El currículum vitae perfecto

La Guerra Civil española vista por grandes intelectuales del siglo XX: Thomas Mann, André Gide, Albert Camus y George Bernanos Adentrarnos hoy en la Guerra Civil española no para reabrir viejas heridas, sino para descubrir que todas las ideologías, de uno u otro signo, brutalizaron y derrotaron la unidad moral y espiritual que constituye la raíz histórica de los pueblos de España. Para grandes espíritus de aquel tiempo, como el alemán Thomas Mann, liberal conservador, la Guerra Civil constituyó "el escándalo más sucio de la historia de la humanidad", un crimen que interpelaba a la ...

Luis Cruz Azaceta: No Exit is the first substantial overview of the work of the Cuban-American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta (born 1942). Azaceta's childhood memories in Cuba (where he remained until he was 18 years old) mix with his first professional experiences in New York City (where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and where he lived for three decades) and those of his period of professional maturity in New Orleans. Azaceta's brightly polychromatic painting explores "an aesthetics of constant escapes," as Iván de la Nuez put it. His imaginary, revealed in works that range between...

A review and documentation of the collections of the museum of contemporary art located in Santiago, Chile. The museum collection is considered the most important in engravings with 1000 prints along with 600 paintings, 130 drawings, sketches and watercolors and 80 sculptures from the late 19th century to current art. The book includes a brief history and architecture of the museum, the members of the "Friends of the Museum" association, the conservation and documentation policies and detailed data on the national and international exhibitions and cultural activities for the 8 year period. An ...

Esta guía redescubre el Egipto de los faraones en un recorrido por Luxor y la región tebana. Todos los templos, tumbas y museos analizados desde el punto de vista artístico e histórico y acompañados de grandiosas fotografías, planos arqueológicos y mapas de situación.