En tránsito: Berlín, París, Hollywood

Living in a cramped space where Beverly Hills and Calcutta meet every day, the artists gathered here explore the tension between wealth and poverty, among progress, stagnation, and improvisation, and between the violence and civility that animates the vibrant center that is Mexico City. Compounding the complexity of urban living, high rates of kidnapping, murder and pollution become a daily threat. For the rich, the body becomes an object to be cared for, protected, even exchanged for ransom, while, for an underclass of day laborers, homeless people, and prostitutes, survival depends on...

Based on the idea that all forms of knowledge are interconnected and that the human mind weaves them together naturally, this book encourages the incorporation of art education into all other forms of education instead of keeping them separate and compartmentalized. It urges parents and teachers to make art education an integral part of children's daily lives, arguing that by combining various disciplines, such as health and photography or geometry and painting, children will develop into smarter and more creative individuals. By turning art into a part of both playtime and their education,...

Los capítulos de la Memorias de Eisenstein no están ordenados con precisión cronológica. En este segundo volumen, volvemos a los recuerdos de infancia, como en el primero conocimos los éxitos del Potiomkin (1926). Hay numerosas referencias a México y páginas estupendas sobre Chaplin, Mayakovski, Prokofiev, sobre directores de cine europeos y estadunidenses, actores y actrices, ciudades, todo entretejido con anécdotas divertidas y brillantes reflexiones.

En 1901, deprimido por el suicidio de su intimo amigo, Carles Casagemas, Picasso se sumerge en los lienzos austeros y melancolicos del Periodo Azul. Con solo veintidos anos de edad y desesperadamente pobre, decide restringir su paleta a colores predominantemente frios, sugerentes de la nocturnidad, el misterio y la muerte. Su creciente obsesion con estos temas alcanza su punto culminante con <I>La vie, un lienzo emblematico de la relacion del pintor con la muerte, considerada una fuerza malefica con la que uno debe enfrentarse mediante el poder del exorcismo que le ha sido otorgado como...