En defensa de la Tauromaquia

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...

El románico es un estilo artístico que refleja toda una concepción de la vida, en la cual la «idea espiritual» y el sentimiento de la existencia como «tránsito hacia un trasmundo» preside la conducta del hombre. La presente obra ofrece al lector un estudio y una reflexiones sobre este «mundo románico», centrado en España y abarcando el panorama de su arquitectura, escultura, pintura, forja y artes suntuarias como visualización de la cultura de aquellos siglos, pretendiendo captar lo que en su momento significaría y simbolizase la obra de arte.

El origen de este libro es un Coloquio Internacional dedicado a la obra de dos notables escritores argentinos contemporaneos, Juan Jose Saer y Ricardo Piglia, que organizo el Centro de estudios Linguisticos y Literarios de El Colegio de Mexico en noviembre de 2005. Escritores pertenecientes a la misma generacion, Saer (Serodino, Santa Fe, 1937-Paris, 2005) y Piglia (Adrogue, Buenos Aires, 1940) publican sus primeros libros de relatos en la decada de los sesenta. Su produccion abarca cuento, novela, ensayo y poesia, en el caso de Saer. Ambos escritores comparten intereses literarios y...

Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he...