Contra la cinefilia

La historia oficial, definitiva y con el apoyo de HBO de la exitosa serie de televisión Juego de tronos. Se suponía que era imposible. Cuando George R. R. Martin era un frustrado guionista de televisión, creó su saga best seller de novelas fantásticas «Canción de hielo y fuego» con la idea de confinarlas únicamente a los inmensos límites de su imaginación dada la dificultad que conllevaría el rodaje. Sin embargo, un par de guionistas primerizos, junto con HBO, lograron adaptar el épico relato de Martin y el resultado lo sabemos: todos hemos visto las ocho temporadas de la...

In this classic, engrossing text, a distinguished historian explores the mind and manifold interests of the greatest personality of the Renaissance. More than just a biography, the book presents a detailed investigation of Leonardo da Vinci's genius. Its colorful, evocative prose offers numerous demonstrations of the master's achievements, not only in sculpture and painting, but also in music, engineering, and even experimental aviation. A renowned authority on the works and personality of Leonardo, author Edward McCurdy translated many of the artist's writings. "In the thousands of pages of...

Mariano doesn't want to go live in Asturias with his uncle, but once there, he meets Alia and they try to help the ghosts that inhabit the famous Casa del Indiano.

"Rida Eder introduces this fascinating compilation of 39 papers presented at the 20th Coloquio International de Historia del Arte, celebrated at the Univ. of Puebla in 1996. Themes are divided into three areas: patronage, collecting, and circulation of the work of art. The extraordinary variety of presentations centered around three activities inherent to the role of the arts, rarely the subject of any analysis in Latin America, makes this work particularly enlightening. Themes range from role of religious orders in the colonial Americas to censorship at the 1963 and 1964 Säao Paulo...