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The Short Story of Art explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to sections on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allows the student or art enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key periods, artists and styles. It simplifies and explains the most important and influential concepts in art, and shows how they are linked. The book explains how, why and when art changed, who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and whether they matter. It demystifies artistic...

Este segundo tomo de Arte, sociedad y política -historia de las artes de la colección Nueva Historia Argentina- vuelve a centrarse en el complejo devenir de las artes plásticas en nuestro país, completando el panorama presentado en el tomo primero con los hechos ocurridos en ese campo desde 1920 hasta nuestros días.

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...

Narra el recorrido, vital y transformador de una de las personalidades más importantes en la historia de México. El "tata" Vasco y su ingente labor humanitaria de ayuda al desarrollo y al progreso de diversas poblaciones mexicanas se nos muestra con unas ilustraciones que reflejan toda la belleza de los paisajes de las rutas de don Vasco de Quiroga.