Pese al importante papel que desempeñó en el contexto internacional durante el siglo pasado, al cine latinoamericano le sigue costando encontrar su lugar en el mundo, asfixiado por una hegemonía global de la industria anglosajona que se impone tanto comercialmente como en el circuito de festivales, y que apenas deja unas migajas para los países en vías de desarrollo. Y, sin embargo, los cineastas de la zona no cejan en su empeño de dar a conocer sus historias. El presente volumen destaca la relevancia de medio centenar de películas realizadas en el escaso periodo de tiempo transcurrido desde que sobrevino …

Ce livre n'est pas un panégyrique sur l'homosexualité. C'est une étude scientifique menée par le Professeur James Smalls qui enseigne l'histoire de l'art dans la prestigieuse université de Maryland, Baltimore County. Mettre en évidence la sensibilité particulière des homosexuels dans la créativité, telle est la démarche de l'auteur, en abandonnant les clichés classiques et l'approche sociologique. Cet ouvrage analyse l'acte de création et permet d'appréhender, sans aucune complaisance, l'apport de l'homosexualité dans l'évolution de la perception des émotions. A une époque où les tabous sont tombés, cette démonstration conduit à une relecture et une nouvelle compréhension des chefs-d'œuvre de notre …

Un libro para viajeros y curiosos que nos ofrece una visita inolvidable por la basílica de San Pedro, un recorrido a través de sus personajes y hazañas en este lugar tan especial. Aprenderemos que, en el siglo xvi y durante 150 años, en la colina vaticana se concentró una densidad artística sin precedentes para construir la más grande de las iglesias de la cristiandad: Rafael, Miguel Ángel, Bernini, Borromini... Obra maestra indiscutible, para comprenderla no basta con explicar sus técnicas artísticas, porque en San Pedro nada está ahí por casualidad: detrás de cada estatua o adorno hay una historia increíble, …

En el presente volumen se recogen todos los guiones que Caicedo escribió para ser llevados a la pantalla. Por primera vez se publican las versiones completas de los dos largometrajes y el tratamiento que redactó para entrar por la puerta grande en "la fábrica de sueños". Sandro Romero ReyAntes de cumplir sus veinte años, Andrés Caicedo comenzó sus labores como cineclubista y precoz crítico de las películas que él mismo programaba. En 1971 se consolidó su actividad al instalar el Cine Club de Cali en el Teatro San Fernando de su ciudad natal y no se detuvo hasta el día …

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in England. Founded by John Ruskin, then put into practice by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts movement promoted revolutionary ideas in Victorian England. In the middle of the “soulless” Industrial Era, when objects were standardised, the Arts & Crafts movement proposed a return to the aesthetic at the core of production. The work of artisans and …

Rosalía en 100 palabras: una biografía no oficial.Si un abecedario sirve para designar la serie ordenada de las letras con que se representan los fonemas o sonidos distintivos de una lengua, este libro quiere ofrecer una lista de elementos con los que Rosalía da forma a su lenguaje. Marta Salicrú, periodista musical, te llevará a través de los conceptos más icónicos utilizados por la artista ―palabras como bizcochito, despechá, motomami o tra tra―  en un viaje salvaje y emocionante por el fenómeno Rosalía. Desde su estilo único y las fusiones musicales que la caracterizan hasta su impacto en la moda …

In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles and attitudes of characters, his paintings expose the alienation of mass culture. Created using cold colours and inhabited by anonymous characters, Hopper’s paintings also symbolically reflect the Great Depression. Through a series of different reproductions (etchings, watercolours, and oil-on-canvas paintings), as well as thematic and artistic analysis, the author sheds new light on the enigmatic and tortured world of this outstanding figure.

The biography, entitled Mary Cassatt – A Woman’s Art, provides an insightful account of the life and career of Mary Cassatt . She was one of a select few women who managed to establish a presence in the male-dominated art world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Cassatt, originally from the United States, spent most of her life in France, where she became a prominent member of the Impressionist movement alongside Degas and Monet. This book, which features approximately 100 reproductions of her works, demonstrates how Mary Cassatt , with her distinctive female perspective, transcended the prevailing artistic …

For Claude Monet the designation ‘impressionist’ always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed many other opportunities that his enormous talent held out to him. Monet did not paint classical compositions with figures, and he did not become a portraitist, although his professional training included those skills. He chose a single genre for himself, landscape painting, and in that he achieved …

Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with other institutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union are some of the most magnif icent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, many of these works have been lost, but have been catalogued and published here for the first time with an unsurpassed selection of colour plates. In a comprehensive introduction, Vladimir Loukonine, Director of the Oriental Art section of the Hermitage Museum, and his colleague Anatoli Ivanov have broadly documented the major developments of Persian Art: from the first signs of civilisation on the …

Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all the thoughts of humanity were personified in his eyes in the naked bodies of men and women. He rarely conceived his human forms in attitudes of immobility or repose. Michelangelo became a painter so that he could express …