Kamasutra

El 'Kama Sutra' (Reglas sobre el Amor Sexual), tratado hindú escrito por Vatsyáyána hacia el año 500 d. C., incluye las diferentes posiciones y maneras de gozar del amor, el uso de afrodisíacos y de bebidas estimulantes. Pero, más allá de esto, y completando las tres reglas de la vida (Dharma 'adquisición del mérito religioso', Artha 'adquisiciones materiales' y Kama 'todo lo que abarca el amor, el deseo, el placer y la sexualidad'), es un texto poético y moral sobre la vida sexual saludable entre los esposos.

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...

Un pequeño relato de misterio e intriga para un corto paseo o digno de contribuir en una noche de insomnio en la madrugada.

The Short Story of Art explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to sections on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allows the student or art enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key periods, artists and styles. It simplifies and explains the most important and influential concepts in art, and shows how they are linked. The book explains how, why and when art changed, who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and whether they matter. It demystifies artistic...

Escribe Graciela Reyes en su magnífico prólogo: «¿Qué hace la gente cuando usa el lenguaje?». Esta es la pregunta con la que comienza este libro. Pregunta «impertinente», es decir, el tipo de pregunta que se sale de las reglas del juego de una discip