El cuento en Murcia en el siglo XX y otros ensayos

A partir de su propia experiencia cinéfila desbordada, Vicente Monroy desarrolla en este ensayo una apasionante historia de los mitos de la cinefilia y de sus argumentos fundamentales, de las múltiples formas en que el cine, ese arte joven pero siempre en crisis, ha llegado a enfermar a sus amantes. De Orson Welles a Martin Scorsese, pasando por los Cahiers du Cinéma o Serge Daney, pero también dialogando con la historia de la filosofía y de la literatura, Monroy consigue construir en estas páginas una elegante síntesis de las ideas y polémicas más profundas que se han dado sobre el...

"Commemorative edition celebrating the reopening in 2005 of the patrimonial building that houses the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile. The book examines the history of the museum and of the building, the architectonic restoration, while also is an historic document of the museum's reopening ceremony celebrated December 16, 2005. Includes brief reviews on MAC's personages, collection and historical exhibitions"--Provided by vendor.

"Pocket version synthesis of other books by the author on the same subject. In four chapters (precolumbian, colonial, republican, and 20th century), author gives a capsulated summary of what Ecuadorian art has been, from the past to the present, in a simple style intentionally suitable for high school students, hence its interest. Complemented with a short bibliography and a glossary of terms for those unfamiliar with the artistic and architectural field"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Table of contents: I. Tintoretto and the Venetian Culture and Religious Environment Paul Hills, Tintoretto and Venetian Gothic - Augusto Gentili, Tintoretto in contesto tra politica e religion - Benjamin Paul, Archaism and Pauline Spirituality in Jacopo Tintoretto's Crucifixion for SS. Cosma e Damiano - Tom Nichols, False Gods: Tintoretto's Mythologies as Anti-poesie - Bernard Aikema, La casta Susanna II. Tintoretto and the Art of his Time Philip Cottrell, Painters in Practice: Tintoretto, Bassano and the Studio of Bonifacio de' Pitati - Roland Krischel, Jacopo Tintoretto and Giulio Romano -...