Far Away Is Here. Lejos es aquí

Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

El género narrativo -una forma literaria fundamental en todas las culturas- tiene sus raíces en Occidente en los grandes poemas épicos de la antigüedad clásica. Desde entonces ha evolucionado hasta producir el romance medieval, las primeras formas de novela en la Italia renacentista y la gran diversidad de estilos narrativos que se cultivan en la actualidad. En la narración siempre han estado presentes dos tendencias básicas -el realismo y la fantasía- configurando el espacio del relato. Este libro, de gran interés teórico, ofrece distintas perspectivas para analizar el género...

Estudio sobre las diferentes formas en que se desarrollaron los criterios de modernidad, vanguardia y posmodernidad en el arte argentino, especialmente desde los años sesenta hasta la actualidad.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), a cofounder of Fauvism, understood the expressive power of pure colors and simple forms. As seen here, his color harmonies can be analogous to musical compositions, complex and expressive.