Carlos Fuentes y el pensamiento barroco

Esta investigación tiene dos propósitos intercalados. El primero de ellos es ofrecer una nueva versión de la historia de la filosofía mexicana durante la Revolución, en particular, del pensamiento de Antonio Caso y de José Vasconcelos. El segundo propósito es entender el efecto que tuvo la revolución sobre la filosofía del periodo y el que ésta tuvo sobre aquélla.

Pancho the elephant is captured and is sold to the circus. There he befriends a monkey and a mouse that are as unhappy as he is. The three decide to escape and return home. Children will respond to the book's great humor, sensitivity, and unique paper collage illustrations.

The Mexican painter, Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) was first recognized in a 1930s publication on the contemporary artists of Mexico. He lived in Paris and in New York for several years but did not become known in the States until after an exhibition of his work at the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., in 1978 followed by a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979. Unlike his contemporaries, the nationalistic muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Tamayo preferred to express his Hispanic heritage through oil paintings and frescos...

In a profusely illustrated volume that gathers more than 150 of Diego Velázquez's most representative works, Fernando Marías describes in detail the life and work of the artist and dissects his style. The result is an accessible, erudite, and complete exploration of the work of a man who became Philip IV's favorite painter and is now considered one of the three greatest Spanish painters of all time. En un volumen profusamente ilustrada que recopila más de 150 de las obras más representativas de Diego Velázquez, Fernando Marías describe minuciosamente la vida y obras del artista y...