Seamos raros, estemos juntos trata sobre usar exactamente la misma ropa por casualidad, de canciones inventadas, sobre rituales de desayuno, apodos graciosos, abrazos largos y la voz que crees que tiene el gato. En lugar de la idealización romántica de la conquista o la seducción, este libro busca capturar, con altas dosis de humor y ternura, esos instantes de insólita conexión en una pareja, ese lenguaje común no exento de absurdo y ridiculez. Si eres la mitad de una pareja rara, o si tienes una pareja extraña favorita, o si simplemente amas el amor, este libro es para ti.
Trazó su primer dibujo en una caja de zapatos y comenzó moldeando con tortillas un bestiario de sueños y animales. Juan Soriano (1920-2006), enfant terrible y enemigo de los moldes sociales, hizo de su obra un reflejo del mundo interior que habitaba, logrando dejar una huella profunda en el arte mexicano del siglo XX.Elena Poniatowska hace eco de la voz de Soriano y entreteje magistralmente la historia de una vida auténtica: el nacimiento de una vocación artística, el reconocimiento temprano de su homosexualidad —después de Salvador Novo fue el primero en hablar abiertamente de ella—, los amores de juventud y …
El cine, espejo de almas errantes, captura la esencia de un viaje sin regreso.Identidad en tránsito explora las complejas narrativas migratorias a través del cine, desvelando cómo las imágenes en la pantalla reflejan los procesos de transformación cultural y la construcción de nuevas identidades. A través de un análisis profundo de la diáspora china, la autora examina cómo el desplazamiento geográfico se entrelaza con los desplazamientos internos, forjando memorias compartidas y rupturas personales. Con un enfoque interseccional, el libro no solo reconstruye los senderos históricos de la migración, sino que también revela cómo el cine se convierte en un espacio vital …
Un viaje inmersivo a la mente de un cinéfilo apasionado como pocos.Ojo al cine fue el nombre de un pequeño boletín que publicó el joven escritor Andrés Caicedo en cinco números, entre mayo de 1971 y septiembre de 1972. Se trataba del entusiasta complemento crítico y literario que se repartía a la entrada del Cine-Club de Cali, fundado y dirigido por Caicedo al lado de "unos pocos buenos amigos", tan afiebrados como él por las historias. En 1974 Ojo al cine se convirtió en una de las revistas colombianas más importantes del otrora llamado "séptimo arte"; se mantuvo firme hasta …
The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark in Europe: the continent is dotted with magnificent Baroque churches and palaces, commissioned by patrons at the height of their power. The works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini of the Southern School and Peter Paul Rubens of the Northern School alone …
El Simbolismo apareció en Francia y Europa entre la década de 1880 y el principio del siglo veinte. Los simbolistas, fascinados por la mitología de la Antigüedad, intentaban escapar del reino del pensamiento racional impuesto por la ciencia. Deseaban trascender el mundo de lo visible y lo racional para alcanzar el mundo del pensamiento puro, coqueteando constantemente con los límites del inconsciente. Los franceses Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, los belgas Fernand Khnopff y Félicien Rops, los ingleses Edward Burne-Jones y Dante Gabriel Rossetti, así como el holandés Jan Toorop son los artistas más representativos del movimiento.
Secluded within cloister walls, a painter and a monk, and brother of the order of the Dominicans, Angelico devoted his life to religious paintings. Little is known of his early life except that he was born at Vicchio, in the broad fertile valley of the Mugello, not far from Florence, that his name was Guido de Pietro, and that he passed his youth in Florence, probably in some bottegha, for at twenty he was recognised as a painter. In 1418 he entered in a Dominican convent in Fiesole with his brother. They were welcomed by the monks and, after a …
For many people, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was undoubtedly the most important artist of the 20th century. Born in Málaga, Spain, Picasso revealed his genius at a very early age and was quick to make contact with the most advanced art circles of his time, first in Barcelona and later in Paris. In the modernist quest for novelty, Picasso turned to pre-modern history and ÂprimitiveÊ art for inspiration. We owe him and his colleague Georges Braque the invention of Cubism, not just one of many avant-garde movements but the aesthetic that would change the art of painting forever. Once free from …
Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history. Though Rodin is considered a founder of modern sculpture, he did not set out to critique past classical traditions. Many of his sculptures were criticised and considered controversial because of their sensuality or hyperrealist qualities. His most original works departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, and embraced the human body, celebrating individualism and physicality. This book uncovers the life and career of this highly acclaimed artist by exploring his most …
Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert his independence; he had that quality of bluster and brutality which makes the revolutionary count in art as well as in politics. In both directions his spirit of revolt manifested itself. He went to Paris to study art, yet he did not attach himself to the studio of any of the prominent masters. …
Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the 19th-century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron among others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and William Blake. In sculpture, François Rude indicated the direction this new artistic freedom would take, endowing his work with a movement and expression never previously seen. By retracing the different stages of its evolution, this book offers a study of the different aspects of the Romantic movement. Thanks to a thorough and in-depth analysis, the reader can understand …
