Frank Milner Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

This book provides a concise guide to financial asset pricing theory. Assuming a basic knowledge of graduate microeconomic theory, it explores the fundamental ideas that underlie competitive financial asset pricing models with symmetric information. Using finite dimensional techniques, thisbook avoids sophisticated mathematics and exploits economic theory to clarify the essential structure of recent research in asset pricing. In particular it explores arbitrage pricing models with and without diversification, Martingale pricing methods, representative agent pricing models; discussesthese ideas in two date and multi-date models; and provides a range of examples from the literature.

Matisse, the bard of colour, and Picasso, the breaker of moulds: together, these two giants shaped the world of modern art. They were, as Picasso once said, "North Pole, South Pole." The work of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is a sensous hymn to colour, that wild yet subtle colour which he tamed, mastered and managed, and which expressed his feelings towards women and the world. Colour was the tool with which he controlled line, arabesque, volume, light transparency, reflection and space, and though he did not shrink from pushing his creativity to the verge of abstraction, he never succumbed to it entirely. It was an approach well noted by America's Abstract Expressionists. This new and carefully conceived freedom marked not only the extraordinary significance of the painter and sculptor Matisse in the history of modern art, but also his influence, which was no less decisive than that of his main rival, Pablo Picasso. In fact, Matisse's stylistic liberation actually goes one step further in the pursuit of his own personal goal - the perfect synthesis of line and colour - by which he sought revolutionary approaches to the great tradition of French painting by drawing upon its classical aspects.

Art historian, Frank Milner introduces 60 of Van Gogh's most characteristic works in this stunningly illustrated volume.

Un'esperienza artistica unica per tutti gli appassionati dell'impressionismo: le opere di Claude Monet vengono presentate in un elegante formato a leporello. Cinquanta opere della lunga e straordinaria carriera del padre dell'impressionismo illustrano la sua evoluzione artistica. Oltre ai temi urbani e moderni, la rappresentazione della natura è il cuore della sua pittura. La natura è stata oggetto della sua incessante ricerca, mantenendo sempre a mente ciò che era essenziale per lui: la verità delle sue emozioni. Dalla fedele riproduzione del paesaggio nei suoi inizi fino alla pittura gestuale delle ultime tele delle ninfee, questo volume ci permette di comprendere meglio l'evoluzione del suo lavoro. I temi delle opere di Monet (il mare, la Senna, i giardini, le stagioni, ecc.) vengono discussi insieme alle tecniche da lui utilizzate, come il trattamento della luce e del colore attraverso il pennello, l'uso di ripetizioni e serie per meglio rappresentare le variazioni atmosferiche, e la progressiva dissoluzione delle forme che lo rendono un precursore dell'astrazione.