Géminis

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and his International School of Theatre Anthropology has greatly developed research into the craft of the actor. Now revised and updated, this volume reveals the background to and work of a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century performance. Eugenio Barba is the first book to combine: an overview of Barba’s work and ...

Esta obra se centra en una serie de facetas que a menudo han sido rechazadas por el diseño moderno: lo no-racional, lo no-funcional y lo inesperado. Estas cualidades constantes se presentan a lo largo de cuatro secciones temáticas. "Lenguaje corporal" explora los métodos en los que el cuerpo humano y sus diferentes partes han sido utilizados como elementos de diseño. En "Inversión y transformación" se puede comprobar cómo los elementos funcionales se han transformado en componentes llenos de ingenio y a menudo no-funcionales, y cómo los materiales se han invertido de forma inesperada. ...

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...

"Thorough survey of Spanish-affiliated Masonic lodges in Puerto Rico. Treats Freemasonry as a social phenomenon with ideological incursions into religion, politics, colonialism, slavery, education, social assistance, etc. Includes glossary of terms and lists of lodges and members"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.