La escritura de la memoria

A stunning presentation of works by contemporary Chinese artists, from the collection of the Swiss diplomat Uli Sigg, one of the worlds most influential collectors of Chinese contemporary art. This book reflects on the current state of art in China today through a selection of over 50 works by different artists produced between 1986 and 2006 a period of enormous economic and social change in the country with worldwide implications. This book shows Chinese avant-garde art against the backdrop of Chinas radical social and economic changes. Many of the works reveal the tension between current...

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...

Esta obra miscelánea de José Velázquez y Sánchez contiene entre otros artículos, una biografía del pintor español Bartolomé Murillo (págs. 159-209).

Un cocodrilo de color verde inicia un juego de encadenados que se propone desde el texto y la ilustración. Cada página muestra un personaje u objeto bajo un esquema de presentación basado en un color predominante, que a su vez se convierte en estribillo del cuento. Animales originales (un cocodrilo, un piojo) y elementos variopintos (un castillo, un baúl, una piedra, un tejado) crean divertidas rimas con los nombres de los colores más reconocibles por los niños. Para los más atrevidos, el librito es un poema muy adecuado para cantar con los más pequeños; además de ser una manera...