Diseño paisajístico en el trópico

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...

En este volumen se analiza brevemente la compleja cultura del siglo XVIII y primeros años del XIX. Se trata de una cultura que, en términos generales, recibe el nombre de Ilustración y que, en el terreno de la actividad artística, tiene como uno de sus episodios más destacados la interpretación de los modelos formales de la antigüedad, fenómeno que conocemos como Neoclasicismo. La influencia que el empirismo o la estética alemana ejercen en el arte de esta época constituye el principal objeto del presente estudio.

Rodrigo ha cumplido 12 años y su vida ha sido marcada por el dolor, accidentes y enfermedades. En una misteriosa fiesta Rodrigo reúne a 6 niños en su aventura por vencer enfermedades, impactantes accidentes y hasta el cáncer. Rodrigo en un hospital conoce al amor de su vida, sin imaginar quien sería, su vida cambiaría por completo transformando su existencia y la de millones de personas con un sólo objeto: "La Mentis".

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...