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Historia del rock 1: El blues
Historia del rock 1: El blues
Andrés Durán
En este libro se encuentra impresa la voz líder de El expreso del Rock, aquel programa radial que marcó generaciones y que aún hoy continúa al aire. También nos revela los orígenes del blues, autores conocidos y otros tan remotos que suenan a leyenda. Después de leer esta historia, seguro no quedarán sino ganas de oírla: canción tras canción y de artista en artista.
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La música del encuentro
La música del encuentro
Emilio Sánchez

"Quiero destacar el contenido del primer libro de Emilio, dedicado a su primer y más grande amor en la vida: la música. Curiosamente hay una canción que define esta pasión de mi hijo de principio a fin: Music, de John Miles, producida por Alan Parsons y que recomiendo a todos los lectores", del prólogo de Jaime Sánchez Cristo, padre del autor La pasión por la música, llevó a Emilio Sánchez Salamanca a entrevistar a sus grandes ídolos, a verlos en vivo, a estar en los principales escenarios del mundo -privilegios como ver a Michael Jackson en el Madison Square Garden de …

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Cuando el cine se vuelve pregunta
Cuando el cine se vuelve pregunta
Pau Alsina, Xavier Alsina

Este libro no aplica teorías al cine: piensa desde él. Propone 50 películas como espacios de interrogación, no para explicar, sino para mirar de otro modo. Sus autores —dos hermanos filósofos y docentes— convierten la experiencia cinematográfica en un ejercicio reflexivo, accesible y riguroso. No es un manual académico, sino una invitación a pensar con imágenes: sobre el tiempo, la identidad, el cuerpo o el sentido. No hace falta formación previa, solo disposición a detenerse ante una escena o un silencio. Porque filosofar también empieza con la mirada. Y el cine, cuando se vuelve pregunta, puede ser filosofía en acto.

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El lenguaje de las ciudades
El lenguaje de las ciudades
Deyan Sudjic

"Para dar sentido a una ciudad hemos de saber algo acerca de las personas que viven en ella, y de la gente que la construyó. Es necesario preguntarse cómo lo hicieron y por qué."Una ciudad está hecha por personas. Tiene una identidad distintiva, que consiste en mucho más que una aglomeración de edificios; clima, topografía y arquitectura forman parte de lo que crea esa distinción, al igual que sus orígenes. Lo apasionante es que todos estos elementos no siempre producen los mismos resultados: muchas ciudades tienen un río, pero el Sena es único, parte esencial de lo que hace París …

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Utamaro
Utamaro
Edmond de Goncourt
If sensuality had a name, it would be without doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the swan-like necks of the women, the mysterious looks, evokes in a few lines the sensual pleasure of the Orient. If some scenes discreetly betray lovers’ games, a great number of his shungas recall that love in Japan is first and foremost erotic.
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
Victoria Charles

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh’s illness. The author of the article saw the painter as “a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always at the brink of the pathological.” Very little is known about Vincent’s childhood. At the age of eleven he had to leave “the human nest”, …

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Valentin Serov
Valentin Serov
Dmitri V. Sarabianov

Among the “young peredvizhniki” who joined the World of Art group, the most brilliant portraitist was Valentin Serov. Like many of his contemporaries, he delighted in painting out of doors, and some of his most appealing portraits – such as Girl with Peaches, Girl in Sunlight and In Summer - owe their naturalness to their setting or to the interplay of sunlight and shadows. Indeed, Serov regarded them as “studies” rather than portraits, giving them descriptive titles that omitted the sitter's name. The subject of Girl with Peaches – painted when Serov was only twenty-two – was in fact Mamontov's …

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A journey through Romanesque art
A journey through Romanesque art
Klaus H. Carl, Victoria Charles
In art history, the term Romanesque art distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th-century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work reclaims the importance of this art which is today often overshadowed by the later Gothic style.
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Art in Europe
Art in Europe
Victoria Charles
The European continent gathers together, without a doubt, the most famous works of art, evidence of the history of Western art. The cultural capitals and their emblematic museums contain paintings, sculptures, or rather works of art, devised by the great artists, representative of European culture. From Madrid to London, passing through Prague, the major works of the old continent are presented here. Thanks to detailed information about the museums and their collections, you, too, can explore and discover Europe’s fascinating cultural heritage.
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The Encyclopedia of Erotica
The Encyclopedia of Erotica
Hans-Jürgen Döpp
What happened to the insolence of the 18th-century libertines or to the carefree excesses of the Belle Époque and its legalized brothels? They have merely been inhibited and buried by the nowadays political correctness and the aggressive one-eyed morality. This book disregards conventional thinking and presents 800 reproductions that illustrate erotic art from Ancient Greece down to the present era in both Europe and Asia: when reproduction is not seen as an end in itself. With no hesitation nor inhibition, the author explains why erotic art is a key factor of societal development.
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Renaissance Paintings
Renaissance Paintings
Victoria Charles

In utter contrast to the obscurity of the medieval period which preceded it, the rapid and unexpected arrival of the Renaissance conquered Europe during the 14th to the 16th centuries. Placing man at its centre, the actors of this illustrious movement radically altered their vision of the world and refocused their aesthetic pursuits towards anatomy, perspective, and the natural sciences. Creator of numerous talents, the Renaissance offered the history of art great names such as Botticelli, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci, whose glorious masterpieces still today hang on the walls of museums the world over.

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Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun
Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun
W. H. Helm
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) was not only the rare woman of her time who integrated herself into the French Royal Academy of Painting, but also beloved portraitist to the aristocracy. Her paintings are testament to a key period of history: she was appointed painter and friend to Marie Antoinette before the French Revolution, and took flight across Europe before returning under the reign of Napoleon, all the while continuing to paint. Self-taught, Vigée-Lebrun knew how to get the best from her models, mastering painting effects to perfection and making use of a delicate and refined style.
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