Arte minimalista

Este libro se plantea en su primer capítulo si debe o no considerarse la existencia de un «Teatro del 27» por la efímera suerte escénica que tuvieron en su momento los textos renovadores propuestos por los dramaturgos pertenecientes a dicha generación literaria. En los doce capítulos siguientes se analizan diversos textos de otros tantos autores (de Lorca a Casona) de aquel momento generacional, entre los que no faltan las relaciones teatro-narrativa (ejemplificadas en Sender), el teatro de guerra a través de la novela Juego limpio o el análisis de los inicios teatrales de Aub,...

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a...

Historiography and artistic retrospective on sculptor Guillermo Ruiz, his academic work as founder and director of the Escuela Libre de Escultura y Talla Directa for 15 years (1927-1942), as well as the artists working at the workshop. The book reviews 66 sculptures, many monumental, (stone, bronze and gypsum) as well as paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and documents from the holdings of several institutions created or related to the school-workshop founded as an educative proposal of the Mexican Revolution.

Why was the first human ever captured on film caught by pure luck? Where is the human blind spot, and why don't you realize you have one? What does authenticity mean in an art where originals can be reproduced infinitely and manipulated flawlessly? More than a mere collection of trivia, this book tackles the big picture of what photography means. 30-Second Photography takes a revolutionary approach to understanding the 50 most thought-provoking concepts, techniques, and technologies that have shaped photography into the ever-present art form it is today. From the science of converting light...