Campus Oriente

To know the work of art in its historical context we can understand and explain its meaning, the symbols involved, the author's intention and the reasons that allowed its creation. In this sense, the book seeks to recognize the various manifestations of art in its historical perspective. The book comprises ten original works, that try to discern the artistic creations since Pre-Hispanic times, in the Viceroyalty, up to the current period, and where visual arts, drama and music are also involved. "This book emerges as a need to spread the texts on art carried out by professors and students of...

Este libro presenta la edición del manuscrito castellano e.IV.5 (Biblioteca de El Escorial), que describe la coronación del rey Carlos VIII de Francia en mayo de 1484 y su entrada, dos meses más tarde, en París, en medio de celebraciones y festividades diversas. Si bien este manuscrito aparecía ya en los repertorios bibliográficos españoles, nunca hasta la fecha se había realizado ningún estudio sobre él ni se había editado, laguna que esta publicación y otros dos trabajos de las mismas autoras (López Izquierdo/Pons Rodríguez, 2015, y Pons Rodríguez/López Izquierdo, en...

El libro analiza y clarifica un tema hasta ahora un poco estudiado: el jardín como obra de arquitectura durante el Renacimiento italiano. Se acompaña de abundante material gráfico (más de 200 ilustraciones) y un índice de nombres.

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.