A collection of the texts written by Ángel Gónzalez García in the last years, who received the award Premio Nacional de Ensayos 2011. In these essays he reflects on diverse subjects always related to art. Amongst the writings intertwines a common plot that asserts the essentially carnal nature of the artistic experience.

Prominent architect and indispensable critic in the Italy of the inter-war period, Guisepe Pagano found, almost by chance, that photography was one of the passions of his life. Commissioned with the mounting of an exhibition on rural architecture, Pagano started travelling around Italy taking photos of its architecture and landscapes. Since then and until his death, in a concentration camp, nothing escaped his omnivorous gaze.

Josechu Lalanda is perhaps the best animal painter in Spain, according to the famous naturalist Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente, with whom he collaborated many years. This book collects the best illustrations of birds which Lalanda has been drawing throughout his extensive career. Field scenes, hunting sketches and illustrations for bird guides show the artistic skill, technical versatility and scientific precision with which Lalanda brings us closer to the Iberian birds in their environment.

Seldom has the same architect has the opportunity to restore two different historical buildings to adapt them for the same use in two nearby cities and so close in time nearby. The book documents the work carried out by the prestigious studio of César Ruiz Larrea, which resolves brilliantly the same equation set out in both cases with different variables.