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"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...

A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison locates Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, arguing that he is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concrete—what is out in the...

Este libro reúne diez entrevistas realizadas entre el año 2013 y 2016, a dramaturgas y actrices, a directores e investigadores teatrales cubanos y extranjeros, de relevante trayectoria dentro y fuera del panorama teatral de su país. Concebido como un itinerario de citas, el libro propone un recorrido por varias habitaciones; los cuartos son el pretexto para ubicar el universo humano y creativo de cada teatrista. La autora se coloca en un espacio privado con cada artista, en un estado profundo de diálogo, de seducción, de interés ante el descubrimiento y ante las polémicas escénicas...

Una niña, Dodo, pide un regalo especial para su cumpleaños: Un pes. Este libro es una oferta mágica para soñar un mundo de aventura, incluso, como algún crítico ha escrito, “un tratado filosófico” del comienzo de la vida desde la perspectiva de un niño. Las ilustraciones de Rotraut Susanne Berner le dan a este libro aún más ternura y plasticidad. “Un álbum mágico” (Antonio Ventura en Babar).