Cuatro Relatos de mi Muerte

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of the undisputed masters of 19th-century Spanish painting. He is also often called "The first of the Moderns" because of his bold technique and his belief that the personal vision of the artist is more important than the tradition. With illustrations and the text covering the main incidents of his life, this book on Spanish painter Goya will entice all art lovers.

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...

Ésta es la historia del siglo XX a través de su música, desde la Viena de antes de la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta el París de los años 20; desde la Alemania de Hitler o la Rusia de Stalin al Nueva York de los años 60. Transportando a los lectores por el laberinto del sonido moderno, Alex Ross nos descubre las conexiones entre los acontecimientos más importantes y los compositores más influyentes, hombres que se rebelaron contra el culto al pasado clásico, lucharon contra la indiferencia del gran público y desafiaron a dictadores. Alex Ross ha firmado un libro imprescindible sobre...

Una persona se hace con un documento que no puede llegar a descifrar solo, solicita ayuda de manera anónima para que le ayuden, pero... suspense, persecuciones, allanamiento de morada, cárcel, Inquisición, monasterios...