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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years later -- after he played a historic set at Woodstock -- the world came to know the name Carlos Santana, his sensual and instantly recognizable guitar sound, and the legendary band that blended electric blues, psychedelic rock, Latin rhythms, and modern jazz, and that still bears his name. Carlos Santana's...

La protagonista de esta historia es la famosísima cantante bailantera Gilda –Alejandra Miriam Bianchi–, fallecida trágicamente a los 35 años, cuando comenzaba a ser considerada una santa en la Argentina, Chile, Bolivia y Perú. Mujer de clase media que quería cantar canciones melódicas, admiradora de Dyango, llegó a la bailanta a los 33 años y aceptó musicalizar sus letras, de fuerte tono reivindicatorio de los derechos de la mujer y en contraposición con el machismo típico de la bailanta, al ritmo de la cumbia, con tal de ejercer su vocación secreta. Su historia es entonces...

Emil. M. Cioran es uno de los pensadores más insólitos del siglo XX. Transgresor de toda frontera y guiado por un pesimismo que a veces parece apuntar al suicidio, el autor rumano es, sin embargo, estremecedoramente atractivo y lúcido. Sus libros constituyen una reflexión sobre el vacío, el sinsentido de la vida y la desesperación, y quieren ser, ante todo, «un verdadero peligro para el lector». Iconoclasta y desmitificador puro, Cioran se empeña con escandalosa obstinación en quitar las máscaras a todos los elementos edificados por el siempre delirante pensamiento humano. Su...