Rinconete y Cortadillo

Accompanying an exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemsiza museum, this book reveals the double facet of the artist and his legacy by detailing a series of successive encounters between Gauguin and his masters, his contemporaries, and his pupils. One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school. For the young artists collectively known as the Nabis, Gauguin's personal version of symbolism became the canonical route to modern art. Acompañando una exhibición en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemsiza,...

Escribe Graciela Reyes en su magnífico prólogo: «¿Qué hace la gente cuando usa el lenguaje?». Esta es la pregunta con la que comienza este libro. Pregunta «impertinente», es decir, el tipo de pregunta que se sale de las reglas del juego de una discip

La primera parte de este texto --Cine y sociedad de masas--estudia los anos del New Deal bajo la doctrina politica, economica y cultural dictada por Roosevelt; la produccion belica y los anos de la llamada "caza de brujas," en los que Hollywood estara en el punto de mira de las Comisiones de Actividades Antiamericanas. La segunda parte --La edad de oro de los estudios-- aborda el funcionamiento de la industria cinematografica, las profundas transformaciones que esta experimenta como consecuencia de la aparicion de la television y su influencia en la evolucion de los generos. La tercera parte...

"Sensuous, voluptuous, provocative--the female form has inspired artists for centuries, making it perhaps the most popular subject in the history of painting. Since Venetian painter Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, the first notable female nude in Western painting, painters have focused their talents on the infinite possibilities of the representation of the female body. Featuring lush, full-page illustrations of masterpieces of the genre, Reclining Nude is a feast for the senses. From Titian's alluring Venus of Urbino to Manet's guileless Olympia, Reclining Nude provides a fascinating tour of the ...