori dell'Ignoto erano i più grandi avventurieri del mondo, ma oggi le loro gesta sono relegate a vecchi albi a fumetti. L'esplosione della loro sede sarà però l'inizio del loro caso più audace di sempre. Un volume imperdibile e artisticamente all'avanguardia che ha lanciato due strepitose carriere.