La biblioteca y su organización

En 1986, don Rafael Lapesa acordó con la Fundación Ramón Menéndez Pidal la preparación de un Glosario del primitivo léxico iberorrománico, versión revisada, actualizada y definitiva de un Glosario que, iniciado en 1926 por decisión y bajo la inicial dirección de don Ramón Menéndez Pidal, había quedado terminado, tras diversos avatares, en 1976, por don Rafael Lapesa con la colaboración del profesor Constantino García. Era la primera tentativa de compilación de un léxico de las hablas románicas de la Península anteriores al siglo XIII. Desgraciadamente, la enfermedad de don...

This is the first major monograph on the work of one of Britain's most dynamic artists, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. His striking paintings and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular culture in search of visual languages, imagery, themes, and motifs that he can appropriate, adapt, use, and abuse, bringing together different movements, genres, periods, and styles in dialogues that are surprising, innovative, and sometimes provocative. Lenkiewicz's imagination and energy seem to be inexhaustible, concocting endless amazing hybrids such as iconic Renaissance paintings invaded by...

Descubrimos nuevos personajes, tradicionalmente conocidos como «buenos» en los cuentos, pero representados con pequeñas debilidades inusuales en ellos que deben corregir: un príncipe miedoso, un duende caprichoso y una princesa gruñona....

The Mexican painter, Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) was first recognized in a 1930s publication on the contemporary artists of Mexico. He lived in Paris and in New York for several years but did not become known in the States until after an exhibition of his work at the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., in 1978 followed by a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979. Unlike his contemporaries, the nationalistic muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Tamayo preferred to express his Hispanic heritage through oil paintings and frescos...