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"Founder y academic of the Academia de San Carlos for more than three decades,and a personal friend of president Lázaro Cárdenas painter Sahagún Cortés (b. México) lived his artistic life deciding between the confronted artistic proposals of the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century, while evolving from the neoclassic styles to a nationalist modernistic style with extraordinary talent"--Provided by vendor.

El color, fuente de intensas experiencias sensoriales, es tambien vehiculo de la transmision cultural. En "Color y cultura," John Gage muestra como la percepcion del color, en apariencia inmediata y atemporal, tiene una dimension historica. El estudio, centrado en la historia del arte, nos remite a un horizonte mas amplio, vinculando la obra de los artistas a la investigacion cientifica, la filosofia o la mentalidad religiosa. El autor reconstruye, con impresionante erudicion, los avatares de la teoria y la practica del color desde la Antiguedad. Sucesivamente desfilan los terminos y teorias...

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.

Antología que tiene como propósito demostrar la doble influencia que el psicoanálisis ha ejercido sobre la literatura contemporánea, dando al lector y al crítico literario nuevos enfoques y abriendo al escritor insólitos campos e instrumentos para la exploración de sí mismo y del material de que se vale.