Martha Gellhorn

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through “Fridamania,” this book explores Kahlo’s life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizing the...

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

Catálogo de la exposición organizada por el IEA en conmemoración del cuarto centenario del nacimiento de Lastanosa, comisariada por Carmen Morte García y Carlos Garcés Manau (Diputación de Huesca - Centro Cultural Ibercaja, 24 de abril - 3 de junio de 2007).El cuarto centenario del nacimiento de Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa (1607-1681) ha favorecido el desarrollo de nuevas investigaciones sobre su figura y también acerca de la Huesca del siglo XVII. Entre las actividades programadas por el IEA, a través de su Proyecto Lastanosa, destaca especialmente esta exposición, la única...

In this biography, Manuel Serrano delves into the figure of Emilio Castelar, the most important Spanish republican of the 19th century. He was a convinced Europeanist who with his word and his writings contributed to forging European consciousness and the need to face the 20th century with a democratic policy common to the entire old continent.