Una historia de la educación del arte

Ontología de la imagen fotográfica - El mito del cine total - El cine y la exploración - El mundo del silencio - M. Hulot y el tiempo - Montaje prohibido - La evolución del lenguaje cinematográfico - A favor de un cine impuro - Teatro y cine - El caso Pagnol - Pintura y cine - El western o el cine americano por excelencia - Evolución del western - Al margen del erotismo en el cine - El realismo cinematográfico y la escuela Italiana de la liberación - La terra trema - Cabiria o el viaje al final del neorrealismo.

“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure—that of being Salvador Dalí.” He was a force unto himself, an icon of outrageousness, artistic brilliance, eccentricity, and unmistakable style. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol, was one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, and in this concise narrative acclaimed art historian Mary Ann Caws provides a sharply written survey of his life and work. Salvador Dalí examines every twist and turn in Dalí’s long and multifaceted career and the pivotal artistic movements at whose ...

Edward Sapir, particularmente conocido por sus investigaciones de la lengua de los navajos, ha logrado en este breviario singularizar los factores de mayor importancia en esta investigación lingüística, mereciendo señalarse como altamente significativos los comentarios sobre las relaciones del lenguaje con la raza y la cultura.

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children’s games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso’s...